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Moose – In Concert at The Marquee Club, London – September 3, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Become a Patron! Legendary band Moose in concert from The Marquee Club in 1991 tonight. The band credited variously as the ones who coined the phrase Shoegaze and launched it into the...
August 22, 1995 – A normal day, by all accounts – The crash of a commuter plane, many of the 24 passengers miraculously survived, but most were listen in serious or critical condition. Five died in the crash, including the pilot. FAA inspectors were poring over cockpit flight recorders and...
Honeybus – In session for John Peel – November 19, 1967 – BBC Radio 1 – Honeybus as a sort of quiet and non-confrontational alternative to our Classical offering tonight. Honeybus were one of those bands, like so many bands during the time; they were good, they were well-regarded by...
Georges Aperghis – Luna Park – World Premier performance – June 8, 2011 – Radio France Musique – Live Broadcast – Become a Patron! Since the entire purpose of Past Daily is to be reminded and to discover the new and the unfamiliar, I thought I would take the Mid-Week...
Overpopulation – it was a hot-button topic for discussion in the early 1970s. Hot on the heels of Climate change, ecology, birth control, the Women’s Movement and the issue of Abortion, Overpopulation became the springboard for everything that was rapidly going wrong with America and the world in general. What...
August 21, 1982 – News from Beirut, Paris and Lima, Peru this day. In Beirut, the fragile nature of a truce and the evacuation withdrawal of PLO troops was momentarily marred by the capture of an Israeli citizen by Palestinians. As the first 400 PLO fighters were boarding a ship...
The Leisure Society – Live At FIP – FIP Studios, Paris – March 28, 2013 – Radio France FIP – The Leisure Society, in a studio concert for Radio France and their then-Rock/Jazz/Eclectica outlet FIP in Paris, broadcast live on March 28, 2013. Digging through old files earlier today, I...
August 20, 2004 – BBC Radio 4 Today Program News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! August 20, 2004 – The news was from Najaf in Iraq this day. The Battle of Najaf was fought between United States and Iraqi forces on one side and the Islamist...
Pixies – in session for John Peel – recorded June 23,1991 broadcast August 4 – BBC Radio 1 – Pixies to start off the week. In session for John Peel (their last), recorded on June 23, 1991 and broadcast on August 4th of that year. The Pixies formed in 1986...
Become a Patron! August 19, 1970 – The Suez Canal and the tentative treaty between Egypt and Israel was heading up the news for this day. Amid allegations that there were Egyptian violations of the ceasefire, the U.S. State Department announced publicly that evidence wasn’t proving conclusive. Within hours of...
