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

Hello, time once again to have a look at what might be on the schedules if nobody important dies before the weekend. Although with Tupac Shakur, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash and the Bee Gees** featuring prominently it's mostly dead people due to appear anyway. Also exciting news if you want to see Cher with a lonely elephant on an obscure channel ...





Thursday
10pm I Am Johnny Cash (Sky Documentaries)
A celebration of the country singer-songwriter built around 12 of his classic tracks spanning four decades, and featuring interviews with his family and friends

11pm Other Voices – Elbow Special (RTE2)
The second single artist special of the series, featuring performances by the Manchester-formed rock outfit Elbow, from Ballina and Dingle




Friday
7.30pm Omos – Micheal D At 80 (TG4)
A special hour of music, song, dance and poems on the occasion of President Michael D Higgins' 80th birthday. With Van Morrisson, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Tolü Makay, Laoise Kelly, Rita Ann Higgins, Steve Cooney, Mary Robinson, Máirtín O'Connor, Ivana Bacik Paddy Keenan, Thomas McCarthy, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Gary Hynes and Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh

8pm Classic Albums: John Lennon – John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Sky Arts)
9pm Classic Albums: The Who – The Who Sell Out (Sky Arts)
I think this is a new run of this series. They might reschedule and put on a repeat of the Bat Out Of Hell episode as a tribute to Jim Steinman, although there's a good chance they won't do that

9pm Top Of The Pops 1990 – December 13 (BBC4)
Simon Mayo hosts the edition first aired on December 13. With performances by Shakin' Stevens, Malandra Burrows, Seal, Chris Isaak, Dimples D, the Righteous Brothers, Yazoo, Black Box and Vanilla Ice

9.30pm Top Of The Pops 1990 – December 20 (BBC4)
Bruno Brookes hosts the edition first aired on December 20. With performances by Snap, Cliff Richard, Vanilla Ice, the Carpenters, INXS, Enigma, MC Hammer, Status Quo, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, and John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

10pm & 2am St George’s Day At The BBC (BBC4)
English acts. Including Elton John, Maddy Prior, Joe Strummer, the Spice Girls and Echo and the Bunnymen.

10pm Britain’s Favourite 80s Songs -1987 (Channel 5)

10pm The Great Songwriters – Noel Gallagher (Sky Arts)

10.30pm Jealous Guy – The Assasination Of John Lennon (Sky Documentaries)

11pm Oasis Live At The Barrowlands 2001 (Sky Arts)

11pm Definitely Dusty (BBC4)
Documentary revisiting the career of Dusty Springfield, Includes interviews with Tom Jones, Elton John, Burt Bacharach, Lulu and Neil Tennant. Tom Jones is also on the Late Late Show tonight

11.35pm The Story Of The Songs – Madonna (Channel 5)

11.45pm Other Voices (RTE2)
As Thursday

Midnight Kate Bush At The BBC (BBC4)

12.15 Oasis Live By The Sea (Southend 1995) (Sky Arts)

1.30am Mavericks – The Legendary Promoters (Sky Arts)
Repeat of last week’s Doc




Saturday
5.15pm Bad Company Live At Red Rocks (Sky Arts)

7pm Guy Garvey From The Vaults (Sky Arts)
Ep 4 1984 - The Elbow frontman looks back at 1984, featuring Madonna's first British TV appearance, performances from Sade and the Style Council, and footage from Culture Club's Japanese tour

7pm and Midnight Cher And The Loneliest Elephant (Smithsonian Channel)
Cher and her charity Free the Wild help to rescue Kavaan - a lonely Asian elephant - from the Islamabad Zoo and relocate him to an animal reserve in Cambodia. https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/the-story-behind-cher-and-her-new-documentary-cher-and-the-loneliest-elephant-40338562.html

8pm Top Of The Pops - The Story Of 1987 (BBC2)

8pm The Great Songwriters – Barry Gibb (Sky Arts)

8.40pm Viva Ceol Tire (TG4)
Country music videos filmed on location in Ireland. They used to have things like this on the Freesat Station ‘Irish TV’ filmed with zero budget with things like Slurry Spreaders and Delapidated Sheds but then it went bust

9pm Roy Orbison- Mystery Girl Unraveled (Sky Arts) New?
The making of the singer-songwriter's final album, featuring interviews with those involved, including Steve Cropper, Tom Petty, Mick Campbell and Jeff Lynne. This is from 2014 but I don’t remember it being on TV recently


Followed by …

10.20pm Roy Orbison And Friends – A Black And White Night (Sky Arts)
In a programme first broadcast in 1988 - the year of his death - the singer performs his greatest hits, including Oh, Pretty Woman, It's Over and Crying. His backing band is made up of stars including Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, kd lang, Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt. The TCB Band which backs all featured artists was Elvis Presley's band until his death in 1977 and includes James Burton, Glen D Hardin, Jerry Scheff and Ronnie Tutt with musical drector T-Bone Burnett. Filmed at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles


9.30pm A Life In Ten Pictures – Tupac Shakur (BBC2 NI, 30 mins earlier in other BBC2 channels. As are all other shows after this)

10.30pm Hip Hop At The BBC (BBC2)
Hip-hop performances through the decades from the BBC archives, including the Sugarhill Gang in 1979 and Run DMC, LL Cool J and Eric B & Rakim in the '80s. Plus, Ice T, Monie Love, Fugees and the Roots in the '90s and latterly Dr Dre featuring Eminem, Dizzee Rascal and Jay-Z

10.50pm Searching For Sugar Man (Sky Documentaries)
Documentary following two fans in search of their musical idol. American singer Sixto Rodriguez enjoyed a brief recording career in the 1970s before fading into obscurity. However, his politically conscious music became incredibly popular in South Africa. Bizarre stories of his death had circulated over the years, but two devotees plan to find out what really became of him

11pm Living With Lucy – Christy Dignam From Aslan (VM2)

11pm The Rolling Stones At The BBC (Yesterday)

11.20pm The RTE Concert Orchestra Performs The Musicals (RTE1)
Killian Donnelly, Susan McFadden and Muirgen OMahony join the orchestra and conductor David Brophy for showstoppers from Oklahoma!, The King and I and The Sound of Music. Presented by Paul Herriott

11.30pm Top Of The Pops - Big Hits 1987 (BBC2)

11.40pm The Rolling Stones Live At Hyde Park 2013 (Sky Arts)

11.55pm Black Music Legends Of The 1980s – Prince (BBC4)

Midnight Meat Loaf – In And Out Of Hell (Yesterday)

12.55am Sinatra – All Or Nothing At All (BBC4)
Ep 2 of 2

1am Looking For Lennon (Sky Arts)
Documentary about the early life of John Lennon




Sunday
3pm Pink Floyd – A Delicate Sound Of Thunder (Sky Arts)
1988 New York. Are you ever more than 48 hours away from a Pink Floyd Concert?

5pm The Beatles, Hippies and Hells Angels (Sky Arts)

7pm Bee Gees Live In Melbourne 1989 (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Comhluadar Cheoil – The Shannon Family (TG4)

9pm Mumford & Sons Live From South Africa 2016 (Sky Arts)

9.30pm The Mighty Ocean (TG4)
A musical piece scored for 12 musicians, touching on the entrancing power of the sea, while questioning mankind's destructive influence on the endangered oceans
https://www.rte.ie/gaeilge/2021/0420/1210986-the-mighty-ocean-culture-and-climate-change-collide-on-tg4/

10pm Se Mo Laoch – Mairtin O’Connor (TG4)
The life and career of Galway accordion player Mairtin O'Connor, a member of seminal groups Midnight Well, Skylark and De Dannan. With contributions from Cathal Hayden, Seamie O'Dowd, Jimmy Higgins, Sean Keane, Dónal Lunny, Zoe Conway, Garry O'Briain, Ciara O'Connor and Sinead O'Connor

10.45pm Flight Of The Conchords (Sky Comedy)
S1 E3 When the boys are mugged, Bret abandons Jemaine who, through mistaken identity, is left to spend the night in a cell with one of his the muggers

1am The Beach Boys Live 2016 (Sky Arts)





There you are, Flight Of The Conchords in the schedules there and Bret McKenzie has written a Morrissey inspired Simpsons episode which hasn't aired over here yet. You'll be shocked to hear Morrissey is unimpressed with this episode which features tracks such as How Late Is Then, Hamburger Homicide and Everyone Is Horrid Except Me and Possibly You
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/19/morrissey-the-simpsons-parody-panic-on-the-streets-of-springfield




There's a new series of 'Cosc' on RTE1 next Tuesday at 7pm - This is a series which looks at things which were banned in Ireland (its in Irish). Next week is about the Dubliners' 'Seven Drunken Nights' Garry Mac Donncha tells the story behind Radio Éireann's banning from the airwaves of Seven Drunken Nights by the Dubliners, the band's 1967 hit that told of a woman's affair under the nose of her drunken husband. The tale of the song's success features John Sheahan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Top of the Pops and an avant-garde British director




Interesting article about when Joe Frazier followed up beating Muhammed Ali to win the Heavyweight World Championship to do a singing tour of Ireland weeks later
https://www.the42.ie/joe-frazier-ireland-5403541-Apr2021/




** Barry's not dead, he has a busy weekend up above, he's also getting royalties from Saturday Night Fever and Grease this weekend and he appears as himself in Only Fools And Horses (GOLD Sunday 10.35am)

https://twitter.com/delboy_ofah/status/951905018977931264?lang=en




... but Bazza takes second pwace to the legendary Tony Angelino for the title of Best Singer appearing in Only Fools And Horses This Weekend (Saturday 5.40pm GOLD)

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

In other news the top proper music video on youtube has beaten Baby Shark Dance (Chinese kids song) which is at 8,383,904,776 views

This one 8,925,160,426 views

I'm never going to get tired of that one!

That's the other snooker song I remember


Also, Captain Sensible appears to have been driving the car when the Drink Driving adverts used to say "If you drink you shouldn't drive, if you do just two will do"

odyssey06 wrote: »

I find the snooker strangely calming... like tetris with the hushed commentary of john virgo.

Yeah, I love a bit of snooker

I think I posted it before, but this vampire musical snooker movie is class