Channel Highlights w/c 23rd November
Saturday 23rd November, 7.00pm - Neil McCormick’s Needle Time: Lulu
The Beatles told her that ‘Shout’ was their favourite song, David Bowie wanted to work with her, and her career, which began as a 14-year-old in the 60s, has spanned five decades: the lovely Lulu tells interviewer Neil what it was like to be a child star on the road, how record companies didn’t know what to do with her, and how she has found her voice again in intimate gigs of rootsy soul.
Saturday 23rd November, 9.00pm - Let’s Go Disco!
Three hour, three programme special!
There ain’t no stopping us now as we set the mirror ball a-spinning and get down with a boogie night to light your fire and bring on the Saturday night fever: embrace the flares and that funky music at our 70s Disco Party (9pm); make like a love machine with an hour of Sister Sledge, Kool & The Gang, Earth, Wind and Fire and more in Classic D.I.S.C.O. Hits(10pm); and turn the heat up for Disco Inferno (11pm) with the more garish garb and gold medallions the merrier. That’s the way (uh-huh, uh-huh) we like it!
Sunday 24th November, 5.00pm - John Robb: My Vintage (and Thursday 28th November at 10pm)
This vocalist with punk band Goldblade and music commentator and writer, champions the weird and the wonderful from punk, post punk, goth, glam rock and more for his top tracks, and reveals how he was one of the first to interview Nirvana, which rock ‘n’ roll band he believes is the greatest England has produced and how music has empowered the female artists he admires.
Sunday 24th November, 8.00pm - The Janice Long Review Show (and Wednesday 27th November at 10pm)
Two early 80s debut albums by synthpop duo Soft Cell and Madonna were colossal in the clubs at that time, producing hits such as ‘Tainted Love’, ‘Borderline’ and ‘Holiday’, but will our reviewers - acclaimed singer Josephine, music entrepreneur Seymour Stein and journalist Simon Price - want to shake their stuff to ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’ and the self-titled ‘Madonna’ or will they want to hail a taxi home?
Tuesday 26th November, 10.00pm - Neil McCormick’s Needle Time: Gabrielle (and Saturday 30th November at 7pm)
With her distinctive voice and even more distinctive eyewear, double BRIT award-winning English singer Gabrielle made quite an impression when she emerged on the scene in the early 90s with chart-topper ‘Dreams’, but it hasn’t all been wishes come true for the star as she tells interviewer Neil how music was her therapy during some torrid times, how her eye-patch made her feel beautiful and how she learned to ‘Rise’ again.
Wednesday 27th November, 7.30pm - Vintage TV at Rewind 2013 (and Friday 29th November at 5.30pm)
With summer now a distant memory, let the sunshine back into your life for a wee while, as we bring you two more interviews from 80s acts who put in top performances at Rewind 2013; this week Janice gets the ‘Body Talk’ going with Leee John of three-piece soul band Imagination, and imagines herself a ‘Caribbean Queen’ in the presence of Billy Ocean.
