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6 Music Live Hour: Little Boots, New Model Army and Loop

26/03/2011

Little Boots, New Model Army and Loop

BBC Radio 6 Music - 6 Music Live Hour, Little Boots, New Model Army and Loop

Live Little Boots from 2009, plus sessions from New Model Army in 1983 and Loop in 1988.

Featuring Little Boots in concert at the Roundhouse in London from 2009, plus archive sessions from New Model Army in 1983 and Loop in 1988.

Live Little Boots (in concert at the Roundhouse in London 2009)
As part of the Camden Crawl festival.
Victoria Hesketh aka Little Boots, started making music from a young age, as she sung, played the flute and harp.
By 2005, she was singing an playing synth in a band called 'Death Disco' after answering an advert posted at the University of Leeds.
A couple of years later, she decided to pursue a solo career. By 2009, she had been shortlisted for the BBC Sound of 2009 poll and had released her debut album 'Hands.'

SESSIONS:
New Model Army (in session for David Jensen on 17th July 1983)
NMA formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980.
The band was named after the English revolutionary army of Oliver Cromwell. 
The group has a loyal, global, multi-generational cult following called The Family.

Loop (in session for John Peel on 14th June 1988)
This was the second of three sessions the band recorded for John Peel.
The band originated from South London in 1986.
The band were influenced by Krautrock and No Wave.

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