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

Skid X

Hello, here are the listings up to Thursday Jan 2nd.
New Years Eve looks a bit ropey unless you up for Craig David at Midnight. TG4 continues with some excellent looking nightly music shows (which continue into next weekend, Lemmy The Movie is on Friday the 3rd for example, more of that anon)
Suggested highlights are in blue ...




Sunday Dec 29th
1pm The Music Of Buddy Holly And The Crickets (Sky Arts)

6.30pm Westlife – The Twenty Tour Live From Croke Park (RTE1) New!

7pm-11pm Guitar Heroes At The BBC Marathon (Yesterday)

9pm MTV 2019 VMA Awards (MTV)

9.30pm Se Mo Laoch – Maighread agus Triona Ni Dhomnaill (TG4)

10.15pm Liam Gallagher – As It Was (BBC2) New!
Documentary about the former Oasis frontman. The film by directors Charlie Lightening and Gavin Fitzgerald follows his journey, from the dizzying heights of superstardom with his brother Noel in the 1990s, to years in the musical wilderness, before his hugely successful comeback as a solo artist in recent years
** Finishes at 11.40pm, just in time for the Oasis Doc on BBC4

10.30pm Film: The Last Waltz (The Band) (TG4)
Martin Scorsese's documentary following Canadian-American rock group the Band's farewell concert in November 1976, held on Thanksgiving Day at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Featuring contributions from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Muddy Waters, the Staple Singers and Emmylou Harris, as well as interview with band members Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson

11pm Roy Orbison: Austin City Limits (Sky Arts)

11.10pm Bette Midler – One Night Only (VM3)

11.15pm Brendan Grace – Thanks For The Memories (RTE1)
Repeat of the recent tribute concert

11.35pm Sheridan (VM1)
Sheridan Smith ITV Special

11.40pm Film: Oasis – Supersonic (BBC4)
Documentary about the early years of the Manchester band who dominated the charts in the mid-1990s. The film focuses on the relationship between Gallagher brothers Noel and Liam, including their infamous sibling rivalry, and also features rare concert footage. With Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher, Peggie Gallagher, Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs, Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan, Tony McCarroll, Alan McGee and Owen Morris

11.40pm Ward Park 3 Extra (BBC2 NI)
The support acts from Snow Patrol’s Concert, namely Ash, Two Door Cinema Club and Foy Vance

Midnight John And Yoko – Above Us Only Sky (Channel 4)
The untold story of John Lennon's album Imagine, released in 1971, exploring how the art, politics and music of the pair are intrinsically entwined. Featuring interviews with Yoko Ono, Julian Lennon, David Bailey, John Dunbar), Dan Richter and Eddie Veale, some of whom have never spoken publicly on film before, as well as never-seen-before footage of Lennon and Ono from their private archive

12.15am Johnny Cash - Behind Prison Walls (Sky Arts)
1977 Tennessee Prison Gig

1.15am Elvis – The ‘Final’ Hours (Sky Arts)

1.35am Britpop at the BBC (BBC4)
Elastica, Sleeper, Suede, Blur, Oasis, Menswear and others

2.35am Film: Shirley (RTE1)
Ruth Negga stars in this biopic of Shirley Bassey, charting the singer's early career, from her humble roots in 1930s Wales - where she was born the youngest of eight children to a mixed-race couple - to the start of her rise to international stardom in the 1960s





Monday Dec 30th
1pm Hamilton: One Shot To Broadway (Sky Arts)
Doc

3.20pm Kilfenora Ceili Band - 100 Years (TG4)

4.45pm Top Of The Pops - New Year Special (BBC1)
Fearne Cotton and Clara Amfo present some of the biggest hits of the past 12 months, including performances by Mabel, Lewis Capaldi, Blossoms, Dermot Kennedy, Freya Ridings, Celeste and Jack Savoretti. They also look back at some of 2019's most memorable music moments and celebrate the final number one of the decade

6pm Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Il Divo Live In Japan (Sky Arts)

9pm Na Baileid (TG4)

9pm Take That Live – Wonderland (Sky One)

Midnight Frank Sinatra- The Main Event Live From Madison Square Garden (Sky Arts)
1974 TV Special

12.30am TOTP2 (BBC4)
Steve Wright presents a special helping of party tunes for New Year's Eve**, featuring performances by the Three Degrees, Elton John, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Europe, Blondie, the Nolans, Lionel Richie , the Bee Gees, Madonna and Kylie Minogue
** Possibly a bit early

12.35am Newport Festival 1963-1966 (TG4)
Featuring Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, Donovan, Jim Kweskin and The Jug Band, Mel Lyman, Peter, Paul and Mary, Sacred Harp Singers, Georgia Sea Island Singers, Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers and many others

2.10am Film: Frank (Film4)
An aspiring musician gets the chance to join an avant garde band. However, he is soon out of his depth in the strange world of the group's leader, an eccentric musical genius who always conceals his face with a papier mache head and uses bizarre methods to perfect the band's sound. Comedy drama inspired by singer Frank Sidebottom, starring Domhnall Gleeson and Michael Fassbender. Not the recent Frank Sidebottom Doc





New Years Eve (Tuesday)
10.25am Shania Twain Live in Las Vegas (Sky Arts)

12.25pm Sinatra and Friends (Sky Arts)
A TV special from 1977, with John Denver, Natalie Cole, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Loretta Lynn, Leslie Uggams and Robert Merrill

1.45pm Take That: Greatest Hits Odyssey Live (Sky Arts)
Also on Sky One At 6.45pm

3pm & 1.30am Queen: Hungarian Rhapsody Live in Budapest (Sky Arts)
5pm Bee Gees: One Night Only (Sky Arts)

7pm BBC Proms 2019 - John Wilson Orchestra play Warner Brothers Film Scores (BBC4)

7pm Brit Awards 2018 (VM2)
That’s the 2018 Brit Awards. Not the 2019 version

7.30pm Opry An Iuir (TG4)

8pm Coldplay Live In Sao Paolo (Sky One)

9.05pm Gradam Ceoil TG4 2019 (TG4)
Dónal O'Connor and Doireann Ní Ghlacáin host the music awards live from The Waterfront Hall, Belfast. Featuring performances from Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Catherine McEvoy, Conor Connolly, Brendan Mulkere, Nicky & McAuliffe, Four Men and a Dog and Thomas McCarthy

9pm Hogmanay 2019 (BBC Scotland)
BBC Scotland’s Annual Hogmanay Show begins with Susan Calman and later features Still Game and Farmer Jim Smith. Travis and Twin Atlantic provide the music

9.15pm How Auld Lang Syne Took Over The World (BBC4)
Dougie Vipond examines how Robert Burns' 18th-century poem, traditionally sung around the world on New Year's Eve, became one of Scotland's best-known musical exports

10.20pm Queen Live At Wembley 1986 (Sky One)

10.25pm Una Healy’s New Years Eve Party (RTE1)
Una Healy hosts a star-studded New Year celebration, featuring the Waterboys, David Gray, Wallis Bird, Brian Kennedy, and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

11.15pm Hootenanny! (BBC2)
The piano-playing maestro presents his annual musical extravaganza, with an assortment of musical guests performing alongside his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. This year's acts include Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard, who provides a taste of her first solo album, and Stormzy, fresh from his triumphant performance at this year's Glastonbury Festival. Other acts on the bill include Stereophonics, Rick Astley, Tom Walker, YolanDa Brown, Melanie, La Roux, Eddi Reader, Pauline Black and Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson from ska band the Selecter, Joseph, and, of course, Hootenanny mainstay Ruby Turner, as well as the customary midnight appearance by the Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards to ring in 2020. Weak enough lineup, I think

11.20pm Failte 2020 (TG4)
Hector Ó hEochagáin and Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile host a live New Year's celebration from Tigh Pheacocke in Conamara, featuring music from Sharon Shannon and her band, and special guests Frankie Gavin, Carl Hession, Nan Tom Teaimín, Steve Cooney, MC Muipéid, and Johnny Óg Connolly

11.25pm Craig David Rocks Big Ben Live (BBC1)
The singer-songwriter performs live at London's Central Hall Westminster in a concert to ring in the New Year featuring some of his most popular hits. The performance continues after the traditional fireworks display with one of Craig's famous TS5 sets**. Hosted by Roman Kemp
** No idea, to be honest

11.50pm New Years Eve Countdown Concert (RTE1)
Walking on Cars perform live at Custom House Quay in Dublin in a special New Year's concert building up to the turn of midnight. This show only lasts for 40 minutes

Midnight Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (Sky Arts)

12.15am Oasis: Noise And Confusion Live (Sky One)
2001 COncert

12.55am The Doors Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 (TG4)

1.20am-3.25am Glastonbury 2019 (BBC2)
Memorable performances from Worthy Farm in Somerset, where artists including Stormzy, George Ezra, Bastille, Sheryl Crow, the Killers, Liam Gallagher, Janet Jackson, the Proclaimers, Kylie Minogue and Miley Cyrus entertained the enthusiastic crowds across the three days of the festival

1.30am Film A Star Is Born (1976) (RTE2)
Remake of the musical, starring Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Mazursky, Gary Busey and Marta Heflin

1.50am Kylie: Showgirl – Greatest Hits Live (Sky Arts)

4am U2 : Experience - Live In Berlin (Sky Arts)





New Years Day (Wednesday)
10.15am Vienna Philharmonic New Years Day Concert (RTE1 & BBC2, repeated BBC4 at 7pm)
The one where everyone is far too dressed up for early New Years Day Morning. Two and a half hours of Beethoven (the composer, not the dog)

11am Andrea Bocelli Live In Portofino (Sky Arts)

1pm-8.35pm Jazz (PBS)
Parts 1-6 of the 12 episodes of the epic Ken Burns 2001 Doc
Would be better if they showed one episode per night, maybe

3pm The Chieftains –Water From The Well (TG4)
A journey of discovery into the origins of the Irish band, visiting the people and places that inspired their traditional sound. Derek Bell, Kevin Conneff, Martin Fay, Sean Keane, Matt Molloy and Paddy Moloney tell of their earliest memories of the country's vibrant musical heritage

7.30pm The Foster and Allen Show (TG4)

11pm Sam Smith Live in London 2017 (RTE2)

11pm U2 Experience -Live In Berlin (Sky Arts & Sky One)

Midnight MTV Unplugged – Liam Gallagher (MTV)

12.40am Top Of The Pops New Year Special (BBC1)

12.55am The Rolling Stones Live At Hampton Coliseum 1981 (TG4)






Thursday Jan 2nd
1pm-9pm Jazz (PBS)
Eps 7-12 of the Ken Burns Jazz Doc which started yesterday.

2.55pm Mary O’Hara (TG4)
Doc about Singer and Harpist Mary O’Hara

5pm Beach Boys: Good Vibrations Tour (Sky Arts)

9pm Na Baileid (TG4)
Songs From Northern Ireland

9.30pm Joe Einniu – Song Of Granite (TG4)
A profile of sean-nós singer Joe Heaney, charting his journey from rural Connemara, through to Glasgow and eventually on to New York City

9.30pm Gwyl Lleisiau Eraill (Other Voices Festival) (S4C)
Ep 1/3 The best of the contemporary music scene in Wales and the world from the Other Voices festival held in Cardigan this year https://www.othervoices.ie/content/other-voices-cardigan-lleisiau-eraill-aberteifi S4C giving this show better scheduling than RTE2 do

11.25pm David Bowie – The First Five Years (RTE2)
The final part of Francis Whately's trilogy of films on Bowie's life, telling the story of the five years when many of the ideas that would help him become an icon were first born. Starting in 1966, soon after David Jones changed his name to David Bowie, the film traces his interest in everything from Holst and Pinky and Perky to Anthony Newley and Tibetan Buddhism, and how he used all of these influences to create not only Ziggy Stardust, but the material for his entire career

11.30pm Queen Live At Wembley 1986 (Sky One)

12.45am Arcade Fire Live At Earls Court London 2014 (TG4)




That's more or less that, Happy New Year and lets hope for good things in 2020

Best theme music you might hear this year is probably The Theme From The Magnificent Seven which is on BBC2 New Years Day at 2.25pm. Lovely Stuff

sligojoek

Fair play, Skid. Few nuggets there that I'd no idea about.

Welsh Megaman

*enters thread with Mancunian ‘swagger*

:cool:

Alright there, our kid, top one, High Flying Turds...load of sheeee-1te!

*opens can of Red Stripe*

Welsh Megaman

Peggy Gallagher - Lovely Mayo Mammy

Skid X

He should make a big announcement that due to popular demand there will be a reunion of ... Beady Eye

Welsh Megaman

Liam unleashing his inner Cartman - damn hippies!

Oscar Bravo

Roy Orbison on Sky arts now! fab

Welsh Megaman

The lesser spotted Gallagher on roadie duties

paddylonglegs

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

*enters thread with Mancunian ‘swagger*

:cool:

Alright there, our kid, top one, High Flying Turds...load of sheeee-1te!

*opens can of Red Stripe*

Wish I had it recorded. A great big dollop of nostalgia

Welsh Megaman

RIP Neil Innes of The Rutles and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band


https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/30/neil-innes-the-rutles-monty-python-dies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePaHG6g7uFw

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

RIP Neil Innes of The Rutles and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band


https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/30/neil-innes-the-rutles-monty-python-dies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePaHG6g7uFw

Ah no, he was one of a kind.

Time to dig out The Raggy Dolls Box Set!


https://twitter.com/prodnose/status/1211633851291844608

Skid X

Happy New Year Everyone !

nomdeboardie

Will it be, again, The Roaring Twenties?
The Boring?
The Pouring?
Maybe a hope for
The Soaring?
Or will we get
The *horing?

Welsh Megaman

Classic mop-toppery from Scouse beatnik combo on BBC Four.

Welsh Megaman

1989...melons about to be twisted, man. :cool:

Welsh Megaman

SONIA!! :eek:



*dives behind couch*

sligojoek

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

SONIA!! :eek:



*dives behind couch*

For some 'Classic intercourse'.

Welsh Megaman

Gene Pitney had better be careful when miming on live tv...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF6EG4C8Q-A

Welsh Megaman

I’ve always questioned Mike And The Mechanics ability to give my car it’s annual service check.

Welsh Megaman

Didn’t know R.E.M. appeared on TOTP!

Orange Crush...top tune

Hotblack Desiato

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

1989...melons about to be twisted, man. :cool:

Only found out recently it's a cover version, here's the original :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld1vQVoaQIM

Welsh Megaman

I had the Jason Donovan ‘Straight From The Heart’ board game, and I’ve already got my coat.

PsychoPete

For someone that pretty just listens to rock and metal, I know way too many kylie songs

dasdog

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Only found out recently it's a cover version, here's the original :eek:

Okay - I've just learnt now myself. Listening to the original they did a really different version but still kept the spirit of it. A bit like Primal Scream with Slip Inside This House.

Welsh Megaman

‘Don’t Know Much!’

sligojoek

PsychoPete wrote: »

For someone that pretty just listens to rock and metal, I know way too many kylie songs

You're in good company

quickbeam

You guys may be interested in voting for Boards' official favourite song from the 80s.

Welsh Megaman

Chris Rea...is he going to talk about the time he ran a bath for Bob Mortimer with an egg in it?

Welsh Megaman

Time to shine, Reynolds Girls!

Hotblack Desiato

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

RIP Neil Innes of The Rutles and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Will there be any tribute shows on? Or a screening of All You Need Is Cash?


Was nice to see a tribute to Brendan Grace on Hootenanny. The Wurzels must have been unavailable, so they had to get the original writer of the song in to sing it

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKcpodt0YCU