Sky Arts - From The Basement

A back-to-basics live music show where the focus is on the music, the artists and their performances. No presenter, no audience, no talking, no nonsense. It's a place where credible, established acts can perform their music free from the strictures of the charts and the marketing cycle. You’ll feel like you’ve got a VIP pass to a private recording session…

Artists featured in the last two seasons of From The Basement include:

Gnarls Barkley, Sparks and The Kills
My Morning Jacket, The Fall and White Denim
Iggy Pop and The Stooges, CSS and Shortwave Set
Radiohead, Andrew Bird and Fleet Foxes
The Raconteurs, Seasick Sam and Band of Horses
Queens of the Stone Age, Cold War Kids and Zee Avi
Beck and Jarvis Cocker
White Stripes, The Shins and Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Super Furry Animals join PJ Harvey and Freeblood
Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Albert Hammond Jnr and Envelopes
Damien Rice, E from Eels, Autolux and Architecture in Helsinki
Sonic Youth, Jose Gonzalez and Laura Marling

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andrew bumford

Sun 23 November 2008, 11:27

i love the idea of the basement, but where oh where are these acts from. Can’t play, can’t sing, can’t write. i’ve just watches the opening two artist on sunday morning who would be knackered if you took their echo unit off them.

Don’t stop though
Andy

joe morley

Sun 23 November 2008, 19:10

What was the name of the young 5 piece band with the girl singer/guitarist, violinist and keyboard with boy bass and drums? It’s just a song - excellent.

barry fry

Sat 29 November 2008, 20:43

great to see the series back… best music show on tv since the likes of riverside way back when… autolux in the last one of the highlights of last year… the kills in the first show, can’t wait!

Tue 2 December 2008, 11:55

Looking forward to CSS! If you havent heard them check them out on the 17th, they’re cool!

oliver jon nordhoff

Tue 2 December 2008, 14:36

i want more rufus wainwright night in 2009

Sari from Sky Arts

Tue 2 December 2008, 16:49

Hi Oliver,
you don’t need to wait until the new year, we have two Rufus Wainwright concerts coming up in the next two weeks! Rufus Wainwright Sings Judy Garland Live is on at 4pm, 10.12.08, Sky Arts 1; and Rufus Wainwright Plays Avo Session is on at 9pm, 16.12.08, Sky Arts 1. Enjoy!

Charles Frank

Wed 3 December 2008, 03:01

Can’t wait for the best band in the world, “Sparks.” Thanks for having them Sky Arts!! Hope they do songs from their latest album, “Exotic Creatures of The Deep.”
Sparks Rule.

G, F#, E

Thu 18 December 2008, 18:56

The Stooges were great. Did you realise you included a tiny sneak peak of the song “God Is Dead” which hasn’t even been played live yet? I would be increadlibly appreciative if you could upload the video of this little 20-30 second bit.

I have also heard that there was an interveiw with Iggy Pop but this did not appear on the final cut, will it be released?

Also did The Stooges play any other songs apart from the 4 shown?

Finally, thank you for such a brilliant show. The Fall were great too and I can’t wait to see Radiohead and Seasick Steve.

Millz

Tue 23 December 2008, 07:40

I loved the My Morning Jacket set! great musicians! Anyway I can by the audio somewhere?

koppy

Thu 25 December 2008, 17:49

Are there any repeats to be shown and if so when will they be?

Thom

Tue 30 December 2008, 10:29

ditto the above, will these be repeated? i’ve only just heard about the programme and would like to see several of those bands!

Cliff Henderson

Sun 4 January 2009, 12:18

Hi Sky Arts Team

I’m a new subsciber to the channel and was wondering if you would be repeating From The Basement Series 1 & 2 in 2009. It’s a fantastic show.

Thanks.

neil t

Sun 4 January 2009, 20:49

joe morley i think you’re talking about the envelopes great band, this show is by far the best thing on the whole of sky, where are the repeats and online content?

Rich

Thu 8 January 2009, 18:44

Blast, I missed the Raconteurs.

Please Repeat. Please Repeat. Please Repeat.

Sari from Sky Arts

Fri 9 January 2009, 10:44

Thanks for all your comments! The new series of From the Basement is currently scheduled for repeats in April. While awaiting for that, the first series is available in Sky Player. Just click on the Sky Player button on the left hand side navigation bar and you’ll be taken to the Arts section of Sky Player. Happy viewing!

Martyn

Thu 29 January 2009, 19:20

At last a perfect music show.....and no presenters...BLISS !!
More,more,more !

Drew

Wed 25 February 2009, 05:49

Could someone please cap this series when it repeats? I live in the USA and cannot get Sky Arts.

I loved the first series soooo much!

barry fry

Mon 23 March 2009, 18:38

Hi, has the second series been scheduled for repeats yet? And… are there plans for a third series? Hope so!

jamie

Wed 13 May 2009, 09:31

you should let young unpublished bands make a sound cmon the theory

http://www.theruntheory.groupies.com!!!

John Doe

Sun 7 June 2009, 00:29

thanks for a great programme.

Mark Mills

Thu 2 July 2009, 23:11

I REALLY loved the set from My Sunday Jacket!
can I download the audio somewhere? or whats the video online??

John Palmer

Fri 18 December 2009, 00:46

ive only just started watching this channel since having HD and its AMAZING. Sparks were the 1st band seen and I couldnt stop watching them. please keep this going!

Dave

Fri 5 February 2010, 22:55

Why haven’t you answered joe morley’s question…
“What was the name of the young 5 piece band with the girl singer/guitarist, violinist and keyboard with boy bass and drums?”
They were ace!

Dorchie

Sat 6 February 2010, 11:55

I’m with Joe and Dave here - please tell us who the young 5 piece band are.

In th basement is a great format and a refreshing change from the usual music-vid MTV type format - my only suggestion for improvement would be that name of the band is shown and that the tv listings show the full list of bands. Keep up the good work!

Joannie L

Sat 6 February 2010, 20:13

As to the query above - I loved that very young five-piece band too - I looked them up on From the Basement’s own website - they’re called Operator Please, and they’re from Australia.

Steve B

Wed 10 March 2010, 17:09

Would love to see this in 3D..

David jones

Tue 27 April 2010, 19:41

Would love to see The Flaming Lips in the basement..

One of the few things I watch on tv…

Andy Beveridge

Thu 12 August 2010, 05:01

Just finished watching the tale end of this great show - The gift that keeps giving from super furry animals was just great. I forgot music could be this good. Great show Sky Ats +++

Dave Dunn

Thu 18 November 2010, 18:13

Can anybody tell me the titles of the songs played by Band of Horses please? First time I have seen them so any info will be much appreciated.
Many thanks

Tony

Wed 5 January 2011, 20:00

Any chance of some Cure or Robert Smith?

Paula

Fri 7 January 2011, 22:52

Thanks so much for this show, and thanks even more for featuring Autolux on it recently, totally loved it, a very rare chance to see non-mainstream bands like that live.

Big Jaf

Tue 21 June 2011, 15:32

Animal collective, Tv on the radio and Wilco would be ideal for this excellent show....make it so !

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