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Big Thief in Session

Jo chats to Big Thief and shares session tracks they recorded live at Maida Vale Studios!

Jo chats to Big Thief and shares session tracks recorded live at Maida Vale Studios.

Formed in Brooklyn in 2015, Big Thief consists of Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia. The band have released 6 albums, most recently last year's Double Infinity. Jo chats to the band about their current tour, ideal days off and how they take their tea!

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Music Played

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Happy House

    • Dark Side Of The 80's (Various).
    • Telstar.

  • Westside Cowboy

    Kick Stones (The Boys)

    • Adventure Recordings/Island Records.

  • Gracie Abrams

    Hit The Wall

    • Interscope / Polydor.

  • Lana Del Rey

    Doin' Time

    • NORMAN F****** ROCKWELL!.
    • Polydor.

  • The Style Council

    Walls Come Tumbling Down

    • Billy Elliot O.S.T. - Various Artists.
    • Polydor.
    • 13.

  • Luca Fogale

    Horizon

    • Challenger.
    • Nettwerk.

  • The Smashing Pumpkins

    Today

    • HUT MUSIC.

  • Adrianne Lenker

    Free Treasure

    • 4AD.

  • Big Thief

    Incomprehensible (6 Music Session, 23 Apr 2026)

  • Big Thief

    Shoulders (6 Music Session, 23 Apr 2026)

  • John Martyn

    Dancing

    • One World.
    • Universal-Island Records Ltd..
    • 7.

  • The Sundays

    Here's Where The Story Ends

    • The Sundays - Reading Writing & Arith.
    • Parlophone.

  • Rostam

    Hardy (feat. Clairo)

    • American Stories.
    • Matsor Projects.

  • mary in the junkyard

    New Muscles

    • MF RECORDS.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Homeward Bound

    • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
    • Columbia.

Broadcast

  • Last Wednesday19:30
    BBC Radio 2