"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
A blast of Pinkpop 2013 tonight. This morning it’s festival veterans Stereophonics, recorded on June 16th 2013 by the venerable Netherlands Radio outlet VPRO and station 3voor12. Described as “classic UK rock delivered with whiskey vocals”, Stereophonics have been summarized…
– Chic with Nile Rodgers – Glastonbury 2013 – BBC 6 Music – June 28, 2013 – It’s hard to say who was more blown away by this concert – the band or the audience. Clearly it was a love-fest…
Squeeze – In Concert at Oxford Polytechnic – Recorded by BBC Radio 1 for In Concert series – 1981 – BBC Radio 1 Squeeze to kick off this rather hair-raising week. In concert from Oxford Polytechnic and recorded by BBC…
– George Shearing – LIve At The Hollywood Bowl – Boys Club Benefit 1961 – Part of a longer concert featuring a wide range of talent as part of a Boys Club benefit in 1961, George Shearing offered up a…
– Leon Boellmann Cello Sonata – 1949 – ORTF, Paris – Another rarely performed composer this week, as performed by a then-rising-star Cellist, Jacques Ripoche and legendary pianist-teacher Jean-Jacques Painchaud in a broadcast recital recording made by French Radio in…
Since we’re slowly winding our way into September and the change of seasons (at some point), I thought I would offer a dose of Mid-Century Americana by way of transcription from the NBC Radio Program America’s Composers, as it was…
Sadly, the French conductor Roger Desormiere didn’t fully transition over to the era of the lp record before having his career cut short by a debilitating stroke. He was one of the most widely respected conductors in France, going from…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – XTC In Concert At Hammersmith Palais – February 7, 1981 – BBC In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 You can’t have a week of 80s music without including a concert…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Hank Jones Trio – Live at The BBC – May 28, 1994 Taking a turn to the mellow this weekend, with a concert by the great Hank Jones and his Trio,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Deep Sea Arcade – Lowlands 2013 – Recorded August 16, 2013 – VPRO Another surprise hit from the 2013 Lowlands Festival. Deep Sea Arcade come from Sydney and, like their compatriots…