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#Carnival6Music - help create a Carnival-inspired playlist

Help Tom Robinson mark the start of the Notting Hill and Leeds Carnivals with a playlist featuring all things carnival.

It's Notting Hill Carnival AND Leeds Carnival this weekend so Tom Robinson invites 6 Music listeners to celebrate this with a playlist featuring music linked to all things carnival.

Held each August Bank Holiday since 1966, the Notting Hill Carnival is the largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe. Every year the streets of West London come alive with the sounds of music from traditional Steel Bands, Soca & Calypso to the various sound systems playing Reggae, Soul, Funk and House.

Leeds Carnival has been running since 1967 and is the longest running West Indian Carnival in Europe, having been going since 1967. Like Notting Hill it's is a 3-day event, climaxing in a carnival procession on Bank Holiday Monday, which starts and finishes in Potternewton Park in Chapeltown.

So in honour Now Playing hands the show over to 6 Music listeners to compile a playlist that reflects this carnival atmosphere.

Send in suggestions via Twitter using #Carnival6Music, post on the Now Playing blog or the 6 Music and Now Playing Facebook pages, drag tracks onto the collaborative Spotify and Rdio playlists, or via the other usual live show contact methods.

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Sun 24 Aug 2014 18:00
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Music Played

  • Burning Spear

    Marcus Garvey

    • Mango.

  • Culture

    Two Sevens Clash

    • Music Club.

  • Lord Kitchener

    The Road

  • The Four Seasons

    Beggin' (Pilooski Edit)

  • Linton Kwesi Johnson

    Bass Culture

  • The Clash

    White Riot

    • ESSENTIAL CLASH.
    • Columbia.

  • The Clash

    Rudie Can't Fail

    • Epic.

  • Michael Kamen

    Bachianos Brazil Samba

  • James Brown & The Famous Flames

    I Loves You Porgy

  • Wynton Marsalis

    Carnival Of Venice

  • Bob Marley

    Sun Is Shining

  • Jimmy Cliff

    Wonderful World, Beautiful People

    • Jukebox 70's Hits -I Got The Music In.
    • Old Gold.

  • Massive Attack

    Unfinished Sympathy

    • Virgin.

  • The Pogues

    Fiesta

    • The Very Best Of The Pogues.
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.

  • Aswad

    African Children (Live)

  • selected by Gaz Mayall of Gaz's rockin' blues soundsystem

    • Junior Murvin

      Police And Thieves

  • Stevie Wonder

    Superstition

    • Motown.

  • The Cardigans

    Carnival

    • Polydor.

  • Jungle

    Time

    • XL.

  • Bedouin Soundclash

    Living In Jungles

  • Althea & Donna

    Uptown Top Ranking

    • UPTOWN TOP RANKING.
    • Lightning.

  • Selected by Gabriel from heatwave soundsystem

    • Sizzla

      Just One Of Those Days

  • Tom Waits

    Carnival

  • Tom Lehrer

    Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

  • Basement Jaxx

    Fly Life

    • The Singles.
    • XL.
    • 3.

  • Alan Price Set

    Don't Stop The Carnival

    • The Best Of Alan Price.
    • Music Club.

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 Aug 2014 18:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music