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

paddylonglegs

dasdog wrote: »

Ah here - we are old

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLNt8aMNbvY

I absolutely take your point dasdog, that is 2 examples - pretty much the only 2 known artists, Fontaine’s aso only get air time on 2fm. They are after water shed on any other stations.

Anyway, Oasis or Blur?

Oscar Bravo

Just enjoyed Queen live at the rainbow on Sky arts. Good documentary starting on BBC2 at 9.20 about the Boomtown Rats.

Welsh Megaman

A lot of British viewers right now thinking Pete Briquette is his real name.

Welsh Megaman

Big Tom And The Mainliners on BBC Two

Welsh Megaman

What religion is Sinead O’Connor this week?

nomdeboardie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

A lot of British viewers right now thinking Pete Briquette is his real name.

Fair enough, we're all bogtrotters, to be sure to be sure :P

nomdeboardie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

What religion is Sinead O’Connor this week?

Whatever you're having yourself.

(Should we all be muslim now, Sister? It's just that I'm not sure I'd have time for the whole Ramadan thing, what with the knitting and the zooming and the cocooning...)

Welsh Megaman

Never heard of this Self Aid.

Larry Gogan there...still can’t believe he’s gone

Joe_ Public

Self Aid! Guess it was well meaning anyway. Good gig, though.

Good doc but would have liked to hear more about the rest of the Rats. Does Fingers not talk at all? Was always going to be Bob's show, i suppose.

Welsh Megaman

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Self Aid! Guess it was well meaning anyway. Good gig, though.

Good doc but would have liked to hear more about the rest of the Rats. Does Fingers not talk at all? Was always going to be Bob's show, i suppose.

Wasn’t there a dispute not so along ago between Bob and Fingers over songwriting credits?

Joe_ Public

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Wasn’t there a dispute not so along ago between Bob and Fingers over songwriting credits?

That's correct, was settled i think. Fingers appeared at the start of the show tonight, but i can't recall seeing him after, unless i missed a bit. Just seemed odd, for whatever reason.

Hotblack Desiato

Lets... make... it work...

jaysus it was terrible

In Tua Nua were good (well, I fancied yer wan at the time...)

we still couldn't acknowledge that people could be Irish and gay, the best ever Irish DJ (and one of the world's first VJs) Vincent Hanley was ignored, he would die in ignominy about a year later.

Hotblack Desiato

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VORolcd3UmU

The latter is mostly 1980s RTE ad break, which is fascinating in its own little way...

None of my girlfriends ever complained about my high performance Zip :pac: but that'd be the 90s Ted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMDbX1zksgI

Welsh Megaman

Excellent Belfasty Punky ‘Good Vibrations’ Filmy just started on BBC One NI

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Excellent Belfasty Punky ‘Good Vibrations’ Filmy just started on BBC One NI

I enjoyed this a lot when I saw it a few years ago.

There was going to be a play based on the film in Dublin's Abbey Theatre this Summer, hopefully they get to perform it some time.

Skid X

The record companies that passed on Teenage Kicks ... were they trying to make the chap from Decca Records who told Brian Epstein Guitar Music was on the way out feel better about himself ?

nomdeboardie

Basking in the spotlight

...of the RUC helicopter :pac:

Welsh Megaman

Just goes to show how important John Peel was in terms of breaking new music that wouldn’t usually be accepted in the mainstream, The Undertones even attended his funeral.

Skid X

Welsh Megaman

Surely Terri Hooley must have received a shedload of money from Sire Records in exchange for The Undertones?

#eventshavebeenchangedtofitthefeelgoodnarrative

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Surely Terri Hooley must have received a shedload of money from Sire Records in exchange for The Undertones?

#eventshavebeenchangedtofitthefeelgoodnarrative

Ah, but you see didn't he lose a shedload of money giving out free tickets to the fundraising gig and all that

It was Hooley's approach to business - and the fact that he put music before money - that caused many to hold him in high regard.

Glenn Patterson, who is currently writing a screenplay on Hooley, explains: "You could compare Terri Hooley to the likes of Malcolm McLaren or Tony Wilson; they didn't have the greatest heads for business.

"I don't think Hooley would say he had a great head for business, in fact out of the three of them I think he probably had the worst.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7298275.stm

Skid X

Looking at the broadcast history of Good Vibrations, it was made by BBC Films and only shown once before now on BBC2 in 2005

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05569p9

BBC Four should be all over this kind of thing, instead of showing the same repeats over and over again.

Say Your Number

Caught the last half hour of Nina Simone on TG4, as mad as a box of frogs.

Skid X

Hello, this Saturday sees another music night on BBC2 which looks ominously like the BBC are going to say "When BBC4 closes there will be space for music docs which have found a new home on BBC2 in recent months". Anyway, it's Ella Fitzgerald which is nice if you are into the jazz. Elsewhere TG4 has another airing of the excellent Rory Gallagher film on Sunday night - here are the details ...





Thursday
9pm Glor Tire – Rogha & Togha (TG4)
with performances by Jimmy Buckley, Michael English, Mike Denver, Ciarán Rosney, Johnny Brady and Gerry Guthrie

9pm Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road – Lars Ulrich (Sky Arts)
10pm Classic Albums: Metallica – The Black Album (Sky Arts)

11pm Queen – The Magic Years (Sky Arts)
Doc about their early years

11.35pm Other Voices (RTE2)
Performances by artists to the public during the Covid-19 crisis
Other Voices seems to be more about online streaming than RTE2 at the moment, worth keeping an eye on their website for news
https://www.othervoices.ie/content/latest
https://www.youtube.com/user/OtherVoicesLive

12.15am Queen Live In Rio (1986) (Sky Arts)
1.30am Video Killed The Radio Star – Queen (Sky Arts)




Friday
7pm Classic Quartets At The BBC (BBC4)
Compilations of classical music performances from the BBC archives. In the first programme, Clemency Burton-Hill introduces string quartets playing music ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Elvis Costello and Pete Townshend

8pm Top of The Pops 1989 – September 14 (BBC4)
Simon Mayo and Andy Crane host the edition first shown on September 14, with performances by artists including Damian, Madonna, Technotronic featuring Felly, Tears for Fears, Sydney Youngblood, Tina Turner, Black Box and Aerosmith

8pm Music Icons – Chicago (Sky Arts)

9pm Top Of The Pops 1989 – September 21 (BBC4)
Nicky Campbell hosts the edition first shown on September 21, featuring performances by London Boys, Aerosmith, S'Express, Richard Marx, the Wonder Stuff, WASP, Black Box and Janet Jackson

9pm The Doobie Brothers – Let The Music Play (Sky Arts)
The story of the American group, from their beginnings as a biker band in California in 1970 through to their sustained success, break-ups, reunions and multi-platinum albums

9.30pm & 2.20am Rock n Roll America (BBC4)
Ep 1 of 3 Documentary examining the most important era in the history of popular music - the birth of rock 'n' roll. The opening programme focuses on the origins of the sound in 1950s America when the rhythm-driven mix of blues, boogie woogie and vocal harmony was nurtured by small independent record labels and championed by young music pioneers such as Fats Domino and Little Richard. This episode also looks at the start of Elvis Presley's career in Memphis and examines the impact the film industry had on the rock movement. Contributors include Tom Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis and Don Everly. Continues on Saturday

10.30pm Classic Albums: The Crickets – The Chirpin’ Crickets (BBC4)
The Crickets sang the original version of I Fought The Law, it was written by the lad who replaced Buddy Holly. Not on this album, alas

11pm The Making Of Marc Bolan (Sky Arts)
Documentary telling the story of how East End boy Mark Feld became a glam rock superstar as the frontman of T. Rex. Featuring contributions from friends, family and well-known fans

11.30pm It’s Only Rock n Roll – Rock n Roll At The BBC (BBC4)
A compilation of classic rock 'n' roll artists and songs in celebration of the musical genre, Including performances by Jerry Lee Lewis, Dion, Dick Dale and Neil Se*#@a. Plus, a selection of songs with rock 'n' roll in the title, such as Tom Petty's Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll, Joan Jett's I love Rock 'n' Roll and Oasis's Rock 'n' Roll Star

Midnight Other Voices (RTE2)

Midnight Supertramp Live In Paris ’79 (Sky Arts)

12.30am Singer Songwriters At The BBC (BBC4)
featuring Leonard Cohen, Julie Felix, Sandy Denny, John Martyn, Don McLean, Tim Buckley, Stealers Wheel, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Paul Simon, Rab Noakes, Loudon Wainwright III, Clifford T Ward and Cat Stevens

12.35am The Windmill Lane Sessions (TG4)
with The Four of Us, O Emperor and Mary Coughlan

1.30am Country Music By Ken Burns (BBC4)
Ep 3 of 9 The Hillbilly Shakespeare (1945-1953) How country music adapted to the cultural changes of immediate post-war society between 1945 and 1953. Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs transformed the traditional string band music into something more syncopated - bluegrass. And out of the bars and juke joints came honky-tonk, a new sound with electric guitars and songs about drinking, cheating and heartbreak




Saturday
3pm Queen Live In Milton Keynes (Sky One)

5.45pm BBC 6Music Live: The Selecter and EOB (BBC Red Button, Repeated on loop)
Performances from the Roundhouse in Camden by the veteran ska band led by Pauline Black, and Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien's new solo project EOB

6.45pm Kylie: Showgirl – Greatest Hits Live (Sky Arts)

9pm Studio 54 – The Documentary (Sky Arts)
The one about the club that wouldn’t let Nile Rodgers in on New Years Eve

9pm Opry An Iuir – Johnny Cash Tribute (TG4)
featuring Sandy and Willie Kelly, Declan Nerney and Jordan Mogey. Johnny Cash couldn’t make it as he is dead

9.30pm Ella Fitzgerald – Just One Of Those Things (BBC2) New!
The life and times of the jazz singer, beginning with a 1934 talent contest at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, and following her next five decades, reflecting the passions and troubles of the times in which she lived in her life and her music. Narrated by Sophie Okonedo, with contributions from Laura Mvula, Ray Brown Jr, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Jamie Cullum, Cleo Laine and Smokey Robinson

10.45pm Bee Gees Live In Melbourne 1989 (Sky Arts)

11pm Jazz Divas Gold (BBC2)
A selection of BBC archive performances by acclaimed female jazz artists featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Blossom Dearie, Nina Simone, Cleo Laine, Marion Montgomery, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Eartha Kitt and Amy Winehouse

Midnight Rock n Roll America (Parts 2 and 3) (BBC4)
Ep 2/3 Whole Lotta Shakin' The mid-1950s saw Elvis Presley make his TV debut with Heartbreak Hotel, following it with a gyrating version of Hound Dog that outraged the conservative media. A 'cleaned-up' artist was required, and Christian family man Pat Boone sated that need. While Jerry Lee Lewis caused upset with Whole Lotta Shakin and the Everlys shocked with Wake Up Little Susie, bespectacled geek Buddy Holly calmed things down with his school friends the Crickets. Contributors include Jerry Lee Lewis, Don Everly and Tom Jones
Ep 3/3 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

12.35am Bette Midler One Night Only (VM1)

2am Top of The Pops 1989 – September 14 (BBC4)
2.30am Top of The Pops 1989 – September 21 (BBC4)




Sunday
8.30pm Pat Shortt’s Music From D’Telly (RTE1)

9.30pm Sli na mBeaglaoich (TG4)
The lads visit Kinsale and Donegal

9.30pm Luke Thomas And The Swing Cats (VM3)

10pm When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (Sky Arts)
Roseanne Cash narrates a Doc about Patsy, who wasn’t really Crazy at all

10.30pm Flosc (TG4)
Cormac De Barra with another Sligo Session

11pm Rory Gallagher Irish Tour (TG4)
Tony Palmer's documentary chronicles the exploits of the famed Irish blues-rock guitarist, as he embarks on a tour of his homeland, playing gigs in cities and towns including Belfast, Dublin and Cork. Among the songs featured in the film are Tattoo'd Lady, Walk on Hot Coals and Who's That Coming . Stick a tape in now before you forget about it. There is an hour long version of it here with some bits cut out for copyright

And that's more or less that, do let us know if you have seen anything decent on the schedules elsewhere


Archive bit of the week is this old Ready Steady Go! episode where Dusty Springfield brings over pretty much of all of Motown to ITV for a special. If it had been on TOTP they would have wiped it immediately

News that the BBC is sensibly going to fill the gap in the schedules caused by the cancellation of Glastonbury with repeats of old Glastonburys. Looks like a decent chunk of it will be on proper BBC2 and BBC4, with some on the Red Button and Website. The full version of Bowie's 2000 performance is promised for the first time. I thought we had seen that last year, but apparently they held back one or two songs.

https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/bbc-reveals-broadcast-plans-for-glastonburys-50th-anniversary-weekend/




And finally, the Best Drive to Voodoo Child While Possibly Under The Influence might be in Withnail and I (Channel 4, Sunday Night 12.15am) Please drink responsibly, either with the finest wines available to humanity or with anything else that you have handy

Ol' Donie

Jazz Divas Gold on BBC2 after that film is a pretty clear statement, you'd have to say.

Nice one Skid.

Hotblack Desiato

Say Your Number wrote: »

Caught the last half hour of Nina Simone on TG4, as mad as a box of frogs.

Saw her in the Point in 1999 or 2000 I think, old but good

Welsh Megaman

TOPPOPOSCHE!

Sowing The Beatle Seeds Of Love :cool:

Jordan 199

Aerosmith got a mention. YAY!!

Welsh Megaman

SYDNEY!

Welsh Megaman