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

Welsh Megaman

‘TOTP 1982 Big Hits’ on BBC2 right now


‘The Lexicon Of Love’ - the greatest pop album of all time.


There, I said it. Come at me, keyboard warriors!

Welsh Megaman

Billy MacKenzie - absolute legend

Arthur Daley

ford fiesta wrote: »

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Why do you say it's under rated...?

When do you ever hear or see it? Its presence is understated lets put it that way. I think Maria has a great voice even if the music isn't everyone's cup of char

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

When ‘Reeling In The Years’ get to 2021, they’ll cover the time 30-year old episodes of TOTP were cancelled to make way for snooker.

I am surprised the BBC have not revived 'The Rock n Roll Years', the show which RTE ripped off for RITY

They made shows for every year from 1966-89, but nothing since then (the 1989 one was broadcast in 1994)

Repeats of the old ones would go nicely on BBC4, unless there are some rights issues.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_%27n%27_Roll_Years

fryup

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Billy MacKenzie - absolute legend

very handsome man too it must be said (and i'm straight btw)

Skid X

Hello, some of the programmes below may or may not be shown over the next few days depending on Snooker, significant deaths and deveral other possibilities. I am confident that TOTP on BBC4 won’t be cancelled this weekend, as it is not scheduled. Elsewhere the main new attraction might be the continued new episodes of Classic Albums on Sky Arts, Jazz on BBC4 or Mayo Night on TG4 …





Thursday
11pm Other Voices (RTE2)
Highlights from Other Voices Cardigan 2021 in Wales, featuring performances including grime artist Juice Menace, post-punk-poet Sinead O'Brien, the hotly tipped rapper BERWYN, electro pop-star Ani Glass and celtic music pioneers Aoife Ní Bhriain and Catrin Finch




Friday
7pm BBC Young Musician Of The Year 2020 (BBC4)
Semi Final. You get this instead of TOTP.

7pm The Great Songwriters – Barry Gibb (Sky Arts)

7pm Rolling Stone - Stories From The Edge (Sky Documentaries)
Ep 1 of the 6 part Rolling Stone Magazine Doc

7.30pm Ceol On Chlann (TG4)
The Gavin family from Corandulla

8pm Classic Albums: Primal Scream – Screamadelica (Sky Arts)
All new

9pm Classic Albums: Soul II Soul - Club Classics Volume 1 (Sky Arts)
So is this

10pm Ronnie’s: Ronnie Scott And His World Famous Jazz Club (BBC4)
The history of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, eponymously named after the late tenor saxophonist who founded the establishment with business partner Pete King. It opened in London's Soho in October 1959, inspired by the vibrant post-war jazz venues in New York. Since then, Ronnie's has consistently played host to many of the world's greatest jazz legends, including Chet Baker, Count Basie, Miles Davies, Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Rich and Nina Simone who are all featured in the film. Contributors include Ronnie's friends, family and the music elite, including Chris Blackwell, Quincy Jones and Sonny Rollins. This is in the danger slot if the Snooker runs over again.

10pm The Great Songwriters: Kelly Jones (Sky Arts)
Him out of the Sterephonics

10.50pm Mr Dynamite – The Rise Of James Brown (Sky Documentaries)

11pm Isle Of Wight Festival Greatest Hits (Sky Arts)
With The Stereophonics and Kasabian

11.30pm Kylie – 30 Years Of Hits (Channel 5)

11.45pm Jazz 625 Live - For One Night Only (BBC4)
A repeat of the one-off revival of the iconic 1960s music show. Broadcasting live from Cheltenham during the Jazz Festival, the special show will feature a house band - led by pianist Robert Mitchell - with special guests including Gregory Porter, Joshua Redman, Jacqui Dankworth and Cleo Laine. Plus, an exclusive recorded performance from Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts in a jazz quartet with saxophonist Scott Hamilton. Presented by Andi Oliver.

11.45pm Other Voices (RTE2)

12.10am Se Mo Laoch – Mairtin O’Connor (TG4)
The life and career of Galway accordion player Mairtin O'Connor, a member of seminal groups Midnight Well, Skylark and De Dannan

1.15am Smashing Hits (BBC4)
80s pop map of Britain and Ireland. London and Manchester

1.30am Brian Johnson meets Dave Grohl (Sky Arts)

2.15am Jazz Divas Gold (BBC4)
Featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Blossom Dearie, Nina Simone, Cleo Laine, Marion Montgomery, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Eartha Kitt and Amy Winehouse




Saturday
5pm The Making Of Marc Bolan (Sky Arts)

6pm Too Young To Die – Kurt Cobain (Sky Arts)

7pm Guy Garvey From The Vaults (Sky Arts)
The Elbow frontman looks back at 1975, with appearances on the show Supersonic by Rod Stewart, Status Quo, Roxy Music and ELO, as well as clips of Ace and Dr Feelgood

8pm The Great Songwriters – The Flaming Lips (Sky Arts)

8.25pm Na Baileid (TG4)
John Spillane travels to the West of Ireland to get the story behind three of the big songs from the region

9pm Freddie Mercury – The Great Pretender (Sky Arts)
Another Freddie Doc. This one has Paul Gambaccini in it

9.30pm Mayo Day: Ar bPobal , Our People (TG4) New!
Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile and Dáithí Gallagher celebrate all things Mayo, joined by a host of guests including an exclusive performance by Matt Molloy
https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2021/04/21/tune-in-and-celebrate-mayo-day-on-tg4/

10pm-1am Guitar Heroes At The BBC (Yesterday)

10.10pm The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years (Sky Documentaries)

10.30pm David Bowie Finding Fame (BBC2 NI, 10pm on the proper BBC2 channels)
The final part of Francis Whately's trilogy of films on Bowie's life, telling the story of the five years when many of the ideas that would help him become an icon were first born. Starting in 1966, soon after David Jones changed his name to David Bowie, the film traces his interest in everything from Holst and Pinky and Perky to Anthony Newley and Tibetan Buddhism, and how he used all of these influences to create not only Ziggy Stardust, but the material for his entire career

10.40pm Queen Live At Wembley 1986 (Sky Arts)

11.30pm Bowie At The BBC (BBC except for BBC2 NI)
BBC2 NI literally showing 30 minutes of the News Channel instead of this. Grrr.

Midnight Blitzed – The 80s Blitz Kids Story (Sky Arts)
The history of the London venue, which became the Soho equivalent of Studio 54 and was frequented by Boy George, Spandau Ballet, Visage, Ultravox and Sade.

2am Mumford And Sons Live From South Africa 2016 (Sky Arts)




Sunday
1pm Classic Albums: The Doors – The Doors (Sky Arts)
2pm Classic Albums: Primal Scream - Screamadelica (Sky Arts)
3pm Classic Albums: Soul II Soul – Club Classics Volume 1 (Sky Arts)

4pm Hitsville – The Making Of Motown (Sky Arts)

6pm I Am Johnny Cash (Sky Arts)

7.50pm Fleetwood Mac Live In Boston 2004 (Sky Arts)

8pm BBC Young Musician – The Final (BBC4)

8.30pm Comhluadar Cheoil (TG4)
Daithi meets the Clann Mhic Ruairi

9.30pm Cork Folk Festival (TG4)

10pm The Who – Tommy Live 2017 From The Royal Albert Hall (Sky Arts)

10.55pm Britain’s Favourite 80s Songs – 1988 (Channel 5)

11.30pm Brian Johnson Meets Dave Grohl (Sky Arts)

1am Poly Styrene – I Am A Cliché (Sky Arts)
Celeste Bell presents a Doc about her Mother




So that’s about that, If you have seen anything else of interest do let us know.

It’s three weeks after the 21st anniversary of Will Ferrell’s Blue Oyster Cult More Cowbell tribute, so here’s a list of apparently the Top 10 songs featuring Cowbells. And then another one

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/listomania-10-best-cowbell-songs-773749
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/cowbell-songs/

https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1380103917934149635


This went up on Youtube during the week, a Late Late Show performance from the late Terry Clarke (with Henry McCullough in 1999

Nice memory from his widow here
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167697





Finally, a chance this week to see That Time Boy George Appeared On The A-Team. (Friday Comedy Central 9am) and also Wednesday Paramount Channel He ended up playing a place that looked suspiciously like Bob’s Country Bunker with the rest of Culture Club. Apparently George pocketed $100,000 for that, sure why wouldn’t you?

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/boy-george-the-a-team/#:~:text=On%20Feb.,venue%20called%20the%20Floor%20'Em.

smurf492

Thread went quiet fast 😄

smurf492

Thread went quiet fast 😄

Skid X

Due to the reracks and hour long frames, The Doc on the late Ronnie Scott will be very late

sligojoek

smurf492 wrote: »

Thread went quiet fast ��

Everybody's watching the Late Late.

Edit: It's quiet enough there too.

dasdog

Skid X wrote: »

Due to the reracks and hour long frames, The Doc on the late Ronnie Scott will be very late

Reckon I could manage a bong and a bottle of Falling Apple cider with lots of ice and view - the snooker has been excellent so far.

dasdog

I don't think there has ever been greater music since 1950's Bebop. Last time humans made music that good Beethoven was composing. It's better IMO than anything that came out of the 1960's.

smurf492

No disrespect intended.. Excellent thread

odyssey06

Guardian article on the second life of TOTP in reruns...
https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/30/chart-music-top-of-the-pops-nostalgia?__twitter_impression=true

Hotblack Desiato

dasdog wrote: »

I don't think there has ever been greater music since 1950's Bebop. Last time humans made music that good Beethoven was composing. It's better IMO than anything that came out of the 1960's.

I love punk and grunge and ska, but Beethoven's Fifth can't really be beaten.

I do love a bit of Ludvig Van

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOk8Tm815lE

sligojoek

dasdog wrote: »

I don't think there has ever been greater music since 1950's Bebop. Last time humans made music that good Beethoven was composing. It's better IMO than anything that came out of the 1960's.

Now he's de-composing.

Hotblack Desiato

Badum-tish.

sligojoek

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Badum-tish.

Not my joke in fairness. I just got a deja vu when I read your post.

Capt'n Midnight

sligojoek wrote: »

Now he's de-composing.

He won't be Bach.

Welsh Megaman

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

He won't be Bach.

Therefore, no need to get Strauss-ed about it. :cool:

Skid X

Hello, exciting times this Friday if youare into Emmylou Harris. Otherwise, not so much. Although there are new episodes of Classic Albums and other bits and pieces going on ...





Thursday
7pm Rolling Stone – Stories From The Edge (Sky Documentaries)
Ep 5. It's about the magazine, not the band

9pm-12.50am Elvis Presley – The Searcher (Parts 1 & 2) (Sky Documentaries)

11.35pm Other Voices (RTE2)
With Lisa Hannigan, Denise Chaila, Lankum and more




Friday
7pm & 2.40am Easy Listening Hits At The BBC (BBC4)
including Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, Burt Bacharach, the Carpenters and Andy Williams

7pm Soundtracks – Songs That Defined History (Sky Arts)
Back yet again

8pm Classic Albums: Frank Zappa – Apostrophe And The Over-Nite Sensation (Sky Arts) New!

8pm Top Of The Pops 1990 - December 13 (BBC4)
Simon Mayo hosts the edition first aired on December 13. With performances by Shakin' Stevens, Malandra Burrows, Seal, Chris Isaak, Dimples D, the Righteous Brothers, Yazoo, Black Box and Vanilla Ice. This is the third time these shows have been scheduled

8.30pm Top Of The Pops 1990 - December 20 (BBC4)
Bruno Brookes hosts the edition first aired on December 20. With performances by Snap, Cliff Richard, Vanilla Ice, the Carpenters, INXS, Enigma, MC Hammer, Status Quo, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, and John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

9pm Classic Albums: Suede – Coming Up (Sky Arts) New!


9pm EmmyLou Harris Night on BBC4
9pm & 1.40am EmmyLou Harris: From A Deeper Well
Profile of the highly respected singer, who has spent the past 30 years building an impressive body of country music. Featuring interviews with friends, colleagues and admirers including Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson and Keith Richards. From 2004

10pm Timeshift - EmmyLou Harris’s 10 Commandments Of Country
A performance from Los Angeles by the American musician, highlighting the rules she believes make a great country song. Each track illustrates one of her 10 commandments, with a short introduction to explain why it was chosen and what element of the genre it best represents. From 2007

11pm The Old Grey Whistle Test – EmmyLou Harris In Concert
From 1977.

11.40pm Sisters In Country - Dolly, Linda and EmmyLou
How Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris's careers took off in the 1970s with very distinct takes on country music, before they came together to collaborate on a successful album in 1987.

12.40am Country At The BBC (BBC4)
They’ve clearly done a search for EmmyLou Harris and this came up. Tammy Wynette, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride, Kris Kristofferson, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss, Taylor Swift, kd lang and Billie Jo Spears sing Country. At The BBC.




9pm The Beatles: 8 Days A Week – The Touring Years (Sky Documentaries)

10pm The Great Songwriters – Seal (Sky Arts)

11pm Suede Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2010 (Sky Arts)
The band's 2010 reunion concert for the Teenage Cancer Trust charity, featuring performances of Animal Nitrate, The Drowners, So Young and Metal Mickey



11pm Noel Gallagher/Liam Gallagher/Oasis Loosely Connected Night on MTV Music
11pm Oasis – Return To Rockfield
Noel Gallagher returns to the hallowed turf of Rockfield Studios, where Oasis recorded their legendary album, '(What's The Story) Morning Glory'. This is billed as Oasis but its just Noel plugging his new compilation

11.30pm Oasis: Morning Glory – Track By Track
Noel Gallagher talks through the album that propelled Oasis from crossover indie band to worldwide global rock phenomenon.

Midnight Liam Gallagher Unplugged
From Hull a few years ago



12.15am Other Voices (RTE2)
As yesterday

1am Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road – Sting (Sky Arts)

2am The Great Songwriters – Kelly Jones From The Stereophonics (Sky Arts)




Saturday
2.45pm Keys To My Life – Christy Dignam (RTE1)
Brendan Courtney is joined by Aslan frontman Christy Dignam, who revisits the council house in Finglas where he grew up to the terraced house he bought for just £14,000 as a struggling young newlywed

6.05pm Too Young To Die – John Belushi (Sky Arts)
Where is Blues Brothers gone, I think it’s on Netflix but where’s the fun in that?

7pm Guy Garvey From The Vaults (Sky Art)
Ep 6 1988 featuring TV appearances by Sinead O'Connor, Tracy Chapman, Pixies, Public Enemy, Run-DMC and Happy Mondays

8pm Top Of The Pops – The Story of 1987 (BBC2)

8pm The Great Songwriters – Seal (Sky Arts) **

9pm Ronnie Wood – Somebody Up There Likes Me (Sky Arts)
A look at the life and career of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, with contributions by Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart

10pm Rollermania – Britain’s Biggest Boyband (BBC Scotland)
Shown in tribute to Les McKeown who died recently. Followed by TOTP - Boybands

10pm Abba In Their Own Words (Channel 5)

10.20pm Classic Artists – Jimi Hendrix (Sky Arts)

Midnight Tom Jones At The BBC (Yesterday)

12.20am Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road - Joe Elliott (Sky Arts)

1.15am Classic Albums: The Doors – The Doors (Sky Arts)




Sunday
5.15pm Queen – The Magic Years (Sky Arts)
Doc about their early years

6.30pm John Lennon – Imagine (Sky Arts)
This covers his 1971 solo album and tour

7.45pm Gimme Some Truth – John Lennon (Sky Arts)
And this covers similar territory

8.30pm Comhluadar Cheoil (TG4)
Daithi meets Cherish the Ladies

9pm Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 (Sky Arts)
Eric Clapton curates this major multi-artist festival in support of the Crossroads Centre charity. He is joined by the likes of James Bay, Jeff Back, Sheryl Crow and Peter Frampton

9.30pm Cork Folk Festival (TG4)
Featuring singer Karan Casey, Chieftains fiddle player Tara Breen, De Dannan accordion player Derek Hickey and puppeteer Des Dillon with his latest creation 'Sharon Shannon'. That would appear to be a puppet of Sharon Shannon or else he is a sort of Dr Frankenstein.

10.30pm Geantrai (TG4)
From Winkles Pub in Kinvara, Co Galway, featuring box player Mairtín O'Connor from Galway, fiddle player Cathal Hayden from Co Tyrone and bouzouki player Brendan O'Regan

10.30pm Flight Of The Conchords (Sky Comedy)
S1 E5 Sally Returns

10.45pm The Go Gos (Sky Documentaries)

11.15pm Nick Mason – Saucerful Of Secrets (Sky Arts)
Solo Gig



That is more or less that, if you have seen anything else of interest do let us know. Thanks.



New on Youtube recently is a new edit of Prince's Solo of While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. It's a bit good.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-04-29/prince-rock-hall-of-fame-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps-directors-cut

Also uploaded is this short clip from The Hot Press Music Awards which commenters think was from 1978 in Macroom

Rory Gallagher receives an award while The Sex Pistols and Geldof arse about. This is apparently from a German Documentary about Rory Gallagher, until they upload it if full this is all we have, including the caption for 'Jimmy Rotten'.

Lots of good stuff on that Youtube account


https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20453320.html

Finally, there's a Doc up above proclaiming him to be a 'great songwriter' but as far as I can remember it doesn't include any footage of his finest hour single handedly almost fighting off wolves in the documentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (which isn't on this week, but often pops up on Film4)

dasdog

Skid X wrote: »

8pm Classic Albums: Frank Zappa – Apostrophe And The Over-Nite Sensation (Sky Arts) New!

If you have space on a VHS this is definitely worth recording even if you are not really into Zappa. They are two of his finest albums - the anecdotes are great and the musicianship is on another level. I got it through different means a few years ago.

Skid X wrote: »

11.15pm Nick Mason – Saucerful Of Secrets (Sky Arts)
Solo Gig

I just set the timer for this myself. They were supposed to play last April in The Convention Centre and I'm hoping they re-schedule for next year. He's put an excellent band together and this show seems to be from the Roundhouse (2019) where they played mostly Syd Barrett era Floyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdn1OzCK5Yw

And yes that is Gary Kemp playing guitar and providing vocals :pac:

Skid X wrote: »

Lots of good stuff on that Youtube account

That's a great find Skid - even some Lizzy/Phil Lynott stuff I haven't seen before. Thanks a lot for that.

Welsh Megaman

FLOPPITYTOPPITYPOPPITY!

Welsh Megaman

Wait a minute...

(Looks at TOTP line-up)

dasdog

INXS might lend some credibility

Skid X

Shaky has another Christmas song ?!

Welsh Megaman

Status Quo tribute act on backing vocals

Skid X

Watch and learn, Righteous Brothers

This is how it's done!

Hangdogroad

Skid X wrote: »

Shaky has another Christmas song ?!

And its Christmas 90 already?

Welsh Megaman

BRING BACK THE SNOOKER!