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Start your weekend the right way with fantastic tunes for your mid-morning

Lauren brings a great selection of tunes to kick-start your weekend.

Lauren brings a great selection of tunes to kick-start your weekend.

We also take a moment to reflect something beautiful happening with our 6 Music listeners in the Beauty Spot, and look forward to the day ahead in A View From The Afternoon.

Plus, Lauren takes you on a trip to the Desert Island Disco - your opportunity to get the nation moving on a Friday morning, with dance-floor fillers of any genre.

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Fri 15 May 202610:00
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Music Played

  • LCD Soundsystem

    Tribulations

    • DFA Records.

  • Mike D

    Switch Up

    • Capitol Records.

  • Richard X & Kelis

    Finest Dreams

    • Virgin.

  • Hot Chip

    Huarache Lights

    • DOMINO RECORDING CO LTD.

  • Althea & Donna

    Uptown Top Ranking

    • UPTOWN TOP RANKING.
    • Lightning.

  • Dua Saleh

    Cállate

    • Ghostly International.

  • Wesley Joseph

    Peace Of Mind (feat. Danny Brown)

    • Secretly Canadian.

  • Soulwax

    Perfect We Are Not

    • Deewee.

  • Talking Heads

    Take Me To The River

    • EMI.

  • David Bowie

    Boys Keep Swinging

    • EMI.

  • DEVO

    Jocko Homo

    • MCA.

  • Grace Jones

    Williams' Blood

    • CD SINGLE.
    • WALL OF SOUND RECORDINGS.
    • 1.

  • James

    Sometimes

    • Fontana.

  • U2

    Where The Streets Have No Name

    • Island.

  • Soft Cell

    Torch

    • SOME BIZZARE.

  • Dry Cleaning

    Sliced By A Fingernail

    • 4AD.

  • TSHA & HoneyLuv

    I Need U (feat. Ellie Maxwell)

    • I Need U (feat. Ellie Maxwell).
    • Major Recordings/Warner Records.
    • 1.

  • The B‐15 Project

    Girls Like Us (feat. Crissy D & Lady G)

    • Girls Like Us.
    • Armada Music.
    • 1.

  • Yard Act

    Redeemer

    • Island.

  • Digitalism

    Achtung! Optimism

  • Garbage

    Queer

    • Mushroom.

  • Father John Misty

    The Payoff

    • Sub Pop.

  • Tamikrest

    Layla (6 Music Session, 10 May 2026)

  • Caribou

    Our Love

    • Our Love.
    • City Slang.
    • 001.

  • Photay

    Always Cosmic

  • IZCO

    Wonderluv

    • Brownswood Recordings.

  • Honey Dijon

    Satisfied (feat. Jacob Lusk)

    • SOS.

  • Rose Royce

    Is It Love You're After

    • Sampled (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • The Tams

    Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Geffen.

  • T. Rex

    Get It On

    • Premier.

  • Cheryl Lynn

    Got To Be Real

    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • The Hues Corporation

    Rock The Boat

    • Now That's What I Call A Massive 70s Party (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Bee Gees

    You Should Be Dancing

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Mazzy Star

    Ride It On

    • SHE HANGS BRIGHTLY.
    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Beck

    Ride Lonesome

    • Island/EMI.

  • Knats

    Never Gonna Be A Boxer

    • Gearbox Records, under exclusive licence to Fontana.

  • Pigeon

    Black James Dean

    • Memphis Industries.

  • Fcukers

    Play Me

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Cassius

    Feeling For You

    • 1999.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 May 202610:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music