Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2011 Highlights
Sunday January 1 at 8.15pm
BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend is the largest free ticketed music event in Europe. This highlights programme showcases some of the stand-out musical performances from the weekend including Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Jessie J, Panic at the Disco, The Strokes and much more.
Radiohead: The King of Limbs Live
Monday January 2 at 9.40pm
An intimate performance by rock band Radiohead of their album The King of Limbs, featuring exclusive new tracks performed live for the very first time.
The programme features a mix of pure music performance and documentary, offering insight into the band’s dynamic, their interactions and the process behind their live performances.
Seven Ages of Rock
Tuesdays at 9.45pm, from January 3
Seven Ages of Rock explores the music that has been the soundtrack of popular culture and defined each generation since the 60s, charting the story of rock music from the suburb to the stadium, from the crackly 45 to the digital download.
Making Tracks
Wednesdays at 9.30pm, from January 4
Making Tracks follows musically obsessed presenter, Nick Dwyer, on an entertaining, globe-trotting journey of musical discovery, as he exchanges the sounds of New Zealand for the sounds of the world!
This series sees Nick heading to Brazil, India, China, Israel, South Africa & Jamaica with one mission - to push, promote and play New Zealand music in anyway he can across the globe.
Whether it’s dropping the new Scribe music video on South African Music Television live to 32 African countries, storming Brazilian & Israeli radio stations begging to get NZ music play listed, blasting the streets of India with NZ’s biggest dance tunes on a makeshift Tuk Tuk covered with speakers, or taking over a Merchandise tent at China’s biggest musical festival, Nick will be giving the world a taste of kiwi music like they’ve never seen before.
Later with Jools Holland – Series 37
Thursdays at 9.30pm, from January 5
Since 1992, Later...as featured performances from the biggest and hottest names in music. This is the only show on British TV where stadium fillers, current chart toppers, veterans and left-field artists from all music genres perform together in the same studio. Virtually every famous name in the business has appeared on Later... at some time or another, and many got their first TV airing on this show.
Highlights in Series 37 include the Manic Street Preachers performing tracks from their album Postcards from a Young Man, Scissor Sisters, Jamiroquai, KT Tunstall, rock legends Steve Miller Band and the world’s most successful songwriter in the history of popular music, Paul McCartney. Not to mention Phil Collins, Bryan Ferry, Brandon Flowers, Cyndi Lauper, Cheryl Crow and Kings of Leon.
Rock n Roll Exposed
Sundays at 10.00pm, from January 8
From Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones, Elvis to Madonna, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, the world’s foremost rock ‘n’ roll photographer Bob Gruen has captured half a century of music through the eye of a lens. In this landmark documentary series, Grammy award-winning filmmaker Don Letts explores Bob’s life and work as he opens up his amazing archive on television for the very first time.
Blur: No Distance Left to Run
Monday January 16 at 9.40pm
This definitive, feature-length documentary follows Blur on the reunion trail in the summer of 2009. After a 10-year hiatus, the band rediscovers its music and the friendships that originally inspired them.
As one of the top UK bands of the 1990s, Blur were a pioneering force behind the Britpop movement and are widely hailed as one of the most influential bands of the era. This candid, moving and life-affirming documentary grants an all access pass to their eagerly anticipated and highly acclaimed summer reunion tour.
Glastonbury 2011
Saturdays at 9.30pm, from January 21
Put simply, Glastonbury Festival is the largest and most revered open air music and performing arts festival in the world and a template for all the festivals that have followed it. Each year it draws the biggest names in the music business as well as new and up and coming acts.
In 2011 177,000 revellers braved all weather conditions from torrential rain (and the resulting mud) to blisteringly hot sunshine, to see performances by bands including Coldplay and U2.
Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful
Monday January 23 at 9.30pm
A look at one of the world’s biggest and most enduring rock bands as they embark on a sell-out tour. Featuring exclusive interviews, this documentary takes a look at life behind the headlines.
With eleven studio albums, two compilation albums and one live album to their name, there is no doubting Bon Jovi’s ability to dominate music charts all over the world.
U2: From the Sky Down
Monday January 30 at 9.30pm
Global superstars U2 discuss their iconic album Achtung Baby and subsequent careers in this up close and personal documentary, revealing the creative differences and disputes that the band overcame to emerge as the success story they are today.
