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Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Excellent Pulp documentary about to start on Sky Arts

I enjoyed that ... didn't focus on Jarvis nearly as much as you might expect, but the interviews with the other Pulpers and the fans were good.

Brave move to open up the Doc with Common People, I thought.

Hello, new tonight sees the return of the Sky Arts Urban Myths series. A run of short comedy dramas about real or imagined Urban Myths featuring famous names. They aren't all music based but this series includes Freddie Mercury (tonight), Paul McCartney, Grace Jones, Madonna and Mick Jagger. https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/5241/urban_myths_series_3/

Friday sees an unusual doc on BBC4 about 'Rock Island Line' which is new to me, but Billy Bragg claims it made Britain Rock. If you have Freesat you can tune in this new BBC Scotland Channel and find out about the early Scottish Punk scene. Or you could stay up very late and watch a Bowie repeat on RTE2 ...




Wednesday
9pm Urban Myths - Princess Diana, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett (Sky Arts) New!
The return of the comedy anthology that looks at remarkable stories featuring well-known historical, artistic and cultural figures, which may or may not have happened in real life. Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett take their good friend Princess Diana out for a night on the tiles at the Vauxhall Tavern. Comedy, starring David Avery, Mathew Baynton and Sophie Rundle ** If you have Sky On Demand you can stream all of the new series of this now

9.30pm Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender (Sky Arts)
Doc

11.10pm Queen - Live At Wembley 1986 (Sky Arts)



Thursday
6am BBC 6Music Festival Highlights (BBC Red Button, repeated over most of the weekend)
They are getting plenty of mileage out of that festival

3pm Music Icons - Neil Diamond (Sky Arts)
3.30pm Music Icons - The Yardbirds (Sky Arts)

7.30pm & 11.30pm Top Of The Pops 1987 - August 6th (BBC4)
Gary Davies hosts the August 6 edition, featuring New Order, Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram, Sinitta, Samantha Fox, Wet Wet Wet, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Spagna, Los Lobos and Stock Aitken Waterman

11.30pm Other Voices (RTE2)
Performances from Other Voices Ballina, featuring Maverick Sabre, Julien Baker and Mick Flannery

12.15am Brian Johnson's A Life On The Road - Joe Walsh (Sky Arts)
https://twitter.com/SkyArts/status/1114063264202350592

1.15am Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets (Sky Arts)
Repeat of the film that premiered last Saturday



Friday
7.30pm & 11.55pm Top Of The Pops 1987 - August 13th (BBC4)
Peter Powell and Simon Bates host the August 13 edition, featuring performances by Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Rick Astley, Wet Wet Wet, Wax, Kim Wilde, Sherrick, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Pseudo Echo and Hue and Cry

8pm & 12.30am Easy Listening Hits at the BBC (BBC4)
Archive performances by some of the best-known easy-listening musicians of the 1960s and 70s, including Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, Burt Bacharach, the Carpenters and Andy Williams

8pm Queen Live In Milton Keynes 1982 (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Fleadh Cheoil 2018 (RTE1)
John Creedon and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh introduce more of the performers at Drogheda for Fleadh Cheoil 2018. Included in this edition are the well-known McGabhann Family, Paddy Callaghan and Friends and local talent Daragh O hÉiligh. Plus, music from the Hothouse Flowers

9pm & 1.30am Rock Island Line: The Song That Made Britain Rock (BBC4) New!
For the film, presenter Billy Bragg traveled around the United States and Britain visiting sites important to the story of this iconic song. On March 20, 2018 he visited the American Folklife Center and interviewed Stephen Winick about the field recording of Kelly Pace and a group of convicts made by John and Alan Lomax in 1934. Here Steve points out the Lomaxes' note about the session, written directly on the disc sleeve: "Machine set up in the woodyard -- a man went out on horseback & came back with a group of cotton-pickers trotting before him with eagerness." The interview will be featured in the documentary.
https://www.facebook.com/americanfolklifecenter/photos/a.403067714722/10157087584379723/?type=3&theater

9pm & 1.20am Brian Johnson's A Life On The Road - Paul Rodgers (Sky Arts)

10pm & 2.30am Chas And Dave: Last Orders (BBC4)
Documentary offering an insight into Chas Hodges and Dave Peacock's successful five decades in the music industry, which has seen them share the same bill as Led Zeppelin and make a big impact on London's cultural landscape. The film blends archive performances with more recent tour footage and features contributions by Pete Doherty, Jools Holland and Phill Jupitus. Narrated by Arthur Smith


10pm Bad Company Live At Red Rocks 2016 (Sky Arts)
I don't know much about that but it did remind me of these Red Rock Cider adverts.At 1 minute 46 seconds - "Hey You over there in the shadows! ..."


10.55pm Rock n Roll Britannia (BBC4)
A look back at the beginnings of British rock 'n' roll, when acts such as the Shadows and Johnny Kidd and the Pirates helped to lay the foundations of an enduring musical culture. Including the current line-up of the Quarrymen - forerunners of the Beatles - performing Rock Island Line, and contributions by Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde, Joe Brown and Bruce Welch. Narrated by Roger McGough

11.40pm Super Dooper Alice Cooper (Sky Arts)
Documentary about the rock singer, featuring contributions by fellow musicians Elton John and Iggy Pop and lyricist Bernie Taupin


1.55am David Bowie: The Last Five Years (RTE2)
A portrait of David Bowie, told by the people who knew him best - his friends and artistic collaborators. It also takes a detailed look at his last albums The Next Day and Blackstar, and his play Lazarus. Through the prism of this last work, the film shows how, in his final five years, Bowie not only began producing music again but returned to the core and defining themes of his career. Among the contributors are Tony Visconti, Gail Ann Dorsey, Toni Basil and Michael C Hall
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/10-things-we-learned-from-david-bowie-the-last-five-years-122473/



Saturday
11am The Sixties - The British Invasion (Sky Arts)
A look at how American culture was changed by the Beatles and the new wave of British bands and artists that followed

6pm Discovering Music - Black Sabbath (Sky Arts)

6.30pm Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers (Sky Arts)
In 1984, the classic Deep Purple line-up of Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice reunited for the album Perfect Strangers and went on tour. This is the film of their concert in Melbourne, featuring performances of Highway Star, Strange Kind of Woman, Child in Time, Black Night, Speed King and Smoke on the Water


7pm-9pm Guitar Heroes at the BBC (Yesterday)
Featuring Status Quo , the Who, Dire Straits, Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Benson, Leo Kottke, Link Wray, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Motorhead, Nazareth, AC/DC and George Thorogood, Michael Chapman, Horslips and Paco de Lucia

9pm Judas Priest - Live At Wacken (Sky Arts)

9pm Big Gold Dream (BBC Scotland)
Documentary charting the musical history of the post-punk movement in Edinburgh and Glasgow, exploring its emergence in the late 1970s following The Clash's memorable appearance at the Edinburgh Playhouse in May, 1977. Includes contributions by Bob Last, Alan McGee, Peter Hook, Eugene Kelly, Norman Blake, Martyn Ware, Malcom Ross, Douglas Hart and Davey Henderson.
Here is a trailer



11pm Rip It Up Unwrapped (BBC Scotland)
Ep 7/8 A look at some of Scotland's most successful and well loved alternative rock bands - from Idlewild to Franz Ferdinand, and Belle and Sebastian to Frightened Rabbit.

11.30pm The Quay Sessions (BBC Scotland)
Roddy Hart introduces rising stars Fatherson, award-winning soloist Kathryn Joseph, international stars the Magic Numbers and greets the return of KT Tunstall.

11.50pm Top Of The Pops 1987 - August 6th (BBC4)

12.05am Brian Johnson's A Life On The Road - Paul Rodgers (Sky Arts)

12.10am Film Sing Street (Channel 4)
A teenager in 1980s Dublin suffers a troubled life, having to contend with money troubles, his parents' strained marriage, his drop-out older brother and a tough new school. He forms a band hoping to find an escape route, and resorts to criminal measures to shoot music videos. Comedy drama, starring Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen and Maria Doyle Kennedy

12.20am Top Of The Pops 1987 - August 13th (BBC4)

12.55am London Songs At the BBC (BBC4)
A collection of performances from the BBC archives celebrating the sights and sounds of London. The programme includes Petula Clark singing A Foggy Day in London Town in 1965, and Adele performing her love letter to the city, Hometown Glory, in October 2007. Also featuring the Jam, Eddy Grant, Tom Paxton and Lily Allen

1.05am Festival Express (Sky Arts)
Documentary chronicling a five-day train ride and series of concerts across Canada in 1970 that featured Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and Buddy Guy among many more

2.45am The Agony and The Ecstasy (Sky Arts)
Parts 1 and 2 of the Dance and Rave Doc



Sunday
1.05pm My Tribe - Skinheads (RTE1)
A look at the often-misunderstood world of skinheads, revealing the subculture had its roots in 1960s Jamaica but became associated with far-right groups like the National Front. In Irish and English, repeat from Monday The RTE Player has this and the previous episodes, about Mods and Rockabillies.

5.10pm Sean O Sé - A Life In Song and Story (TG4)
In 1962, singer-songwriter Sean O Se was enlisted by composer Sean O Riada for the group Ceoltoiri Chualann, a visionary project that catapulted Irish traditional music onto the concert stage and into the international arena. This documentary traces Sean's continuing development as an Irish singer and storyteller

8pm Discovering Music - Queen (Sky Arts)

9.30pm Se Mo Laoch - Kevin Henry (TG4)
Profile of flute player Kevin Henry, who performed alongside Paddy Killoran, Lad O'Beirne and Joe Cooley, and helped launch the careers of Michael Flatley and Liz Carroll. Sure we are have our dark periods.

10.30pm Mna An Cheoil (TG4)
The history of female accordion players, including the story of Ann McNulty, who found fame in America in the 1920s. With contributions from modern musicians, including Sharon Shannon, Dr. Maire Ni Chaoimh, Josephine Marsh and Verena Commins

11pm Sandy Kelly Ag Ceol (TG4)
From The Strand Bar in Strandhill Sligo
Sandy was a friend of Johnny Cash's and recorded a song with him
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/a-showmans-daughter-26235997.html

11.15pm Brian Johnson's A Life On The Road - Paul Rodgers (Sky Arts)

12.15am Bad Company Live At Red Rocks (Sky Arts)

1.55am Masters Of The Guitar (Sky Arts)
"A film made especially for the major re-launch night of Sky Arts in June 2015. In MASTERS OF THE GUITAR, ten great players of the instrument – from Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi to Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera, Richard Hawley to Wilko Johnson & Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore – were invited to choose the one guitarist that most inspired them." http://www.jamesmaycock.co.uk/masters/
This sounds good. Why is this on at 1.55am on a Sunday Night? I don't know. Sky must have promised Brian Johnson that all his Life On The Road shows get repeated 27 times so maybe there isn't any room for this show.








So yeah, Masters Of The Guitar there being shown very late, to give all the other shows a chance maybe.

Hope there's something up there to interest you, as always do let us know if you see anything else of interest in the schedules

That Hank Marvin appearance with Frank Drebbin in the Red Rock Cider advert up above is as good a reason as any to repeat the best Hank Marvin advert ever of all time, apart from the Red Rock Cider one

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

“Wet Wet Wet in happy beach mode.”

Boo! Boo!

Van Morrison had a credit on some of the album versions of Sweet Little Mystery

Marti and his buddies ripped off the lyrics to Van's song Sense Of Wonder and Van sued them. John Martyn also gets a piece of the action as the song sounds a bit like his song, coincidentally** also called Sweet Little Mystery




They changed the lyrics a bit later on so Van couldn't get his cut anymore.


Van is a bit touchy about Royalties after he got ripped off and saw nothing from Brown Eyed Girl

He released this epic number on his contractually obliged album






http://www.openculture.com/2014/09/three-outlandish-tracks-from-van-morrisons-1968-revenge-album-ring-worm-want-a-danish-the-big-royalty-check.html