"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Thelonious Monk Quartet – Sendesaal, Radio Bremen – Bremen, Germany – March 8, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary, inimitable, pioneering Thelonious Monk for an Easter Sunday. Can’t think of a better occasion to celebrate this joyous, astonishing and thoroughly captivating music from one of the innovators...
Roger Waters – in concert at the Radio City Music Hall, New York – 1985 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Roger Waters tonight. In answer to several requests from readers for some later Floyd/Roger Waters concerts/sessions, I ran across this one, recorded in 1985, during his North American...
The Durutti Column – live at The Sallis Benny Hall, Brighton – Dec. 15, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Durutti Column – following along similar lines as New Order, they were also regulars at the legendary Haçienda in Manchester throughout the 1980s. The Durutti Column were unlike...
Lou Reed – In Concert at The Hammersmith Odeon, 1994. Recorded by BBC Radio 1 for In Concert, and rebroadcast via BBC 6 Music. Although The Velvet Underground weren’t considered a commercial success at the time in 1967, they were a band whose reputation grew over the years to finally...
The Clash – in concert at Rettel Festival in France – recorded on June 14, 1980. As something of a direct contrast in genres, between my post last night by Hanoi Rocks in 1984 and today’s post of The Clash, in concert at the Rettel Festival in 1980 – you...
Marni Nixon – with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hans Swarowsky – January 6, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the sad news last night (unconfirmed at the time) of the passing of vocal legend Marni Nixon, it was the passing of an era. During a period in Hollywood,...
George Russell Sextet – Live in Bremen, Germany. Recored by Nordwest Radio on September 28, 1964. If the decade of the sixties represented change, no where was it more evident than in the world of Jazz. Bubbling-under movements which began in the 1950s blossomed in the 1960s and helped set...
Part 1: Part 2: Oasis this weekend – their second night appearing at Earls Court in London on November 5, 1995. By 1995, Oasis were household names all over the world. In April of that year they had their first Number one single, Some Might Say but there were also...
Lush in concert from This Is Not A Love Song Festival in Nimes, France and recorded on June 4th of this year. As promised, I said a few weeks ago that I was going to try and post some additional concerts by Lush during their reunion festival tour this summer....
Lapsley – Live At Glastonbury 2016 – Introducing Stage – June 26, 2016 – BBC6 Music – Relative newcomer Lapsley tonight, in concert at the Introducing Stage from Glastonbury 2016, and recorded for posterity by the venerable BBC 6 Music. One of the things that’s most enjoyable about festivals like...
