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Hello, a new series begins this week looking for the UK's best part time band. Midge Ure is one of the presenters, so if it's any good Bob Geldof will probably get all the credit. There is also a New American Doc about The Highwaymen and the 26th and 27th airings of that Richest Songs in The World Doc! Change the Record, BBC Four ...



Thursday

7.30pm & 12.30am Top Of The Pops 1981 #29
Steve Wright presents the November 19 edition, featuring Modern Romance, the Pretenders, the Fun Boy Three, ABC, Trevor Walters, Julio Iglesias, Diana Ross, Soft Cell with new dance troupe Zoo

1.05am Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years Of The Top 10
The evolution of feelings and attitudes toward the British singles chart. Documenting changes from the 1952 NME countdown via Pick and Top of the Pops through to the Radio 1 chart show of today



Friday

7.30pm & 12.55am Top Of The Pops 1981 #30
Mike Read introduces an edition from November 1981, featuring performances by Queen and David Bowie, Kim Wilde, Jets, Toyah, Kool & the Gang, Earth Wind & Fire, Cliff Richard and Ultravox

8.45pm Sounds Of The Sixties: The Beat Room
A selection of archive footage from the arrival of the so-called beat boom in 1964, which catered to the art-school craze for rhythm and blues. Featuring performances by Tom Jones, the Kinks, Manfred Mann, the Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker and the Pretty Things

8.55pm Pop Go The Sixties
Procul Harum's 1967 Top of the Pops performance of A Whiter Shade of Pale

9pm & 1.30am UK's Best Part Time Band New!
New series. Comedian Rhod Gilbert and Ultravox frontman Midge Ure set off on an epic road trip across Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to discover Britain's finest music groups, witnessing musicians playing in rehearsal spaces, pubs, barns and bedrooms. From across the UK, more than 1,200 bands have entered the competition, playing rock to reggae, ska to skiffle, bhangra to blues and everything in between. Eventually five acts are selected for a regional heat in Belfast, where they compete for a place in the grand final
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/the-uks-best-part-time-band

10pm & 2.35am The Highwaymen: Friends Til The End New!
The Highwaymen - Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson - were American country music's first supergroup, a quartet featuring the genre's pioneering stars. Between 1985 and 1995, the Grammy-winning group recorded three albums and toured the world. This documentary explores how these men came together and the fruits of their historic collaboration. Contributors include surviving members Nelson and Kristofferson, plus Toby Keith, John Mellencamp and Jessi Colter

10.55pm The Highwaymen Live
Concert footage of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson's country music group, recorded at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, in March 1990. The performance comprises many of the classics they recorded together, and the greatest songs they recorded in their solo careers. Tracks include Highwayman, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Folsom Prison Blues, Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, Always on My Mind, Me and Bobby McGee, Desperados Waiting for a Train, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way and Silver Stallion

12.05am Later With Jools Holland (BBC2 NI)
Extended edition of the music programme. The pianist welcomes Brit award-winners Tame Impala, and Biffy Clyro, whose seventh album Ellipsis is due to be released this summer. Also in the studio are singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka, Brooklyn trio Moon Hooch, singer James Blake, who performs songs from his third album, The Colour in Anything, and Nashville-based musician Lera Lynn, who will be promoting her new LP, Resistor. Last in the series



Saturday

10.45pm & 2.25am The Richest Songs In The World Not New!
Mark Radcliffe presents a countdown of the 10 songs that have earned the most money of all time, along with the stories behind them. He also explains how music royalties work and reveals the biggest winners and losers in the history of popular music

12.15am Biggest Band Break Ups and Make Ups
Mark Radcliffe looks at the highs and lows of life in the music industry. He focuses on the creative tension that produces great material, as well as the pressures that comes with success and fame that can pull groups apart. The presenter looks at the most common reasons for splitting up, alongside the secrets of those that manage to stay together

1.15am Top Of The Pops 1981 #29
Same as Thursday

1.50am Top Of The Pops 1981 #30
Same as Friday



Sunday

11pm Duran Duran at Eden (BBC 1)
Alex Jones and Patrick Kielty introduce highlights of the band's concert from the Eden Project's biomes, which was the climax of a day of live performances at the site celebrating BBC Music Day. An audience of 6,000 enjoy the show, which is one of the first performances on a new international tour promoting the group's 14th studio album Paper Gods. The programme also features special appearances by singer-songwriter Laura Mvula, who performs with the group, and BBC Music Day ambassador Nile Rodgers



Elsewhere, Sky Arts has that really long History of The Eagles on Saturday and Sunday, and The Undertones performed a special concert for Radio Ulster to celebrate their 40th Anniversary, you can stream it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07cys6p


Finally Elvis Presley is a Las Vegas Grand Prix Driver Casino Waiter or something like that in Viva Las Vega (TG4, Sunday 2.10pm). Sure why not?

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Hey, that part time band show looks like it could be great.

Fair play to Sir Bob. When he sets his mind to something, nobody can say no to him.

:pac: Vienna still sounds as good today as when The Rats first played it.

They supported The Who in 1962 ... and they are still going!

That's dedication to the cause.

To be fair, The Who have also kept it going pretty well

Bombskare playing a gig in Belfast ... their name used to get mentioned a lot around Belfast in the 70s and 80s, not so much in recent years.











Sorry

I don't think there's a band on the planet in any genre that wouldn't have benefited from having Johnny Cash in it.