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Dreaming Spires live and Bob Geldof talks

Crossover band the Dreaming Spires are in session and Bob Geldof talks Boomtown Rats.

Q Magazine called The Dreaming Spires the most thrilling country rock debut since Big Star; Word magazine described them as clear-eyed power-pop. Think Petty. Think Parker... The Oxfordshire based band play live tonight.

Also Bob Geldof talks about the formation and success and reformation of The Boomtown Rats.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 15 Sep 201300:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Barenaked Ladies

    ONE WEEK

    • STUNT.
    • REPRISE.
    • 9362-46963-2.

  • Matthew Perryman Jones

    Land of the Living

    • Land of the Living.
    • Cante Jondo Records.
    • 901918.

  • Western Lows

    Swan Fields

    • Glacial.
    • Highline-Records.
    • ..

  • Steppenwolf

    BORN TO BE WILD

    • BORN TO BE WILD.
    • TELSTAR.
    • TCD-2524.

  • The Dreaming Spires

    Everything All of the Time (Session version)

  • Danny & The Champions of the World

    Cold, Cold World

    • Stay True.
    • Loose.
    • CD001.

  • Co Co-pilgrim

    A Fairer Sea

    • A Fairer Sea.
    • Battle.
    • Battle 002.

  • Jimmie Vaughan

    LOST IN YOU

    • Out There.
    • Epic.
    • 4912202.

  • Brooks Williams

    One Step

    • New Eveything.
    • red guitar blue music.
    • rgbm2013.

  • The El Dorados

    At My Front Door RECORDING

    • The Sound Of The City: Chicago.
    • Ace.
    • 7243-539459 2 3.

  • Lisbee Stainton

    Pulse

    • Words Games.
    • Marionet Music.
    • CD 18.

  • The Dreaming Spires

    Brothers in Brooklyn (Session version)

  • The Miracles

    YOU'VE REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME

    • Gold.
    • MOTOWN.
    • 0602-498327814.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    RAT TRAP

    • Back to Boomtown.
    • EMI.
    • 57.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    Looking After Number One

    • Back to Boomtown.
    • EMI.
    • 57.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    LIKE CLOCKWORK

    • Back to Boomtown.
    • EMI.
    • 57.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    SHE'S SO MODERN

    • Back to Boomtown.
    • EMI.
    • 57.

  • The Beatles

    Hey Jude

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 7243 5-299702 2.

  • Godfrey, Wish, Plant, Melville Smith

    BBC RADIO 2 JINGLES 2013 WB

  • Hayes Carll

    Little Rock

    • Little Rock.
    • Highway 87.
    • HWY-8701.

  • The Band of Heathens

    Don't Call On Me

    • The Band Of Heathens.
    • BOH.
    • bohrcd-1001.

  • Turnpike Troubadours

    Gin Smoke and Lies

    • Goodbye Normal Street.
    • Bossier City Records.
    • B007MMRW1E.

  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Green Onions

    • ATLANTIC RHYTHM AND BLUES VOLUME 4 1947 - 1962.
    • ATLANTIC.
    • 781-296 - 2.

  • Mavis Staples

    CAN YOU GET TO THAT

    • One True Vine.
    • Anti.
    • 7206-2.

  • Richard Thompson

    Saving The Good Stuff For You

    • Electric.
    • Proper Records PROMO.
    • n.a.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    GOD WAS IN THE WATER

    • SOULS ALIKE.
    • EMI.
    • 7243-473628.

  • Emily Barker

    The Leaving

    • Dear River.
    • Linn records.
    • AKD 405.

  • Rosanne Cash

    WESTERN WALL

    • 10 SONG DEMO.
    • CAPITOL.
    • CDEST-2287.

  • The Dreaming Spires

    We Used To Have Parties (Session version)

  • Old Crow Medicine Show

    HARD TO LOVE

    • OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW.
    • NETTWERK.
    • 07243-589235 2.

  • North Mississippi Allstars

    I'm Leaving

    • World Boogie Is Coming.
    • Songs of the South Records.
    • SOTS-014.

  • JD McPherson

    North Side Gal

    • Signs and Signifiers.
    • HiStyle.
    • HSCD-82698.

Broadcast

  • Sun 15 Sep 201300:00
    BBC Radio 2

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