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The Stranglers In Session for John Peel – September 13, 1977 – BBC Radio 1 – The Stranglers in session to kick off he week. Their second session for John Peel, recorded on September 13, 1977. FYI: I ran the first session a couple years ago, so you might want...
National Pastime – In Concert from BBC’s Paris Theatre – December 5, 1984 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – National Pastime to kick off the week. Admittedly, I wasn’t familiar with this band, but they were very much in a familiar genre of the mid-1980s; a heavy emphasis on...
Fabienne DelSol – Songs from 2006-2010 – Damaged Goods Records – During that comparatively brief period when MySpace was a wonderful portal to Creative people from all over the world meeting up in one place and showing off their stuff, there were more bands per square foot than any other...
G Deaf School – in session for John Peel – August 9, 1976 – BBC Radio 1 – Deaf School. Despite a lot of promotion and great press, a band which, on the face of it didn’t achieve a margin of success. However, the solo careers that got started with...
February 23, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 23, 1978 – the roller-coaster of striking miners continues. Day 80 with no end in sight. Offers put forth – offers rejected. It was starting to look like the White House was going to step...
The The – live at Brixton Academy 1993 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – The The to start the week. Admittedly, the band’s name was a little off-putting. And from the looks of it, I am not in the minority on that one. But...
January 22, 1999 – BBC World Service – News Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 22, 1999 – Most eyes were on Bucharest this day. Between 7,000 and 10,000 demonstrators armed with Molatov cocktails, clubs and shovels clashed with riot police and special interior ministry forces and twice...
Stiff Little Fingers – in session for John Peel – April 13, 1978 – BBC Radio 1 – Stiff Little Fingers – their very first session for John Peel from April 13, 1978. It would be the first of four sessions from this Belfast Punk band, formed during “the troubles”...
Bronski Beat – in Concert – London, 1984 – BBC In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – Bronski Beat. A band who have only recently reactivated (with Steve Bronski, the only original founding member) achieved a goodly amount of popularity in the 1980s – maybe not so much for...
Alt-J in session at Maida Vale – May 2017 – BBC Radio 1 – Alt-J in session at the BBC‘s Maida Vale Studios from May of this year. For a band together less than five years, Alt-J have covered a lot of ground, have garnished an enormous amount of publicity...
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