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Music, chat and Alt-J’s Gus Unger-Hamilton

Mark and Stuart present a feast of great music and chat, while Alt-J’s Gus Unger-Hamilton shares his 'First, Last and Everything' and talks about the band's latest album.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie present a feast of great music and chat for weekend breakfast.

Today, musician, vocalist and founding member of acclaimed indie band Alt-J Gus Unger-Hamilton is their guest. Gus joins Mark and Stuart to share his 'First, Last and Everything' - that’s the first record he bought, owned or loved, the most recent one he’s been enjoying and the record that means ‘everything’ to him. He also chats about the band’s forthcoming new album ‘The Dream.’

Formed in Leeds in 2007, Alt-J won the Mercury Music Prize and an Ivor Novello award five years later with their debut album ‘An Awesome Wave.’

Also on the show... long-running feature ‘The Chain’, which gives listeners the chance to pick a track that links in some way to the last. The list now contains over 8000 songs.

With a selection of music old and new to get the weekend started.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Hercules & Love Affair

    Blind

    • Hercules And Love Affair.
    • EMI.
  • Kae Tempest

    More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract)

    • Fiction Records.
  • The Charlatans

    The Only One I Know

    • Beggars Banquet.
  • Herbie Hancock

    I Thought It Was You

    • Club Tropicana (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
  • My Life as a Moth

    Electro Junction

    • SELF RELEASE.
  • Bauhaus

    She's In Parties

    • Beggars Banquet.
  • Faith Evans

    Love Like This

    • Love Like This.
    • Arista.
    • 1.
  • Wet Leg

    Too Late Now

    • Domino Record Co.
  • Curse of Lono

    Steppin' Out

    • Submarine Cat.
  • Robert Forster

    I Can Do

    • Warm Nights.
    • Begggar's Banquet.
    • 001.
  • Confidence Man

    Feels Like A Different Thing

    • TILT.
  • Jungle

    Busy Earnin' (6 Music Session, 17th July 2014)

  • Dennis Brown

    Man Next Door

    • The Prime Of Dennis Brown.
    • Music Club.
    • 10.
  • Swindle

    WHAT MORE (feat. Greentea Peng)

    • BMG.
  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Polydor.
  • The Wedding Present

    Felicity

  • Bess Atwell

    How Do You Leave

    • Real Kind Records.
  • 808 State

    Pacific 707

    • ZTT.
  • ²¹±ô³Ùâ€J

    Hard Drive Gold

    • Infectious Music.
  • The Beatles

    In My Life

    • APPLE.
  • This Is the Kit

    Off Off On

    • Off Off On.
  • Kings of Leon

    King Of The Rodeo

    • Hand Me Down.
  • Courtney Barnett

    If I Don't Hear From You Tonight

    • Marathon Artists.
  • The Bar-Kays

    Soul Finger

    • Rhino.

Broadcast

  • Sat 29 Jan 2022 08:00