"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Zero 7 – In Session at BBC 6 Music – May 23, 2006 – BBC 6 Music – Zero 7 tonight featuring the sultry and hypnotic voice of Sia Furler, during her all-too brief stay with the band. Zero 7 are an English musical duo consisting of Henry Binns...
Talk Talk – in session for Kid Jensen – March 27, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Ending up the working week with Talk Talk, in session for Kid Jensen and recorded for BBC Radio 1 on March 27, 1983. Via their Wikipedia Page (in case you don’t already know,...
Malaria! In session for John Peel – July 25, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 A breath of agitated air from Wester Berlin comes via Malaria! tonight. Malaria! was an experimental electronic band from West Berlin formed in 1981 by Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster following the dissolution of Mania D with...
May 16, 2005 – BBC World Service – Newshour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 16, 2005 – a day of contrasts. The violence over protests in Uzbekistan raged on, forcing thousands to flee the country. The unconfirmed death toll in Uzbekistan from a suspected crackdown by security forces...
Maria João Pires, Piano – NHK Symphony – Herbert Blomstedt, guest Conductor – April 20, 2018 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the announcement by pianist Maria João Peres last year of her retirement from the stage in 2018, this concert, recorded live only a few days ago by...
James Brown And His Famous Flames – Live in Lausanne Switzerland – 1973 – Swiss Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the dust settles and Past Daily gets back to normal, I thought I would try and get things back up to speed with a classic concert by...
March 20, 1942 – Alka-Seltzer News Of The World With John W. Vandercook – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 20, 1942. News for this day was a mixed bag of hopefulness and dread. The hopeful news came in the form of General Douglas MacArthur who had managed to relocate...
Casella: Scarlatiana – Alexis “Sigi” Weissenber, piano – San Antonio Symphony – Max Reiter, cond. – March 26, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Piano legend Alexis Weissenberg, as he sounded when he had turned 20 and had made his American debut with the New York Philharmonic only a year...
Talulah Gosh – in session for Janice Long – BBC Radio 1 – July 30, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 Talulah Gosh tonight. One of the pioneering bands of the Twee Movement (yes, there was one), they are performing their very first session at The BBC, for Janice Long’s Show,...
Fiat Lux – In session BBC Radio 1 – March 1984 – BBC Radio 1 – Fiat Lux tonight. Never heard of them? Well . . .they were together for only three years. They released one mini-album and 7 singles and had the distinction of their sax and keyboards player,...
