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Simon Raymonde

Mary Anne Hobbs is joined by former Cocteau Twin and Bella Union boss Simon Raymonde, who talks about how to run a record label in the modern age.

Ex-Cocteau Twin and jolly nice man Simon Raymonde guests on the programme to discuss how to run a record label in the modern age. He is the brains behind Bella Union, who put out records by the likes of Midlake, John Grant, and the Flaming Lips.

How is it possible to make money in the era of music streaming and illegal downloads? Is the music industry dying a slow death? Find out the answer to those questions, and more, here ...

And, as ever, expect some of the best new tracks going and some old classics, as handpicked by veteran, evergreen broadcaster Mary Anne Hobbs.

3 hours

Last on

Sat 17 Jan 2015 07:00

Music Played

  • Ramones

    Sheena Is A Punk Rocker

    • Virgin.
  • 厂濒别补迟别谤鈥怟颈苍苍别测

    No Cities To Love

    • Sub Pop.
  • Midlake

    Antiphon (6Music Festival)

    • White.
  • Love

    Alone Again Or

    • Knight.
  • C Duncan

    Anytime

    • Fat Cat.
  • 2. Pac

    I Ain't Mad At'Cha

    • Death Row.
  • CYMBALS

    Talk To Me

    • Tough Love.
  • Sam & Dave

    Hold On I'm Coming

    • Atlantic.
  • The Decemberists

    Make You Better

    • What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 001.
  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • vertigo.
  • Wild Beasts

    Palace

    • Present Tense.
    • Domino.
    • 003.
  • Roots Manuva

    Again And Again

    • CD SINGLE.
    • BIG DADA.
    • 1.
  • Radiohead

    Let Down

    • Parlophone.
  • Girlpool

    Blah Blah Blah

  • The Go-Go's

    We Got The Beat

    • Stiff.
  • Idlewild

    Come On Ghost

    • Everything Ever Written.
    • 001.
  • John Grant

    Glacier

    • Pale Green Ghosts.
    • Bella Union.
    • 001.
  • Nick Drake

    Northern Sky

    • Island.
  • Sunriser

    • Duke Garwood

      Sometimes

  • Al Barry & The Cimarons

    Morning Sun

    • Trojan.
  • All We Are

    Keep Me Alive

    • All We Are.
    • Domino.
    • 001.
  • The Shangri鈥怢as

    Give Him a Great Big Kiss

    • Red Bird.
  • Father John Misty

    Chateau Lobby #4

    • Bella Union.
  • Fleet Foxes

    It Ain't Me Babe

  • Belle and Sebastian

    Nobody's Empire - 6 Music Session 01/09/2015

    • White.
  • Menace Beach

    Tastes Like Medicine

    • Ratworld.
    • Memphis Industries.
    • 007.
  • Beach House

    Zebra

    • CD SINGLE.
    • BELLA UNION.
    • 1.
  • James Brown

    Night Train

    • Polydor.
  • Young Fathers

    Soon Come Soon

    • Big Dada.
  • Cocteau Twins

    Half Gifts (Radio 1 Session, 12 Mar 1996)

  • 3 Minute Epiphany

    Simon Raymonde: How To Run A Record Label

  • Snowbird

    All Wishes Are Ghosts

    • moon.
    • Bella Union.
    • 001.
  • Damian 鈥淛r. Gong鈥 Marley

    Welcome To Jamrock

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Island.
  • Pinkshinyultrablast

    Holy Forest

    • Everything Else Matters.
    • Club AC30.
    • 001.
  • The Only Ones

    Another Girl Another Planet

    • Virgin.
  • Gaz Coombes

    20/20

    • Matador.
    • Hot Fruit/Caroline.
    • 001.
  • Nirvana

    Dumb

    • GEFFEN.
  • Slaves

    The Hunter

    • Virgin / EMI.
  • Barrington Levy

    Here I Come

    • GREENSLEEVES.
  • tUnE-yArDs

    Water Fountain

    • Nikki Nack.
    • 4 AD.
  • Aretha Franklin

    See Saw

    • Atlantic.
  • Song for Huey

    • Swans

      Oxygen

      • Mute.

Broadcast

  • Sat 17 Jan 2015 07:00