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Cerys Matthews: Conversations with Arlo Parks and Daniel Avery

Cerys is live from Salford as part of this year's 6 Music Festival in Greater Manchester, and is joined by headliner Arlo Parks as well as DJ Daniel Avery.

Cerys is live from Salford as part of this year's 6 Music Festival in Greater Manchester, and is joined by headliner Arlo Parks as well as DJ Daniel Avery.

Cerys finds out more about Manchester-based poetry project Young Identity from their executive director Nicole May and poet SAF-S2E. They run free weekly writing and performance workshops across Manchester for young people aged 13-25 led by poets and established spoken word performers.

Arlo Parks started out writing poetry before putting her words to music. Her debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams won the Mercury Prize in 2021, the same year she won the Brit Award for Breakthrough Artist. Ahead of headlining the 6 Music Festival, Arlo recalls the moment a crowd first sang her songs back to her and tells Cerys about the music that's shaped her life from Elliott Smith to Otis Redding.

Expect an eclectic mix of Cerys' favourite new music mixed with timeless vintage records and sounds from around the world and artists with connections with Greater Manchester. Plus Cosmo Sheldrake gives Cerys the first play of his new song where he imagines what it would be like to be a whale surrounded by the sounds of the ocean and the creatures in it.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Milton Katims, Columbia Symphony Orchestra & Isaac Stern

    Flight of the Bumblebee

    • Humoresque - Favorite Violin Encores [Expanded Edition].
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Bee Gees

    Stayin' Alive

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    Didn't It Rain

  • Andy Gabbard

    Yer Time'll Come

    • Karma Chief Records.
  • Loyle Carner

    Nobody Knows (6 Music Festival 2023)

    • Hugo.
  • Ibrahim Maalouf, Sarah Reich

    Layla's Wedding

    • Mi'ster.
  • Miles Davis

    骋茅苍茅谤颈辩耻别

    • Ascenseur pour l'茅chafaud.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 1.
  • John Cooper Clarke

    I Wanna Be Yours

    • Anthologia.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 2.
  • Iggy Pop

    Lust For Life

    • Virgin.
  • The Clash

    Rudie Can't Fail

    • Epic.
  • Wu-Lu

    Slightly (6 Music Festival 2023)

  • Oracle Sisters

    Tramp Like You

    • Hydranism.
    • 22TWENTY.
    • 1.
  • Cosmo Sheldrake

    Bathed In Sound

    • Wild Wet World.
    • Tardigrade Records.
  • Wilson Pickett

    Bumble Bee (Sting Me)

    • In Philadelphia.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 4.
  • Black Sabbath

    Evil Woman

    • ENSIGN.
  • Daniel Avery

    Ultra Truth

    • Ultra Truth.
    • Mute.
    • 2.
  • LaVern Baker

    Bumble Bee

    • Saved.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 7.
  • The Murlocs

    Initiative

    • Initiative.
    • ATO Records.
    • 1.
  • Arlo Parks

    Hope

  • Otis Redding

    Hard to Handle

    • Atlantic.
  • Elliott Smith

    Waltz #2 (XO)

    • DREAMWORKS.
  • Radiohead

    No Surprises

    • Parlophone.
  • Rahim Redcar

    5 Dollars (6 Music Festival 2023)

    • Chris.
    • 5.
  • Jeanette

    Manchester y Liverpool (Manchester Et Liverpool)

    • A Media Voz.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
    • 6.
  • Dele Sosimi & The Estuary 21

    Mo 峁 B'峄嵦乴谩 T谩n (feat. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly)

    • Wah Wah 45s.
  • Sarah Webster Fabio

    Together (To the Tune of Coltrane's Equinox)

    • Don't Fight The Feeling 鈥 Together / To The Tune Of Coltrane's "Equinox.
    • Folkways Records/Smithsonian.
  • Vona Vella

    Sun (Morcheeba Remix)

  • Gina Birch

    I Play My Bass Loud

    • I Play My Bass Loud.
    • Third Man Records.
    • 1.
  • The Maccabees

    Something Like Happiness

    • FICTION.
  • The Big Moon

    2 Lines

    • Fiction Records.
  • The Big Moon

    2 Lines

    • Fiction Records.
  • Lava La Rue

    Vest & Boxers (6 Music Festival 2023)

    • Vest & Boxers.
    • 1.
  • Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

    Callin' Mama Blues (Recorded Live At the Free Trade Hall, Manchester April 1958)

    • Chris Barber Presents... The Blues Legacy - Lost & Found Vol.1.
    • Classic Studio T.
    • 19.
  • Slim Harpo

    I'm A King Bee

    • VIRGIN.
  • M茅lanie Pain

    Bye Bye Manchester

Broadcast

  • Sun 26 Mar 2023 10:00