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

Gen.Zhukov

Sorry to interrupt chaps...but...

I just thought I'd sneak in a great big happy 70th birthday wish to Ms. Pierson.
I'd say she was a blast to work with back in the day.


A bit more main stream than their earlier 70/80's stuff which was just 'unique'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNwC0sp-uA4

Carry on

Welsh Megaman

Any excuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofkzvM7Skxg

Skid X

From googling it looks like Slash has done a lot of interviews.

In fairness, he does his best to give interesting answers.

But he has his limits


Question from the Irish Independent
What's your favourite day of the week?

Slash Says
I'm a musician, I don't give a f*ck what day of the week it is.


https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/slash-former-guns-nroses-guitarist-is-interrogated-30574396.html

Ol' Donie

Skid X wrote: »

From googling it looks like Slash has done a lot of interviews.

In fairness, he does his best to give interesting answers.

But he has his limits


Question from the Irish Independent
What's your favourite day of the week?

Slash Says
I'm a musician, I don't give a f*ck what day of the week it is.


https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/slash-former-guns-nroses-guitarist-is-interrogated-30574396.html

Ha, he says that.

Then someone tells him it's Saturday and he missed the Late Late.

Who doesn't give a f*ck now, Saul?

BandMember

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Any excuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofkzvM7Skxg

Any excuse

Skid X

I enjoyed Jeff Beck last night, I didn't know most of the story including his involvement with Stevie Wonder's Superstition. It is on again tonight at 12.05am

Imelda May was on the radio with Marian Finucane today and told a story about how she rescued a crow (named Dave) which involves Jeff Beck. In a good way.

Basically if you need someone with an aviary to continue the convalescence of a rescue crow, Jeff is the man to talk to.

Here is the same story told last year on a different show https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04y03wz

Welsh Megaman

The Coop!

Welsh Megaman

Anybody else think Vincent Furnier is a better name than Alice Cooper?

Jordan 199

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMO2c__5xDA

MikeyTaylor

You know what I think they should bring back? Night Shift that used to be on Channel 6. After a lovely 10 year break I think Tv3/Virgin or whoever should consider reviving it. It would be hugely beneficial to the Irish music scene. Does anyone agree?

MikeyTaylor

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Anybody else think Vincent Furnier is a better name than Alice Cooper?

Bit off topic there is a horrible disease called Fournier's (with an O) gangrene. DON'T Google it if you would like to sleep soundly!

I think Alice Cooper was the name of a witch or something that he adopted as his stage persona.

Go Harvey Go

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

You know what I think they should bring back? Night Shift that used to be on Channel 6. After a lovely 10 year break I think Tv3/Virgin or whoever should consider reviving it. It would be hugely beneficial to the Irish music scene. Does anyone agree?

...I can't see TV3 or its sister channels airing *any* late-night music shows for the foreseeable future, unfortunately.

But I'll always have fond memories of Music Cubed from 2003. Seldom, if ever, did a night go by without Nirvana being played...

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

Insomniacs of the time were also interested in Guns N' Roses, Pixies, the White Stripes, Beyonce and Jay-Z, Bell X1 and the Frames. They weren't *quite* as interested in the Cheeky Girls or Dannii Minogue, however...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FjDPMife_Y

Seems hard to believe it was 15 years ago now. :eek: Time flies when you're having fun, I guess.

Skid X

Hi there, Not a whole lot new on this weekend but there are some decent films and an unusual looking doc about when America sent their Jazz stars out on propaganda tours, with mixed results. Pink Floyd on Sky Arts, which seems to be on the schedule every weekend. Nothing wrong with that ...




Thursday
11am Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree (Sky Arts)

4pm Classic Albums: Phil Collins - Face Value (Sky Arts)

7.30pm Top Of The Pops 1985 - September 12th (BBC4)
Mike Read and Steve Wright present the September 12 edition, featuring Amii Stewart, Huey Lewis and the News, Maria Vidal, Marillion, Mai Tai, and David Bowie and Mick Jagger
https://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=78332&seasonid=655748&id=5857994&lid=7

9pm & 11.15pm Urban Myths - Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali (Sky Arts)
Shock rocker Alice Cooper and Spanish artist Salvador Dali spend a weird weekend in 1970s New York City. Comedy, starring Noel Fielding and David Suchet, with Paul Kaye
http://www.anothermanmag.com/life-culture/10269/alice-cooper-remembers-his-encounter-with-salvador-dali

9.30pm Super Dooper Alice Cooper (Sky Arts)
Documentary about the rock singer, featuring contributions by fellow musicians Elton John and Iggy Pop and lyricist Bernie Taupin

11.40pm Other Voices - Electric Picnic (RTE2)
Annie Mac, Huw Stephens and May Kay present performances from the Electric Picnic music festival, featuring Katie Laffan, Slow Riot, Katie Kim, Le Boom, Pillow Queens, Rosborough, Joshua Burnside and Maria Kelly



Friday
11am Classic Albums: Phil Collins - Face Value (Sky Arts)

12pm The Eighties: Video Killed The Radio Star (Sky Arts)
A look at how MTV marked the dawn of the music video's rise, with Michael Jackson taking the artform to a new level by creating groundbreaking short films

4pm Classic Albums: Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast (Sky Arts)

7pm Johnny Cash Song By Song - Hurt (Sky Arts)

7.30pm Dolly Parton Song By Song - Travelin' Thru (Sky Arts)

7.30pm Sounds Like Friday Night (BBC1)
From the refurbished Television Centre studio in London's White City, Kylie Minogue performs two tracks from her recent number one album. Plus, UK chart-topping producer Naughty Boy debuts his new track, All or Nothing, featuring vocals from British singer-songwriter Ray Blk and Fugees legend Wyclef Jean. Hosted by Greg James and Dotty. Last in the series

8pm Video Killed The Radio Star - Bon Jovi (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Discovering Music - Coldplay (Sky Arts)

9pm Film: The Commitments (1991) (TV3)
A would-be music producer from Dublin believes he can make it big in Ireland by promoting a top-rate soul band, so he trawls a working-class neighbourhood and auditions unlikely singers and musicians to put together as a group. Alan Parker's urban comedy, based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, starring Robert Arkins, Andrew Strong, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball and Maria Doyle Kennedy

9pm The Jazz Ambassadors (BBC4) New!
In 1955 African-American Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie announced a new weapon to combat the Soviet Union - iconic jazz musicians and their racially integrated bands would cross the globe to counter propaganda about racism in America. Over the next decade, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck toured the world in service of US Cold War interests. However, unfolding civil rights unrest back home forced them into a moral bind. This documentary recounts the story of how the US State Department unwittingly gave the Civil Rights movement a voice on the world stage when it needed one most

10pm Coldplay - Austin City Limits (Sky Arts)
The band's 2011 appearance at the Texas Festival, including performances of Yellow, In My Place, The Scientist and Paradise

10.30pm & 1.30am Latin Music USA (BBC4)
Ep 3/4 Borderlands Documentary tracing the influence of Mexican music in America. The programme explores the mass immigration of people into the US, and how it led to the evolution of a new musical culture in the borderlands, a 2,000-mile stretch of country between Texas and California. The story of how Richard Valenzuela (Ritchie Valens) became a superstar is also examined, along with the way he inspired other artists including Carlos Santana, Los Lobos and Linda Ronstadt

11.15pm Brian Johnson's A Life On The Road - Joe Elliott (Sky Arts)

11.30pm & 2.30am Kings Of Rock n Roll (BBC4)
Celebration of the musical icons of the 1950s, including Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley. Featuring some of the more scandalous tales of the era, from Jerry Lee Lewis' marriage to his 13-year-old cousin to the original sexually explicit lyrics of Little Richard's hit Tutti Frutti. Featuring archive footage of the performers and contributions by celebrities including Tom Jones, Paul McCartney, Cliff Richard, Jack White, Jools Holland, Hank Marvin, John Waters and Minnie Driver, who reveal how the songs of the era have inspired them

12.15am Def Leppard - Viva! Hysteria (Sky Arts)
The Sheffield rock band perform at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, playing their bestselling album Hysteria in full, including the singles Pour Some Sugar on Me, Animal, Love Bites and Armageddon It

12.30am Classic Comps (BBC4)
Compilations of performances from the BBC archives, including Ravi Shankar's Raaf Bihag and Dudley Moore playing the Colonel Bogey March. Also featuring appearances by guitarist John Williams, cellist Jacqueline du Pre, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and violinist Nigel Kennedy on programmes including Parkinson, Later with Jools Holland, The Les Dawson Show, Music at Night and Wogan

12.30am Other Voices - Electric Picnic (RTE2)
As Thursday

2am Johnny Cash - Behind Prison Walls (Sky Arts)
Linda Ronstadt and Roy Clark join the Man in Black for this 1976 concert at Tennessee State Prison, including performances of Folsom Prison Blues and A Boy Named Sue

3am Rock and Roll - Love (Sky Arts)
Ep 3/10 A look at how love has always been a key component in the history of rock 'n' roll, featuring interviews and music from Carly Simon, Martha Wainwright and Wilko Johnson



Saturday
3pm The Shadows: The Final Tour (Sky Arts)
A 2004 concert by the instrumental rock band at the Cardiff Indoor Arena, in which Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett reunited to perform a selection of their greatest hits. Including performances of Apache, Riders in the Sky, Don't Cry for Me Argentina, Theme from The Deer Hunter and FBI

6pm My Beatles Black Album with Charles Hazlewood (Sky Arts)
The conductor creates a compilation album formed of solo tracks made by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr following the break up of the Beatles in 1970

6.35pm Reeling In The Years (RTE1)

7pm Tom Jones at the BBC (Yesterday)
A compilation of Tom Jones BBC Performances

8pm The Beatles, Hippies and Hells Angels (Sky Arts)
The story of Apple Corps, the multimedia corporation founded by the Beatles that became one of the most colourful, outlandish and chaotic companies that ever existed

8pm Sings The Beatles (Yesterday)
A look back through the BBC's archives at memorable covers of classic Beatles songs. Included are a performance of Day Tripper by Sandie Shaw, Shirley Bassey's version of Something, the Carpenters' rendition of Help!, Oasis's reinvention of I Am the Walrus, and Joe Cocker's chart-topping interpretation of With a Little Help from My Friends. Plus, Paul McCartney's solo performance of Lady Madonna

9pm Sings Elvis (Yesterday)
Compilation of cover versions of Elvis Presley hits, originally shown in 2010 - the year that would have been his 75th birthday. Artists featured include Cliff Richard, John Cale, Paul McCartney and Tom Jones, and Carl Perkins and Mac Davis perform songs they wrote but which Elvis made famous

10pm Pink Floyd: The Story Of Wish You Were Here (Sky Arts)
Documentary telling the story behind the making of Pink Floyd's landmark 1975 album Wish You Were Here, featuring interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason

10pm The Rolling Stones at the BBC (Yesterday)
A selection of the band's performances from the BBC archives, in a programme originally broadcast in 2012 to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Songs include The Last Time, Let's Spend The Night Together, Get Off of My Cloud, Honky Tonk Women, Gimme Shelter, Miss You and Start Me Up. Plus, footage of the band performing 19th Nervous Breakdown on Top of the Pops in 1966, which was used in a 1960s BBC documentary about women with depression

11.15pm Pink Floyd: A Technicolour Dream (Sky Arts)
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Nick Mason recount the story of the musical subculture of the 1960s, which culminated in a 14-hour concert at London's Alexandra Palace
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/14-hour-tech-dream-menu.html

11.35pm Top Of The Pops 1985 - September 12th (BBC4)
As Thursday

12.05am An Evening with Glen Campbell (BBC4)
An archive concert by country music singer Glen Campbell in which he is accompanied by 80 musicians who played original arrangements of his greatest songs. Performed at London's Royal Festival Hall in 1977

1.15am Rock and Roll: Poetry (Sky Arts)
Ep 4/10 Joni Mitchell, Chuck D and Pete Doherty are among those reflecting on how lyrics became the poetry of the modern age, featuring words bursting with emotions



Sunday
3.30pm Johnny Cash Song By Song - Ring Of Fire (Sky Arts)

9pm Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters: Austin City Limits (Sky Arts) New!
The rock singer is joined by his band to perform songs from across his career, including Led Zeppelin classics The Lemon Song, Black Dog and Whole Lotta Love

10pm Sean-Nós (TG4)
Songs from Dara Ban, Josie Sheain Jack, Meaiti Joe Sheamuis, Johnny Mhairtin Learai and Michael Mhaire a' Ghabha

10pm Michael Clark's 'To a Simple , Rock n Roll Song' (BBC4)
A trio of dance pieces by the choreographer, paying tribute to major influences on his work - punk rock, composer Erik Satie and David Bowie. With an introduction by Jarvis Cocker

10.15pm Urban Myths - Alice Cooper & Salvador Dali (Sky Arts)
As Thursday

10.45pm Iron Maiden: Somewhere Back In Time - Live (Sky Arts)
A collection of performances from the heavy-metal band's 2008 world tour, featuring Aces High, Powerslave, Revelations, Wasted Years, Fear of the Dark and Hallowed Be Thy Name

Midnight Film: Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (Be3)
Biopic of the influential 1960s record producer who became a success with a string of number-one hits, including the multi-million-selling Telstar, but was ultimately brought down by depression and paranoia as his volatile personality drove away those closest to him. With Con O'Neill, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, James Corden and JJ Feild

Midnight Status Quo Live In Montreux 2009 (Sky Arts)
A July 2009 concert in Switzerland by the rock band, which included performances of Caroline, The Wanderer, In the Army Now, Rockin' All Over the World and Down Down



Bank Holiday Monday
7pm Good Evening Europe agus Anois An Eurovision (RTE1)
A look back at the seven times Ireland has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, from the first in 1971 to the most recent in 1997 at the Point Theatre in Dublin

7.30pm Donal Lunny - Linte Ceoil Cheiltigh (RTE1) New!
Ep 1/4 Donal Lunny journeys the thousand miles from the Outer Hebrides to Galicia. As he travels he records, building upon a series of carefully researched key tunes, layering and juxtaposing the traditional music of the Celtic nations. Could traditional music, that passed on orally, hold real evidence, tangible clues to a common Celtic heritage?

9.30pm Film: Sing Street (RTE1)
Premiere. A teenager in 1980s Dublin suffers a troubled life, having to contend with money troubles, his parents' strained marriage, his drop-out older brother and a tough new school. He forms a band hoping to find an escape route, and resorts to criminal measures to shoot music videos. Comedy drama, starring Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen and Maria Doyle Kennedy

... I'd recommend Sing Street, well worth sticking a tape in if you haven't seen it. Eurovision and the return of Jools Holland to follow later next week

Hank Marvin features a few times up there, which reminded me of the Best Hank Marvin Television Advert you will see this week, or any other week ...

Jordan 199

^ The Fender Strat is a fine fine instrument.

MikeyTaylor

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

...I can't see TV3 or its sister channels airing *any* late-night music shows for the foreseeable future, unfortunately.

But I'll always have fond memories of Music Cubed from 2003. Seldom, if ever, did a night go by without Nirvana being played...

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

Insomniacs of the time were also interested in Guns N' Roses, Pixies, the White Stripes, Beyonce and Jay-Z, Bell X1 and the Frames. They weren't *quite* as interested in the Cheeky Girls or Dannii Minogue, however...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FjDPMife_Y

Seems hard to believe it was 15 years ago now. :eek: Time flies when you're having fun, I guess.

A reboot of Music Cubed or Nightshift would certainly a better idea than a reboot of L*ve Isl*nd. Come on Pat Kiely... please make it happen! :-)

PS: Anyone get Starz TV? Basically Music Cubed as a channel. We get it on Saorview

Welsh Megaman

Huey Lewis And The News...now we’re talking.

*rolls up sleeves of pastel jacket*

Welsh Megaman

The famous Marillion performance where Fish gives us a lyric guide

Lighters in the air, people!

Welsh Megaman

I try to block this Jagger and Bowie video from my mind.

I really do.

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

I try to block this Jagger and Bowie video from my mind.

I really do.

RTE Radio 1 played that this morning just before 8am 7am for some reason.

Weird, I haven't heard it in years now twice in a day.

That'll do now for a few decades.

Welsh Megaman

Robert ‘Percy’ Plant on Sky Arts right now

Welsh Megaman

Now it’s Maiden time!

Fear...Of...The...Dark!

Welsh Megaman

Still waiting for Nicko McBrain to have a drum-off live with Sooty

Welsh Megaman

Oh well!

Wherever!

Wherever you are!

Iron Maiden's...gonna get you!

No matter how far!

See the blood flow watching it shed up above my
head!

Iron Maiden wants you for dead!

Ol' Donie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Now it’s Maiden time!

Fear...Of...The...Dark!

Finally gave that a bit of a listen after you recommended it a good while. Bleedin deadly.

Welsh Megaman

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Finally gave that a bit of a listen after you recommended it a good while. Bleedin deadly.

Simply for the bit where you know the drums come in, signalling time to go apesh1t!

Skid X

Hello, this is Eurovision week and that takes up a lot of air time. There's a quite decent Doc on BBC4 about the history of the event. Bob Dylan is the alternative on Sky Arts on Saturday Night. No TOTP but Jools is back on BBC2 while TG4 find a gap in the market by celebrating Leitrim in music. Something Sky and BBC Four have shamefully neglected for years ...




Thursday
10am The South Bank Show Originals - Eric Clapton (Sky Arts)
Melvyn Bragg revisits more old episodes of his arts programme, beginning with editions from 1987 and 2007 in which Eric Clapton discussed his music and influences

11am Classic Albums: Lou Reed - Transformer (Sky Arts)
Former Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed discusses the making of his 1972 album Transformer, which features tracks including Perfect Day and Walk on the Wild Side. The programme also includes recollections by producers David Bowie and Mick Ronson

4pm Classic Albums: Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (Sky Arts)
The story behind Meat Loaf's phenomenally successful 1977 album Bat Out of Hell, charting record companies' initial indifference toward the star's powerful lyrics and theatrical style

8pm Eurovision Song Contest - Semi Final #2 (BBC4 & RTE2)

9pm Urban Myths - David Bowie and Marc Bolan (Sky Arts)
With fame and fortune a distant dream, teenagers David and Marc redecorate their manager's office. Comedy, starring Luke Treadaway and Jack Whitehall, with Adrian Edmondson
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/urban_myths_when_bowie_met_bolan/

9.30pm Bowie, Prince & Music Legends We Lost in 2016 (Sky Arts)

11pm 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. Featuring contributions from friends, family and well-known fans

12.30am A Technicolour Dream (Sky Arts)
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Nick Mason recount the story of the musical subculture of the 1960s, which culminated in a 14-hour concert at London's Alexandra Palace

2.30am The Beatles, Hippies and Hells Angels (Sky Arts)
The story of Apple Corps, the multimedia corporation founded by the Beatles that became one of the most colourful, outlandish and chaotic companies that ever existed



Friday
11am Classic Albums: Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (Sky Arts)

3pm The South Bank Show Originals - Cher (Sky Arts)
Melvyn Bragg revisits his 1999 meeting with singer and actress Cher, who candidly discussed her career highs and lows

4pm Classic Albums: Duran Duran - Rio (Sky Arts)
Documentary exploring the success of Duran Duran's album Rio, which propelled the band into the limelight during the 1980s with its optimistic feel against a backdrop of mass unemployment and the Falklands War. Featuring interviews with original members of the band including Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes, as well as contributions by Bob Geldof and Anthony Price

7pm Live From The Artists Den - The National (Sky Arts)
American indie rock band The National perform hits including Fake Empire, Bloodbuzz Ohio and Terrible Love at the Drill Hall in New York City's historic Park Avenue Armoury

8pm Video Killed The Radio Star -Simple Minds (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Discovering Music - New Order (Sky Arts)

9pm & 1.15am 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 - widely regarded as the greatest and most eccentric song contest on Earth. Actually quite decent

10pm The Cure: Trilogy Live in Berlin (Sky Arts)
The band perform their albums Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers at Berlin's Tempodrom in November 2002

10.30pm & 2.45am Latin Music USA (BBC4)
Ep 4/4 The Latin Explosion Documentary exploring how Cuban immigrants in Miami popularised the genre, with Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio creating a crossover pop sound during the 1980s that launched it into the mainstream. Featuring a look at how Latin songs began cropping up in everything from TV show Miami Vice to film Scarface as more talent emerged, including Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. Last in the series

10.30pm Sounds Of The 80s: Heart Throbs Special with Marti Pellow (BBC Red Button, repeated at various times)

11.15pm Film: Northern Soul (2014 (Film4)
A teenager living in a Northern town in the 1970s finds his horizons expanded when he discovers American soul music. He develops an inseparable friendship with a fellow devotee and the pair hope to achieve a brighter future beyond their bleak daily life. Drama, starring Elliot James Langridge, Josh Whitehouse, Steve Coogan and Ricky Tomlinson

11.20pm Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters: Ausin City Limits (Sky Arts)
The rock singer is joined by his band to perform songs from across his career, including Led Zeppelin classics The Lemon Song, Black Dog and Whole Lotta Love

Midnight The Windmill Lane Sessions (TG4)
Music performances filmed at the Windmill Lane Recording Studios in Dublin, concluding with Ham Sandwich, the Mighty Stef and Rodrigo y Gabriela

12.35am Brian Johnson's A Life On The Road - Robert Plant (Sky Arts)

1.20am Film: Stretch and Bobbuto: Radio That Changed Lives (Film4) New!
Premiere. Bobbito Garcia's documentary about the influential rap and hip-hop radio show he hosted with DJ Stretch Armstrong in the late-1980s and '90s, which launched the careers of artists including Nas, the Notorious BIG, Wu-Tang Clan, Jay-Z, Eminem and the Fugees

1.35am Pink Floyd - The Story Of Wish You Were Here (Sky Arts)
Documentary telling the story behind the making of Pink Floyd's landmark 1975 album Wish You Were Here, featuring interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason

2.50am Rock and Roll - Poetry (Sky Arts)
Ep 4/10 Joni Mitchell, Chuck D and Pete Doherty are among those reflecting on how lyrics became the poetry of the modern age, featuring words bursting with emotions



Saturday
4.10pm Michael Jackson: The Life Of An Icon (Sky Arts)
Documentary exploring the life of the pop singer, from his early career with the Jackson 5 to his rise to solo stardom and his death in 2009. Family and friends share their memories of the singer, including a rare interview with his mother Katherine Jackson, who discusses Michael's upbringing and his relationship with his father

6.55pm Niall Horan with the RTE Symphony Orchestra (RTE1) New!
The One Direction star performs a selection of songs from his debut solo album Flicker, joined by 45 members of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by Gavin Murphy

7pm Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church (Sky Arts)
Documentary follows Jimi Hendrix's seminal performance at the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival, where he played in front of 300,000 people. Featuring interviews with Hendrix and fellow musicians, including Paul McCartney and Mitch Mitchell

7pm TOTP2: Eurovision (Yesterday)
Steve Wright presents a selection of archive hits from the contest in this repeat from 2007. Featuring performances by Abba, Cliff Richard, Bucks Fizz, Katrina and the Waves, Lulu and Brotherhood of Man, plus an appearance by that year's UK entrants Scooch

8pm Eurovision Song Contest 2018 (RTE1, BBC1)
Live from Portugal, Marty on RTE1 and Graham on BBC1

9pm-1am Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (Parts 1 & 2) (Sky Arts)
9pm 1) Martin Scorsese's two-part profile of the singer, featuring rare interviews and archive footage. The first half examines Dylan's formative years, with contributions by childhood friends and teachers on his earliest musical efforts and also explores his arrival on New York's thriving early 1960s folk scene and the artists who influenced his work. In his own words, Dylan tells how he became smitten with folk music as the story shifts from the iron range in Minnesota to Greenwich Village in New York City, with characters including Dave Van Ronk, the king of Greenwich village folk clubs, Joan Baez, queen of the folk music world, and Allen Ginsburg, America's beat poet laureate
11.10pm 2)Conclusion. Martin Scorsese's profile of the singer takes a dark turn. Already a phenomenon at the age of 23, Dylan struggled to find a new musical vocabulary. The old Left hoped he would be a political activist, while the media wanted him to articulate the concerns of America's youth, but neither role interested Dylan

10.40pm Burt Bacharach: A Life In Song (BBC4)
Coverage of a unique concert staged at London's Royal Festival Hall celebrating the music of songwriter and performer Burt Bacharach. Some of his most famous songs are performed by artists including Alfie Boe, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Shaun Escoffery, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Hayward, Michael Kiwanuka, Laura Mvula and Joss Stone. Burt himself also performs, accompanied by his band, and chats to Michael Grade about the art of songwriting and shares the stories behind some of his best-loved hits

10.50pm Later ... With Jools Holland (BBC2 NI) New!
New series. Return of the live music programme, featuring Snow Patrol. Twenty years on from their debut, they will be performing songs from their seventh studio album, Wildness. South London's Shame feature songs from their debut LP Songs of Praise, and there's also a chance to hear Detroit-raised soul singer Bettye Lavette, Plus, Tower of Power celebrate their 50th anniversary with an appearance, along with rising Northumberland singer-songwriter Jade Bird, and singer/actor Plan B (aka Ben Drew), who performs songs from his fourth album, Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose

11.10pm The Leitrim Equation (TG4)
Donal Lunny teams up with Eleanor Shanley, Vincent Woods and fellow Leitrim musicians to deliver a pulsating evocation of Leitrim in word, song and dance

12.10am Sings Bacharach and David! (BBC4)
Archive performances of songs penned by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, featuring artists including Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, the Carpenters, Sandie Shaw and the Stranglers. The programme also features Bacharach himself performing alongside Rufus Wainwright on Later with Jools Holland

1am Rock and Roll: Sweat (Sky Arts)
Ep 5/10 Nile Rodgers, Sly and Robbie and the late David Bowie are among the artists reflecting on music's unique power to make us stand up and dance



Sunday
9am TOTP2 Girl Groups (Yesterday)
10am TOTP2 Boy Bands (Yesterday)
11am TOTP2 School Days (Yesterday)
12pm TOTP2 Eurovision (Yesterday) (Same as Yesterday)

9pm Elvis - The Final Hours (Sky Arts)
Documentary exploring the highs and lows of Elvis Presley's life, as told by a small group of the singer's closest friends and confidants

9.30pm Hup (TG4)
Doolin Music from Doolin Folk Festival, featuring performances from the Tri Tones and Rackhouse Pilfer, and a duet from Fiachna O Braonain and Liam O Maonlai

10pm & 1.45am The Doors: Mr Mojo Rising - The Story of LA Woman (Sky Arts)
Documentary looking of the making of the Doors sixth album, the last to feature original singer Jim Morrison

11.15pm Urban Myths - David Bowie and Marc Bolan (Sky Arts)
As Thursday

11.45pm 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. Featuring contributions from friends, family and well-known fans

12.45am More Than This: The Story Of Roxy Music (Sky Arts)
Documentary examining the background and influences of the rock group formed in 1971 by Bryan Ferry, detailing the changing relationships between band members and their return to the stage and studio in 2001. Featuring interviews with former band members, as well as Duran Duran's John Taylor, Siouxsie Sioux and former Sex Pistol Steve Jones




... A search on the BBC listings reveals very little in the way of Leitrim coverage ever on the BBC https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?q=leitrim#search If it wasn't for John McGahern's books there would be little at all. That Genome site is a great rabbit hole if you want to search for old shows


Best Zombie Pub Scene using a Queen Soundtrack of the week might be on Shaun Of The Dead (RTE2 Friday 9.30pm, on ITV2 a lot http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/06/how-often-does-itv2-repeat-shaun-of-the-dead/)

MikeyTaylor

Is Windmill Lane Sessions new or a repeat?

Skid X

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Is Windmill Lane Sessions new or a repeat?

Old

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/windmill-lane/

MikeyTaylor

Skid X wrote: »

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https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/windmill-lane/

Bit disappointed about that, but thanks!

Skid X

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Bit disappointed about that, but thanks!

No worries, I've only seen small parts of it but it looks like a decent show.

Maybe it will return for a new series.