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Liverpool

DJ Colleen Murphy turns her attention to Liverpool and the Teardrop Explodes' Kilimanjaro. First broadcast in 2015.

Ahead of the 6 Music Festival, another chance to hear DJ Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy turn her attention across the Peaks to one of the UK's most important musical cities; Liverpool. Focusing on the Teardrop Explodes Kilimanjaro album, we talk to Julian Cope about how he made the album, why he moved to Liverpool, and why he always travelled to the studio on an invisible horse. Colleen also looks at how Liverpool and Psych are inextricably linked, the importance of Soul Music to the area, how the nightclub Eric's and record shop Probe inspired a scene, and Liverpool's isolation from the rest of the country has helped create a outlook like no other.

Colleen speaks with Shack's Michael Head who grew up surrounded by the influence of the Teardrop Explodes: Holly Johnson, of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, discusses the role of Liverpool's flamboyant gay scene played in the burgeoning post-punk scene: DJ Greg Wilson casts his critical ear over an 80s Liverpool still living under the eclipse of The Beatles: author Mark Cooper share his thoughts on the rivalry between Echo & the Bunnymen and the Teardrops. Colleen also meets Stealing Sheep's Emily Lansley, who is at the vanguard of a younger generation of musicians who embrace Liverpool's psychedelic sound. And if all of that wasn't enough, Zoo Records and KLF founder Bill Drummond shares two of his one minute presentations about the album.

First broadcast in 2015.

1 hour

Last on

Wed 24 Mar 2021 01:00

Music Played

  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Ha Ha I'm Drowning

    • Mercury.
  • Jean鈥怞acques Burnel

    Do The European

    • United Artists Records.
  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Sleeping Gas

    • Mercury.
  • The Fall

    C'n'C-S Mithering

    • Rough Trade.
  • Deaf School

    All Queued Up

    • Warner Bros. Records 鈥.
  • The Beatles

    Tomorrow Never Knows

    • Parlophone.
  • The Doors

    Strange Days

    • Elektra.
  • The Electric Prunes

    I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)

  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Poppies In The Field

    • Mercury.
  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Geno

    • Mercury.
  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Reward

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    Rescue

    • CROCODILES.
    • WEA.
  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Books

    • Mercury.
  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    Read It In Books

    • Korova, Korova.
  • Big in Japan

    Suicide A Go Go

    • Retro Records.
  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Bouncing Babies

    • Mercury.
  • The Cramps

    Garbageman

    • I.R.S. Records.
  • Captain Beefheart

    Big Eyed Beans From Venus

    • Reprise Records.
  • Howlin鈥 Wolf

    Tail Dragger

    • Chess.
  • Melanie De Biasio

    I Feel You (Eels Remix)

  • 罢补鈥恔耻

    Day 9

  • Applescal

    Airports

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Kill The Pain

    • ZTT.
  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Treason

    • ISLAND.
  • Shack

    I Need You

    • London Records, Laurel.
  • Ladytron

    Ghosts

    • Vision Music 鈥.
  • The Teardrop Explodes

    When I Dream

    • Mercury.
  • Badly Drawn Boy

    Silent Sigh

    • XL.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 7 Jun 2015 13:00
  • Fri 29 Mar 2019 01:00
  • Wed 24 Mar 2021 01:00

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