Sounds Of A City: Bristol

SOUNDS OF A CITY: BRISTOL (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th March 2021

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, founder of Classic Album Sundays, turns her attention to Bristol in the fifth episode of 'Sounds of a City'. She argues that 'Blue Lines' by Massive Attack is the album that sounds like Bristol.

Featuring interviews with Robert '3D' Del Naja, Neneh Cherry, Cameron McVey, Mark Stewart, James Lavelle, Inkie, Roni Size and more. Colleen delves into how bass culture, graffiti, punk and politics are represented both in Bristol and within the grooves of 'Blue Lines'. She also makes the case for its lasting legacy with musicians in and outside Bristol.

First broadcast in 2016, when the 6 Music Festival came from Bristol and repeated to complement this weekend's festival.

Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel bed [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm [Virgin]
Prince Buster - WashWash [Wildbells]
Willie Williams - Armagideon Time [Studio One]
Massive Attack & Horace Andy - Five Man Army [Wild Bunch]
The Cortinas - Fascist Dictator (Single)
The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good And Evil [Radar]
Grand Master Caz And Chris Stein - Wild Style Subway Rap 2 (Scratch Mix By Charlie Chase) [Animal]
Eric B. & Rakim - Move The Crowd (Wild Bunch Remix) [4th & Broadway]
Massive Attack - Daydreaming [Circa]
Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five And Grandmaster Melle Mel - Beat Street [Atlantic]
Massive Attack - Blue Lines [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You've Got [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack & Horace Andy - One Love [Wild Bunch]
Klark Kent - Don't Care [Universal]
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy [Virgin]