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

dasdog

sligojoek wrote: »

Martin Birch.

RIP

One of those names recognisable from the back of a (usually maiden) LP. He had an amazing career yet retired at 44.

Skid X

Hi, mixed bag on offer this weekend. The 51st anniversary of Woodstock is jumped by no less than PBS and TG4, who have the same shows they had last year for the 50th. BBC4 and Sky Arts are keeping up with the Joanses with Armatrading on 4 and Jett on Sky. Plenty of Fleadh on the Irish channels …




Thursday
4pm Music Icons -Run DMC (Sky Arts)
4.30pm Music Icons – Santana (Sky Arts)

9pm Glor Tire – Rogha Agus Togha (TG4)

9.30pm Tradfest TG4 (TG4)
Featuring acoustic roots and blues guitarist Martin Harley, BBC Folk Award winner Daoirí Farrell, and the Dublin Lasses

10.30pm Other Voices (RTE2)
Bell X1 are joined by Dowry Strings - the quartet led by violinist, composer and singer-songwriter Éna Brennan - at Muckross House, Killarney. Also featured is a set by singer-songwriter Anna Mieke

11.35pm Fir Bolg (TG4)
Ep1 of 6 Comedy drama about a vintage traditional music group who have a history but little future. That all changes when they meet up at a funeral and decide to get back together for a one-off gig. But as preparations get under way, the Fir Bolg find themselves dragged into more concerts and more controversy as skeletons begin to fall out of the closet. Starring Seán McGinley, Don Wycherley, Aonghus ‘Aonghy Mac’ McAnally, Peadar Cox and Caroline Morahan. The trailer features Wee Daniel, Patrick Bergin, Marty Morrissey, Amy Huberman and anyone else who was hanging around the studio at the time

Friday
4pm Music Icons – Talking Heads (Sky Arts)
4.30pm Music Icons – Al Green (Sky Arts)

7pm-9pm Blondie: Song By Song Parts 1-4 (Sky Arts)
One Way Or Another, Heart Of Glass, Call Me, Rapture

8pm TOTP2 – Summertime (BBC4)
featuring songs by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, the Undertones, Shaggy, Bananarama, Bobby Goldsboro, Bay City Rollers, Fun Boy Three, the Style Council and Don Henley. Other archive sizzlers include DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, the Sundays, Sabrina, Chris Rea, the Barracudas, Zoe, Martha and the Muffins, Bryan Adams, Girls Aloud and ELO

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

10pm & 1.40am Joan Armatrading – Me Myself I (BBC4)
Known for her reclusiveness and barriers, the singer has for the first time granted access to her life and music. In this film she recounts her story from Caribbean emigre to being one of the most revered songwriters of her generation. The film covers Joan's childhood in Birmingham, her involvement in the musical Hair in 1968, her musical partnership with songwriter Pam Nestor and the relationship later forged with rock producer Glyn Johns. This is on Youtube, but the sound is muted

10pm I Love … 1987 (BBC2)
Richard E Grant looks back at when Rick Astley, Terence Trent D'Arby, Run DMC and the Beastie Boys hit the charts. Although he is mainly on to wax lyrical about Withnail And I

10.45pm 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
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bad_reputation_2018

11pm & 2.45am Queens Of Soul (BBC4)
including Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, Randy Crawford, Angie Stone, Mary J Blige and Beyonce

11.50pm Other Voices (RTE2)

Midnight Radio 2 In Concert – Emile Sande (BBC4)

Midnight Biffy Clyro Unplugged (MTV Music)

Midnight Autopsy – Janis Joplin (VM1)

12.45am Janis – Little Girl Blue (Sky Arts)
Janis Joplin's powerful, soulful voice blazed new creative trails before her untimely death in 1970, aged 27. As director Amy Berg's documentary reveals Joplin's on-stage bravado and uninhibited sexual persona hid hurt and insecurity stemming from her childhood. On relocating from Texas to San Francisco and discovering the blues, she found an outlet for her loneliness and fell into a community that embraced and celebrated her talent. This retrospective includes some of Joplin's most iconic performances, which embodied the musical and cultural revolution of the 1960s
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/04/janis-little-girl-blue-review-joplin-amy-berg-heroin

1am The Defiant Ones (BBC4)
The continuing stories of Dr Dre and Tupac Shakur and Eminem and all that




Saturday
7pm Supertramp Live In Paris 1979 (Sky Arts)

7pm Big In America: British Hits In The USA (Yesterday)
8pm Meat Loaf – In And Out Of Hell (Yesterday)

8.50pm Woodstock – Three Days That Defined A Generation (PBS)
Through the voices of those who were there, the music of the time and unique imagery shot in situ of the protagonists and festivalgoers, this documentary tells the story of the lead up to those three historic days

9pm Opy An Iuir (TG4)
Daniel O'Donnell hosts the Irish-language country music show from the Millennium Forum in Derry, featuring showband stars Dickie Rock, Paddy Cole, Red Hurley and Gina

9pm Marillion: All One Tonight (Sky Arts)
2017 Royal Albert Hall Gig
http://www.marillion.com/shop/albums/allonetonightcd.htm

10.45pm Rush – Time Stand Still (Sky Arts)
Documentary about Canadian rock band Rush and their unique relationship with fans, set against the backdrop of the group's 40th anniversary tour in 2015

12.25am Tradfest TG4 (TG4)
Featuring acoustic roots and blues guitarist Martin Harley, BBC Folk Award winner Daoirí Farrell, and the Dublin Lasses

12.45am Pink Floyd – A Delicate Sound Of Thunder (Sky Arts)
An extravagant concert film from the musicians' A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour, recorded at New York's Nassau Coliseum in August 1988 using 27 cameras

1am TOTP2 Summertime (BBC4)
“For Saturday night, Will we pick another TOTP2 from our extensive archive?”
“Nah, stick on the same one as last night, it’ll be grand”

2am London Songs At The BBC (BBC4)
Petula Clark , Adele, The Jam, Eddy Grant, Tom Paxton and Lily Allen
No mention Madness in the listing, which is Madness

2.05am Sam Smith Live In London (RTE1)

2.45am Ron Geesin – An Improvised Life (Sky Arts)
A look at the life of musician Ron Geesin, best known for his collaborations with Pink Floyd. Featuring performances and interviews with Nick Mason and Geesin himself




Sunday
1.45pm Elvis ’56 Special (Sky Arts)

3pm Frank Sinatra Live From Madison Square Garden (Sky Arts)
1974 TV Special

4pm Shania Twain Live In Las Vegas (Sky Arts)

6pm David Bowie Glass Spider Tour (Sky Arts)
1987 in Melbourne

8pm BBC Proms Classics (BBC4)
Liszt and Wagner.

8pm Pet Shop Boys Live At The O2 2009 (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Port (TG4)
Local music from Asturias. Which is in the North of Spain, apparently

9pm Cyndi Lauper - Austin City Limits (Sky Arts)

9.30pm Fleadh Cheoil (TG4)
Ep 1 of 6 Classic Cheoil from Listowel in 1995.
That was the year REM and Oasis played Slane, but I don’t think they made it to Listowel

10.15pm Kylie Minogue Greatest Hits Tour 1995 (Sky Arts)

10.30pm Geantrai (TG4)
featuring Brendan McGlinchey, James Carty, Tom Marcee, Paul Gallagher, Luke Daniels and Colm Murphy

11pm Woodstock: 50 Bliain (TG4)
Documentary looking back at Woodstock Festival in August 1969, which featured performances by legendary artists including Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joe Cocker and Janis Joplin
Possibly a shorter version of the one which is on PBS, not sure




That’s more or less that, do let us know if you have seen anything else or if there are any glaring omissions in that line up.

Old Youtube video this week is of when RTE interrupted their Feile coverage to have a Football trivia contest between Dustin The Turkey and a well oiled Paul Heaton from The Beautiful South. You don’t get this kind of thing on the BBC when they do Glasto.

And finally, The Best Oasis piss take song that actually sounds like a decent Oasis song from The Fast Show Of The Week might be this one, from The Fast Show (GOLD Saturday 11.40pm)

Hotblack Desiato

peteeeed wrote: »

(Un)Well
This docuseries takes a deep dive into the lucrative wellness industry, which touts health and healing. But do the products live up to the promises?

Abduction
When a teen comes across his own childhood photo on a missing persons website, he begins to question everything he's ever known

Incoming
When an imprisoned terrorist cell hijacks a high-security prison in outer space, a CIA agent becomes the one chance of stopping them

Greenleaf season 5
Although members of the Greenleaf family run a Memphis megachurch, their business and personal lives are tainted with greed, adultery and other sins.

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
Flight Lieutenant Gunjan Saxena makes history in her journey from aspiring aviator to India’s first female combat pilot in the Kargil War.

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peteeeed

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

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Hotblack Desiato

The Mr. Wells thing shows how easy it is to do Oasis by numbers

Because Oasis was just rock by numbers... :cool:

paddylonglegs

Must’ve worn the tape from watching the Hendrix at Woodstock gig so much when I was younger. 60s-tastic

Skid X

Hello, another one of those quiet weekends coming up. A repeat of the revival of the Whistle Test tonight, then shedloads of Shirley Bassey on BBC4 If you are into that. May or not contain her early single Burn My Candle (At Both Ends) which the BBC apparently banned. TG4 do their thing with an intoxicating mix of Bob Marley and Fleadh Cheoil …




Wednesday
11.05pm-2.05am The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC4)
Another chance to see Bob Harris’s 2018 one off revival and tribute to the Whistle Test. Music comes courtesy of former Old Grey Whistle Test stars Peter Frampton, Richard Thompson and Albert Lee, and past presenters Annie Nightingale, Richard Williams, David Hepworth and Andy Kershaw all put in appearances, sharing stories from their time with the show




Thursday
8pm Great Film Composers – The Magic Of The Movies (Sky Arts)
A look at the soundtracks of the 2000s and the composers that wrote the scores for blockbusters including Avatar, The Dark Knight and Gladiator

9pm Glor Tire Rogha Agus Togha (TG4)
featuring Mike Denver, Brendan Quinn and Stephen Smyth

9.30pm Tradfest TG4 (TG4)
Doireann Ní Ghlacáin travels to Dublin Castle to see I Draw Slow, a bluegrass band who have recently moved into a dominant position in the American folk music scene. Featuring Paudie O'Connor and Aoife Ní Chaoimh, Máiréad Hurley, John Blake and Paddy McEvoy, and Gweedore singer and bouzouki player Cathal Ó Curráin

Midnight David Bowie Glass Spider Tour (Sky Arts)
1987 from Sydney




Friday
6.20pm Woodstock: Three Days That Defined A Generation (PBS)

7pm The Stones In The Park (Sky Arts)
From 1969

7pm Easy Listening Hits At The BBC (BBC4)

8pm Top Of The Pops - Big Hits 1989 (BBC4)
Tina Turner and Phil Collins, Soul II Soul, Paula Abdul, Lisa Stansfield ,the Beautiful South, Stone Roses ,Happy Mondays, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Sonia. Plus, Sydney Youngblood, Mike and the Mechanics, Rebel MC and Double Trouble, along with duets from strange bedfellows Marc Almond and Gene Pitney and Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville

8pm 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



Shirley Bassey Night (BBC4)!
9pm Shirley Bassey At The BBC
Featuring footage from Show of the Week, The Shirley Bassey Show, the 2007 Glastonbury Festival and the star's Electric Proms show in 2009. Songs include Goldfinger, Big Spender and Diamonds are Forever

10pm Shirely Bassey Electric Proms
Highlights of the singer's performance to celebrate her 50 years in showbusiness. Classic tracks such as Big Spender and Goldfinger appear alongside songs from her album The Performance, with accompaniment by the BBC Concert Orchestra and guest collaborators David Arnold, James Dean Bradfield and Richard Hawley

11pm Imagine: Shirley Bassey – The Girl From Tiger Bay
Alan Yentob celebrates Shirley Bassey's 2009 album The Performance, the David Arnold-produced record that was her first studio release in two decades, by examining a selection of her greatest archive performances. He also meets songwriters who contributed to the album, including Gary Barlow, Pet Shop Boys, Manic Street Preachers, KT Tunstall and frequent James Bond composer John Barry


11pm Sex Pistols: There’ll Always Be An England (Sky Arts)
2007 gig

11.55pm BBC Proms 2019 – Angelique Kidjo (BBC4)

Midnight Autopsy – Kurt Cobain (VM1)

12.20am Other Voices (RTE2)
Repeat featuring Soak, Murder Capital, Arlo Parks and Junior Brother

12.30am The Jam Live At Rockpalast (Sky Arts)
1980 West German 90 minute gig

1.15am The Defiant Ones (BBC4)
Last in Series. The lads invent Beat Headphones and make shedloads of money.




Saturday
3pm-Midnight Isle Of Wight Highlights (Sky Arts)
Highlights from recent years, details here https://tv24.co.uk/channel/sky-arts/2020-08-22

7pm How The Beatles Changed The World (Yesterday)
Through exclusive interviews and a wealth of rarely seen footage, this film reveals the previously untold story of how four young men from Liverpool transformed the world forever

8.05pm Opry An Iuir (TG4)
Featuring Jimmy Buckley. And his daughter. She would be Una Healy’s cousin. Una is not in this

9.05pm Celtic Connections (TG4)
featuring Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Daorí Farrell, Kathleen MacInnes, Dermot Byrne, Mike Vass and Brian Finnegan, and Blue Rose Code

10.45pm TOTP2 Summertime (BBC2)
This was on BBC4 twice last weekend

Midnight Oasis Live At Barrowlands 2001 (Sky Arts)

12.50am Tradfest TG4 (TG4)
As Thursday

1am Avicii – True Stories (BBC4)
Documentary telling the story of the Swedish DJ, who died in 2018, featuring extensive personal and family archive and behind-the-scenes footage to paint a picture of his life

1.15am U2: Experience Live In Berlin (Sky Arts)

2.45am The Us Festival 1982: The Us Generation (Sky Arts)
The story of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's 1982 music festival in California headlined by the world's biggest acts including The Police and Fleetwood Mac




Sunday
4.50pm Gwyl Lleisiau Eraill (S4C)
The best of the contemporary music scene in Wales and the world from the Other Voices festival held in Cardigan in 2019

5pm Beatles Stories (Sky Arts)
Fans reveal how they found themselves playing Monopoly with George Harrison, eating beans on toast with Ringo Starr, drinking rum with John Lennon and performing with a Beatles tribute band in front of producer George Martin https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1806805/

6.45pm The Stones In The Park (Sky Arts)
Repeat from Friday

7.25pm BBC Proms Classics (BBC4)
Featuring the Simon Bolivar Youth National Orchestra Of Venezuela, no less

7.45pm The Rolling Stones In Hyde Park 2013 (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Port (TG4)
Music From Galicia

9pm Steve Miller Band – Austin City Limits (Sky Arts)

9.30pm Fleadh Cheoil 1996 (TG4)
Looking back at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann events from previous years. Presented by Pat Butler and Áine Hensey

10pm Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (Sky Arts)
The 1992 Wembley Gig

10.30pm Geantrai (TG4)
Featuring performances from Dulsert, Terry Bingham, Andrew McNamara singer Finola Ó Siochrú and concertina player Mary McNamara

11pm Film Marley (2012) (TG4)
Documentary about the life of Bob Marley, examining the reggae singer's rise to international fame and the way in which his music has continued to have an impact around the world since his death, particularly during times of political struggle. Featuring contributions from family members, bandmate Neville 'Bunny Wailer' Livingston and fellow reggae artists Jimmy Cliff and Lee 'Scratch' Perry

11.45pm David Bowie – A Reality Tour (Sky Arts)
2003 from The Point Dublin



That is more or less that. RTE1 are giving an airing to the Ken Burns Country Music Doc Series starting next Tuesday. Archive clip this week is two of the Clancys and Tommy Makem on Pete Seeger’s TV Show ‘Rainbow Quest’ in 1965. Pete wasn’t there either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Quest

Finally, David Bowie's Glass Spider Tour gets a few airings this week. At the same time as one of those broadcasts (Thursday night 1am Dave) you can hear the story of how Mel Giedroyc once licked David Bowie's cake during that tour. Urrrgh. That's fame for you David, is it any wonder?

odyssey06

And, for something random this weekend, if you can pickup TV5 Monde Europe (825 on some Virgin Media packages) they will be showing:

• La fête des nations celtes (The celebration of Celtic nations)
• Saturday, August 22, 2020 - 20:00
• Cyril Féraud guides us through this incredible show, a spectacular musical and visual pageant, introducing the musicians, dancers and soloists who have come from all the Celtic nations.
• For 2019 the spotlight is on Galicia as guest of honour, but the programme also features groups from Brittany, Asturias, Ireland, Wales...

paddylonglegs

Nice one skid. Looks good.

The Bob Marley artwork reminded me that the bohemians football strip has a Rastafarian featured on it because of bobs gig in dalymount in the 80s.

I’d be interested to know if any other music related items have made their way onto sports apparel.

One that springs to mind is that super furry animals sponsored a welsh team in the 90s

Skid X

paddylonglegs wrote: »

Nice one skid. Looks good.

The Bob Marley artwork reminded me that the bohemians football strip has a Rastafarian featured on it because of bobs gig in dalymount in the 80s.

I’d be interested to know if any other music related items have made their way onto sports apparel.

One that springs to mind is that super furry animals sponsored a welsh team in the 90s

Interesting one, I remember Clydebank took Wet Wet Wet's money for at least a season



https://news.stv.tv/sport/1439658-how-new-home-has-reignited-clydebank-s-football-dreams?top

sligojoek

Thanks, as ever, Skid.

Loved the Clancys clip.

Does anyone know when Sky arts are going FTA?

paddylonglegs

Skid X wrote: »

Interesting one, I remember Clydebank took Wet Wet Wet's money for at least a season



https://news.stv.tv/sport/1439658-how-new-home-has-reignited-clydebank-s-football-dreams?top

Now that’s when jerseys were jerseys

loyatemu

Fatboy Slim sponsored Brighton for a season I think, back when they were still scrapping around the lower divisions and ground-sharing.

Welsh Megaman

Don’t forget the Super Furries sponsoring Cardiff City





The five on the back row ended up playing for Tottenham Hots-FUR.





Sorry.

Skid X

All I want for Christmas is a Greenbank Under 10 B Home Kit, although if it came with the new HGL Dynamics sponsorship I would be wishing I had been clearer about which version I wanted ...





https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/junior-football-teams-motorhead-shirt-542515

dasdog

Watching Stones in the Park (1969) which I haven't seen in years. Half a million people in attendance and the stage is so small and packed with onlookers Jagger has a small rectangle about a metre wide and 5m long to dance around and somehow avoid a snake pit of cables . Microphones scotch taped together for redundancy, no lights or effects, PA rig probably creaking so many people climbed it. God I would love to have seen them in their prime around that era.

Gizmo55

Ah Sonia, musical genius.

Welsh Megaman

Loving Gene Pitney’s little ‘ow, I stubbed my toe’ dance.

Gizmo55

Belgium’s finest!

Welsh Megaman

The jam has well and truly been pumped.

Jordan 199

"I got my spine, I got my can of club orange..."

Welsh Megaman

Mickey Stipe getting a good sound out of that megaphone.

Jordan 199

Phil must be using Castrol GTX to comb his hair back.

Welsh Megaman

Jason Donovan.

Welsh Megaman

Welsh Megaman

A good year for The Roses

Gizmo55

Shirley Bassey. It is at this point I wouldn’t mind heading to the boozer.

Welsh Megaman

One of the best BBC Four documentaries of recent times got another airing very early this morning, but available to watch back on the Player - all about Max Martin and his team of Swedish songwriters.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002k6k

Welsh Megaman

Biffy Clyro on Sky Arts now, with some proper toe-tappers (as the kids say nowadays).

Welsh Megaman

‘Other Voices’ just started on S4C!

‘Pang’ by Gruff Rhys