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Saturday 29 September 2012

Charlatans-Salford Quays BBC Philharmonic Studio 31 Oct 11

Forever
Just when you’re thinking
Tellin’ stories
North Country boy
Impossible
Smash the system
The only one I know
Oh vanity
Sproston Green


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Hope Of The States-Sheffield Leadmill 17 Jun 06

Emergency
Blood meridian
Bonfires
Nemiah
Left
This is a question
Sing it out
Black Dollar Bills
Enemies / friends
The good fight
George Washington
The church choir
The red the white the blue the black
Black stars red stars

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Hope Of The States-Manchester University 4 Oct 03

Black Americas
66 sleepers to summer
George Washington
The day will never come
Black Dollar bills
The red the white the black the blue
Don't go to pieces
Nehimiah
Meves...
Last picture show
Enemies / friends
Mad world
Static in the cities

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Hope Of The States-Liverpool Barfly 22 Oct 04

Intro
?
George Washington
Black stars red stars
Black Dollar bills
?
Bonfires
?
Nehemiah
The red the white the black the blue
Enemies friends
Static in the cities
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Pet Shop Boys-BBC Radio 2 Steve Wright Interview 18 Sep 12


Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe - aka the Pet Shop Boys - chat to Steve about how quotes from London cab drivers turned into one of the tracks on their new album and their penchant for pointy hats.

Music Played-
Always on my mind
Interview
Ego music
Your early stuff
Interview
Leaving
Outro


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XX-BBC 6 Music Steve Lamacq Session 10 Sep 12


The XX perform a very special session for Steve Lamacq as part of BBC 6 Music Celebrates: Live Music.

The Mercury Prize winning band release their second album, Coexist, this month and new tracks will feature in this session.

Steve catches up with the band to find out how life's changed for them since they performed their first ever radio session back in April 2009.

Music Played-
Lucy Rose-Bikes (Outro)
XX-? (studio version)
Interview
XX-Our song (studio version)
Cocteau Twins-Iceblink luck (Outro)
Introduction
XX-Angels
XX-Crystalised
XX-Reunion
XX-Sunset
XX-Fiction
XX-Intro / Tides
Outro


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Thursday 27 September 2012

Bryan Ferry-BBC Radio 4 Front Row Interview 26 Nov 10


Despite the rumours of a Roxy Music reunion CD, Bryan Ferry's new release is a solo album, though it does feature contributions from three members of the band, including Brian Eno. Bryan Ferry discusses his latest project and reveals how he once taught ceramics in a school, despite knowing very little about the subject.

Music Played-
Introduction
Heartache by numbers
Interview
You can dance
Interview
?
Interview


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Sandie Shaw-BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs 26 Dec 10


Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Sandie Shaw.

With her melodic, velvety voice, bare feet and Sassoon bob she was the epitome of everything that was swinging about the '60s.

She was just 17 when she first topped the charts with Always Something There to Remind Me and went on to become Britain's first Eurovision winner with Puppet on a String. She loathed the song at the time, but has recently come to terms with it after recording a new version which is, she says, rather forlorn.

Along with the highs have been terrible lows - years that she calls her dark ages, when, without money or creative freedom, she felt hopeless. It was Buddhism that turned her fortunes around and became central to her life. Now, she says, she cannot believe the journey life has taken her on and she is preparing for a final flourish as a performer.

Record: None of them! Book: Lecture on The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life by Daisaku Ikeda Luxury: Omamori Gohonzon

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

Music Played-
Sandie Shaw-Coconut Grove
The Shangri-Las-Remember (walkin’ in the sand)
Guy Mitchell-She wears red feathers and a huly huly skirt
Georgie Fame-Barefootin’
Bob Marley-Redemption song
Beach Boys-Good vibrations
Sandie Shaw (with Herbie Flowers & Roger Cook)-Bananas
Beatles-Here comes the sun


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Michael Eavis-BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs 30 Nov 08


Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is Michael Eavis. It's more than 30 years since he launched the Glastonbury Festival at his dairy farm in Somerset. Back in 1970, the headline act was Marc Bolan. His fee for appearing was just £500 and party-goers were given all the milk that the farm's herd of Friesians produced.

Over the years Michael risked losing his farm in order to fund the festival, faced years when the event was mired in mud and was criticised for booking a hip-hop act to top this year's bill. But, he says, he always felt compelled to keep the Glastonbury Festival going and now it attracts 180,000 people each year and brings millions of pounds into the local economy.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Music Played-
Marc Bolan-Children of the revolution
Pee Wee Hunt-Twelfth street rag
Elvis Presley-How great thou art
Grateful Dead-Uncle John’s band
Bob Dylan-I threw it all away
The Smiths-Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before
The Stone Roses-Waterfall
Coldplay-The scientist


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Jez Kerr & The Family Bizarre-Manchester Food & Drink Festival-Manchester Albert Square 23 Sep 12


Soundcheck
The future sound of St. Helens
?

Gig
Play sumthing fast
Sun shines bright
?
Inland
?
Volcanoes
Sell the world (false start)
Sell the world
Technicolour dawn
Shack up
Heart and soul
The future sound of St. Helens (false start)
The future sound of St. Helens


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Richard Hawley-Manchester Academy 26 Sep 12


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Factory Star-Manchester Food & Drink Festival-Manchester Albert Square 22 Sep 12


Introduction
Hanging man
Away dull care
New chemical light
Bad education
Cheetham Bill
Angel steps
Arise Europa
Up and on
Olympian




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Wednesday 26 September 2012

Fall-Salford Lower Kersal Social Club 22 Sep 12


Defurbish
Hot cake
Strychnine
Wolf kidult man
Chino splashback
Hitman!
Cowboy George
I'm not from Bury
Container drivers
Cosmos 7
Theme from Sparta F.C.
Psykick dancehall
Mr. Pharmacist


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Tuesday 25 September 2012

Eccentronic Research Council Featuring Maxine Peak-BBC 6 Music Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone-Maxine Peake Interview 23 Sep 12



Interview
Curious morbids
Outro

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Duran Duran-BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends-Simon Le Bon Interview 16 Jun 12


Girl On Film Emma Freud talks to Wild Boy Simon Le Bon about life as lead singer of one of the most successful bands of the 20th Century. Simon being one of the 'prettiest boys in rock' tells us about Duran Duran's recent 'Diamond In The Mind' concert recording and how they're gearing up to perform at the Olympic Opening Ceremony Celebration Concert in London's Hyde Park on Friday 27th July.

Interview


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Pet Shop Boys-BBC 6 Music Mark Radcliffe Interview 17 Sep 12


Mark chats to electronic-pop icons the Pet Shop Boys about their new album.

Music Played-
Leaving
Interview
Breathing space
Interview
Always on my mind
Outro


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XX & The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra-Bridlington Opera House 19 Sep 12


Zane comes live from Bridlington Opera House with a unique performance from the BBC Philharmonic with The XX.

Music Played-
Introduction
Angels
Heart skipped a beat
Missing
Fiction
Reunion
Sunset
Tides
Infinity
Stars
Outro



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Tim Burgess-BBC 6 Music Shaun Keaveny Session 24 Sep 12


It's Live Music Monday all day today on BBC Radio 6Music with a session on each show. Our Shaun is joined by the one and only Tim Burgess for some chatter and a live performance of material both old and new.

The Charlatan's frontman is back with a new solo album 'Oh No I Love You' which features the single 'White' (written with Lambchop's Kurt Wagner) which is a former Breakfast Show Record of the Week.


Music Played-
Interview
White
Interview
North Country boy
Interview


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Paul Banks-BBC 6 Music Lauren Laverne Session 21 Sep 12


After releasing 4 albums with New York's Interpol, and 2 solo releases under the alter-ego of Julian Plenti, Paul Banks joins Lauren to play tracks from his new album Banks.

Music Played-
Interview
Stephanie says
Interview
The base
Interview


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Smiths-BBC 6 Music Documentary The Smiths At The Beeb 21 Sep 12


As part of BBC Radio 6 Music Celebrates Live Music, a chance to hear the story of the live session recordings The Smiths made for the BBC.

Music Played & Interviews-
William it was really nothing
What difference does it make?
Handsome devil
These things take time
Pretty girls make graves
Reel around the fountain
This charming man
Back to the old house
Nowhere fast
How soon is now?
Half a person
Is it really so strange?


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Paul Weller-BBC 6 Music Shaun Keaveny Interview 30 May 12


Wednesday sees Paul Weller join Shaun to chat about his new album 'Sonik Kicks'. He releases new single 'When Your Garden's Overgrown' this week which features Noel Gallgher on bass guitar and tips its hat to a certain Syd Barrett: "I think this song's about Syd Barrett" says Paul. "It's like, what would it have been like if he hadn't got into music? If he'd gone off to the continent and just been an artist on the side-street in France. He probably would've been happier. There's some lines in there about the brush strokes of fame and I'm thinking of Syd at the time. He was an artist at heart, not a rock star."
He chats with Shaun ahead of some live dates in New York and Toronto in May before heading back to the UK to perform at Jodrell Bank on 24th June. He then headlines the Sunday at Latitude Festival on July 15th.


Music Played-
Introduction
Paul Weller-When your garden's overgrown
Interview
Alabama shakes-Hold on
Interview



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Blue Aeroplanes-BBC Radio 1 Session Feb 88


Introduction
Breaking in my heart
Stripped
Vales of colour
88 Out
Outro


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John Cale-BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs 22 Feb 04


This week Sue Lawley's castaway is John Cale, a classically trained musician who went on to found one of the most influential bands of the 1960s, Velvet Underground. John Cale was brought up in a strict South Wales household. His maternal grandmother insisted that Welsh was the only language to be spoken in the house even though his father spoke only English. His childhood was solitary - he was an only child and his mother encouraged him to spend hours each day practising his piano playing, and he later took up the viola. He went on to have viola lessons at the Royal Academy of Music while also studying music at Goldsmiths' Teacher Training College in London.

He was talent-spotted by Aaron Copland and awarded a musical scholarship to study in America, where he was part of the contemporary avant-garde music scene there, working with John Cage and LaMonte Young, until he met Lou Reed and the two formed Velvet Underground. Their first album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, remains their best known. Andy Warhol is credited as producer, it features Nico on vocals and the cover is the famous Warhol banana. He went on to produce some of the most influential artists of the time and has made New York his home - although Wales continues to exert some draw over him. He continues to write music and tour.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Music Played-
Bob Dylan-She belongs to me
Velvet Underground-Some kinda love
Brian Wilson-In my room
Beatles-She said she said
Elbow-Switching off
Leonard Cohen-Alexandra leaving
John Tavener-Song for Athene
Peter Gabriel-Here comes the flood


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Syd Barrett-BBC Radio 4 The Twilight World Of Syd Barrett 9 Jun 11


Six years after his death (7th July 2006) Syd Barrett lives on freeze framed, still young and a striking lost soul of the sixties whose brief moment of creativity outshines those long years of solitude shut away in a terraced house in his home town of Cambridge.

This revealing programme hears how his band Pink Floyd (and family) coped with Barrett's mental breakdown and explores the hurriedly arranged holiday to the Spanish island of Formentera - where the star unravelled. In the programme we also hear about Barrett's pioneering brand of English psychedelic pop typified on early Pink Floyd recordings 'Arnold Layne', 'See Emily Play' and the strange songs on Pink Floyd's impressive debut album 'The Piper At the Gates of Dawn'.

Undoubtedly Barrett's experimentation with the drug LSD affected him mentally and the band members reveal how concerned they were when he began to go catatonic on-stage, playing music that had little to do with their material, or not playing at all. By Spring 1968 Barrett was out of the group and after a brief period of hibernation, he re-emerged in 1970 with a pair of albums, 'The Madcap Laughs' and 'Barrett', but they failed to chart and Barrett retired to a hermit life existing under the watchful gaze of his caring sister Rosemary (featured in the programme)

We hear from David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright (one of the last interviews before his sad passing) about how there was little understanding of mental illness when it came to the drug fused culture of the time. These days a strung out star is hurriedly booked into the Priory and given counselling. As this programme reveals Barrett's mental breakdown was not understood and the steps taken to help him were inappropriate and still rankle the members of Pink Floyd today.

Producer: John Sugar
A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4.

Music Played-
Syd Barrett-?
Pink Floyd-Arnold Layne
Pink Floyd-Interstellar overdrive
Pink Floyd-See Emily play
Syd Barrett-?
Syd Barrett-Baby lemonade
Pink Floyd-Shine on you crazy diamond
Pink Floyd-Wish you were here


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Y-Key Operators-Mill-Fest Failsworth Millgate 27 Aug 12


Not long now
Bad karma
Big society
What’s real anymore?
?
?
Town where you were born


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Puressence-Mill-Fest Failsworth Millgate 27 Aug 12


Life comes down hard
How does it feel?
Bright eyes
Casting lazy shadows
Don't forget to remember
Standing in your shadow
All I want
Sold unseen
This feeling
Sharpen up the knives
Walking dead


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Monday 24 September 2012

Pet Shop Boys-Berlin Hebbel am Ufer 5 Sep 12


Intro: Winning Cacophony
Face like that
Leaving
Invisible
Winner
Ego music
Memory of the future
Hold on
Requiem in denim and leopardskin
I started a joke


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Tim Burgess-BBC 6 Music Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie Interview 18 Sep 12


Mark and Stuart are joined by Charlatan's frontman, and occasional 6 Music presenter, Tim Burgess. He releases his second solo album, Oh No I Love You, next month. It features guests including Lambchop's Kurt Wagner, who also wrote lyrics for the album.

Music Played-
Interview
Tim Burgess-White
Interview
Tim Burgess-The doors of then
Interview
Bill Callahan-Sycamore
Outro


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Orbital-BBC 6 Music Mark Radcliffe Interview 12 Sep 12


Mark chats to dance act Orbital about Wonky, their first album in eight years.

Music Played-
Introduction
Orbital & Zola Jesus-New France
Interview
Orbital-Where is it going?
Interview
Kid Frost-Rough cut
Outro


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Dislocation Dance-Monton Blue Bell 21 Sep 12


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There lies romance
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The ruins of Manchester
Oh dear what can the matter be?
There it goes now
Stop breathing
Night and day
Peace and love
Crash


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