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Sly Stone, Venus and terrible accents

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey brings you songs about Venus and the works of Sly and the Family Stone.

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey brings you choice showbiz stories (some apocryphal) and songs about Venus. Plus his featured artists are Sly and the Family Stone.

Elsewhere the mysterious Beckapedia gets irate about classical music and Guy proves his mastery of Antipodean accents (advance apologies to Kiwis everywhere).

2 hours

Music Played

  • Vashti Bunyan

    Train Song

  • Love

    A House Is Not A Motel

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Third Stone From The Sun

    • Universal.
  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Just Like A Baby

  • Connan Mockasin

    Faking Jazz Together

    • Please Turn Me Into the Snat.
    • Because.
    • 003.
  • Nina Simone

    Four Women (Live)

  • Nick Drake

    Pink Moon

    • ISLAND.
  • The Shins

    Those To Come

  • Flight of the Conchords

    The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room

    • Warner Bros.
  • 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra & Barry Wordsworth

    Funeral March Of A Marionette

    • 麻豆社 Records.
  • The Velvet Underground

    Venus In Furs

    • VERVE.
  • 叠箩枚谤办

    Venus As A Boy

  • Melody鈥檚 Echo Chamber

    Endless Shore

  • Chet Baker

    It's Always You

    • Not Now Music.
  • Nick Mulvey

    Venus

    • Fiction.
  • Beach House

    Walk In The Park

    • Bella Union.
  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Thank You For Talkin' To Me, Africa

  • Silverclub

    Thin Air

    • Factory Foundation Recordings.
  • Finn

    Where Is My Soul

  • Yes

    Onward

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Time

  • Howard Jones

    Don't Always Look at the Rain

  • Blind Faith

    Can't Find My Way Home

Broadcast

  • Sun 6 Aug 2017 14:00