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

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Music Played

  • Jungle Brothers

    I'll House You

    • Idlers ‎.

  • Olof Dreijer

    Makwande (feat. Toya Delazy)

    • DH2.

  • Oasis

    Supersonic

    • Stop The Clocks.
    • BIG BROTHER RECORDS.
    • 3.

  • Stanleys

    Never Like You

  • Panic Shack

    grin & bear it

    • Brace Yourself Records.

  • Gretel

    Darkness Be My Friend (6 Music Session, 16 Feb 2026)

  • Way Dynamic

    Miffed It

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Primal Scream

    Star

    • Creation Records.

  • Smerz

    Spring summer

    • Escho.

  • Methyl Ethel

    Ubu

    • 4AD.

  • They Are Gutting a Body of Water

    sour diesel

    • ATO Records.

  • Sébastien Tellier

    Kilometer

    • CD SINGLE.
    • LUCKY NUMBER.
    • 1.

  • ear

    Ne Plus Ultra

    • A24 Music.

  • Suede

    Animal Nitrate

    • Nude Records.

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    The Killing Moon

    • Korova.

  • Jack White

    Dollar Bill

    • Third Man.

  • Redman

    Rush Da Security

    • Def Jam Recordings.

  • LIFE

    Wild Grasses

  • Everything but the Girl

    Wrong (Deep Dish Remix)

    • Virgin.

  • Courtney Barnett

    Everybody Here Hates You

    • Marathon Artist/Milk! Records.

  • Kelsey Lu

    Cutting Off The Head Of A Ghost

    • Dirty Hit.

  • Vampire Weekend

    Horchata

    • Contra.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • feeble little horse

    Rewind

    • Saddle Creek.

  • Jungle

    Busy Earnin'

    • XL.

  • Stornoway

    Fire and Water

  • The Horrors

    Whole New Way

    • XL.

  • mary in the junkyard

    New Muscles

    • AMF Records.

  • Faithless

    Insomnia

    • CHEEKY RECORDS.

Broadcast

  • Thursday05:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music