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#TomFoolery6Music - help create an alternative silly season playlist

Tom Robinson marks the start of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a week of daft online news with a playlist featuring satirical and humorous tracks and weird and wonderful covers.

With this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival kicking off plus a raft of daft stories creating a buzz online this week, this Sunday's themed playlist has its tongue firmly in its cheek.

As the comedy world began descending on the Scottish capital for the annual giggle-fest, Twitter was already amusing itself with news of 6 Music's very own Jarvis Cocker hosting a Pulp covers karaoke competition in The States and of 'Weird' Al Yankovic topping the US charts with his own daft covers album, Mandatory Fun. Even Spotify was having a giggle to itself by announcing the UK's most streamed 'guilty pleasures' tracks.

So with the annual summer silly season well and truly here, Tom Robinson invites 6 Music listeners to compile a playlist of celebrating this playful spirit in music. And, with Tom as Now Playing's presenter, of course the hashtag has to be #TomFoolery6Music.

Being the dedicated alternative music lovers 6 Music listeners are, we don't just want novelty song suggestions.

Think witty or satirical tracks such as Divine Comedy's Something For The Weekend, Electronic's parody of Morrissey's lyrics in Getting Away With It, LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge or even Billy Bragg's Sexuality. There's also weird and wonderful indie covers such as William Shatner's version of Pulp's Common People.

Send in suggestions via Twitter using #TomFoolery6Music, post on the Now Playing blog or the 6 Music and Now Playing Facebook pages, drag tracks onto the collaborative Spotify and Rdio playlists, or via the other usual live show contact methods.

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Sun 3 Aug 2014 18:00
麻豆社 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • William Shatner

    Common People

  • The Divine Comedy

    Becoming More Like Alfie

    • Setanta.

  • Sparks

    Suburban Homeboy - live at Electric Picnic 2013

  • Kirsty MacColl

    In These Shoes?

    • V2.

  • Flight of the Conchords

    Bowie

  • Beastie Boys

    Brass Monkey

  • Sultans of Ping F.C.

    Where's Me Jumper

    • Sony Music TV.

  • The Strokes

    One Way Trigger

    • ROUGH TRADE.

  • The Fall

    Lost In Music

    • Artful.

  • 鈥淲eird Al鈥� Yankovic

    Eat It

  • The B鈥�52s

    Rock Lobster

    • The Best Of The B52's.
    • Island.

  • Half Man Half Biscuit

    24 Hour Garage People

  • selected by Peter Kandunias from Gigwise

    • Frank Sidebottom

      Bohemian Rhapsody

  • Arctic Monkeys

    Love Machine (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 19 Jan 2006)

  • Goldie Lookin Chain

    Guns Don't Kill People Rappers Do

  • Aztec Camera

    Jump

    • WARNER.ESP.

  • The Chemical Brothers

    The Salmon Dance

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Virgin.

  • The Beatles

    I Am The Walrus

    • APPLE.

  • Richard Thompson

    Oops!... I Did It Again (6 Music Session, 24 Dec 2010)

  • HEAD TO HEAD WINNER - TIM MINCHIN'S CHOICE

    • Ben Folds Five

      One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces

  • The Smiths

    Frankly Mr Shankly 1986

  • The Mike Flowers Pops

    Wonderwall

    • (CD Single).
    • London.

  • David Bowie

    The Laughing Gnome

    • Hits Of ... 67 & 68 (Vol.2).
    • Polydor.

Broadcast

  • Sun 3 Aug 2014 18:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music