Additionally from Monday sixth March, Gary Davies presents Radio 2’s mid-morning present – forward of Vernon Kay beginning in Might – and unveils the brand new weekday pop quiz, Ten to the High, which launches at 10.30am (full particulars under).
For Radio 2’s Piano Room, every artist performs three tracks – a brand new music, considered one of their well-known tracks and a basic cowl model from one other artist – accompanied by an orchestra. These newest performances, which have already been recorded and filmed, shall be broadcast throughout Gary Davies’ present in March and April (Monday to Friday, 9.30am-12pm) and on BBC Sounds. They will even be obtainable to look at on BBC iPlayer and listen to on BBC Sounds, obtainable for 30 days afterwards.
Gary Davies says: “U2 are fairly merely my favorite band ever so to interview Bono and The Edge and see their Piano Room efficiency was a dream come true for me. Comply with that up with the legendary Depeche Mode, who’ve crafted a few of the finest cherished songs on the earth, and superb new expertise Cat Burns, and I can safely say that Radio 2’s Piano Room actually has a deal with in retailer for listeners.”
The Piano Room for U2’s Bono and The Edge will air on Thursday sixteenth March and their basic cowl is a monitor by ABBA, with their session accompanied by an orchestra. Bono and The Edge are founding members of Irish rock band U2, fashioned in Dublin in 1978. Acknowledged as among the best reside acts on the earth, U2 has toured the globe numerous instances, launched 14 studio albums, offered over 170 million albums and gained quite a few awards, together with 22 Grammys and Amnesty Worldwide’s Ambassador of Conscience Award. They had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2005 and in December final yr, Bono and The Edge, together with bandmates Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr., had been awarded the forty fifth Kennedy Middle Honors for lifetime creative achievements at a ceremony in Washington D.C. In March, U2 will launch Songs of Give up, a brand new assortment of 40 seminal U2 songs from throughout the band’s catalogue, re-recorded and re-imagined; in addition to a brand new documentary titled Bono & The Edge: A Kind of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman.
Speaking about their Piano Room efficiency, The Edge mentioned: “We’ve been seen wandering the corridors of BBC Maida Vale on a couple of event. The primary time we carried out right here was a radio session recording of Sunday Bloody Sunday and a music referred to as Give up, again in 1983…”
Bono added: “We have now performed music on this room many instances over time… The truth is, it was 40 years in the past – virtually to the day – that we first met our longtime Inventive Director Willie Williams proper right here… within the hallowed halls of the BBC Maida Vale… It’s important to be at your finest right here.”
An hourlong particular of Bono and The Edge’s Piano Room efficiency, together with an prolonged interview with them, shall be obtainable on BBC Sounds later in March. Listeners will hear about their musical influences and inspirations, recollections of recording earlier U2 periods at Maida Vale, their love of radio as a medium, the current anniversary of their album Struggle, the improvisation behind their music recordings and extra. A BBC Audio manufacturing.
Depeche Mode’s Piano Room shall be broadcast on Thursday sixth April and their basic cowl is a monitor by Scott Walker, with their session accompanied by the BBC Live performance Orchestra. The recording was Dave Gahan and Martin Gore’s first ever time performing on the BBC’s Maida Vale studios, but in addition their first UK efficiency because the unhappy loss of life of keyboard participant, Andy Fletcher, final yr. Depeche Mode has had an enormous affect inside each the digital and various music scenes because the 80s and which continues to at the present time, with 54 songs within the UK Singles Chart, 17 High 10 albums within the UK chart and having offered greater than 100 million information worldwide. The Grammy nominated band has gained quite a few UK and worldwide awards and accolades, and in 2020 had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. Their fifteenth studio album, Memento Mori, is because of be launched in March 2023.
Depeche Mode mentioned: “We had been honoured and privileged to be requested to carry out for Radio 2’s Piano Room. It was a tremendous expertise to play reside with a 21-piece orchestra and it’ll stay a vivid reminiscence. What a enjoyable day!”
Cat Burns’ Piano Room will air on Thursday twentieth April. Her basic cowl is a monitor by Ariana Grande, with their session accompanied by the BBC Live performance Orchestra. Cat is a Brit Awards nominated singer-songwriter from Streatham, London. A former Brit faculty scholar, she went from busking on the Southbank to amassing a couple of million followers on TikTok, singing a mixture of covers and authentic songs. Her single, Go, was launched in July 2020 and reached quantity two within the UK Singles Chart and is included in her newest EP, Emotionally Unavailable. She featured on the BBC Radio 1 Sound of 2023 shortlist and this summer season, has supported Olly Alexander and Ed Sheeran on tour and can be a part of Ed once more this yr on his North American tour.
U2’s Bono & The Edge, Depeche Mode and Cat Burns be a part of the star-studded line-up of artists who’ve carried out for the Radio 2’s Piano Room, together with throughout February this yr when Michael Ball, Girl Blackbird, Belinda Carlisle, Tom Chaplin, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Ellie Goulding, Haircut 100, Lemar, Louise, Richard Marx, P!nk, RAYE, Freya Ridings, Jake Shears, Merely Crimson, Stormzy, Suede, Sugababes, Suzanne Vega, and Jessie Ware carried out, accompanied by the BBC Live performance Orchestra. The periods can be found on BBC Sounds and BBC iPlayer. Plus, P!nk filmed an prolonged set for BBC TWO, introduced by Radio 2’s Jo Whiley, which is at present obtainable to look at on BBC iPlayer.
