On Saturday on Sky Arts “Genesis - The Last Domino” at 1am. Also footage of Isle of Wight Festival 2021
Maybe I should request that BBC 2 be added to this thread as I find it is showing more interesting music related programmes than BBC4 at the moment! Tonight on BBC 2 there is a new documentary called When Nirvana Came To Britain which examines their visits to the UK between 1989 and 1994.
Have started watching the OGWT 3 hr revival show in chunks on iPlayer. Some new interviews and new performances on there but unfortunately BBC tends to show the same archival clips over and over again and never the full shows. For younger viewers OGWT was a bit like Later but without the irritation of Jools Holland and his boogie woogie. The Music was good as it spanned pre-punk 1970s, punk, new wave. Although in my memory it maybe had a few too many earnest and hairy white blues noodlers, but that may just be my faulty memory. Some good Stones on iPlayer too, in honour of Charlie, including Crossfire Hurricane .
Oh God. I've been watching the Isle of Wight Festival on Sky Arts and I feel so sorry for young people. All the bands are so bland. I've never heard of most of them because I'm so out of touch and I'm glad. None of them have any character or originality. One of them said "two years ago I won X Factor" and everything became clear. Everyone in the crowd was singing along with every lyric. Poor souls. Jimi would be spinning in his grave. Now someone is covering Dancing In The Dark by Springsteen. It's so boring.
Agreed, most new music is so bland. None of these bands have any character, nothing about them at all, typically throw away like most of the stuff in this world nowadays.
Feels like it has been a long time since I mentioned anything on BBC4, but I see tonight there is an episode of The Old Grey Whistle Test featuring Blondie on concert from 1979. I see next week they are also showing The Old Grey Whistle Test concert from Billy Joel. So I hope this becomes a series and they show a few of them. The Elton John concert from 1974 would be great for example.
I'm pretty sure the new BBC music programmes are going on BBC 2 on Saturday nights and now BBC Four is a repeat channel. It has many nails in it's coffin. If that's the case then they should really use the archive and show complete shows and clips that haven't been seen for decades, rather than just repeating shows that have been on many times over the last few years.
I agree. There is so much in the BBC archive that they could show on BBC4. If we are talking about music related programmes, the BBC have filmed so many concerts, whether at Glastonbury or St Lukes Church and that's the more recent stuff. I remember reading years ago about a Diana Ross concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1973. There was someone who worked at the BBC who tried to persuade them to release it, but it didn't go anywhere. Yet I have never seen it repeated either.
BBC4 lost a lot of funding - so much so that they don’t commission new material like they used to. A shame. I think we’ve all seen enough of those “At the BBC” shows to last all our lives.
Not sure if these have been on here before but; Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story. And: Mick Ronson by Gary Kemp. Both on Sky On Demand/Sky Go, and both brilliant doc's in there own right.
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