BeebRock - The BBC4/BBC3/BBC2/BBC1 Music Programmes thread

Hello, the new programme this week is a compilation of rare early Pink Floyd TV performances (from before they were too big to bother with that kind of thing). Another outing for the Genesis Reunion Doc, which looks a bit too similar to Brian Pern's Thotch for comfort. Lots of other stuff too ...



Thursday
7.30pm & 1am Top of The Pops 1982 #20
Simon Bates presents the edition from June 17, featuring music by Natasha, Roxy Music, Echo and the Bunnymen, Duran Duran, ABC, Bow Wow Wow, Queen, Toyah and Adam Ant

1.40am Bee Gees at the BBC and beyond
A compilation of classic performances by the legendary pop trio from the BBC archive. Including renditions of the brothers' most popular hits, 1960s appearances on European television performing I Started a Joke, footage from a Top of the Pops staging of World, and some later concerts from the 1990s



Friday
7.30pm & 12.30am Top of The Pops 1982 #21
An edition first broadcast on July 1 1982, in which John Peel introduces performances by Natasha, Captain Sensible, Visage, Queen, Midge Ure, the Jam and Dollar. Plus, a dance routine by Zoo

9pm & 1am Pink Floyd Beginnings 1967-1972 New!
After The Dark Side of the Moon became a global smash in 1973, rock band Pink Floyd concentrated on the creative freedom of live performance, leaving the world of TV behind. Now, after painstaking research, tapes of some early historic appearances have been tracked down and compiled, offering an insight into Floyd's initial work, and providing clues as to the origins of their later material

10pm & 2am Totally 60s Psychadelic Rock at the BBC
A compilation of the genre from programmes such as Colour Me Pop, How It Is, Top of the Pops and Once More with Felix. Performers include Status Quo, the Incredible String Band, Donovan, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger and the Trinity, the Moody Blues, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Joe Cocker, the Move, Procol Harum, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and the Who

11pm Genesis: Together & Apart
Many schoolboys get together to form a band, but few of them go on to become multi-million-selling recording artists - but that's what happened to Genesis. Its core members - Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks - met at Charterhouse, a public school in Surrey, and began playing together with two other students in 1967. A few years and personnel changes later (including the addition of drummer Phil Collins) and the classic line-up was in place. But relationships within the band were fraught; Gabriel left for a solo career in 1975, and Rutherford, Collins, Banks and Steve Hackett carried on without him. Here, they're back together again to discuss their careers. Rare archive footage helps tell the story

11.05pm Later With Jools Holland (BBC2)
Extended edition of the music programme. Making their debut on the show a mere 57 years after they launched are vocal harmony legends the Temptations, who are still lead by original member Otis Williams. Williams' Temps will reprise a couple of their classic hits around Jools' piano. Plus, LA-based singer songwriter KT Tunstall, plays a song from her recent album, Kin. Also appearing are Stax-influenced Alabama band St Paul and the Broken Bones, London electro-pop four piece Teleman, Minnesota-based singer-songwriter Haley Bonar and Let's Eat Grandma, an experimental pop outfit from Norwich

1.25am The Filth and The Fury (Film 4)
Julien Temple's documentary charting the trailblazing career of notorious genre-defining punk band Sex Pistols. Including classic well-documented moments such as the expletive-laden live television interview with Bill Grundy, which shocked the UK in 1976, as well as previously unseen concert footage, contributions from surviving members, and an interview with their former manager, the late Malcolm McLaren

3am Prog Rock at the BBC
Footage from the BBC studios of some of Britain's most popular progressive rock bands dating back to the early 1970s. Including performances by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Genesis, Caravan, Barclay James Harvest, Gentle Giant, Family and Atomic Rooster



Saturday
10.55pm & 2.35am Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell
A profile of the rock star's life and career, reflecting on the music that propelled him to fame and charting his journey from an overweight, bullied child to his larger-than-life persona and icon status. Featuring an interview and performance by the singer, as well as backstage footage from a Las Vegas concert. The film also revisits the Dallas of Meat Loaf's early years and includes insights from high school friends who reveal where the unusual moniker really came from

11.55pm Heavy Metal Britannia
Documentary tracing the genre's emergence in the late 1960s, pioneered by bands including Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, who were based in the industrialised Midlands. This classic form of metal was challenged by punk in the late 1970s, before a new wave of groups such as Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon reinvigorated the style. Featuring contributions by Ian Gillan, Glenn Tipton, Lemmy, Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford, guitarist Tony Iommi and keyboard player Jon Lord. Narrated by Nigel Planer

1.25am Top of The Pops 1982 #20
Same as Thursday

2.05am Top of The Pops 1982 #21
Same as Friday



Sunday
9pm Aberfan - A Concert to remember
Tim Rhys-Evans presents highlights of a special concert from Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan tragedy. The concert features the premiere of Cantata Memoria by Sir Karl Jenkins and Mererid Hopwood performed by Bryn Terfel, Elin Manahan Thomas, Catrin Finch, David Childs, violinist Joo Yeon Sir, massed children and adult choirs, and Sinfonia Cymru

10pm Arena: The Roundhouse - The People's Palace
The history of the London concert venue, from its opening in 1966 for the launch of a radical newspaper, to the present day. The programme explores its contribution to the worlds of rock music and alternative theatre, and how it continues to influence future generations with outreach and youth programmes offering young people a starting point for their own art

11pm Pink Floyd Beginnings 1967-1972
Same as Friday

12.05am Film: Begin Again (2013)
A singer-songwriter is left cast adrift when her boyfriend leaves her after becoming a star. While performing in New York's East Village, she meets a record company executive whose career is in tatters, beginning a collaboration that turns both their lives around. Comedy drama, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. From The Director of Once and Sing Street.



Sky Arts begins a repeat of their Soundbreaking Doc on Friday at 9pm, about the evolving art of music recording

Other shows on that Channel include

Friday 10pm Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live from Gatorville (2006)

Friday 12.30am Lambert and Stamp (Doc)

Saturday 9.30pm Madness Live

Saturday 11.30pm The Story of The Jam: About The Young Idea (Doc)

Saturday 12.45am Blur: New World Towers (Doc)

Sunday 10pm Too Young to Die (Kurt Cobain Doc)

Sunday 11.10om Classic Albums: Nirvana Nevermind


That's about it, Movie Soundtrack of the weekend might be Pulp Fiction (Comedy Central, Friday 11pm). Sure why not?

BandMember wrote: »

Some cracking shows on this weekend! Also, I have to say a huge thank you for your weekly post telling us what's on - it's greatly appreciated and please keep doing it. Thanks a million!

Cheers BandMember

It's a bit of fun and thanks to everyone who joins in with comments, links, listings or anything at all.

I see Channel 4 have a Metallica film thing on Monday Night at 1.50am (Early Tuesday)

Metallica: Through The Never
A roadie working for the heavy metal band is sent to retrieve a package from a broken-down tour bus during a gig. The simple errand turns into a surreal adventure when he is hunted through the night by a mysterious horseman. Thriller, starring Dane DeHaan and Kyle Thomson, featuring footage of Metallica in concert

... Still can't believe Trio sold that many records, another chance to see them on TOTP this week (might be a video, not sure). Elsewhere if you like female American Country Singers then you're in luck on Friday Night. For everyone else it's slim pickings ...




Thursday
7.30pm & 12.30am Top of The Pops 1982 #24
Simon Bates presents the edition from July 22, featuring music by the Belle Stars, Madness, Bananarama, the Brat, Trio, Junior, the Stranglers, Dollar and Irene Cara

8pm Buble at the BBC (BBC1)
Entertainment special in which crooner Michael Buble performs a selection of his best-known hits as well as songs from his new album Nobody But Me, accompanied by his band and a 30-piece orchestra at MediaCity UK in Salford. In between numbers he also talks to Claudia Winkleman about his career, marriage, fatherhood and more



Friday
7.30pm & Midnight Top Of The Pops 1982 #25
Mike Read presents the edition from July 29, featuring music by Dexys Midnight Runners, Hot Chocolate, the Firm, David Essex, Yazoo, Paul McCartney, Irene Cara and Cliff Richard

9pm & 12.35am Country Queens at the BBC
A compilation of archive performances by female country-music stars from a variety of BBC studio shows. Featured acts include Bobbie Gentry, Anne Murray, Emmylou Harris, Taylor Swift, Crystal Gayle, Tammy Wynette, Billie Jo Spears, and Lucinda Williams with Mary Chapin Carpenter

10pm & 1.35am Sisters in Country: Dolly, Linda and Emmylou
How Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris's careers took off in the 1970s with very distinct takes on country music, before they came together to collaborate on a successful album in 1987. The artists talk about uniting as harmony singers, focusing on how their alliance made them pioneers in bringing different music worlds together and raising the game for women in the country tradition

11pm & 2.35am The Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue at Royal Albert Hall
The country star performs some of her biggest hits at the Royal Albert Hall, including Biscuits, Silver Lining and Merry Go Round

11.05pm Later With Jools Holland (BBC2)
Extended edition of the music programme, featuring performances by London-based electronic music production duo Chase & Status, also known as Saul Milton and Will Kennard, and Oxford's Glass Animals. Plus, Puerto Rican guitarist and singer Jose Feliciano makes his debut on the show, along with Joseph, aka Oregonian sisters Natalie, Allison and Meegan Closner, Californian Nick Waterhouse, and Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells. Last in the series



Saturday
10.35pm & 2.05am Elvis: That's Alright Mama 60 Years On
Actor and musician Sam Palladio hosts a musical tribute to Elvis Presley, originally broadcast 60 years after the artist recorded his first single That's All Right at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The presenter traces Elvis's story from a childhood spent in poverty to the moment he entered a recording booth to perform the track that would act as a springboard to his success. Featuring performances of a selection of the King of Rock 'n' Roll's finest songs from artists including Candi Staton, the Pierces and Laura Bell Bundy

11.55pm Sings Elvis
Compilation of cover versions of Elvis Presley hits, originally shown in 2010 - the year that would have been his 75th birthday. Artists featured include Cliff Richard, John Cale, Paul McCartney and Tom Jones, and Carl Perkins and Mac Davis perform songs they wrote but which Elvis made famous

12.55am Top of The Pops 1982 #24
Same as Thursday

1.30am Top of The Pops 1982 #25
Same as Friday



Sunday
9pm The Nation's Favourite Elvis Song (ITV3)
A countdown of the King's 20 greatest hits, from Heartbreak Hotel to Hound Dog, It's Now or Never to Jailhouse Rock, as voted for by the British public. The programme, narrated by Zoe Ball, features archive footage and home movies, and contributions by different generations of stars who have been influenced by him, including Michael Buble, Cliff Richard, Cerys Matthews and Engelbert Humperdinck. There's also an interview with Elvis's ex-wife Priscilla Presley and stories from a host of songwriters, backing singers and musicians who worked with him



Not sure why all the Elvis Repeats are on, it's not his anniversary. Not that he's dead, of course. On Sky Arts, it's all a bit meatier including

Friday
10pm Classic Albums: Frank Zappa
11pm Sunset Strip (Doc)

Saturday
7.15pm Neil Young Musicares Tribute Concert
8.30pm Deep Purple: Perfect Strangers (1994 Concert)
11pm Iron Maiden Flight 666 (2009 Doc)
1.10am Discovering Music: Iron Maiden


And that's about it, For Movie Soundtrack of the week you might want to choose Trainspotting (Film Four, Friday 10.50pm). Hope the sequels going to be good ...