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

Jordan 199

That vid for Whitesnake 'Still of the Night' - well none of the musicians in it apart from Coverdale performed on the 1987 album.

Skid X

Ferry Aid is a good answer on Pointless if they ask about Bands who had a Number One in the Eighties.

Welsh Megaman

Ferry Aid, brought to you by those bastions of compassion, The Scum newspaper.

Skid X

Should have let Kate Bush sing the whole thing.

Skid X

Skid X wrote: »

Ferry Aid is a good answer on Pointless if they ask about Bands who had a Number One in the Eighties.

Anyone know what chart position this got to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KZl5G7G6gc

Everybody now, "Let's make it work...."

Skid X

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone know what chart position this got to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KZl5G7G6gc

Everybody now, "Let's make it work...."

Numero Uno !

http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement

Title: MAKE IT WORK
Artist: CHRISTY MOORE, PAUL DORAN AND THE SELF AID BAND
Label: WEA
Date of entry: 08.05.1986
Highest Placement: 1
Weeks in the Charts: 3

I remember Self Aid, people take the piss out of it but it was worth a try. Bugger all work to be found around here at the time.

Mike Litoris

Jaysus, that Ferry aid song hasn't aged well. I remember loving it at the time.

Jordan 199

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

And Tawny Kitaen.

She met an explosive end in 'Fool for your Loving'.

Also appeared in Married with Children.

Skid X

Skid X wrote: »

Numero Uno !

http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement

Title: MAKE IT WORK
Artist: CHRISTY MOORE, PAUL DORAN AND THE SELF AID BAND
Label: WEA
Date of entry: 08.05.1986
Highest Placement: 1
Weeks in the Charts: 3

I remember Self Aid, people take the piss out of it but it was worth a try. Bugger all work to be found around here at the time.

I remember watching it - a few friends went and do I regret not going now. Would have been nice to be there but from memory, early in the day, numbers were light on the ground. I think it only gathered momentum as the show progressed throughout the day on TV.

trashcan

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

They actually renamed themselves simply Curiousity when they retutned in the early 90’s!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6uWNJ3FHHM

Is it wrong to know this?

Probably

Welsh Megaman

Did Midge borrow from Marc Almond’s wardrobe?! :eek:

Welsh Megaman

Saint Julian

AndrewJRenko

Has somebody replaced the TOTP 1981 Big Hits with that weird Mini Pops show that had little kids signing adult songs?

Depeche Mode and Altered Images look like very awk teenagers (though I still admit a crush on Claire Grogan)

Gizmo55

Blimey, they sold Beats for 3 billion apparently. I'm not a fan of them. Bowers & Wilkins all the way!

Hotblack Desiato

Mike Litoris wrote: »

FYC....awesome!

Terrible shame the brilliant The Beat had to die to allow FYC (and the little-known General Public) to be born.

Skid X wrote: »

Ferry Aid is a good answer on Pointless if they ask about Bands who had a Number One in the Eighties.

Didn't think Bryan would ever be stuck for a few quid.

And who the f**k is Paul Doran?

Skid X wrote: »

I remember Self Aid, people take the piss out of it but it was worth a try. Bugger all work to be found around here at the time.

It was godawful. Only memorable for Bono saying "f*ck" live on RTE, but Geldof had done that a good ten years earlier...

Claire Grogan tho

Got to watch The Doobie Brothers documentary last weekend- like the band itself, the documentary just kept going and going and going- over two hours, phew.

Great bunch of lads so they are. Very interesting.

sligojoek

Jordan 199 wrote: »

That vid for Whitesnake 'Still of the Night' - well none of the musicians in it apart from Coverdale performed on the 1987 album.

Interviewer: How did you féel when you saw whitesnake playing Here I go again on MTV.

Bernie Marsden: Whitesnake? You mean David and some Americans?

Jordan 199

sligojoek wrote: »

Interviewer: How did you féel when you saw whitesnake playing Here I go again on MTV.

Bernie Marsden: Whitesnake? You mean David and some Americans?

I prefer the bluesy Whitesnake that Marsden was in.

As for the band around the late 80's, you had a bass player from Cuba, two guitar players (one from the north and one from The Netherlands) an American and an Englishman.

sligojoek

Bernie Marsden and Mickey Moody together were magic.

I'm hoping to see Bernie this summer in Ballyshannon.

Skid X

Bowie on BBC2 now

Repeated next Thursday night if you miss it

Skid X

Some great archive clips in this Bowie Doc. I didn't realise quite how varied his early work was. Good interviews with people he worked with.

nomdeboardie

"It was a man's dress"
"We all wore dresses at that time" :pac:

nomdeboardie

He may have found the Hartley interview maddening, but just imagine if it had been the DLB :pac:

*LLS-crossover reference - apolologies*

nomdeboardie

Ah, Hammersmith, I remember it well, from 3 rows back







...not

Skid X

"What did he say? ... has he sacked us? ... I know I'm not the only Spider From Mars who has serious car loan repayments to make ... David?"


Thursday BBC2

11.15pm David Bowie: Finding Fame (this one)
12.45am - 2.15am David Bowie: The Last Five Years

Lovely stuff. They should dig out the first Five Years Doc from 2013 too

Ol' Donie

Watching this Dr Dre yoke here.

It's very interesting, but jesus, whatever the opposite warts and all is, that's what this is.

Ol' Donie

And then, there was some other triple A artist, and that was hard, but it was so great.

I've never seen anything that involved my main man Bruce, that felt a bit insincere, but this is a bit like that.

Ol' Donie

And while I'm at it, Because The Night is a rubbish song. I'm glad it helped Bruce succeed, but it's dreadful.

Matter of taste, of course. But it is.

Ol' Donie

Alright, I've had a few, but this seems to be saying F*ck The Police is rooted in an unfortunate paintball gun incident.

AndrewJRenko

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

It was godawful. Only memorable for Bono saying "f*ck" live on RTE, but Geldof had done that a good ten years earlier...

I dunno about that. I worked the gig and was near the stage for most of the day. The early part of the day had a great line-up of great Irish bands who really didn't get play together ever, if at all.


Highlights for me were:


Auto Da Fé
Blue in Heaven
Cactus World News
The Fountainhead
In Tua Nua
Moving Hearts
The Pogues




Along with big names like
Van Morrison
Thin Lizzy
Elvis Costello
Rory Gallagher
U2


The idea behind the gig was fairly dodgy, but still good music.