While the UN was preparing to celebrate 10 years as a peacemaking body on the 20th of June, a military coup was going on in Argentina, with a plan to oust Juan Pèron. this day in June 1955. On 16 June 1955, 30 Argentine Navy and Air Force aircraft bombed
– Little Green Cars – Live At Eurosonic 2013 – Irish Alternative/Indie band Little Green Cars were pegged by BBC 6 Music in December of last year as The Band To Watch in 2013. They were busy making inroads and gaining an audience in that time. Actually, they got started
– 30 Seconds To Mars – Live at 3FM (VPRO, The Netherlands) – 2010 – Over to The Netherlands this morning for a live session by 30 Seconds To Mars, from the 3FM program That’s Live! from 2010. A band with a bunch of firsts – including the Guinness Book
Subscribe and help keep us going: Become a Patron! A day fairly overflowing with drama, but for different reasons and in different parts of Planet Earth for this last day of May in 1947. Starting with news that the democratically elected Premier of Hungary, Ferenc Nagy (Pronounced: Fairenz Nahhjjh) had
Membership has percs, not to mention a ton of love: Become a Patron! – Garbage In Concert At Leeds Polytechnic – April 9, 1996 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – If the great French Existentialist writer Albert Camus were alive today, and asked what his favorite 90s band was,
Double espresso works first time/every time: – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Narcotics – July 27, 1951 – If you thought our preoccupation with drugs, drug addiction and law enforcement of anti-drug laws was new, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but, no. It’s been with us
– The Hollies – Live At Beat Club – May 28, 1966 – German TV – Taking a detour to the deep, dark past this morning with a live appearance by The Hollies, originally broadcast over German TV on May 28, 1966. One of those bands that set themselves apart
– The Pixies in concert at l’Olympia, Paris – broadcast live by Le Mouv’ – September 30, 2013 – ` Starting off the week with a live-as-it-happened concert, kicking off the Continental leg of The Pixies European tour direct from the stage at l’Olympia in Paris September 30 and broadcast
Become a member – subscribe: Become a Patron! Ending up the week, I thought I would offer one of the favorite, overlooked and sadly underrated bands of the early 70s. Badfinger had all the earmarks and the massive early successes anyone would think could sustain a band for the long
And coffee works wonders: – Blood Red Shoes – Live At Paredes de Coura Festival, Portugal – Aug. 19, 2015 – Vodafone Radio – Heading over to the Paredes de Coura Festival this morning with a set from Power-duo Blood Red Shoes, recorded on August 19th 2015. The duo from
