Radio 4 are teaming up with 6 Music this weekend. Crikey. Anyhow…
BBC Radio 2 – In Concert at 50
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 are going to do a Glastonbury Best In Show this year
My highlight will be the never before broadcast (you can get it on DVD now, of course) of Mr. Bowie’s set from 2000
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/glastonbury
Just strap on the guitar and thrash it to death
This footage of a clearly ill but still effortlessly brilliant Mick Ronson playing in an empty Hammersmith Odeon never fails to move me
Music homework
Driving home from soccer training, number 1 son just told me with some enthusiasm that his music homework is to analyse 3 pieces from an artist of the 60s or 70s, colour tone, variation etc. Seems like a nice idea and he’s obviously into it. I have to point out at this juncture that any dialog with a 15 year old is rare, so anything that goes beyond monosyllables and grunts is amazing in the first place, let alone enthusiasm. Car rides tend toward silence usually.
So anyway, he said his first thought was HJH, but it seems like everyone else in the class is going that way. You also have to bear in mind this is in a music department talent night where the boys did a *very* convincing Pat Metheny cover where I wasn’t biting my knuckles, so awareness and choice aren’t an issue. Anyway, I piped up with The Dame (70s, Ziggy era, and he’s a fan), but he was ahead of me….he’d already picked the Kinks, all on his lonesome. Fair bought a tear to the eye it did.
Anyway, his “research” (presumably the first 3 results on Google) reveal that some deranged lunatic reckons “All » Continue Reading.