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

Welsh Megaman

WILL I SEE YOU TONIGHT? ON A DOWNTOWN TRAIN?

dasdog

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

PLAY FAITH NO MORE!!

I don't think its going to be on this week but they recorded for TOTP in April 1990 and their flight to Dublin was delayed for their show that night. Nevertheless they still played even though the show didn't start till after eleven.

Some very tired heads in school the next day - especially those that had to walk from Dun Laoghaire to wherever they were living as the trains had stopped running by the time the gig was finished. Completely worth it - they were fantastic.

Welsh Megaman

DE-PESHAY!!

Welsh Megaman

Words are very unnecessary, Anthea.

Hangdogroad

Oh Jaysus.

Welsh Megaman

BOLTON!!

Welsh Megaman

dasdog

Tina is 51 years young in this performance.

Welsh Megaman

Dire, Rea.


Heh heh. :cool:

Welsh Megaman

The bassist with Beats International disappeared into obscurity.

Welsh Megaman

Who could ever forget Jamie J. Morgan?

Welsh Megaman

TIME FOR THE GURU!

Welsh Megaman

We might hear the final verse of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ one day

Hotblack Desiato

Watched the first episode of Revolver - the quality of music on it is amazing - it got cancelled but Top Of The Putrid endured. Now then now then.

Welsh Megaman

Chip Shop Boys on Sky Arts right now, followed by some long hot Style Council

PsychoPete

Why would Pet Shop Boys cover Coldplay, that poor audience having to sit through that

Welsh Megaman

I’m suddenly getting the urge to play a bit of Tetris

Welsh Megaman

Soulful Poppy Weller > Rocky Punky Weller

Welsh Megaman

‘My Ever Changing Moods’ - fantastic record

odyssey06

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

‘My Ever Changing Moods’ - fantastic record

Pretty sure I heard it on RTE Gold earlier this evening too

Welsh Megaman

Boy George hit the nail on the head - TSC making soul records so good, that you assumed they were cover versions.

dasdog

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Watched the first episode of Revolver - the quality of music on it is amazing - it got cancelled but Top Of The Putrid endured. Now then now then.

I'm on the second - loving some the second division punk and the raucous crowd. Peter Cook's is a strange choice but they were probably trying to be avant-garde. It's a nice little historical record.

Welsh Megaman

Jerusalem! :eek:


My entire body just shuddered

dasdog

On to episode three now of Revolver which carries a strong Bonnie Tyler health warning. Siouxsie of Banshees fame is setting the template for the first U2 albums.

Skid X

Hi, BBC4 goes large with a tribute evening to Radio 1 DJ and former Whistle Test presenter Annie Nightingale on Friday. Sure why not? Looks like there might be some interesting footage in those shows. Sky Arts goes large with not one but two shows on Music Photography (one being the start of a new series). It looks to be part of a Photography Weekend on that channel so do check the detailed channel listings if you are into that ...




Thursday
4pm Music Icons – Glen Campbell (Sky Arts)
4.30pm Video Killed The Radio Star – Madness (Sky Arts)

9pm Glor Tire – Rogha Agus Togha (TG4)

11pm Mr Dynamite – The Rise Of James Brown (Sky Documentaries)

Midnight Brian Johnson Meets Dave Grohl (Sky Arts)




Friday
4pm Music Icons – ZZ Tops (Sky Arts)
4.30pm Video Killed The Radio Star – Roxy Music (Sky Arts)

7pm & 2.55am The Sound Of Movie Musicals With Neil Brand (BBC4)
Ep 3 The composer and musician examines the period from the 1970s onwards, revealing how the musical would find its modern voice by adapting rather than trying to ape the classic formula of old. Includes Mel Brooks talking about The Producers

7pm Trailblazers – Acid House (Sky Arts)

8pm Soundtracks – Songs That Defined History (Sky Arts)
LGBT awareness songs

8pm Top Of The Pops 1990 – March 1 (BBC4)
Jackie Brambles hosts the edition first aired on March 1, with performances by artists including Shakin' Stevens, Electribe 101, Michael Bolton, Rod Stewart, Jamie J Morgan, Beats International featuring Lindy Layton and JT & the Big Family

8.30pm Top Of The Pops 1990 – March 8 (BBC4)
Bruno Brookes hosts the edition first aired on March 8, with performances by artists including Bros, Guru Josh, Marc Almond, Gloria Estefan, JT & the Big Family, Innocence, Erasure, David A Stewart featuring Candy Dulfer, Bros, Beats International featuring Lindy Layton and the B-52's


Annie Nightingale Night on BBC4!

9pm & 12.55am Punk/New Wave Years With Annie Nightingale
The veteran radio and Old Grey Whistle Test presenter recalls a radical era in music, which dominated the pop landscape during the late 1970s. Back then, punk was hard to find on mainstream television and Annie sought to build a platform for young people to have their say. Here, Annie opens up the archive to select some of the finest and most intriguing moments from this era. Covering punk, post-punk and new wave, she explores a movement in music that became the soundtrack to a generation referencing clips featuring the Damned, the Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Gang of Four, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tubeway Army, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, the Selecter, Joy Division and the Au Pairs

10pm & 1.55am More Punk & New Wave Compiled By Annie Nightingale
BBC's first female DJ and face of The Old Great Whistle Test, Annie Nightingale, handpicks more of her favourite punk and new wave performances. This compilation features rare archive footage from the Slits, the Raincoats and Rhoda Dakar, as well as concert footage featuring Blondie and the Clash. Sprinkled throughout are live studio performances from Whistle Test, including a haunting performance of Ghosts by Japan, a classic Ramones clip and a rare John Foxx offering. The Teardrop Explodes and Tom Tom Club also feature, as do Adam Ant and Siouxsie Sioux

11pm Annie Nightingale – Bird On The Wireless
A profile of the DJ and broadcaster, who was hired as Radio 1's first female presenter in 1970, charting how her tastes have fluctuated during her career, which has seen her champion musical styles including punk, new wave, acid house and dubstep. Artists including Paul McCartney and the Clash's Mick Jones also discuss her impact on Britain's musical landscape

Midnight Old Grey Whistle Test - Police In The East
Documentary following the Police on their 1980 tour of Japan, Hong Kong, India, Egypt and Greece. Annie Nightingale interviews band members Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, and the programme also features footage from the concerts


Non Nightingale programmes:
9pm Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road – Roger Daltrey (Sky Arts)

10pm Icon – Music Through The Lens (Sky Arts) New!
Ep 1 of 6 The history and cultural impact of music photography, featuring interviews with renowned exponents as well as musicians, journalists and social commentators
https://iconmusicthroughthelens.com/
https://mimicnews.com/icon-music-through-the-lens-new-documentary-series-on-sky-arts

10pm Later … With Jools Holland (BBC2)
With Mel C. Also feature Mica Paris and David Balfe. Last in series

11.05pm Elvis - The Man Who Rocked The World (Channel 5)
This was on last week. It sounds decent enough. Alas, it has arrived too late to change the opinion of Adam Faith, who said in 2003 “Channel 5 is all **** isn’t it? Christ, the crap they put on there. It’s a waste of space, isn’t it?” and then immediately died, leaving a memorable medley of famous last words https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2012/dec/02/death-and-dying-popandrock

11.15pm The Beatles, Hippies And Hells Angels (Sky Arts)
The Story Of Apple Corps, which was a bit of a circus and lost a fortune. But they more than made up for its failure by gouging the public for the next 50 years

11.20pm Cork Folk Festival (TG4)
features Eliza Carthy, the Four Star Trio, Sarah O'Gorman, Michelle O'Sullivan and Conal Mac Thréinfhir with Paul De Grae

1.15am Long Hot Summers – The Story Of The Style Council (Sky Arts)
Apparently quite good if you like that kind of thing, I may have been a bit harsh on this last week.

2.45am Paul Weller – May Love Travel With You (Sky Arts)




Saturday
6pm George Ezra Live At Baloise Session (Sky Arts)

7pm & 2.15am Pipers Of The Trenches (BBC4)
Film about the Pipers of Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand who served in the First World War. This film uncovers stories of bravery as descendants of those pipers visit the Somme and Gallipoli

7pm … Sings The Beatles (Yesterday)
Beatles Covers

7.30pm The Who Live At Kilburn 1977
Edit - thanks Hotblack for that, omitted from the original listings

8pm The Rolling Stones At The BBC (Yesterday)

9pm Opry An Iuir (TG4)

9pm The Festival That Rocked The World (Sky Arts)
The story of the Woodstock festival in August 1969, told through the voices of people that were there, with newly unearthed footage and photographs

10.25pm Top Of The Pops 1990 – March 1 (BBC4)

10.30pm Show Me The Picture: The Story Of Jim Marshall (Sky Arts) New!
A look at the career of the celebrated photographer, who captured some of the most iconic moments of the rock music era, from the Beatles to Jimi Hendrix

10.55pm Top Of The Pops 1990 – March 8 (BBC4)

12.30am Icon: Music Through The Lens (Sky Arts)
As Friday

1.45am Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road – Roger Daltrey (Sky Arts)




Sunday
8pm 2020 MTV EMA Awards Live (MTV)

9pm The Rolling Stones Live In Hyde Park 2013 (Sky Arts)

9pm The Go Gos (Sky Documentaries)
A look at the revolutionary journey of the first successful, all-female band to write their own songs, play their own instruments and score number-one hits

9.30pm Cork Folk Festival (TG4)

10pm David Bowie - Serious Moonlight (Sky Arts)
1983 Vancouver Gig

10.30pm Teach Na Ceibhe (TG4)
A series of concerts from top traditional and folk performers, recorded live at The Quays pub in Galway. Altan are this week’s guests

Midnight Tommy Fleming Live (VM1)

12.45am The Beatles, Hippies And Hells Angels (Sky Arts)



Annie Nightingale is apparently 80 and still going strong, fair play.
If you see anything else do let us know, and all that


Today is Gay Byrne's anniversary, here is a link to an article he wrote in the RTV guide back in 1963 where he alerted readers to his concerns about how long he thought Elvis Presley could stay at the top

https://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/2112-gay-byrne/633975-gay-byrne-in-the-rtv-guide/

https://static.rasset.ie/documents/libraries-and-archives/gaybyrne-elvis-23031963-cropped.pdf

"You may from time to time hear stupid and ill-informed peasants mumble something about Cliff being just as good, or Billy being the new man at the top ..."

You just don't get Ryan Tubridy dissing the musical tastes of the peasants who pay his licence fee



Anyway, there is a show on BBC1 on Sunday night at 12.15am called "Children In Need: 40 Fabulous Years" which might be the Best chance to see Vic and Bob singing a cover of Harry Nilsson's Without You while drinking 75 pints

(the action starts at 2 mins 30. I mean, to be fair, there's every chance that this won't be on the Children In Need show. For starters, this was from a Comic Relief Show, not the Children In Need thing)


Bob spoke about that sketch here, he says they were plastered before they got on stage

Hotblack Desiato

The Who - Live at Kilburn 1977 - Sky Arts - Saturday 1930-2100

Welsh Megaman

FLOPTOPSCH!

Skid X

Shaky - The Sound Of The Nineties


I thought he was living off his Christmas Royalties and weeping about the fall of Communism by now

Welsh Megaman

Shakin’ Stevens.


In the 1990’s.

Welsh Megaman

Is that Paul Weller in disguise on bass? :eek: