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23/08/2015

#ByrneEno6Music - help curate a David Byrne and Brian Eno-inspired playlist

BBC Radio 6 Music - Now Playing @6Music, #ByrneEno6Music - help curate a David Byrne and Brian Eno-inspired playlist

Tom asks for suggestions for a special playlist inspired by David Byrne and Brian Eno.

Tom Robinson asks for suggestions for a special playlist inspired by David Byrne and Brian Eno via #ByrneEno6Music.

What a week for massively famous new wave acts. First of all, Talking Heads legend David Byrne is all over the network, and then - whad'ya know - 6 Music goes and announces that Byrne's old mate Brian Eno will deliver next month's John Peel Lecture.

So this, dear listener, gives you not one but TWO hugely rich seams to mine on Sunday's Now Playing. The brief is simple. Any song or artist you can think of that has an association - no matter how trivial - to David Byrne and Brian Eno. Thankfully their historical musical paths cross many times.

As well as their own collaborations on the albums My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, you could start with the two titans' many musical peers of the seventies and eighties, including Talking Heads and Roxy Music, The Ramones, Blondie, or indeed anyone who ever played at the famous CBGB club.

Veer off into prog pioneered by associates including King Crimson and Genesis, or new wave with Devo and Ultravox. Move on to other artists associated with the pair, such as Tom Tom Club, The Modern Lovers, Robert Wyatt, David Bowie and John Cale.

Eno himself has a string of mainstream production credits to his name, most notably with U2, Coldplay, Depeche Mode and James, while Byrne collaborated with Fatboy Slim, St Vincent, Caetano Veloso and X-Press-2.

And don't forget there's EVERYTHING in-between! 

You pick the music, so get your David Byrne and Brian Eno-inspired suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #ByrneEno6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify and Rdio playlists.

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