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Indie Cloudbusters with Nick Grimshaw!

Nick is with you for the next two hours and we have nonstop indie music coming your way that will lift your spirits, reset those energy levels and provide some musical escapism.

Indie bangers to replace the grey skies with sunshiiiine.

Nick is with you for the next two hours and we have nonstop indie music coming your way that will lift your spirits, reset those energy levels and provide some musical escapism.

We've got Arcade Fire, Patrick Wolf and The Happy Mondays… plus a live treat from the archive!

Produced in Cardiff by Bengo Media for BBC Radio 6 Music Indie Forever.

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Music Played

  • Bloc Party

    Banquet

    • Wichita.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Global Television.

  • Gossip

    Listen Up

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Back Yard Recordings.

  • The Only Ones

    Another Girl, Another Planet

    • Virgin.

  • Arcade Fire

    Ready To Start

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Mercury (Sonovox).
    • 1.

  • Feist

    My Moon My Man

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Polydor.

  • Happy Mondays

    Kinky Afro

    • London.

  • The Dandy Warhols

    Bohemian Like You

    • Capitol.

  • Friends

    I'm His Girl

    • LUCKY NUMBER.

  • Cornershop

    Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

    Remix Artist: Norman Cook.
    • The 1999 Brit Awards (Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • The Style Council

    Shout To The Top

    • Polydor.

  • Patrick Wolf

    The Magic Position

    • The Magic Position.
    • Low Altitude Records.
    • 2.

  • Martha and the Muffins

    Echo Beach (Radio 1 Richard Skinner Session, 20 Jan 1980)

  • Tame Impala

    The Less I Know The Better

    • Fiction / Polydor.

  • Supergrass

    Pumping On Your Stereo

    • Parlophone.

  • Razorlight

    Vice

    • **LIVE REC/SESSION**.

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Happy House

    • Polydor.

  • The Cure

    Friday I'm In Love

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Libertines

    Time for Heroes

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Garbage

    Milk

    • Mushroom.

  • The Stranglers

    No More Heroes

    • Virgin.

  • Courtney Barnett

    Pedestrian at Best

    • Marathon Artists/House Anxiety.

  • Ocean Colour Scene

    Hundred Mile High City

    • The Best Of Ocean Colour Scene.
    • Island.

  • The Futureheads

    Hounds Of Love

    • 679 Recordings.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    The View From The Afternoon

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Domino.

  • Suede

    Animal Nitrate

    • Nude Records.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Take Me Out

    • Now.

  • Goldfrapp

    Ooh La La

    • (CD Single).
    • Mute Records.

  • Pulp

    Lipgloss

    • Island.

  • The Vaccines

    Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra) (6 Music Session, 13 Dec 2010)

  • The Long Blondes

    Once And Never Again

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Beck

    Devils Haircut

    • Geffen.

  • The Black Keys

    Gold on the Ceiling

    • NONESUCH.

  • Roxy Music

    Same Old Scene

    • The Best Of.
    • EG Records.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 23 Jul 2026 18:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
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    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
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    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
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    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
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