"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Daniel Ellsberg – Interview from The Today Show – July 2, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Editors Note: Hearing the news today of the death of Daniel Ellsberg at the age of 92, it occurred to…
– The Cure – in session for John Peel – May 9, 1979 – broadcast May 16, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – The Cure for our Sunday Night excursion. Their second session for John Peel – recorded on May…
NBC News Of The World – April 17, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News from London this day. Touted as a “reprisal attack” by Germany for Britain’s raid on Berlin and Potsdam a few days earlier, the Luftwaffe…
Suede in session – BBC Radio 1 – April 3, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – Suede for mid-week. One of the premier bands of the early 90s and one of the primary bands in the Britpop movement. Formed in…
– The Pretty Things – live at Golders Green, London – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – BBC Radio 1 – The Pretty Things in concert tonight. Lest you think The Rolling Stones can lay claim to being…
– The Yardbirds – live at Stadhall Offenbach (Beat Beat Beat program) – March 15, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Yardbirds, recorded at Stadhall, Offenbach in Germany on March 15, 1967. This is the version of the…
– Mutual – John Steele, Reporting From London – Feb. 21, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – 1938 started out with War jitters. With the German issues over the situation in Austria and a general purge of Hitler‘s Generals.…
– The Kinks – in session for Top Gear – 1967 – BBC Radio 1 – The Kinks – variously described as either overlooked and underrated or one of the most influential bands that ever came out of Britain in…
– Steve Hillage Band – Live at Hyde Park, London – September 18, 1976 – The ever-popular Steve Hillage this weekend, in his debut concert at Hyde Park in London on September 18, 1976. Hillage was known for years…
Dutch psych-meister Jacco Gardner tonight, in a concert recorded during the 2013 London Calling Festival, held at The Paradiso in Amsterdam and faithfully recorded by VPRO in Hilversum. A little bio sampler via Tim Sendra at AllMusic: Dutch-born psychedelic explorer…