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Stewart Lee and Michael Cumming

Comedian Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming chat to Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie about their documentary King Rocker: A Film about Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales.

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

Their guests today are Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming who have collaborated on a new documentary film 鈥楰ing Rocker: A Film about Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales鈥�. In it, Lee investigates a missing piece of punk history: Robert Lloyd. Lloyd is best known for fronting cult Birmingham bands The Prefects and The Nightingales, and he has survived under the radar for over four decades.

Stewart Lee is an award-winning comedian who grew up in the West Midlands. He made the move from 91热爆 Radio to 91热爆 TV with the show Fist Of Fun with Richard Herring in the 1990s. Since then he鈥檚 written several books, co-wrote Jerry Springer: The Opera and won a BAFTA for his series Stewart Lee鈥檚 Comedy Vehicle. He鈥檚 also a lifelong fan of both The Nightingales and The Fall.

Director Michael Cumming has worked on Brass Eye, The Mark Thomas Comedy Product, The Omid Djalili Show and Toast Of London. Cumming began directing at the 91热爆 on Tomorrow鈥檚 World, and then as a freelance director for Lonely Planet and The Word before moving into comedy.

Also on the show... catch up on the best music and entertainment stories of the past week in 鈥楾his Week In Music鈥�.

Plus...regular features 'The Chain' - our world-famous list of over 8000 interconnected songs - and 'Sampled Underfoot' which explores the samples used in some of our favourite tracks.

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

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Sat 6 Feb 2021 07:00
91热爆 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Kelis

    Rumble

    • Food.
    • Ninja Tune.

  • Arlo Parks

    Caroline

    • Transgressive.

  • Real Estate

    It's Real

    • DOMINO.

  • Jazz Sabbath

    Iron Man

  • Fable

    Orbiting

  • Portishead

    Glory Box

    • GO BEAT.

  • The Beat

    Ranking Full Stop

    • Two-Tone Records 鈥�.

  • BADBADNOTGOOD

    The Chocolate Conquistadors (feat. MF DOOM)

    • Rockstar Games.

  • Little Anthony & the Imperials

    Can You Imagine

    • 7".
    • Power Exchange.

  • Daft Punk

    Crescendolls

  • Caixa Cubo

    Palavras

    • Heavenly 路.

  • Lykke Li

    Time In A Bottle

  • Gil Scott鈥怘eron & Brian Jackson

    Shut 'Um Down

    • Arista.

  • Gustaf

    Design

    • Royal Mountain Records.

  • The Beatles

    Mother Nature's Son

    • The White Album.
    • Apple.
    • 3.

  • Pharrell Williams

    Frontin' (feat. JAY-Z)

    • Frontin'.
    • Arista.

  • Mush

    Blunt Instruments

    • Memphies Industries.

  • 31脴8

    It's Up To You

    • Dreamland Syndicate.

  • Disclosure

    Feel Like I Do

    • PMR/Island.

  • Sheila E.

    The Glamorous Life

    • Disco Queens: The 80s.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 9.

  • The Walkmen

    The Rat

    • Record Collection.

  • David Bowie

    Survive (Maida Vale Session, 25 October 1999)

  • Liquid

    Sweet Harmony

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 3.

  • Bicep

    Saku (feat. Clara La San)

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Elastica

    Connection

    • Deceptive Records.

  • Grace Jones

    Williams' Blood

    • CD SINGLE.
    • WALL OF SOUND RECORDINGS.
    • 1.

  • Pa Salieu

    Energy (feat. Mahalia)

    • Warner Records.

  • The Prefects

    Barbarellas

    • Amateur **.
    • Acute Records.
    • 007.

  • The Nightingales

    Use Your Loaf

  • Gloria Jones

    Tainted Love

    • Rude Boy Arrival.
    • TELSTAR.

  • Robert Lloyd & The New Four Seasons

    Something Nice

    • Spirit of Independence.
    • Beechwwod Music.

  • The Nightingales

    Gales Doc

    • Mind Over Matter.
    • Louder Than War.

  • Oneohtrix Point Never

    No Nightmares (feat. The Weeknd)

    • Warp Records.

  • Missy Elliott

    We Run This

    • Atlantic.

Broadcast

  • Sat 6 Feb 2021 07:00
    91热爆 Radio 6 Music