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Mike Pickering’s Desert Island Disco

DJ, musician and A&R man Mike Pickering shares his Desert Island Disco around his new memoir, Manchester must dance: A life of music, madness and moving on up.

Lauren gives you the finest blend of fantastic music for your weekday morning.

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Fri 24 Apr 202610:00
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Music Played

  • Stevie Wonder

    Another Star

    • Motown.

  • Wesley Joseph

    Pluto Baby

    • Secretly Canadian.

  • Planningtorock

    Living It Out

    • We Love Dfa: Singles 2010 / 2011.
    • DFA.
    • 5.

  • TOMORA

    I Drink The Light

    • Fontana.

  • Timo Maas

    To Get Down

    • PERFECTO.

  • Nia Archives

    Danger

    • Island.

  • Kelsey Lu

    Running To Pain

    • Dirty Hit.

  • Courtney Barnett

    One Thing At A Time

    • Fiction.

  • Toktok & Soffy O.

    Missy Queen's Gonna Die

  • Vitalic

    La Rock 01

    • DEEJAY RECORDS.

  • Fischerspooner

    Emerge

    • #1.
    • Ministry Of Sound.
    • 3.

  • underscores

    Do It

  • Mandy, Indiana

    Cursive

    • Sacred Bones.

  • Charli xcx

    Von dutch

    • Atlantic.

  • PJ Harvey

    This Is Love

    • Universal Music.

  • Foo Fighters

    Of All People

    • RCA.

  • Kendra Morris & Paul Cherry

    Flat Tire

    • Flat Tire.
    • Karma Chief Records.
    • 1.

  • Renee Stormz

    No Contest (feat. LASHIMBA)

    • Renee Stormz.

  • Getdown Services

    The Radiator

    • Breakfast Records.

  • mary in the junkyard

    Crash Landing

    • AMF Records.

  • Jordan Rakei & Femi Koleoso

    It Never Ends

    • Jordan Rakei.

  • Foals

    Inhaler

    • Transgressive Records.

  • The Strokes

    Going Shopping

    • Cult Records/RCA Records.

  • White Denim

    Ruby

    • Ruby.
    • Bella Union.

  • Gretel

    Squish

    • Breadcrumb Records.

  • Little Simz

    101 FM

    • Age 101.

  • Yttling Jazz & Bobby Gillespie

    Strange

  • deary

    Alma

    • Bella Union.

  • Iceage

    Star

    • Mexican Summer.

  • Joy Division

    She's Lost Control

    • London.

  • Kraftwerk

    Trans-Europe Express

    • Cleopatra.

  • Quando Quango

    Love Tempo

    • Love Tempo.
    • Factory.
    • A.

  • Adonis

    No Way Back

    • Adonis Recordings.

  • Amyl and the Sniffers

    Guided By Angels

    • Rough Trade.

  • Lambrini Girls

    Cult of Celebrity

    • City Slang Records.

  • Dua Saleh

    Cállate

    • Ghostly International.

  • Accessory

    Sunshine

    • Sunshine.
    • ACX.
    • 1.

  • Dry Cleaning

    Sliced By A Fingernail

    • 4AD.

  • Femi Kuti

    After 24 Years

    • Partisan Records.

  • Mylo

    In My Arms

    • Breastfed Records.

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Apr 202610:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music