BeebRock II - Music Shows on BBC Four, Sky Arts and everywhere else
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How do? What's going on this weekend? Well, it's Madness. Yes, Madness on Sky Arts and all the old reliablies elsewhere
Just for fun, what do Up The Junction and Virgina Plain have in common, lyrically ? The answer is below if I remember to add it ...
Thursday
12.15am Alanis Morrissette In Concert (Sky Arts)
12.15am Retrospective - Clannad & The RTE Concert Orchestra (RTE1)
1.30am Ivor Cutler By KT Tunstall
The singer-songwriter sets off on a journey to discover more about the life of eccentric musician Ivor Cutler, before recording a cover version of his song Women of the World. Unrelated to this programme, KT has gone deaf in one ear, unfortunately https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57996035
Friday
7pm BBC Proms 2021 - Stravinsky (BBC4)
7pm Mick Ronson By Gary Kemp (Sky Arts)
Gary Kemp explores the life and legacy of musician and producer Mick Ronson, who was a vital component of the success of David Bowie and Lou Reed during the 1970s
7pm Storytellers - Taylor Swift (MTV)
Taylor Swift performs in front of a live audience and tells stories about her music, writing experiences and memories
8pm Classic Albums: Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (Sky Arts)
Songs By Jim Steinman
8.30pm & 1.30am Top Of The Pops 1991 - June 27 (BBC4)
Simon Mayo presents the edition first aired on June 27 1991, featuring performances by Cubic 22, Omar, Erasure, Lenny Kravitz, Paula Abdul, Divinyls, Jason Donovan, Alice Cooper, Carter and Sheriff Fatman
9pm & 2am Top Of The Pops 1991 - July 4 (BBC4)
Gary Davies presents the edition first aired on July 4 1991, with performances by Incognito featuring Jocelyn Brown, Natalie Cole and Nat 'King' Cole, Cola Boy, Anthrax featuring Chuck D, Kim Appleby, Heavy D and the Boyz, Jesus Loves You, Vanilla Ice, Jason Donovan and Whitney Houston
9pm Tori Amos Live In Concert (Sky Arts)
9.30pm & 2.30am The Story Of Bohemian Rhapsody (BBC4)
10.15pm Billy Joel Live At The Shea (Sky Arts)
with Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks and John Mayer
10.25pm Queen Rock Montreal (BBC4)
1981
Midnight Sounds Of The Seventies (BBC4)
with David Bowie the Kinks, Roxy Music, Elton John, New York Dolls, Queen, Sparks and Rod Stewart
12.20am Other Voices - David Gray Special (RTE2)
12.30am Singer Songwriters At The BBC (BBC4)
Archive performances from the 1960s and 70s, featuring Lee Hazlewood, Jimmy Webb, Buffy Sainte-Marie, John Martyn, Rod Stewart, Donovan and a duet between Carole King and James Taylor
1am Southern Journey (Revisited) (Sky Arts)
Documentary set against the backdrop of the 2018 US mid-term elections and accompanied by a soundtrack of blues and bluegrass, hollers and spirituals. The film retraces the steps of pioneering ethnomusicologists Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins, who embarked on a trip in search of the Deep South's musical traditions in 1959
2.30am John Malkovich - Just Call Me god (Sky Arts)
Satirical musical drama starring John Malkovich as a besieged dictator who delivers a powerful monologue, accompanied by the music of Bach, Franck, Widor, Messiaen and Ligeti. Different.
Saturday
3pm The Music Of Buddy Holly And The Crickets (Sky Arts)
One of the Crickets wrote I Fought The Law
4.55pm Elvis '56 Special (Sky Arts)
6.15pm Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii (Sky Arts)
8pm Classic Albums: Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (Sky Arts)
8.15pm Opry An Iuir (TG4)
With TR Dallas
Mini Madness Night!
9pm Suggs - My Life Story (Sky Arts) 🆕
I think it's new but with the search in the New Boards it's anyones guess. If you google it a full version comes up on vimeo so it may have been on before
Julien Temple's film looks back at the life of Madness frontman, as Suggs goes on a personal quest to discover what happened to the father he never knew
11pm Madness - Before And After (Sky Arts)
The story of the House of Fun hitmakers, tracing their journey from humble beginnings as a British pub band to the peak of their chart-topping success
12.30am Video Killed The Radio Star - Madness (Sky Arts)
9.55pm The Heart Of Saturday Night (RTE1)
Una Healy and Loah introduce performances by Villagers, Una Healy, Soda Blonde, Niamh Reagan and Loah herself, as well as a tribute to Shay Healy by Bill Whelan, Seamus and Caoimhe O'Flatharta and Tara Howley
10pm Runrig - The Last Dance (BBC Alba)
BBC Scotland has Nathan Carter, I hope they keep him
10pm-1.55am Britain's Greatest 80s Hits (Channel 5)
10pm TOTP2 - Pop Stars (Yesterday)
11pm Guitar Heroes At The BBC (BBC4)
1am Ed Sheeran - Austin City Limits (Sky Arts)
Sunday
5pm Classic Albums: Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (Sky Arts)
6.15pm Mr Mojo Risin': LA Woman - The Story Of LA Woman (Sky Arts)
Stop blocking TOTP and sort out that gangly title
7pm BBC Proms 2021 - Vikingur Olafsson (BBC4)
7.30pm UK Olympic Homecoming Concert (BBC1)
Featuring the return of the elusive Nile Rodgers. And some Olympians and Rag'n'Bone Man, Anne-Marie, Bastille, Yungblud, Laura Mvula, and Griff
7.30pm The Who - Tommy Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2017 (Sky Arts)
9.30pm Sruth (TG4)
Eight young musicians from Ireland and Scotland showcase their skills, while also collaborating with the likes of Duncan Chisholm and Ríoghnach Connolly
9pm Emerson Lake And Palmer Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 (Sky Arts)
10.35pm Geantrai (TG4)
From 2004, music from the Corner House in Cork City
10.30pm Isle Of Wight Greatest Hits - Amy Winehouse (Sky Arts)
11pm Isle Of Wight Greatest Hits - James (Sky Arts)
11.30pm Tori Amos Live In Concert (Sky Arts)
12.45am Rebecca Ferguson Live At Baloise Session (Sky Arts)
2am Classic Albums: Steely Dan- Aja (Sky Arts)
Then looking ahead to next Wednesday, RTE1 has a new feature length Christy Moore Doc https://www.rte.ie/culture/2021/0810/1240055-christy-moores-life-on-the-road-inside-the-new-documentary/
Disappointing news from Scottish Indie Band Mark Sharp And The Bicycle Thieves - their guitarist has had his bicycle stolen by some bicycle thieves
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/you-couldnt-make-up-mark-24738410
The Foo Fighters have recently taken to performing Bee Gees Covers and releasing a mini album of them for some reason, but they surpassed themselves by doing a surprise performance for the Westboro Baptist Church nutters
The link between Virginia Plain and Up The Junction -
SPOILER WARNING
the title of each song is never mentioned until the last line, apparently the only UK Top 10 songs to do so. Maybe
Slade were Number One when Virgina Plain topped out at Number Four, and The Best Slade On Holiday Sketch Of The Week might be the one featured in Comedy Central's 'TV's Funniest Ever Comedy Sketches: Comedy Gold' (Thursday 10pm)
I don't see that one on Youtube, so here's Slade In Residence instead from the same stable
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