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

Welsh Megaman

Betty Boo about to enter her imperial phase.

Welsh Megaman

“The old Stephen Bishop classic.”

Jordan 199

I want to see them playing something from the 1989 Black Sabbath album 'Headless Cross' sometime. It's a superb record.

Welsh Megaman

Liza + Pet Shop Boys Production = Classic

Welsh Megaman

Jive Bunny later died after contracting Mixmastertosis.



:cool:

Gizmo55

Ah heyor, Jive feckin Bunny. 1989 was a fairly brutal year.

Jordan 199

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Liza + Pet Shop Boys Production = Classic

Gizmo55

Lil Louis sounds a bit like early Underworld. Who knew?!

Welsh Megaman

Lil Louis, surprisingly faded out there at the end.

sligojoek

Played a bit of Kraftwerk to my 18 yr old daughter today. She'd never heard of them but got into them straight away. Played "The Model " and she started singing along with it cos she'd "heard it somewhere before".

Welsh Megaman

Little Richard has died - one of the original pioneers of rock ‘n’ roll.

Wooooooooo!

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/09/little-richard-dies-aged-83-rock-n-roll-pioneer

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SlOj_-_rTI

Welsh Megaman

A pretty accurate self-assessment...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGI58-uksss

paddylonglegs

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Little Richard has died - one of the original pioneers of rock ‘n’ roll.

Wooooooooo!

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/09/little-richard-dies-aged-83-rock-n-roll-pioneer

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SlOj_-_rTI

This thread should be renamed the rock n roll death notices.

Skid X

Hello, this weekend we have the return of Later ... With Jools Holland although it looks like it's more like Zooming ... With Jools Holland. Also another chance to see that Ken Burns Country Music Doc and a shedload of replacement Eurovision stuff, and RTE makes things better by showing The Blues Brothers.




Thursday
9pm Brian Johnson’s A life On The Road - Paul Rodgers (Sky Arts)

9pm Glor Tire – Rogha Agus Togha (TG4)
Featuring performances by Jim Devine, Mike Denver, Brendan Shine, Gerry Guthrie, Robert Mizzell, Louise Morrissey, Barry Kirwan and Johnny Brady

9.30pm Shaskeen 40 Bliain Faoi Bhlath (TG4)
As a tribute to the late Pat Broderick and Pat Costello, another chance to see this documentary profiling one of Ireland's most popular traditional music bands, who have been entertaining audiences all over the country for 50 years https://www.shaskeen.net/

10pm Bradley Wiggins On Mods (Sky Arts)
The former cyclist embarks on a scooter ride through the history of the mod movement - a subculture that emerged in the 1960s and birthed a generation of fashion and music lovers

11pm Quadrophenia – Our Generation (Sky Arts)
Midnight Quadrophenia Reunited – 40 Years On (Sky Arts)

11.30pm Other Voices – Courage (RTE2)




Friday
7pm Breezin’ – The George Benson Story (Sky Arts)
Doc about the American Soul Singer

8pm Top Of The Pops 1989 – August 17 (BBC4)
Nicky Campbell and Anthea Turner present the edition originally broadcast on 17 August, featuring performances by acts including Neneh Cherry, Martika and Fuzzbox

8.30pm Music Icons – Marvin Gaye (Sky Arts)

9pm Top Of The Pops 1989 – August 24 (BBC4)
Mark Goodier and Jakki Brambles present the edition first shown on 24 August, featuring performances by the likes of Then Jerico, Cliff Richard and Bon Jovi

9pm Life And Death Of Sam Cooke (Sky Arts)
A look at the circumstances surrounding the violent death of the American soul singer, including theories that it was self-defence, or a robbery that spiralled out of control. There are a few similar docs on Sam Cooke, not sure which one this is

9.30pm & 1.50am Eurovision At 60 (BBC4)
Documentary looking at the song contest since its launch in 1956 up to 2015. The programme reveals how the annual event has blossomed from involving just seven countries to garnering some 195 million viewers across the continent. Hosts and competitors tell the behind-the-scenes story of Eurovision. More of this kind of thing tomorrow

10pm Later … With Jools Holland (BBC2) New!
The music programme returns with a lockdown twist. Each week, Jools chats to a guest via videolink, beginning with Christine & the Queens, who talks about her musical journey as well as her influences, with a selection of her favourite Later performances pulled out of the archive. New music will also continue to feature throughout the series, and in this first edition Laura Marling plays a track from her seventh album Song for Our Daughter, which she released earlier than originally planned in light of the current pandemic

10pm Sli Na mBeagloaich (TG4)
Father-and-son musicians Cormac and Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich continue their journey up the West coast of Ireland. This week after some van trouble they're back on the road and in Galway. They celebrate the county's music, meeting with friends, artists and local musicians along the way

11pm Mr Dynamite – The Rise Of James Brown (Sky Arts)
The career of the singer, musician and producer, charting his journey from his first hit Please, Please, Please in 1956 through his pioneering funk phase to later chart success

11pm Dana – The Original Derry Girl (BBC4, also on RTE1 at 11.15pm)
The story of the singer, who won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with All Kinds of Everything and later moved to Alabama and became an MEP and ran for President. This on three different channels this weekend, what a time to be alive.

Midnight People’s History Of Pop (BBC4)
1976-1985, Tribal Gatherings Pauline Black looks at the years 1976 to 1985, when music got involved in passionate protest and the high street filled with colourful factions of music lovers

12.10am Other Voices – Courage (RTE2)

12.15am Film: The Drummer And The Keeper (RTE2)
A rock drummer is desperate to hide his bipolar diagnosis from his exasperated bandmates. But when he makes a grudging offer of friendship to an institutionalised teenager suffering from Asperger's syndrome, he suddenly finds his every step dogged by this dangerously tactless new disciple. Drama, starring Dermot Murphy and Jacob McCarthy

12.45am The Windmill Lane Sessions (TG4)
with Mick Flannery, Monster, Monster and Fight Like Apes

1am Country Music By Ken Burns (BBC4)
Ep 1 / 9 The Rub (Beginnings-1933) The history of the American art form and how it evolved across the 20th century. The first programme explores the genre's earliest years up to 1933, when so-called 'hillbilly music' grew in popularity. After centuries of percolating in the American South, hillbilly began reaching more people through the new technologies of phonographs and radio. The Carter Family, with their ballads and old hymns, and Jimmie Rodgers, with his combination of blues and yodeling, became its first big stars. Contributors include Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash and Merle Haggard. Narrated by Peter Coyote

1.15am James Brown Live At Montreux 1981 (Sky Arts)

2.30am The Who – Tommy Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Sky Arts)




Saturday
Eurovision stuff


5pm Pointless Celebrities Eurovision Special BBC1

6.25pm Eurovision Come Together BBC1 - Graham Norton gives viewers a chance to pick their favourite Eurovision performances, with a look at some of the songs which would have been on tonight

6.55pm Marty's Magical Eurovision Moments RTE1 - Marty Whelan instead takes viewers through the highs and lows of Eurovisions past

8pm-10pm Eurovision Shine A Light RTE1 & BBC1 - The main event, all 41 songs which would have been on tonight with some famous faces from the past and a Global Choir singing What's Another Year?

10pm Eurovision A-Z BBC2 Rylan Clark does the same as what Marty did on RTE1 earlier

11pm TOTP2 Eurovision BBC2



Saturday Not Eurovision:

5pm Duran Duran – A Diamond In The Mind (Sky Arts)
2011 Manchester concert

7pm Pulp Live At Brixton Academy (Sky Arts)

8pm Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum - The Super Tour (Sky Arts)
2018 London Gig

9pm Opry An Iuir
With Daniel and Charley Pride

10.15pm Distant Sky: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Live In Copenhagen (Sky Arts)

Midnight Lenny Kravitz – Just Let Go Live (Sky Arts)
2014 concert film

12.20am TOTP2 – Pop Stars (BBC4)

12.25am Film – The Blues Brothers (RTE1)

1.20am Top Of The Pops 1989 – August 17 (BBC4)
1.50am Top Of The Pops 1989 – August 24 (BBC4)


2.10am Bradley Wiggins on Mods (Sky Arts)




Sunday
8.30pm Pat Shortt’s Music From D’Telly (RTE1)

9pm Cliff Richard: 60 Years In Public And In Private (ITV3)

9.15pm Dana - The Original Derry Girl (BBC2NI 9.15pm)

9.30pm Sli Na MBeaglaoich (TG4)
Father and Son, musicians Cormac and Breanndan O Beaglaoich continue their journey up the West coast of Ireland. This week they travel onwards to Mayo, where they take in the sights of Croagh Patrick and Clew Bay with Tim McHugh and John Hoban. They cross over to Achill and take a dip with singer Graham Sweeney. After marching with the Achill Pipers, harpist Laoise Kelly and her son Caoilte send them to bed with a tune

10pm The Nation’s Favourite Carpenters Song (ITV3)

10.30pm Flosc (TG4)
More Sligo Sessions with Cormac De Barra

11pm Newport Festival 1963-1966 (TG4)
A cinematic synthesis of four Newport Folk Festivals of the 1960s in which the art of folk music is pictured in transition during its most crucial years. Featuring performances from legendary artists including Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan
Clip from it here

11.40pm The Barry White Story – Let The Music Play (Sky Arts)

11.45pm Tom Waits – Tales From A Cracked Jukebox (BBC4)
Profile of the influential and inventive singer-songwriter, whose work encompasses a mixture of musical styles, from blues to Weimar cabaret. The programme incorporates rare archive recordings and interviews, and features contributions from Terry Gilliam, Ian Rankin and Ute Lemper. Not on Youtube, might well be on other sites if you google it

12.40am James Brown Live At Montreux 1981 (Sky Arts)
1.55am Mr Dynamite - The Rise Of James Brown (Sky Arts)





Weird thing I saw on Youtube this week was the Julian Temple 1983 ABC film Manhunt, where Martin Fry has to fight another Martin Fry to save music or something. The last part is missing so maybe the real Martin Fry didn't make it. RIP.

And finally, the answer to Where's Nile Rodgers Getting His Royalties From This Weekend? is the 1988 Jim Carrey and Jeff Goldblum flop 'Earth Girls Are Easy' (Sony Movies Classics, Friday 9pm). Nile did the score,released the title track under a pseudonym 'The N' and remixed some of the other songs. Did the man ever take a day off in the 80s?

http://popdose.com/soundtrack-saturday-earth-girls-are-easy/

http://miff.com.au/program/film/earth-girls-are-easy

sligojoek

2.10am Bradley Wiggins on Mods (Sky Arts)

All Mod enquiries to the Helpdesk please

nomdeboardie

Skid X wrote: »

10pm Bradley Wiggins On Mods (Sky Arts)

In before the lock

sligojoek

Grabs popcorn

BandMember

The end is nigh, allegedly.....

https://twitter.com/TVZone_/status/1260857383653462021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Snake Plisken

Big mistake by the BBC, majority of the viewers of BBC4 would pay their TV licence in the UK, bet you not a lot of the "young" viewers of BBC3 pay a licence!

The J Stands for Jay

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Big mistake by the BBC, majority of the viewers of BBC4 would pay their TV licence in the UK, bet you not a lot of the "young" viewers of BBC3 pay a licence!

BBC 4 is pretty much the only channel I watch. Does anyone actually watch BBC 3? Isn't it online only?

nomdeboardie

BBC4 I hardly knew you
(having only started Freesat viewing about a year ago)

Harry Palmr

McGaggs wrote: »

BBC 4 is pretty much the only channel I watch. Does anyone actually watch BBC 3? Isn't it online only?

Fleabag, This Country, Normal People all made for BBC Three. Loads of people watch them just not on BBC 3i

The J Stands for Jay

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Fleabag, This Country, Normal People all made for BBC Three. Loads of people watch them just not on BBC 3i

Fair enough, never knew they were BBC 3. The only BBC 3 output I think I've encountered is the Detectorists (terrible) and some rubbish about some chav siblings.

Welsh Megaman

TOPPOPOPSCHE!

Can’t see this Black Box song being a hit :pac:

Welsh Megaman

Loleatta Holloway sure has lost a lot of weight :pac:

Skid X

That Black Box singer should have teamed up with Milli Vanilli

Jordan 199

Skid X wrote: »

That Black Box singer should have teamed up with Milli Vanilli

Don't forget my number

Welsh Megaman

Nicky Campbell back from a hard day trading on the Stock Exchange.

Welsh Megaman

Jordan 199

Alice Cuprinol