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Happy Mondays – live at Le Truc, Lyon France – March 3, 1990 – Radio France International – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A taste of Happy Mondays this weekend. In concert from Lyon at Le Truc, recorded by Radio France International on March 3, 1990. One of the pivotal...
Echo & The Bunnymen – Live from Liverpool Empire – January 11, 1988 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert – Echo & The Bunnymen in concert tonight. Recorded live at the Liverpool Empire in 1988 by BBC Radio 1 for their In Concert series. As a band who started...
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Mock Turtles – live At Manchester Academy – 1991 – BBC 6 Music For all the bands coming from the now-legendary Madchester Scene of the early 90s many, if not most of them got lost in the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Charlatans – Live at Birmingham Academy – 2001 – BBC 6 Music Perennial favorites The Charlatans tonight, recorded in concert at the Birmingham Academy in 2001 by the venerable BBC 6 Music. When I first heard them in 1990, around...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – OMD (Orchestra Maneuvers In The Dark) John Peel Sessions – BBC Radio 1 Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark (OMD) were initially lumped into the New Wave genre, but they were up to something else. As Synth-Rock was morphing into New Wave,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – 808 State Live at Kentish Town and Country Club – Feb. 24, 1993 – BBC 6 Music Ending up a (mostly) Madchester week with a set by the legendary 808 State, live at Kentish Town and Country Club from February 24,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – A Guy Called Gerald – In Session for John Peel – 1988-1995 – BBC Radio 1 To give you some idea of just how diverse the scene was in Manchester – while Stone Roses and The Charlatans were turning the 80s...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Stone Roses – live In Blackpool – Dec. 8, 1989 – BBC 6 Music Continuing our romp through Madchester with a concert by Stone Roses, during that pivotal and meteoric period, recorded live in concert from Blackpool on December 8, 1989....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – James – In session for John Peel – October 19, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 Although they first arrived on the scene as an Alternative/Post-punk band, James evolved into one of the cornerstone bands of the Madchester movement in the late...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Spacemen 3 – Live At Paard Van Troje in Den Haag – 11 March 1987 In 1982, when most Pop Music consisted of busily exploring New Wave and post-Disco Techno or dealing with post-Punk, there were bands around quietly plotting and...
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