Hi to all!
I can't find a complete list of Bill's radio sessions anywhere - though the Be Bop ones were easily discovered.
I don't think the following is complete but I thought someone should make an attempt. Please fill the gaps somebody.
I can't find any evidence that Bill has ever recorded sessions for any other radio stations than BBC1 Radio 1 and the old BBC Radio 5 (mid-90s version). Is this true? Are there sessions from the USA?
Anyway, here's the start of a list. Dates are mostly dates of recording - but some may be the broadcast dates - not sure really.
6/11/73 John Peel
· Axe Victim
· Bluesy Ruby
· Tomorrow The World
9/5/74 John Peel
· Third Floor Heaven
· Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape
· Mill Street Junction
· Fifteenth Of July (Invisibles)
11/3/75 John Peel
· Maid In Heaven
· Stage Whispers
· Sister Seagull
· Lights
10/2/76 John Peel
· Blazing Apostles
· Crying To The Sky
· Peace Of Mind
17/1/77 John Peel
· Mill Street Junction
· Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape
· Still Shining
30/1/78 John Peel
· Super Enigmatix
· Panic In The World
· Possession
· Love In Flames
17/2/79 Friday Rock Show (Tommy Vance?)
· Stay Young
· Furniture Music
· Don’t Touch Me (I’m Electric)
· Out Of Touch
10/3/81 David ‘Kid’ Jensen
· Konnie Buys A Kodak
· The Art Of Vision
· Boom Year Ahead
· After Life
2/6/81 David ‘Kid’ Jensen
· Rooms With Brittle Views
· Stay Young
· Sleep Cycle
· Jazz
3/7/82 David ‘Kid’ Jensen
· A Dip In The Swimming Pool Reactor
· M1 (Still Under Construction)
· Zen
13/1/83 David ‘Kid’ Jensen
· Dancing On A Knife’s Edge
· Time Tracking
· Contemplation
· Indiscretion
10/4/91 Mark Radcliffe
· Trance And Transcendence
· Gloria Mundae
· B-Movie Bug Boy
And a mostly unconnected thought to finish with...
Bill's first appearance on a released record was 50 whole years ago (A to Austr, 1970)...
Wow!
Bill appeared on BBC Radio Scotland 'Original Masters' on 5 May 1995 - as well as an extensive interview with Bill by John Kavanagh, where Bill talked about some of his favourite musical selections, he also played three tracks live - 'Moon Rocket Highway' (which wasn't released until many years later on 'Luxury Lodge'), 'Gloria Mundae' and the never released (as far as I recall) 'Birdland'.
Another one I have - he was also interviewed on BBC Radio 1' s 'Saturday Live' on 26 January 1985, an interview about and with selections from 'Trial By Intimacy' - just playback from the album though, nothing played live.
A complete Bill Nelson radio sessions would be a fabulous collection 😀👍
When Mark Radcliffe had a radio show in Manchester - Piccadilly Radio -
Session (live) 10th March 1981
Bill on E-Bow guitar - Revox B77 backing tapes -
Ian Nelson - sax (in the studio)
Connie buys a Kodak
2/ Art of Vision
3/ Boom Year Ahead
4/. Afterlife
Superb performance, the brothers on top form ! …
A life in music... and so much more of it that we haven't heard yet! Congratulations, Bill.
Hard to believe that 'A to Austr' was 50 years ago...(but I think it was recorded even a year earlier!)
However, 'Northern Dream' was actually recorded in 1970, (although it didn't come out until 1971,) so, amazingly, 'Northern Dream' is definitely a remarkable 50 years old this year!
Now that's really scary!
I seem to remember Bill doing Themis Aurea for a radio show / benefit here in America. Isn't From Brussels With Love a live radio show? Bill did The Shadow Garden.
Bill performed 'Wonder of the Moment' live on Tom Robinson's 6 music show a few years ago i seem to remember.