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Welcome to your midweek pick-me-up with DJ Thunderbird

Craig chats to Linett Kamala AKA DJ Thunderbird, one of the first female DJs at Notting Hill Carnival, and shines a light on a rock 'n' roll book club in Wednesdays I'm in Love.

Craig gets in the carnival spirit ahead of 6 Music’s All Day Carnival on Monday, as he chats to Linett Kamala aka DJ Thunderbird.

Kamala, one of the first female DJs at Notting Hill Carnival, shares stories of how she first got involved, its roots at St Pancras Town Hall in 1959, and the importance of Carnival today.

Also on the show, we shine a light on a rock 'n' roll book club in 'Wednesday I’m In Love', the Trunk of Punk returns roaring down your radios and smart speakers, and it is down to you to select our final track of the show for closing credits, so get those requests in: craig@bbc.co.uk

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Wed 23 Aug 2023 13:00
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Music Played

  • Armand van Helden

    You Don't Know Me (feat. Duane Harden)

    • (CD Single).
    • FFRR.

  • James Blake

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    • Polydor.

  • Ron Grainer

    Doctor Who (1980 Arrangement)

    Music Arranger: Peter Howell. Performer: The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radiophonic Workshop.
    • A-Z Of British TV Themes Vol 12.
    • Play It Again.

  • Talking Heads

    Road To Nowhere

    • Virgin.

  • Kate Bush

    Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

    • EMI.

  • LL Cool J

    Rock The Bells

    • Global Television.

  • CVC

    Sophie

    • CVC.

  • Alabama Shakes

    Hold On

    • CD SINGLE.
    • ROUGH TRADE.
    • 1.

  • boygenius

    Cool About It

  • CHERISE

    Calling

    • Sel Release.

  • The Creatures

    Right Now

    • Polydor.

  • Gemma Rogers

    New World Order

    • H28 Records.

  • Cut Chemist & Chali 2na

    Work My Mind (6 Music Session, 17 May 2018)

  • Cornershop

    Topknot (feat. Bubbley Kaur)

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Darwin Deez

    Radar Detector

    • Lucky Numbers.

  • Big Thief

    Vampire Empire

    • 4AD.

  • Tom Browne

    Funkin' for Jamaica

  • BC Camplight

    I'm Ugly

  • Lush

    Thoughtforms

    • 4AD.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Crosstown Traffic

    • Polydor.

  • Mitski

    Bug Like An Angel

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Roni Size & Roni Size / Reprazent

    Share The Fall

    • Share The Fall.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Grian Chatten

    Bob's Casino

    • Partisan Records.

  • Skindred

    L.O.V.E. (Smile Please)

    • Single.
    • EARACHE RECORDS.

  • Sharon Jones & The Dap‐Kings

    What Have You Done For Me Lately

    • Ministry Of Sound: Uncovered CD1.
    • Ministry.
    • 13.

  • Say She She

    Astral Plane

    • Karma Chief.

  • Air

    Playground Love

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Virgin.

  • Glass Torpedoes

    Tall Stories

    • Tall Stories.
    • Leo Records.

  • Comic Sans

    Talk Show Host

    • 1388966 Records DK.

  • Panic Shack

    The Ick

    • Brace Yourself Records.

  • Flyte

    Tough Love (feat. Laura Marling)

    • Nettwerk Music Group.

  • Yard Act

    100% Endurance

    • Island.

  • Babes in Toyland

    Sweet '69

    • Reprise Records.

  • DEADLETTER

    Degenerate Inanimate

    • SO Recordings.

  • Iraina Mancini

    What You Doin'

    • Undo The Blue.
    • Needle Mythology.

  • Miriam Makeba

    Pata Pata

    • Buried Treasure: Lost Gems From Deep In The '60s Vaults CD2.
    • Reprise Records.
    • 8.

  • Lack of Afro

    Loving Arms (feat. Greg Blackman)

    • The Bastion Music Group.

  • Nia Archives

    Bad Gyalz

    • Island.

  • Mario Biondi And The High Five Quintet

    This Is What You Are

    • Jazz Set Montecarlo.
    • Hit Maker.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Wed 23 Aug 2023 13:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music