Mark Mulcahy and Miracle Legion

Yesterday morning, while flicking through a couple of recent Marc Riley 6Music shows that I'd missed, I was surprised to discover that Miracle Legion played a session for him last week. I've been a fan of Mark Mulcahy's songs since picking up the band's 'Backyard' mini-album in (gulp!) 1984 and continued to follow his solo career following the Miracle Legion's dissolution in 1996. I had no idea they were back, though it turns out that Miracle Legion have temporarily reunited to play a few shows to coincide with a 20th anniversary reissue of their final LP, 'Portrait of a Damaged Family'. The Marc Riley session was really great (it's available here for another 3 weeks) and it prompted me to spend the rest of the day listening exclusively to Mark's music - solo, with Miracle Legion and as part of another occasional project, Polaris. Most of my physical music collection remains boxed up and inaccessible, so I was chuffed to find that all aspects of Mark's career are well catered for on Bandcamp. Here are a handful of choice nuggets.

Adam Buxton

BBC Radio 6 Music is currently running a David Bowie week, with liberal sprinklings of familiar and not so familiar archive material scattered through it's schedule. In addition, it's also broadcasting a handful of one-off programmes dedicated to the great man and his music. One I'm particularly looking forward to is on Sunday at 4pm and is hosted by well known Bowie fanatic Adam Buxton.

When 6Music was facing the very real possibility of termination a few years ago, Buxton, with help from Tom Robinson, quickly produced a little song in the style of his hero to encourage people to show their support for the station. Needless to say, people power eventually won the day and 6Music was saved. Wuzza wuzza wuzza wuzza, wuzz wuzz wuzz.....

 Check out the BBC iPlayer for all the David Bowie goodies on offer this week.