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29th Nov 2019

Documentaries on The Doors, Kurt Cobain, Shane McGowan and more lined-up for TG4 over Christmas

Rory Cashin

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Fourteen of some of the best music docs and live concerts of all time.

Around Christmas and New Years, all concept of time goes out the window.

Days don’t have names anymore, and we have to go by their titles.

It isn’t Friday, it is the day after Stephens Day.

Also, actual time itself has no meaning.

What time did we start this big selection box? 12pm? 8am? 10.45pm?

While we wait for the world to start making sense again, TG4 will be giving us the greatest collection of music documentaries and concerts imaginable, covering pretty much all tastes in music, and running the gamut of some of the biggest musicians of the last few decades.

Here is the full musical line up, kicking off from the day before Christmas Eve, and running well into 2020:

Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now –  Monday 23 December – 12.33am

Marvin Gaye: Greatest Hits Live – Tuesday 24 December – 12.55am

Shane McGowan: Live at Montreux – Wednesday 25 December – 1am

Johnny Cash: Live at Montreux – Thursday 26 December – 12.18am

Cobain: Montage of Heck – Friday 27 December – 11.30pm

BB King: Live at Montreux – Saturday 28 December – 12.45am

The Last Waltz – Sunday 29 December – 10.30pm

Festival Folk at Newport – Monday 30 December – 12.35am

The Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight – Tuesday 31 December – 12.55am

Rolling Stones: Live at the Hampton Coliseum – Wednesday 1 January – 12.55am

Arcade Fire: Lives at Earls Court – Thursday 2 January – 12.45am

Lemmy – Friday 3 January – 11.30pm

Boomtown Rats – Saturday 4 January – 12.05am

Woodstock Festival Highlights – Sunday 5 January – 12.25am

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