6 Music celebrates Record Store Day with The Vinyl Weekender

17 April 2023 - Press release

This coming weekend, BBC Radio 6 Music will celebrate Record Store Day (Saturday 22^nd April) with The Vinyl Weekender.

 

The Vinyl Weekender kicks off on Friday (21^st April), with presenters playing their favourite 7 inch records. On Saturday (22^nd April), presenters will play their favourite 12 inch singles, and on Sunday (23^rd April), the network will be celebrating albums and album tracks. 

In addition, a brand new podcast called Counter Culture is now available on BBC Sounds here. Counter Culture is a five episode love letter to record shops across the UK and those that work, shop and - in some cases - live there. Each episode of the sound-scaped podcast focuses on several shops in a different city, and takes the listener behind the counter to hear stories from the vinyl warriors and taste-makers who shape these cities’ cultural landscapes. Scottish band Sacred Paws will be taking listeners to the vinyl racks of Glasgow, James Smith of Yard Act will be showing listeners around Leeds, Enola Gay will be in Belfast, Gruff Rhys in Cardiff and producer Graham Massey will be digging in the crates of Manchester.

Please see below for more Vinyl Weekender highlights which will be broadcast on 6 Music from Friday 21^st – Sunday 23^rd April.

 

Friday 21^st April 

• Across this week (Monday 17^th – Friday 21^st April), Chris Hawkins (5am-7.30am) will be letting five record stores take over the 5 Before 6 DJ slot on each day, and on Friday he will chat to Left for Dead, his favourite record store in Shrewsbury

• Lauren Laverne (7.30pm-10.30am) will be spinning exclusive Record Store Day releases from the likes of Yard Act x Elton John, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Mike D from Beastie Boys’ Brazil 45 Boxset Vol. 4 compilation, Jessie Ware, Porridge Radio and more. She also hears from Jonathan Scott - writer, record collector and author of Into the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl - about the science and engineering side of vinyl. 6 Music’s Deb Grant also joins the show for a special, 7” only, Desert Island Disco mix and in Cloudbusting, Lauren invites listeners to share memories surrounding their favourite 7” records

• Craig Charles (1pm-4pm) will speak to artist and musician Ted Riederer about his travelling pop-up record shop, Never Records, and will have a special Trunk of Funk mix, played from Craig’s own vinyl collection. Craig also invites listeners to create a ‘Flipside Friday’ playlist, in celebration of the B-side

• Steve Lamacq (4pm-7pm) has three 7” teatime anthems, selected by independent record stores from across the country. He will also broadcast a track from Glasgow singer and songwriter, Rianne Downey which was recorded live to vinyl at Jack White’s Third Man Records shop in London

• In The People’s Party with AFRODEUTSCHE (7pm-9pm), AFRODEUTSCHE digs out her favourite 7” records from childhood. Plus there’s a 7” mix from DJ format 

• Tom Ravenscroft (9pm-11pm) has a 30 minute mix of vinyl goodness, plus he is joined by American record producer, DJ and co-founder of Leaving Records, Matthewdavid in The Ravers Hour (11pm-12am)

 

Saturday 22^nd April 

• Amy Lamé (6am-8am), Radcliffe and Maconie (8am-10am), Huey Morgan (10pm-1pm), Jamz Supernova (1pm-3pm) and Gilles Peterson (3pm-6pm) will be playing their favourite 12” singles

• On The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show (6pm-9pm), Craig’s guests are Detroit supergroup, Dames Brown (Athena Johnson, Teresa Marbury and LaRae) who will delve into the 2023 Record Store Day releases. Craig also plays some of the best 12” Record Store Day releases from the past few years in the Trunk of Funk mix

• The Blessed Madonna (9pm-12am) will feature a mixtape of Marea’s favourite tracks to own on wax, as well as an overview of this month’s most essential reissues. Plus, DJ, producer and singer Eliza Rose provides an all-vinyl mix in the final hour of the show.

 

Sunday 23^rd April 

• Amy Lamé (6am-8am) will be reflecting on her four favourite albums, and her regular feature, Sunday Girl, will be tailored to her record collection

• Radcliffe and Maconie (8am-10am) will celebrate the 50^th anniversary of David Bowie’s seminal album, Aladdin Sane and speak to pianist Mike Garson about the making of the album (at 8.30am)

• Cerys Matthews (10am-1pm) will share her favourite vintage vinyl albums from her unique collection

• Guy Garvey (2pm-4pm) will be playing tracks from albums in his record collection and telling the stories behind them

• Iggy Pop (4pm-6pm) will be spinning two hours of tunes, solely from vinyl, including five cuts from his favourite Rolling Stones album, 12 x 5. He’ll also spin vinyl cuts from the Nuggets compilation, his very first outing on record, and an early vinyl-only Kraftwerk track

• In Now Playing @6Music (6pm-8pm), Tom Robinson will ask listeners to share their stories behind that extra special piece of vinyl in their collections

• Stuart Maconie will present an Ultra Rare Experimental Vinyl special in Freak Zone (8pm-10pm), with two hours of the most obscure and coveted records in the leftfield sphere

• Don Letts (10pm-12am) selects four platters of crucial vinyl for listeners, from Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Beatles, Keith Hudson and The White Stripes.