Upbeat Moments & New Sunday Lunch

Toyah & Robert's latest Upbeat Moments and a brand new vibrant Sunday Lunch! Today at 18:00 GMT...   And, tomorrow at 12:00 GMT!    

On This Day 25 Years Ago.

In November 2000, the week after the King Crimson tour of North America had concluded, Robert played lunchtime and evening concerts on the 28th, 29th and 30th as part of WNYC’s New Sounds Live. Located in Battery Park City in the shadow of the twin towers and overlooking the Hudson River, the Winter Garden at the World Financial Centre was one of Robert Fripp’s favourite venues. A secular...

Europe 2003 Live On Nugs!

The Power To Believe Tour audio from Europe '03 is now available to stream exclusively in the @nugsnet app.   Visit: nugs.net/KingCrimson   Also available to download from dgmlive: King Crimson Europe 2003   King Crimson on tour in Europe, 2003 (photos: Bill Munyon).   Featuring King Crimson's Double Duo lineup of Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, and Pat Mastelotto, this tour...

Stormy Monday Selection #71

Neuro Thela Talk. It’s a Mash Up Monday from Mr Stormy this week, as he plays with the multitrack tapes from the 80s Crimson recording sessions at Basing Street and Odyssey Studios. Taking elements from 1981's Discipline and the following year's Beat, this hybrid piece fuses signature riffs from Thela Hun Ginjeet, Elephant Talk and Neurotica, in what Sid Smith describes as: “a real Crimson...

Toyah & Robert's Weekend

Toyah & Robert's latest Upbeat Moments & a vintage Sunday Lunch! Today at 18:00 GMT... ...and tomorrow at 12:00 GMT!    


On This Day 30 Years Ago:

King Crimson On Broadway. During Thanksgiving week in 1995, King Crimson began a five-night residency at the Longacre Theatre on West 48th Street in the heart of New York’s theatre district, playing Monday through Wednesday, taking Thursday off for the holiday, before returning by popular demand on Friday and Saturday.  The band had flown in a week earlier, in a break from their tour, for...

A Different Cadence

King Crimson 2025 mixes. Several listeners to the 2025 edition of In The Wake of Poseidon have drawn attention to a number of differences in the new Steven Wilson mixes, in particular the flute passages in Cadence and Cascade played by Mel Collins, who was making his first contribution to a King Crimson record. Describing this in his notes, Sid Smith wrote: “At the other end of the emotional...

Toyah & Robert's Weekend

Toyah & Robert's latest Upbeat Moments & a vintage Sunday Lunch!Today at 18:00 BST... ...and tomorrow at 12:00 BST!  

The Fripp Pedalboard

Hugh’s Archive Deep Dive 15. Missing its Foxey Lady, the modified Mk2 Fripp pedalboard, built by Pete Cornish in 1974.  This particular combination of the Guild Foxey Lady, Farfisa volume pedal and Dunlop Cry Baby wah, with an effects loop running to a Watkins Copicat tape echo, provided the signature Fripp sound of the 70s.  “My contribution to the technology was to fit a by-pass...


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