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Nemone chats to Benda Bilili directors

Music and chat with Nemone, who talks to Benda Bilili directors Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye. Plus more from Nicky Wire's playlist.

A real-life world music fairytale, BENDA BILILI! tells the incredible true story behind Kinshasa's ghetto stars, STAFF BENDA BILILI, and their distinctive musical style; a seductive mix of Congolese rumba, James Brown-esque funk, Cuban mambo, ancestral trance and Jimi Hendrix-esque flourishes.
Ricky has a dream: to make Staff Benda Bilili the best band in Congo, Kinshasa. Roger, a street child, more than ever wants to join these stars of the ghetto, who get around in customized tricycles. Together, they must avoid the pitfalls of the street, stay united and find the force to hope in music.

For six years, from the first rehearsals to the release of their acclaimed debut album and triumph at international festivals, BENDA BILILI! (literal translated as "to look beyond appearances") is the story of this dream come reality. Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's uplifting film is a frank and intimate portrait of the band, their musical energy and social observation of the realities of life in Kinshasa. BENDA BILILI! is a rare cinematic discovery, like BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, the film is set to lift the lid on the Congolese music scene, revealing a hotbed of extraordinary talent and creativity.

Nemone has invited Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire to sit down and choose 10 tracks he would love to hear played to the 6Music listeners. Over the week you'll hear 5 of the 10 tracks in full chosen by Nicky, but you can go to Nemone's pages at www.bbc.co.uk/6music to see the full tracklistings and listen to a montage of the mix. Listen to the Manics play their special homecoming gig Blackwood Miners Institute recorded for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and played out on 6Music and Radio 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists and click on Manic Street Preachers for more information on Post Cards From A Young Man.

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Thu 10 Mar 2011 13:00
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Music Played

  • Pixies

    Bone Machine

    • 4 A.D..

  • Iron & Wine

    Tree By The River

    • CD SINGLE.
    • 4 A.D..
    • 1.

  • Lush

    Single Girl

    • 4 A.D..

  • Little Barrie

    Surf Hell

  • Cloud Control

    There's Nothing In The Water We Can't Fight

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Infectious.
    • 1.

  • Love

    Alone Again Or

    • Knight.

  • Massive Attack

    Special Cases

    • Virgin.

  • Grinderman

    Palaces Of Montezuma

  • The Divine Comedy

    Becoming More Like Alfie

    • Setanta.

  • The Psychedelic Furs

    Pretty In Pink

  • Anna Calvi

    Blackout

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Domino.
    • 1.

  • Mazes

    Most Days

  • Papercuts

    Do What You Will

    • Sub Pop.

  • Marvin Gaye

    Got To Give It Up

    • Tamla Motown.

  • Holy Ghost!

    Do It Again

    • CD SINGLE.
    • DFA/Cooperative.
    • 1.

  • Staff Benda Bilili

    Tonkara

  • Kate Bush

    Sat In Your Lap

    • EMI.

  • Avi Buffalo

    What's In It For?

  • The Wedding Present

    Kennedy

    • RCA.

  • Radiohead

    Lotus Flower

    • The King of Limbs.
    • Ticker Tape Ltd..
    • 1.

  • The Smiths

    Bigmouth Strikes Again

    • The Sound Of The Smiths.
    • Rhino.
    • 14.

  • The Vaccines

    If You Wanna

    • If You Wanna (Single).
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • Digital Underground

    Doowutchyalike

    • 100% Rap Originals.
    • Tommy Boy Music.
    • 13.

  • Graham Coxon

    Standing on My Own Again

  • Tu Fawning

    Sad Story (Radio Edit)

  • David Bowie

    Queen Bitch

    • EMI.

  • Fleet Foxes

    Helplessness Blues

    • Bella Union.

  • The Decemberists

    Valerie Plame

  • The White Stripes

    Hotel Yorba

    • XL.

  • Noah and the Whale

    Life Is Life

    • Mercury.

  • Soft Cell

    Torch

    • SOME BIZZARE.

  • Elbow

    Lippy Kids

    • Fiction.

  • The Only Ones

    Another Girl, Another Planet

  • LCMDF

    Future Me

    • Heavenly Recording.

Broadcast

  • Thu 10 Mar 2011 13:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music