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La Dusseldorf - Viva

Stuart's featured album is the 1978 motorik tour de force Viva by La Dusseldorf. Plus Max Bygraves makes his Freak Zone debut.

Welcome to the Freak Zone, a chart run down from an alternative universe where the top ten is full of Basil Kirchin, Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayers. Plus ambient jazz, acoustic guitar loveliness, Mancunian art prog and the Beach Boys at their weirdest. We've even got a track from Stuart's favourite Genesis album.

Plus Stuart's featured album is Viva by La Dusseldorf, a 1978 motorik agitprop tour de force from the band that David Bowie called the soundtrack to the 1980s. It even got a good review in Smash Hits.

And if that wasn't enough Max Bygraves finally makes his Freak Zone debut.

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Sun 22 Jun 2025 20:00
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Music Played

  • Max Byrgraves

    Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me

    • Stage Door.

  • Legs On Wheels

    Peekaboo

    • self release / Bandcamp.

  • The Greg Foat Group

    Sinister Undertones

    • Gregory Foat.

  • La D眉sseldorf

    Viva

    • WM Germany.

  • La D眉sseldorf

    Rheinita

    • WM Germany.

  • Basil Kirchin

    I Start Counting (demo)

    • Trunk Records.

  • The Barbara Moore Singers

    Singing Low

    • Trunk Records.

  • Freddie Phillips

    Camberwick Green "The Music Box"

    • 成人快手:成人快手.

  • Max Brygraves

    Tulips from Amsterdam

    • Stage Door.

  • La D眉sseldorf

    Cha Cha 2000

    • WM Germany.

  • Genesis

    I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

    • Virgin.

  • Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno

    Play On

    • Verve.

  • Alan Sparhawk

    Feel Something

    • Sub Pop Records.

  • Ancient Psychic Triple Hyper Octopus

    1,000,000 Bongos

    • Not Applicable.

  • The Beach Boys

    Cabinessence

    • Capitol.

  • Robert Wyatt

    The Age of Self

    • Domino Recording Company.

  • Kevin Ayers

    Town Feeling

    • Parlophone UK.

  • Buck Curran

    Red Bird

    • Obsolete Recordings.

  • Toby Hay

    Timbuktu

    • State 51 Conspiracy.

  • La D眉sseldorf

    Geld

    • WM Germany.

  • Penelope Trappes

    Anchor Us To Seabed Floor

    • One Little Independent Records.

  • Mermaid Chunky

    Chaperone

    • DFA Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Jun 2025 20:00
    成人快手 Radio 6 Music