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Suzanne Vega – in concert – Dominion Theatre, London – 1990 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – Suzanne Vega to end up the week. At the age of nine she began to write poetry. She was encouraged to do so by her stepfather. It...
Nuria Graham – Live At Primavera Sound – 2017 – June 2, 2017 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – New faces and voices tonight. This one comes by way of Spain – Nuria Graham is Irish/Catalonian and 22. Having released her first record in 2013, at the tender age...
Adrienne Pauly – Four By Adrienne Pauly – 2006 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ending out the weekend with a few tunes from one of my favorite artists; Adrienne Pauly. Adrienne Pauly is an artist/singer/writer/actor who disappeared shortly after her debut album came out in 2006. There was a...
Nat Simons – Live at Conciertos de Radio 3 – RNE, Madrid – April 3, 2018 – RNE Radio 3 Madrid – New lights on the horizon to end the week. Nat Simons (Natalia Garcia Poza) is a Singer-songwriter from Madrid. You wouldn’t know that if I didn’t tell you,...
The Cranberries – In Concert from Vredenburg, Utrecht – The Netherlands – February 8, 1995 – VPRO-Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the devastating news earlier this week of the death of The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan, and the void her loss leaves, I ran their very first session,...
Angel Olsen – in concert at Route du Rock, St. Malo France – August 20, 2017 – RFI (Radio France International) – With the Summer Festival Season winding down, before gearing back up for Fall, looking back on a widely varied and highly satisfying series of concerts throughout Europe –...
Agustin Lara – Noche Criolla Palmera – Rosa – Musart Records M-952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Two sides by the legendary Mexican composer/pianist Agustin Lara. Originally issued on a 78 rpm disc in the 1950s these sides were also part of a 10″ album issued by the...
PJ Harvey – In concert at Gdynia,Poland – June 26, 2016 – Polski Radio – PJ Harvey this week. Never predictable, always an adventure and coming to Los Angeles next week. Variously referred to as one of the 500 Greatest Artists of All Time and a terminal eccentric, PJ Harvey...
Pitou – in session at Motel Mozaique 2017 – April 7, 2017 – 3VOOR12 – VPRO, The Netherlands – Amsterdam born Singer-Songwriter Pitou to start the week, in a session from last week’s Motel Mozaique festival in Rotterdam. The Spring festivals are starting up in earnest this year. Last weekend...
George Michael In Concert – Symphonica Tour – Royal Albert Hall, London – September 29, 2012 – RTE Radio – George Michael left us earlier today – peacefully in his sleep, the press release said. Fifty-three and now gone. To say that 2016 has been a particularly bad year for...
