
Elbow frontman and broadcaster Guy Garvey lifts the lid on two decades of TV gold – with era-defining musical performances, long lost studio appearances and revealing interviews that have remained on the shelves for decades. The series is centred around shows which were made by ITV companies around the country – from Tony Wilson and Granada TV’s So It Goes to Tyne Tees’ ground-breaking Channel 4 series The Tube and LWT’s The London Weekend Show - chronicling not just changing musical tastes but evolution in the UK’s social and cultural history too. The series travels from Punk and New Wave to the birth of ‘Madchester’.
Air Date: 2020-09-18
The Elbow frontman introduces music from the TV archives, starting with 1979 and unseen footage from a Kate Bush conc...
Air Date: 2020-09-25
Guy presents the best of 1982 - including The Jam's final TV appearance, a performance from Simple Minds, early inter...
Air Date: 2020-10-02
Guy celebrates 1977 - a seminal year in British rock and pop, looking back at a long-lost Blondie performance, Marc B...
Air Date: 2020-10-09
Guy looks back at 1984 and Madonna's first British TV appearance, unseen performances from Sade and The Style Council...
Air Date: 2020-10-16
Guy dusts off throwbacks from Supersonic where Rod Stewart, Status Quo, Roxy Music and ELO made appearances. Plus, mu...
Air Date: 2020-10-23
For the final episode, Guy looks back at 1988 and the rise of a new wave of female singer songwriters including Sinea...