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The Big Moon play live for Steve Lamacq

The Big Moon are in session for Steve playing tracks from their new album, Forever. Plus, Steve has first plays of new music from Heartworms and The Flaming Lips.

The Big Moon are in session for Steve playing tracks from their new, fourth album - Forever. The album comes four years after 2022’s ‘Here is Everything’, and eight years since the band first formed. Whilst the previous album was shaped by new motherhood and the pandemic, this new album examines what’s left when you’ve already checked off many of the major milestones, and is tempered by a first-hand understanding of life’s fragility. Singer Juliette Jackson had a benign but destructive cyst inside her eardrum which resulted in permanent hearing loss in one ear. As such ‘Forever’ tries to focus on optimism, with her imagining a future - “I just decided to write songs for this imaginary time, one or two years in the future, when I would be all healed and happy again. I didn’t know if I would ever get to that point but, by projecting and almost tricking myself into it, it actually became a really nice way of writing.”

The band play live and chat with Steve in the final hour of the programme.

Alongside this, Steve has first plays of new music from Heartworms and The Flaming Lips and Editors talk us through the story of one of their massive singles in What's The Story.

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Music Played

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Radio Radio

    • Universal Music.

  • Naomi in Blue

    Who Knows

  • Ms. Lauryn Hill

    Doo Wop (That Thing)

    • Columbia/Ruff House.

  • Tooth

    Take Me As I Am

    • Single.
    • Parlophone.

  • Daft Punk

    Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

    • VIRGIN.

  • Fontaines D.C.

    Japan

    • XL Recordings.

  • Part-Time Model

    Cut Off Point

    • LAB Records.

  • Pavement

    Date With Ikea

  • The Vaccines

    If You Wanna

    • If You Wanna (Single).
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • Hamish Hawk

    Ice-like Empty

    • So Recordings.

  • Madness

    Madness (Is All In The Mind)

    • Madness - Complete Madness.
    • Virgin.
    • 14.

  • Propellerheads

    Take California

    • Wall Of Sound Recordings.

  • Tanzana

    This Love

    • So Recordings.

  • The White Stripes

    Hotel Yorba

    • XL.

  • Bicep

    Air (feat. SOARR)

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Doves

    Black And White Town

    • Heavenly.

  • Mo-Dettes

    White Mice

    • The Story So Far....
    • Mode Records.

  • Soundgarden

    Black Hole Sun

    • A&M.

  • Fenne Lily

    Stranger Things

  • Dream Warriors

    My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style

    • 4TH AND BROADWAY.

  • Heartworms

    Guess I'm Stuck in the Dark

  • Late of the Pier

    Space And The Woods

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Parlophone.

  • Fat Dog

    Go Love Urself

    • Domino.

  • The Flaming Lips

    God Will Control The Werewolves

  • Editors

    Munich

    • Kitchenware.

  • Krispy

    On Tempo

  • Spanish Horses

    Hey Man (Hey Man!)

  • Joy Division

    She's Lost Control

    • London.

  • The Big Moon

    Three Things (6 Music Session, 26th Oct 2026)

  • The Big Moon

    You Remind Me That I'm Dying (and That It's Good to be Alive) (6 Music Session, 26th Oct 2026)

  • The Big Moon

    Gravity (6 Music Session, 26th Oct 2026)

  • Spitfire

    Anatomic Love (Once)

  • Kiosk

    Baby Teeth

    • Private Regcords.

  • Radio Free Alice

    Rule 31

    • Double Drummer.

  • Afflecks Palace

    Can You Hear Me?

  • Nathan Fake

    Gong Gong

    • Infine.

  • Uncle Junior

    Melt Me

    • Richard Eats Their Bones.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday 16:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music