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

Ol' Donie

Finally watched Springsteen on Broadway on Netflix.

It was real good. Real good.

Especially if you like Bruce talking. If you like Bruce talking, Springsteen on Broadway is the show for you.

PsychoPete

I think this keyboard player for epica wants to be a bass player deep down

Skid X

Hello, there's lots of different stuff on this weekend. Plenty of variety, if you have those scottish channels you can enjoy TRNSMT 2019 which is the new version of T In The Park. New shows include Buddy Holly and The Crickets and Hardcore Punk ...




Thursday
5pm And The Beat Goes On - The Sonny and Cher Story (True Movies)
Biopic of the 1960s singing couple, charting their rise to fame and acrimonious divorce. Starring Renee Faia and Jay Underwood. "From the first scene in the club, until the last, on the 'David Letterman show' I was spellbound. in fact I argued with a friend of mine, who insisted that IT WAS NOT Cher in those scenes with Letterman, I was totally convinced that it was!" says Daveethomas on IMDB who gave it 10/10

7pm The Jazz Singer (True Movies)
Starring Neil Diamond. Considered by some to be so bad they made a podcast about it

7.30pm & Midnight Top Of The Pops 1988 - February 25 (BBC4)
Featuring the Primitives, Morrissey, Vanessa Paradis, Rick Astley, the Sisters of Mercy, Eddie Cochran, George Harrison, the Mission, Eddy Grant, Kylie Minogue and the Bangles

9pm Ring Of Fire (True Movies)
The June Carter Cash story, starring Jewel Kilcher

1.15am Discovering Guns N Roses (Sky Arts)
1.45am Video Killed The Radio Star - Guns N Roses (Sky Arts)




Friday
7pm Classic Albums: John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Sky Arts)
Documentary exploring the making of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon's first solo album. Featuring contributions by Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman and Jan Wenner

7.30pm & Midnight Top Of The Pops 1988 - March 3
Performances by Rick Astley, the Sisters of Mercy, Belinda Carlisle, Johnny Hates Jazz, Taja Sevelle, Aztec Camera, Erasure, Derek B, Kylie Minogue, and Mel and Kim

8pm & 12.30am Top Of The Pops 1987 - Big Hits
Performers include Rick Astley, Whitney Houston, T'Pau, Mel & Kim, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Eric B & Rakim, Pet Shop Boys, Alison Moyet and Boy George. Eric B and Derek B on BBC4 on the same night, what a time to be alive

8pm Discovering - Blur (Sky Arts)
8.30pm Video Killed The Radio Star - Oasis (Sky Arts)

9pm & 1.30am Classic Albums: The Crickets - The Chirping Crickets (BBC4) New!
The making of the debut album by the Crickets, and the only one featuring Buddy Holly released during his tragically brief career. Sadly, it doesn't feature 'I Fought The Law' which was written by Sonny Curtis who had the unenviable gig of replacing Buddy Holly https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006pbp

9pm Pulp: A Film About Life, Death And Supermarkets (Sky Arts)
Documentary following the band as they return to their Sheffield roots for their final concert in 2012. Featuring interviews with the group and residents of the city

9pm TRNSMT 2019 (BBC Alba)
An hour of highlights from the first day of Glasgow's TRNSMT festival


https://trnsmtfest.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04r9yt8/broadcasts/upcoming

10pm TRNMST 2019 (BBC Scotland)
And here's another two hours

10pm Roy Orbison - One Of The Lonely Ones (BBC4)
Biography of the singer and musician, casting new light on the triumphs and tragedies that beset his career, featuring performances and home movies
"He has a beautiful melodic voice that touches the emotions. If you want whiney and depressing there is Adele. " says 'disagree with Dave' on tvguide.co.uk . I do not disagree with disagree with Dave

10.45pm Manic Street Preachers - Escape From History (Sky Arts)
Documentary telling the story of the band's acclaimed 1996 album Everything Must Go, which was recorded in the wake of the disappearance of lyricist and guitarist Richey Edwards

11pm Roy Orbison And Friends: A Black And White Night (BBC4)
The musician performs his greatest hits, including Oh, Pretty Woman and Crying, in a concert first shown in 1988. Featuring Tom Waits and Bruce Springsteen and many others

11.35pm Film Matanga / Maya / M.I.A. (BBC2)
Film about the rapper which was also broadcast last weekend

12.25am The Cure: Trilogy Live in Berlin 2002 (Sky Arts)

1.45am Babymetal Live At Wembley (Sky Arts)
Apparently this was recorded in the SSE Arena, which used to be called Wembley Arena.

2.30am Indie Classics At The BBC (BBC4)
Archive performances from the 1980s and early '90s, including appearances by Joy Division, Depeche Mode, the Smiths, Cocteau Twins and Primal Scream




Saturday
4pm Classic Albums: John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Sky Arts)
5pm Classic Albums: Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell (Sky Arts)

6pm Breaking A Monster (Sky Arts)
Documentary charting the rise of New York heavy metal band Unlocking the Truth, from 12-year-old street performers to signing a multimillion-dollar record deal

7.40pm Iron Maiden: Somewhere Back In Time – Live (Sky Arts)
2008 Concert

8pm The Rolling Stones Live At The BBC (Yesterday)

8.50pm Sammy Davis Jnr – I’ve Gotta Be Me (PBS)

9pm The Godfathers Of Hardcore (Sky Arts) New!
Documentary looking at the lives and careers of Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma, whose band Agnostic Front was at the forefront of the New York hardcore punk scene

9pm TRNSMT (BBC Alba)
10pm TRNSMT (BBC Scotland)

10.55pm Elvis: The Rebirth Of The King (BBC4)
Documentary charting Elvis Presley's Las Vegas period, arguing that he reached his peak as both a singer and performer during his time in the gambling capital

11pm Iron Maiden Flight 666 (Sky Arts)
Documentary chronicling heavy-metal band Iron Maiden's 2008 Somewhere Back in Time world tour, featuring concert footage and behind-the-scenes interviews with the band

11.55pm Classic Albums: The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (BBC4)

12.55am Top Of The Pops 1988 - February 25 (BBC4)
1.25am Top Of The Pops 1988 – March 3 (BBC4)

1.15am-4am Download Festival (Sky Arts)




Sunday
9pm TRNSMT 2019 (BBC Scotland)

10.30pm Geantrai(TG4)
Music from Seán Óg's in Ballyshannon, featuring Claire and Stephen Gallagher, John Lee and Séamus Maguire, as well as Aoife Ní Fhearraigh. Lots of Moon related programming tonight because of the Apollo 11 anniversary

1.15am Download Festival 2019 (Sky Arts)

1.20am TOTP2 – Space (BBC4)
Steve Wright presents a '2001: A Space Oddity' special, featuring hits by artists such as David Bowie, Simply Red, The Carpenters and UFO

1.50am Our Classical Century 1918-1936 (BBC4)




The Apollo 11 anniversary this month also marks 50 years since David Bowie released Space Oddity, and BBC Radio 2 has a doc to mark that song (Saturday 9pm) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006tdr Seems like quite an extensive show, it should be available to listen back



Anyway, the The Best Use Of Raining Blood By Slayer To Empty A Field Of Hippies Of The Week might be in South Park (Comedy Central, Wednesday Night 3am)

They seem to be speaking Spanish in this clip, that's how powerful Slayer can be

Welsh Megaman

‘Crash’ by The Primitives - fine choonage

Welsh Megaman

Morrissey! :eek:

So...many...conflicting...emotions...

Welsh Megaman

PLAY ‘DIGNITY’ BY DEACON BLUE!!











After Miss Paradis

Conqueror

Anyone who watched that episode in 1988 thinking "That Eddie Cochran song is ancient" will probably be horrified to think a greater period of time has passed since that episode of TOTP aired.

Welsh Megaman

Welsh Megaman

Together Forever wid dew

Jordan 199

Dominion. Cracking tune. Iggy Pop plays it on Liberty Rock Radio in GTA IV :cool:

Welsh Megaman

A goth wearing white?!

Schurely schome mischtake!

Welsh Megaman

Roddy Hell! :cool:

‘How Men Are’ - classic

Gizmo55

Derek B. I've a mate called that.

Welsh Megaman

Skid X

Derek B's finest hour was as co-writer and producer of Liverpool's 1988 Number 3 smash Anfield Rap

John Aldridge explained in 2013: “We went down to the studios and tried to do all the singing and we were absolutely useless.

“Derek B had to stop us after half an hour and say, ‘Go down to the local pub and stay there for two or three hours.’ We had a good few hours in there and a good few pints and it loosened us up.”

..“The video was done in a nightclub – we were still there when it opened around 9 or 10pm,” Barnes says. “So we stayed, dressed as we were, and had a whale of a time with everyone else who was out. Thank God there were no mobile phones around then!”

https://www.planetfootball.com/nostalgia/john-barnes-pssed-recording-world-motion-anfield-rap/


Good retrospective of John Barnes' Rap career in that article.

Hopefully Glasto have him on in the legends slot next year

dasdog

I know Buddy Holly is highly regarded and he was a pioneer but whenever I hear him I can only be reminded of that Young Ones episode Oil* with Mike hammering away on a calculator working out how much money he's gonna make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyJfcG5v0BE

*Viv calling Mike "El Presidente" throughout the episode :pac:

Oscar Bravo

Roy Orbison and friends starting now on BBC 4. love this

Welsh Megaman

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Roy Orbison and friends starting now on BBC 4. love this

That Buddy Holly documentary was great too

Sardonicat

Conqueror wrote: »

Anyone who watched that episode in 1988 thinking "That Eddie Cochran song is ancient" will probably be horrified to think a greater period of time has passed since that episode of TOTP aired.

That post can go straight into "sh1t that makes you feel old"thread.

I'm a fossil.

On a side note, that performance by "The Primitives " was the inspiration for me to wear black gloves. All year round. For several years. Because I wasn't shrouded in enough black fabric already. At least the lack of sun exposure in my 'poser' years means I don't quite look like the fossil I am.

Skid X

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Roy Orbison and friends starting now on BBC 4. love this

I have that Roy Orbison Black and White Night DVD nearly worn out from repeated plays

It is epic. Hard to believe that Roy died a little over a year later, just as he had embarked on a new wave of creative and commercial success both solo and with the Travelling Wilburys

BandMember

Skid X wrote: »

I have that Roy Orbison Black and White Night DVD nearly worn out from repeated plays

It is epic. Hard to believe that Roy died a little over a year later, just as he had embarked on a new wave of creative and commercial success both solo and with the Travelling Wilburys

Yes, that was incredibly sad as he had just got another new audience and career comeback and it would have been interesting to hear where he would have went both as a solo artist and also where The Wilburys would have gone. End Of The Line video is both a fantastic yet heartbreaking video to watch....

What a voice though. We will never hear his like again.

P.S. Anyone ever heard "Sugar Man"? Probably my favourite song of his his as a kid. Loved the guitar playing on it, a lost classic riff IMHO. :cool:

Skid X

Hello, this weeks see a storm of space and moon shows taking up airtime, but BBC4 are looking after the kids with a night dedicated to Bros. What a time to be alive. Sky has Korn, Queen and Rush and other stuff too.




Bros Night!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/bros

10pm A Night In With Bros
Brothers Matt and Luke Goss look back on some of their most memorable moments in the band Bros, discussing what shows, music and films have inspired them

11.30pm Bros: After The Screaming Stops
A look at the era of Matt and Luke Goss's fame as pop stars in the 1980s, and the heartbreak that followed after their split, up until their reunion 28 years later (This is the 90 minute long thing which was on at Christmas)

1am Bros’s Matt Goss Introduces - Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All
Examination of the life and career of legendary entertainer Frank Sinatra. This first episode focuses on his birth to his early years as a roadhouse performer. This show gets repeated all the time, but this is the first time it has Matt Goss attached to it.

2am Bros’s Luke Goss Introduces – Robert Plant : By Myself
The singer discusses his varied musical career, including his time as frontman of rock band Led Zeppelin, as well as his collaboration with country singer Alison Krauss



The Rest:


Thursday
7.30pm & 12.40am Top Of The Pops 1988 – March 17 (BBC4)
Featuring performances by Bros, Heart, Erasure, Sinitta, Simon Harris, Keith Sweat, David Lee Roth, Eighth Wonder, Aswad, Kylie Minogue and Eric B & Rakim

12.45am Iron Maiden – Somewhere Back In Time Live (Sky Arts)
A collection of performances from the heavy-metal band's 2008 world tour, featuring Aces High, Powerslave, Revelations, Wasted Years, Fear of the Dark and Hallowed Be Thy Name

2am Iron Maiden Flight 666 Live (Sky Arts)
Documentary chronicling heavy-metal band Iron Maiden's 2008 Somewhere Back in Time world tour, featuring concert footage and behind-the-scenes interviews with the band




Friday
6pm Radio 1 Live Lounge – Bastille (BBC Red Button – Repeated on Loop)

7pm & 3am Classic Albums: Metallica – The Black Album (Sky Arts)


7.30pm & 3.10am Top Of the Pops 1988 – March 24 (BBC4)
Featuring performances by Sinitta, A-ha, Simon Harris, Wet Wet Wet, Debbie Gibson, Climie Fisher, Iron Maiden, Tiffany, Aswad and Whitney Houston

7.30pm First Night Of The Proms (BBC2), Continues 8.30pm BBC4
Dvorak

8pm TOTP2 2001 Space Oddity (BBC4)
Steve Wright presents a '2001: A Space Oddity' special, featuring hits by artists such as David Bowie, Simply Red, The Carpenters and UFO

8pm Video Killed The Radio Star – Metallica (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Discovering Jethro Tull (Sky Arts)

9pm Rush: Time Stand Still (Sky Arts)
Documentary about Canadian rock band Rush and their unique relationship with fans, set against the backdrop of the group's 40th anniversary tour in 2015

9.30pm TOTP2 Boy Bands (BBC4)
Compilation show celebrating the music of popular boy bands, including JLS, the Four Tops, the Monkees, Westlife, Village People and Blazin' Squad

10pm 13 Reasons Why - The Death Of Amy Winehouse (Channel 5)
The tragic demise of the singer-songwriter, who died aged 27 in July 2011 after being plagued by drug and alcohol addiction

11pm Black Sabbath – The End Of The End (Sky Arts)
Documentary charting the band's last gig, a sold-out home town performance on February 4, 2017, at Birmingham's 16,000-seat Genting Arena

1am The Godfathers Of HardCore (Sky Arts)
Documentary looking at the lives and careers of Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma, whose band Agnostic Front was at the forefront of the New York hardcore punk scene




Saturday
4pm Classic Albums : Frank Zappa – Apostrophe And Over-Nite Sensation (Sky Arts)

5pm Classic Albums: The Doors – The Doors (Sky Arts)

6pm Soundtracks: Songs The Defined History (Sky Arts)
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

6.50pm Lenny Kravitz – Just Let Go Live (Sky Arts)
2014 Concert

7pm-9pm TOTP2: The 60s (Yesterday)
The Foundations, Julie Driscoll, Sandie Shaw, Procol Harum, Tom Jones, Clodagh Rodgers, the Move, The Bee Gees, Lulu, the Kinks, the Walker Brothers and Don Partridge

9pm Korn: Loud Krazy Love () (Sky Arts) New!
A film about the life of Brian Welch of rock band Korn and how it changed when he walked away from a $23m record deal and vowed to kick his drug habit and become a good father

10.50pm Top Of The Pops 1988 – March 17 (BBC4)

10.55pm Black Sabbath – The End (Sky Arts)
2017 Final Concert

11.20pm Top Of The Pops 1988 – March 24 (BBC4)

11.50pm Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All (BBC4)
Possibly not featuring an introduction from someone from Bros

1.10am Rush – Time Machine Live in Cleveland (Sky Arts)
2011 Concert




Sunday
7pm BBC Proms A Bohemian Rhapsody (Not Queen) (BBC4)
Dvorák's Violin Concerto with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. That title is bit of a tease, BBC4. If you like Bros and Dvorak then BBC4 are spoiling you this weekend

7.05pm More Than This: The Story Of Roxy Music (Sky Arts)
Examining the background and influences of the rock group formed in 1971 by Bryan Ferry, and the band's return to the stage and studio in 2001

8pm Queen – A Night At The Opera (Sky Arts)
This one does feature Bohemian Rhapsody, honestly

9pm Queen – Hungarian Rhapsody (Sky Arts)
1986 Concert, the last one to feature Freddie Mercury

9.35pm Eric Clapton At The BBC (BBC4)
Compilation of Archive Performances

11pm Queen – The Magic Years (Sky Arts)
Documentary about the rock group's rise to fame and eventual superstardom, including profiles of the members who made the band a success

11pm MTV Live From Plymouth 2019 (MTV Rocks)
https://www.visitplymouth.co.uk/visitor-information/news/2019/5/2/complete-line-up-for-mtv-music-week-plymouth-2019-revealed-a3073

12.15am California Dreamin’ – The Songs Of The Mamas And The Papas (Sky Arts)

1.30am Fairport Convention – Folk Heroes (Sky Arts)

2.45am Classic Albums : Black Sabbath- Paranoid (Sky Arts)




Dan Hegarty on 2FM started a documentary show on Sunday Nights at 10pm about Classic Irish Albums featuring interviews with the people who made them.

"Whipping Boy’s Heartworm (1995) (this was on last week), Vulture Culture (2019) from Fangclub, Le Galaxie’s 2018 album Pleasure, 1988 by Lethal Dialect & JackKnife-J (2014), The Body Of Christ & Legs Of Tina Turner (2010) from Fight Like Apes, and The Blades 1985 classic Last Man In Europe. "

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2019/0711/1061538-selective-retrospective-dan-hegarty-revisits-great-irish-albums/

Available to listen back on the RTE Radio Player



And that's about that for this week. Some music shows with vaguely space themes listed above, which seems very lazy

Nice to see PBS America going against the grain with Saturn V - The Story (Saturday 2pm & 9.15pm), a long overdue look at The Inspiral Carpets' 1994 classic. Probably. Ahem.

Welsh Megaman

*looks at Skid’s post of TV listings*


No Craig Logan night.

Jordan 199

RUSH: Time Stand Still. Cracking tune off the 1987 album 'Hold Your Fire'.

sligojoek

I was going to come on last night after spotting a programme called "Men of Rock" on BBC 4. Turns out it was about life in the stone age.

BandMember

sligojoek wrote: »

I was going to come on last night after spotting a programme called "Men of Rock" on BBC 4. Turns out it was about life in the stone age.

Are you trying to insinuate that Skid would ever miss anything from his listings??? Shame on you!

Skid X

BandMember wrote: »

Are you trying to insinuate that Skid would ever miss anything from his listings??? Shame on you!

As always, if you have seen anything else in the schedules please let us know, and all that ...

Men Of Rock sounds like a great title for a music series though, it was wasted on the stonecutters

Say Your Number

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Finally watched Springsteen on Broadway on Netflix.

It was real good. Real good.

Especially if you like Bruce talking. If you like Bruce talking, Springsteen on Broadway is the show for you.

Watched it myself a while ago, Christ the man can talk alright, if I was paying what some people reported to have been paid I'd feel short changed, I'd love to see him do a show like that, where he does 25 odd songs and keeps the chat to a minimum.

nomdeboardie

Skid X wrote: »

... but BBC4 are looking after the kids with a night dedicated to Bros. What a time to be alive. ...

:pac::P:pac:

2am Bros’s Luke Goss Introduces – Robert Plant : By Myself
The singer discusses his varied musical career, including his time as frontman of rock band Led Zeppelin ...

After skimming the first bit of that I got stuck after the comma wondering "Luke Goss spent a while as frontman of Led Zeppelin...wha??...could that have happened briefly...wha?..." then "Oh... "

Welsh Megaman

The Bros weekend starts here