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#NorthEast6Music - what's on your north-east music playlist?

Tom Robinson celebrates one of Britain's brightest music scenes, the mighty north-east, and asks listeners to help compile the canniest north-east-inspired playlist.

On Sunday's Now Playing (6-8pm) we're celebrating the vibrancy of one of Britain's brightest music scenes - the mighty North East.

From the bracing winds that hurtle-in off the Lindisfarne coast, to the dramatic milieu of Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough, this plucky region breeds stout fellows and intensely creative artists, which is clearly why we've chosen the North East to host next weekend's 6 Music Festival.

The North East can boast million-selling bands, iconic solo performers and even a 6 Music presenter amongst its musical alumni.

So whether it's Geordie, Mackem, Smoggy, Poolie, Pit Yacker, Sand Dancer or Doggie, Tom Robinson wants YOU to compile the canniest North East-inspired playlist.

Anything from icons such as Bryan Ferry, Dire Straits, The Animals, Chris Rea, Paul Rodgers, Prefab Sprout and AC/DC's Brian Johnson, to relative whipper-snappers Max茂mo Park, The Futureheads and Field Music.

Get your North East-inspired suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #NorthEast6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify and Rdio playlists.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Visage

    Fade To Grey

    • Heart Full Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.
  • Max茂mo Park

    The Coast Is Always Changing

    • Warp Records.
  • Nadine Shah

    Aching Bones

  • Mark Knopfler

    Why Aye Man

  • PJ & Duncan

    Let's Get Ready To Rhumble

    • Let's Get Ready To Rhumble.
    • Telstar.
    • 1.
  • The Unthanks

    Shipbuilding (6 Music Session, 28 Oct 2012)

  • Lindisfarne

    Lady Eleanor

    • Lidisfarne On Tap.
    • Essential.
  • Dubstar

    Not So Manic Now

    • Food.
  • Choice of music journalist Paul Brown

    • Martha

      1967 I Miss You, I'm Lonely

  • Little Comets

    Isles

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Sexy Northerner

  • Detroit Social Club

    Northern Man

  • Nirvana

    Lithium

    • Geffen.
  • The Lake Poets

    Dead Horses

  • The Futureheads

    The Beginning Of The Twist

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Nul.
  • Olive

    You鈥檙e Not Alone

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Geordie

    All Because of You

  • Kenickie

    Acetone

  • Field Music

    In Context

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Memphis Industries.
  • Frankie & the Heartstrings

    Hunger

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Wichita.
    • 1.
  • The Animals

    We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

  • A Tribe of Toffs

    John Kettley Is A Weatherman

  • Prefab Sprout

    Cars And Girls

    • Kitchenware.

Broadcast

  • Sun 15 Feb 2015 18:00