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1963 Vienna Festival – Berlin Radio Symphony – Hans Werner Henze, cond. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something historic this week. A concert from the 1963 Vienna Festival featuring the Berlin Radio Symphony, conducted by composer Hans Werner Henze with Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin in a program...
Richard Thompson – live at Town & Country, London – 1991 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Richard Thompson to end the weekend. As a founding member of Fairport Convention, he was part of a renewed interest in Folk music, but The Fairports were more than that – they...
January 5, 1989 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 5, 1989 – The United Nations Security Council was slated to meet for urgent closed-door consultations on this day to discuss Libya’s protest of American shoot-down of Libyan MIG’s over the Mediterranean. No public meeting...
Tower Of Power – In Concert from Paris – live at l’Olympia – 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ending up the weekend with a short set from Tower Of Power, recorded live from l’Olympia in Paris in 1975. One of the most recognizable and admired practitioners of Bay...
Suede – in session – BBC Radio 1 – August 29, 1996 – BBC Radio 1 – Suede in session to end the working week. Dubbed by New Musical Express as “The Best New Band In Britain” in 1992, Suede have long been considered one of Brit-Pop’s Big Four (alongside...
Minny Pops – in session for John Peel – November 12, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – Dutch Post-Punk/Art-Punk/New Wave band Minny Pops in session for John Peel tonight. Broadcast on November 12, 1980, Minny Pops were the first Dutch band to do a Peel session and this is the...
Pale Waves – In Session for Huw Stephens – Maida Vale Studios – Nov. 13, 2017 – BBC Radio 1 – Pale Waves tonight. For all intents and purposes, a new band – even though they’ve been together for two years. But this year they did their first tour of...
November 7, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 7, 1991 – Busy news day. Starting with the NATO summit in Rome where President Bush voiced concerns over the formation of a joint European Army. The Joint Communique, worked out largely before Secretary General...
The Tragically Hip – in Concert – K-Rock Centre, Kingston Ontario – August 20, 2016 – CBC Radio 1 – When news broke this morning that lead singer and founding member Gord Downie of the much-loved Canadian Alternative band The Tragically Hip, had succumbed to his long battle with brain...
EUT – In session for Frequenzy – September26, 2017 – VPRO – The Netherlands – Taking a break from our dive into the 60s this weekend for a sampling of some new music coming from across the Atlantic. EUT are a Dutch Post-Punk/Post-Rock/Indie band who have been together only two...
