BeebRock II - Music Shows on BBC Four, Sky Arts and everywhere else

paddylonglegs

Need to get me Sky Arts.

Agree with late showing of other voices. Crazy late

Welsh Megaman

Toppitypoppity!

Skid X

I see Edwin Starr on stage, but he's not singing War ...what's that all about ?

Welsh Megaman

Ten City.

Welsh Megaman

Play De La Soul!

Skid X

This T'Pau song 'Only The Lonely' would be good if it was the Roy Orbison song of the same name sang by Roy Orbison.

dasdog

Pity there's no "We've got a fuzzbox and we're going to use it" this week.

Welsh Megaman

FYC! NOW WE’RE TALKIN’!

(Boards.ie should use that as a slogan )

Skid X

I'm not really sure what's going here

Former Bucks Fizz now knows as The Fizz after they lost the rights to the name Bucks Fizz to your man from Dollar ... have a new song out called TOTP. The video is very TOTP but the song is nothing to do with TOTP apart from a line bolted on to the chorus

Anyway, mind yourselves during Storm Jorge

Welsh Megaman

Radioactive levels of miming tonight...

Skid X

I see Mark Goodier (the presenter) had a stroke a while back

Looks like he has made a good recovery and he is heavily involved in doing work for stoke survivors, fair play

https://radiotoday.co.uk/2018/12/mark-goodier-launches-podcast-for-stroke-survivors/

Welsh Megaman

Was it too obvious to call the documentary ‘Beast Of Burdon’?


:cool:

Ol' Donie

If anyone's wondering where Nile Rodgers is, he's in Cern at that particle physics yokey.

Just in case ye were worried.

Jordan 199

Ol' Donie wrote: »

If anyone's wondering where Nile Rodgers is, he's in Cern at that particle physics yokey.

Just in case ye were worried.

Apparently he has relocated from NYC and now lives by the River Nile. Now where's my coat?

Welsh Megaman

Travis documentary on Sky Arts right now.

Easy to forget just how big they were circa 1999.

One of the ‘bedwetter’ bands as Alan McGee called them

Ol' Donie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Travis documentary on Sky Arts right now.

Easy to forget just how big they were circa 1999.

One of the ‘bedwetter’ bands as Alan McGee called them

So, so hard to believe.

Jesus, people (rightly) whinge about music these days, but the late 90's/00's were criminal in almost every way.

Welsh Megaman

Ol' Donie wrote: »

So, so hard to believe.

Jesus, people (rightly) whinge about music these days, but the late 90's/00's were criminal in almost every way.

Travis seemed to slot into that ‘post-Britpop’ period, deemed ‘safe’ by the record companies by dint of the fact that they didn’t sound like Blur or Pulp, that period where the labels were too afraid to sign anything that sounded too Britpop.

See also: Coldplay (shudder), Starsailor (shudder) etc.

loyatemu

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Travis seemed to slot into that ‘post-Britpop’ period, deemed ‘safe’ by the record companies by dint of the fact that they didn’t sound like Blur or Pulp, that period where the labels were too afraid to sign anything that sounded too Britpop.

See also: Coldplay (shudder), Starsailor (shudder) etc.

I always thought of that scene as "bands heavily influenced by Radiohead's The Bends".

Radiohead themselves moved on to other things leaving the field clear for the likes of Travis, Coldplay, Embrace etc to claim the emotional indie rock dollar with their watered down versions of that sound.

Ol' Donie

Emotional indie rock.

I swear to jesus. Call it indie if you like. Emotional, if you're a girl in high school. But rock? Jesus Christ.

Anyway, I just remember every man and his dog for a brief while talking about The Man Who like it was the best thing anyone had ever heard. Which it wasn't, but at a time when we were absolutely drowning in boy and girl bands, at least seemed (seemed) to have some musical merit.

'Twas a remarkable time.

Skid X

Yeah The first Travis Album 'Good Feeling' sold bugger all but it had good energy and was properly influenced by The Bends and other worthy predecessors

The Man Who was the big one for them, Nothing as powerful but with a lot of radio friendly tuneage.

Then they got a bit deeper and the music buyers largely decided one Travis Album was enough for them

Always a fine live band, though.

sligojoek

RTÉ One
Thu 05.03.2020 Citizens of Boomtown
22:15 - 23:15 (60 min.)


The extraordinary story of Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats is told in this all-access 2 part series with special guests Bono, Sinead O'Connor, Sting and a host of others. (HD, S)

Jordan 199

On the subject of the Boomtown Rats, the late and great RUSH drummer Neil Peart mentions them in the interview below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK2uWbOH30

BandMember

Is it just me or was anyone else very disappointed with that Eric Burdon doc on Friday night?? It was basically a vain PR fluff piece which barely touched on the high points of his career and ignored a couple of decades altogether! Then again, I suppose that's what you get when you look at the credits and see that himself and his wife produced it.... :rolleyes:

Skid X

Hello, this week we have the start of that Boomtown Rats Doc which Sligojoek mentioned up above. There is also some live music from the BBC's 6Music which has a bit of a festival on. Plenty of repeats on as ever ...




Thursday
1pm South Bank Show Originals – Bjork (Sky Arts)
1997 interview

10.15pm Citizens Of Boomtown [Boomtown Rats Doc] (RTE1) New!
Part 1/2 Two-part documentary telling the story of Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, beginning as the band depart Dublin in the mid-1970s for London. With contributions from Bono, Sting and Sinead O'Connor. Continues next Thursday http://www.sideline.ie/2020/02/18/sideline-presents-citizens-of-boomtown-for-bmg-films/

11.30pm Other Voices (RTE2)
Performances by Celeste, Lankum, Carwyn Ellis and Gwenno from Cardigan in Wales

Midnight Supertramp Live In Paris 1979 (Sky Arts)

1.35am Film: Kill Your Friends (Film 4)
A treacherous, cocaine-addicted record executive enjoys success at the height of the Britpop era, but as public tastes change, he finds himself floundering and desperate for a hit. He soon realises that the best way to stay on top is to eliminate his rivals by any means necessary. Not great, in my opinion




Friday
7pm David Bowie – Serious Moonlight (Sky Arts)
1983 Vancouver Gig

7.30pm Top Of The Pops 1989 – April 20 (BBC4)
Nicky Campbell and Sybil Ruscoe host the edition first shown on April 20, featuring performances by Transvision Vamp, Inner City, Holly Johnson, Metallica, Midnight Oil, the Cure, Simple Minds, the Bangles and the Beatmasters with Merlin

8pm & 2.45am Cilla At The BBC (BBC4)
Cilla Black performances from Not Only But Also, The Ken Dodd Show, Top of the Pops and The Royal Variety Performance as well as her self-titled series, plus her 1973 duet with Marc Bolan

8.30pm Fleadh Cheoil (RTE1)
John Creedon and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh meet the female supergroup Cherish the Ladies and siblings Eimhéar and Emmet Mulholland. The programme also pays a visit to Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda for some music from Liam Flanagan and Paddy Tutty

9pm Top Of The Pops 1989 – April 27 (BBC4)
Gary Davies hosts the edition first shown on April 27, featuring performances by London Boys, Natalie Cole, De la Soul, Fine Young Cannibals, Morrissey, the Beatmasters with Merlin, Yazz, the Bangles and Poison

9pm Lynyrd Skynyrd – If I Leave Here Tomorrow (Sky Arts)
The history of the American rock band, who came to define an era with their sound, their drunken and dangerous antics and their controversial use of the rebel flag

9.30pm & 2.45am Classic Albums: Carly Simon - No Secrets (BBC4)
Carly Simon discusses her life and career, reflecting on her time with ex-husband James Taylor, a heroin addict when they first met. She also recounts her number of highly public affairs in the early 1970s and how her experience fed into the 1972 album's most famous song, You're So Vain, performing the missing fourth verse on the piano - the first time she has ever sung it

10.30pm Guitar, Drum and Bass: On Bass – Tina Weymouth (BBC4)
The American musician and singer-songwriter of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club fame celebrates the contribution of bass to popular music, tracing its progress from street corner doo wop and the overlooked 'guy at the back' in rock 'n' roll via Paul McCartney, James Jamerson and Carol Kaye. She reflects on the emergence of '70s funky bass stars Bootsy Collins and Chic's Bernard Edwards, the driving lead bass of postpunk maverick Peter Hook in both Joy Division and New Order through to the growth of Bass Culture in reggae

11.10pm The Doobie Brothers – Let The Music Play (Sky Arts)
The story of the American group, from their beginnings as a biker band in California in 1970 through to their sustained success, break-ups, reunions and multi-platinum albums

11.30pm Michael Kiwanuka at the 6Music Festival (BBC4)
More coverage of this festival across BBC4, the Red Button and Radio 6Music this weekend https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e2hp8g

11.40pm Other Voices (RTE2)
As Thursday

12.45am Girl in A Band – Tales From The Rock n Roll Front Line (BBC4)
Journalist Kate Mossman tries to look beyond the cliches of fallen angels, grunge babes and rock chicks as she gets the untold stories from rock's front line to discover if it has always been different for female members in a band

12.45am Believer (RTE2)
Documentary in which Imagine Dragons' Mormon frontman Dan Reynolds takes on a new mission to explore how the Church treats its LGBTQ members

1.10am The Windmill Lane Sessions (TG4)
with Declan O'Rourke, the Beau Motives and Brian Kennedy

1.10am The Making Of Marc Bolan (Sky Arts)
Documentary telling the story of how East End boy Mark Feld became a glam rock superstar as the frontman of T. Rex

2.10am Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody - Live In Budapest (Sky Arts)




Saturday
4.15pm Fleadh Cheil (RTE1)
As Friday

7pm Big In America: British Hits In The USA (Yesterday)

8pm Duran Duran – There’s Something You Should Now (Yesterday)
BBC4 Duran Doc

9pm Pavarotti – Birth Of A Pop Star (Sky Arts)

9.45pm Roisin Murphy Live At the 6Music Festival (BBC Red Button, Repeated On Loop)

10.05pm Freddie Mercury – The Great Pretender (Sky Arts)
One of the many Freddie Docs which pop up regularly, this one interviews with bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor, as well as friends and admirers including Paul Gambaccini, Montserrat Caballe and Matt Lucas

11.05pm The Carpenters – Their Greatest Hits (Channel 5)
Ken Bruce narrates a Doc about The Carpenters. Followed at 12.05am by Autopsy: Karen Carpenter which looks at the events leading up to her death. Why?

11.40pm The Selecter And EOB Live At the 6Music Festival (BBC4)
EOB is Radiohead Guitarist Ed O’Brien

11.50pm Queen Live In Rio 1985 (Sky Arts)

Midnight Belladrum – Johnny Marr (BBC Alba)
An Hour Of Johnny from whenever he played the Belladrum Festival

12.25am Top Of The Pops 1989 – April 20 (BBC4)
1am Top Of The Pops 1989 – April 27 (BBC4)

1.10am Classic Artists – Jimi Hendrix (Sky Arts)




Sunday
4.25pm Imelda May Live At Baloise Session (Sky Arts)
This is International Womens’ Day, so there are lots of similar shows

9pm Kate Tempest Live At The 6Music Festival (BBC Red Button)

9.30pm Transatlantic Sessions – Togha Agus Rogha (TG4)
S1 Ep 1/6 Collaborations between American and Irish traditional musicians. The first episode features Alison Krauss, Sarah Jarosz, Alison Moorer and Rosanne Cash

10pm The Jimmy Kennedy Songbook (BBC2 NI)
Duke Special is joined by Eddi Reader and Gareth Dunlop to perform some of Jimmy Kennedy's best-known songs. The Ulster songwriter's lyrics have been sung by some of the most iconic singers of the 20th century, including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. Apparently he wrote Istanbul (Not Constantinople) which I thought was a They Might Be Giants originals. So there.

10pm Suzi Q (Sky Arts)
Film exploring the story of inspirational rocker Suzi Q, from the many female artists she influenced, to the family tensions that resulted from her huge ambition and success

10.30pm Flosc (TG4)
Music series, presented by Cormac de Barra, featuring sessions recorded in the studios at Sligo docks

11.30pm 6Music Celebrates International Womens’ Day (BBC4)
Lauren Laverne presents from the Roundhouse in Camden, on International Women's Day, featuring live performances by Roisin Murphy, Kate Tempest, Kim Gordon and Nadine Shah

Midnight Joan Jett – Bad Reputation (Sky Arts)
Documentary chronicling the life and career of the rock musician, from founding the Runaways as an ambitious teenager to her evolution into the star and activist she is today

2am Janis Little Girl Blue (Sky Arts)
This retrospective includes some of Joplin's most iconic performances, which embodied the musical and cultural revolution of the 1960s. Narrated by Cat Power





and that's just about that, there was a good interview in The Examiner this week with Dave Robinson, the man who was involved in launching the careers the likes of Elvis Costello, Bob Marley, The Pogues, U2, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison and others

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/music-legend-dave-robinson-talks-touring-with-hendrix-living-with-van-and-launching-careers-984224.html

Alas the shows where he tells anecdotes about his career were on last week.


Finally the Best footage of Marillion checking into for an Easyjet flight sometime around the Year 2000 Of The Week might be as featured in Airline on CBS Reality (Sunday 6pm), or here in full via Youtube.

Welsh Megaman

Nice work as usual, Skidoo.

And for those who need their regular Nile Rodgers fix, the winners of Sky Arts ‘Portrait Artist Of The Year 2020’ will win a commission to paint the great man himself!

https://www.skyartsartistoftheyear.tv/

paddylonglegs

6 music festival looks the biz. Check out Kate tempest. Vocals/spoken word shtyles

Skid X

On the Late Late Show on Friday night - Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott will perform their new single "as well as a gorgeous selection of some of their best-known hits"

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/0305/1120458-this-weeks-late-late-show-guests-confirmed/

nomdeboardie

Have to admit I think the Rats, with a pinch of suspension-of-Geldolf-annoyance (bit like suspension of disbelief), were rather fun

Welsh Megaman

Greetings, pop pickers!


Evening, Wendy

Welsh Megaman