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How far are you prepared to travel to hear a favourite artist?Recently I've been rushing down to London to pick up performances from Charles Mackerras. Most recently at the start of March for Handel's Orlando at the Royal Opera House (I probably...
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Can find Astral Weeks and Moondance and a few of the newies but bog all else. Are they been remastered and the old one's taken off the shelves?RegardsDiccus
20:30 In Concert (1971)21:00 The Artist Formerly Known As Cat Stevens.Alan Yentob presents a documentary telling the story of Yusuf Islam - the singer/songwriter who captured the hearts of a generation in the 60s and 70s with songs like Moon Shadow...
Friday 27th April 2007, 21:00 to 22:00Robyn Hitchcock.Documentary about cult rocker Robyn Hitchcock as he records a group of new songs in his London house, with help from famous musician friends including REM guitarist Peter Buck, songwriter Nick Lowe...
UK Release June 25thUS Release June 26thInfo http://www.donaldfagen.com/news.phpAs this is a DVD set, I hope there is still going to be a release of a new CD Remaster of The Nightfly !
Bought this last week on sale for £5.I had avoided this due to some mixed views I'd read. I bought it as I generally end up doing a mopping up exercise when the discs come down in price ....and?I can hear why some people might not be impressed...
All the BBC links to get to the radio shows or hear now via Realplayer are here.Back in February 2002, BBC Radio 2 broadcast a fascinating, four-part look at the story of Pink Floyd, called "Wish You'd Been Here". It featured exclusive interviews with...
PRETTY THINGS “THE PRETTY THINGS”With sneers on their mugs and hair down to here – and apunkier sound than even the Rolling Stones could produce –the Pretty Things were the British invasion outfit that madeparents and teenagers...
Pete Atkin's albums are very difficult to get these days, but Pete has a nice web site full of his idiosyncratic, but nonetheless superb to listen to songs - click for Pete Atkin music site
Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms, 28th April. Last time I saw them must have been about 1980 at Brighton Top Rank - the bouncers took everyone's studded belts away. God knows what they'll confiscate this time - Well Man pills, heart rate monitors. Still,...
Apparently Warners/Rhino have been secretly mastering the "cream" of their catalogue on 180gm vinyl and they are about to be isssued.As far as I am aware they will only be avaiable from the following linkhttp://www.becausesoundmatters.com/There is no...
It was just announced on R3 that Mstislaw Rostropowitsch has died.A sad loss indeed.
I recently picked up his disc of the 5th symphony with the San Francisco Symphony. I'd been wondering for some time if I was unfairly neglecting these, so when I happened upon this disc, I finally took the plunge. The result was more than a little...
When I was a kid, I used to go around to my cousins house after school to listen to his albums, which included Atomic Rooster's Death Walks Behind You & Deep Purple's Machine Head, among others. I haven't heard either of these albums since then and...
Shirley Collins on folk musicThe first lady of folk talks about folk music on the BBC.
This Forum is well-known for helping people to music that is new to them.I'd like to kick this off by asking not so much about music that is new to me, but rather recommended RECORDINGS.Which JSBach St Matthew Passion?The 'mk 1' John Eliot Gardiner...
Just read the new copy of HIFI+ where they have reviewed the new album from The Young Knives. I first heard this band in the summer and saw then live in Newcastle and Glasgow. If you like the review in the mag then get the album, it is last years best...
I assume I'm not the only one who experences this, but with some albums I just know their great from the minute I unwrap them, while others don't do it for me straight away. When I get one like this I always stick it in the car and play it through a...
Any other devotees here?I have 'Cold Frontier' and have just received 'Witness' (2006). Lovely stuff. Steve Knightley has a great voice, and Miranda Sykes vocal on 'Union Street' is quite wonderful.2007s 'As You Were' now on order too.John.
Heres a copy of a post on another forum re the Cowboy Junkies. Used to have a number of their discs but just couldn't get into them. Maybe it is time to re-visit them.Cowboy Junkies revisit classic albumTORONTO (CP) - It's been 20 years since the...
Just got her latest CD 'Birds' - don't like it as much as the previous 2.
Dear Friends, Sadly this Thread from February has timed out.Bach's B Minor Mass.Two nights ago I dug out the performance under Richter on DG Archiv, and after the performance by Enescu discussed in the earlier Thread, this was something very...
Just been listening to a great live recording of the John Butler Trio from www.archive.org at Moe's Alley in 2003.Anyone have any more recommendations for their albums?I see that they are sold out in their one live appearance at the Roundhouse next month!
Daniel Barenboim has joined the elitist of elite categories, at least as far as complete cycles of Beethoven’s sonatas are concerned. He has recorded the cycle three times, a feat otherwise accomplished only by Alfred Brendel. (Or maybe not. An...