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Ol' Donie wrote: »

Had this conversation (minus Supergrass, to be fair), with a mate a few weeks ago.

I don't want to admit it's just me getting old...there really are flip all good bands these days.

Remember hearing Kings Of Leon were the biggest band around a while ago. Is that where we've got to?

Exactly. You try to be open minded but Sam Smith? That's how I would have sang the day I was rushed in for an emergency hernia operation.

Well, it's Psychedelic Night on BBC Four. Not sure if that will make the cut, again. Nothing new, as usual.

Elsewhere there is lots for fan of The Who (Whovians?) to enjoy scattered around the channels.




Thursday

7pm & 1am Top Of The Pops 1980
Tommy Vance presents an edition originally broadcast on October 16, 1980, with music by Showaddywaddy, Adam and the Ants, Matchbox, the Police, Madness and George Benson. Plus, guest appearances from Suzi Quatro, Dollar and Michael Palin

11.30pm The Windmill Lane Sessions (TG4)
The Windmill Lane Sessions aims to profile some of the best Irish and International musical acts on the scene right now. The exclusive content filmed at the iconic Windmill Lane Recording Studios features live recordings and exclusive interviews with music artists in the environment that they call home - the recording studio. With three new artists in each episode, the Windmill Lane Sessions gives viewers a chance to hear and see their favourite musicians, recorded live and unvarnished. This week the artists are Re, Original Rude Boys & Alien Envoy.

Midnight (Old) Later With Jools Holland (TG4)
Florence and the Machine perform songs from second album Ceremonials, the follow-up to platinum-selling 2009 debut Lungs, and Kentucky rockers My Morning Jacket showcase tracks from their sixth release Circuital. Tuareg musician Bombino makes his debut on the show, playing material from the critically acclaimed Agadez, and the Who's Pete Townshend chats to Jools about the re-release of the band's 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia, before performing two tracks. Rounding off the bill are Suede frontman Brett Anderson with material from Black Rainbows, Mary J Blige and singer Al Spx, alias Cold Specks, from Etobicoke, Canada



Friday

8pm TFI Friday (Channel 4)
Chris Evans hosts the lively entertainment show. The week's guests include singer Justin Bieber, actress Dawn French, hip hop stars Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, X-Men: Apocalypse actor Nicholas Hoult and synthpop duo Hurts


9pm & 1am Tubular Bells: The Mike Oldfield Story
An insight into the life of the acclaimed musician and the circumstances in which he - at 19 years of age - produced the biggest-selling instrumental album of all time, Tubular Bells. From life growing up seeking solace in music, to performing at the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, Mike reveals the struggles behind his unprecedented success story. With contributions by Richard Branson and Danny Boyle


10pm & 2am Psychedelic Britannia
The rise and fall of arguably the most visionary period in British music history, when between 1965 and 1970 a handful of dreamers re-imagined pop music. The psychedelic era produced some of the most ground-breaking music ever made, pioneered by young improvising bands like Soft Machine and Pink Floyd, then quickly taken to the charts by the likes of the Beatles, Procol Harum, Small Faces and Moody Blues. This film, narrated by Nigel Planer, features contributions and freshly shot performances from artists who lived and breathed the psych revolution


11pm & 3am Totally 60s Psychedelic 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 pre-rocker Status Quo, a rustic looking Incredible String band and a youthful Donovan. Plus, Bonzo Dog Doo Band, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity, the Moody Blues, Joe Cocker, the Move, Procol Harum, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and the Who


Midnight: Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
The making of the Beatles' self-directed TV movie Magical Mystery Tour, which originally aired on BBC1 on Boxing Day 1967 at the height of the band's popularity - but was greeted with disdain by the media and many viewers. The programme explores the creation of the surreal tale and investigates why it inspired such a furious critical reaction, and also asks whether opinions about the film have changed in subsequent years. With contributions by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Peter Fonda, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, Neil Innes and Paul Merton


11.35pm (Newish) Later With Jools Holland (BBC2)
Extended edition of the music programme. Duran Duran perform a couple of tracks from their 14th studio album Paper Gods plus a few of their classic pop hits, while John Lydon's post-punk originators Public Image Ltd return to the show to play tracks from their recent 10th studio album, What the World Needs Now. There are also performances from alt-R'n'B exponent Miguel, Canadian singer-songwriter Frazey Ford and north London-based newcomers Wolf Alice and Little Simz

12.35am Film: Tommy
A teenager is struck deaf, mute and blind by a childhood trauma. He finds self-expression through pinball, proving his worth by beating a master of the game. However, the pressures of fame take their toll on the youngster, who becomes the focus of a religious cult. Ken Russell's rock opera based on the Who's album, starring Roger Daltrey, Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Robert Powell, Jack Nicholson, Tina Turner and Keith Moon




Saturday

11pm Psychedelic Britannia
as above


Midnight Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock at the BBC
as above


1am BST Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
as above, and the clocks go back at 2am, which means ...


1am GMT Top Of The Pops 1980
that TOTP also starts at 1am. Madness. Same as Thursday


11.05pm TFI Friday (Channel 4)
5 minutes longer than it was on Friday




Elsewhere Sky Arts has double Led Zep on Saturday, A to Zeppelin at 7.40pm followed by the full 150 minute 2007 Celebration Day Concert at 9pm. After that, they have The Story of The Who. Hope there is something there to interest you.

I didn't realise that was a new one. A lot of these 'Britannia' Docs cover similar territory.

But sure I'll stick on a tape for the repeat tonight. Just in case it isn't repeated a dozen times before Christmas!

Someone who pops up regularly on BBC Four music programmes is Keith Richards. He was the guest on Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 this week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kb0fw

He was in good form, as always. Mostly chose Classic Blues but also had an agonising decision about whether to bring a Mozart or Vivaldi record to the island.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/25/stones-music-bbc

Hello, Marshall Amp Doc again! Never gets old. And a new thing abut Girl Bands which could go either way. Elsewhere, another chance to see Brian Pern and Sky Arts raises their game for Halloween.


Thursday

7.30pm & 1am Top of The Pops 1980
Peter Powell presents an edition originally broadcast on October 29, 1980, with music by Adam and the Ants, Odyssey, Bad Manners, Sheena Easton, Cliff Richard and Olivia Newton-John, Showaddywaddy and Barbra Streisand


10.30pm & 2.05am Brian Pern: A Life in Rock
Series 2 Ep 1/3 Spoof documentary about the former frontman of a progressive rock group, last seen presenting a history of music in BBC Four's The Life of Rock. In the opening episode, Brian and his Thotch bandmates reunite to discuss the making of a musical based on their songs, but it is not easy as they hate each other. Not only that, on the opening night of Stowe Boys, Brian is unexpectedly arrested by officers from Operation Bad Apples for a crime he doesn't know he has committed. Will he make the second half of the show? Written by Rhys Thomas and Simon Day, who also stars as Pern, with Michael Kitchen, Paul Whitehouse and Nigel Havers


Midnight (TG4) The Windmill Lane Sessions
This week the artists are Paul Brady, Bairbre Anne and Gavin Glass. The exclusive content filmed at the iconic Windmill Lane Recording Studios features live recordings and exclusive interviews with music artists in the environment that they call home - the recording studio. With three new artists in each episode, the Windmill Lane Sessions gives viewers a chance to hear and see their favourite musicians, recorded live and unvarnished. This week the artists are Paul Brady, Bairbre Anne and Gavin Glass.


12.30am (TG4) Later with Jools Holland (Old)
Joining Jools Holland on the show will be Lou Reed and Metallica, Steve Earle, Various Cruelties, Nile Rodgers, Aaron Neville, Keb' Mo', Hollie Cook, The Soul Rebels Brass Band.



Friday

7.30pm Sounds of The Seventies
Archive performances by groups and solo artists from the decade, beginning with music by the Kinks, Roxy Music, Elton John and Queen, plus a rendition of The Jean Genie by David Bowie recorded in January 1973


9pm & 1am Play it Loud: The Story of The Marshall Amp
Archive performances by groups and solo artists from the decade, beginning with music by the Kinks, Roxy Music, Elton John and Queen, plus a rendition of The Jean Genie by David Bowie recorded in January 1973. Viewers are advised to turn their Volume up to Eleven.


10pm & 2am Girl in a Band: Tales from the Rock 'n' Roll Front Line
Journalist Kate Mossman tries to look beyond the cliches of fallen angels, grunge babes and rock chicks as she gets the untold stories from rock's front line to discover if it has always been different for female members in a band. Contributors include Elkie Brooks and Carol Kaye


11pm & 3am Girls in Bands at the BBC
Compilation of performances by some of the best female musicians in rock, from the 1970s to the present day. Artists featured include American rock group Fanny, the powerful vocals of Elkie Brooks on Vinegar Joe's Proud to Be a Honky Tonk Woman, the poetry of Patti Smith's Horses and upbeat energy of the Go-Go's on We Got the Beat


Midnight Sings James Bond
A selection of performances of the Bond theme tunes across the years, including Adele's Skyfall and archive clips of Shirley Bassey's Diamonds Are Forever, Tina Turner's GoldenEye, Tom Jones's Thunderball and Matt Monro's From Russia with Love


8pm (Channel 4 TFI) Friday
Chris Evans welcomes guests including Duran Duran and former Girls Aloud member, now X Factor judge Cheryl Cole to his lively entertainment show. Plus, music by Eagles of Death Metal and Foals


11.35pm (BBC2) Later With Jools Holland
Extended edition of Tuesday's show. Elbow frontman Guy Garvey plays songs from his debut solo album and Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan also leaves his regular bandmates behind to join up with Soulsavers. Prolific singer-songwriter, author and activist Judy Collins performs and chats to Jools at the piano, while singer-songwriter and producer Jamie Woon makes his debut on the show in a collaboration with Willy Mason. Also appearing are French electro-swing outfit Caravan, and Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn will performs songs from their collaborative album



Saturday

Midnight Girl in a Band: Tales from the Rock 'n' Roll Front Line
same as yesterday


1am Girls in Bands at the BBC
same as yesterday


2am Top of The Pops 1980
The slightly longer version


10.30pm TFI Friday
Little bit longer than yesterday


11.05pm Later with Imelda May The Imelda May Show. Featuring Jools Holland
Series 1 Episode 1 (Repeat) The singer-songwriter celebrates Ireland's love of music with chat and performances by Jools Holland, Mary Black, Donal Lunny, Zoe Conway, and Mairtin O'Connor and the Riptide Movement


Honourable mention once again for Sky Arts who have this juicy Halloween Double Bill (on Saturday)

9pm The Rocky Horror Show Live
A production of Richard O'Brien's outrageous rock 'n' roll musical from London's Playhouse Theatre

10.50pm Alice Cooper's Halloween Night of Fear
The king of rock horror stages a spectacularly spooky concert with music from his album Welcome 2 My Nightmare, a sequel to his 1975 classic Welcome to My Nightmare, and also featuring three of the UK's most dangerous performers. Including support from the New York Dolls and Arthur Brown

Hmmm. BBC Four, get your act together.

Ah well, some of the Bond themes are good. But they would be better if all the intros had Alan's commentaries, Slán.

Hello, BBC Four new programme klaxon! Something about Cover Versions. RTE have a new TOTP2 homage programme with a terrible name presented by Pat Shortt. It's been a while since they did a music archive show (Des Bishop had something similar years ago) so it's good to see them trying. Elsewhere Sky Arts has more goodies, details below ...



Thursday

7.30pm & 1am Top Of The Pops
Simon Bates presents an edition originally broadcast on November 13, 1980, with music by Iron Maiden, David Bowie, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Spandau Ballet, Abba and Blondie. With special guests Stu Francis and Dr Hook


10.30pm & 2.05am Brian Pern: A Life in Rock
Series 2 Ep2: To mark the very convoluted anniversary of the non-release of his unheard debut solo LP Brian Pern's Musical Version of The Day of the Triffids, the musician plans to stage the entire album live from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro with a host of special guests. The groundbreaking show not only reveals the technical challenges of performing live music, but also the physical strains facing the ageing rock stars of Brian's generation. Spoof music documentary, starring Simon Day, Michael Kitchen, Paul Whitehouse and Nigel Havers, with cameo appearances by Roger Moore, Dan Snow and Tim Rice


Midnight Later with Jools Holland (old) (TG4)
Joining Jools Holland on the show will be PJ Harvey, The Vaccines, Janelle Monae, Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Rey, Jessie J, John Grant and Aloe Blaac.



Friday

7.30pm Sounds of The Seventies
Archive performances by groups and solo artists from one of the most energetic and exciting decades of popular music. Featuring Ken Boothe, Dave & Ansel Collins, Steel Pulse, Althea and Donna, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Janet Kay, Susan Cadogan and the Specials


9pm & 1am Sings Dylan 2
Archive performances by groups and solo artists from one of the most energetic and exciting decades of popular music. Featuring Ken Boothe, Dave & Ansel Collins, Steel Pulse, Althea and Donna, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Janet Kay, Susan Cadogan and the Specials


10pm & 2am Better Than The Original: The Joy of the Cover Version New!
The role of the cover in the pop industry, investigating what it takes to reinvent someone else's hit and following the stories behind 10 cover songs, tracking how artists as varied as the Moody Blues, Soft Cell, Puff Daddy and Alexandra Burke have topped the charts with their retake on someone else's song. Contributors include John Cale, Gloria Jones, Marc Almond, Rick Rubin, Faith Evans and Nerina Pallot. Narrated by Meera Syal


11pm & 3am Ultimate Covers at the BBC
The pop cover has proved a remarkably imaginative and durable form, and this 60-year compilation tracks this pop alchemy at its finest and most intriguing through material sought from the Corporation's archive. Footage includes artists as diverse as the Moody Blues, Soft Cell, Alexandra Burke, Mariah Carey and UB40 scoring chart hits that are, in some cases, perhaps even better than the original


Midnight Sings Bacarach and Davis
Archive performances of songs penned by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, featuring artists including Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, the Carpenters, Sandie Shaw and the Stranglers. The programme also features Bacharach himself performing alongside Rufus Wainwright on Later with Jools Holland


8pm TFI Friday (Channel 4)
Musician Elton John and American actors Julianne Moore and Stanley Tucci join host Chris Evans for some lively banter, together with stunts and skits direct from the programme's new home in central London. Plus, music by the Maccabees and 5 Seconds of Summer


8.30pm Pat Shortt's Music from D'Telly New!
Ep 1/8 New series. Rarely seen performances and much-loved songs from six decades of RTÉ music television production. The first programme features a glittering array of musical memories, including Paul Weller and the Jam's only RTÉ appearance, when in 1978 they performed Down in the Tube Station at Midnight




11.30pm Later With Jools Holland(new-ish)
Extended edition of the music programme. American soul singer and hip-hop star CeeLo Green joins Jools for the first time since 2011 to perform songs from his forthcoming fifth album Heart Blanche. Dan Auerbach of the Ohio-based rock duo the Black Keys brings his side-project The Arcs to the studio to play tracks from their debut release Yours, Dreamily, and west London singer and producer Shura makes her debut appearance on the show. Also featured are Congolese act Mbongwana Star, a Kinshasa group formed by two former members of Staff Benda Bilili, US songwriter and harpist Joanna Newsom and Minnesota indie rock trio Low, who return to with songs from their latest album Ones and Sixes. Plus, Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone of psychedelic rock band the Zombies chat tio the host and perform a couple of tracks, including one of their 1960s classics



Saturday

Repeatorama ...

11pm Ultimate Covers at the BBC

Midnight Better Than The Original: The Joy of the Cover Version

1am Sings Dylan 2

2am Top of The Pops 1980

10.35pm TFI Friday (Channel 4)

11.25pm The Imelda May Show (RTE1)
The singer-songwriter is joined in the studio by pop-rock band the Script, rock group Aslan, singer Derek Ryan and pop-folk duo Hudson Taylor for chat and live performances


Sunday

9.30pm Paddy Moloney: Chieftain
Liam McGrath presents a profile of the musician and founder member of traditional folk group the Chieftains. The film examines the people and music that have influenced Moloney's life and career, and includes specially recorded performances, including collaborations with other musicians



Those nice people at Sky Arts have put on a David Bowie Weekend
http://www.sky.com/tv/channel/skyarts/article/david-bowie-weekend

Discovering: David Bowie​ - Fri 14th at 8pm
​Leading music critics and DJs discuss the life, music, legacy and larger-than-life stage characters of the glam rock legend.

​David Bowie: Serious Moonlight - Fri 14th at 9pm *UK Premiere*
​An electrifying concert film with Bowie at the peak of his powers. Filmed in Vancouver in 1983 during his Serious Moonlight Tour, Bowie takes centre stage, complete with suit, tie and peroxide blond hair.

​David Bowie: Video Killed The Radio Star - Sat 15th at 8.30pm
​Directors David Mallett and Tim Pope among others discuss the challenges, expense, and vision behind David Bowie's music videos.

​David Bowie: A Reality Tour - Sat 15th at 9pm *UK Premiere*
​David Bowie performs tracks spanning his 30-plus years in the business at Point Theatre in Dublin in 2003 as part of the worldwide tour for his Reality album.

​David Bowie: Glass Spider Tour - Sat 16th at 9pm *UK Premiere*
​Bowie's 1987 Glass Spider tour was the biggest live spectacle of his career, serving up a theatrical show of spoken-word performances, elaborate visual effects and extravagant stage props.


Elsewhere, True Romance is on Dave at Midnight tonight, which is worth watching for the theme music alone