"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop – Newport Jazz Festival 1959 – July 4, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The word Visionary is one of those sadly over-abused characterizations that has lately come to apply to anyone who thinks past midnight. But in the case of Charles Mingus, the word...
Artery – in session for John Peel – January 30, 1982- Broadcast February 15, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Artery in session for John Peel tonight. If we had the Internet in 1980, and we were able to have the kind of access to bands now that we didn’t...
Everything But The Girl – In Concert Paris Theatre – February 23, 1985 – BBC Radio 1 Everything But The Girl tonight. In concert at the BBC‘s Paris Theatre on February 23, 1985. The husband-wife duo of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have been characterized as “Sophisti-Pop” EBTG (as they...
– Cocteau Twins – In concert At Meervaart, Amsterdam – January 29, 1983 – VPRO, Netherlands – No one is going to convict the 80s of being a dull decade. As has been evidence the past several days via my Roundtable posts, the 80s were a fertile ground for experimenting...
