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Made of Greater Manchester

The Ting Tings are on to shout about Salford, Nathan Shepherd tells us all about Stockport's music and Emily Pilbeam visits Salford's Eagle Inn to celebrate Greater Manchester.

Greater Manchester is home to iconic artists such as the Happy Mondays, Joy Division, Blossoms, Elbow, John Cooper Clarke and the Buzzcocks. For this episode of City Soundtracks celebrating all things from the wider area surrounding Manchester, Emily Pilbeam invites Stockport native Nathan Shepherd to join her and the Salford band the Ting Tings drop in to choose some tracks which make them think of home.

With tracks from The Fall, Inspiral Carpets, New Order, The Verve and The Smiths plus new music from ones to watch such as Ursa.

Produced in Birmingham by True Thought Productions for 蘑菇短视频 Radio 6 Music Indie Forever.

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Music Played

  • The Ting Tings

    That's Not My Name

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Blossoms

    Charlemagne

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Buzzcocks

    Ever Fallen In Love

  • The Fall

    Hit The North

    • Beggars Banquet.

  • Inspiral Carpets

    This Is How It Feels

    • Now 17, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Antony Szmierek

    The Great Pyramid Of Stockport

    • Mushroom Music / Virgin.

  • Blossoms

    I Can't Stand It

    • Cool, Like You.
    • EMI.

  • 10cc

    The Worst Band in the World

    • Decca Records.

  • Happy Mondays

    Step On

    • Now 17, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Elbow

    Grounds For Divorce

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 2.

  • Everything Everything

    Distant Past

    • RCA Records.

  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It

    • Virgin.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    I Wanna Be Yours

    • AM.
    • Domino Recording.
    • 12.

  • Stephen Fretwell

    Run

    • Magpie.
    • Polydor.

  • Fuqa

    My Darling

    • FMCK Records.

  • Everything Everything

    Cold Reactor

    • BMG.

  • Ursa

    Four Walls

    • wwnbbcollective.

  • Joy Division

    Transmission

    • London.

  • The Lottery Winners

    Letter To Myself (feat. Frank Turner)

    • Anxiety Replacement Therapy.
    • Modern Sky Entertainment.

  • The Verve

    Lucky Man

    • Now 39 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Ting Tings

    Shut Up and Let Me Go聽

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 8.

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

  • The Smiths

    There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

    • (CD Single).
    • WEA.
    • 15.

  • New Order

    Bizarre Love Triangle (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2015)

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