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

Welsh Megaman

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Exactly - no racial tension, no skinhead aggro…just the Specials fans, of all races and colours, having a great time. 🙂

bodhrandude

The BBC 6 Music Session gig was that during the pandemic as they all seem very spaced apart on the stage. Have always regretted never seeing the Specials and I'm annoyed Electric Picnic didn't think to book them in 2019 seeing they were touring Northern Ireland on the week leading up to the festival.

AndrewJRenko

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A tradition carried enthusiastically on by Dropkick Murphys.

dasdog

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Is é sin amárach ;) Also trust you got the notification about the April dates in the NCH being moved to July?

Not to everyone's taste but BBC2 have a night of Ella Fitzgerald tonight including a session with the magnificent Canadian Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson - he's in the top three of all time and she is fighting for first place with Sarah Vaughan in the vocal world.

bodhrandude

I don't know if its repeated much but Pink Floyd's Technicolour Dream is starting in about 15 minutes on Sky Arts, a 2 hour documentary about the gig at Alexandra Palace in 29th April 1967.

Edit: Actually getting conflicting info from different tv guides, my Sky App says 12.15 am start whilst other guides are saying the programme starts at 1.15 or 2.15 am.

Hippodrome Song Owl

The Terry Hall night on BBC4 was brilliant. So many great songs. Hard to believe he's gone. A new 6-part drama set against the two-tone scene in Birmingham and Coventry started tonight on BBC1. I enjoyed episode 1, looking forward to seeing how it develops.

bodhrandude

Record On about New Orders 1983 Power Corruption and Lies on Sky Arts now.

Welsh Megaman

Crazy to think that Martin from Brotherhood Of Man was twenty-nine years old in this performance!! 😮

Tough paper round in the seventies, etc. 😁

Welsh Megaman

Marvin Gaye live at Montreux right now on BBC Four.

Welsh Megaman

Didn't know Marvin Gaye covered 'Blurred Lines', etc.

odyssey06

Catching up on 1995... the Childliners charity xmas song... Boyzone, East 17, Sean Maguire, Danni Minogue and lots of other pop acts. So awful it doesnt get replayed even at xmas. The only surprise is no Ant and Dec.

dasdog

Thought I'd seen this before but thankfully I was wrong. Of the 19 other performers that year I would liked to have seen:

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
B.B. King
Dizzy Gillespie
Elvis Costello
Fats Domino
Jimmy Cliff
Van Morrison

Some quality in there and Van's performance is stunning.

Welsh Megaman

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The crazy thing about that Childliners collective is the fact that one group taking part got barely any screen time - The Backstreet Boys. They would within two years become one of the biggest bands in the world whilst the rest (Deuce, Ultimate Kaos, MN8) would be gone within a year.

Oscar Bravo

ABBA at the BBC on BBC 2 now is fab

bodhrandude

This Town starting in approx 17 minutes on BBC 1 a coming of age drama about growing up in the two-tone era in the UK, worth a watch. Third episode.

Oscar Bravo

Eurovision 1974 in full on BBC 4 now

odyssey06

Mary Kiani anybody?

Nope. I have no recollection either!

Kudos for getting bagpipes into a ballad torch song scottish style on TOTP.

ps its de boyzone lads doin de intros

smurf492

Sang with the time frequency…dance/ trance stuff

odyssey06

And the time vortex has randomly deposited us in 1992. Again.

Jordan 199

Marshall stacks. Yay!!

Welsh Megaman

The Wombles! Yay!

Arthur Daley

An early TOTP here that is shown for the first time in 50 years and isn't yewtreed

5 days after ABBA won the Eurovision.

The style is chronic, with the Wombles being the best dressed act

Welsh Megaman

The Glitter Band responsible for the greatest album cover of all time…

odyssey06

The Rah band... I hope they skipped NI on their tour.

dasdog

Remember watching that 2006 Hootenanny with Amy Winehouse and trying 90% Polish vodka for the first time without watering it down - amateur error. Just like John Kelly presenting her with a platter which included shellfish at the end of this Other Voices performance.

Welsh Megaman

BBC Two gets very ‘grungy’ tonight.

9.25pm Kurt Cobain: Moments That Shook Music

10.10pm When Nirvana Came To Britain

11.10pm Foo Fighters at Reading 2019

1.10am Foo Fighters and More: Live Lounge Special

Welsh Megaman

Wow!

Never knew Pearl Jam went to the White House, let alone advise Bill Clinton not to make a national address. 😮

Welsh Megaman

You just know most of the people at the Kurt Memorial weren’t even ‘grunge’ fans - they were probably listening to Warrant last week.

Still, ‘Cherry Pie’…great song. 😁

dasdog

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I'll see your Warrant and I'll raise you Stryper.

God that was depressing. Thankfully I'd moved to the electro world at that stage so didn't really give a shyte.

Welsh Megaman

Urrgghh…Jo Whiley pretending to be an ‘outsider’ when she was already well known as a face on the London ‘luvvie’ media scene.

Not fooling anybody, dear.