BeebRock - The BBC4/BBC3/BBC2/BBC1 Music Programmes thread

Harry Palmr

That's a very good album by the way, though the production is a bit ropey.

Skid X

Most of the channels are dominated by the UK Election and the ensuing fallout this weekend, but some of the old reliables are wheeled out yet again on BBC Four.


The Joy of The Guitar Riff (Fri 9pm & Midnight, Sun 11.30pm) gets another outing with some familiar faces "Documentary exploring the impact of the guitar riff on popular music over the past 60 years, including a look at how it became the foundation on which rock 'n' roll was built. With stories from Brian May, Dave Davies, Hank Marvin, Joan Jett, Nile Rodgers, Tony Iommi, Robert Fripp, Johnny Marr and more." I thought it was very good, it's on Youtube if you don't want to wait until Friday

That is followed by it's usual sidekick Great Guitar Riffs at the BBC (Fri 10pm & 1am, Sun 12.30am) with some proper tuneage from "Jimi Hendrix, the Kinks, Cream, AC/DC, the Smiths, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Pixies and the Stone Roses


On Saturday they have Country at the BBC (10.45pm) with "a compilation of BBC session performances by country artists from the past four decades, including Tammy Wynette, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride, Kris Kristofferson, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss, Taylor Swift, kd lang and Billie Jo Spears" followed at 12.15am by a live concert from Neil Diamond at the Radio 2 Electric Prom from 2010


Top of The Pops 1980 is on again (Thurs 7pm & 12.35, Sat Night 2.20am). Steve Wright introduces a decent looking line-up of "Smokie, Paul McCartney, the Cure, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Sky, Sad Cafe, Cockney Rejects, Bad Manners, David Essex, the Undertones, Johnny Logan and Blondie."

Jools Holland is on as usual on Friday at 11.35pm with "FFS, a collaboration by Scots pop-rockers Franz Ferdinand and LA new wave duo Sparks, who have recorded a self-titled album together after 11 years of contemplating it. They are joined by US band Alabama Shakes, who have just released their second album Sound & Colour, indie-country trio The Lone Bellow and Canadian singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr, making his UK TV debut. There's also music from Northumberland chamber folk group The Unthanks, performing tracks from their album Mount the Air, and English soul and R&B singer Shaun Escoffery, providing a taste of his latest LP In the Red Room"


On Sky Arts you get that four hour long Eagles documentary on Friday at 11.15pm


That's about it. Maybe if Labour get in they might give the BBC a bit of money to make some new programmes. You never know!

Skid X

I see Vintage TV have some of their programmes available to stream for free from their website (Worldwide).

Quite a varied selection of programmes there, might be worth a look.


http://www.vintage.tv/catch-up/

Welsh Megaman

Great Super Furry Animals documentary at the moment on S4C

How Welsh can you get? The answer is...none more Welsh

Go Harvey Go

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Great Super Furry Animals documentary at the moment on S4C

How Welsh can you get? The answer is...none more Welsh

Cymru am byth.

Welsh Megaman

Only SFA can have Paul McCartney on an album playing 'celery'

Welsh Megaman

Rita Coolidge nothing to be scared of.

So sang Adam Ant :pac: :cool:

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Only SFA can have Paul McCartney on an album playing 'celery'

I see that Doc is on the Iplayer, I might twiddle the knobs, did out my "Learn Welsh the easy way" book and give it a blast

Welsh Megaman

Please sing 'The Gambler'!



Boo-urns!

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

I see that Doc is on the Iplayer, I might twiddle the knobs, did out my "Learn Welsh the easy way" book and give it a blast

If any band resembled The Beatles the most during the Britpop era, it wasn't Blur or Oasis, but the Furries by a country mile. Always experimenting with different genres, different types of song arrangements and structures and lyrics that were written under the influence of heavy drugs broke from the norm.

HeidiHeidi

Dunno what I'm missing on "live" BBC4, but just watching back the David Bowie concert from last week - he's some class act!

If there weren't young kids next door, presumably (hopefully!) asleep, I'd have the volume up to the max.....

Welsh Megaman

Rhinestone Cowboy! Oh yeah!


*tips hat*

*rides off into sunset*

Welsh Megaman

'Good Girls Gonna Go Bad'

Now we know where Rihanna got her ideas from!

HeidiHeidi

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Rhinestone Cowboy! Oh yeah!


*tips hat*

*rides off into sunset*

Crap. Missed it.

David Bowie can wait. Cannot believe I'm choosing a programme with "country music" in the title, but this is good stuff!

Atlantic Dawn

How odd, I only found out she did this yesterday during LLS and now it's on as I change it to BBC4.

Welsh Megaman

I prefer her song 'Constant Gravy' :pac:

HeidiHeidi

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

I prefer her song 'Constant Gravy' :pac:

Her voice is at serious odds with her image in this video :eek:

HeidiHeidi

Oooh, I'd be very interested in hearing her rendering of Hallelujah.....

*goes googling*

Welsh Megaman

A lot of Irish country fans throwing stuff at the TV right now

HeidiHeidi

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

A lot of Irish country fans throwing stuff at the TV right now

For why?


DON'T MENTION GARTH BROOKS :eek::eek::eek:

Welsh Megaman

Didn't know Garth performed on TOTP :eek:

To the disinterested British

Skid X

I stumbled on this yesterday, the American station CMT (Country Music Television) do a series called CMT Crossroads where Country Singers do concerts with non-country acts.

Anyway, Def Leppard and Taylor Swift did a concert together :eek::pac::p:rolleyes::o

It seems all wrong, but I have heard worse

HeidiHeidi

Very insipid rendition of Standing Outside the Fire, which was a great song (despite it being by GB!)

HeidiHeidi

I LOVE Alison Krauss!

Welsh Megaman

Country still seems to be an anomaly with us snobby British - if country artists want to 'break' the UK (to use the dreaded music industry term), they have to 'crossover' (to use another dreaded music industry term) into pop eg. Shania Twain, Leann Rimes, Taylor Swift

Welsh Megaman

I feel like I should be being chased down a dirt track with an angry trucker shooting at me

HeidiHeidi

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I LOVE Alison Krauss!

And despite that, I never knew she was (such) a fiddle player!

Every day's a school day.

That sure is some banjo-pluckin' going on there!

HeidiHeidi

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Country still seems to be an anomaly with us snobby British - if country artists want to 'break' the UK (to use the dreaded music industry term), they have to 'crossover' (to use another dreaded music industry term) into pop eg. Shania Twain, Leann Rimes, Taylor Swift

Bingo!

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Country still seems to be an anomaly with us snobby British - if country artists want to 'break' the UK (to use the dreaded music industry term), they have to 'crossover' (to use another dreaded music industry term) into pop eg. Shania Twain, Leann Rimes, Taylor Swift

Country had a brief (post punk :pac:) period of popularity in the UK, when Kenny and Dolly did very well. And that was pretty much it. The UK were happy with Kenny and Dolly and didn't want any other Country Music.

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

Country had a brief (post punk :pac:) period of popularity in the UK, when Kenny and Dolly did very well. And that was pretty much it. The UK were happy with Kenny and Dolly and didn't want any other Country Music.

Post-punk Country...now that is a genre that needs exploring