NEWSNIGHT 19 June 1998 Kirsty WARK pres prog w item on the pop charts and rock n roll... LIVE STUDIO DISCUSSION:Kirsty WARK intvs Nick PHILLIPS (Chairman,Universal Music), Edwyn COLLINS(Musician and Producer), Caitlin MORAN(Music Columnist, The Times) re downloading records onto your software from the Internet and cutting out the fat cat record companies - is that the future? (DUR:09m20s) LIVE STU DIO:Kirsty WARK re whatever the analysis of why the record industry is stuck, they are all doomed if people don't come up with good music. A straw poll of music journalists has revealed that the band of Summer 1998 will be Delakota, who's (sic) singe (sic), "The Rock" is released at the end of the month. To make up your own mind Delakota perform live in the studio their new song "The Rock" (DUR:02m15s)
Delakota played live on Newsnight? Today's just full of surprises, innit.
The band of summer 1998? Didn't happen. But what a great record this was. There's very little on the web about the band, but I know that they did feature Cass and Morgan from the Senseless Things, who are another great band but don't sound much alike at all.