Interviews
Coldplay On Mylo Xyloto
Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland and Guy Berryman talk to Xfm's John Kennedy about their fifth album.
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DJ Shadow on The Less You Know, The Better
Josh Davis talks John Kennedy through his fourth studio album...
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Kasabian on Velociraptor!
Tom and Serge talk John Kennedy through their incredible fourth album.
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Danny Wallace Meets Gary Lightbody
Mr Wallace chats with the Snow Patrol man about his new single Called Out In The Dark, plus recording in a house that looks like a hat.
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Tim Cocker Meets Beady Eye
Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer and Andy Bell popped in for a quick coffee... listen again here...
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VIDEO: Danny Wallace Meets Kasabian
The band chat clocks, dinosaurs and being Noel Gallagher's wife's favourite band...
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Danny Wallace Meets Gary Oldman
The acting legend and star of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy comes into Xfm Mansions for a chat.
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VIDEO: Danny Wallace Meets The Inbetweeners
Watch as the boys enlighten Danny on the subject of lads holidays and crap presents....
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Danny Wallace Meets Justin Timberlake And Mila Kunis
The pair come into Xfm towers to chat about their new movie, Friends With Benefits...
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Danny Wallace Meets Justin Lee Collins
JLc chats to DW about his new musical. Listen to the full audio here. Good times!
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Danny Wallace Meets Noel Gallagher
Our man Wallace meets the elder Gallagher and finds out what his wife thinks of his solo album...
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Tim Cocker Meets Gary Lightbody
Our man Cocker chats to the Snow Patrol man about how he's having a love affair with his new album.
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Tim Cocker Speaks to Kaiser Chiefs
The band are hoping to revive the music industry with their groundbreaking new album release...
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Tim Cocker Meets Kasabian
Our man Cocker chats to Serge and Tom about their new album Velociraptor!
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New Order on 'Total'
John Kennedy talks to to Bernard Sumner and Steve Morris about the new Joy Division and New Order compilation.
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Clint Boon Meets Ed Sheeran
When he popped in to perform a session Clint Boon grabbed him for a quick interview...
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The Vaccines on 'What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?'
Justin and Freddy talked John Kennedy through the album that won the Xfm New Music Award 2012.
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Arctic Monkeys On 'Suck It And See'
Alex Turner and Matt Helders take John Kennedy through their fourth album...
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Beady Eye On 'Different Gear, Still Speeding'
Liam, Andy and Gem talk John Kennedy through one of the most hotly anticipated debut albums ever...
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Elbow on 'Build a Rocket Boys'
Guy Garvey and Pete Turner talk Xfm through their fifth studio album... track by track...
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White Lies on 'Ritual'
Charles and Harry take Xfm's John Kennedy through their eagerly awaited second album...
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Mani On 'Screamadelica'
The bassist talks to Xfm's Sunta Templeton about the classic album and the live dates that see the band play the record in full.
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The Modfather Pops In
Paul Weller came in to chat to Xfm's Dave Berry about his new live DVD...
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Steve Harris Speaks to Dave Grohl
The Foo Fighters frontman gave Steve a ring to chat about the next album and announce two massive UK shows...
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Dave Berry Meets Kings Of Leon
DB talks with Matthew and Nathan Followill about the new record, fans, and chatting up the laydeez.
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Xfm Meets The Ting Tings
Dave Berry chats to Jules and Katie about their second album... and much more.
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Gerard Way: New MCR Album "Was Hard Work"
The frontman has been telling Xfm all about the new album and upcoming tour
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Manic Street Preachers on 'Postcards From A Young Man'
Ten albums into their career, Nicky Wire takes John Kennedy through the Manics' latest album...
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Dave Berry Meets The Inbetweeners
Channel 4's ne'er do wells are back for a third series. They came in to Xfm Towers to tell Berry all about it.
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Clint Boon Meets Paul Weller
Your Boon Army commander chats to The Modfather about the Mercury Prize, his new album and more...
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Dave Berry Meets Brandon Flowers
The Killers man goes solo and talks to DB about the new album, growing up in Vegas and his choice of Indian dish. Listen again here!
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Mumford & Sons On X-posure
Ben and Ted talk about their new EP and working with Ray Davies.
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Xfm Meets Klaxons
James Righton spills the beans on the making of ‘Surfing The Void’.
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Xfm Meets Taylor Hawkins
The Foo Fighters’ sticksman and Coattail Raiders Mainman visited Ian Camfield and The Rock Show for a chinwag.
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LCD Soundsystem On ‘This Is Happening’
James Murphy talks John Kennedy and X-posure through his latest album.
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Foals On 'Total Life Forever'
Yannis and Edwin talk John Kennedy and X-posure through their brilliant second album.
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Muse On The Twilight Saga
Xfm speaks with Dom Howard about the band’s involvement with Stephenie Meyer and ‘Neutron Star Collision…’
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An Evening With Keane
The indie superstars joined the O2 Evening Show With Steve Harris for a very special, very intimate session. Watch it now!
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Xfm Meets Pavement
Scott ‘Spiral Stairs’ Kannberg visits X-posure to talk about the Pavement reformation.
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Xfm Meets Keith Richards
The legendary Rolling Stones guitarist talks to Ian Camfield about ‘Exile…’, Mick Jagger and more.
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Xfm Meets Plan B
With ‘The Defamation Of Strickland Banks’ lighting up the world, Plan B came in for a chat on the O2 Evening Show With Steve Harris.
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World Exclusive - Gorillaz on 'Plastic Beach'
In our world exclusive first play of Gorillaz third album, John Kennedy talks to the band’s bass playing hellraiser Murdoc Niccals.
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Dave Berry Meets Liam Gallagher
See the legendary frontman interviewed on the Xfm Breakfast Show with Dave Berry.
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Dave Berry Meets Kelly Jones
Dave chats to the Stereophonics frontman by his luxury pool (honestly) and talks tour bus tales, nicking Deep Purple tapes and those unlikely homosexuality rumours... No, really!
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Xfm Meets MGMT
MGMT’s Ben and Andrew guest on The O2 Evening Show With Steve Harris. Hear the interview now.
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Xfm Meets Kiss
Gene Simmons popped in to see Ian Camfield to discuss all things Kiss, cash and blowing U2 off stage.
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Keane: “We Want To Work With Paul Simon”
Tim Rice-Oxley hopes to collaborate with the legendary singer/songwriter.
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Xfm Meets Ellie Goulding
The BRIT winning star-in-waiting talks to The O2 Evening Show With Steve Harris.
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Xfm Meets Marina And The Diamonds
Steve Harris chats to the up and coming Welsh/Greek pop diva and talks colds, inspirations and ideal dates...
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The Courteeners On ‘Falcon’
Liam Fray pops in to X-Posure and tells John Kennedy all about the making of ‘Falcon’. Listen to the full interview now.
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Xfm Meets Black Francis
The alt.rock legend visits X-Posure and brings with him an acoustic guitar and Ian from Art Brut.
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Xfm Meets The Courteeners
Liam Fray talks to Steve Harris ahead of the band's tiny 'An Evening With...'
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Xfm Meets The Futureheads
The O2 Evening Show With Steve Harris tracks down Futurehead Barry Hyde to talk about fourth album, ‘The Chaos’.
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Xfm Meets Yeasayer
Chris Keating talks to O2’s Evening Show With Steve Harris about their storming second album ‘Odd Blood’.
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Xfm Live Sessions with Barclaycard Unwind - Florence And The Machine
The supremely talented Ms Welch played London's tiny 100 Club to a handful of Xfm listeners. Watch the video here...
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Xfm Live Sessions with Barclaycard Unwind - Watch Athlete Live
Athlete played a very special and intimate show for us at Manchester's Band On The Wall. You can watch them play great tracks like 'Wires' right here...
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Producer Jim Meets Arctic Monkeys
The Monkeys are in town! And Xfm can chat with them! Who you gonna call...? Producer Jim! Watch his encounter with the Sheffield scallies here...
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Biffy Clyro On 'Only Revolutions'
Simon Neil, Ben Johnston and James Johnston talk John Kennedy through Biffy Clyro's huge new album, 'Only Revolutions'.
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Editors On 'In This Light And On This Evening'
Tom Smith and Ed Lay talk John Kennedy through their new album.
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Dizzee Rascal On ‘Tongue N Cheek’
Dizzee came in to chat with John Kennedy about his brilliant new album ‘Tongue N Cheek’.
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Xfm Meets Ian Brown
King Monkey called in to see Xfm Manchester’s Pete Mitchell to talk about Stellify, his new album and getting Maltesers from John Squire.
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Xfm Meets Jack Penate at Reading 2009
Jack Penate setttles down for a chat with Xfm at Reading. Hear all about his new album and the difficulties of having a pig as a pet right now.
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Xfm Meets Vampire Weekend At Reading 2009
We talk with VW's Chris and Chris about their new album and their intention of bringing a flying drum kit to Reading's traditional day of rock.
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Xfm Meets White Lies At Reading 2009
Twelve months on from last year's set and we caught up with Jack and Harry to get the low-down on their meteoric rise.
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Xfm Meets Friendly Fires At Reading 2009
We caught up with Friendly Fires' Jack Savidge ahead of the band's amazing show on the second stage.
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Xfm Meets Bloc Party At Reading 2009
We caught up with Bloc Party drummer Matt Tong on the band's third appearance in three years at the Reading Festival.
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Kaiser Chiefs: "It's A Holiday, Not A Hiatus"
Ricky and Nick spill the beans about those "split" rumours...
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On The Red Carpet At The Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2009
Xfm's Sunta was down at the ceremony, armed with a microphone. Here's what happened...
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Arctic Monkeys on 'Humbug'
Alex Turner and Matt Helders take John Kennedy through their third album.
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The Cribs On 'Ignore The Ignorant'
Gary Jarman and Johnny Marr take John Kennedy through their latest album...
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The Courteeners Announce Hometown Show
The band will play Manchester Central in December...
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Xfm Meets The Prodigy at Download 2009
We tracked down Liam, Keith and Maxim for a chat ahead of their show-stealing performance on the second stage.
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Xfm Meets Steel Panther at Download 2009
We caught the LA glam-rock revivalists before they brought Download to their knees (literally, if you believe the band...)
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Xfm Meets Pendulum At Download 2009
The guys from Pendulum get around the mic before they bring their techno racket to Download.
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Xfm Meets Shinedown At Download 2009
We can't get enough of their single on Xfm. Of course we were going to speak with them at Donington...
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Xfm Meets The Blackout At Download
We caught up with the Welsh rockers before they went all Phil Collins on the main stage (they threw in a medley).
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Xfm Meets Billy Talent At Download 2009
We caught up with The Canadian rockers as they brought their melodic punk rock to Download's main stage. Very nice chape they were, too...
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Xfm Presents An Evening With The Gaslight Anthem
New Jersey’s finest stopped by Xfm for a very intimate live session in front of a handful of Xfm listeners. Listen again here.
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An Evening With Placebo
Placebo were on a huge tour of the UK. Of course they were going to spend a night with us. Of course it was absolutely brilliant. Hear it all again now…
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Maximo Park On ‘Quicken The Heart’
The ‘Park’s Paul Smith and Lukas Miller take John Kennedy through their brilliant third album, ‘Quicken The Heart’, track by track.
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The Enemy On ‘Music For The People’
John Kennedy talks to Tom, Liam and Andy from The Enemy on their second album, ‘Music For The People’. Hear their track-by-track interview now.
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Xfm Meets Gossip
Steve Harris talks to Beth Ditto as she prepares to unleash Gossip’s latest album, ‘Music For Men’. Listen to the interview now…
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Noisettes On ‘Wild Young Hearts’
John Kennedy takes Shingai, Dan and Jamie through their chart-shagging new album, ‘Wild Young Hearts’, track by track.
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Xfm Meets Kasabian
Tom Meighan dials in from South Africa to tell Steve Harris all about Vlad The Impaler and new album ‘The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’.
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Xfm Meets PJ Harvey And John Parish
John Kennedy talks in depth to Polly Harvey and John Parish about their new album ‘A Woman A Man Walked By’.
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Xfm Meets The Panics
Heard ‘Don’t Fight It’ on Xfm? Great isn’t it? It’s by The Panics and here’s Steve Harris in conversation with their frontman Jae Laffer.
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Xfm Meets Noisettes
Steve Harris talks with the UK’s newest chart superstars on the week ‘Don’t Upset The Rhythm’ crash-lands at number 2.
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Dave Berry Meets Doves
Dave Berry meets Wilmslow's kings of towering indie, Doves. Want to know about the struggle behind new album ‘Kingdom Of Rust?’. It’s all here…
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Xfm Meets White Lies At SXSW ‘09
Harry and Charles sidles up to Xfm at South By Southwest. They tell us about their ambitions to crack the States and their plans to take it to the next level back home.
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Xfm Meets The Temper Trap At South By Southwest
Australia’s most hotly tipped join us for a chat at Austin. Ever thought there was a Katy Perry element to their music? Here’s your confirmation…
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Xfm Meets Laura Marling At South By Southwest
Ever wondered what Laura does to chill out? Did you suspect she harbours desires to form a punk band? It’s all here in her SXSW interview.
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Xfm Meets Micachu And The Shapes At SXSW
London’s foremost exponents of clatter’n’roll bring their chaos to South By Southwest. We caught up with them after one of their shows.
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Xfm Meets The Hot Melts At SXSW
As possibly the most ‘refreshed’ artists we encountered, the Scouse kings of spiky guitar pop hunted us down for a chat at South By Southwest.
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Xfm Meets Peter Doherty
Pete popped in to see Xfm’s Steve Harris before the release of his debut album ‘Grace/Wastelands’. Among the subjects discussed were Johnny Borrell, Stephen Street and getting stitched up.
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Xfm Meets La Roux
Steve Harris talks to the electro wunderkind about touring with Lily Allen, playing with Franz Ferdinand and the inspiration behind new single, ‘In For The Kill’.
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Xfm Meets U2
The Edge popped in to see Ian Camfield at Xfm Towers. Thirty minutes of the guitar hero's time passed, many gems of wisdom were imparted. Listen again right now...
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Xfm Meets Morrissey
Morrissey visited Xfm and stopped off for a chat with Ian Camfield. Highlights include saying modern music was 'boring' and wishing his critics would 'wrap up'. Hear it all now.
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Xfm Meets Ida Maria
Norway’s greatest indie rock chanteuse visited Dave Berry for a chat and to play his Celebrity Fish Platter. You can watch the encounter now.
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Dave Berry Meets Starsailor
Starsailor singer James Walsh visited Dave for a chat and to play an exclusive acoustic track. You can see and hear it all here.
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Dave Berry Meets Russell Brand
Making movies, being tossed around on Virgin Atlantic, Manuel-gate… it was always going to be carnage when Russell Brand came to visit. Very funny it was, too.
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Xfm Meets The Flaming Lips – Part 1
In the first part of our exclusive video documentary, Wayne Coyne talks about the formation of The Flaming Lips and their unlikely signing to Warner Brothers.
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Xfm Meets The Rifles
Xfm Manchester’s Clint Boon pulled The Rifles into the studio for a chat and a short acoustic session. Very good it was, too.
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Xfm Meets The Flaming Lips – Part 2
In the second part of our barnstorming Flaming Lips documentary, Wayne Coyne spills the beans on collaborating with producer Dave Fridman and Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donohue.
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Xfm Meets The Prodigy
16 million-selling records don’t lie. And yet, almost twenty years into the electro-ravers’ career, The Prodigy sound as boxfresh as ever. Listen to Steve Harris talk exclusively with band chief Liam about their comeback trail…
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La Roux: "I Hate YouTube"
Although over 80,000 people have watched her video on YouTube, La Roux is not a fan of the website and in particular the angry mob who get into comment debates when really they should just 'get a life'. Right on La Roux!
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Florence And The Machine Get The Fear
Being tipped as the big thing for 2009 must be quite daunting which is why we caught up with THE big thing for 2009, Florence Welch to aks her how it feels to be hyped up by the likes of Johnny Borrell.
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Xfm Meets Fall Out Boy
Phil Clifton chats to Patrick Stump about the new album 'Folie A Deux' and much, much more...
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Clint Boon Meets Coldplay
The 40 million album-selling, Grammy Award-winning, Earth-dictating Kings Of Soft Rock called in on Xfm for an exclusive interview, talking the early days, Brian Eno and how they shaped the ‘Coldplay sound’…
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Xfm Meets Sir Paul McCartney
The former-Beatle dropped in on Xfm’s John Kennedy for an exclusive interview, revealing all about the latest offering from his project The Fireman, working with Youth and plans to take the album live…
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Xfm Meets The Streets
Mike Skinner was touring in support of fourth album ‘Everything Is Borrowed’. Steve caught up with him in Brussels and turned in a blinding interview.
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Xfm Meets Death Cab For Cutie
Ben and Chris came in to do a session with Steve Harris. Naturally, we grabbed the pair and inflicted the Spanish Inquisition on their future plans, bands their loving and their thoughts on 'Chinese Democracy'.
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Xfm Meets The Wombats
Liverpool’s dearest marsupials reveal all about their forthcoming Christmas single, plans for 2009 and why they'd never do ‘Wombats Karaoke’...
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Xfm Meets The Smiths
Blimey O'Riley! Xfm's very own Steve Harris managed to wangle an interview with Mike Joyce. Listen to the interview here to find out about the new Smiths album, Manchester's music scene and possible reunions...Don't get too excited.
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Xfm Meets The Flaming Lips
A sci-fi blockbuster crafted only by the minds of The Flaming Lips slapped with the title of ‘Christmas On Mars’? That sounds about right. Listen to Xfm’s exclusive interview with front man Wayne Coyne about his band’s latest venture...
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Dave Berry Meets Paul McCartney
Today we were graced by the presence of the one and only Sir Paul McCartney. The Liverpudlian legend came into Xfm to speak to Dave Berry about his recent activities, Ultimate Legend Awards and his favourite Beatles songs. Wow.
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Xfm Meets Paul Weller
Paul Weller stopped by at Xfm Manchester to spend some quality time with Clint Boon. Turns out a new album’s on the way and that it’s likely to be called ‘Picture Of A Cow’. He may have been joking…
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Xfm Meets Keane
Keane front man Tom Chaplin dropped by Xfm for an exclusive interview to talk all things ‘Spiralling’, expanding to a four-piece and the art of Queen/Bowie classic ‘Under Pressure’.
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Xfm Meets Arctic Monkeys
In an exclusive interview with Xfm, the hippest band in all the land, Arctic Monkeys, tell all about their brand new DVD 'Live At The Apollo'...
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Bloc Party Video Interview
Their stint on the Xfm Residency is so close we can smell it. Put on something a little more comfortable and take a look at our video interview with Bloc Party to get you in the mood. Nice.
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Xfm Meets The Breeders
Kim and Kelley Deal took over X-Posure leaving John Kennedy dumbfounded. One of the station's most bizarre and funny twenty minutes followed...
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Coldplay On 'Viva La Vida'
Xfm caught up Coldplay to talk about their new album ' Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends' and working with Brian Eno. The band also revealed that being British has made them pretty nervous about the release of the album...
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Xfm Meets Mark E. Smith
For 30 years, The Fall's Mark E.Smith has remained one of music's most idiosyncratic characters. Here he speaks to Xfm in this exclusive and, in places, bizarre interview.
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Xfm Meets All Day Breakfasters Feeder
Xfm spoke to Feeder as they prepare to wow the crowds at Xfm's All Day Breakfast on Saturday June 21st. Watch the interview here.
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Xfm Meets All Day Breakfasters Young Knives
It's Just been announced! Young Knives will be playing Xfm's All Day Breakfast! We bumped into them at the Great Escape Festival last month. Watch the interview here.
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Xfm Meets All Day Breakfasters Mystery Jets
Ahead of their stint at Xfm's All Day Breakfast (June 21), we caught up with Mystery Jets Will and Blaine backstage at the No Surrender Charity Gig organised by Maximo Park last month (May 28).
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Mighty Boosh Video Interview
Ahead of organising their first festival and putting together a live band, The Boosh's Noel Fielding came in to speak to Xfm's Lliana Bird about upcoming plans and events. Watch it here.
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Xfm Meets Mudhoney
As Mudhoney celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut 'Superfuzz Bigmuff' with the release of deluxe re-issue and their new album, 'The Lucky Ones', guitarist Steve Turner spoke exclusively to Xfm about what's new chez 'honey.
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Xfm Meets Maximo Park
Xfm spoke to Paul Smith of Maximo Park at a charity gig for The Royal Marsden Hospital and No Surrender Charitable Trust to find out about the event itself and plans for a new album...
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Xfm Meets Ladytron
Xfm caught up with electro wonders Ladytron at their recent gig at the Astoria to chat about the new album, touring and their crazy fans.
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Xfm Meets Spiritualized
On the eve of the release of their sixth album, 'Songs In A & E', Xfm met with Spiritualized mainman Jason Pierce to discuss the album's gestation, his near-death experience and why fire is a recurring. theme
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Death Cab For Cutie Video Interview
We caught up with one half of Death Cab For Cutie who, fresh from their session with Steve Harris, talked plans, songs and tours...
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Xfm Meets Joy Division/New Order
With Grant Gee's definitive documentary 'Joy Division' set to hit the screens, Xfm met with the legendary band's drummer, Stephen Morris.
Latest Xfm Sessions
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Two Door Cinema Club Live At Lunchtime
The trio played a selection of fine songs for an invited audience of Xfm listeners... have a listen here.
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Xfm Live Session - Tribes
The Camden quartet launched their debut album Baby with a stunning acoustic session just for Xfm.
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Early Session With Frank Turner
The guitar-wielding troubadour played the latest in Xfm's exclusive early sessions... Listen again here.