Tag: BBC Radio 6 Music
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Sink Ya Teeth
First heard about Norwich band Sink Ya Teeth via Amy Lamé’s first 6Music show now that’s she’s taken over from Jarvis Cocker…I’m certainly there for the Donna Summer/Moroder vibes of Glass – if anyone brings the chugging octave bassline I am SO there – and also the woozy after-party weariness of If You See Me…
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We Have Wandered Too Far…
Heard this on 6Music and was surprised to hear the dulcet tones of Alan Moore gracing ‘The Ghost of Watling St’ by Oddfellow’s Casino. Really nice and trippy, apparently written by request of John Higgs who has written a book about walking the whole of Watling Street. He’s more famous for a book about The…
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Policy of Truth
Really liking this Depeche Mode remix by Dunproofin, very timely…as DM go on stage at the 6Music festival (listening to that now live…) Also check out his cover of The Wonder Stuff’s Circlesquare. Pop star!
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Tubular Belles
After listening to Mike Oldfield on 6Music, I heard this journey through synthesisers through the ages…a lot of ‘OMG one of those?!’ moments in this cover by the Brooklyn Synth Orchestra. (via Matt Catt)
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Cat’s Eyes
Not really come across Cat’s Eyes although of course I know Faris’s work with The Horrors, but I heard them interviewed on 6Music earlier…checking out the new album it’s really good, but this performance from 2011 from the Vatican stopped me in my tracks. Apparently via Rachel Zeffira’s former opera contacts she got a gig…
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RIP Prince
It’s been a shit year for music and entertainment deaths – David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Ronnie Corbett, Victoria Wood, now Prince. 6Music is playing this, and it seems so appropriate…originally recorded played live in a 20 minute version, and edited down, (yes he played most of it completely LIVE!) it shows the genius of Prince.…