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Welsh Megaman

Pfft...anybody can Moonwalk.

*goes headfirst backwards through wall*


Ow.

Welsh Megaman

Lemmy :cool:

RIP

Welsh Megaman

'Can I Kick It?'

Hippity-hop classic.

And it samples Ian Dury!

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

'Can I Kick It?'

Hippity-hop classic.

And it samples Ian Dury!

And John Pertwee! When he was in SuperTed!

I've been trying to shoehorn that reference in for ages.

Welsh Megaman

Pulp

Skid X

I remember missing most of that Britpop Now programme on BBC 2 for homework scheduling reasons and waiting years and years for it to be repeated. It wasn't on again that millennium

I never really recovered, to be honest.

Welsh Megaman

Shipbuilding

Suede's version is sublime.

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Shipbuilding

Suede's version is sublime.

Absolutely great. That's on one of those Warchild Albums. One of the few charity projects which was worth buying in its own right.

Skid X

Nice eclectic mix to this programme.

A step up from most of the BBC's generic compilations.

mansize

Enjoying BBC2 this eve

Welsh Megaman

The Fall

Choochtown

I was heading to bed an hour ago! Can't turn this off. It's brilliant!

mansize

Choochtown wrote: »

I was heading to bed an hour ago! Can't turn this off. It's brilliant!

Have it on in bed

Welsh Megaman

Tony Wilson - genius

Welsh Megaman

This performance still gives me shivers

Harry Palmr

Quick mention for PBS doc called Before the Music Dies. It's on right now but is repeated at 2.40 am

http://pbsamerica.co.uk/before-the-music-dies

Welsh Megaman

Anything to stop Ian Brown singing is a blessing

Skid X

Yeah, I also really enjoyed that Pop goes BBC2 thing last night, it would be great to see more shows like that.

In the meantime, here's a selection of interesting clips published on the BBC Music Website last week. They seem to be available outside the UK.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/7ec6b40d-90ea-4b0f-bf28-0d34bfaddd1b


Jimi Hendrix trolling Lulu is great, well worth a look.

Skid X

Hello, Happy Easter - the Country Season has finally ended on BBC Four and the big new programme this week is a Janis Joplin Doc on Friday Night. Lots more bits and bobs dotted around the schedule, hope there's something to interest you there ...


Thursday

7.30pm & Midnight Top Of The Pops 1981 #16
Simon Bates presents the chart show from June 25, 1981, featuring the Evasions, Randy Crawford, Depeche Mode, Elaine Paige, Kirsty MacColl and Gillan

10pm Ceolchuairt (TG4)
Series 2 Ep 1 Morocco Fiachna O Braonain, of the band Hothouse Flowers, embarks on a musical pilgrimage to Morocco in search of the roots of the blues and explores ancient links with traditional Irish music

1.30am Sounds of the Eighties
Showcasing a selection of pop music performances from the BBC archives spanning the decade, including Adam and the Ants, Duran Duran, Culture Club, ABC, Wham!, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Bananarama and Kylie Minogue



Good Friday

7pm & 12.30am Top Of The Pops 1981 #17
Peter Powell introduces performances by Spandau Ballet, Saxon, Dexys Midnight Runners, Third World, Kate Bush, Bad Manners and the Specials. Plus, a dance sequence by Legs & Co. First shown in July 1981

9pm & 1.05am Janis: Little Girl Blue New!
Premiere. Janis Joplin's powerful, soulful voice blazed new creative trails before her untimely death in 1970, aged 27. As director Amy Berg's documentary reveals Joplin's on-stage bravado and uninhibited sexual persona hid hurt and insecurity stemming from her childhood. On relocating from Texas to San Francisco and discovering the blues, she found an outlet for her loneliness and fell into a community that embraced and celebrated her talent. This retrospective includes some of Joplin's most iconic performances, which embodied the musical and cultural revolution of the 1960s. Narrated by Cat Power

10.30pm & 2.35am Girls in Bands at the BBC
Compilation of performances by some of the best female musicians in rock, from the 1970s to the present day. Artists featured include American rock group Fanny, the powerful vocals of Elkie Brooks on Vinegar Joe's Proud to Be a Honky Tonk Woman, the poetry of Patti Smith's Horses and upbeat energy of the Go-Go's on We Got the Beat

11.30pm Girl in a Band: Tales from the Rock n Roll Frontline
Journalist Kate Mossman tries to look beyond the cliches of fallen angels, grunge babes and rock chicks as she gets the untold stories from rock's front line to discover if it has always been different for female members in a band. Contributors include Elkie Brooks and Carol Kaye

11.45pm EBBA Music Awards 2016 (RTE2)
Highlights of the European Border Breakers Awards ceremony, which recognises the success of emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album in the past year

11.55pm Thom Moore Live At Whelan's (TG4)
Footage from a 2013 performance by the singer-songwriter at the live music venue, celebrating the launch of his first CD in 19 years. He is accompanied by fellow musicians Gavin Ralston, Seamie O'Dowd, Brian Connor, Robbie Harris and Aongus Ralston


Easter Saturday

9.05pm Cherish The Ladies (TG4)
An Emmy-award-winning concert with Cherish The Ladies, Maura O' Connell and a host of top-class Irish traditional musical talent

10.45pm Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (RTE2)
The one that was on BBC2 last week

11pm & 3.25am BST Hello Quo (2012)
Documentary examining rock band Status Quo's five-decade history, including interviews with the band, concert footage and rarely seen archive material, as well as a look at the 2012 reunion of the original line-up, performing together for the first time in more than 30 years. With contributions by Paul Weller, Brian May, Noddy Holder, Cliff Richard and Jeff Lynne

12.20am Status Quo: Live and Acoustic
A compilation of footage from Status Quo's 2014 live appearance at London's Roundhouse, where they performed acoustic versions of their best-known hits, including Pictures of Matchstick Men, Rockin' All Over the World, Whatever You Want, What You're Proposing, Down Down, and Marguerita Time. Playing alongside a string section, Francis and Rick reminisce about their career and recall some of the stories behind their classic songs

2.20am BST Top Of The Pops 1981 #16 Don't Forget to Put Your Clocks Forward!
Same as Thursday

2.55am BST Top Of The Pops 1981 #17
Same as Friday

4.45am BST Sounds Of The Sixties
The First Steps Recalling a decade in British music, with archive performances from the early stages of the `swingin' era, featuring music by by rock, pop and R'n'B artists including the Springfields, the Shadows, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones


Easter Sunday

3.30pm Tim Rice - A Life in Song (BBC One)
A concert recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall in July celebrating the work of Oscar-winning lyricist Tim Rice, who also reminisces about his career, revealing the stories behind Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Chess and The Lion King among others. The conversation with host Michael Grade is interspersed with a selection of his songs with the BBC Concert Orchestra, under conductor Mike Dixon, accompanying performers including Alexander Armstrong, Gemma Arterton, Rob Brydon, Tom Chaplin, Roger Daltrey, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, James Fox, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Minchin, Clare Teal, Rufus Wainwright and Rick Wakeman

9pm How to Make a Number One Record
Documentary studying what it takes to propel a single to number one. Featuring a look at those who have succeeded in topping the charts, and the effect it had on their lives, alongside an examination of the roles played by art, science, chance and manipulation in reaching the pinnacle of pop

9pm Chieftains 2016 (TG4)
Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh introduces a performance from Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall, in which the band celebrate a century of Irish music, joined by guests John Sheahan, Eddi Reader, Kris Kristofferson, Declan O'Rourke and Karan Casey

11.50pm One Hit Wonders at the BBC
Compilation of hits by artists that were hardly heard from again after one of their songs climbed to the pinnacle of pop, alongside an analysis of the `one-hit wonder' phenomenon. Featuring Peter Sarstedt's 1969 track Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?, Trio's 1982 smash Da Da Da, Move Closer, by Phyllis Nelson, and You Get What You Give, by New Radicals



Easter Monday

9.35pm Centenary (RTE One)
Concert featuring some of Ireland's best-known singers, musicians and performers getting together to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, telling the story of modern Ireland through music, dance and song. With Imelda May, Jack L, Gavin James, The High Kings, Colm Wilkinson, Danny O'Reilly, Iarla O Lionaird, Sharon Shannon, Donal Lunny, John Sheahan, Celine Byrne and Seo Linn

11.05pm The Imelda May Show (RTE One)
The singer-songwriter is joined in the studio by singer-songwriters Paolo Nutini and Damien Dempsey, singer Wanda Jackson, folk music group Altan and guitarist Seraphim Kelly for chat and live performances



If you missed Brian Pern on BBC Four, it starts a run from Series 1 Episode 1 on GOLD on Sunday at 11.10pm. I thought it was great.

Elsewhere Singin in The Rain is on BBC Two tomorrow at 1.35pm, Gene Kelly wasn't bad but Eric and Ernie did it better

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

9pm How to Make a Number One Record
Documentary studying what it takes to propel a single to number one. Featuring a look at those who have succeeded in topping the charts, and the effect it had on their lives, alongside an examination of the roles played by art, science, chance and manipulation in reaching the pinnacle of pop

All you need to know courtesy of Messrs Drummond and Cauty...

http://freshonthenet.co.uk/the-manual-by-the-klf/

Welsh Megaman

Good ole Buster Bloodvessel

Welsh Megaman

De-PESHAY Mode

Roanmore

Gillan on TOTP doing No Laughing in Heaven with no guitarist. John Moss did a great guitar solo on his double neck bass

fryup

that Janis joplin documentary was excellent, so sad to see such a talent die so young....just like Hendrix and Morrison around the same time

Harry Palmr

Yep watched that, while hindsight is easy, its fair to say Joplin, in that environment was likely to suffer - she seemed to have no "middle path" - she was all or nothing.

Gillan on TOTP doing No Laughing in Heaven with no guitarist. John Moss did a great guitar solo on his double neck bass

That's one of my favourite TOTP moments! Gillan were great fun, pity Ian knocked it on the head for that album/tour with Sabbath. If you like spacey guitar check out an earlier incarnation of Ian Gillan's post Purple career

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

OldRio

Not beeb rock but whilst flicking through the program guide I noticed True Movies 1 at 1100pm Pink Floyd: The Wall.

Being a weekday I will have to record it. In bed with a cup of cocoa at 10.

Skid X

Nice one, another film on tonight is Beyond The Sea (Sky Arts, 9pm). Kevin Spacey is Bobby Darin in The Bobby Darin Story.

Decent film that divides opinion, Kevin Spacey is just too old and balding to be playing a Teen Idol

Skid X

Hello, Meat Loaf and Metal on Friday and then two of the better BBC compilations on Saturday (TOTP 80s and One Hit Wonders at the Beeb). A few other bits and bobs as always ...



Thursday

7.30pm & Midnight Top of The Pops 1981 #18
Richard Skinner presents the chart show from July 23, 1981, featuring the Vapors, Tight Fit, Gidea Park, Sheena Easton, Visage and the Specials

10pm Ceolchuairt: Jamaica (TG4)
Jamaica Musician Gearoid Mac Lochlainn embarks on a journey of self-discovery as he visits Jamaica, the cradle of reggae. During his travels, he reveals how songs such as Bob Marley's One Love formed the soundtrack to his teenage years in Belfast

12.35am Girls in Bands at the BBC
Compilation of performances by some of the best female musicians in rock, from the 1970s to the present day. Artists featured include American rock group Fanny, the powerful vocals of Elkie Brooks on Vinegar Joe's Proud to Be a Honky Tonk Woman, the poetry of Patti Smith's Horses and upbeat energy of the Go-Go's on We Got the Beat

1.35am Girl in a Band: Tales from the Rock 'n' Roll Front Line
Journalist Kate Mossman tries to look beyond the cliches of fallen angels, grunge babes and rock chicks as she gets the untold stories from rock's front line to discover if it has always been different for female members in a band. Contributors include Elkie Brooks and Carol Kaye



Friday

7.30pm & Midnight Top of The Pops 1981 #19
From July 1981, Steve Wright introduces performances by Kim Wilde, the Undertones, Duran Duran, Bill Wyman, Stevie Wonder, Spandau Ballet, the Specials and Shakin' Stevens. Plus, a dance sequence courtesy of Legs & Co

9pm & 12.35am Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell
A profile of the rock star's life and career, reflecting on the music that propelled him to fame and charting his journey from an overweight, bullied child to his larger-than-life persona and icon status. Featuring an interview and performance by the singer, as well as backstage footage from a Las Vegas concert. The film also revisits the Dallas of Meat Loaf's early years and includes insights from high school friends who reveal where the unusual moniker really came from

10pm & 1.35am Heavy Metal Britannia
Documentary tracing the genre's emergence in the late 1960s, pioneered by bands including Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, who were based in the industrialised Midlands. This classic form of metal was challenged by punk in the late 1970s, before a new wave of groups such as Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon reinvigorated the style. Featuring contributions by singers Ian Gillan, Glenn Tipton, Lemmy, Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford, guitarist Tony Iommi and keyboard player Jon Lord. Narrated by Nigel Planer

11.30pm & 3.05am Metal at the BBC
A compilation of memorable heavy-metal performances from BBC shows, including Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Motorhead

3.35am Sounds of the Sixties
Recalling the music of Manchester, where long before the advent of Madchester, the city was serenaded by local outfits Herman's Hermits and the Hollies



Saturday

11pm TOTP2 80s Special
Mark Radcliffe presents a selection of memorable Top of the Pops performances from the 1980s. Featuring appearances by Adam and the Ants, Bucks Fizz, Soft Cell, Dexys Midnight Runners, Madness, Culture Club, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Duran Duran, Wham!, Pet Shop Boys, the Communards, Whitney Houston, Bros, Tiffany, Yazz & the Plastic Population, Kylie and Jason, Black Box and Lisa Stansfield

Midnight Boy George and Culture Club: Karma to Calamity
A look at the history of the band, examining its rise to fame, eventual disintegration and the personalities within the group who made it such a success in the early 1980s. Director Mike Nicholls follows the band members as they meet in singer Boy George's London home to write new material following their decision to reunite in 2014

1am Top of The Pops 1981 #18
Same as Thursday

1.35am Top Of The Pops 1981 #19
Same as Friday

2.10am One Hit Wonders at The BBC
Compilation of hits by artists that were hardly heard from again after one of their songs climbed to the pinnacle of pop, alongside an analysis of the `one-hit wonder' phenomenon. Featuring Peter Sarstedt's 1969 track Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?, Trio's 1982 smash Da Da Da, Move Closer, by Phyllis Nelson, and You Get What You Give, by New Radicals

3.10am Sounds of The 70s
Archive performances by groups and solo artists from the decade, beginning with music by the Kinks, Roxy Music, Elton John and Queen, plus a rendition of The Jean Genie by David Bowie recorded in January 1973


Sky Arts has a 2009 Pet Shop Boys Concert (Saturday 7pm) and if you like that then BBC Radio 2 has been broadcasting a four part PSB Doc recently, you can listen back here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b073qvhl/broadcasts/2016/03


Finally, here's a rare TOTP2 clip of BBC Four favourite Brian Pern in action (they filmed a full episode of this kind of thing for the new Brian Pern DVD)

cml387

Sometimes it's interesting to see what happened groups afterwards.

In the case of The Vapours it was :Music Lawyer,television producer and record shop owner.

And in case you thought they sounded like The Jam, they were managed by Paul Weller's dad and Bruce Foxton.

The Music of Buddy Holly & The Crickets is on Sky Arts next Tuesday at 6pm.