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

Skid X

Kathleen Turner in the Billy Ocean video reminds me that the band in High Fidelity were called Kathleen Turner Overdrive, which is a splendid name for a band.

Gizmo55

Madonna turns 60 so we'll show a documentary from when she was in her early 40's. I think Ray of Light is an amazing album but I mostly put that down to William Orbit being a genius. She always struck me as someone who would do anything to be famous, talent or no talent, ambition goes a long way.

Welsh Megaman

Gizmo55 wrote: »

Madonna turns 60 so we'll show a documentary from when she was in her early 40's. I think Ray of Light is an amazing album but I mostly put that down to William Orbit being a genius. She always struck me as someone who would do anything to be famous, talent or no talent, ambition goes a long way.

She certainly knows how to pick a decent producer, Mirwais being one of them.

This still sounds amazing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRLHro9EPD0

Gizmo55

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

She certainly knows how to pick a decent producer, Mirwais being one of them.

This still sounds amazing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRLHro9EPD0

Absolutely, Music was a brilliant album, it went downhill after that, American Life wasn't great.

Welsh Megaman

Urgh...too many French and Saunders clips.

I’m out.

Go Harvey Go

I'll always like "Like A Virgin"... but I'll probably never think of it without thinking of Quentin Tarantino.

Meanwhile, Vauxhall's ads at the turn of the millennium not only featured Griff Rhys Jones - but also the opening strings from "Papa Don't Preach".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3BJxns6DPc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od-kenmFD_I

Hotblack Desiato

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

Skid X

Hi, it's another repeated laden weekend but there is exciting news for fans of Hungarian Gypsy Folk Music, Bhangra and The Four Of Us. No, honestly ...



Thursday
5am Bastille Live at Eden Project (BBC Red Button, repeated on loop over most of the Weekend)

12pm Classic Albums: Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (Sky Arts)

5pm Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (Sky Arts)

7.30pm & 12.30am Top Of The Pops 1986 - March 6th (BBC4)
Gary Davies and Dixie Peach present the programme from 6 March 1986, featuring Mike and the Mechanics, Kate Bush, Tavares, Whistle, Diana Ross and Huey Lewis and the News

10pm Ar Thoir an Cheoil (TG4)
Exploring the music of the band We Banjo Three, who blend traditional Irish music with Bluegrass and old-time American influences. The group's musical journey and influences are explored, with contributions by Cathal Hayden, Mairtin O'Connor, Gerry O'Connor and the musicians themselves



Friday
12pm Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (Sky Arts)

5pm Classic Albums: Queen - A Night At The Opera (Sky Arts)

7.30pm BBC Proms 2018 (BBC4)
Hungarian Gypsy Folk from Liszst and Brahms. Hell yeah.

8pm Discovering Music - U2 (Sky Arts)

8pm-Midnight Reading Festival 2018 (BBC Red Button)
https://www.readingfestival.com/lineup#stages

8.30pm Video Killed The Radio Star - Robbie Williams (Sky Arts)

9pm Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History (Sky Arts)
Ep 6/8 The Space Race A look at how the influence of the space race led musicians such as David Bowie, the Byrds and Sun Ra to imagine a cosmic future for mankind

9.15pm & 3am TOTP2 - Status Quo (BBC4)
A selection of the veteran rock 'n' roll band's performances on Top of the Pops, from their first appearance in 1968 with the psychedelic Pictures of Matchstick Men to their last in 2005 with The Party Ain't Over Yet, as well as hits including Rockin' All Over the World, Whatever You Want, Mystery Song and Living on an Island

10pm Pump Up The Bhangra - The Sound Of Asian Britain (BBC4) New!
BBC Asian Network DJ Bobby Friction tells the story of how British Asians came of age, as they found their voice and celebrated their identity through Bhangra music. He recounts the rise and history of the genre across Britain in the 1980s, and encounters some legends of the scene, including Dhol drummer Gurcharan Mall from band Apna Sangeet. Part of the BBC Big Asian Summer Season

10pm Bowie, Prince and Music Legends We Lost In 2016 (Sky Arts)
Sky Arts presents yet another repeat of their favourite filler show

11pm TOTP - 90s (BBC4)
Steve Wright introduces a selection of archive studio performances and videos featuring the Spice Girls, Michael Jackson, Pulp, Shania Twain, Bryan Adams, the Prodigy, Madonna, Blur, Take That and others

11.30pm Music Videos That Shaped The 80s (Sky Arts)
A look at how the introduction of music videos in the 1980s affected the industry, with contributions by Bob Geldof, Herbie Hancock, Roger Taylor and Richie Sambora, and directors David Mallet, Russell Mulcahy and Kevin Godley.

Midnight-3am Nile Rodgers: How To Make It In The Music Business (Parts 1,2 and 3) (BBC4)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b097f5b2/episodes/guide
1) He reveals the moment he first picked up a guitar and tells how his talent led him to write his own music alongside Bernard Edwards for Chic. The opening episode also uncovers the source of inspiration for many of Nile's songs, including Le Freak and Lost in Music. Plus, producer Mark Ronson and Duran Duran keyboard player Nick Rhodes describe Nile's use of complex chord patterns and his unique guitar-playing style
2) He reveals the moment he was finally persuaded to give up the drugs and drink, and references the new generation of stars with whom he has worked, including Laura Mvula, John Newman, Avicci and Keith Urban. Contributors include Carly Simon, Kathy Sledge and Paul Gambaccini
3) He explores the difficulties of adapting to the rise of digital platforms such as YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music, and details how he has risen to this challenge via collaborations with Daft Punk, Laura Mvula, Keith Urban and Avicii. Last in the series

12.30am Music Videos That Defined The 90s (Sky Arts)
A look at the most memorable videos of the decade, including ones by Sinead O'Connor, Fatboy Slim, Oasis, Blur, the Verve, the Prodigy, Massive Attack and Spice Girls

1.30am Dire Straits - On The Night (Sky Arts)
1991 Rotterdam Concert

3.30am Discovering Music - Dire Straits (Sky Arts)



Saturday
2pm Gregory Porter - Live in Berlin (Sky Arts)
The Grammy Award-winning American jazz singer performs tracks from across his career at the Berliner Philharmonie concert hall in May 2016

5pm Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History (Sky Arts)
As Friday

5.55pm Elvis Presley - The Searcher (Sky Arts)
Ep 1/2 Documentary about the music legend, beginning with his early life in Tupelo, Mississippi, and his unprecedented rise to fame over a single year

7pm-9pm Guitar Heroes at the BBC (Yesterday)
Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Peter Green, Queen, Robin Trower, John Martyn, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Davy Graham,Ralph McTell, Nils Lofgren, Ted Nugent, the Faces, Chris Spedding, the Runaways, Judas Priest, ZZ Top and the Cate Brothers

7.30pm BBC Proms 2018 (BBC4)
A performance of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town. I think that's the one that the Simpsons paid homage to here

8pm Johnny Cash Song By Song - Sunday Mornin' Coming Down (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Dolly Parton Song By Song - 9 to 5 (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Fleadh TV (TG4)

9pm Film: That'll Be The Day (1973) (True Movies)
A school dropout leaves home and drifts through a succession of dead-end jobs until he finds an outlet for his frustration in rock 'n' roll. Drama, starring David Essex, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, Billy Fury, Robert Lindsay and Rosemary Leach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1IZX3S_e8

9pm Michael Jackson - The Life Of An Icon (Sky Arts)
Documentary exploring the life of the pop singer, from his early career with the Jackson 5 to his rise to solo stardom and his death in 2009. Family and friends share their memories of the singer, including a rare interview with his mother Katherine Jackson, who discusses Michael's upbringing and his relationship with his father

9.30pm-Midnight Reading Festival 2018 (BBC Red Button)
https://www.readingfestival.com/lineup#stages

9.50pm & 2.50am West Side Stories - The Making of A Classic (BBC4)
West Side Story Doc

10.50pm Leonard Bernstein at the BBC (BBC4)

11.50pm Top Of The Pops 1986 - March 6th (BBC4)
As Thursday

11.50pm-4am The Agony & The Ecstasy (Sky Arts)
All 3 parts of the Acid House Doc Series plus Dangerous Dave Pearce's Top 20 Acid House Tracks

12.20am Heavy Metal Britannia (BBC4)
Documentary tracing the genre's emergence in the late 1960s, pioneered by bands including Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, who were based in the industrialised Midlands. This classic form of metal was challenged by punk in the late 1970s, before a new wave of groups such as Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon reinvigorated the style. Featuring contributions by singers Ian Gillan, Glenn Tipton, Lemmy, Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford, guitarist Tony Iommi and keyboard player Jon Lord. Narrated by Nigel Planer

1.50am Goth at the BBC (BBC4)
Celebrating the evolution of the Goth aesthetic, which began in British clubs in the early 1980s, tracing its history through the decade and beyond. Featuring archive performances by Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Cure, Depeche Mode, Killing Joke, the Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey and many more



Sunday
2.30pm-6pm Reading Festival 2018 (BBC Red Button)
https://www.readingfestival.com/lineup#stages

6.10pm Elvis Presley - The Searcher (Sky Arts)
Part 2/2 Conclusion of the documentary about the singer, beginning with his return home after his discharge from the army, and how he dealt with a rapidly changing pop scene

7pm Simon Rattle: The Making of a Maestro (BBC4)
Documentary following the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic over the course of a year as he prepares for a series of concerts, oratorios and operas with five different orchestras. He's the lad who conducted Mr Bean at the London 2012 Opening Ceremony

7.30pm Sings Bee Gees (Yesterday)
Archive compilation celebrating songs written by the Gibb brothers, featuring performances by artists including Al Green, Esther Ofarim, Take That, Dionne Warwick, Steps, Rita Coolidge and Aaliyah. The stars cover hits including To Love Somebody, Words, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? and How Deep Is Your Love

8pm BBC Proms (BBC4)
Simon Rattle from the Mr Bean Olympics video conducts a performance of music by Maurice Ravel, including Mother Goose, Sheherazade and L'enfant et les Sortileges.

8pm Soundtracks : Songs That Defined History (Sky Arts)
Ep 6/8 The Space Race. Again

9pm Queen Live at the Rainbow (Sky Arts)
A 1974 concert by the rock band at London's Rainbow Theatre, featuring performances of Killer Queen and Seven Seas of Rhye "It is, in many ways, a missing piece of the jigsaw; a landmark performance and live album which really reveals Queen at their 1970s peak and offers great insight into the transitional time between their first two albums - Queen and Queen II - and their upcoming glory days of the 1980s, which is how they are remembered by many."
https://www.gigwise.com/features/94023/

9.30pm Ceol an Chlann - The Four of Us (TG4)
Profile of The Four 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

10pm Hup (TG4)
Showcase of traditional music from Ballyvourney in Co Cork, home of composer Sean O Riada. Featuring a duet between Conal O Grada and Colm Murphy. Last in the series

10.30pm Geantrai (TG4)
Breanndan O Beaglaoich presents the show from Character Pub in Tullamore, Co Offaly, featuring Brian Hughes, Colin Nea, Joe Meehan and Orla Corcoran and Mairead Mhic Dhonnacha

10.45pm Bee Gees Live In Melbourne 1989 (Sky Arts)

11pm Chuck Berry in Concert (BBC4)
The legendary rock 'n' roll singer performs at the BBC Television Theatre in 1972, featuring hits Johnny B Goode, Nadine and Roll Over Beethoven, as well as the innuendo-laden My Ding-a-Ling

Midnight Sings Stevie Wonder (BBC4)
A trawl through the BBC archives, unearthing 50 years of covers of Wonder's classic songbook, featuring artists including Cilla Black, Jimmy Helms, Dionne Warwick, the Osmonds, India Arie and James Morrison. Among the clips is a storming performance of Ed Sheeran with Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra taking on Master Blaster (Jammin')





I expect the BBC will show some highlights of the Reading Festival on their normal channels in the coming weeks.

Sky Arts announced a new 4 part series about drummers and drumming today, expected in September ...

https://twitter.com/SkyArts/status/1031949803473625088



And the Best Rowan Atkinson homage to Henry VIII in the style of Elvis Presley of the week is a close call but it might the one in Horrible Histories' Savage Songs Special (RTE2, Friday 9am)

mollser

Very disappointing cull in Reading festival coverage this year, always one of the better festivals for proper music / rock acts. Shame.

BandMember

mollser wrote: »

Very disappointing cull in Reading festival coverage this year, always one of the better festivals for proper music / rock acts. Shame.

The line up is very poor this year though, apart from maybe a few sets on Sunday.

Welsh Megaman

Execellent documentary on Asian music just starting on BBC Four.

sligojoek

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Execellent documentary on Asian music just starting on BBC Four.

I must root out my glasses. I read that as Aslan music.

Skid X

Random one - has anyone ever seen this film "Eat The Rich" (a 1987 film from Channel 4) ?

This video came up on Youtube - Shane MacGowan and Lemmy armed and dangerous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_the_Rich_(film)

Welsh Megaman

Mundian To Bach Ke - ah yeah

sligojoek

Skid X wrote: »

Random one - has anyone ever seen this film "Eat The Rich" (a 1987 film from Channel 4) ?

This video came up on Youtube - Shane MacGowan and Lemmy armed and dangerous.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_the_Rich_(film)

Also in that clip are Terry Woods from the Pogues and the late Frank Murray who managed the Pogues and Thin Lizzy. Frank was also the waiter in Fr Ted when Mrs Doyle and Barry O Hanlon's mother had the row in the tea shop.

Welsh Megaman

D:Ream *shudder*

I wonder whatever happened to their keyboard player.

Skid X

sligojoek wrote: »

Also in that clip are Terry Woods from the Pogues and the late Frank Murray who managed the Pogues and Thin Lizzy. Frank was also the waiter in Fr Ted when Mrs Doyle and Barry O Hanlon's mother had the row in the tea shop.

Ha, fair play Joe great knowledge there.

BandMember

Skid X wrote: »

Random one - has anyone ever seen this film "Eat The Rich" (a 1987 film from Channel 4) ?

This video came up on Youtube - Shane MacGowan and Lemmy armed and dangerous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_the_Rich_(film)

Yeah, I saw that film years ago. One of those "Comic Strip" movies, has not aged well and The Pogues are really only in one part of it. I'm guessing that it was something Frank Murray signed them up for as he tended to take every offer that came in for them and worked them to the bone. Looks like they filmed it on their bit on the way home from the pub one night, they don't seem that interested in it - possibly because it was playing up an Irish stereotype of the time.... Damn you anyway, I'm going to have to go and watch it again this weekend now!

sligojoek wrote: »

Also in that clip are Terry Woods from the Pogues and the late Frank Murray who managed the Pogues and Thin Lizzy. Frank was also the waiter in Fr Ted when Mrs Doyle and Barry O Hanlon's mother had the row in the tea shop.

Eh, I think you mean Ardal O'Hanlon's mother?? :pac:

Hotblack Desiato

I remember watching a few Comic Strip films and TV specials back in the day, you wanted them to be really really good but they almost always weren't

There were good performers there and usually a good idea but the writing was usually bad, or else the idea might have sustained 30 minutes but not 60 or 90.

AndrewJRenko

sligojoek wrote: »

Also in that clip are Terry Woods from the Pogues and the late Frank Murray who managed the Pogues and Thin Lizzy. Frank was also the waiter in Fr Ted when Mrs Doyle and Barry O Hanlon's mother had the row in the tea shop.

Let's not forget Terry's legacy in Steeleye Span, with his then missus, Gay Woods, who went on to front the beautifully theatrical Auto dá Fé.

Some list of guest starts in that movie - Macca, Hugh Cornwell, Bill Wyman, Jools

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092944/fullcredits

Who's the curly blonde lady in the clip?

Skid X

Hello, Sky Arts has a vaguely Country Themed Weekend wrapped around their coverage of the CMA awards, with some decent repeats. BBC4 are still bogged down in Prommage but the end is in sight.

Nile Rodgers pops up on RTE1 giving an extended interview to Brendan O'Connor. He gets far more Television coverage now than he ever did when Chic were at their peak. It looks like Aretha Franklin's funeral is going to be a broadcast event similar to those of Lemmy and Michael Jackson - there will coverage online and you might see some coverage on Television, either on the Arts/Music or News Channels ...





Thursday
12pm Classic Albums: Deep Purple - Machine Head (Sky Arts)

5pm Classic Albums: Judas Priest - British Steel (Sky Arts)

7.30pm Top Of The Pops 1986 - March 20th (BBC4)
Janice Long and Simon Bates present an edition first aired on 20 March, featuring performances by Jim Diamond, Pet Shop Boys, Cliff Richard and the Young Ones, the Real Thing, Diana Ross and Mr Mister.

Midnight Queen Live At The Rainbow (Sky Arts)
A 1974 concert by the rock band at London's Rainbow Theatre, featuring performances of Killer Queen and Seven Seas of Rhye

2.45am Gregory Porter Live in Berlin 2016 (Sky Arts)



Friday
12pm Classic Albums: Judas Priest - British Steel (Sky Arts)

3pm The Funeral of Aretha Frankilin (Online, possibly some coverage on UK/Ire TV Channels TBC)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/aretha-franklins-funeral-livestreamed-716549/
Aretha Franklin’s funeral will be available to view both online and on television. The event will be livestreamed via The Associated Press, and broadcast in full on several TV stations in Detroit, Michigan, including WDIV-TV, WJBK-TV and WXYZ-TV. Both Fox News and CNN will air live portions of the service, Detroit Free Press reports.The funeral will begin at 10 a.m. local time Friday at Greater Grace Temple in the late singer’s hometown. Several major artists will perform at the ceremony, including Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Ronald Isley, Jennifer Hudson, Faith Hill, Fantasia and Yolanda Adams. The list of speakers will include Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, actress Cicely Tyson, record mogul Clive Davis, Michigan governor Rick Snyder, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

5pm Classic Albums: Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks (Sky Arts)

7.30pm BBC Proms (BBC4)
"a politically charged programme that includes Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony alongside Bernstein's Second Symphony, The Age of Anxiety and Slava!, dedicated to cellist Mstislav Rostropovic" Fair play

8pm Video Killed The Radio Star - Michael Jackson (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Video Killed The Radio Star - Prince (Sky Arts)

9pm Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History (Sky Arts)
Battle of the Sexes - A look at how Billie Jean King's tennis victory against Bobby Riggs in 1973 ushered in music that delivered messages of female empowerment

9.30pm Top Of The Pops 1986 - April 3rd
Janice Long and John Peel present an edition first aired on 3 April, featuring performances by Big Audio Dynamite, George Michael, A-Ha, the Real Thing, Cliff Richard and the Young Ones, the Style Council, and Falco

9.35pm Brendan O'Connor's Time Out - With Nile Rodgers (RTE1)
Brendan chats to American musician, songwriter and producer Nile Rodgers at London's Abbey Road Studios, hearing about everything from the Chic guitarist's unconventional childhood, to addiction, and the stories behind some of the biggest songs of his career.

10pm & 2.30am TOTP2 - School Days (BBC4)
Mark Radcliffe narrates a selection of archive performances to get viewers in the mood for going back to school, featuring the Jackson 5 with ABC, Alice Cooper with School's Out, Busted with What I Go to School For, the cast of Grange Hill with Just Say No and St Winifred's School Choir with No One Quite like Grandma.

10pm Shania Twain Live In Las Vegas (Sky Arts)

10.30pm Sounds Of The Eighties with Gary Davies and Davina McCall (BBC Red Button, repeated on loop for most of the weekend)

10.35pm The Quay Sessions - Snow Patrol (BBC1 NI)
Gary Lightbody, Johnny McDaid and Nathan Connolly perform an intimate acoustic set of new songs and classic hits at BBC Scotland's Pacific Quay building in Glasgow. Featuring performances of Chocolate, Run, Chasing Cars and Just Say Yes. Introduced by Roddy Hart

11pm-1.30am BBC Proms (BBC4)
Following his complete performance of Book 1 of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier last year, distinguished pianist and Bach specialist Andras Schiff returns to the Royal Albert Hall to perform the complete Book 2. The Proms end next week.

Midnight Johnny Cash - Behind Prison Walls (Sky Arts)
Recording of the country star's concert at the Tennessee State Prison, Nashville, in 1977

1am Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (Sky Arts)
Documentary examining the country star's 1968 concert at California's Folsom Prison, with contributions by his family and band members, as well as inmates who witnessed the event

1.30am Petula Clark Live In Berlin (BBC4)
With a career spanning nearly eight decades, singer Petula Clark has sold more than 68 million records worldwide. Playing live in Berlin for the first time, she performs hits including Downtown, Don't Sleep in the Subway and I Couldn't Live Without Your Love, as well as songs from her recent album From Now On, including Sacrifice My Heart and a collaboration with Charles Aznavour - Pour Etre Aime de Toi. First shown in 2016

2.05am Ray Charles Live In France (Sky Arts)
Footage of the singer and his original backing group the Raelettes performing some of their biggest hits at the Antibes Jazz Festival in Juan-les-Pins



Saturday
10am Bee Gees Live In Melbourne 1989 (Sky Arts)

5pm Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History (Sky Arts)
As Friday

5.55pm Glen Campbell - I'll Be Me (Sky Arts)
Documentary following the country star and his wife Kim on tour across America, featuring contributions by Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Bill Clinton

8pm Johnny Cash Song By Song - Hurt (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Dolly Parton Song By Song - Travelin' Thru (Sky Arts)

9pm & 2.45am CMA Fest 2018 (Sky Arts)
Thomas Rhett and Kelsea Ballerini host the country music event in Nashville, featuring appearances by Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban among many others
https://cmafest.com/artists/

10.45pm Reading Festival 2018 - The Best Bits (BBC4)
Huw Stephens presents highlights of performances at last weekend's festival, where the Main Stage headliners were Fall Out Boy, Kendrick Lamar and Kings of Leon. Only an hour long, seems very poor when they had cameras there all weekend

11pm Dixie Chicks Live 2016 (Sky Arts)

11.10pm Brendan O'Connor's Time Out - With Nile Rodgers (RTE1)
As Friday

11.10pm Geantraí (TG4)
The listing just says "Folk/Trad"

11.45pm Top Of The Pops 1986 - March 20th (BBC4)
As Thursday

12.15am Top Of The Pops 1986 - April 3rd (BBC4)
As Friday

12.45am Jimi Hendrix - The Road To Woodstock (BBC4)
A definitive account of one of the guitarist's most celebrated performances, at the New York festival in 1969, featuring signature renditions of Purple Haze, Voodoo Child and the Star Spangled Banner. The programme includes interviews with Woodstock promoter Michael Lang and Hendrix's band members Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Larry Lee and Juma Sultan

1am Heartworn Highways (Sky Arts)
Documentary released in 1981 about the outlaw country music movement, including Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, David Allan Coe, Rodney Crowell, Gamble Rogers and Steve Young. The recent sequel is on at the same time tomorrow



Sunday
5.40pm Hand Me Down - Dolores Keane (TG4)
A profile of traditional musician Dolores Keane, visiting her family and home in Tuam, Co Galway and hearing about the music of the area, as well as how she and her aunts learned songs while growing up. Presented by Doireann Ni Bhriain

7pm BBC Proms (BBC4)
A Concert of Elgar's Music, to commemorate the anniversary of the end of World War One

8pm Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History (Sky Arts)

9pm Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels (Sky Arts)
Artists including Bob Dylan, Carole King, Al Green, Keith Richards, Jerry Lee Lewis, Toby Keith, Ben Harper and Kid Rock celebrate the country music star's career


11pm When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (Sky Arts)
Rosanne Cash narrates a documentary about the life, career and legacy of the American country music singer, with contributions by LeAnn Rimes, Kacey Musgraves and Reba McEntire

1am Heartworn Highways Revisited (Sky Arts)
Sequel to the 1981 documentary focusing on the next generation of country musicians whose lives and music were influenced by the likes of Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle

2.45am Beat Beat Beat - The Yardbirds (Sky Arts)
1967 appearance by The Yardbirds on West German Pop Show Beat Beat Beat.
Here's the full thing if you don't want to stay up very late to watch it.

Interesting 4 minute clip here of Jim Kerr talking about how it took the Record Company 6 months and sending the writer of Don't You Forget About Me across the Atlantic to persuade Simple Minds to record the song for The Breakfast Club Movie
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06jn214



And finally the Best Use of a Manic Street Preachers song in the Opening of A Nineties BBC Sitcom Of The Week might be this clip from Game On (GOLD, Sunday 11.35pm)

Hotblack Desiato

Skid X wrote: »

11.10pm Brendan O'Connor's Time Out - With Nile Rodgers (RTE1)
As Friday

That guy just doesn't get enough exposure on TV, does he :pac:

Go Harvey Go

Skid X wrote: »

7.30pm Top Of The Pops 1986 - March 20th (BBC4)
Janice Long and Simon Bates present an edition first aired on 20 March, featuring performances by Jim Diamond, Pet Shop Boys, Cliff Richard and the Young Ones, the Real Thing, Diana Ross and Mr Mister.

This, of course, will be the last episode we'll get to see featuring the classic logo and "Yellow Pearl", due to the last episode of all the following week being Smithed.

Over on TV Forum, there's been a discussion about TOTP's logos, with one member saying that the 1986 logo was the worst one of all:



I can certainly see why he doesn't like it - not only is it nowhere near as attractive as the classic logo, but also it hasn't stood the test of time very well.

For me, though, the 1991 logo is the worst by far:



It may be a real model crafted out of metal, then shot on camera and keyed into the title sequence (I assume it's a real model, anyway - it looks far too detailed for early '90s computer generation), but it is *ugly*. It's also rather unsympathetic, and quite hard to read if you don't already know what it says.

Yet it lasted until early 1995, and thus was used for much of the show's Indian summer under Ric Blaxill. In contrast, the 1986 logo lasted only until the end of 1988, and was retired at a time when Paul Ciani was replacing the older Radio 1 DJs with the likes of Anthea Turner and Andy Crane.

https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/top-of-the-pops-43317/page-51

Skid X

I'd agree with you GHG, the 1991 thing looks like a vastly over stylised Late Show concoction. The other one isn't great, but at least you don't have to squint to read it.

Joe_ Public

91 logo is horrific but quite like the 86 version, just has a more 70s vibe about it so probably looked a bit dated even by mid 80s. Reminds me a bit of those K-tel compilation album covers of the late 70s I still derive a huge nostalgia kick out of.

Welsh Megaman

Best Opening Song of An Eighties Sitcom Starring MIchael Elphick Of The Week!

Welsh Megaman

Simon Mayo...whatever happened to him? :pac:

Jordan 199

Pet Shop Boys. Known as the Pet Store Boys in America

Skid X

Living Doll, I probably owe money to Comic Relief for taping this off the radio back in the day.

Sorry Cliff, Sorry Young Ones.

Jordan 199

Skid X wrote: »

Living Doll, I probably owe money to Comic Relief for taping this off the radio back in the day.

Sorry Cliff, Sorry Young Ones.

You better hope their legal eagles aren't reading that