Sounds Of A City: Glasgow

SOUNDS OF A CITY: GLASGOW (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 24th March 2021

As the 6 Music Festival rolls into town, Colleen Murphy delves into the rich history of Glasgow's diverse music scene and makes a case for Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' as the album that best represents the city. Includes an exclusive and wide ranging interview with Bobby Gillespie, alongside contributions from the likes of Stephen McRobbie of The Pastels, Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, Slam, Silicone Soul, RM Hubbert and The Van Ts.

Primal Scream - Loaded [Now]
Primal Scream - Slip Inside This House [Creation]
Rhythim Is Rhythim - Nude Photo [Transmat]
Teddy Pendergrass - Life Is A Song Worth Singing (Jamie Jones Remix) [Soma Quality Recordings]
Primal Scream - Don't Fight It Feel It [Creation‎]
Primal Scream - Come Together [Creation]
Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun [Creation]
Primal Scream - Damaged [Creation]

Sounds Of A City: Bristol

SOUNDS OF A CITY: BRISTOL (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th March 2021

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, founder of Classic Album Sundays, turns her attention to Bristol in the fifth episode of 'Sounds of a City'. She argues that 'Blue Lines' by Massive Attack is the album that sounds like Bristol.

Featuring interviews with Robert '3D' Del Naja, Neneh Cherry, Cameron McVey, Mark Stewart, James Lavelle, Inkie, Roni Size and more. Colleen delves into how bass culture, graffiti, punk and politics are represented both in Bristol and within the grooves of 'Blue Lines'. She also makes the case for its lasting legacy with musicians in and outside Bristol.

First broadcast in 2016, when the 6 Music Festival came from Bristol and repeated to complement this weekend's festival.

Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel bed [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm [Virgin]
Prince Buster - WashWash [Wildbells]
Willie Williams - Armagideon Time [Studio One]
Massive Attack & Horace Andy - Five Man Army [Wild Bunch]
The Cortinas - Fascist Dictator (Single)
The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good And Evil [Radar]
Grand Master Caz And Chris Stein - Wild Style Subway Rap 2 (Scratch Mix By Charlie Chase) [Animal]
Eric B. & Rakim - Move The Crowd (Wild Bunch Remix) [4th & Broadway]
Massive Attack - Daydreaming [Circa]
Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five And Grandmaster Melle Mel - Beat Street [Atlantic]
Massive Attack - Blue Lines [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You've Got [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack & Horace Andy - One Love [Wild Bunch]
Klark Kent - Don't Care [Universal]
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy [Virgin]

Sounds Of A City: New Order - Power, Corruption And Lies

SOUNDS OF A CITY: NEW ORDER - POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 23rd December 2020

Colleen Murphy lifts the lid on New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies and its relationship to Manchester.

Speaking to the likes of Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Peter Saville, we breakdown the components of an album that fused punk and dance, art and experimentation, technology and rock, to create something for a new generation of tech-savvy music-philes to get their teeth into. A Certain Ratio's Martin Moscrop and The Charlatan's Tim Burgess discuss this perfect blending, whilst 808 State's Graham Massey contemplates the fact that Manchester has more in common with New York than it does with any other British city. A story that may sound familiar, but with New Order were stepping out from the shadows of Joy Division the idea of experimentation is amplified and braver, and may not have even worked. And then there was that album cover.

New Order - Age Of Consent [Centredate]
New Order - Ecstasy
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K. (Live) [Virgin]
Joy Division - Transmission [London]
New Order - Senses
New Order - The Village
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express [Cleopatra]
New Order - Your Silent Face [Factory]
Sparks - The Number One Song In Heaven
New Order - We All Stand
New Order - Blue Monday
Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
New Order - 586
D Train - You're The One For Me
Sharon Redd - Can You Handle It
New Order - Ultraviolence
808 State - Pacific 202
Quando Quango - Love Tempo (Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
New Order - Leave Me Alone

Sounds Of A City: The Human League - Travelogue

SOUNDS OF A CITY: THE HUMAN LEAGUE - TRAVELOGUE (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 23rd December 2020

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, founder of Classic Album Sundays, looks deep into The Human's League's Travelogue album, and the city from which it was built, Sheffield.

Talking to lead member Martyn Ware, she delves into what made this album such a pivotal moment in the landscape of Sheffield's music scene, and why synths unlocked an entire universe for musicians. From the heavy industry, poverty, and even the space race, everything that went into this album came out the other side to inspire a new generation of musicians, inadvertently starting a dance music revolution in the City. Cabaret Voltaire's Richard H. Kirk discusses the album's pop values, whilst our very own Jarvis Cocker give us his own unique take on the tracks and their links to Sheffield. From Roisin Murphy and Toddla T to Orbital's Paul Hartnoll, the album and the City's influence has been felt far and wide, so tune in to this exploration of one of pop's darkest moments.

The Human League - The Black Hit Of Space [Virgin]
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
The Human League - Dreams Of Leaving [Virgin]
Kraftwerk - Autobahn [EMI]
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag [Rough Trade]
King Crimson - One More Red Nightmare [Island]
John Carpenter - Assault On Precinct 13 (Main Title)
The Human League - Being Boiled [Virgin]
Roxy Music - Re-Make/Re-Model [EG]
The Human League - Only After Dark [Virgin]
Gary Numan - We Are Glass [Polygram TV]
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations [EMI]
The Human League - Toyota City [Virgin]
Walter Carlos - Timesteps
The Human League - Toyota City [Virgin]
Cabaret Voltaire - Cut The Damn Camera [Virgin/Some Bizzare]
Forgemasters - Track With No Name [Warp/Outer Rhythm]
Rhythm Is Rhythm - Strings Of Life
Nightmares On Wax - Dextrous [Warp]
The Human League - WXJL Tonight [Virgin]

Sounds Of A City - Liverpool

SOUNDS OF A CITY - LIVERPOOL (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th March 2019

Ahead of the 6 Music Festival, another chance to hear DJ Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy turn her attention across the Peaks to one of the UK's most important musical cities; Liverpool. Focusing on the Teardrop Explodes Kilimanjaro album, we talk to Julian Cope about how he made the album, why he moved to Liverpool, and why he always travelled to the studio on an invisible horse. Colleen also looks at how Liverpool and Psych are inextricably linked, the importance of Soul Music to the area, how the nightclub Eric's and record shop Probe inspired a scene, and Liverpool's isolation from the rest of the country has helped create an outlook like no other.

Colleen speaks with Shack's Michael Head who grew up surrounded by the influence of the Teardrop Explodes: Holly Johnson, of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, discusses the role of Liverpool's flamboyant gay scene played in the burgeoning post-punk scene: DJ Greg Wilson casts his critical ear over an 80s Liverpool still living under the eclipse of The Beatles: author Mark Cooper shares his thoughts on the rivalry between Echo & the Bunnymen and the Teardrops. Colleen also meets Stealing Sheep's Emily Lansley, who is at the vanguard of a younger generation of musicians who embrace Liverpool's psychedelic sound. And if all of that wasn't enough, Zoo Records and KLF founder Bill Drummond shares two of his one minute presentations about the album.

First broadcast in 2015.

The Teardrop Explodes - Ha Ha I'm Drowning [Mercury]
Jean-Jacques Burnel - Do The European [United Artists]
The Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas [Mercury]
The Fall - C'n'C-S Mithering [Rough Trade]
Deaf School - All Queued Up [Warner Bros.?]
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows [Parlophone]
The Doors - Strange Days [Elektra]
The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) [Knight]
The Teardrop Explodes - Poppies In The Field [Mercury]
Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno [Mercury]
The Teardrop Explodes - Reward [Mercury]
Echo & The Bunnymen - Rescue [WEA]
The Teardrop Explodes - Books [Mercury]
Echo & The Bunnymen - Read It In Books [Korova]
Big In Japan - Suicide A Go Go [Retro]
The Teardrop Explodes - Bouncing Babies [Mercury]
The Cramps - Garbageman [I.R.S.]
Can - Yoo Doo Right
Captain Beefheart - Big Eyed Beans From Venus [Reprise]
Howlin’ Wolf - Tail Dragger [Chess]
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Kill The Pain [ZTT]
The Teardrop Explodes - Treason [Island]
Shack - I Need You [London]
Ladytron - Ghosts [Vision Music]
The Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream [Mercury]