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BBC Radio 6 Music News
Daily Boos featuring the biggest names, backstage gossip and breaking news from the world of music. Boos are brought to you by the Music News team at BBC Radio 6 Music - Matt Everitt, Adrian Larkin and Elizabeth Alker.
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War On Drugs' Adam Granduciel tells Elizabeth Alker about the band's new album A Deeper Understanding
Tonight (30/08/17) between midnight and 1am listen to Mary Anne Hobbs' 6 Music Recommends show live to hear Mogwai's new album played in full. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0927dmq
Stuart Braithwaite discussed the making of the album with Elizabeth Alker:
Hawkwind will play The Roundhouse on May 26th to mark the 45th their Greasy Trucker's show there in 1972
Mark Donne tells Elizabeth Alker about his new film Listening with Frontiersman, with soundtrack by Thom Yorke and showing now at the Estuary Festival
@Lucy_McNamara and @StuartMaconie talk to Kevin Rowland of @DexysOfficial about the new single CarrickFergus
Hear @chrishawkinsuk go behind the scenes with @psb_hq who just filmed their new video @jodrellbank
Brian Eno talks to @therealmarkrad after the BBC Music John Peel lecture. Listen to the full lecture at bbc.co.uk/6music
Roger Waters @rogerwaters has been telling @elizabethalker all about his new film The Wall. Listen here:
LUSH ARE BACK and playing The Roundhouse on May 6th! Hear Miki Berenyi telling @elizabethalker more:
The BBC Proms have revealed their 2015 season and BBC 6 Music will be broadcasting a special Late Night Prom from the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 5 August. Mary Anne Hobbs will present an evening exploring the borderlands of classical music, with the pioneers of a new generation of musicians who draw on contemporary electronic influences. Berlin-based piano virtuoso Nils Frahm and atmospheric duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen will be joining forces creating an exclusive collaboration as the centre piece of the concert, and it will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and 6 Music. 6 Music’s Georgie Rogers took the opportunity to speak to the artists about this and here we have weekend breakfast presenter Mary Anne Hobbs, Nils Frahm, Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran of A Winged Victory For The Sullen discussing what's in store for this one-off performance. Tickets go on sale via the Royal Albert Hall box office at 9am on Saturday 16 May. To find out more visit the BBC Proms website at bbc.co.uk/proms.
Everything Everything have returned to the live scene to showcase their third album. April shows took place in Exeter, Tunbridge Wells, London and Manchester and they have also been filling the summer diary with festivals Liverpool Sound City, Parklife Weekender, T In The Park, Longitude, Reading and Leeds and Festival No 6. Get Me To Heaven comes out on June 15th and follows a whole year off the road.
They recently introduced fans to the album with the track Distant Past which is a dancier take on what they do and was produced by three-time Grammy winning musician and producer Stuart Price, known for his work with New Order, The Killers, Madonna and Pet Shop Boys. BBC 6 Music reporter Georgie Rogers been speaking to Jeremy from the band about how they found the process, their new producer, what we can expect from the LP and their one gig of the year they were off the road.
Movie star, musician and now film-maker Ryan Gosling has written and directed his first feature Lost River. For the soundtrack he worked with the man behind the Drive soundtrack, Johnny Jewel, who is member of quiet a few bands (Glass Candy, Chromatics and Desire). Lost River stars Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Dr Who actor Matt Smith and Eva Mendes and it's a fantasy noir modern day fairy tale. In 2007 he started a musical project called Dead Man's Bones and two years later put out an album with the Silverlake Conservatory Children's Choir. In recent years Ryan's music has taken a back seat to films like Blue Valentine, Crazy Stupid Love, The Ides of March, Gangster Squad, The Place Beyond The Pines and Only God Forgives. 6 Music reporter Georgie Rogers met the man himself to discuss this new film, its soundtrack and whether he might record another album.
Muse have premiered Dead Inside the first official single from their new album Drones. Speaking about the concept of the album, singer Matt Bellamy has said: "The world is run by Drones utilizing Drones to turn us all into Drones. Drones explores the journey of a human, from their abandonment and loss of hope, to their indoctrination by the system to be a human drone, to their eventual defection from their oppressors." The band has been playing a handful of low key shows finishing with a gig at the Brighton Dome on March 23rd. 6 Music reporter Georgie Rogers has been speaking to the band’s drummer Dom Howard about the album's storyline, its first single and the mini-tour.
The Vaccines have premiered the first taster of their upcoming third album English Graffiti. The song Handsome was recorded in the winter of 2014 at Dave Fridmann’s Tarbox Road Studio in upstate New York as part of the album sessions and produced by The Vaccines, Fridmann (Sleater-Kinney, Flaming Lips, Tame Impala) and Cole MGN (Ariel Pink, Beck). The band have announced a short UK tour in March and April and if you remember their last tour saw them gravitate to playing arenas. 6 Music reporter Georgie Rogers spoke to frontman Justin Young about the follow-up, experimenting with production and the album's title.
Johnny Marr's son Nile Marr is getting ready to go on another tour in December with his band Man Made. He was playing live as a solo artist for some time before forming the group, which has been gathering a following. Man Made's debut LP is due out next year and they have released a new single called TV Broke My Brain. It turns out he has taken more influence from bands like Modest Mouse, which his dad played with, than Johnny’s legacy with The Smiths. The family lived in Portland Oregon for a bit as well, where Nile soaked up American musical influences and his band has already shared stages with Broken Social Scene and Badly Drawn Boy, and been on the bill at Reading and Leeds and Latitude festivals. Here he tells 6 Music's Georgie Rogers about the band.
Singer-songwriter Frank Turner is finishing up his touring for the year over the next month with some UK gigs in London and Hereford and he’s told us he has written his next album and is due to get in the studio before the close of 2014. His fifth LP 'Tape Deck Heart' was released back in April last year. He toured the record extensively and it elevated him to arenas, including London’s 02. It seems Frank it taking a different approach to his upcoming sixth offering. He is also about to release a new compilation of unreleased tunes, collaborations, demos and live versions. Titled ‘The Third Three Years’ it comes out on November 24th. Here he is speaking to 6 Music’s Georgie Rogers about everything that’s going on behind the scenes at the moment.
Guy Garvey @Guy_Garvey talks abt his solo project. Teaser from his @bbc6music show going out this Sunday
Mark E Smith talks to @elizabethalker about finding new inspiration, Bono and calling sock companies
The Saturday night headliners on the main stage at Bestival this year were Foals. Founder Rob Da Bank previously said that he wanted a relatively young band to have a go at headlining the 55,000 capacity event.
The Oxford band have gained a reputation as a great live act in the last 2 years since their last album Holy Fire came out. They won the Q award for Best Live Act of the year and they've played their own headline shows at Alexandra Palace and The Royal Albert Hall, as well as headlining Latitude last year too.
Their Bestival headline set will be their last show for a while and they now plan to go away and write album number four. 6 Music reporter Elizabeth Alker spoke to singer Yannis Philippakis ahead of their show to find out how it feels to have been elevated to headline status and what is in store for their next record.
After a 10 year hiatus, Canadian rock duo Death from Above 1979 are back with a new record, released September 9th. Fans were left wanting more after their 2004 debut, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, and four UK shows in October have sold out.
6 Music News reporter Georgie Rogers had a chat with Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F Keeler when they were over in the UK all about their reunion...
The Stranglers are currently on the road, they play at the Holt Festival in Norfolk on July 27th, then head to Portugal to Vilar De Mouros festival before taking their live show to the main stage at V Festival on the 16th and 17th August.
The band is famed for songs Golden Brown, No More Heroes, Peaches, Always The Sun and Skin Deep.
They also perform at Electric Picnic in Ireland later this summer.
Here 6 Music’s Georgie Rogers chats with JJ Burnel from the band about their 40th anniversary year and going back to V Festival.
This year the Velodrome in Manchester is celebrating its 20th anniversary. It was built in 1994 and was proposed as part of Manchester's bid for the Olympic Games of 1996. It's the reason that Manchester became the home of cycling since following it's opening, British Cycling, the national governing body for cycle racing in Great Britain, moved there.
It's also been host to some pretty special music concerts. In 2009, Kraftwerk played there as part of the Manchester International Festival during which Tour De France members of Team GM cycled around the track.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Velodrome and to coincide with the Tour De France passing through the area, The Manchester Museum of Science And Industry is showing a brand new exhibition about the history of cycling in Manchester. 6 Music's Elizabeth Alker went to the museum to find out more:
Jimmy Page spoke to @shaunwkeaveny this morning on @bbc6breakfast. But will Led Zep get back together and play Glasto?
London’s iconic Roundhouse venue has announced a new summer arts festival which will include the world premiere of a performance of Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s score from the Oscar-winning film There Will Be Blood. On August 6th and 7th Greenwood will be joined by The London Contemporary Orchestra at the Camden venue to perform the soundtrack in full at a screening of the film. Here he chats to @BBC6MusicNews reporter @GeorgieRogers about bringing this film score to the Roundhouse’s series and if his band have made any plans for their next record.
Jack White has got a new album coming out called Lazaretto and here's an instrumental taster track called High Ball Stepper
. @elizabethalker spoke to Ian Brown last night at the screening of @nsoulthefilm @CornerhouseMcr - part of the 6 Music Festival Fringe
Critics' Choice Award winner Tom Odell, signed to Columbia Records, tells BBC6 Music how he wrote and recorded the songs that landed him a Brit gong.
The 2013 Brits Critics' Choice Award winner Tom Odell tells BBC 6 Music about how, in a roundabout way, Lily Allen helped him to get a major record deal.
Chichester-born 22-year-old Tom Odell has won the 2013 Brits Critics' Choice Award.
He is the first male to do so and follows in the footsteps of Adele, Florence, Ellie Goulding, Jessie J and Emile Sande.
He spoke to BBC 6 Music News at 7am on Thursday morning in a cab on his way to LOTS of interviews...
The XX will be curating and headlining three special concerts across Europe next year.
The events are called Night + Day and take place at Lisbon Jardim da Torres de Belëm in Portugal on 5 May, the Berlin Spreepark in Germany on the 18th of May and at Osterley Park & House just outside London on the 23rd of June.
The band have been involved in every detail and searched high and low for the right locations, and will be selecting surprise artists to join them on the line-up and will even decide what stalls there will be.
We spoke to singer Romy Madley-Croft about how the idea for these concerts came about.
Noel Gallagher is curating next year's Teenage Cancer Trust series of gigs.
He has put himself on the same bill as Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon.
BBC 6 Music's Linda Serck asked if they might share a stage and have a bit of a jam.
Another journalist asked if he plays any Blur tracks privately.
This is what Noel said.
The 2012 Uncut Music Award winner has been announced today (Friday 23 November) for the most inspiring international album of the past 12 months.
In previous years it was won by Fleet Foxes, Paul Weller and PJ Harvey.
The winner this year is Father John Misty with his album Fear Of Fun. Father John Misty is Joshua Tillman, former Fleet Foxes drummer.
The panel of judges includes the BBC's own Whispering Bob Harris as well as Mark Cooper, who is the boss of BBC Music Entertainment and Later with Jools Holland.
Here's Uncut Editor Allan Jones on why Mark Cooper was such a fan of the album and why he himself was surprised at judges' choice.
Tickets go on sale at 10am today (Friday 23 November) for James's 30th anniversary UK tour next year - with Echo and The Bunnymen as special guests. Now of course they will be playing the hits on tour, but fans can also expect some fresh material. Frontman Tim Booth told BBC 6music the band have detached themselves completely from society to concentrate on penning new tunes. He also reveals a little bit about what some of the songs on the new album may sound like....
Promoter John Gidding reacts to the Isle of Wight festival licence victory, following a hearing looking into this year's travel chaos at the festival caused by rain and mud.
Jason Bonham, son of late @LedZeppelin drummer John Bonham, tells BBC 6 Music he wants to embark on a drum 'n' bass project with the band's bassist John Paul Jones.
BBC 6 Music asked Martin Rossiter if Gene would ever reunite - in the wake of scores of other bands like The Stone Roses getting back together recently. Here is what he said...
Former Gene frontman Martin Rossiter took an eight-year sabbatical from the music world after splitting up the band in 2004, but is back with his debut solo effort The Defenestration of St Martin. It's out on 26 November and BBC 6 Music has played the first single from it - Drop Anchor. Here he tells 6 Music why he decided to return to music, why the album is just him and the piano, and an interesting project he may have in the pipeline.....
Friendly Fires have curated the latest Late Night Tales compilation which is out this week.
Their album features tracks from Stereolab, SBTRK, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Olivia Newton John and a Friendly Fires new cover of a rare track by Sting track called Why Don't You Answer?.
It's also traditional for each Late Night Tales album to end with a spoken word track, and this one is read by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Ed and Jack from Friendly Fires told BBC 6 Music how this friendship came about.
Live energy, sludgy grooves, foliage and an aborted attempt to use Haitian rhythm bones....Welcome to Foals' third album Holy Fire.
Mark Herbert from Warp Films has the latest developments on the Stone Roses documentary filmed by Shane Meadows.
Edwyn Collins has told BBC 6 Music his new album, Understated, is slated for March. Here he reads out some of the title track's lyrics.
Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill is busy with a music side project called Smoke & Jackal, and has just released an EP. But what of his 'other' band?
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page tells BBC 6 Music News his plans for next year at the Celebration Day premiere.
Queen guitarist Brian May on his involvement with preserving Freddie's image in a forthcoming biopic.
Emily spoke to BBC 6 Music about "exciting" changes to the festival and when we can expect a line up announcement.
Portishead's Geoff Barrow's organised a football match against Portishead Town FC this Sunday for the local kids hospice. Plus work on a new Portishead album has been pushed back following extra live commitments.
Richard Hawley will be playing a special free concert for #6Music with the #BBC #Philharmonic orchestra in his hometown of Sheffield. The gig forms part of a series of one off events and unique collaborations that the orchestra will be staging in September. #6music #bbc #philharmonic
Roger Daltrey from The Who has been telling us about their performance at this year's #Olympics Closing Ceremony #London2012
Ted tells us more about the new song from the forthcoming album #Babel #mumford #babel speaking to @adelarks
American singer/songwriter discusses the follow up to #Mojo award winning Queen of Denmark and working with #GusGus.
reflects on the lessons his dad taught him over the years as he prepares to release a new album with #Wallflowers
Bruce Springsteen guitarist reveals why he got into rock n roll and what it's like playing alongside The Boss @adelarks
Saturday night headliners Orbital say it's a "tragedy" Bloc was cancelled, but are still in the dark about what went wrong (Paul Hartnoll)
Hear more about the making of his solo album (out July 9) in Music News tomorrow www.bbc.co.uk/6music
Wayne Coyne tells @elizabethalker that Roger Daltrey could join Flaming Lips as they try to break the Guinness world record for most places played in 24 hours in multiple cities in the Mississippi Delta on Wednesday
Field Music tell @elizabethalker about a compilation record of covers they plan to release in the Autumn
Chris Cornell tells @elizabethalker 'they need' Adele to to the next Bond theme. Hear the interview here:
DO MPs have good music taste? MP Mike Weatherley on the Rock the Band comp which is all about raising awareness for intellectual property. 165 MPs nominate an unsigned band to do battle. Why he thinks you should care. More in music news tomorrow.