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

Hotblack Desiato

dasdog wrote: »

Around the same time this lot played a free gig in the Phoenix Park one afternoon and we pelted them with sods of turfy grass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLv2Zyj6g6M

Should've asked for your money back :cool:

dasdog

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Should've asked for your money back :cool:

My Little Funhouse was another - signed to Geffen records. Just before Nirvana appeared and destroyed all of their dreams. Around the same time only losers took the bus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi2Z74Ou8

sligojoek

Friday 11.30am. Auction: Dave Gilmour special. Dave auctions his guitars at Christie's.

Skid X

Hi, not a whole lot on this weekend. The Hip Hop finishes up on BBC4 who only have one TOTP on offer (although it's not because they have a whole lot else to squeeze in). Here's the details ...




Thursday
10pm TOTP – The Story of 1977 (BBC2)




Friday
11am Auction – David Gilmour Special (Sky Arts)
The huge personal guitar collection of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour comes to Christie's - including the black Fender Stratocaster that featured on many of the band's records. Thanks to sligojoek for the tip on this one
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-gilmour-guitars-christies-charity-auction-850597/

7pm Top Of The Pops 1990 – August 16 (BBC4)
Anthea Turner hosts the edition first aired on August 16, with performances by Go West, Sting, the KLF, New Kids on the Block, Together, Betty Boo, Jon Bon Jovi, Roxette, Partners in Kryme and Primal Scream

7.30pm Ceol On Chlann – The 4 Of Us (TG4)
Profile of The 4 of Us, revealing how brothers Brendan, Declan and Paul Murphy formed the group in Newry in the 1980s with drummer Peter McKinney, making their breakthrough with hit single Mary

7.30pm Sounds Of The Seventies – Love Songs (BBC4)

8pm Trailblazers – Dance (Sky Arts)

8pm Love Songs At The BBC (BBC4)
Lazy compilation

9pm & 2.20am Roy Orbison - Love Hurts (BBC4)
Documentary revealing Orbison's legacy as a beloved rock legend and a devoted father through intimate interviews with his three sons. I think whoever did the schedules did a search for ‘love’ and this came up

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

10pm Billy Joel Live At The Shea (Sky Arts)

10pm Hip Hop – The Songs That Shook America (BBC4)
10pm Ep5 The Bridge by Marley Marl and MC Shan
A look at The Bridge, by Marley Marl and MC Shan. The song, designed to foster community pride, ignited hip-hop's most epic rap battle as contributors including Roxanne Shante, DJ Red Alert, Funkmaster Flex and the artists themselves recall
10.40pm Ep6 Ladies First by Queen Latifah
A look at Queen Latifah's anthem of women empowerment, 1989's Ladies First. Sexism was endemic in the hip-hop sector of the music industry during the 1980s, and Latifah recalls the lack of money put towards female rappers for marketing and music videos compared to their male counterparts. Last in series

10pm Greatest Hits Of The 80s (Channel 5)
The stories behind six songs from the decade, examining George Michael's Careless Whisper, Ultravox's Vienna, Culture Club's Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, Sade's Smooth Operator, Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) and 1999, which was released by Prince in 1982

10.55pm Val Doonican – An Fear A Shiuil Go hArd (The Man Who Walked Tall) (TG4)
An affectionate yet revealing documentary chronicling the life and career of one of Ireland's most successful musical exports, Val Doonican. During the course of his long and illustrious career, the Waterford crooner released over 50 albums and his TV show ran for 25 years. Val's Album 'Val Doonican Rocks, But Gently' knocked Sergeant Pepper off the UK Number One

11.20pm More Dangerous Songs – And The Banned Played On (BBC4)
A compilation of songs previously banned from broadcast on the BBC, including the Kinks' Lola, Jackie by Scott Walker, and (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing by Heaven 17

11.30pm George Michael – The Highs, The Lows And All The Hits (Channel 5)
Documentary examining the troubled last years of the pop star, culminating in his death on Christmas Day in 2016

11.55pm Celtic Connections (TG4)
Daithí Ó Sé introduces performances from the traditional music festival, with music by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Darlingside and Four Men and a Dog

12.20am Hits Hype and Hustle (BBC4)
Ep3 Why Bands reunite long after their glory years. The answer being ‘For the money’.

12.45am The Making Of Marc Bolan (Sky Arts)

12.45am Other Voices (RTE2)
Performances by Anna Mieke, Dowry and Bell X1

1.20am Our Musical History (BBC4)
Cerys Mathews and Val Wilmer (not Val Kilmer) look at classic Blues performances

1.45am King Rocker (Sky Arts)
The Stewart Lee thing which was on last week




Saturday
4pm-7pm Classic Artists – The Moody Blues (Sky Arts)
Three Hours of The Moody Blues

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

9pm Muse: Drones – World Tour (Sky Arts)

11pm 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

11pm Sounds Of The Sixties (Yesterday)

11.35pm Top Of The Pops 1990 – August 16 (BBC4)

Midnight Sounds Of The Seventies (Yesterday)

12.05am Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America (BBC4)

1am Discovering Music – Coldplay (Sky Arts)

1.30am I Am Johnny Cash (Sky Arts)
A celebration of the country singer-songwriter built around 12 of his classic tracks spanning four decades, and featuring interviews with his family and friends

3.30am Johnny Cash – Behind Prison Walls (Sky Arts)
1977 gig from Nashville Prison




Sunday
9pm The Phantom Of The Opera At Royal Albert Hall (Sky Arts)

9pm Searching For Sugar Man (Sky Documentaries)
Documentary following two fans in search of their musical idol. American singer Sixto Rodriguez enjoyed a brief recording career in the 1970s before fading into obscurity. However, his politically conscious music became incredibly popular in South Africa. Bizarre stories of his death had circulated over the years, but two devotees plan to find out what really became of him

9.30pm Transatlantic Sessions (TG4)
Featuring Dirk Powell, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck and James Taylor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Sessions

10.45pm Hitsville – The Making Of Motown (Sky Documentaries)

11.35pm Love Songs At The BBC (BBC4)
“No, I didn’t get you anything, but instead lets watch this compilation on BBC4 … again”

11.50pm Queen and Adam Lambert – The Show Must Go On (Sky Arts)

1.35am-4.30am Classic Artists – The Moody Blues (Sky Arts)
They have snipped five minutes from this since yesterday



... and if you have seen anything else do let us know whats' going on



If you have been pining for a Billys Boots style comic story featuring Paul King of King and MTV, then you are in luck https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/504051383265061521/
https://www.footballandmusic.co.uk/record-mirror-the-football-edition/


This story about George Harrison and Phil Collins is worth your time
https://twitter.com/Calvbetton/status/1358860428223406082



Anyway Cliff Richard was hanging around with Tom Moore in Barbados recently, so hopefully Cliff didnt catch the Corona from him
https://www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/news/why-was-captain-sir-tom-moore-photographed-with-cliff-richard-and-russ-abbot/

At the moment the Best appearance of Cliff going over a cliff of the week might be in Summer Holiday (Sony Movies Channel Saturday 6.45pm) **

** I didn't have time to fact check that one, maybe its in the extended cut or something

Capt'n Midnight

Sat, Feb 13 · 22:55-01:05 · 105. Channel 5 HD
Chicago
Oscar-winning musical starring Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Aspiring singer Roxie Hart is sent to prison for shooting her lover but hatches a plot to win her release.

sligojoek

Sad news announced today.

Sean Fay. Proud Kildangan, Puckane and Tipperary man

A PA on American tours and personal friend of Shane MacGowan's

One of the best.

https://rip.ie/death-notice/sean-fay-puckane-tipperary/449523

Welsh Megaman

TUPPYPOPSCHE!!

Welsh Megaman

Anthea!


Haven’t heard from her recently, especially on twitter :pac:

Welsh Megaman

KFL?

dasdog

Go West and I'm a livin' in a cardbox box must be related.

Welsh Megaman

CYCLING SHORTS!

PsychoPete

Fanny packs! They must be due a come back....

Welsh Megaman

AH YEAH! :cool:

Skid X

I hope the KLF invested their royalties well, it wont last forever


They might think they have money to burn


Ahem

dasdog

Wow - They were raving :pac:

Skid X

NKOTB playing in Nashville?

The Grand Ole Opry's standards have never recovered since they let that Presley lad on stage

Welsh Megaman

NEW SKIDS!

Welsh Megaman

PsychoPete

Anyone else reaching for glows sticks and ecstasy

Welsh Megaman

“Mariah Car-ey”


:rolleyes:

Skid X

Spit on me, Betty

PsychoPete

Is it my telly or is the lip syncing out....

PsychoPete

The only thing cooler than a keytar is a double neck guitar

Welsh Megaman

“Bon Jon Jovi”


Keep going Anthea, you’re doing well.

Welsh Megaman

Marie’s outfit.

dasdog

PsychoPete wrote: »

The only thing cooler than a keytar is a double neck guitar

I just googled Double Neck Keytar and there is a whole slightly worrying world out there.

Welsh Megaman

“Susan Vega”


Jaysus, if you downed a shot everytime Anthea fluffs a link you’d be comatose.

PsychoPete

They guy that voiced Elmo also voiced splinter in that TMNT film

Skid X

Partners in Kryme, though

One song about the Ninja Turtles movie which got to number one, then they left it so as there were no more worlds to conquer

They didn't even go solo or anything.

Until they reformed in 2015 to do another song for the new Turtles film

It was Ninja Turtles or nothing for them

dasdog

Jaysus - someone give Andrew Weatherall a call.

Right - that's it till the hipping and the hopping later.