Music On TV - Documentaries/Live Performances

Did anyone catch the one last week about Orion? A bloke called Jimmy Ellis sang the same style as Elvis, and after Presley died, he had a brief few years of fame wearing a mask as 'Orion' and pretending to be a resurrected Elvis. You maybe had to see it to believe it.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...4A229BB938

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrPjmtrszCA

New Order are on the BBC Red Button now doing a live gig for Radio 6 Music.

Grammys tonight not sure will either be good with Lady GaGa doing bowie tribute or total shite mind you niles rodgers is helping so could be good , Eagles are performing though with jackson browne for glenn fry heard theres going to be one for lemmy not been released who is doing it though hope its Dave Ghrol and Slash as they were good mates with lemmy

They should have got KanYe in to do the Floral Dance for the full set

There were some good Who concerts on Sky Arts over the weekend

Caught up with The Story of Anvil, which was on SA a couple of weeks back. The first part with their disastrous European tour feels like "so Spinal Tap, even our drummer is called Rob Reiner". Then there's the psycho-drama of trying to get their new 13th (!) album paid for, and then the final revelation in Japan. At least they finally worked out it was cheaper to home-sell the CDs than arse about with a big record company. Mind you, this was 2008, so I dunno how things went from there.

For anyone interested, the BBC are reshowing Prince: A Purple Reign, tonight, on BBC Four, at 22:00.

Last week's coverage of R1 Big Weekend did point up one disadvantage of the end of BBC3. I assume BBC4 are rushing through TOTP repeats because they'll need extra coverage for the Olympics & World Cup & Glastonbury & etc

Sky Arts Saturday and Sunday from 9pm till midnight, Isle Of Wight Festival 2016.

Not sure how accurate this is or of the correct running order, but here is the line up across both days.

The Who, Richard Ashcroft, Faithless, Sigma, Iggy Pop, Cast, The Damned, Busted, The Kills, Adam Ant, The Corrs, Turin Brakes, Buzzcocks.

Queen + Adam Lambert, Ocean Colour Scene, Feeder, The Wonder Stuff, Twin Atlantic, Jess Glynne, Mike And The Mechanics, SIXX:AM, The Cribs, Reef, Gabrielle Aplin, Stereophonics, Everything Everything, Status Quo.

I see BBC4 are starting the 1982 Top of the Pops repeats tonight