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

odyssey06 · 04-12-2020 10:00pm

Seal will sing for fish...
Finest hour in Robbie the Reindeer

https://robbiereindeer.fandom.com/wiki/Seal_(character)

druss · 04-12-2020 10:02pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLooDtjrhv8

Welsh Megaman · 04-12-2020 10:05pm

That Eurovision song reminded me of this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atPh0aEL2oo

Skid X · 08-12-2020 9:13pm

There's a John Lennon Doc 'LennoNYC' on TG4 tonight (Tuesday) at 9.05pm (for his anniversary)

It's about his life in New York

Doesn't seem to be repeated

Skid X · 09-12-2020 9:10pm

How do? The dog days before the Christmas schedules properly kick in are a boom time for repeats, and that's what we get this week. There are a few other bits and bobs there too ...

Thursday
11pm A Fanatic Heart – Geldof On Yeats (Sky Arts)
The musician and campaigner examines the life and work of poet WB Yeats, arguing that he was a key figure in a cultural revolution and that his writing played a major role in Ireland's struggle for independence. Featuring readings of Yeats' verse by Bill Nighy, Van Morrison, Colin Farrell, Bono, Edna O'Brien, Ardal O'Hanlon, Noel Gallagher and Liam Neeson. A review on tvguide.co.uk from Dave says “I was very much looking forward to this, but Geldof is such an irritating man that I gave up after 10 minute”. Thanks, Dave.

Friday
7pm Trailblazers – Gothic Rock (Sky Arts)

7.30pm Hup (TG4)
Performances from the Feakle Traditional Music Festival, featuring fiddler Martin Hayes playing alongside guitarist Dennis Cahill. Plus, a rare performance from veteran accordionist Joe Fitzgerald

8pm Classic Albums – The Who: Who’s Next (Sky Arts)

8pm Top Of The Pops 1990 - May 10 (BBC4)
Gary Davies hosts the edition first aired on May 10, with performances by artists including Kylie Minogue, the Wonderstuff, Mantronix featuring Wondress, New Kids on the Block, Michael Bolton, En Vogue, Thunder, Adamski and Beats International

8.30pm Top Of The Pops 1990 – May 17 (BBC4)
Nicky Campbell hosts the edition first aired on May 18, with performances by artists including Hothouse Flowers, the Pasadenas, the Chimes, Sam Brown, Adamski, Depeche Mode, Eurythmics and Paul Young

9pm The Sound Of TV With Neil Brand (BBC4)
Ep 2 With the advent of commercial television in the UK, ITV rivalled the BBC for airtime and lured viewers in with the new language of advertisements. However, these had not yet reached the impact they had seen in the USA, the home of the TV jingle, where a 30-second tune could make or break a brand, as seen in the competing fortunes of Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Neil reveals the lasting musical power of jingles, idents and advertisements, including the long-forgotten test card tunes sampled in American hip-hop

9pm Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road – Robert Plant (Sky Arts)

9.35pm The Late Late Show Country Music Special (RTE1)
Dolly Parton and The Usual Suspects possibly featuring The Three Amigos.

10pm Dionne Warwick At The BBC (BBC4)
Performances by the US singer, one of the most-charted female vocalists of all time. Probably includes this one

10pm Icon Music Through The Lens (Sky Arts)
It says here it is a repeat of Episode 2 for some reason (Life On Tour)

10.40pm Se Mo Laoch -Eamonn and Geraldine Cotter (TG4)

11pm Fern Britton Meets Dionne Warwick (BBC4)
Dionne talks to Fern. Dionne hates Cilla https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/04/dionne-warwick-lifts-lid-legendary-feud-cilla-black-major-song-row-11267661/

11.15pm The Decade The Music Died (Sky Arts)
People who died 2010-2020, Sky Arts’s perennial schedule filler

Midnight Sounds Of The 70s (BBC4)

12.30am Bros After The Screaming Stops (BBC4)
The Bros Doc from a few years ago which led to an unlikely BBC4 Bros Night

12.45am Music Videos That Defined The 90s (Sky Arts)

1am Other Voices (RTE2)
Includes Lisa Hannigan

1.45am Pulp Live At Brixton Academy (Sky Arts)

2am TOTP2 – Boy Bands (BBC4)

2.45am The Pretenders – Austin City Limits (Sky Arts)

Saturday
5pm A Kylie Christmas (Sky Arts)
Concert

7pm Kings Of Leon Live At The O2 London 2009 (Sky Arts)

7pm & 11pm Sounds Of The Sixties (Sky Arts) (Yesterday)
Thanks to BandMember for spotting this one needed to be corrected

8pm & Midnight Sounds Of The Seventies (Sky Arts) (Yesterday)

8.15pm Opry An Iuir (TG4)

8.30pm Pat Shortt’s Music From D’Telly (RTE1)
Christmas Special (Looks like a repeat) Pat presents a selection of festive favourites from more than 50 years of the RTÉ archive, including a clip of St Patrick's Cathedral Choir accompanied by the James Last Orchestra, Colm Wilkinson, the Corrs and Dolores O'Riordan. Plus, Bing Crosby in conversation with reporter Aine O'Conor in Dublin back in 1976

8.30pm Gary Barlow’s Night At The Museum (VM1)
Another chance to miss this show which was on ITV last week

9pm Coldplay – A Head Full Of Dreams (Sky Arts)
Documentary about the band's history filmed over the course of 20 years, from their first rehearsal in a student bedroom to their A Head Full of Dreams tour

9.30pm The Proclaimers – This Is The Story (BBC Scotland)
David Tennant interviews the Proclaimers from a few years ago. Followed at 10.30pm by The Proclaimers live from Stirling Castle 2012

10.30pm The Shadows At Sixty (BBC4)
From where they began as the Drifters to the backing band for Cliff Richard, and on to their huge success as the Shadows, this documentary celebrates the band's achievements across 60 years in what has been a time of constant change within social, cultural and musical landscapes. With interviews with Cliff Richard, band members Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett and some of those they influenced, including Brian May, David Gilmour and Pete Townshend.

11pm Mumford And Sons Live From South Africa 2016 (Sky Arts)

11.30pm Cliff Richard At The BBC (BBC4)
Highlight of Cliff’s career at the BBC. May or may not feature that time the BBC News Channel showed live coverage of the police raiding one of his houses as part of Operation Yewtree.

11.35pm Lwp: Curadur (S4C)
American musician Kliph Scurlock, the former drummer with the Flaming Lips, guides viewers through his Welsh musical voyage, and is joined by Euros Childs, Gruff Rhys, Adwaith and N'famady Kouyate to pay tribute to their hero, Endaf Emlyn

12.20am Film: Three Summers (BBC1)
Over the course of three years, two musicians meet and fall in love at a music festival in Western Australia amidst a microcosm of the country's society. Romantic comedy, written and directed by Ben Elton and starring Robert Sheehan, Rebecca Breeds and Michael Caton

12.35am Top Of The Pops 1990 – May 10 (BBC4)
1.05am Top Of The Pops 1990 – May 17 (BBC4)

Sunday
4.55pm Gene Kelly – To Live And Dance (Sky Documentaries)

5pm A Classic Christmas (Sky Arts)
Symphony Concert from The English National Opera

6.30pm Danny Baker’s Christmas Hits (Sky Arts)
The broadcaster and comedy writer presents a selection of 12 of his favourite festive songs as he attempts to define what makes the ideal Christmas song. This is quite decent, worth a look.

9pm Queen and Adam Lambert - The Show Must Go On (Sky Arts)
Queen try to persuade you that they aren’t just milking it

9pm The Bee Gees – How Can You Mend A Broken Heart? (Sky Documentaries)
The history of the singing trio, featuring contributons from surviving member Barry Gibb, and archive interviews with his brothers Robin and Maurice

9.35pm Se Mo Laoch – Gabriel McArdle (TG4)

10.35pm Teach Na Ceibhe (TG4)
Mary Black performs in The Quays, Galway

11.45pm The South Bank Show Originals – Coldplay (Sky Arts)

12.30am Holst – The Planets (With Professor Brian Cox)
The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform British composer Gustav Holst's The Planets at the London Barbican with Coxy talking about the science

There you are, the drummer from The Flaming Lips talking about Welsh Music on S4C was unexpected, and if that is your thing you might also like Mastermind Cymru where someone has Miles Davis as his/her specialised subject. In Welsh. (tonight at 9pm with several repeats).

New to the Internet this week is a very long defence and celebration of James Paul McCartney. Worth a look if that is your thing https://ianleslie.substack.com/p/64-reasons-to-celebrate-paul-mccartney

Alternatively, here is a 25 minute Travelling Wilburys Doc recently uploaded to their channel. Features lots of original interviews and clippage

Finally, there is a chance to see Mick Hucknall singing Ding Dong Merrily On High on Knowing Me, Knowing Yule (GOLD Friday Night 12.20am) but nobody wants to see that so instead here is Alan Partridge punching people with a Turkey Fist from the same show. Mick Hucknall has been edited out.

BandMember · 10-12-2020 2:43am

Skid X wrote: »

Saturday

7pm Kings Of Leon Live At The O2 London 2009 (Sky Arts)

7pm & 11pm Sounds Of The Sixties (Sky Arts)

Far be it for me to doubt the great one and master of the listings himself, but surely Sky Arts aren't showing two different shows at the same time?

Skid X wrote: »

Finally, there is a chance to see Mick Hucknall singing Ding Dong Merrily On High on Knowing Me, Knowing Yule (GOLD Friday Night 12.20am) but nobody wants to see that so instead here is Alan Partridge punching people with a Turkey Fist from the same show. Mick Hucknall has been edited out.

If only history could do the same.....

Skid X · 10-12-2020 9:25am

BandMember wrote: »

surely Sky Arts aren't showing two different shows at the same time?

Ah, well spotted BM

Sounds of the Seventies is on Yesterday, not Sky Arts

dasdog · 11-12-2020 1:09am

Skid X wrote: »

Thursday
11pm A Fanatic Heart – Geldof On Yeats (Sky Arts - BBC4)

This is surprisingly good if you ignore some of the contributors recitals - eye's turn to Bono and Colin Farrell who got the easy tonight thank god it's them instead of you lines.

Hotblack Desiato · 11-12-2020 2:07am

Skid X wrote: »

11.30pm Cliff Richard At The BBC (BBC4)
Highlight of Cliff’s career at the BBC. May or may not feature that time the BBC News Channel showed live coverage of the police raiding one of his houses as part of Operation Yewtree.

:pac:

The amount of stuff in the BBC archives they can never show again... Savile, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall...

Maybe Not The Nine O'Clock News had the right idea about that dodgy Aussie lad though :eek: