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

Welsh Megaman

Cliffy Biro on Sky Arts right now!

MON THE BIFFY!

Welsh Megaman

‘Bubbles’ - still sounds amazing.

brian_t

Following the success of last year’s documentary After The Screaming Stops, a new BBC Four takeover called A Night In With Bros was announced on Wednesday and will see the brothers curate an evening of entertainment on the channel for one night in July.

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/entertainment/tv/bros-brothers-matt-and-luke-goss-to-takeover-bbc-4-for-one-night-only-with-musical-journey/ar-AAD6VbY

Welsh Megaman

brian_t wrote: »

Following the success of last year’s documentary After The Screaming Stops, a new BBC Four takeover called A Night In With Bros was announced on Wednesday and will see the brothers curate an evening of entertainment on the channel for one night in July.

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/entertainment/tv/bros-brothers-matt-and-luke-goss-to-takeover-bbc-4-for-one-night-only-with-musical-journey/ar-AAD6VbY

Here’s hoping Matt and Luke reminisce about the time they were supported at Wembley by...Frank Sidebottom


Frank was asked to support the boy band Bros at Wembley. There were 50,000 people in the crowd. This was a huge stage for Frank – his biggest ever, by about 49,500 people. It was his chance to break through to the mainstream. But instead he chose to perform a series of terrible Bros cover versions for five minutes and was bottled off. The show's promoter, Harvey Goldsmith, was glaring at him from the wings. Frank sauntered over to him and said, "I'm thinking of putting on a gig at the Timperley Labour Club. Do you have any tips?"

Skid X

brian_t wrote: »

Following the success of last year’s documentary After The Screaming Stops, a new BBC Four takeover called A Night In With Bros was announced on Wednesday and will see the brothers curate an evening of entertainment on the channel for one night in July.

Ha, I did not see the BBC Four / Bros love in coming

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Here’s hoping Matt and Luke reminisce about the time they were supported at Wembley by...Frank Sidebottom


Frank was asked to support the boy band Bros at Wembley. There were 50,000 people in the crowd. This was a huge stage for Frank – his biggest ever, by about 49,500 people. It was his chance to break through to the mainstream. But instead he chose to perform a series of terrible Bros cover versions for five minutes and was bottled off. The show's promoter, Harvey Goldsmith, was glaring at him from the wings. Frank sauntered over to him and said, "I'm thinking of putting on a gig at the Timperley Labour Club. Do you have any tips?"

:pac: No way! And coincidentally or otherwise the splendid Being Frank film documentary is on Sky Arts this weekend. Well worth a look. There's actually a few new shows this weekend, Grace Jones and Noel Gallagher pop up on BBC2 and if you want a bit of Sean Nós for your lunchtime then you are in luck

Any amount of Isle of Wight repeats and some Glastonbury preludes for the 2019 version, which is coming up next weekend ...






Thursday
10am Trailblazers - Two Tone (Sky Arts)

4pm Trailblazers - Funk (Sky Arts)

12.15am California Dreamin' - The Songs Of The Mamas And The Papas (Sky Arts)
Documentary charting the success of the Californian pop group, featuring performance and archive footage, and interviews with band members, including Mama Cass

1.30am Rock And Roll - Poetry (Sky Arts)
Joni Mitchell, Chuck D and Pete Doherty are among those reflecting on how lyrics became the poetry of the modern age, featuring words bursting with emotions

3am The South Bank Show Originals - Dr John (Sky Arts)
Melvyn Bragg looks back on his meeting with New Orleans blues legend Malcolm 'Dr John' Rebennack for an episode of The South Bank Show in 2001




Friday
10am Trailblazers - Funk (Sky Arts)

12.45pm Sean-Nós (TG4) New!
Ep 1/20 Síle Denvir presents the show featuring artists and chat, beginning with Sláine Ní Chathalláin from An Coimín in Corca Dhuibhne giving her thoughts and performing

4pm Trailblazers - Punk (Sky Arts)

7.30pm & 12.30am Top Of The Pops 1988 - January 14 (BBC4)
Performances by Climie Fisher, Tiffany, Krush, Morris Minor and the Majors, the Christians, AC/DC, Terence Trent D'Arby, Belinda Carlisle and George Michael

8pm Elvis: That's Alright Mama 60 Years On (BBC4)
A musical tribute to Elvis Presley, originally broadcast 60 years after the singer recorded his first single That's All Right in Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee

9pm I Can Go For That - The Smooth Sound Of Yacht Rock (BBC4)
Part two of two. Katie Puckrik receals the '80s era when artists like Toto, Hall & Oates and George Benson created a technicolour second wave of a super smooth sound

9pm Isle Of Wight Festival 2019 Highlights (Sky Arts)

9pm Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney - Live From Liverpool (Sky One)
I think it's good

10pm Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (Sky Arts) New!
Steve Sullivan's documentary explores the life and career of musician and comedian Chris Sievey, who found relative fame wearing the papier-mache head of alter ego Frank Sidebottom

10pm Top Of The Pops 1980 Big Hits (BBC4)
Performances from the show during 1980, including appearances by Madness, Pretenders, Dexys Midnight Runners, Adam Ant, the Piranhas, Hot Chocolate, OMD, Motorhead and the Beat

11pm Punk Britannia At The BBC (BBC4)
Archive performances by British punk bands, including Dr Feelgood, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Gang of Four, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Buzzcocks, the Damned and Joy Division

Midnight Bunch Of Kunst: A Film About Sleaford Mods (Sky Arts)
A profile of the Nottingham electronic punk music duo, following Jason Williamson, Andrew Fearn and their manager Steve Underwood as they rise from obscurity to chart success

12.10am The Windmill Lane Sessions (TG4)
with Paul Brady, Bairbre Anne and Gavin Glass

2am Video Killed The Radio Star - Oasis (Sky Arts)

2.30am Rock And Roll - Sweat (Sky Arts)
Nile Rodgers, Sly and Robbie and the late David Bowie are among the artists reflecting on music's unique power to make us stand up and dance




Saturday
2pm The Hollies - Look Through Any Window (Sky Arts)
Profile of the band, including an interview with members Graham Nash, Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks and Bobby Elliott and archive TV performances by the group from 1963 to 1975

4.30pm Carole King - Tapestry Live From Hyde Park (Sky Arts)

5.45pm Paul Simon Live From Hyde Park (Sky Arts)

7pm TOTP2 - The 60s (BBC4)
featuring Clodagh Rodgers, the Move, Tom Jones and the Bee Gees. Narrated by Mark Radcliffe

7pm BST Hyde Park Highlights 2017 (Sky Arts)
Includes The Killers, Kings of Leon, Phil Collins, Green Day, Justin Bieber and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

7.30pm BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Final (BBC4)
The heats were on earlier in the week too

7.40pm The Hit List (BBC1)
Song Guessing Game Show

9pm Isle Of Wight Festival 2019 Highlights (Sky Arts)

10pm Glastonbury's Greatest Headliners (BBC2)
Edith Bowman narrates this A to Z of Pyramid Stage highlights from the Glastonbury festival, plus interviews with Damon Albarn, Liam Gallagher, Jarvis Cocker and the Eavis family. This clashes with another Glasto show on Sky ...

10pm Lost In Vagueness (Sky Arts)
The story of Glastonbury's former anarchic after-hours party area Lost Vagueness, featuring contributions by Fatboy Slim, Suggs, Keith Allen and Kate Tempest

10.10pm Opry An Iúir (TG4)
Daniel O'Donnell hosts the country music show from the Town Hall in Newry, Co Down, featuring Garryhill's Derek Ryan, Eleanor McEvoy and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

10.35pm For One Night Only - Rod Stewart (VM1)
Looks like a 2004 concert

11pm Cuirm At Celtic - Moving Hearts (BBC Alba)

11.30pm Grance Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (BBC2) New!
Documentary profile of singer Grace Jones, following her in the recording studio, backstage and at home in Jamaica, interspersed with live concert performances. Previously on Netflix, I don't think it has been on Television before. Partially filmed in Dublin

11.50pm Queen - Live At Wembley 1986 (Sky Arts)

1.10am Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (Sky Arts)

3am Trailblazers - Disco




Sunday
4pm Judy, Dean and Frank: Once In A Lifetime (Sky Arts)
Judy Garland, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra perform a selection of Talking Heads hits in this 1962 TV Special

7pm The Killers Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2009 (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Pat Shortt's Music From D'Telly (RTE1)
Featuring an infamous 1987 report on Dublin's nightclub scene, and performances by Mary Black, Hal Ketchum, Brendan O'Dowda, Don McLean, Pat Kenny and the Mavericks

9pm Isle Of Wight Festival 2019 (Sky Arts)
They will milk this dry

10pm Oasis Live By The Sea (Sky Arts)
1995 Concert

10.10pm Tradfest TG4 (TG4)
Doireann Ní Ghlacáin meets with well-established Scottish band Blazin' Fiddles who play upbeat regional music from the Scottish Highlands and islands

11.10pm Ceolchuairt - Argentina (TG4)
Sean nós dancer Máire Áine Ní Larnáin visits Argentina, where she performs with gauchos and native Indians, and enjoys learning the country's famous Tango

11.15pm Reel Stories - Noel Gallagher (BBC2NI, 10.30pm in other BBC2 Nations) New!
Dermot O'Leary chats to the singer about famous moments from his career, from Oasis' earliest TV appearances in the 1990s to his current career with High Flying Birds

11.45pm Discovering - The Smiths (Sky Arts)

11.15pm Video Killed The Radio Star - Oasis (Sky Arts)

12.15am Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (Sky Arts)
As Friday

2.15am The Rolling Stones - Stripped (Sky Arts)
Documentary about the making of the band's 1995 album Stripped, featuring interviews, live performances and rehearsal footage




Should you be reading this on Wednesday before 9pm then you can catch The Blues Brothers on ITV4 again. Sure why not?


I saw this linked on the RTE site this week, a selection of old RTE videos featuring Rory Gallagher

https://www.rte.ie/archives/profiles/gallagher-rory/

Includes a video about a 2006 National Museum of Ireland exhibition of 75 years of The Electric Guitar.


Finally, the 1982 Epic Gandhi is on RTE1 this weekend (Saturday 1.15pm) It did alright, won 8 Oscars and lots of other awards but it surely would have been much better if Dickie Attenborough had not bizarrely overlooked Stanley Rogers' epic version of the theme tune. Not the only time it happened to Stanley in his career, of course.

corkie

^^^ Something of with formatting of the above, preventing text from wrapping on PC browsers.

Solved with reader mode.

Ol' Donie

Blues Bros on ITV4 now.

And there was an ad with that '74-'75 song (The Connells?) that I seem to remember was on in between every other two songs on MTV for a while in the late 90s.

Can you guess what the ad was for?

Welsh Megaman

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Blues Bros on ITV4 now.

And there was an ad with that '74-'75 song (The Connells?) that I seem to remember was on in between every other two songs on MTV for a while in the late 90s.

Can you guess what the ad was for?

You could make a whole film about the filming of ‘The Blues Brothers’ itself - John Belushi going AWOL during the destruction of the shopping mall scene (found asleep in a random house in a nearby neighbourhood - after fixing himself a sandwich), getting in a punch-up with John Landis in his trailer after his coke dealer failed to show up, having to get special permission for a helicopter to drop the Nazi car over Chicago docks...the list goes on.


Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips!

Skid X

corkie wrote: »

^^^ Something of with formatting of the above, preventing text from wrapping on PC browsers.

Solved with reader mode.

Thanks, I think it's fixed now

Maybe.

nomdeboardie

Great job, as usual, with the Wedensday list, Skid
Not sure about the BBC4 10pm and 11pm items for tonight (which I was thinking of having a look at) - listings on BBC and entertainment.ie seem to show "BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019" from 10-12 (maybe WMM hacked the Beeb :pac:)

Skid X

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Great job, as usual, with the Wedensday list, Skid
Not sure about the BBC4 10pm and 11pm items for tonight (which I was thinking of having a look at) - listings on BBC and entertainment.ie seem to show "BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019" from 10-12 (maybe WMM hacked the Beeb :pac:)

Ah, that's a pity. Looks like a schedule change. Or an error in the site I use.

Or maybe I dreamt it.

Someone has a Youtube playlist of Punk Britannia at the BBC here

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD772D4AFBFBA406D

Welsh Megaman

Simon Climie or Rob Fisher?


Somebody add a thread poll!

Skid X

Skid X

If Fairytale Of New York had started off with 'I Know You're Going To Dig This', it might have added enough sales to get the Christmas Number One.

Edit: I know that's easy to say in hindsight.

Jordan 199

Motley Crue :cool:

Welsh Megaman

Oh god, they’re back

Welsh Megaman

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Motley Crue :cool:

Charting higher than Bros

Welsh Megaman

H E A T S E E K E R


:cool:

Jordan 199

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

H E A T S E E K E R

:cool:

Simon Wright from Manchester on drums. Went on to work with the excellent Ronnie James Dio.

Welsh Megaman

Father Figure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Zmy5JZ0PI

Welsh Megaman

I guess Lorraine’s down in Africa

Welsh Megaman

‘Sweet Freedom’ by Michael McDonald!

AH YEAH!

Skid X

"Changes to the schedule now" says well spoken continuity lady on BBC4

Welsh Megaman

Don’t forget the Frank Sidebottom documentary on Sky Arts right now!

Absolutely hilarious

You know it is...it really is.

Welsh Megaman

Liam Gallagher...the first Glastonbury headliner to be dressed in Marks And Spencer...rock ‘n’ roll

Welsh Megaman

RIP Keith Flint

Welsh Megaman

Oh, and did I mention I was at Glastonbury 2000? :cool:

nomdeboardie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

RIP Keith Flint

Never seen him 'out of characher' (outside performance) before - poignant

Welsh Megaman

Jay-Z performing ‘Wonderwall’

nomdeboardie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Jay-Z performing ‘Wonderwall’

Was that as a mark of 'respect':pac: for Mr Gallagher?