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Laughing Clowns – In Session for John Peel – Dec. 8, 1982 – recorded Nov. 29, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Laughing Clowns from Australia. I confess, I missed them during their first incarnation – but I was certainly familiar with their founder Ed Kuepper, who was the driving...
A-Ha in Concert from Rio de Janeiro – March 10, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A-Ha in concert this weekend. During their career, which has had three incarnations, the New-Wave/Synth-pop/Alt-Rock trio from Oslo have performed some 610 concerts around the world, inspired dozens of artists from Pet Shop...
Could you Kick in a few bucks to The Past Daily Fall Fundraiser? – If you can, do it right here: (Past Daily Fall Fundraiser) The interesting thing about Past Daily is that, a lot of people come to the site for a lot of different reasons. Some come...
New Model Army -in concert at Berlin Eissporthalle – 1990 – BBC Radio 1 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – New Model Army for a Tuesday night. 37 years without a stop, but with a continuous shuffle of band members, to the point where Lead Singer, composer and guitarist Justin...
Caravan – Radio Bremen/Beat Club – 1969-1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Perennial favorites Caravan tonight. One of those bands who helped define Prog-Rock in the late 60s and early 1970s and one of those bands whose influence was felt much farther and wider than many give credit to....
Robert Wyatt – In session for John Peel – September 10, 1974 – broadcast September 26 – BBC Radio 1 – If you don’t know who Robert Wyatt is, you may have stumbled across this page by mistake, or you are just starting to feel your way around the immense...
Marine Research – in session for John Peel – April 18, 1999 – BBC Radio 1 – Marine Research tonight. After running the 90s indie band Heavenly last night, a reader reminded me of the band which came after Heavenly. That was Marine Research. Following in the Indie/jangly footsteps of...
Le Ormé – reunion concert – Nov. 5, 2010 – RAI Radio – Le Ormé tonight. If you’re a fan of Progrock of the 70s, or have been hearing about it, the Italian band Le Ormé really need no introduction. They were one of the pivotal bands of the Progrock...
Morrissey – live at Glastonbury 2004 – recorded for BBC 6 Music. Morrissey tonight. I’m at a loss to figure out why, but in going through my past concert/session posts, the last time I posted anything on Morrissey, it was 2012. No good reason, but I hope this 2004 Glasto...
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...
