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with Truthpaste!

Chris chats to vocalist Esme from London-based band Truthpaste.
Plus, there’s a brand new 5 Before 6 DJ.

Produced in Salford by Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music.

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Music Played

  • Young Fathers

    Get Up

    • Dead.
    • Big Dada.
    • 001.

  • Jamie T

    3310

    • Polydor.

  • PJ Harvey

    Down By The Water

    • Island.

  • Trapps

    Eat Me

  • Lonnie Liston Smith

    Expansions

    • Expansions.
    • Flying Dutchman.

  • JGrrey

    bedbug (feat. Erick the Architect)

    • Ditto.

  • Pulp

    Spike Island (6 Music Session)

  • SOAK

    death valley fridge magnet

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Tweet

    Oops (Oh My) (feat. Missy Elliott)

    • Goldmind.

  • Ezra Collective

    Jubilee Feeling

    • Partisan.

  • Wookie

    Salt & Pepper (feat. Tom Dunne)

    • ManChu/D.A.P. Limited.

  • Man/Woman/Chainsaw

    Get Up And Dance

    • Fiction.

  • Nora Dean

    Peace Begins Within

    • Bullet.

  • Julia Jacklin

    The Hardest Thing

    • 4AD.

  • Annie Lennox

    Waiting In Vain

    • RCA.

  • Santigold

    Lights Out

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Interpol

    Wings On Fire

    • Partisan.

  • Truthpaste

    Never Gonna Give

  • Sampa the Great

    Simon Says

    • Loma Vista.

  • White Denim

    Keep Calling Me (Baby) (6 Music Session, 8 Sep 2026)

  • Bathing Suits & Valentine Caulfield

    I Can Be A Freak

    • underplay recordings.

  • Joy Division

    Atmosphere

    • Factory.

  • Phoebe Bridgers

    Bobby

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Oasis

    Supersonic

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

  • Eyre Llew

    Everything

  • Josh Caffe

    Velvet Skin

    • dh2.

  • Blur

    Song 2

    • Food.

Broadcast

  • Monday05:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music