Today's Memory Tape is from a listener called Steve. What else is there to know? Well, a number of years ago, when Steve was a goth, he and his lady friend karen made a tape together. Today, that tape is presented to the world, and here's Steve to tell us everything we need to know about it - remember, you can send us your memories and tapes in our 24 hour email service, email; lauren.6music@bbc.co.uk now:

"I have to say that Bugsy Malone number you played this morning whisked me way back to a time when I was a stage manager down in Worthing. The first stage I ever completely designed was for an amateur production of that show. Multi levelled, with places to stash the speakeasy furniture & even a place for the pedal sedans. Anyhoo, hearing the song really stirred memories, so I'll get to the point.

Many years back, when I was an aspiring Goth, I was going out with a girl called Karen (circa 1989-94ish).  We had similar and varied taste in music and we introduced each other to artists which otherwise may have passed us by (much like 6 Music does for me today). The compilation we made was called Guns 'n' Daisies, named after my love of Clint Eastwood Westerns & Karen’s fondness for daisies (and drawing them on just about anything to hand). We listed a dozen of our (then) favourite tracks and made a compilation featuring a selection of both our choices. Karen had a copy, and so did I, for our Walkmans."

The full track list is as follows, with a (G) for my choice, a (D) for Daisy’s.

 A

 Icicle Works- Out Of Season (D)

 The Mission- Serpents Kiss (G)

 Terry Hall - The Windmills Of Your Mind (D)

 The Last Cry - Sugar Tears (D)

 Blondie - Shayla (D)

 The Cult - Edie Ciao Baby (D/G)

 The Cure- Charlotte Sometimes (D/G)

 The Psychedelic Furs- Sister Europe (D/G)

 Danielle Dax- Cat House (G)

 Kate Bush- Wuthering Heights (D)

 B

 The Smiths- What Difference Does It Make? (G)

 Buzzcocks- Ever Fallen In Love.. (G)

 Icicle Works- Starry Blue Eyed Wonder (D)

 Love & Rockets- Khundalini Express (G)

 Stray Cats- Rock This Town (G)

 The Godfathers- I Want Everything (G)

 Martha & The Muffins- Echo Beach (G)

 Icicle Works- Understanding Jane (G)

 The Cure- A Forest (D/G)

 Blondie- Cautious Lip (D)

 Lou Reed- Perfect Day (D)

 Leonard Cohen- The Sisters Of Mercy (D)

"I still listen to all of these artists and tracks as they now feature on my iPod.

I lost touch with Karen years ago now and currently reside in Hungary and your show is a regular part of my weekday mornings. There’s always something to inspire me for a good afternoon's play listing while I admin my The Cure Fan Forum (thecurecommunity). I know you probably get bazillions of these emails, but nothing ventured, nothing gained eh? Thanks for taking the time to read & I'd be thrilled if you felt you could pick a couple of the tracks for your Memory Tapes slot sometime."

Cheers

Steve

Your final free download this week comes from Kurt Vile.

His new album Walking On A Pretty Daze is set for release on the 8th April and this track is set to be the next single from it.

This will be his fifth album and the follow up to 2011’s Smoke Ring For My Halo.

Your next opportunity to see Vile in this country is at Field Day festival in London on May 25th.

The rest of this week’s free downloads are:

James Skelly & The Intenders – Do It Again

The Growlers - Someday

Dinosaur Jnr – Entertainment

Lapalux – The Hours

Kurt Vile – Never Run Away

Some tracks may no longer be available for download.

It’s Friday! Which means it’s time for your MPFree round-up.

This week’s MPfree EP is completed by Beach Fossils new single, ‘Careless’. It’s from their new album Clash the Truth which is out now.

Futurebirds – Virginia Slims

Ghostpoet – MSI Musmid

Sivu – Better Man Than Me (Alt-J Remix)

Black Black Hills – Far From My Arms

Beach Fossils - Careless

***Some tracks may no longer be available for download.***

Last weekend I got my box of Vinyl out from the cupboard under the stairs (sad I know) to show my 13 year-old son some Undertones LPs - as he is learning Teenage Kicks on guitar. In-between some albums I found this track listing.

I recall my friend Mark sent the tape through the post to me many years ago when I was doing that post-degree thing of moving house every 6 months, making new friends, and sometimes not having any! So this was gratefully received. It's made even better by having a one-line comment from him against each track. I recall there were some tracks I didn't like and some I loved, but mostly a load of good music I'd not heard before - which is the whole point of a mix-tape, methinks?

Finding the list was like opening a secret door under the stair that led to one of many "dingy front rooms-converted to a bedroom" I lived in at various times in the late 1980's / early '90's. The C-90 is long gone, but I recall a lot of the tracks even though I haven't heard them for 20+ years. I can almost smell the damp.

SIDE 1
Birthday Party - Sonny's Burning
Prince Far I - Free from Sin
Maceo Parker - Mag Poo
X-Clan - Funkin Lesson
The Fall - Look Know
TAD - Wood Goblins
Ginger Thompson - Boy Watcher
Bim Sherman - Mighty Ruler
Midi Rain - Eyes
The Triffids - Hanging Shed
Galliano - Welcome to the Story
Happy Flowers - We Rock
The Upsetters - Thanks we get

SIDE 2
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Mark Stewart - Collision
Misty in Roots - Own them Control them
A Witness - Mr Disposable Razors
Band of Holy Joy - Mad Dot
Lee Perry - 7 Devils Dead
Flipper - Ever
A R Cane - Crack Up
Tapper Zukie - New Star
James - Hup Springs
Hole - Teenage Whore
Paleface - Burn & Rob

Would you like to send Lauren your Memory Tape? Email her now: lauren.6music@bbc.co.uk

For today's MPFree, we Brighton based four-piece Black Black Hills.

The quartet began life under the name Pope Joan back in 2008 but a change of sound lead to a change of name and now they've a bunch of new songs ready for release.

The band released ‘ A Drowning’/’The Celebration’ on Brighton label, Friendly Dinner Records last year. Now you can download their new single, 'Far From My Arms' for free!

Black Black Hills - Far From My Arms

Today's MPFree comes in the shape of an Alt-J remix of the debut single from Cambridge born Sivu.

Sivu shares a producer (Charlie Andrew) with Alt-J and his debut single, ‘Better Man Than He’ has been the source for Alt-J's first ever remix.  The single is due for release on ASL Records on March 4th.

Sivu - Better Man Than He (Thom Alt J Remix)

Your MPFree today comes from Ghostpoet.

It's been two years since he released his Mercury nominated debut, ‘Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam’, and this track is a first taste of is follow-up album.

Some Say I So I Say Light will be released on the 6th May through Play It Again Sam and is co-produced by Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Darkstar, Egyptian Hip-Hop).

Ghostpoet - MSI MUSMID

Your first MPFree of the week is a mellow slab of Alt. Country. It comes courtesy of a sextet from Athens, GA called Futurebirds.

This track is the album opener to their second LP Baba Yaga which is released through Fat Possum Records on 16^th March. Enjoy:

Futurebirds - Virginia Slims

It’s time for another round-up of this week’s free downloads, which is completed by a newbie from !!!.

It’s a taster track from their forthcoming album Thr!!!er which is set for release on April 29^th. Enjoy:

Kurt Vile - Wakin' On A Pretty Day

Barbarossa – The Load

Polaroid - Granville

Lowpines – Heavy Hander

!!! - Slyd

Some tracks may no longer be available for download.

This week's Memory Tapes comes from Anna, who writes....

"When we were 15/16 years old (1992-1995) my friend Emma and me would be avid frequenters of our local indie disco's Langtrys in Beckenham and The Venue in New Cross.

"Having met by me accosting her one night and telling her in no certain terms that we WERE going to be friends whether she liked it or not, we were soon the best of buds. I’m not quite sure how it evolved but we ended up creating a series of dances which we later dubbed ‘action women’ dances to a variety of songs that we used to hear. They were called action women dances as we used to just enact the words of the song whilst dancing.

"This list of songs grew exponentially and one night I got home from school to find a tape and a letter in the post (we used to write each other letters all the time even though we both had telephones...), excitedly I rang her and over the phone I listened to the tape in its entirety and wrote down the tracklisting - (a 90 minute phone call did not impress my parents very much).

"Over the next two years we ended up making 7 volumes of Now That’s What I Call Action Women, we would each take it in turns, give each other the tape but with no writing on, and listen to it together, the receiver of said tape being the one who got to write out the actual tracks.

"It grew from just action women songs to songs that reminded us of certain times and events, for example we were at a primal scream concert in 1994 when we found out Kurt Cobain had died and we both held hands and cried whilst Bobby Gillespe dedicated Damaged to him.

"About 6 years ago Emma emigrated to Australia where she now lives with her lovely husband Stuart and their two beautiful children. In 2006 just before she left she got married and at about 10.30pm after a few sherries we re-enacted the Whole Of The Moon by the Waterboys (the ultimate action women song) for her entire wedding party. We still keep in touch, but it would be incredible to have a Memory Tape of our first ever Now That's What I Call Action Women on the radio."

Heres The Tracklisting

Side One

1) The Waterboys: The Whole Of The Moon

2) The Pogues: Fairytale of New York

3) Lemonheads: Into Your Arms

4) PJ Harvey: Sheela Na Gig

5) Ministry: NWO

6) Janes Addiction: Been Caught Stealing

7) Sheep On Drugs: Motorbike

8) Sisters Of Mercy: Temple Of Love

9) PWEI: Bulletproof

10): Senser: Eject

11) Consolidated: You Suck

Side 2

 1) Therapy: Screamager

2) Undertones: Teenage Kicks

3) Meatloaf: Bat Out Of Hell

4) REM: Half A World Away

5) Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive

6) Mudhoney: Touch Me I'm Sick

7) The Smiths: Please Please Please

8) The Lemonheads: Mrs Robinson

9) The Cure: Trust

10) Utah Saints: Something Good.

11) Eat: Shame

 Would you like to send Lauren your Memory Tape? Email her now: lauren.6music@bbc.co.uk

Today's MPFree comes from a West London band who take influence from the likes of Sparklehorse, Bonnie Prince Billy, Smog and Eels.

This free track comes from the Give Me A Horse EP which is out now and is released through Adventure Club Records

Lowpines – Heavy Hander

Your MPFree today comes from the band Granville who’re a new signing to Ample Play records.

They are a 4 piece from the French West Coast and have only been together for one year. A debut album is imminently, until then, here’s the single…

Today's MPFree comes from Barbarossa who is one James Mathe. He's recently signed to Memphis Industries and this track is released

as a single on April 8^th.

He tours with Polica in March and Junip in May

Barbarossa – The Load

All this week Lauren is broadcasting live from the legendary BBC Maida Vale studio's as part of BBC 6 Music's celebration of live music. You'll hear live sesssions from Jake Bugg, Hot Chip, Bat for Lashes, Kindness and Primal Scream.

There's plenty of ways you can get involved via #6musiclive on Twitter, plus, you can watch the whole show online and chat to other listeners. Plus, you'll be able to watch highlights of each day's session on the Red Button from 6.50pm.

Head to bbc.co.uk/6music for all the info you could ever possibly need.

A lovely story of friendship and music from Emily Birch..

"I have known one of my best friends, Penny, since we were eleven. Now we are both nearing thirty, it won't be long before we can celebrate 20 years of friendship! Our love of music has followed us over the years, so that now many of my memories of our fun times together are tied up with music.

When Penny and I went to university in Sheffield she only lived five minutes away from me, but we would regularly send each other post. Because we are firm believers that receiving post is GREAT! I would often get a mixtape from her, full of songs we both loved, proper classics, and some new bands I'd never heard of.

Penny is responsible for introducing me to the wonders of Joni Mitchell, Tom McRae and Beth Orton. What a gal! These mixtapes were often decorated beautifully, with great care and attention.

And now the tapes live in the glovebox in my car, which is so old it still has a tape deck. I love listening to these tapes on long journeys, remembering what fun we've had and knowing that there are many more years of great times to be enjoyed with my lovely friend.

I have picked one such tape for your listening pleasure, from March 2004 (yes Penny is an organised mixtape compiler!)".

Here are the tracks...

Title: "Perhaps they are both just peculiar in the head"

Side A:

Jet - Are you Gonna be my Girl

Foo Fighters - Everlong

OK Go - You're So Damn Hot

Erin McKeown - Slunglo

Frank Sinatra - (Love is) the Tender Trap

Joss Stone - Super Duper Love

Norah Jones - The Prettiest Thing

Jon Mitchell - Both Sides, Now

Amy Winehouse - There is No Greater Love

Tracy Chapman - New Beginning

Lamb - B-Line

Zero 7 - Simple Things

Beck - Where It's At

Dave Brubeck - Unsquare One

Side B:

Thea Gilmore - See if They Applaud

Bjork - Unison

Beth Orton - Blood Red River

Ben Harper - Roses From my Friends (live)

Tom McRae - Walking to Hawaii

Damien Rice - Volcano

Idlewild - Roseability

REM - Walk Unafraid

2 Many DJs:

Queen of Japan - I Was Made for Loving You

Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 into Royksopp - Eple

The Wannadies - You and Me Song