BBC Documentaries: Synth Britannia/Hawkwind/Krautrock

[SKY BURIAL]

The BBC music documentaries are well worth watching. Synth Brittania explores the roots of synth music in the U.K. (interviews include Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, Human League, Gary Numan, etc.). Hawkwind documentary is essential. Krautrock program includes interviews with Faust, Klaus Schulze, Amon Düül II, Can, Harmonia, etc. You can find them on Youtube or torrents.

[A.R.GH]

I recently watched Synth britannia, great documentary indeed

[Zeno Marx]

Hawkwind is great.  The Synth doc was very illuminating for me.  I learned quite a bit.  The Krautrock one was very pedestrian and was overall a disappointment.  Maybe they used poor consultants?  I wanted it to dig deeper and move beyond the big names.  The Prog documentary was decent, but it was also too rudimentary.  There's a rich history of prog in England, and it didn't bother to even touch upon the other well-known styles (Fairport group, etc).

[Cementimental]

The 'Alchemists of Sound' one about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is worth watching too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPGzX5kZd0

[Steve]

Thin Lizzy documentry on this Friday (21st) can't bloody wait!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ea0sBrw6M
Old funny piece about musique concrete

[ironfistofthesun]

good one about The Fall


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Ff-7ui9BY

[imaginaryforces]

These BBC docs are ok for a brief over view, but they don't even attempt to dig deep. I think for me the Synth Britania one was hugely dissapointing, but the "Krautrock" one was kind of interesting as I know nothing about it. However I am pretty sure they just gave an over view of Krautrock.

[SKY BURIAL]

These BBC docs are ok for a brief over view, but they don't even attempt to dig deep. I think for me the Synth Britania one was hugely dissapointing, but the "Krautrock" one was kind of interesting as I know nothing about it. However I am pretty sure they just gave an over view of Krautrock.

It's kinda tough to dig deep in just over an hour. A brief overview is all your going to get in that time frame even if the documentary focused on only one band.

[Steve]

BBC4 Documentry on Fleetwood Mac tonight. (22:30 GMT). Looking forward to some nice "Rumours" era footage.

[ironfistofthesun]

do you think we will see stevie nicks getting coke blown up her arse?

[ConcreteMascara]

One can only hope.

[imaginaryforces]

It's kinda tough to dig deep in just over an hour. A brief overview is all your going to get in that time frame even if the documentary focused on only one band.

Agreed. Pretty much my point.

[martialgodmask]

I enjoyed both the Synth Britannia and Krautrock doc's very much, the latter was followed by a Kraftwerk performance when I saw it broadcast. Probably hard to glean a lot other than the obvious but how much can be crammed into an hour? I did feel like the Krautrock one could have done with being a few times the length, but decent entry-level synopsis I thought.

I've not seen the Hawkwind one, must track it down. Would be nice if rather than rolling out shite comedy on DVD, the BBC did a boxset of the music docs. Good one on The Doors was floating about at one point too.

[holy ghost]

I thought the Krautrock one was a little too Kraftwerk heavy, at the expense of other less popular but equally important groups but overall it was totally enjoyable and heck, how often do you get to see something like this? I haven't seen the Hawkwind or Synth one but I'd very much like too.......