Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy continue their European promotional tour with an appearance on Later With Jools Holland this week.
The show is aired live from 10pm on Tuesday night (November 16th) on BBC2 for half an hour. The complete show is then broadcast on Friday night (November 19th) from midnight and repeated on Saturday evening (November 20th) at 11.20pm. All are UK timings on BBC2.

Robert Plant & Band of Joy – Angel Dance – Live@CheTempoCheFa
RaiTre (Italian Tv) November 14th , 2010

Photo by Krys Jantzen
The Robert Plant series of programmes aired on BBC2 last night offered a feast of visual delights that spread into the early hours of the morning.
The newly commissioned documentary Robert Plant By Myself proved to be a compelling study of his life in music. Mark Radcliffe’s commentary was concise and to the point, leaving Robert to chronicle his remarkable journey through a series of perceptive interview segments told with his usual integrity and wit.

The documentary began with a scene setting focus on Robert’s early musical inspirations and …

Lord David Cobbold, owner of the Knebworth House estate and instigator of the Knebworth concerts back in 1974, was the guest on Radio 4’s long running Desert Island Discs programme today. He talked affectionately about the history of the house and concerts. There was name check for Zep during the introduction by presenter Kirsty Young and his choices included Pink Floyd’s Brain Damage and Paul McCartney’s rendering of Hey Jude live from Knebworth in 1990.
Co- incidentally the show aired one year to the day of the Then As It Was …

UK tribute band Boot Led Zeppelin will be performing live on Saturday night during the BBC2 I’m In A Rock’n’ Roll Band finale – the programme will incude a live phone vote for the Best Band catogory with Led Zeppelin likely to be in the running.
The BBC website reveals that after five documentaries exploring the DNA of the rock ‘n’ roll band and the roles in the band, from lead singer through guitarist to drummer, the BBC2 series goes live on with Jonathan Ross at BBC Television Centre as the …

Photo Andreas Stocker/TBL
Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin are to feature exclusively on a BBC 6 Music. The programme, Jimmy Page and the BBC Sessions, will be broadcast in two parts on Christmas Day (25 December).
You can hear Part 1, Led Zeppelin in 1969, on 6 Music between 1200-1300 GMT, with Part 2, Led Zeppelin in 1971, on-air between 2100-2200.
The show features a section of the famous Whole Lotta Love medley, that isn’t included on the commercial BBC Sessions release in 1997, although after hearing it again at 6 Music, Jimmy …

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow …as Francis Albert Sinatra once said and boy has it done so this week. And as I write it’s still falling heavily.
I’ve had a few days out so have not had to face the journey to MK this week…and let’s get this one out of the way early: with another 17 store closures yesterday, Zavvi are down to 31 stores and the deep uncertainty continues of how much longer I’ll be making that journey in the future.
Coupled with a few other …