6 MusicWeek 01.02.13 NEWS BEEB’S TV AND RADIO STATIONS RECREATE PLEASE PLEASE ME WITH TODAY’S ARTISTS
BBC Four and Radio 2 come together on Beatles project
MEDIA BY PAUL WILLIAMS
A
50th anniversary celebration of The Beatles’ first album is
marking a new working relationship between Radio 2 and BBC Four. Exactly half a century on,
Please Please Me will be re- recorded by a host of contemporary artists at Abbey Road on Monday, February 11 with the results to be broadcast live on Radio 2. In addition a film of the sessions will also go out on TV channel BBC Four on February 15 in what Radio 2, 6 Music and popular music controller Bob Shennan describes as “a perfect example” of how different parts of the BBC can work together. Both the radio and TV strands
are being made by award-winning independent production company TBI Media, whose founder and director Phil Critchlow said he hoped it would be the beginning
finishing at 10.30pm. Acts already confirmed to take part include Gabrielle Aplin who will tackle There’s A Place, Stereophonics doing I Saw Her Standing There, Graham Coxon interpreting Misery, Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook taking Please Please Me with Paul Jones on harmonica, Mick Hucknall covering Anna (Go To Him) and I Am Kloot playing Chains. “All these artists are being
of a co-ordination between the two BBC networks. “It’s an interesting
development for the BBC because Radio 2 and BBC Four are coming together and it shows a unity of purpose where that is concerned,” he said. “It started as a Radio 2 concept, but it’s something now where we’re using the content we generate for Radio 2 and supplementing that
with other stuff for the BBC Four special on the Friday. It’s the BBC working as one, which is great to see, and using an indie supplier to help them to do that.” The re-recording of Please
Please Me, which The Beatles completed with producer George Martin in just 12 hours, will happen in the same track order and same timeframe, starting at 10.30am on February 11 and
Terry Boland joins e-tailer TuneTribe
Digital retailer TuneTribe has appointed Terry Boland as general manager. The exec will
report directly to Tunetribe CEO William Haighton. Boland worked at
board level for companies such as Hennes, Etam and Knickerbox before moving into telcomms and becoming MD of Phones 4u in 1998. In 2000 he became CEO of commercial landline, broadband and mobile re-sellers Glow Communications, before exiting in 2005 to establish a retail consultancy business whose clients included
Norwich City FC, Asda and Subway. Boland will continue to consult for a number of his existing clients alongside his new role at TuneTribe. Haighton (pictured left)
said: “There are very few executives who have the breadth of experience and in- depth knowledge of the UK retail sector than Terry, so to persuade him to come on board is a huge coup. We have an exciting growth strategy that Terry will be instrumental in implementing.” Boland (pictured right)
said: “All the elements are in place to make TuneTribe a key player in the evolution of this sector.”
asked to reinterpret,” said Critchlow. “It isn’t just a load of covers in the studio. We’re working with a great house band. We’ve got a string quartet, drums, keys, a couple of guitars, bass. The idea is arrangements will be put together, but then on the day itself, in the spirit of the original session, we’ll be doing these in real time so there will be an hour’s worth of rehearsal and then we go live to Radio 2. We’ll film simultaneously. There will be brief conversations with the artists on Radio 2 and then we’ll pull all that together for an hour-
long doc on BBC Four.” The daytime coverage will be hosted for Radio 2 by Stuart Maconie who will be joined in the evening by Jo Whiley, while Burt Bacharach will be interviewed on the phone about The Beatles covering his song Baby It’s You for their album debut. Critchlow noted all the acts taking part would be given a CD single of their recording “so there is that sense of being something that happens, finishes and moves on”, while discussions have taken place about a commercial release of the new versions at some stage. The Please Please Me revisit will form part of The Golden Age Of The Album, a two-week project across Radio 2, 6 Music and BBC Four celebrating arguably the golden era of album making from the late Sixties to the early Eighties. It will include a three-part series on BBC Four hosted by Danny Baker with an expert panel discussing the best albums in rock, pop and R&B.
Nielsen supports Music Week Awards
Nielsen has stepped up to sponsor the Promotions Team category at the Music Week Awards 2013. The data and analytics specialist, whose latest airplay charts are printed every issue in Music Week, continues a long tradition of sponsoring the award. Jean Littolff, managing director,
Nielsen Music International said: “Significant hard work, talent and determination go into successfully promoting a song and making it a hit. Nielsen understand this and are once again excited to be recognising the star
teams by sponsoring the Music Week 2013 Award for Best Promotions Team.” The Music Week Awards 2013 will
take place on Thursday, April 11 2013 at The Brewery in London. The deadline is looming to enter the
prestigious Marketing categories in this year's Music Week Awards. If you or your team would like to be
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