2024-12-04 Mary Anne Hobbs Show, BBC6 Radio, London, UK

2024-12-04 Mary Anne Hobbs Show, BBC6 Radio, London, UK

Notes

Deb Grant presents a special report with regards to the "Mark Lanegan - A Celebration" tribute concert that was going to be performed the next day. The participating artists were asked by BBC6 to pick their favourite Mark Lanegan song and explain why. Dave Gahan's answer was extracted from the radio channel's website and mirrored below. Notably, Dave's voice sounds quite ill.

• Duration: 01:35 minutes out of 2:27 hours.

Audio

Transcript

"That's really hard to pick a favourite Mark Lanegan song, there's so many. I'd have to say 'Kingdoms of Rain' possibly. But then again on the flip side I love 'Carnival'. The lyrics are pretty dark but it always makes me just feel good. They're both from 'Whiskey For The Holy Ghost'. And then there's from Bubblegum of course - probably my favourite album, if I was going to have to take just one with me - it's probably "A Strange Religion'. Just a great lyric. You know, Mark had an amazing way of telling a story that somehow felt very familiar, and an honesty in his approach to lyric writing. And sometimes quite humorous I think, actually. There's a lot of people that don't agree with me on that but anyway... Yeah so there you go. It's very hard to pick one song, so I picked three."