Waiting for the Siren Call is the new album from New Order (released March 28). 6 Music celebrates their latest release by devoting a day of programming to this seminal and influential British act. Established and emerging artists such as Moby and LCD Soundsystems will explain the impact New Order had on their music tastes and careers. Natasha, Liz Kershaw, and Marc Riley will feature material from New Order past and present, with tracks from the new album, classic sessions and concerts, and an extensive in-studio interview with the band.
Natasha 0700-1000: Natasha looks at the rarer New Order tracks in Killer B-side featuring ‘1963’, originally the flip side of ‘True Faith’. She’ll also play ‘Senses’ recorded in 1981 during their first session for John Peel, and ‘Isolation’ from a later John Peel session on Nov 24th 1998.
0700 – 1st track Blue Monday 0815 – Killer B-sides – 1963 with imaging and audio from LCD Soundsystem 0845 – Senses – 1981 0940 – Isolation – 1998
Liz Kershaw 1000-1300: Liz continues to raid the archive to play little heard classic session tracks ‘5-8-6’ recorded in 1990, and ‘Slow Jam’ from 2001. In It’s Alive listeners choose which of 3 live New Order tracks (‘Temptation’, ‘Perfect Kiss’, or ‘Age of Consent’) recorded at the Glastonbury Festival in 1987 by the BBC they want to hear at the end of the show.
1000 – 1st track Bizzare Love Triangle 1040 – 5-6-8 – 1990 session 1140 – Slap My Plaque – New Order theme into Slow Jam – session from 2001
Rocket Science with Marc Riley 1300-1600: The day culminates with an hour long interview with Stephen Morris and Peter Hook, discussing the band’s past, present, and future and previewing 4 tracks off Waiting for the Siren Call.
1400 – 1st track – True Faith 1500 – In studio interview with Peter Hook and Stephen Morris including 4 new tracks