"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Golden Age of TV – live at Reading Festival/BBC Introducing Stage – August 26, 2017 – BBC Radio 1 More new faces on the horizon this week. From the Reading/Leeds Festival from a few weeks ago, a new band from Leeds. The Golden Age Of TV are a post-Rock...
Cud – In session for John Peel – June 16, 1987 – BBC Radio 1 – Cud to end the week. Formed in 1987 and getting their first recording session based on a demo tape sent to John Peel, who booked the band and got word-of-mouth started from the June...
Cassia – Live at BBC Introducing – Reading Festival – August 27, 2017 – BBC Radio 1 – One of the great offshoots to festivals this year, or at least a lot of them, has been the presence of new talent, seemingly everywhere. For those of you who think the...
The Brilliant Corners – in Session for John Peel – May 17, 1987 – BBC Radio 1 – The Brilliant Corners tonight. Two nights ago I ran a session by Experimental Pop Band from 1997. I mentioned that they were initially made up of founding members of The Brilliant Corners....
The Experimental Pop Band – In Session for John Peel – February 1, 1997 – BBC Radio 1 – The Experimental Pop Band to start the week. Originally conceived as a Studio project known as The Southwest Experimental Pop Band by former Brilliant Corners members Chris Galvin and Davey Woodward,...
Barclay James Harvest – in Concert from Golders Green Hippodrome – 1974 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Barclay James Harvest this weekend. A band far better known in the UK and Europe than in the U.S., who had been around since 1966 and would classify as one of...
Robert Plant – Live At Glastonbury 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – Robert Plant tonight. I can’t remember the last time I posted a Led Zeppelin concert, and I don’t think I ever have. Not that I was never a fan of the band, but that it’s been my assumption...
The Last Party – In Session for John Peel – January 9, 1989 – BBC Radio 1 – The Last Party. Together from 1985 until 1996 when, rather than break-up, they changed their name to The Bitter Springs and have carried on ever since. Formed in 1985, the London-based Alternative...
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