In Concert 1997

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(6th-20th January 1997 - 'John Peel's Classic Sessions' takes over the slot)
27th January 1997 - *ugh*, Kula Shaker live at Aston Villa Leisure Centre
3rd February 1997 - The Boo Radleys
10th February 1997 - Blur live in an extended Evening Session

'In Concert' then moved to Sunday nights, 8-9 pm
23rd February 1997 - Brit Award nominees
2nd March 1997 - The Beautiful South
9th March 1997 - Gene
16th March 1997 - The Comic Relief Gigs (INXS, the Bluetones, Ocean Sewage Scene, Texas, Gabrielle)
23rd March 1997 - The Orb
30th March 1997 - Manic Street Preachers
31st March 1997 - Best of previous Sound Cities
6th April 1997 - Shed Seven
13th April 1997 - Beck
20th April 1997 - Lemonheads
27th April 1997 - London Music Week live in the slot
4th May 1997 - Tricky
11th May 1997 - Cardiff Big Noise live in the slot (Paul Weller, Space, Gene, 60Ft Dolls, Stereophonics, Dub War)
18th May 1997 - Pavement
25th May 1997 - Foo Fighters live as part of 'Music Live 97' in Manchester
1st June 1997 - The Best of Tribal Gathering (Kraftwerk and others I wouldn't put in their company)
8th June 1997 - Jamiroquai live at Finsbury Park
15th June 1997 - Divine Comedy / Tunic / The Hitchers live from Queens University, Belfast
22nd June 1997 - James
29th June 1997 - climax of the long weekend at Glastonbury
6th July 1997 - Glastonbury 97 Dance Highlights
13th July 1997 - T in the Park live
20th July 1997 - Phoenix Festival live (Black Grape, Skunk Anansie and Billy Bragg billed)

The show then moved to 10pm, still on Sundays
27th July 1997 - Monaco and Kenickie at T in the Park
3rd August 1997 - Massive Attack at the Essential Weekender
10th August 1997 - Spiritualized (Essential Weekender) and Faith No More (Phoenix Festival)
17th August 1997 - Lightning Seeds / Wannadies (Phoenix Festival)
24th August 1997 - Reading Festival live
31st August 1997 - 'Staying Out for the Summer' compilation of the year's live music scheduled, but this will have been dropped because of the Diana episode
7th September 1997 - Space and Republica (Reading 97) billed in RT
14th September 1997 - James / The Cardigans (Reading 97)
21st September 1997 - Lemonheads / Eels / Fountains of Wayne (Reading 97)
23rd September 1997 - U2 live in Sarajevo (not billed in RT and not in all newspapers, but definitely went out live)
28th September 1997 - repeat of the above
5th October 1997 - '30 Years On' retrospective for Radio 1's anniversary
12th October 1997 - Robbie Williams
19th October 1997 - Echo and the Bunnymen
26th October 1997 - start of 'Sound City Oxford 97' (Lightning Seeds / Silver Sun)
2nd November 1997 - Best of Sound City 97
9th November 1997 - Eels (Reading 97) followed by a pre-MOBO Awards live show in Trevor Nelson's slot (Lynden David Hall, Soul II Soul, Angie Stone, Bobby Brown, Myron)
16th November 1997 - Bentley Rhythm Ace / Propellerheads / Chemical Brothers
23rd November 1997 - Portishead in New York followed by Trevor Nelson's Rhythm Nation tour live from the Cambridge Junction (Shola Ama, D'Influence, Eric Benet, Glamma Kid)
30th November 1997 - Bjork
7th December 1997 - The Stone Roses (repeat from 18th March 1996)
14th December 1997 - Oasis (live at the G-Mex, Manchester)
21st December 1997 - Blur
25th December 1997 - Glastonbury 97 highlights
28th December 1997 - Oasis live rerun (not sure but possibly from just two weeks earlier, which seems a bit pointless)
29th December 1997 - highlights of the summer's dance music coverage from 9pm-12 midnight

Just one more (incomplete) year to go on this journey ...

RPC