I see a concert by the Manic Street Preachers from 1997 is on Sky Arts tonight. As this comes from the time when they were at their peak (at least commercially) I will give this one a look.
That's the one. To be honest, I turned it off halfway through. I am sure it was an enjoyable gig but as a concert film I wasn't really feeling it.
Was a big deal at the time, biggest show they had played up to that point. Was great, have it on DVD, but haven't watched it for a while.
Sky Arts tonight: Santana: The US Festival 1982 Eric Clapton: Live in California 2001 Eric Clapton: Planes, Trains and Eric Steve Miller Band: Austin City Limits
Missed the "Weller at the BBC" last night on BBC2. Hopefully it gets shown again. I'm sure it will! REM @ The BBC on Friday night was a welcome repeat. EG.
Quite a lot of Glastonbury programmes this weekend. Vintage sets from Radiohead, REM and Al Green are on BBC2 and BBC4 tonight.
...and tonight including Iggy & The Stooges, Arctic Monkeys. Sky Arts - Rush Live in Cleveland, Roger Waters Us+Them, Pink Floyd Pulse-DSOTM live, Rick Mason's Saucerful,...
Noticed the Guy Garvey Archives series is back on Sky, and he's stopped talking in the middle of the songs. Gone for BBC style info boxes. Wonderful. Propaganda on next week!
Has new series started already? I hadnt watched as thought it was a repeat but then saw an episode for 1985 next week that looks to be new. I'm confused what are new and what are repeats. Perhaps i'll just need to record all and check. Sometimes with the Sky listings its not easy to tell.
Watching the Blackmore story now. Not that much into Purple/Rainbow, but it's interesting enough. More than enough ad breaks too, though. But where the heck did David Coverdale get that accent? I thought he was a bit of rough from Redcar, not the bleedin' Duke of Kensington!
Montage Of Heck has been on a couple of times lately on Sky Docs; and on London Live (cheapo freeview channel showing mainly old sitcoms and dodgy British films) they've had the Nick Broomfield doc "Kurt and Courtney". Is the latter a more interesting watch, for the non-committed? I never bought into the whole Nirvana were amazing trip, but I would like to get an insight into what it was all about. EG.
I saw 'Kurt and Courtney' years ago, I think it might have been on Channel 4 a couple of times. As I recall, it has more to do with the conspiracy theory that Kurt's death wasn't suicide, than Nirvana as a musical phenomenon as such, but don't quote me on that. If it's on London Live, it'll be on a few times so yes, I'd probably watch it again (just not tomorrow night at eight, though ).
