Sky Arts and other music related programmes

[casapete]

1 hour ago, Lozz196 said:

Just watching Bryan Adams at Radio 2 in The Park on BBC2, with Bryan taking on bass duties. Band sound great, decent enough mix via regular TV speakers.

 

36 minutes ago, Marvin said:

He's seems to be seen as uncool by some, but he is brilliant live. 

 

Keith Scott, his guitarist,  is pretty darn good.

Agreed, just watched it. Keith Scott is a superb player, everything in the right place and tones

to die for. No slouch at 71 either!

Bryan was pretty good too. Didn’t drop a note as far as I could tell, his voice as strong as ever.

Didn't quite understand what was going on when he swapped his Precision for guitar though?

Watching on a small TV I couldn’t tell what happened to the bass - was it keys or on track?
Always preferred Bryan playing guitar anyway to be honest, when he had a regular bassist.

 

[alant]

I enjoyed it also and thought his voice was pretty strong for his age.

 

[steantval]

Tonight BBC2, 10.50pm, Radio 2 in the Park, Def Leppard.

 

Update, that was really good, the guitar sounds were awesome, Joe’s vocals were a lot better than I was expecting 👍

Edited September 8 by steantval

[casapete]

Starting now on BBC2 - Iron Maiden Live in Concert, followed at 10pm by Iron Maiden Flight 666. 

[Marvin]

Nicko, what great character 

[SpondonBassed]

Cream Farewell Concert

RAH 1968

 

21:55 Talking Pictures TV - Freesat 306 Tonight (Thursday)

[SpondonBassed]

Sky Arts 23:00 - 00:20

Tonight Thursday 16th Oct 2025

Ian Dury and the Blockheads... Hold on to your Structure.

"The Blockheads perform live from the Hammersmith Odeon in 1985"

[Richard R]

On 13/09/2025 at 20:56, casapete said:

Starting now on BBC2 - Iron Maiden Live in Concert, followed at 10pm by Iron Maiden Flight 666. 

 

Both available on iPlayer as well. I watched Flight 666 a couple of weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. The contrast between Dickinson in stage costume performing and in his pilot's uniform doing the pre-flight checks made me chuckle, as did the band playing golf. I still don't like the music, but the programme was good fun.

Edited yesterday at 07:20 by Richard R
Grammar

[Leonard Smalls]

Recently I filled in the BBC "what do you want from the BBC" survey... One of the questions was "how do you feel about the amount of music on the BBC?". I answered "want more ", obvs.

They sent the results out yesterday, and I was appalled to see that 22% wanted more, 50% said it was about right and 22% wanted less!

 

[SpondonBassed]

24 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Recently I filled in the BBC "what do you want from the BBC" survey... One of the questions was "how do you feel about the amount of music on the BBC?". I answered "want more ", obvs.

They sent the results out yesterday, and I was appalled to see that 22% wanted more, 50% said it was about right and 22% wanted less!

 

Surveys huh!  What are they good for?  Marketing 'bots, that's what.  And they say the BBC is non commercial.  Cuh!

 

Actually that looks like a fair balance.

 

I wonder what the remaining one percent wanted though?  More coverage of polo for the horsey set?  More egg blowing competitions for hipsters?  A new channel called BBCs and GILFs?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

58 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

looks like a fair balance

It says to me that the majority of people don't really like music...

[SpondonBassed]

39 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

It says to me that the majority of people don't really like music...

 

If you are talking about real music, I agree.  If you are talking about pop however...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

59 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

real music

If you ask my mother, there hasn't been any real music made for about 100years😁

She'd class any popular music as pop racket, whether it's Charlie xcx or Led Zeppelin or the Butthole Surfers!

However, I'd like to see far more music on TV, whether it's modern rnb, dad rock, Japanese Noisecore, Bebop, Baroque, Modernist, goth, street punk, metal, whatever. 

After all, we used to have the Tube, OGWT, Rock Goes To College, TOTP and now we have virtually nowt apart from Glasto once a year, some nostalgia docs(which have far more talking than music) and occasional pop bands on things like Jonathan Ross Show.

It's pretty dire!

 

[SpondonBassed]

10 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

If you ask my mother, there hasn't been any real music made for about 100years😁

She'd class any popular music as pop racket, whether it's Charlie xcx or Led Zeppelin or the Butthole Surfers!

However, I'd like to see far more music on TV, whether it's modern rnb, dad rock, Japanese Noisecore, Bebop, Baroque, Modernist, goth, street punk, metal, whatever. 

After all, we used to have the Tube, OGWT, Rock Goes To College, TOTP and now we have virtually nowt apart from Glasto once a year, some nostalgia docs(which have far more talking than music) and occasional pop bands on things like Jonathan Ross Show.

It's pretty dire!

 

A fair point.  Well made.

[Lozz196]

2 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

If you ask my mother, there hasn't been any real music made for about 100years😁

She'd class any popular music as pop racket, whether it's Charlie xcx or Led Zeppelin or the Butthole Surfers!

However, I'd like to see far more music on TV, whether it's modern rnb, dad rock, Japanese Noisecore, Bebop, Baroque, Modernist, goth, street punk, metal, whatever. 

After all, we used to have the Tube, OGWT, Rock Goes To College, TOTP and now we have virtually nowt apart from Glasto once a year, some nostalgia docs(which have far more talking than music) and occasional pop bands on things like Jonathan Ross Show.

It's pretty dire!

 

Definitely, we were very fortunate having such good music shows on the box. I’d probably be far more knowledgeable about modern music & artists if similar were still on.

[casapete]

I know it’s not popular on here, but ‘Later with Jools Holland’ has been 

championing plenty of music, with 65 series over the last 30+ years. 
It’s been viewed not only here but in much of Europe, USA, Canada

and beyond too. 

[PaulWarning]

4 hours ago, casapete said:

I know it’s not popular on here, but ‘Later with Jools Holland’ has been 

championing plenty of music, with 65 series over the last 30+ years. 
It’s been viewed not only here but in much of Europe, USA, Canada

and beyond too. 

Problem with Jools Holland is it's very eclectic, which is understandable, being about the only  music show on mainstream TV, I record it and finish up watching 1 act if I'm lucky

[Leonard Smalls]

10 hours ago, casapete said:

‘Later with Jools Holland’

Indeed... And while it's often formulaic in terms of acts and Jools always has to smear his boogie on anything he can, it's a shame that this is the only live (occasionally new) music show regularly on TV (that I know of, at least).

This dearth most certainly doesn't help raise interest in any grass-roots live music...

[Mickeyboro]

I miss Top of the Pops. 
 

Really. 

[casapete]

1 hour ago, Mickeyboro said:

I miss Top of the Pops. 
 

Really. 

Me too! 

[Leonard Smalls]

2 hours ago, Mickeyboro said:

I miss Top of the Pops

I remember as a young punky teenager waiting with bated breath through Doctor Hook, Hot Chocolate and a whole host of other MoR pap for a glimpse of Proper Music (eye of the beholder of course!). And sometimes we'd be rewarded with some Siouxsie, or perhaps Ruts, or at a push, Sham 69... And sometimes even 2 or 3 in a programme!

Though I got far more joy from the other music progs as they were live and often Proper - there's just no replacement for these (apart from lonely old Jools); instead it's a diet of fake reality shows and appalling game shows with the incredibly annoying Michael McIntyre.