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6 Music Live Hour: PFM, Muse and Catherine Wheel

02/04/2011

PFM, Muse and Catherine Wheel

BBC Radio 6 Music - 6 Music Live Hour, PFM, Muse and Catherine Wheel

Live PFM from 1975, plus archive sessions from Muse in 2001 and Catherine Wheel from 1995.

Featuring PFM live in 1975, plus archive sessions from Muse in 2001 and Catherine Wheel from 1995.

Live P.F.M. - Golders Green Hippodrome 1975
P.F.M. stands for Premiata Forneria Marconi, which in English means 'Award-winning Marconi Bakery', and are an Italian progressive Rock band.
The first Italian band to have commercial success abroad releasing five albums with English lyrics between 1973 and 1977.
They were also among the first to combine symphonic classical and traditional Italian musical influences in a rock music context. 


Muse (in session on the 5th June 2001) 
Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994.
The bassist Christopher Wolstenholme lists the band's largest influences as Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and Rage Against the Machine.
They have released 5 albums to date.
They have won five MTV Europe Music Awards, five Q Awards, eight NME Awards, two BRIT awards, an MTV Video Music Award, four Kerrang! Awards and an American Music Award and a Grammy.

Catherine Wheel (in session for John Peel on 12th July 1995)
Catherine Wheel were a four-piece alternative rock band from Great Yarmouth and were active from 1990-2000.
The band performed this Peel session while still unsigned, having only released two 12" vinyl EPs on the Norwich based Wilde Club Records.
They released 5 albums in total.

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