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

Ol' Donie

GNR singing Live and Let Die always makes me a bit sad.

ednwireland

paradise city -best rock intro evah

makes me feel old watching that

Harry Palmr

Buns and Toasties were only any good in 1987 after that it was increasingly a lumpy mess.

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Meh...Coast To Coast ain't no Crystal Swing!

My Showband Consultant tells me "Neither are a patch on Brendan Bowyer"

Also, according to the Youtube blurb Brendan "is also renowned for having The Beatles open for him at a concert in 1962 at the Liverpool Empire Theatre." Fair play!

Welsh Megaman

Just watched the G'N'R documentary - love the moment when Slash put his top hat on B.B. King's head

So who's in the Coachella reunion?

Izzy? Steven? Rikki Rockett? :pac:

Welsh Megaman

Aerosmith at Download 2014 on Sky Arts right now

Ol' Donie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Just watched the G'N'R documentary - love the moment when Slash put his top hat on B.B. King's head

So who's in the Coachella reunion?

Izzy? Steven? Rikki Rockett? :pac:

Don't know if Steven would be up for it.

To be honest, I really enjoyed it but felt so sorry for him.

HeidiHeidi

Nobody still up and watching Shirley?

It's about the 10th time I've seen it and still I can't tear myself away!

Kristopherus

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Nobody still up and watching Shirley?

It's about the 10th time I've seen it and still I can't tear myself away!

Elvis Costello is better on Sky Arts:).

HeidiHeidi

Kristopherus wrote: »

Elvis Costello is better on Sky Arts:).

Ah feck. Why didn't you tell me earlier??!!

Skid X

A two hour long Eagles concert tonight at 10.30pm on BBC Four

A 1973 performance for the BBC by the American band whose blend of sophisticated country music epitomised the sound of California and took them to the top of the charts. Featuring classic US hits including Peaceful Easy Feeling, Witchy Woman and their number-one single Take It Easy

Skid X

Skid X wrote: »

A two hour long Eagles concert tonight at 10.30pm on BBC Four

Ah, it was only 30 minutes long. Dusty's on now.

Sorry about that, my listings site was wrong.

http://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/836981/115408702/in-concert-the-eagles#.VrfVH_mLTIU

Welsh Megaman

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Don't know if Steven would be up for it.

To be honest, I really enjoyed it but felt so sorry for him.

Apparently, the current line-up is Axl, Duff, Slash, Dizzy, Richard Fortus, Frank Ferrer and Chris Pitman.

Would you see them live (don't throw any bottles!)?

Skid X

Hi, after last weeks impressive Guns n Roses showing BBC presents a look at the origins of AC/DC and Australian Rock. I think it's a repackaged version of an Australian Programme, but sure it's something new-ish. More than you can usually say about BBC Four!

Elsewhere there are the usual repeats, although maybe of a better standard than usual. Lets have a look ...


Thursday
7.30pm & 11pm Top of The Pops 1981 #7
Peter Powell presents the chart show from March 19, 1981, featuring Sharon Redd, Bucks Fizz, Colin Blunstone and Dave Stewart, Toyah Willcox, The Who, Phil Collins, Shakin' Stevens, Visage, Roxy Music and Duran Duran



Friday
7.30pm & Miidnight Top of The Pops 1981 #8
Richard Skinner introduces performances by Graham Bonnet, Hazel O'Connor, Tony Capstick, Gillan, Lene Lovich, Bad Manners, Shakin' Stevens, Linx, Landscape, Polecats and Kim Wilde. Plus, a dance sequence courtesy from Legs & Co. First shown in March 1981. First aired 26 March 1981


9pm & 2.40am Totally British: 70s Rock n Roll
Part two of two. A collection of archive performances by artists including Graham Parker and the Rumour, Dr Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, Elvis Costello, the Motors, Steve Gibbons Band and Dire Straits from TV shows such as The Old Grey Whistle Test and Top of the Pops


10pm & 1.40am The Easybeats to AC/DC: The Story of Aussie Rock New!
The story of the rock band, and how Australian family run company Albert Music launched them in the mid-1970s onto the global music scene. The film recalls how Scottish emigre siblings Angus and Malcolm Young were produced by their older brother George and fellow Easybeats member Harry Vanda, later joined by lead singer Bon Scott. The film retraces the band's explosion in popularity, the relentless touring and the early death of Scott in 1980


11pm Rock n Roll America (Part 3)
Be My Baby Examining the era between Buddy Holly's death in early 1959 and the Beatles landing at JFK in spring 1964, when rock 'n' roll seemingly calmed down, went uptown and got spun into teen pop. The genre fuelled the Motown sound in Detroit and sound-tracked guitar instrumental groups on the west coast, such as the Ventures and Beach Boys, as it helped birth increasingly polished pop sounds across the States. Contributors include Jerry Lee Lewis, Ben E King and Chubby Checker. Last in the series


12.40am Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen To The Banned
The stories of 10 songs, dating from the 1930s to the present day, that were considered unsuitable by the BBC for broadcasting on its radio and television stations. Tunes include Lola by the Kinks, Jackie by Scott Walker and (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang by Heaven 17, though it is perhaps surprising that Bing Crosby and the Munchkins are among the other performers on the list. The reasons why these records were censored reveals much of the changing controversies around youth culture. Contributors include Carrie Grant, Paul Morley, Stuart Maconie, Glen Matlock, Mike Read and Jon Robb



Saturday
10.40pm Motown At The BBC
A compilation of studio performances by some of Motown's greatest artists, originally broadcast to mark the record label's 50th anniversary. Featuring Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Jackson Five, the Four Tops and Stevie Wonder


11.25pm The Imelda May Show (RTE 1)
The singer-songwriter celebrates Ireland's love of music with chat and performances by musicians and new acts from Ireland and around the world, filmed in front of a live studio audience


11.40pm Northern Soul: Living For The Weekend
A look at the rise, fall and rebirth of the music and dance movement that took place across the north of England during the 1970s. Archive footage and vivid first-hand accounts reveal the dynamic culture of fashions, dance moves and musical obsessions that were all fuelled by a unique style of black American soul music based on heavy beats. With contributions by Richard Searling, Ian Levine, Colin Kurtis, Kev Roberts, Pete Waterman, Peter Stringfellow and others


Midnight Other Voices (RTE 2)
The music series celebrating new and innovative talent continues with performances by Mullingar quintet The Academic, London-based folk rocker and poet Keaton Henson, and Sheffield-born guitarist Richard Hawley, who has previously found success with Longpigs and Pulp. Plus, noir alt-rockers HAWK play the IMRO Other Room


12.40am Sings Motown
A compilation of Motown covers from the archive, spanning the 1960s to the present. Including Paul Weller and Amy Winehouse's I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Roberta Flack's version of Stevie Wonder's Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer, the Flying Lizards with Barrett Strong's Money (That's What I Want), Dusty Springfield performing Nowhere to Run and Kim Wilde's take on You Keep Me Hanging On


1.40 Top Of The Pops 1981 #7
Same as Thursday

2.20am Top Of The Pops 1981 #8
Same as Friday

3am Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen To The Banned
Same as Friday



Sunday
1.30am Rock n Roll America
Same as Friday

2.30am Sounds Of The Eighties
Showcasing a selection of musical performances from the BBC archives, featuring ZZ Top, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, INXS, the Cult, the Mission and Motorhead

3am Singer Songwriters At The BBC
An hour-long compilation of classic singles highlighting the growing popularity of the singer-songwriter genre during the 1970s, which became one of the decade's defining styles. Featuring music by Elton John, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Harry Nilsson, Neil Diamond, Steve Goodman, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young


RTE are really milking every last drop out of those Imelda May show repeats.
Elsewhere, Sky Arts has the second part of that really long Eagles doc and lots of Rolling Stones programming, including the Martin Scorsese film 'Shine a Light' from 2008 (Friday 9pm & Saturday Midnight.) And The Beat Goes On!

Welsh Megaman

The AC/DC documentary should be good!

Sad to see that Malcolm had to retire from the band

cml387

Hazel O'Connor had I believe a previous career as an,um, exotic dancer.

Welsh Megaman

'Intuition' by Linx - great song

Nice hair, Mr. Grant

Welsh Megaman

If that guy's not careful, he's going to bust a blood vessel :cool:

cml387

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

If that guy's not careful, he's going to bust a blood vessel :cool:

Amazingly still seems to be with us.:)

Welsh Megaman

cml387 wrote: »

Amazingly still seems to be with us.:)

From wicky-peedia...

Buster once owned a hotel in Margate called Fatty Towers, which specifically catered for larger customers, with features such as extra large beds and baths as well as fatty meals.

Welsh Megaman

Shaky

cml387

Love the New Romantics/Lady Diana lookalikes sitting behind Shaky.

Ol' Donie

This is the worst TOTP ever.

What the hell is this madness?

Welsh Megaman

Just watched the Easybeats/Acca Dacca documentary - good stuff

Angry Anderson...still not very angry

loyatemu

Ol' Donie wrote: »

This is the worst TOTP ever.

What the hell is this madness?

Some dross there alright, the Hazel O'Connor song was particularly bad, and the novelty song based on the Hovis ad.

Quite enjoyed the Lene Lovich tune though, which I hadn't heard before, also she had Thomas Dolby on keyboards and he wrote the song as well.

Shine A Light was effin' superb. One of the best rock docs I ever seen!

Skid X

Hi, it's all gone electronic this weekend, a new thing about Daft Punk followed nicely by Kraftwerk. Lots of old reliables present and correct too, lets have a look ...


Thursday

11.55pm Northern Soul: Living for the Weekend
A look at the rise, fall and rebirth of the music and dance movement that took place across the north of England during the 1970s. Archive footage and vivid first-hand accounts reveal the dynamic culture of fashions, dance moves and musical obsessions that were all fuelled by a unique style of black American soul music based on heavy beats. With contributions by Richard Searling, Ian Levine, Colin Kurtis, Kev Roberts, Pete Waterman, Peter Stringfellow and others

12.55am Motown at The BBC
A compilation of studio performances by some of Motown's greatest artists, originally broadcast to mark the record label's 50th anniversary. Featuring Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Jackson Five, the Four Tops and Stevie Wonder



Friday

7.30pm & Midnight Top of The Pops 1981 #9
Simon Bates introduces performances by Stiff Little Fingers, Liquid Gold, the Children of Tansley School, Sugar Minott, Spandau Ballet, Shakin' Stevens, Stevie Wonder, the Nolans and Bucks Fizz. Plus, a dance sequence courtesy of Legs & Co. First shown in April 1981. First aired 2 April 1981

8.45pm Sounds of The Sixties
The Folk Revival Folk performances by artists including Pete Seeger, Tim Buckley, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen

8.55pm Sounds of The Seventies
A 1972 performance of Ladytron by Roxy Music

9pm & 12.40am Ultimate Covers at the BBC
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

10pm & 1.40am Daft Punk Unchained New!
Documentary exploring the pop culture phenomenon of electronic music duo Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, who as Daft Punk have sold 12 million albums worldwide and won seven Grammy awards. The film includes rare footage of the French musicians and features interviews with friends and close collaborators Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder, Michel Gondry, Peter Lindbergh, Leiji Matsumoto, Paul Williams, Joseph Trapanese and Pedro Winter

11pm & 2.40am Kraftwerk: Pop Art
Documentary profiling the German experimentalist band and charting their journey to becoming one of pop's most influential acts. Featuring footage from their 2013 Tate Modern shows, as well as archive footage dating back to 1970, newsreel and cinematic evocations of Kraftwerk's obsessions. With contributions from techno pioneer Derrick May, Can co-founder Holger Czukay, DJ and remixer Francois Kevorkian, graphic designer Neville Brody, writer Paul Morley, band photographer Peter Boettcher and Tate Modern curator Catherine Wood

12.40am Elvis Costello: Mystery Dance (TG4)
Mark Kidel directs a profile of the singer-songwriter, who began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the British new wave movement later that decade. The story is picked up from the star's childhood under the influence of his father, Ross McManus, a Catholic education that left a big impression on him, and his overnight success with the Attractions. The musician talks openly about the shaping of his career and life, and revisits the places where he grew up



Saturday

10.40pm Rod Stewart: Live at Hyde Park
A concert by the singer that closed Radio 2's annual Festival in a Day, held in September in London's Hyde Park. Featuring a selection of hits from his back catalogue including Gasoline Alley, Angel, In a Broken Dream, The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II) as well as Faces classics including Ooh La La and blues standard Rollin' and Tumblin'

11.40pm Imagine - Rod Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now
The veteran rocker invites Alan Yentob to his LA home to conduct an interview, in which Stewart looks back on a career spanning almost 50 years. He discusses working with acts like the Steampacket and Jeff Beck in the 1960s and his time with the Faces, whose offstage antics became legendary - as did the frontman's affairs with a string of famous women. His solo career propelled him to superstardom with songs such as Maggie May and Sailing, and while the 1980s proved to be less successful, his constant reinvention has given him a lasting career. Having more recently become known as a singer of American standards, he talks about recording Time, his first album of new material in almost 20 years

11pm Other Voices (RTE2)
The show celebrating rising musical talent draws to a close with performances by Norqegian musician Ane Brun, Limerick-based outfit Bleeding Heart Pigeons and Leicester-born singer-songwriter Mahalia. Plus, multi-instrumentalist Gavin Glass from Stillorgan, Dublin, takes up residence in the IMRO Other Room. Last in the series

1.05am The Joy of Easy Listening
Documentary charting the history of the genre, from its emergence in the 1950s to its heyday in the 60s, through its survival in the subsequent two decades and revival in the 90s. The programme explores the people behind the songs and the mark they have left on modern life. Featuring interviews with Engelbert Humperdinck, Richard Carpenter and Jimmy Webb

2.35am Top of The Pops 1981 #9
Same as Friday

3.15am Sounds of The Eighties
Showcasing a selection of musical performances from the BBC archives, featuring Echo and the Bunnymen, Michael Stipe, the Smiths, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Cure, Lone Justice and the Pixies



Sunday

12.45am Troubadours: The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
Documentary exploring the popularity of singer-songwriters in Los Angeles during the 1970s. Carole King and James Taylor recall the beginnings of their artistic partnership at the Troubadour club in West Hollywood, and reflect on how the scene that grew up around the venue changed pop music. Featuring contributions by Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Kris Kristofferson, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Cheech & Chong, Steve Martin, JD Souther and Peter Asher

2.10am Sounds of The Eighties
Showcasing a selection of musical performances from the BBC archives, featuring Echo and the Bunnymen, Michael Stipe, the Smiths, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Cure, Lone Justice and the Pixies

2.40am Singer Songwriters at The BBC
A compilation of performances highlighting the growth of the singer-songwriter genre in the 1970s. Featuring songs by Bobbie Gentry, Kris Kristofferson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Janice Ian, Gordon Lightfoot, John Martyn, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell, Don McLean, Ralph McTell, Don Williams, Paul Brady and Loudon Wainwright III


If you missed it last weekend, Sky Arts gives you another chance to see Shine a Light (The Martin Scorsese Rolling Stones Film) tonight at 11pm, along with Queen on Friday and Led Zep on Saturday

They also have this interesting sounding film on Saturday at 7.10pm ...

It Might Get Loud (2008)
Documentary exploring the history of the electric guitar, told through the personal stories of three generations of rock stars - Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, U2's The Edge and the White Stripes' Jack White. The musicians revisit their musical roots and discuss the influences that first inspired them as they record new, unrefined material, before coming together for a jam session

Film Soundtrack of the week might be Flash Gordon (Film Four, Friday 11.05pm) Flash, ah ah! Saviour of The Universe ...

Ol' Donie

Wow, Daft Punk collaborated with Paul "Scumbags & thugs, Ryan" Williams? That should be good.

Some really good stuff there. Love Daft Punk & love some Rod Stewart tunes (well, love "You wear it well" it's amazing).

I've wanted to watch It Might Get Loud for aaages, but it's on Sky, right?

Skid X

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I've wanted to watch It Might Get Loud for aaages, but it's on Sky, right?

Here you go

Ol' Donie

No way!

Thanks Skid!

Brilliant!