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Made of London Part 1

Emily Pilbeam meets Bombay Bicycle Club and City Soundtracks visits The Lexington in North London to celebrate the big smoke and its music in part one of Made of London.

In City Soundtracks, Made of London Part one, Emily Pilbeam meets Bombay Bicycle Club and we visit The Lexington in North London to find out who has played there and hear why the capital remains a creative melting pot for musicians and artists to thrive in.

Produced in Birmingham by True Thought Productions for BBC Radio 6 Music Indie Forever.

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Music Played

  • Wolf Alice

    Don't Delete The Kisses

    • Visions of a Life.
    • Dirty Hit.

  • Bombay Bicycle Club

    Always Like This

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Universal-Island.
    • 1.

  • The xx

    Islands

    • CD SINGLE.
    • YOUNG TURKS.
    • 1.

  • The Vaccines

    If You Wanna

    • If You Wanna (Single).
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • Fat Dog

    Peace Song

    • Domino.

  • Suede

    Beautiful Ones

    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Bombay Bicycle Club

    Shuffle

    • Island.

  • Bloc Party

    So Here We Are

    • Wichita.

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Maps

  • Lord Kitchener

    London Is The Place For Me

    • Melodisc.

  • The Maccabees

    Pelican

    • Fiction.

  • Goat Girl

    Sad Cowboy

    • Rough Trade.

  • Florence + the Machine

    Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) (Glastonbury 2015)

  • Gene

    Olympian

    • Costermonger.

  • Bloc Party

    Banquet

    • Wichita.

  • black midi

    Welcome To Hell

    • Rough Trade.

  • Friendly Fires

    Paris

    • CD SINGLE.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Amyl and the Sniffers

    Hertz

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Wet Leg

    mangetout

    • Domino.

  • The Clash

    London Calling

    • Now That's What I Call An Era: Sound Of The Suburbs (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Tame Impala

    Half Full Glass of Wine

    • Modular Recordings.

  • Razorlight

    America

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • Kate Nash

    Foundations

    • Now That's What I Call Music 67.
    • Now.
    • 4.

  • Palma Violets

    Best Of Friends

    • ROUGH TRADE.

  • Public Image Ltd

    (This Is Not A) Love Song

    • EMI.

  • The Big Moon

    Cupid

    • Fiction Records.

  • Little Grandad

    Sleepwalking

    • Communion Group Limited.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Rehab

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday 20:00
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