"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
I grew up listening to the recordings of Dame Myra Hess on 78’s because as a kid, I wasn’t trusted with the lps in my parents collection and was relegated to the breakable, scratchy 78’s I got at Salvation Army…
Claudio Arrau, Piano – Boston Symphony – Seiji Ozawa, Cond – Berkshire Music Festival – August 26, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to something historic this week. The Boston Symphony during the 1977 Berkshire Music Festival, with…
Seiji Ozawa and The Boston Symphony, with Maurice André, Trumpet – Evening At Symphony – October 14, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More history this week – The Boston Symphony under the direction of their then-Music Director Seiji…
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…
First Peel session for Cud from 1987. Click on the link at Past Daily and hear the complete session – and kick in a few bucks if you like wha t you hear and want us to keep restoring, preserving…
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…
Slade – in concert from Golders Green Hippodrome, London – May 28, 1972 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Slade to end out the week. One of those bands who were massively popular everywhere else in the world, but…
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…
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…
The Futureheads – in session for Steve Lamacq – March 7, 2003 – BBC 6 Music – The Futureheads tonight. One of the more turbo-charged bands of the Post-Punk Revival era, The Futureheads got started in 2000 and went on…