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

Originally Posted by Skid X View Post
12.35am Synth Britannia
An examination of the musical backdrop of the 1980s when synthpop was all the rage, having been popularised by bands including Depeche Mode, Ultravox and Soft Cell. The documentary also studies how this genre influenced the future of electronic music and groups such as Pet Shop Boys and New Order. Featuring interviews with Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant

mzungu wrote: »

Thats the shot right there.

Yeah, that was excellent. It's on again on Friday 30th January at 11pmfor anyone who missed it.

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Can I just mention that it happened to me again.

11pm The Beatles Please Please Me....Yaaay!

....awww, it's that remake yoke again...

I hear you, Donie. Mark Radcliffe seems to be on with either that or the richest songs at least once a month.

It would be nice if the BBC would do a big epic new Beatles documentary ... or even repeat the Beatles Anthology (even if it was on ITV first time around). I know money is tight but they need to make an effort.

Ed Sheeran's Storytellers gig will be broadcast live from Whelan's tonight at Midnight on MTV Music (Sky 350 and UPC 708)

And there are more Ed Sheeran shows on MTV from 9pm.

Hi, We have another chance to see the recent Genesis reunion again. It was on fairly recently but you might like to turn it on again (sorry). There is also a new (to BBC4) Genesis concert from 1981. The Queen Documentary Double Bill also gets another outing. It could be worse, for once they resisted the tempation to show the biggest earning songs thing again ...


Thursday

8pm & 1am Top Of The Pops 1980
Mike Read presents an edition first broadcast on January 24, 1980, featuring performances by the Buggles, the Nolans, Suzi Quatro, Dollar, Barbara Dickson, Matchbox, the Regents, Joe Jackson, the Pretenders, the Specials, Shelia B Devotion and the Boomtown Rats. Plus, dance sequences by Legs & Co

1.40am Wild Boys; The Story of Duran Duran
Documentary about the new romantic band who ruled the charts during the 1980s with hits including Girls on Film, Hungry Like the Wolf, Rio and Save a Prayer. The band's image, relationships and lifestyles are examined, as the programme follows their climb to superstardom before they fell out of the public's favour. Featuring interviews with band members John Taylor, Nick Rhodes and Simon Le Bon as well as contributions by Debbie Harry and Lou Reed



Friday

7.30pm Sounds of The Sixties
The Folk Revival Archive footage with an acoustic theme. Featuring performances by Pat Seeger, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Tim Buckley

9pm & 12.40am Genesis: Together and 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

10.30pm & 2.10am Genesis; Three Sides Live New!
Genesis filmed in November 1981 on the Abacab tour in North America, originally released on VHS to coincide with the live album of the same name. It has only ever been released on DVD in the limited edition box set The Movie Box 1981-2007. Originally filmed in 16mm, the footage has now been fully restored and is being reissued as a standalone DVD and Blu-ray for the first time.
The show focuses on tracks from the Duke and Abacab albums, and the tracks are intercut with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the band members. As ever with Genesis, the show is visually stunning and it captures the band in their transition from their progressive days in the 70s through to the hugely successful pop/rock act they became from the mid-80s onwards.

11.55pm TOTP: Genesis
A celebration of the rock group that delves into the archives for performances by the band and its members past and present, including clips of solo material by Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins as well as Mike Rutherford's side project Mike & the Mechanics. Featuring I Can't Dance, I Know What I Like, No Self Control, In the Air Tonight, Many Too Many and The Living Years



Saturday

11.20pm Queen: Days Of Our Lives (Part 1)
Part one of two. Documentary telling the story of the extravagant British rock outfit. The band's best-known line-up, consisting of singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bass player John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor, formed in 1971 and went on to become one of the world's most popular rock acts - but their career was dogged by controversy and tragedy

12.20am Queen: Days Of Our Lives (Part 2)
The second part of the documentary focuses on the peak of the rock outfit's fortunes, as they broke attendance records at stadium shows across South America. However, the band suffered a blip as internal tensions increased - until their performance at Live Aid and the 1986 Magic tour returned them to world attention, before frontman Freddie Mercury received devastating news

1.20am Top Of The Pops 1980

3am Sounds Of The Seventies
A collection of rock anthems from the decade, featuring archive performances by artists including Alice Cooper, the Faces, Nazareth, Bad Company, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake and Black Sabbath


11pm BBC One - Robbie Williams: One Night at the Palladium
The former Take That star performs an evening of swing music and new songs recorded at the London Palladium on November 8, taken from his album Swings Both Ways and featuring special guests Lily Allen, Rufus Wainwright and Muppet megastars Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog


If you have the Sky Arts, they've got Pink Floyd, Squeeze, Johnny Cash, Meat Loaf, Peter Gabriel and The Rolling Stones over the weekend

http://www.sky.com/tv/channel/skyarts/listings#/programme-0


That's about it, The Life of Brian is on ITV4 on Saturday at 11.30pm, Sure why not ...

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Thanks, Skid.

Hang on, I thought we had a rule about mentioned Robbie Williams in this thread? :-(

11pm BBC One - Robbie Williams: One Night at the Palladium
The former Take That star performs an evening ... blah blah blah ...featuring special guests ... Muppet megastars Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog

Ah yeah, but the committee invoked this lesser known amendment to the rules :pac:...


Beebrock Rule no. 236 S.34 Clause 7 (commonly known as "The Muppet Clause") ... Any show featuring The Muppets is eligible for inclusion in the listings, even if that show would otherwise be excluded because of its host and/or guests.