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A chat with Billie Marten

Guy Garvey brings his own unique taste to 6 Music and talks to singer-songwriter Billie Marten.

Guy Garvey brings his own unique taste to 6 Music, so expect music from the likes of Pixies, UB40 and Tom Waits.

He'll be chatting to singer-songwriter Billie Marten about tea, the appropriation of art and her new album, Dog Eared.

He's also got appearances from the mysterious Beckapedia and the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, and will send birthday wishes to Kevin Rowland and Ted Hughes.

Plus space hopper archive! What more do you need for a Sunday afternoon?

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Mon 18 Aug 2025 00:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Richard Swift

    Lady Luck

    • V2.

  • Billie Marten

    Goodnight Moon

    • Fiction Records.

  • The Waterboys

    This is the Sea

    • Chrysalis Records.

  • Soulwax

    Run Free

    • Because Music / DEEWEE.

  • Self Esteem

    If Not Now, It's Soon

    • A Complicated Woman.
    • Polydor.

  • Tame Impala

    End Of Summer

    • Columbia.

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    Death Comes From the Sky

    • Curse.
    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Jesca Hoop & John Parish

    But I Did Not

    • Fire.

  • Neil Young

    Till The Morning Comes

    • WEA.

  • Monsters of Folk

    The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me

    • Rough Trade.

  • DJ Shadow

    Scale It Back (feat. Little Dragon)

    • Island.

  • Tom Waits

    Nirvana

    • Anti/Epitaph.

  • Casals Quartet & Eckart Runge

    String Quintet in E Major - Minuetto (excerpt)

    • harmonia mundi.

  • Pixies

    Monkey Gone to Heaven

    • TELSTAR.

  • Laura Groves

    Yes

    • Bella Union.

  • The Barry Gray Orchestra

    The Mysterons Theme

    • PRT Records.

  • Zakir Hussain

    Conversation in Three Two Three

    • Navras Records.

  • Billie Marten

    Leap Year

    • Fiction Records.

  • Eddi Reader

    Glasgow Star

    • WM UK.

  • Jolie Holland

    All The Morning Birds.

    • Not On Label.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Rock Steady

    • Warner.

  • Sun Kil Moon

    Among the Leaves

    • Caldo Verde Records.

  • Billie Marten

    Planets

    • Fiction Records.

  • CMAT

    EURO-COUNTRY

    • AWAL RECORDINGS.

  • Clara Mann

    Stadiums

    • The state51 Conspiracy.

  • UB40

    Tyler

    • SoNo Recording Group LLC / Evo Music Ltd.

  • Foxwarren

    Deadhead

    • Arts & Crafts.

  • Van Morrison

    And It Stoned Me

    • Warner Bros.

  • Bloc Party

    Helicopter

    • WICHITA.

  • The Libertines

    Don't Look Back Into the Sun

    • Rough trade records.

  • The Cribs

    Men's Needs

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Wichita.

  • Dianne Cluck

    Easy To Be Around

    • EMI.

  • Ted Hughes

    The Thought Fox

    • Soundmark.

  • Fleet Foxes

    Helplessness Blues

    • Bella Union.

  • Jolie Holland

    Alley Flowers

    • Anti/Epitaph.

  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Hip Hug Her

    • Rhino Atlantic.

  • David Bowie

    Letter To Hermione

    • EMI.

  • Mulatu Astatke

    狈猫迟蝉补苍猫迟

    • Strut.

  • Anna McLuckie & Gail Tasker

    Sleeping Tune

    • Bandcamp.

  • Joni Mitchell

    God Must Be a Boogie Man

    • Asylum Records.

  • Jolie Holland

    Wandering Angus

    • Anti.

  • Rotary Connection

    I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (feat. Minnie Riperton)

    • BGP Records 鈥�.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 17 Aug 2025 13:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 6 Music
  • Mon 18 Aug 2025 00:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 6 Music