Sleeper – In concert from Brixton Academy – June 7, 1996 – BBC Radio 1 In concert – Sleeper for lunch on a Wednesday. The last concert from the UK portion of their 1996 tour, recorded for posterity by the BBC for Radio 1’s In concert series on June 7,
The Organ in concert, kicking off yet another insane week. Recorded during the 2005 La Route du Rock Festival on August 13, 2005 and broadcast either on RTL or Radio France Le Mouv. The Organ were a short-lived but deeply loved band from Canada. Mint Records (the band’s label) gives
– NPR: Weekend Edition – January 1, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The longer you look at it, the more apparent it becomes that this is a planet in an almost perpetual state of turmoil. This New Years Day in 1995 saw fighting erupt in Chechnya, a cautious ceasefire
– O Holy Night – Dec. 25, 2013 – Vatican Concert Only fitting to go into Christmas with an unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night, part of a concert given at the Vatican in 2013 featuring Patti Smith and a host of other artists. The song speaks for itself. The
Bernadette Devlin – NBC: Meet The Press – August 24, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Bernadette Devlin – a name perhaps not easily recognized by many in the U.S. these days, but one of those voices who fit right into the upheaval nature of our world in the
September 26, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 26, 1991 – a day which marked some 55 hours since Iraqi security forces detained a team of UN nuclear inspectors in a Baghdad parking lot. The team uncovered what was called a “goldmine” of
– NBC Nightly News With Chet Huntley and David Brinkley – July 10, 1970 – Had there not been so much drama, deceit and upheaval associated with the decade of the 70s, it might have been called “The Goofy Decade”, there was no shortage of strange occurrences taking place during
You will probably be listening to this and you’ll wonder if this is a description of life on another planet or parallel universe. It certainly bears no resemblance to life in 2025. It was, in fact 72 years ago. This was what young Women were having to face in the
– BBC World Service – Newshour – January 29, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day, fifteen years ago, was about limits being reached, endurance vanished and nerves frayed out of existence. The War in Kosovo, indeed the strife enveloping the entire region formerly known as
– NPR: National Town Meeting – The Future Of The Family 1974 – December 8, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the offshoots to the Generation Gap of the 1960s was the changing family structure of the 1970s. Marriage was down, co-habitation was up. Single parent households
