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

Hello again, yes this week sees that Rhys Thomas Kemp MockDoc appear on BBC2 (even though it was commissioned by BBC4). Huey Morgan's Latin thing starts on BBC4 while Sky Arts has a load of old Isle Of Wight stuff again, but not the Joni Mitchell one which lands on TG4 ...




Thursday
9pm Glor Tire (TG4)
Music from John Hogan and Ronan Quigley

9.30pm Doolin Folk Festival (TG4)
S1 Ep1 Coverage of the event in its fifth year, featuring Luka Bloom, Susan O'Neill, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Martin Hayes, Steve Cooney and the Paul Brady

10.15pm Who Do You Think You Are? – Boy George (RTE1)
Boy George (O’Dowd) traces his history, which includes a link to Kevin Barry and other Irish people.

11.30pm Other Voices (RTE2)
Fiddle player Colm Mac Con Iomaire founding member of both Kíla and the Frames, plays an array of heart-wrenching tunes from his solo records, joined by pianist Catherine Fitzgerald and singer Síobhra Quinlan




Friday
7pm Queen Hungarian Rhapsody - Live In Budapest (Sky Arts)

7pm Opera Italia (BBC4)

7.30pm Se Mo Laoch – Sarah Griallais (TG4)

8pm Top Of The Pops 1989 – November 16 (BBC4)
Simon Mayo presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on16 November 1989 and featuring performances by 808 State, Lisa Stansfield, Inner City, UB40, Kaoma, Iron Maiden and Phil Collins

8.30pm Top Of The Pops 1989 – November 23 (BBC4)
Jackie Brambles and Jenny Powell present the edition first broadcast on 23 November 1989, featuring performances by Big Fun, Fine Young Cannibals, the Stone Roses, Bobby Brown, Jeff Wayne and Happy Mondays with Kirsty MacColl

9pm TOTP2 Latin Music(BBC4)
A selection of memorable Top of the Pops performances from some of the biggest names in Latin music, including Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Santana, Gloria Estefan and Lou Bega. Probabiliter quia in Huey's in novum spectaculum est cum eo, as they say.

9pm Isle Of Wight – Kasabian 2018 (Sky Arts)

9.30pm & 1.55am Huey Morgan’s Latin Music Adventure (BBC4) New!
The 6Music presenter embarks on a quest to understand Latin Music's enduring appeal. Arriving in Rio, Huey learns that Brazil's newly elected government has come out against the hedonistic atmosphere of carnival and that Mangueira Samba School group is just one of many planning a protest. Later, he meets Gilberto Gil, who pioneered a new, politically conscious sound known as Tropicália. It was so radical - and its social implications so profound - that Gil was imprisoned and finally exiled in 1969. In Salvador, Huey meets percussionist Carlinhos Brown to talk about how afro positive music has shaped the sound of Brazil


9.30pm Isle Of Wight – Stereophonics 2016 (Sky Arts)

10pm Isle Of Wight – Manic Street Preachers 2018 (Sky Arts)

10pm Lewis Capaldi Live (BBC1)
From Liverpool. With an orchestra.

10.30pm Isle Of Wight – James 2019 (Sky Arts)

10.30pm & 2.55am Latin Music - A Session with Bossacucanova and Roberto Menescal (BBC4)
Bossacucanova is a Brazilian musical group combining traditional Bossa Nova with electronica. Pio neer of bossa nova Roberto Menescal, joins the band - which co-comprises his son Márcio - in their Rio studio, for a re-interpreting of classic Bossa hits. With contributions by Mustafa Baba Aussa and Marcio Menescal. Partly in Portuguese with English subtitles

11pm Marc Bolan – Cosmic Dancer (BBC4)
Intimate biography, narrated in the pop singer's own words, first shown to mark the 70th anniversary of his birth and the 40th of his death

11pm Bee Gees One Night Only (Sky Arts)

11.40pm Other Voices (RTE2)

1am Country Music By Ken Burns (BBC4)
Ep 8 of 9 Music Will Get Through (1973-1983) The history of the American art form from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Though no longer heard on country radio, Bluegrass retained its strong core of avid fans. During the same period, Willie Nelson discovered a new music scene in Austin, Texas where hippies and rednecks seemed to get along. Ricky Skaggs had deep Bluegrass credentials, but his time with Emmylou Harris's Hot Band inspired him to experiment with a sound combining the acoustic instruments of a string band with something more electric. BBC Alba has Ep 1 of this series at 11pm, but it is dubbed into Scottish Gaelic with English Subtitles. I mean, if you were high it might be mind blowing…

1am Supertramp Live in Paris 79 (Sky Arts)




Saturday
3pm Norah Jones At Baloise Session (Sky Arts)
4.30pm Simply Red Live In Holland (Sky Arts)
6.30pm Take That Greatest Hits Live (Sky Arts)

6.40pm How The Beatles Changed The World (Yesterday)
Through exclusive interviews and a wealth of rarely seen footage, this film reveals the previously untold story of how four young men from Liverpool transformed the world forever


7.45pm Ed Sheeran - Austin City Limits (Sky Arts)

9pm Beyonce – I am (Sky Arts)
2010 gig

9pm Opry An Iuir le Daniel (TG4)

10.45pm-12.15am TOTP 80s Special (BBC2)
Featuring music by Adam Ant, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, Bucks Fizz, Yazz, Duran Duran, Wham! and Culture Club

10.55pm Wu-Tang Clan – Of Mics And Men Eps 3&4 (Sky Documentaries)

11.15pm Isle Of Wight Festival – Jay-Z 2010 (Sky Arts)
11.45pm Isle Of Wight Festival – Foo Fighters 2016 (Sky Arts)

11.50pm Doolin Folk Festival (TG4)
As Thursday

12.15am Isle Of Wight Festival – Snow Patrol 2007 (Sky Arts)

12.10am Top Of The Pops 1989 – November 16 (BBC4)
12.45am Top Of The Pops 1989 – November 23 (BBC4)

12.45am Isle Of Wight Festival – Kaiser Chiefs 2017 (Sky Arts)
1.15am Isle Of Wight Festival – Liam Gallagher 2018 (Sky Arts)
1.45am Isle Of Wight Festival – Groove Armada 2004 (Sky Arts)
2.15am Isle Of Wight Festival – Rudimental 2014 (Sky Arts)
2.45am Isle Of Wight Festival – Faithless 2005 (Sky Arts)




Sunday
3pm Alicia Keys Live At Baloise Session (Sky Arts)

5pm Festival No 6 (Sky Arts)
Highlights of the music, arts and culture event held at Portmeirion in Gwynedd, featuring performances by Mogwai, the Flaming Lips and a special 50 Years of Sgt Pepper's tribute
https://festivalnumber6.com/

6.30pm Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii 1972 (Sky Arts)

7.45pm Oasis Live At Barrowlands 2001 (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Pat Shortt’s Music From D’Telly (RTE1)
Featuring Mary Black, Colm Willkinson, Sonny Knowles and Elvis Costello

9pm Billie Elish – Austin City Limits (Sky Arts)

9.30pm Meitheal na mBan (TG4)
TV special led by Ireland's top female musicians and artists as they perform directly from their own homes, in a much-needed fundraiser to support the victims of domestic abuse

10pm The Kemps: All True (BBC2) New!
Spoof documentary, starring Gary and Martin Kemp as themselves, following the brothers as they launch new careers in the wake of Spandau Ballet's 40th anniversary celebrations. While Martin tries to get a sci-fi movie franchise off the ground, Gary has a new brand of vegan meat substitute to promote



https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/01/news-kemps-all-true.html

10.15pm Isle Of Wight Festival –Amy Winehouse 2007 (Sky Arts)
10.45pm Isle Of Wight Festival – George Ezra 2019 (Sky Arts)

10.50pm Geantrai (TG4)
Performances by Micheál Ó hAlmhain, Meaití Jó Shéamais, Kevin Crawford and Seán Smyth

11.15pm Isle Of Wight Festival – Kings Of Leon 2014 (Sky Arts)

11.25pm Joni Mitchell Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 – Both Sides Now (TG4)
The singer-songwriter's performance at the festival, featuring Woodstock, Both Sides Now, A Case of You and Big Yellow Taxi

11.30pm TOTP Big Hits 1983 (BBC2)
With Wham!, KC and the Sunshine Band, the Police, Culture Club, Siouxsie and the Banshees, UB40, Duran Duran, the Beat and Bananarama feature, alongside Elton John, Bonnie Tyler and Malcolm McLaren's Double Dutch

11.45pm Isle Of Wight Festival – Simple Minds 20019 (Sky Arts)
12.15am Isle Of Wight Festival – The Specials 2014 (Sky Arts)
12.45am Isle Of Wight Festival – Nile Rodgers And Chic 2018 (Sky Arts)




... so that's about that. Rarely seen as little music stuff on BBC4, the end would appear to be nigh alas. Maybe the long rumoured move of Sky Arts to Free To Air will happen sometime soon to make up for it


There is a Marc Bolan Doc up there, the Youtube bit from the archives this week is another Marc Bolan one from Channel 4 in 1997



That Will Ferrell Eurovision film is on Netflix now, good fun if you are into that
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53217853



And finally, Only Fools and Horses is on GOLD almost every minute of every day, if Bob Dylan did the theme tune it might sound a bit like this

Every mention of BBC Radio 1 FM pains me, as I was all over BBC Radio 1 Medium Wave. (Couldnt get an FM reception except in freak atmospheric conditions)**

Shortly after this period they would close down on MW after Midnight every night just to spite me

Then they pulled the plug completely and were replaced by Talk Radio, later Talk Sport.



** Also, 'freak atmospheric conditions' would be a band I might go to see at a festival just on the strength of their name.