Tag: BBC Radio 2

Watch: Noel Gallagher covers Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” with BBC orchestra

Watch: Noel Gallagher covers Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” with BBC orchestra

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds stopped by Maida Vale Studios this past week to play a three-song set for the BBC Radio 2 Piano Room series.

Video: Morrissey plays 4 unreleased songs in Dublin for ‘Studio in Session’ program

Video: Morrissey plays 4 unreleased songs in Dublin for ‘Studio in Session’ program

In June 2011, Morrissey debuted three new and still-unreleased songs during what is no doubt a heavily bootlegged session on BBC Radio 2 — and about a month later, it turns out, he entered a Dublin studio with legendary producer Tony Visconti to record the trio of tunes, along with a fourth he later debuted in concert.

Pet Shop Boys to release ‘Winner’ — first single off upcoming ‘Elysium’ — next week

Pet Shop Boys to release ‘Winner’ — first single off upcoming ‘Elysium’ — next week

The Pet Shop Boys will premiere “Winner,” the first official single from their forthcoming 11th studio album Elysium, this coming Monday between 9:30 a.m. and noon on BBC Radio 2’s “The Ken Bruce Show,” then, later in the day, make it available for sale via iTunes.