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Writing about Music

Mary Anne Hobbs explores music writing, including music reviews, fan letters and lyrics, and is joined by NME deputy editor Eve Barlow.

Literature lovers unite ... the pen and the piano collide ... writing and music combine. This is a programme exploring the world of music reviews, fan letters and lyrics.

Mary Anne's main guest will be Eve Barlow, deputy editor at the NME, who will be delivering a lesson in how to write well about music.

Also ... if you've ever wanted to receive a postcard from a popstar, this could be your lucky day.

This programme is part of the glorious 6 Music Celebrates Libraries season ...

3 hours

Last on

Sun 16 Nov 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • James Brown

    Night Train

    • Polydor.
  • Mogwai

    Teenage Exorcists

    • Rock Action.
  • The Clash

    Clampdown

    • Epic.
  • Songhoy Blues

    Al Hassidi Terei

    • Transgressive.
  • Jeff Buckley

    Last Goodbye

    • Columbia.
  • Burial

    Distant Lights

    • Burial.
    • Hyperdub.
  • Beck

    Deadweight

    • Geffen.
  • Royal Blood

    Ten Tonne Skeleton

    • Warner Bros.
  • Elbow

    Grounds For Divorce

  • SBTRKT

    The Light (feat. Denai Moore)

    • Young Turks.
  • The Friends of Distinction

    Grazing In The Grass

    • ARIOLA.
  • Paul McCartney

    Temporary Secretary

    • McCartney II.
    • Parlophone.
  • Trash Kit

    Shyness

  • 补濒迟鈥怞

    Left Hand Free

    • This Is All Yours.
    • Infectious.
    • 001.
  • Orange Juice

    I Can't Help Myself

    • Polydor.
  • Philip Selway

    Coming Up For Air

    • Bella Union.
  • Johnny Marr

    Dynamo

    • Playland.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.
  • Iggy Pop

    Nightclubbing

    • VIrgin.
  • The Decemberists

    Make You Better

    • Capitol Records.
  • Neon Neon

    I Told Her On Alderaan

    • LEX RECORDS.
  • Kate Bush

    Cloudbusting

    • EMI.
  • Sinkane

    New Name

    • Mean Love.
    • City Slang.
    • 001.
  • New Order

    Senses

    • STRANGE FRUIT.
  • George the Poet

    Toothbrush

    • 2014 Universal Island Records.
  • Lou Reed

    Perfect Day

    • Telstar.
  • Ye

    Black Skinhead

    • MERCURY.
  • Childhood

    Blue Velvet

    • Lacuna.
    • House Anxiety/Marathon Artists.
    • 002.
  • Prince

    When Doves Cry

    • Paisley Park/Warner Bros.
  • Michael Jackson

    Man In The Mirror

    • Bad 25.
    • Sony BMG.
  • Brian Eno

    I'll Come Running

    • Another Green World.
    • EG.
  • Pink Floyd

    Arnold Layne

    • EMI.
  • 3 Minute Epiphany

    Eve Barlow: Writing About Music

  • LoneLady

    Groove It Out

    • Warp Records.
  • Yasiin Bey, Gorillaz & Bobby Womack

    Stylo

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.
  • James

    All I'm Saying

    • Le Petit Mort.
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 001.
  • Joanna Gruesome

    Psykick Espionage

    • Fortuna Pop!.
  • Talking Heads

    Girlfriend Is Better

    • Sire.
  • Sunriser

    • David Bowie

      'Tis A Pity She Was A Whore

      • Atlantic.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Nov 2014 07:00