50 classic gigs (well, a handful and a load of dross from the usual suspects) get a re-airing at 2 or 3am, introduced by Jo Whiley.
33 are listed so far. The Bill Withers set is fantastic.
get_iPlayer is your friend.
BBC Radio 2 – In Concert at 50
by 12 Comments
Considering they have 50 years of material, they sadly seem overly focussed on the last 10 years.
This always bloody happens with these “fifty years of” things – going after a younger demographic, presumably unaware that people under 30 don’t watch TV.
Anyone using Radio Two to watch TV is probably well over 100.
Is “Sing Something Simple” still on?
*shudders*
I went to a heck of a lot of gigs in the seventies and early eighties. However, most of the best I’ve been to have been in the last decade or so. The sound quality and musicianship are so much better these days. Maybe that’s true for the In Concert recordings.
The truly fantastic January 1973 Focus In Concert will be released for the first time on next month’s 9CD/2DVD ’50 Years: Anthology’ set.
I still have that on an SA90.
I think the idea that the BBC ‘has’ 50 years of material is false. The first year or two of what became ‘In Concert’ was actually ‘John Peel’s Sunday Concert’ and very few of these survive at source. A fair number survive in off-air form, like this:
I am sure a search on the Internet will find many of these concerts. The one I have never sourced is Supercharge from 1976.
Afterwordwhack?
She moved the dishes first….
Precisely. I can find the studio version, but live they were far funnier. At least when i was 15 they were, and at 59 I am seeking to reaffirm this belief. It is possible I would be disappointed if I was to actually find that BBC in concert recording.
Seriously, as you’re the only person here who knows what I’m talking about…
Is that the most stick-out-like-a-sore-thumb track you’ve ever heard on an album?