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Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie are joined by musician Bill Nelson.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's guest today is the experimental art rock musician, singer-songwriter, producer and painter Bill Nelson. Famous for being the main songwriter and guitarist in the 70s rock group Be-Bop Deluxe (Ships in the Night, Maid in Heaven), Yorkshire-born Bill went to art college where he developed a love of poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. He then went onto form new wave band Red Noise and also released a solo single Do You Dream in Colour? He's collaborated with SO MANY people - A Flock of Seagulls, John Cooper Clarke, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Gary Numan, The Skids, Cabaret Voltaire, to name a few - and is here to talk about some of his latest reissues.

Supplementary to the main event, The Chain returns, over six chiliads* of songs. No repetitions and YOU get to pick the next one. There's also a dose of Tea Time Theme Time to ease you into late afternoon. Simple, it's a triplet of songs which are linked together in some way...but how?
(*a group of 1,000).

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Thu 9 Mar 201713:00
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Music Played

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain

    Always Sad

    • ADA/WARNER MUSIC.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Higher Ground

    • Motown.

  • The Beatles

    Maxwell's Silver Hammer

    • Apple.

  • Marika Hackman

    Boyfriend

    • Boyfriend.
    • AMF Records.

  • Edwin Starr

    25 Miles

    • Spectrum.

  • Public Service Broadcasting

    Progress

    • CD Single.
    • Test Card Recordings.

  • Bonobo

    No Reason (feat. Nick Murphy)

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Dutch Uncles

    Oh Yeah

    • Big Balloon.
    • Memphis Industries.

  • Kurtis Blow

    The Breaks

    • Fabric.

  • Laura Marling

    Wild Fire

    • Kobalt/More Alarming Records.

  • World of Twist

    She's A Rainbow

    • ZERO A MARTIN HANNETT STORY 1977-1991.
    • Big Beat.

  • This Is the Kit

    Silver John

  • Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains

    Grand Dérèglement

    • Solide Mirage.
    • Domino.

  • Depeche Mode

    Where's the Revolution

    • Columbia Records.

  • Bill Nelson

    Signs and Signals

    • Buddha Head.
    • Cocteau Discs.
    • 008.

  • Bill Nelson

    Once I Had a Time Machine

    • Golden Melodies of Tomorrow.
    • 002.

  • Au Revoir Simone

    Shadows

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Moshi Moshi.
    • 1.

  • Tame Impala

    Elephant

    • Modular.

  • Young Fathers

    Only God Knows (feat. Leith Congregational Choir)

    • Big DADA.

  • Temples

    In My Pocket

    • Volcano.
    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • Busta Rhymes

    Turn It Up, Fire It Up

    • When Disaster Strikes.
    • Elektra.

  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

    French Press

    • Sub Pop.

  • Grandaddy

    Evermore

    • 30th Century Records/Columbia Records.

  • Todd Rundgren

    I Saw The Light

  • Manic Street Preachers

    La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

  • The Hollies

    Carrie Anne

  • Sinkane

    Telephone

    • Objectif 2017.
    • City Slang.
    • 002.

  • Supergrass

    Pumping On Your Stereo

    • Parlophone.

Broadcast

  • Thu 9 Mar 201713:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music