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

Welsh Megaman

Oh dear god

dasdog

Such a wasted talent Gazza - I think this was his only single.

Welsh Megaman

dasdog wrote: »

Such a wasted talent Gazza - I think this was his only single.

The greatest white rapper Britain has ever produced :pac:

Welsh Megaman

808 STATE! YES!

dasdog

At least it finished on a high note with 808 state

Hotblack Desiato

fryup wrote: »

oh that's right, it's the old Queen's 74th birthday this week isn't it

hense so many tribute programmes

"Sir John" to you, pleb

Hotblack Desiato

Won't be too long now. Can't wait until this is in TOTP, blows all of the ponces and pretenders out of the water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSTBFZ-To2E

Hotblack Desiato

While searching for other kids' TV themed 90's darnce tracks (not too many - Charly was great, Summer's Magic was okay, Sesame's Treet and A Trip To Trumpton were excreable) I somehow came across this. I was an embryo when it was being filmed but it was repeated in the late 70s (5:30 BBC1 I think, RTE possibly also) and all I remembered was it had a song, a bus and a fat kid called Doughnut. My parents hated it which only made me want to watch it all the more. Token.... eh, diversity points as well too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68XYDvMwwgQ

(it was on TV and had music - of a sort! so is on-topic, right? :pac: )

Arthur Daley

More on topic than you'd think. One of the black kids on the Double deckers went on to be singer with Aswad.

How's that for a Segway or sommit.

Don't turn around...

Hotblack Desiato

Yeah I know it says that in the video :p:p

Welsh Megaman

BBC Two becomes BBC Foo :cool:

dasdog

Well if that's allowed I'm going all in on Russ Abbot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X2IVFsbaNg

loyatemu

dasdog wrote: »

Well if that's allowed I'm going all in on Russ Abbot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X2IVFsbaNg

I prefer Joy Division's version

dasdog

loyatemu wrote: »

I prefer Joy Division's version

Can help with that

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

Skid X

dasdog wrote: »

Well if that's allowed I'm going all in on Russ Abbot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X2IVFsbaNg

Splendid work, he could bang the drums too, that's how he started out

Skid X

Hello again, lets have a look at whats on offer for the long weekend. Fleetwood Mac and Queen, mostly. There's another new Freddie Doc on Saturday and any amount of Queen stuff there and elsewhere




Wednesday
10pm Tina (Sky One)
This new Tina Turner Doc is mostly showing on Sky Documentaries, but it gets one airing on Sky One tonight




Thursday
4pm Music Icons – The Band (Sky Arts)
4.30pm Video Killed The Radio Star – Depeche Mode (Sky Arts)

10pm BBC Arts NI Presents – Sounds New Extra (BBC2 NI)
Gemma Bradley hosts outstanding live performances from emerging home-grown musical talent. Featuring performances from Amy Montgomery, Joshua Burnside, JyellowL, Lilla Vargen, the Florentinas and Dark Tropics

2am The Great Songwriters – Norah Jones (Sky Arts)
3am Norah Jones At Baloise Session (Sky Arts)
If you like Norah Jones, stay up late and have Sky Arts you are in luck




Good Friday
4pm Music Icons – The Byrds (Sky Arts)
4.30pm Video Killed The Radio Star – Madness (Sky Arts)

5.45pm Film The Sound Of Music (BBC1)

7pm & 1.30am Sacred Songs – The Secret Of Our Hearts (BBC4)
British vocal ensemble Tenebrae give a special performance of choral music for Easter

7.30pm & 12.30am Sounds Of The Sixties (BBC4)
features performances by Pink Floyd, Donovan, Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell

8pm Soundbreaking (Sky Arts)
Ep 7 of 8 – Sound And Vision

8pm Top Of The Pops 1980 – November 15 (BBC4)
Bruno Brookes hosts the edition first aired on November 15, with performances by artists including Black Box, Inspiral Carpets, Robert Palmer and UB40, Caron Wheeler, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, Megabass, Kim Appleby, the Righteous Brothers and Prince

8.30pm Top Of The Pops 1980 – November 22 (BBC4)
Anthea Turner hosts the edition first aired on November 22, with performances by artists including EMF, Vanilla Ice, the Proclaimers, Rod Stewart and Tina Turner, Julee Cruise, Jimmy Somerville, 808 State and the Righteous Brothers. Plus, Bruno Brookes, Liz Kershaw and the Radio 1 DJ Posse's rendition of Let's Dance

9pm Classic Albums: The Doors – The Doors (Sky Arts)

9pm & 1.30am Fleetwood Mac’s Songbird – Christine McVie (BBC4)
While she has never fronted Fleetwood Mac, preferring to align herself with 'the boys' in the rhythm section, Christine McVie is their most successful singer-songwriter whose hits include Over My Head, Don't Stop and Everywhere. After global success in the late '70s and mid-'80s Christine left the band in 1998, living in semi-retirement in Kent, only to rejoin in 2014. Here, she finally gets to take centre stage to tell both her own story and that of Fleetwood Mac from her vantage point. Contributors include Christine's current bandmates Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Neil Finn and Mike Campbell

9pm Film – Tina (Sky Documentaries)

10pm The Great Songwriters – Rickie Lee Jones (Sky Arts)

10pm Britain’s Greatest 80s Songs – 1983 (Channel 5)

10.30pm & 3am Fleetwood Mac – Don’t Stop (BBC4)
Documentary looking back over the band's long career, from the early blues outfit led by Peter Green in the late 1960s to their reincarnation in the 1970s with the line-up that went on to record the 40-million Selling album Rumours

11pm Beatles Stories (Sky Arts)
People with vague Beatle connections. Sky Arts must have nearly worn out the tape of this one by now

11.30pm Fleetwood Mac – A Musical History (BBC4)
Similar to the earlier Fleetwood Mac Doc, this one doesn’t appear to have the band on it instead Edith Bowman provides a narrative overview, alongside fellow celebrity admirers who all pay tribute to the band. Contributors include KT Tunstall, Travis' frontman Fran Healy, Toyah Willcox, Sian Pattenden and Emma Dabiri

11.50pm Other Voices (RTE2)
With hip-hop artist Nealo, multi instrumentalist Peter Broderick, and grunge-rock musician Mark Lanegan

Midnight Ed Sheeran - Austin City Limits (Sky One)

12.05am Celtic Connections (TG4)
Daithí Ó Sé introduces performances from the 2017 festival, including Mary Chapin Carpenter, Atlantic Arc Orchestra, and the Karen Casey Band with Dirk Powell

12.50am Country Music (RTE2)
Ep 7

1am Almost Fashionable – A Film About Travis (Sky Arts)
Documentary following music critic Wyndham Wallace as he covers the shows of one of his least favourite bands, and tries to understand the root of his resentment

2.15am I Want My MTV (Sky Arts)
A nostalgic look back at the birth of MTV, which began broadcasting in 1981 and went on to shape
modern pop culture and change the world




Saturday
4pm Queen Live At The Rainbow 1974 (Sky Arts)
Lots more Queen later on BBC2

5.05pm Tina (Sky Documentaries)

5.45pm Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum – The Super Tour (Sky Arts)

6pm Handel’s Messiah From The English National Opera (BBC2)
The English having a go at the Oratorio which was first performed in Dublin's Fishamble Street on April 13th 1742

8pm-11pm Runrig – The Last Dance (BBC Alba)
Their final performance from Stirling Park

8pm Guy Garvey – From The Vaults (Sky Arts)
Another chance to see this run of rarely seen performances from the ITV archive. Ep1 - 1979

8.15pm Top Of The Pops - The Story Of 1981 (BBC2)

8.15pm Na Baileid – Dublin (TG4)
John Spillane travels to Dublin to get the history behind three of its big songs, Down by the Glenside, Óro Sé do Bheatha Bhaile and On Raglan Road

8.45pm Viva Ceol Tire (TG4)
Country Music Videos from around Ireland
You’d miss Fab Vinny on Sunday afternoons doing MT USA

9pm Lush Classical (BBC2 NI)
Highlights from the 2019 show at Belfast's SSE Arena featuring DJs, singers and the Ulster Orchestra performing a bespoke orchestral set of classic dance tracks. This annoyingly puts BBC2 NI an hour behind the other BBC2 regions for the rest of the night

9pm The Bee Gees – How Can You Mend A Broken Heart? (Sky Arts), followed by
11pm Bee Gees – One Night Only (Sky Arts)

10pm-1am Guitar Heroes At The BBC (Yesterday)

10pm Freddie Mercury – A Life In Ten Pictures (BBC2) New!
A journey through the Queen frontman's life through 10 defining photos, with their secrets revealed by those who were there, and those who knew Freddie Mercury best. Beginning with the earliest photo of the singer as a baby, and ending with a private moment captured shortly before his death, the film charts an extraordinary life
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/freddie-mercurys-girlfriend-rose-pearson-23820246

11pm Queen Rock Montreal (BBC2 NI)
From 1981

12.30am The Story Of Bohemian Rhapsody (BBC NI)
Richard E Grant narrates the story of the classic Queen track, with band members Brian May and Roger Taylor returning to Rockfield studios to discuss how the music and lyrics came together, while friends and family as well as Abba's Bjorn Ulvaeus and the Darkness reveal their thoughts on the song. This is years old

1.05am The Great Songwriters – Rickie Lee Jones (Sky Arts)




Easter Sunday
1pm Discovering Music – Pulp (Sky Arts)
1.30pm Pulp Live At Brixton Academy (Sky Arts)
2.30pm Oasis – Live By The Sea (Sky Arts)
3.45pm U2 – Experience Live In Berlin (Sky Arts)

7.15pm Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert (Sky Arts)
Don’t call it a comeback

8.30pm Comhluadar Cheoil – The Bonny Men (TG4)

9pm Singing The Messiah (BBC NI)
The Messiah is performed for the first time in Ulster Scots. Line Of Duty won’t get a look in with this on at the same time

9.30pm Paul Brady and Andy Irvine 40th Anniversary Concert (TG4)
Andy Irvine and Paul Brady's 40th anniversary concert, recorded in May 2017

10.40pm Queen Live At The Rainbow (Sky Arts)

10.50pm Britain’s Favourite 80s Songs - 1984 (Channel 5)

12.20am Pet Shop Boys : Inner Sanctum – The Super Tour (Sky Arts)

2.35am Depeche Mode – Spirits In The Forest (Sky Arts)




That's more or less that, if you have seen anything else do let us know

News this week that the decline of BBC Four continues as it is just going to be repeats from now on. They have moved any decent music shows to BBC Two recently so this is no real surprise
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/29/bbc-four-to-become-archive-only-as-cost-cutting-drive-continues


I stumbled on an old BBC news article recently which had the bombshell news that John Squires of The Stone Roses once worked made models for kids series Wind In The Willows and Cockleshell Bay
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8137469.stm


The La's featured on TOTP last week, there was an decent article about their singer Lee Mavers on the BBC Website during the week https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210315-the-mystery-of-lost-rock-genius-lee-mavers



Also on last week's TOTP was a man recently described as "The greatest white rapper Britain has ever produced" and apparently in a former life Paul Gascoigne played a bit of football.
Here's a memorable story of him from Italia '90 (it was a World Cup, not sure if Ireland were in it)

https://twitter.com/DavidHartrick/status/872084987423719427




Finally, the Best Film Which Has The Same Music In It's Trailer As The Channel 4 News Theme (TCM Movies, Thursday 11.25pm)

Welsh Megaman

Happy Easter y’all

This made me laugh - if ever there was any better evidence of the stupidity of record companies in the 70’s.

Polydor rejecting Roxy Music

dasdog

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Happy Easter y’all

This made me laugh - if ever there was any better evidence of the stupidity of record companies in the 70’s.

Polydor rejecting Roxy Music

Still - a complimentary cassette of James Last's Polka Party :pac:

Any excuse for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLhYv7nhlY

Welsh Megaman

TIPPITYTAPPITYTOPPITYPOPPITY!!

Welsh Megaman

Welsh Megaman

Inspirals!

Hangdogroad

I remember Shaun Ryder calling them a bunch of sheepshaggers.

Welsh Megaman

Only One In Ten people like that UB40 song.



:cool:

Hangdogroad

Jesus, they really milked this for all it was worth.

Welsh Megaman

JIVE BUNNY!

Skid X

I wouldn't like to be dealing with the Royalties claims from everyone this lot 'sampled'

Welsh Megaman

The most Stock Aitken Waterman sounding non-Stock Aitken Waterman song

Skid X

Where's the other Righteous Brother gone?

Welsh Megaman

Rubbish cover of a Robson and Jerome classic :pac:

Welsh Megaman

Prince saves the episode.

As always.

Because he’s Prince.