BeebRock II - Music Shows on BBC Four, Sky Arts and everywhere else
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Aye, that'd one to look out for.
In the meantime, here's a look at some schedules this week. Bit quieter and with a lack of formatting due to the unique way that new Boards can mess with your head ...
Thursday
10pm Mr Dynamite - The Rise Of James Brown (Sky Documentaries)
Friday
7pm & 1am Duets At The BBC (BBC4)
Among the collaborations are Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, Shirley Bassey and Neil Diamond, Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge, and Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
7pm Charly Says - The Sound Of 1991 (BBC Red Button On Loop)
BBC Radio 6 Music's Steve Lamacq chooses music videos from 1991 - the year that the seminal Nirvana album Nevermind was released. 1991 was also the year that was fuelled by fascinating explorations in dance culture, rock genres that exploded out of their ghettos and new voices that would go on to help shape the future of music. Featuring Massive Attack, Primal Scream, PJ Harvey, and The Prodigy.
7pm Dolly Parton Song By Song (Sky Arts)
Coat Of Many Colours & Jolene
8pm Classic Albums: Gil-Scott Heron - Pieces Of A Man (Sky Arts)
New, I think
8pm & 2am Top Of The Pops 1991 - August 22 (BBC4)
Bruno Brookes presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 22 August 1991, featuring live performances by Midge Ure, Zoe, Jason Donovan and Oceanic. Plus, the Prodigy, Utah Saints, Karyn White, Martika, Bryan Adams and the Farm on video
8.30pm & 2.30am Top Of The Pops 1991 - August 29 (BBC4)
Mark Goodier presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 29 August 1991 and featuring live performances by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, EMF, Arnee and the Terminaters, the Farm and Tin Machine. Plus, PM Dawn, Prince, Simple Minds, Right Said Fred and T-Rex on video **T-Rex appearing on video likely due to Marc Bolan having died many years earlier
9pm & 3am Queens Of Soul (BBC4)
including Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, Randy Crawford, Angie Stone, Mary J Blige and Beyonce
9pm Jamiroquai Live In Verona 2002 (Sky Arts)
Possibly new, Sky have been plugging this a lot for some reason
9pm Flight Of The Conchords - Live In London (Sky Comedy)
10pm Soul And Beyond With Trevor Nelson And Corinne Bailey Rae (BBC4)
Having a chat and playing some soul classics
10pm Greatest Hits Of The 80s (Channel 5)
The stories behind six songs from the decade. Spandau Ballet, Soul II Soul, Peter Gabriel, Simply Red, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Whitney Houston sang them
11pm Old Grey Whistle Test - Blondie In Concert 1979 (BBC4)
Concert footage of Blondie performing live at the height of their powers in 1979 at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, with Debbie Harry wowing the audience with such hits as Dreaming, Union City Blue, Atomic, Picture This, Heart of Glass, Hanging on the Telephone and Sunday Girl
11.15pm James Taylor - Austin City Limits (Sky Arts)
11.30pm Sounds Of The Seventies (BBC4)
including Aretha Franklin, Billy Preston, the Tams, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, the Stylistics, Gil Scott-Heron and the Jacksons
11.30pm 13 Moments - Freddie Mercury (Channel 5)
11.35pm Se Mo Laoch - John And Pip Murphy (TG4)
The life and career of Co Wexford musician brothers John and Pip Murphy
Midnight From Elton John To Gary Barlow - Celebrating 100 Concerts At Eden (BBC4)
Fuck me that's an unwieldy title. A look back over the past 18 years of the Eden Sessions. Introduced by Nile Rodgers, who headlined the 100th show, highlights include Pulp, who played the first one in July 2002. Set against the backdrop of the Eden biomes in Cornwall, there are also performances by Duran Duran, Bastille, Muse, Gary Barlow, Van Morrison, Madness, Primal Scream and Lionel Richie. Nile Rodgers will be on the BBC again tomorrow
12.30am Lenny Kravitz - Just Go See 2014 Tour Live (Sky Arts)
1.25am Other Voices (RTE2)
Music show presented by May Kay and Huw Stephens, featuring Hozier, Fontaines DC, Elbow, Pillow Queens, Rhiannon Giddens and more
2.35am A Life In Ten Pictures - Amy Winehouse (BBC2)
2.45am Steven Tyler Live At Melrose Ballroom (Sky Arts)
Saturday
6.45pm Mr Dynamite -The Rise Of James Brown (Sky Documentaries)
7pm Queen -Hungarian Rhapsody. Live In Budapest (Sky Arts)
9pm TRNSMT 2021 (BBC Alba, continues on BBC Scotland)
9pm Pink Floyd - The Endless (Sky Arts)
Artist, animator and director Ian Emes' visual interpretation of the band's 2014 album, filmed on location in London and Exmoor National Park
9.35pm Soundtrack To My Life - James Vincent McMorrow (RTE1)
James Vincent McMorrow performs the songs that mean the most to him with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, duets with Gemma Dunleavy, and invites Dublin band the Scratch to collaborate with the orchestra on a heavy metal track. James also chats to Niall Breslin about how releasing his first album was a make or break moment and reveals how he dealt with his subsequent success
10.15pm Pink Floyd - A Delicate Sound Of Thunder (Sky Arts)
Midnight Classic Artists - Jimi Hendrix (Sky Arts)
2am Isle Of Wight 2021 (Sky Arts)
Sunday
4.40pm Depeche Mode Live In Berlin (Sky Arts)
7.10pm The Beatles - Hippies And Hells Angels (Sky Arts)
9pm Genesis - When In Rome (Sky Arts)
9.30pm Se Mo Laoch - Kevin Conneff (TG4)
The life and career of Dublin singer and bodhrán player Kevin Conneff, a member of the iconic band the Chieftains and a founding member of the Tradition Club at Slattery's in the 1970s
10.30pm Tradition Now (TG4)
Highlights from concerts performed by leading Irish musicians John Spillane, Steve Cooney, Varo, Daoirí Farrell, The Mulcahy sisters and Nell Ní Chróinín
11pm-2am Isle Of Wight 2021 (Sky Arts)
Also on this weekend is a big global 24 hour charity concert 'Global Citizen Live', BBC are showing quite a lot of it from 9.20pm-3.05am on Saturday (and on 4.30pm on Sunday) including sets from Duran Duran, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay Stormzy, Nile Rodgers and Chic and Stevie Wonder
It will also be on Youtube and Twitter
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/live/
Global Citizen
https://www.youtube.com/GLOBALCITIZEN
Anyway, it's Bruce Springsteen's birthday.
Here he is on Desert Island Discs in 2016 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0855znp
Here's a lad belting out The Wolfe Tones during an Orange Parade, sure why not?
A Nation Once again being officially the World's favourite song ever according to the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2591357.stm
Finally, the best Kool And The Gang Song From a film also featuring Samuel L Jackson delivering his Ezekiel 25:17 sermon might be this one, from Pulp Fiction (RTE2, Saturday 9.45pm)
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