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Julia Davis and Mercedes Grower

Comedian Julia Davis and actor-director Mercedes Grower chat to Mark and Stuart about the music they have written together.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie present a feast of great music and chat for weekend breakfast

Today鈥檚 guests are comedian Julia Davis and actor-director Mercedes Grower. Julia began her screen career in television sketch show 'Big Train', has starred in TV comedies including 'Gavin & Stacey' and 'I'm Alan Partridge' and films including 'Love Actually' as well as writing and starring in the acclaimed 大象传媒 dark comedy series 'Nighty Night.' Mercedes Grower has had several film and television acting roles including Guy Ritchie's Revolver and made her directing debut with the dark comedy film 鈥楤rakes,鈥� which also starred Julia.

When Julia and Mercedes were guests on the Radcliffe & Maconie show back in 2018 talking about Brakes, they revealed to Stuart that they had written music for the film under the band-name Sybil. Now, as they release the song from the film as a single, they chat to Mark and Stuart about writing music together.

Also on the show... catch up on the best music and entertainment stories of the past week in 鈥楾his Week In Music鈥�.

Plus... regular features 'The Chain' - our world-famous list of over 8000 interconnected songs - and 'Sampled Underfoot' which explores the samples used in some of our favourite tracks.

With a selection of music old and new to get the weekend started.

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Last on

Sat 17 Apr 2021 07:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Dobie Gray

    The In Crowd

    • Originals 2 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Iraina Mancini

    Deep End

    • Iraina Mancini.

  • The Cure

    Primary

    • Fiction.

  • Leafcutter John

    Pillar

    • Yes! Come Parade With Us.
    • Border Community.
    • 3.

  • Wyndow

    Two Strong Legs

  • Brittany Howard

    Stay High

    • Columbia Records.

  • Leon Vynehall

    Mothra

    • Ninja Tune.

  • The Beloved

    The Sun Rising

    • East West Records.

  • Steely Dan

    Peg

    • MCA.

  • De La Soul

    Eye Know

    • Big Life.

  • Ed Dowie

    Red Stone

    • The Obvious I.
    • Needle Mythology.

  • Django Django

    Storm

    • Storm.
    • BECAUSE MUSIC.
    • 1.

  • Minnie Riperton

    Les Fleurs

    • Distinctive.

  • Lava La Rue

    Magpie

    • Marathon Artists.

  • PJ Harvey

    A Place Called Home

    • Island.

  • Hawkwind

    Down Through The Night

    • Doremi Fasol Latido.

  • Stubborn Heart

    Against The Tide

  • Anchorsong

    Expo

    • Tru Thoughts.

  • Simple Minds

    Theme For Great Cities

  • NewDad

    Slowly

    • Fair Youth.

  • Happy Mondays

    W.F.L.

    • LONDON.

  • Laura Mvula

    Green Garden

  • The Umlauts

    Boiler Suits & Combat Boots

    • PRAH Recordings.

  • Daft Punk

    Lose Yourself to Dance

    • columbia.

  • HAIM

    3AM (feat. Thundercat)

    • Polydor.

  • Blondie

    Picture This

    • Chrysalis.

  • Mogwai

    The Sun Smells Too Loud

  • Jon Hopkins & Kelly Lee Owens

    Luminous Spaces

    • Domino.

  • Nubya Garcia

    The Message Continues (Mark de Clive-Lowe Remix)

    • CONCORD JAZZ.

  • Orbital

    Chime

    • Warner.

  • Sybil

    Lonelylife

  • Du Blonde

    I'm Glad That We Broke Up (feat. Ezra Furman)

    • DAEMON.

  • Doves

    The Cedar Room

    • HEAVENLY.

  • Funkadelic

    I Wanna Know If It's Good To You

    • WESTBOUND.

Broadcast

  • Sat 17 Apr 2021 07:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music