Stephen Paul Lamacq (born 16 October 1964), sometimes known by his nickname Lammo (given to him by John Peel), is an English disc jockey, currently working with the BBC radio station BBC Radio 6 Music.Contents1 Early career 2 BBC Radio 3 Weekenders3.1 Track listing 3.2 Alternate track listing4 References 5 External linksEarly career[edit] Lamacq was born in Islington, London
London and grew up in Colne Engaine, Essex. His career in journalism began as a junior reporter at the West Essex Gazette after studying Journalism at Harlow College, Essex. In similar fashion to other music journalists who started fanzines during their teenage years, Lamacq started one called A Pack of Lies. It was during his time at NME
NME that he began DJing on XFM, when it was still a pirate radio station. He formed a record label in 1992 with Alan James and Tony Smith, called Deceptive Records
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Camden Crawl
Camden Crawl was a music festival in Camden, London, which first appeared in 1995 and then was held annually from 2005 to 2014.Contents1 Overview 2 History2.1 1995 2.2 1996 2.3 1997 2.4 2005 2.5 2006 2.6 2007 2.7 2008 2.8 2009 2.9 2010 2.10 2011 2.11 2012 2.12 2013 2.13 20143 Financial difficulties 4 Significance 5 ReferencesOverview[edit]Underworld, one of the venues which hosted
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This is the list of independent radio stations. Included are any non-profit terrestrial broadcast community radio stations do not directly affiliated, owned, controlled by any radio network, school, company, or government. All independent radio listed stations are independently operated (not necessarily the radio format indie music), and are considered to be community radio
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BBC
BBC Radio 5, a BBC
BBC radio network, carried sport, children's and educational programmes from 1990 to 1994. It transmitted via analogue radio on 693 and 909 kHz, and lasted for three years and eight months. The success of BBC
BBC Radio 4's coverage of the Gulf War
Gulf War of 1990-1991, on a service known as Scud FM, demonstrated the popularity of a 24-hour radio news service. A rolling-news and sport station, named BBC
BBC Radio 5 Live, replaced Radio 5 in March 1994.Contents1 History 2 Closure 3 Programmes 4 Presenters4.1 Former presenters5 See also 6 References 7 External linksHistory[edit] BBC
BBC Radio 5 used the medium wave frequencies previously used to transmit BBC
BBC Radio 2 from 23 November 1978 to 14 August 1990
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A charity record (also known as a charity single) is a release of a song for a specific charitable cause. Ex-Beatle George Harrison's "Bangla Desh" single in 1971 is commonly acknowledged as the first ever purpose-made charity single – in this case to help fund relief efforts following the 1970 Bhola cyclone
1970 Bhola cyclone and the Bangladesh
Bangladesh Liberation War. The money raised was donated to UNICEF, as were takings from Harrison's all-star charity concert (again, the first of its kind) held at Madison Square Garden, New York, and its spin-off live album and concert film. This is one way of using artistic talent as art for charity. Some of the other early charity records came from the January 1979 Music for UNICEF
UNICEF Concert, with the likes of ABBA's "Chiquitita" and the Bee Gees' "Too Much Heaven" released as singles, all the royalties from which went to UNICEF
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"Suicide Is Painless" is a song written by Johnny Mandel (music) and Mike Altman (lyrics), which was the theme song for both the movie and TV series M*A*S*H. Mike Altman is the son of the original film’s director, Robert Altman, and was 14 years old when he wrote the song’s lyrics. During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the 1980s, Robert Altman
Robert Altman said that while he only made $70,000 for having directed the movie, his son had earned more than $1 million for having co-written the song. Several instrumental versions of the song were used as the theme for the TV series
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Mogwai
Mogwai (/ˈmɒɡwaɪ/) are a Scottish post-rock band, formed in 1995 in Glasgow. The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite
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Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (guitar, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar), and Martin Bulloch (drums). The band typically compose lengthy guitar-based instrumental pieces that feature dynamic contrast, melodic bass guitar lines, and heavy use of distortion and effects. The band were for several years signed to Glasgow
Glasgow label Chemikal Underground, and have been distributed by different labels such as Matador in the US and Play It Again Sam in the UK, but now use their own label Rock Action Records in the UK, and Sub Pop
Sub Pop in North America
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Colchester
Colchester United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Colchester, Essex, England. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1937, the club spent its early years playing in the Southern Football League
Southern Football League until they were elected to the Football League in 1950
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An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself . The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic". However, its next recorded use was in its present sense, by Robert Southey
Robert Southey in 1809.[1] Despite only being named early in the nineteenth century, first-person autobiographical writing originates in antiquity
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Glastonbury
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Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas. Films and albums recorded at Glastonbury
Glastonbury have been released, and the festival receives extensive television and newspaper coverage. Glastonbury
Glastonbury is the largest greenfield festival in the world, and is now attended by around 175,000 people,[2] requiring extensive infrastructure in terms of security, transport, water, and electricity supply
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Presenting on: Fighting Talk
Fighting Talk (2006–2013, 2016-present) BBC
BBC BDO World Darts Coverage (2010–present)Formerly Talksport
Talksport (2013–2016) Match of the Day 2
Match of the Day 2 (2010–2013) 5 Live Sport (2009–2013) Channel 5 football (2006–2010) BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 (2003–2009)Spouse(s) Carly Paradis (m. 2012) Colin Murray
Colin Murray (born Colin Wright on 10 March 1977) is a Northern Irish sports and music radio and television presenter
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Zane Lowe (born Alexander Zane Reid Lowe; 7 August 1973) is a New Zealand-born radio DJ, Live DJ, record producer, and television presenter. After an early career in music making, production and DJing in New Zealand, he moved to the UK in 1997, coming to prominence through presenting on XFM and MTV Europe, before hosting a new global music show on BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 from 2003–2015. He now hosts his own show on Apple's international radio station, Beats 1
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Andrew Collins is an English writer and broadcaster. He is the creator and writer of the Radio 4 sitcom Mr Blue Sky.[1] His TV writing work includes EastEnders
EastEnders and the sitcoms Grass
Grass (which he co-wrote with Simon Day) and Not Going Out
Not Going Out (which he initially co-wrote with Lee Mack).[2] Collins has also worked as a music, television and film critic.Contents1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Mr Blue Sky 4 Books 5 CDs & DVDs 6 References 7 External linksPersonal life[edit] Collins was a member of the Labour Party between the late 1980s and early 1990s, leaving after Labour's defeat in the 1992 General Election.[3] In 2007, he was made patron of Thomas's Fund,[4] a Northampton-based music therapy charity for children with life-limiting illnesses. Career[edit] Collins started his career as a music journalist, writing for the NME, Vox, Select and Q (where was editor, 1995–97)
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Wales
Wales (/ˈweɪlz/ ( listen); Welsh: Cymru [ˈkəmri] ( listen)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.[8] It is bordered by England
England to the east, the Irish Sea
Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel
Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in 2011 of 3,063,456 and has a total area of 20,779 km2 (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,680 miles (2,700 km) of coastline and is largely mountainous, with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon
Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit
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BBC Radio Humberside
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Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.[2] It lies upon the River Hull
River Hull at its confluence with the Humber
Humber Estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea,[2] with a population of 260,200 (mid-2016 est.). The town of Hull was founded late in the 12th century. The monks of Meaux Abbey
Meaux Abbey needed a port where the wool from their estates could be exported
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