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6 Music Live Hour: Roy Young, Primitives and That Dog

15/08/2011

Roy Young, Primitives and That Dog

BBC Radio 6 Music - 6 Music Live Hour, Roy Young, Primitives and That Dog

Live Roy Young from 1972, plus archive sessions from The Primitives and That Dog.

Featuring Roy Young at the Paris Theatre in London in 1972, plus archive sessions from The Primitives in 1987 and That Dog from 1983.

CONCERT:

The Roy Young Band - BBC Paris Theatre 1972

The late Fifties gave birth to one of rock and roll's greatest entertainers, Roy Young, with his trademark boogie-woogie piano and vocal style that is best described as a mixture between Little Richard, Ray Charles and Joe Cocker.
British keyboard player and singer Roy Young played in rock & roll idol Cliff Bennett's Rebel Rousers in the '60s. When they broke up in early 1970, he formed his own Roy Young Band.


SESSIONS:

Primitives - 17th April 1988 

The Primitives are from Coventry formed in '85, best known for their 1988 international hit single "Crash".
The Primitives were part of the indie scene of the mid-1980s alongside bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, the Soup Dragons and the Wedding Present. 
Reformed and supported The Wedding Present at Koko in Camden December last year as part of the Weddoes Bizarro Album 21st anniversary tour and released a new EP in March this year 'Never kill A Secret' was the first new material in over 20 years by the band.


That Dog 9th December 1993 John Peel

That Dog is a LA rock band that formed in 1991 and dissolved in 1997, reuniting this year. 
The band consists of Anna Waronker on lead vocals and guitar, Rachel Haden on bass guitar and vocals, her sister Petra Haden on violin and vocals, and Tony Maxwell on drums. 
Their punk power-pop songs were full of hooks and many layered vocal harmonies.
Had three studio albums 'Retreat from the Sun' the third released in 1997 on Geffen Records.

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