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Chris Hawkins fires up Thursday with the biggest tunes and future classics.

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Music Played

  • Bright Eyes

    We Are Nowhere And It's Now

    • Saddle Creek.

  • The Big Moon

    Gravity

    • Fiction.

  • Big Thief

    UFOF

    • 4AD.

  • Coach Party

    Over

    • Chess Club Records.

  • The KLF

    3AM Eternal

    • EMI.

  • Surusinghe

    Party Criminal (feat. Warrior Queen)

    • dh2.

  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

    Mr Medicine (6 Music Session, 21 Feb 2023)

  • Adult DVD

    Cowboy On Aisle Three

    • Fat Possum.

  • The Verve

    Lucky Man

    • Virgin/Emi/Polygram.

  • Queens of the Stone Age

    Easy Street

    • Matador.

  • Tom Tom Club

    Genius Of Love

    • Island.

  • Supergrass

    Moving

    • Parlophone.

  • Mystery Jets

    Flea Joint

    • Fiction.

  • The Fisherman’s Friends

    Union Of Different Kinds (feat. Imelda May)

    • Universal-Island Records Ltd.

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    Can't Keep Checking My Phone

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • The Strokes

    Lonely in the Future

    • Cult Records/RCA Records.

  • France Gall

    Laisse Tomber Les Filles

    • WEA France.

  • John Mouse

    Dancing With My Neighbour

  • Slam

    Positive Education (Slam Remix)

    • Soma Quality Recordings.

  • Blondshell

    Violins

    • Partisan.

  • Fontaines D.C.

    Big Shot (6 Music Session, 31 Jul 2026)

  • Le Tigre

    Deceptacon

    • Wiiija Records.

  • Julia Jacklin

    Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)

    • 4AD.

  • Foals

    Life Is Yours

    • Warner.

  • Future Utopia

    Timebending (feat. Tim Gent & Ritual Breaks)

  • Nia Archives

    Conveniency

    • Island.

  • Man/Woman/Chainsaw

    Get Up And Dance

    • Fiction.

  • Empire of the Sun

    We Are The People

    • CD SINGLE.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday05:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music