Music On TV - Documentaries/Live Performances

(11-12-2020 23:37 )M-L-L Wrote:  Neil Brand's BBC 4 series about Music in TV is worth a look.

I liked the first one, even if it felt a bit crammed. The second one got so boring, and the third one was a bit better. I did wonder why Miranda Sawyer qualified as a contributor as an ex-Smash Hits journo. Composers and creatives, fair enough, but Sawyer was just some random person really. Is she related to Brand? Does he want to bang her? This is how your mind wanders when a show is that dull. Also Pennies From Heaven was around the same time as Rock Follies, so qualifies more than Singing Detective, just because Brand likes it more. Graphics that said Dr Who was in 1962 was unforgivable too.

(25-12-2020 08:32 )Doddle Wrote:  

(11-12-2020 23:37 )M-L-L Wrote:  Neil Brand's BBC 4 series about Music in TV is worth a look.

I did wonder why Miranda Sawyer qualified as a contributor as an ex-Smash Hits journo.

I agree, but this is a perennial problem with all of these docs now - they foist random contributors and presenters on to them. Why on earth is Grace Dent uniquely qualified to present nostalgic clip-shows of old TV for BBC4 ? Just a for instance....

BBC4 tonight at 9 - Scream for me Sarajevo - Bruce Dickinson looks back on a mid-90s experience

Followed around 11.10 by Metallica @ Glastonbury

Thought Jools' Hootenanny was maybe the best of a bad job. Nice to see BBC2/4 showing the NY concert from Vienna, I thought Brexit might have put a stop to showing that

(29-12-2020 13:53 )Doddle Wrote:  BBC4 tonight at 9 - Scream for me Sarajevo - Bruce Dickinson looks back on a mid-90s experience

Did catch up with this - very moving stuff, especially as for a long time it looks like Bruce has just done his stuff from home and didn't go back to Sarajevo with the others. But - SPOILER - he does go.

Also that thing Jack Osbourne did on his dad Ozzy. Much the usual story, amusing for the corners it chooses to cut (Sabbath get pretty much cut off around 1980).

Sky Arts - Sat 9/1/21 - 19.45 - The Art Of Drumming - Pt.1 of 4
featuring some of the greatest drummers on the planet, past & present, a must watch.

Sky Arts - Sat 16/01/21 - 23.00 - Bob Dylan : No Direction Home - 2 part award winning documentary by Martin Scorsese.

This is Tom Gray, he's in Gomez but these days he's campaigning against the evil mascinations of the music business.

There is iron in his words.

This clip is from the Government committee meeting before Christmas.
Unfortunately it starts just after his killer punch.
To explain: Labels withhold 10% of royalties for breakages.
Breakages?
That right breakages.
You see before PVC, records were made of shellac and say 10% might get broken in transit which they wouldn't pay for. We're talking, say 1940's
Labels atill apply that to streaming.

Yesterday another committee meeting took place and I'd expect it to be on BBC Parliament on Friday. Some points have already made the news. If you'd like to watch it before then then be my guest.

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/a2...82da3fc155

Tom Gray's campaign has a thing:

https://nitter.fdn.fr/MrTomGray

Icon, some 6-part series on rock photographers, from concert pix to magazine covers to studio shoots to the digital age we're now in. About 50 photographers contributed, plus many actual stars from Josh Homme to Zara Larsson to Nile Rodgers to Lars Ulrich. Kerrang is (or maybe was) the only surviving weekly music magazine; possibly partly because there's little mainstream coverage for the scene.

Sky Arts - 22/1/21 - 01.00 - Willie Nelson & Friends : Outlaw & Angel - Artists including Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Kid Rock, Al Green, Ben Harper, Carole King & Jerry Lee Lewis celebrate Willie Nelson's legendary career in LA.