"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
KXOK – Nick Charles – July 29, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Summer School. You don’t hear about it that much any more, but in 1966 it was a ritual if you were still in School. Taking Summer…
The High – ode to Madchester tonight with a live gig by the band at Granada studios in 1990. Click on the link and have a listen – and please support what Past Daily is trying every day to do.
Dave Brubeck Quartet – Live at Juan les Pines Festival, Antibes – July 22, 1967 – Radio France – Dave Brubeck Quartet this weekend. The quartet that formed a first impression of Modern Jazz on a lot of non-Jazz people…
Bow Wow Wow – in session for John Peel – October 20, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – Bow Wow Wow tonight, in a session recorded for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 on October 20, 1980. Despite being the…
Leonard Cohen – In Session for John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – July 9, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – With the incredibly sad news earlier this evening, of the passing of legend and icon Leonard Cohen, it gives…
November 10, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 10, 1990 – busy news day, no shortage of cliff-hangers. Secretary of State James Baker met with French officials in an attempt to drum-up support…
ABC Radio: Storm Over The Himalayas – India-Pakistan at War – Sept. 19, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the latest series of news reports regarding fighting going on between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region,…
Gong – Live At Chateau Neuf, Oslo – December 15, 1974 Gong this week – a band who helped put Prog on the map in the early 1970s. Founded by Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth. Allen was a founding member…
East of Eden, in session for Top Gear with John Peel – April 6, 1970. East of Eden tonight. A band most people on this side of the Atlantic hadn’t heard of. I don’t even recall them being played via…
The Alarm, in concert from London in 1984 tonight. Starting up in 1981 and still going strong, The Alarm originally began life as a Punk band known as The Toilets. But soon they abandoned the genre and the name…