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Welcome to your midweek pick-me-up with Tim Burgess

Craig gets you to the midweek point with Tim Burgess and the new CEO of Contact Theatre, Keisha Thompson.

Craig gets you to the midweek point with Tim Burgess and Artistic Director and CEO of Contact in Manchester, Keisha Thompson.

Tim Burgess chats about his upcoming double album 'Typical Music', Glastonbury plans and whether or not he has ever considered a Madchester reunion.

Keisha is the UK鈥檚 first poet to run a multi-arts venue and the first Black woman, first Mancunian and at 32, the youngest, to run Contact theatre. She begins working with the venue this month as it celebrates its 50th year.

The Trunk of Punk will also return, to kick down your door!

Fancy requesting a song for someone or something you love this week? Perhaps there's a wedding on the cards? A friend who deserves a special shout out? Get in touch and let us know at craig@bbc.co.uk

3 hours

Music Played

  • Gwen McCrae

    All This Love That I'm Giving

    • CAT RECORDS.
  • Wet Leg

    Being In Love

  • The Cure

    The Walk

    • Fiction.
  • Orange Juice

    Rip It Up

    • Polydor.
  • Freeez

    I.O.U.

    • Club Classics From The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • Suede

    She Still Leads Me On

    • BMG.
  • Curtis Harding

    Need Your Love

    • ANTI - Records.
  • Cocteau Twins

    Iceblink Luck

    • 4 A.D.
  • The Smile

    Free in the Knowledge

    • XL Recordings.
  • Drugdealer

    Madison

    • Mexican Summer.
  • George Clinton

    Atomic Dog

    • Music Club.
  • DoFlame

    Wild World

    • OFFLEASH.
  • Neneh Cherry

    Out Of The Black (6 Music Session, 26 February 2014)

  • Jean Knight

    Mr Big Stuff

    • Stax Greatest Hits.
    • Stax.
  • 厂濒别补迟别谤鈥怟颈苍苍别测

    You're No Rock 'n' Roll Fun

    • Sub Pop.
  • Ezra Furman

    Forever In Sunset

    • Bella Union.
  • Tim Burgess

    Typical Music

    • Because Music.
  • Inner City

    Big Fun

  • Watch the Ride & Nia Archives

    Mash Up The Dance

    • RINSE.
  • Fontaines D.C.

    Boys In The Better Land

    • PARTISAN RECORDS.
  • Charles Bradley

    Strictly Reserved For You

    • Strictly Reserved For You.
    • Dunham Records.
  • Jeshi

    Protein (feat. Obongjayar)

    • Because Music.
  • Greentea Peng

    Stuck In The Middle

  • Kae Tempest

    Bad Place For A Good Time

  • The Mysterines

    Life's A Fix

    • Universal.
  • Grove

    Feed My Desire

    • Memorials of Distinction x Grove.
  • Charles B.

    Lack Of Love

    • Desire Records.
  • HAAi & Jon Hopkins

    Baby, We're Ascending

    • Mute.
  • Jill Scott

    A Long Walk

    • Who Is Jill Scott?.
    • Epic.
  • The Vibrators

    Judy Says (Knock you In The Head)

    • The Power Of Money (Best Of Compilation).
    • Anagram Records.
    • 7.
  • The Dickies

    I'm OK You're OK

    • The A&M Years.
    • Virgin Music UK LAS (License Internal).
    • 14.
  • The Exploited

    Dead Cities

    • Dead Cities.
    • Cherry Red Records.
    • 11.
  • Interpol

    Toni

    • Matador.
  • Jackson Sisters

    I Believe In Miracles

    • 100% Pure Groove (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Spitting Off The Edge Of The World (feat. Perfume Genius)

    • Secretly Canadian.
  • La Rochelle Band

    Prophet (Street Version)

    • Peter Cruseder Records.
  • Ezra Collective

    Victory Dance

    • Partisan Records.
  • Gossip

    Where The Girls Are

    • Thats Not What I Heard.
    • Kill Rock Stars.
  • Melody鈥檚 Echo Chamber

    Where the Water Clears the Illusion

    • Domino.
  • Canned Heat

    Going Up The Country

    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Wed 15 Jun 2022 13:00