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

Welsh Megaman

R.E.M. live on Sky Arts right now.

Forgotten how good ‘Monster’ is - I remember everybody slagging it off at the time for being the ‘grunge’ album, but it has some of their best songs.

BandMember

What's The Frequency Kenneth? and Strange Currencies would be my two favourite from that album, couple of R.E.M.'s all time best too.

Welsh Megaman

BandMember wrote: »

What's The Frequency Kenneth? and Strange Currencies would be my two favourite from that album, couple of R.E.M.'s all time best too.

Add ‘Star 69’, ‘Tongue’ and ‘Crush With Eyeliner’ to that list.

Skid X

Later with Jools returns at 10pm tonight (with a longer version on Saturday at 11pm)

Londoner Jess Glynne, the first British female solo artist to have seven number one singles in the UK, makes her debut on the returning music show. Fellow newcomers to the series are Bristol's Idles, and synthpop duo Marc Almond and Dave Ball, better known as Soft Cell, who are back together after a 16-year-gap. Plus, Brooklyn-based 19-year-old songstress Mikaela Straus, aka King Princess. And marking more than 50 years on the road, Ivor Novello Award-winner Ralph McTell

I hope Ralph McTell does Streets of London !

Hotblack Desiato

SOFT CELL!!! Great name! great tunes! great band!

Welsh Megaman

Decent tribute to Chas Hodges by Jools.

sligojoek

Skid X wrote: »

Later with Jools returns at 10pm tonight (with a longer version on Saturday at 11pm)




I hope Ralph McTell does Streets of London !

Maybe on Sat night.

Skid X

sligojoek wrote: »

Maybe on Sat night.

Ah well, I'd settle for a rendition of The Theme From Tickle On The Tum

sligojoek

I came on this by accident tonight,

Skid X

Hello, the music world is still reeling from the news that some bloke from Liberty X is the new singer in Wet Wet Wet #MartiForever #Kevin Simm Never, but we struggle on bravely with the excellent dance and drumming docs on BBC4 and Sky Arts respectively.

It looks like the Chas and Dave doc gets a repeat on Thursday Friday after TOTP (still TBC), and there are some bits and bobs going on for BBC Music Day. Jarvis and Joe both feature in a Cocker Weekend while Jools gives it an extended spin on Saturday ...




Thursday
12pm The British Invasion - Gerry and The Pacemakers (Sky Arts)

5pm The British Invasion - Herman's Hermits (Sky Arts)

7pm Gareth Malone's All Star Music Quiz (BBC2)
The choirmaster brings his piano, guitar and conductor's baton to his very own music quiz. In a series of rounds, two teams featuring well-known musicians and musically-minded famous faces - including Rob Rouse, Ed Balls, JB Gill and John Thomson - battle it out, testing their skill and knowledge across all genres of music

7.30pm & 12.55am Top Of The Pops 1986 - May 8th (BBC4)
Featuring performances by Patti La Belle and Michael McDonald, Spitting Image, Billy Ocean, Falco and Whitney Houston. Presented by Janice Long and John Peel. From 8 May 1986

11pm The Art Of Drumming - Ep 2(Sky Arts)
This episode looks at drummers as musicians and explores the musical possibilities of the drum kit, featuring tracks from the Beatles to Nirvana and folk rock to thrash metal

12.05am Live From Abbey Road Classics (Channel 4)
Featuring Herbie Hancock and Randy Crawford

12.15am New Order Live in Glasgow (Sky Arts)



Friday
12pm The British Invasion - Herman's Hermits (Sky Arts)

12.15pm Bargain Hunt - Pulp v Happy Mondays (BBC1)
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and the Happy Mondays' Bez take part in this special edition for BBC Music Day. Along with their bandmates Candida Doyle and Rowetta Satchell, they join experts Catherine Southon and Mark Stacey scouring Kent Showground for items that will make them the most profit for charity.
https://twitter.com/bbcmusic/status/1044993966830178308

5pm The British Invasion - Dusty Springfield (Sky Arts)

6.50pm Bedtime Stories (CBeebies)
Read by George Ezra. He's a singer popular with the Kidz.

7.30pm & Midnight Top Of The Pops 1986 - May 22nd (BBC4)
Gary Davies and Peter Powell present an edition first aired on 22 May, featuring performances by Jaki Graham, Billy Ocean, Simply Red, Spitting Image, the B-52s, Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald, and the Matchroom Mob and Chas & Dave doing Snooker Loopy!

7.30pm Mad About Elvis (BBC1 Wales)
The Porthcawl Elvis Festival is the biggest Elvis festival in the world attracting 35,000 visitors most of whom dress up as the King.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/porthcawl-elvis-festival-2018-line-15089359

8pm Chas & Dave - Last Orders (BBC4)
Documentary which highlights cockney duo Chas & Dave's rich, unsung pedigree in the music world and a career spanning 50 years, almost the entire history of UK pop. They played with everyone from Jerry Lee Lewis to Gene Vincent, toured with The Beatles, opened for Led Zeppelin at Knebworth - and yet are known mainly just for their cheery singalongs and novelty records about snooker and Spurs. Shown as a tribute to Chas, who died this week.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nkdsv

8pm Music Icons - Buddy Holly (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Music Icons - Jerry Lee Lewis (Arts)
Probably doesn't go into details about the time he appeared on Music Panel Show The Lyrics Board on RTE1
https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/db_images/22/2226/intermediate-visible-watermark/029_64e0dbbb29144386b241caaa0cec0c0102c44247.jpg

8.30pm Cosain Cheoil [Music Trails] (RTE1) New!
New series. Documentary series charting the interaction between tradition and innovation in Irish and Scottish music over the past half-century, showcasing an astonishing array of new cutting-edge acts. Each edition features established acts as well as newcomers bringing change and fresh ideas. A collaboration between RTÉ and BBC Alba.

9pm & 3am The Story of Pulp's Common People (BBC4)
Documentary examining the origins of the indie band's song about class differences in the 1990s. Frontman Jarvis Cocker returns to St Martin's College, where he met the girl who became the inspiration for the track's heroine, while the band recall the single's success. With contributions from Sadie Frost, Vic Reeves, Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs

9pm & 12.35am The Art Of Drumming (Sky Arts)
Ep 3/4 A celebration of the style and showmanship of some of music's most iconic performers, including Cream's Ginger Baker and Deep Purple's Ian Paice

10pm & 3am Can You Feel it? - How Dance Music Conquered The World (BBC4)
Ep 2/3 The Club. The Club A celebration of the important cultural entertainment space of the last 30 years - the club, detailing how club culture went from shady Chicago lofts to desert casinos. This edition looks at the pioneering sound systems that powered the clubs that transitioned disco into house, and the multi-billion dollar business that is modern clubbing. Plus, New Order members Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner recall the New York trip that led to the birth of the Manchester dance mecca Hacienda

10.15pm New Order: Decades (Sky Arts)
Documentary following New Order's staging of their acclaimed collaboration So It Goes with the artist Liam Gillick during the Manchester International Festival 2017. Repeat from last week

11pm Country Queens at the BBC (BBC4)
Compilation

11.15pm Guth: Dusty Springfield (TG4)
The life of Mary O'Brien, who grew up in West Hampstead in north-west London to Irish and Scottish parents. She studied at a strict fee-paying Catholic school run by the Sisters of Charity, and later embarked on a successful pop career as singer Dusty Springfield. The programme documents her life in music, and how she became aware of her Irishness

Midnight Texas with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC1 Scotland)

12.05am Discovering Music - New Order (Sky Arts)

12.30am Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of The Top 10 (BBC4)

1.50am REM Road Movie (Sky Arts)
1995 Live Concert

3.45am Beat Beat Beat - The Yardbirds (Sky Arts)



Saturday
10am Trailblazers - Madchester (Sky Arts)

5pm Discovering Music - Tina Turner (Sky Arts)

5.25pm Joe Cocker - Mad Dog With Soul (Sky Arts)
Documentary charting the rise of the singer, a gas fitter playing in Sheffield pubs who was catapulted to stardom following a spectacular appearance at Woodstock in 1969

7pm Love Songs at the BBC (Yesterday)

7.10pm Muse Live At Rome Olympic Stadium 2013 (Sky Arts)

8pm Easy Listening Hits at the BBC (Yesterday)

9pm Exotic Pop at the BBC (Yesterday)

9pm Lenny Kravitz - Just Let Go Live (Sky Arts)
Concert film following Lenny Kravitz on his 2014 European tour

10pm Rolling Stones at the BBC (Yesterday)

11pm Later ... with Jools Holland (BBC2) New!
Featuring Jess Glynne, Idles, Soft Cell, King Princess and Ralph 'Tickle on The Tum' McTell. Extended version of Tuesday's show.

11.15pm The Art of Drumming (Sky Arts)
As Friday

11.40pm Top Of The Pops 1986 - May 8th (BBC4)
As Thursday

12.10am Top Of The Pops 1986 - May 22nd (BBC4)
As Friday

12.30am Video Killed The Radio Star - Paul Weller (Sky Arts)

12.40am Roots, Reggae, Rebellion (BBC4)
British rapper, poet and political commentator Akala tells the story of roots reggae, which emerged in the 1970s when Jamaican musicians brought the songs of Rastafari to the international stage



Sunday
10am Disney's Broadway Hits (Sky Arts)
John Barrowman hosts a celebration of Broadway shows produced by Disney, featuring songs from Beauty and the Beast, Aida, The Lion King and more. From London's Royal Albert Hall

7.30pm Pat Shortt's Music From D'Telly (RTE1)

9pm Deep Purple Live With Orchestra (Sky Arts)
The band play their classic hits with the accompaniment of a full symphony orchestra conducted by Stephen Bentley-Klein, in Montreux in 2011. I hope they played Smoke On The Water.

11.15pm Robert Plant & The Sensational Shape Shifters: Austin City Limits (Sky Arts)
The rock singer is joined by his band to perform songs from across his career, including Led Zeppelin classics The Lemon Song, Black Dog and Whole Lotta Love

1.30am Rock and Roll: Blood (Sky Arts)
Ep 6/10 A look at musical families and how blood is thicker than water in the world of rock and roll. Featuring Tegan and Sara, Ruth Pointer and Marky Ramone




And that's more or less that, quite a bit going on there hopefully there's something to interest you, the best film score which mentions the Illinois Law Enforcement Community of the Weekend just might be The Blues Brothers, which makes a welcome return to ITV4 (Saturday 9pm)

Ol' Donie

Love it. Best film ever. Haven't seen it in weeks.

That Raggae yokey late Sat night looks worth a go. Nice one as usual Skid.

I really enjoyed that Alan Lomax yoke last week. Would never have know about it if it weren't for this invaluable thread.

sligojoek

Fair play Skid. You may need to edit the opening paragraph. You say the Chas n Dave thing is in Thur but it's under Fri's listings.

Skid X

sligojoek wrote: »

Fair play Skid. You may need to edit the opening paragraph. You say the Chas n Dave thing is in Thur but it's under Fri's listings.

Thanks joe, changed now.

Welsh Megaman

Marti Pellow is on ‘The Ray D’Arcy Show’ tomorrow night!





Certain boardsies will have to be monitored...closely.

Ol' Donie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Marti Pellow is on ‘The Ray D’Arcy Show’ tomorrow night!





Certain boardsies will have to be monitored...closely.

:D:D

Welsh Megaman

Didn’t know ‘Rock Lobster’ was re-released in 1986!

Good call

Welsh Megaman

Billy Ocean, followed by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald!

Two giants slices of cheese, between two slices of cheese-filled bread.

On a cheeseboard.

Welsh Megaman

Snooker Loopy!

RIP Chas

Skid X

Were Spitting Image miming?

refusetolose

this pulp documentary on now is good

nomdeboardie

Great song, and the vid is a classic I thought an hour about it might be a bit much, but with background to the band and surrounding music history it's filling out nicely

[I finally have a reason to look in here now after getting BBC4 :cool:, though not the other one...feck off Sky Arts people :P

Thanks to Skid for the weekly listings posts! ]

Skid X

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Great song, and the vid is a classic I thought an hour about it might be a bit much, but with background to the band and surrounding music history it's filling out nicely

[I finally have a reason to look in here now after getting BBC4 :cool:, though not the other one...feck off Sky Arts people :P

Thanks to Skid for the weekly listings posts! ]

Cheers lad, sure sometimes you can find all sorts of Sky Arts shows on the Internet ... just saying!

neris

Has Paul oakenfold aged since the 90s although his eyes seem very sensitive to light in a closed record shop

dasdog

The Art of Drumming on Sky was excellent this week. Good Times Bad Times triplets even made an appearance but they did a decent hat tip to the jazz legends that drummers revere and rightly so.

Ep 2 of the dance show was okay. Never realised ESG were the first to perform at the Hacienda (a great post punk NY band). But it raced from the eighties to the modern era, completely focusing on 4/4 and no other forms. I totally lost interest in that style of electronic music 20 years ago. I still love experimental styles but David Guetta and superstar DJ's...do something different for gawds sake :pac:

Hotblack Desiato

nomdeboardie wrote: »

I finally have a reason to look in here now after getting BBC4 :cool:, though not the other one...feck off Sky Arts people :P

I'm paying a grand total of 0.00 inc VAT per month for Saorview and Freesat and on top of that there's still YouTube et al.

The Sky Arts stuff was either made elsewhere, or will show up elsewhere eventually. I'm content to play the long game.. .for content (see what I did there.)

nomdeboardie

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

I'm paying a grand total of 0.00 inc VAT per month for Saorview and Freesat and on top of that there's still YouTube et al.

The Sky Arts stuff was either made elsewhere, or will show up elsewhere eventually. I'm content to play the long game.. .for content (see what I did there.)

That's what I'm on...not really bothered that I don't have Sky Arts - the cursing of the priveleged was more tongue-in-cheek :pac:

Welsh Megaman

Just watched episode two of 'Can You Feel It' - really good.

I actually went to Cream a few times back in the day, nothing stronger than coffee in my system though.

Jordan 199

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Just watched episode two of 'Can You Feel It' - really good.

I actually went to Cream a few times back in the day, nothing stronger than coffee in my system though.

So you had cream with your coffee then

Skid X

Jools did indeed play an old clip of Ralph McTell doing Streets of London in the extended version tonight, which was good.

Here's a 30 minute show of "Hits a Go Go Special mit Ralph McTell" , a Swiss Television show from the early 70s

Quite entertaining.

Ol' Donie

Nile Rodgers watch: he seems to on that Sunday morning cooking yoke with Tim Lovejoy.