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

Gen.Zhukov

sligojoek wrote: »

I had an RD 350 at the time. It was very hard to keep the front wheel on the ground.

They were a cracking bike.
Ever try the KH 250/400/750 ? They were basically uni-cycles.
2 stroke + 3 cyls * mad young fella = Insanity (and possibly death)

sligojoek

I had a spin on a 750 "Kettle" once. A frightening experience. Unbelievable acceleration coupled with bad handling and brakes.

Welsh Megaman

‘Irish Rock At The BBC’ on BBC Four right now.

Good ole Ash

Remember the hidden track on ‘1977’, which was just the band throwing up?

Welsh Megaman

Love ‘Fin De Siecle’ by The Divine Comedy

Skid X

Series 2 of 'Urban Myths' begins on Sky Arts on April 12th

This is a series of one off comedy dramas based on bizarre events and unlikely meetings involving stars of Hollywood, music, arts and literature.

That's a bit of a mouthful but some of the shows in Series 1 were good, and I mention it here as most of the episodes in this run are vaguely music related, namely


Ep2 Backstage at Live Aid

Ep3 Johnny Cash and The Ostrich

Ep4 The Dali and The Cooper [Salvidor Dali's time hanging with Alice Cooper]

Ep5 David Bowie and Marc Bolan

Ep7 Public Enemy

Ep8 The Sex Pistols v Bill Grundy


https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/3002/sky_arts_urban_myths_2018/

More news of these nearer the transmission date

Snake Plisken

Skid X wrote: »

Series 2 of 'Urban Myths' begins on Sky Arts on April 12th

This is a series of one off comedy dramas based on bizarre events and unlikely meetings involving stars of Hollywood, music, arts and literature.

That's a bit of a mouthful but some of the shows in Series 1 were good, and I mention it here as most of the episodes in this run are vaguely music related, namely


Ep2 Backstage at Live Aid

Ep3 Johnny Cash and The Ostrich

Ep4 The Dali and The Cooper [Salvidor Dali's time hanging with Alice Cooper]

Ep5 David Bowie and Marc Bolan

Ep7 Public Enemy

Ep8 The Sex Pistols v Bill Grundy


https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/3002/sky_arts_urban_myths_2018/

More news of these nearer the transmission date

Ah the series where one episode that got all the usual “must be offended by everything” crowd So mad because Joseph Fiennes was playing Michael Jackson, it got pulled and we will never got to see it.

Skid X

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Ah the series where one episode that got all the usual “must be offended by everything” crowd So mad because Joseph Fiennes was playing Michael Jackson, it got pulled and we will never got to see it.

Yeah that's the one. Disappointing that Sky caved in so quickly on the Michael Jackson episode.

AndrewJRenko

Fans of folk/trad/Americana might like to check this out on TG4 tonight at 10pm - first episode was pretty sweet, with Alison Moorer, Eddi Reader, Rosanne Cash, James Taylor, Donal Lunny, Mike McGoldrick and many more appearing in big jam sessions;

Transatlantic Sessions - Togha agus RoghaSRAITH 1, EIPEASÓID 2
Sraith nuálach ceoil ina léireofar an chuid is fearr den cheol agus den amhránaíocht Americana agus Cheilteach. Faoi stiúir Jerry Douglas ó Nashville agus faoi stiúir an fhidléara Aly Bain ó Shealtainn, cuirfidh scothcheoltóirí an bhanna tí fáilte chroíúil roimh na haíonna speisialta chuig na Garbhchríocha, i bhfad ón mbrú agus ón repertoire a bhaineann leis an stáitse de ghnáth. Beidh Dirk Powell, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck agus James Taylor i measc cheoltóirí an chláir seo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMOgKehRaV0

Welsh Megaman

Sabbath live on Sky Arts!

All hail Tony Iommi, Iron Man!

Welsh Megaman

N.I.B. :cool:

Welsh Megaman

Lucky enough to catch Sabbath in 2013 - Tommy Clutefos doing an excellent job behind the drum stool.

Welsh Megaman

Ozzy gone to get some oxygen and a jumpstart

Gen.Zhukov

They never lost it.

Welsh Megaman

Who would have thought that losing some of your fingers in a factory accident would invent an entire genre?

Welsh Megaman

Glenn Danzig may have heard this song.

Gen.Zhukov

I saw that(one of) interview about the fingers. It's amazing that he carried on playing. Fair ***ks to to him.

sligojoek

Not sure if this is the place for it. But here goes anyway

The death was announced, today, of American born singer songwriter, Thom Moore. He suffered a stroke a few years ago and never recovered. He was a member of Pumpkin Head and Midnight Well. He went solo after that. He'd been living in Sligo for the last 20 to 30 years. I was lucky enough to see him performing with Seamie O Dowd and Rick Epping several times in Barry's of Grange and Shoot the Crows in Sligo town. Always a gent to speak to after a show.

RIP Thom.

Carolina Rua covered by Seamie O dowd

Skid X

Hello, lets have a look at whats coming up this weekend(ish). Not really anything new, alas. It's repeatorama with Black Sabbath, Queen, Fleetwood Mac and other well aired shows. Still, exciting news for Eisteddfod fans and there is a Liam o'Flynn repeat/tribute down at the end ...



Wednesday Night
9pm Siar An Bothar (TG4)
Special show featuring sequences from the 1991 Irish music documentary, Bringing It All Back Home. Includes music by Jackie Daly, Sharon Shannon and Frankie Gavin

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 Shane MacGowan: A Wreck Reborn (Sky Arts)

2am Saxon At Wacken 2014 (Sky Arts)



Thursday
6am Madness Live At Eden (BBC Red Button, repeated most of weekend)

10.30am Video Killed The Radio Star = Billy Joel (Sky Arts)

12pm Soundbreaking Ep8/8 How We Listen (Sky Arts)

3.30pm Video Killed The Radio Star - Tina Turner (Sky Arts)

5.30pm Elvis Presley - A Legend In Concert (Sky Arts)
A collection of the star's early TV appearances, featuring hits including Tutti Frutti, Love Me and Blue Suede Shoes, as well as a duet with Frank Sinatra. The programme also includes footage from his 1956 performance on The Milton Berle Show, where his pelvic gyrations caused uproar, and an appearance from later that year on The Steve Allen Show - where the host came up with a unique solution to counteract the singer's supposedly threatening sexuality

7.30pm & 12.15am Top Of The Pops 1985 - July 4th (BBC4)
Simon Bates and Richard Skinner present the July 4 edition, featuring Tears for Fears, Simply Red, Dead or Alive, Fine Young Cannibals and the Damned https://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=78332&seasonid=655748&id=5857973&lid=7

11.05pm Other Voices (RTE2)
Music by Loyle Carner, Aine Cahill and Tom Adams, as well as Rosborough in the Other Room. Presented by Annie Mac, Huw Stephens and May Kay

2am Close To You: Remembering The Carpenters (Sky Arts)
Revealing portrait of the brother-and-sister duo who became one of the most successful pop acts of the 1970s, with songs including Yesterday Once More and Top of the World, before their career was cut short by Karen Carpenter's death in 1983 at the age of 32

2.20am Sounds Of The Seventies (Yesterday)
America's punk and new wave era in the 1970s, featuring acts including Alice Cooper, the New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, the Ramones and Bruce Springsteen

3.45am Sounds Of The Seventies (BBC4)
Archive clips featuring T.Rex performing Hot Love, Mott the Hoople with Roll Away the Stone, Alvin Stardust singing Jealous Mind and Suzi Quatro rocking out with Devil Gate Drive. Followed by a performance by The Faces of their breakthrough UK hit Stay with Me



Friday
10.30am Video Killed The Radio Star - Tina Turner (Sky Arts)

12pm The 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

3.30pm Video Killed the Radio Star - Tom Petty (Sky Arts)

6pm Pavarotti: A Voice For The Ages (Sky Arts)
A look back at some of Luciano Pavarotti's finest moments on stage, including performances of Nessun Dorma and other arias from La Boheme, Rigoletto and Aida. Also featured is Donna non Vidi Mai, dedicated in her presence to Diana, Princess of Wales, in London's Hyde Park, audience favourites O Sole Mio and Torna a Surriento, as well as duets with Bono, Sting and Eric Clapton

7.30pm & 11.30pm Top Of The Pops 1985 - July 11th (BBC4)
John Peel and Janice Long introduce performances by the Conway Brothers, Eurythmics, Opus, Bruce Springsteen, Mai Tai and Steve Arrington. First aired July 11 1985 https://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=78332&seasonid=655748&id=5857974&lid=7

8pm & 3am Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop (BBC4)
Documentary looking back over the band's long career, from the early blues outfit led by Peter Green in the late 1960s, to their reincarnation in the 1970s with the line-up that went on to record the 40-million-selling album Rumours. Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reveal the truth behind the successes, failures and relationships that have characterised their music and made them one of the most enduring acts in popular music

9pm & 1am Better Than The Original: The Joy Of The Cover Version (BBC4)
The role of the cover in the pop industry, investigating what it takes to reinvent someone else's hit and following the stories behind 10 cover songs, tracking how artists as varied as the Moody Blues, Soft Cell, Puff Daddy and Alexandra Burke have topped the charts with their retake on someone else's song. Contributors include John Cale, Gloria Jones, Marc Almond, Rick Rubin, Faith Evans and Nerina Pallot. Narrated by Meera Syal

10pm Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years Of The Top 10 (BBC4)
The evolution of feelings and attitudes toward the British singles chart. Documenting changes from the 1952 NME countdown via Pick and Top of the Pops through to the Radio 1 chart show of today. With contributions from chart show presenters David Jacobs and Reggie Yates, music fans Grace Dent and Pete Paphides and veteran musicians Jon Webster and Rob Dickins

11pm Classic Quadrophenia (Sky Arts)
From London's Royal Albert Hall, Pete Townshend, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Robert Ziegler and a host of guests, including Alfie Boe, put a classical spin on the Who's 1973 album Quadrophenia

Midnight Ultimate Covers At The BBC (BBC4)
The pop cover has proved a remarkably imaginative and durable form, and this 60-year compilation tracks this pop alchemy at its finest and most intriguing through material sought from the Corporation's archive. Footage includes artists as diverse as the Moody Blues, Soft Cell, Alexandra Burke, Mariah Carey and UB40 scoring chart hits that are, in some cases, perhaps even better than the original

12.35am Black Sabbath: The End (Sky Arts)
The rock band's last gig, a sold-out home town performance on February 4, 2017, at Birmingham's 16,000-seat Genting Arena

12.45am Other Voices (RTE2)

12.20am The Windmill Lane Sessions (TG4)
Music performances filmed at the Windmill Lane Recording Studios in Dublin, continuing with Paul Brady, Bairbre Anne and Gavin Glass

2am Guitar Heroes At The BBC (BBC4)
Archive footage of guitarists taken from BBC music shows of the 1970s. Includes electric performances by Carlos Santana, Mark Knopfler, Peter Green and the Edge, and acoustic material by John Martyn, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and Paco Pena



Saturday
11.30am Soundbreaking Ep6/8 The World Is Yours (Sky Arts)

12.30pm Soundbreaking Ep 7/8 Sound and Vision (Sky Arts)

7pm Sound Of The Sixties (Yesterday)
In Living Colour The late 1960s saw the first regular transmission of colour television, and the music world followed the trend with the launch of BBC television show Colour Me Pop. This episode features some of the programme's highlights, including performances by the Who, the Kinks, the Small Faces, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and the Jimi Hendrix Experience

7.30pm Sounds Of The Sixties (Yesterday)
1968-69 - The Progressive Tendency Celebration of the supergroups and guitar heroes to emerge toward the end of the decade, including Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Jimi Hendrix

8pm Sounds Of The Seventies (Yesterday)
Smash It Up Punk and new wave music, including vintage sessions by the Clash, Joy Division, the Buzzcocks, X-Ray Spex, the Damned and the Undertones

8.30pm Sounds Of The Seventies (Yesterday)
The Boy Looked at Johnny America's punk and new wave era in the 1970s, featuring acts including Alice Cooper, the New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, the Ramones and Bruce Springsteen


Queen Night Sky Arts !!
9pm Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (Sky Arts)
Profile of the Queen frontman, exploring his time away from the band - including a collaboration with Michael Jackson and the triumphant Barcelona duet with Montserrat Caballe. The programme also examines his life as a gay man who was not yet publicly out. Featuring archive footage and interviews with bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor, as well as friends and admirers including Paul Gambaccini, Montserrat Caballe and Matt Lucas

10.45pm Queen - Live At Wembley (Sky Arts)
A performance by the band recorded on their 1986 Magic tour, when they were riding the crest of a wave following their triumphant Live Aid performance at the same venue the year before. Including renditions of classic hits Bohemian Rhapsody, I Want to Break Free, We Will Rock You and Radio Ga Ga

Midnight Queen - The Phenomenon (Sky Arts)
Profile of the rock group, combining archive interviews with performance footage, from their beginnings in the 1970s to the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1991



9pm TOTP2: School Days (Yesterday)
Mark Radcliffe introduces a selection of archive performances to get viewers in the mood for going back to school, featuring the Jackson 5, Alice Cooper, Busted, the cast of Grange Hill and St Winifred's School Choir

9.45pm Eisteddfod 2015: Seiniau Seiniau'r Sgrin (S4C)
A concert celebrating classic film and TV music, as John Quirk's Orchestra are joined by John Owen-Jones, CF1 Choir, Luke McCall and Rhian Lois

10pm TOTP2 Summertime Special (Yesterday)
A red-hot selection of summer sounds, featuring songs by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, the Undertones, Shaggy, Bananarama, Bobby Goldsboro, Bay City Rollers, Fun Boy Three, the Style Council and Don Henley. Other archive sizzlers include DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, the Sundays, Sabrina, Chris Rea, the Barracudas, Zoe, Martha and the Muffins, Bryan Adams, Girls Aloud and ELO

10.30pm Top Of The Pops 1985 - July 4th (BBC4)

11pm Top Of The Pops 1985 - July 11th (BBC4)

11.30pm Blues at the BBC (BBC4)
Archive footage of blues performances from the past 50 years. Featuring famous songs by Son House, the Kinks, BB King, John Lee Hooker and Eric Clapton, plus lesser-known tracks by Freddie King, Delaney & Bonnie and Long John Baldry that were originally recorded for shows including The Beat Room, The Old Grey Whistle Test and The Late Show

12.30am Ballrooms and Ballerinas: Dance at the BBC (BBC4)
Archive footage of dance featured on the BBC, including profiles of stars such as Victor Silvester demonstrating how to do the twist or encouraging us to dance like John Travolta

*** Clocks go forward at 1am - Here Comes The Summer!!***

2.20am BST Saxon at Wacken 2014 (Sky Arts)
he English heavy metal veterans perform at the open-air music festival in Germany, with the set including Motorcycle Man, Solid Ball of Rock, Wheels of Steel and Crusader

2.35am BST Deep Purple: Perfect Strangers (Sky Arts)
In 1984, the classic Deep Purple line-up of Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice reunited for the album Perfect Strangers and went on tour. This is the film of their concert in Melbourne, featuring performances of Highway Star, Strange Kind of Woman, Child in Time, Black Night, Speed King and Smoke on the Water



Sunday
11.25am Soundbreaking Ep8/8 How We Listen (Sky Arts)

10pm Transatlantic Sessions: Togha agus Rogha (TG4)
Ep 3/6 Collaborations between American and Irish traditional musicians, including Emmylou Harris, Iris DeMent, Mary Black, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Rufus Wainwright

10.20pm Meat Loaf with The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (Sky Arts)
A 2004 concert by the rock singer, accompanied by his own backing band as well as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and singer Patti Russo. Featuring hits including I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That), Two Out of Three Ain't Bad and Paradise by the Dashboard Light

11.10pm Ar Stáitse: Danny Doyle (TG4)
Singer Danny Doyle performs hits including The Rare Oul Times, The Dutchman, The Fields of Athenry and Sweet Tralee

11.20pm Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (Sky Arts)
As Saturday

1.05am Classic Quadrophenia (Sky Arts)
As Friday



Monday
11.35pm The Pure Drop (RTE1) **Tribute to Liam O'Flynn**
An archive edition of the traditional music show featuring uilleann piper and Planxty founder member Liam O'Flynn, who died earlier this month





... and that's more or less it. Don't forget to put your clock forward, and all that. Best of luck if you are trying to record anything in the early hours of Saturday Night/Sunday Morning.

The Best Forestry Career Related Song Of The Weekend might be in Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl (GOLD Sunday Night 1.40am). Probably not featuring the Italian Subtitles

Welsh Megaman

Dead Or Alive are on my TV screen, yet they are not performing ‘You Spin Me Round’

I’ll take the TV back to Curry’s PC World tomorrow.

Welsh Megaman

Dave Vanian could have at least made an effort to dress up.

:pac:

Welsh Megaman

The Commentators high-larious parody of Paul Hardcastle’s ‘19’ climbs up the chart.

*toilet flushing*

Jordan 199

Johnny,
We're not sorry,
Stay away from home.

Welsh Megaman

SHE SELLS SANCTUARY!

Oh yeah! :cool:

Welsh Megaman

‘Live Is Life’

*shudder*

Welsh Megaman

Best leave the harmonica to Stevie, Annie.

Welsh Megaman

David Coverdale gets Tawny Kitaen in his videos, Russ Abbot gets Bella Emberg.

Jordan 199

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

David Coverdale gets Tawny Kitaen in his videos, Russ Abbot gets Bella Emberg.

I've been a fool for your lovin' no more

Gizmo55

Not that I would mess with it, but what on earth is a ‘toot toot’?

Welsh Megaman

Too much playing with your toot toot can lead to hair loss.

Apparently.

Welsh Megaman

Why don’t Sister Sledge go on holiday to Germany anymore?

Because they keep getting Lost in Munich.





I’ll see myself out.