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A dose of INDIE!

Get through the day or night with a playlist that will get the shoulders shaking and the feet tapping. Need a dose of Indie? You have landed in the right place!

Welcome to Indie Cloudbusters on 6 Music Indie Forever! If you're joining us for the very first time a warm welcome to you, and if you're returning for some more indie goodness then you have landed in the right place!

Nathan Shepherd has a playlist swinging through the decades, with some noisy guitar, proper indie sleaze and some live sessions dusted off from the BBC archive.

A jam-packed show for you to help you get through the day or night with a playlist that will get the shoulders shaking and the feet tapping.

Produced in Cardiff by Bengo Media for BBC Radio 6 Music Indie Forever.

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Music Played

  • Courteeners

    Not Nineteen Forever

    • CD SINGLE.
    • A&M.

  • Pretenders

    Back On The Chain Gang

    • Real Records.

  • Suede

    Animal Nitrate

    • Nude Records.

  • Wolf Alice

    Bros

    • My Love Is Cool.
    • Dirty Hit.

  • Bloc Party

    Helicopter

    • WICHITA.

  • Skunk Anansie

    Weak

    • One Little Indian Record.

  • Kings of Leon

    Red Morning Light

    • Handmedownrecords.

  • Happy Mondays

    Loose Fit

    • Factory.

  • Paramore

    Hard Times

    • After Laughter.
    • Fueled By Ramen.

  • The Strokes

    Hard To Explain

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Split Enz

    I Got You

    • POLYGRAM TV.

  • The Maccabees

    Lonely Boy (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 15 Mar 2012)

  • PJ Harvey

    Kamikaze

    • Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea.
    • Universal-Island Records Limited.
    • 9.

  • Stereophonics

    Pick a Part That's New

    • V2.

  • The Thrills

    Big Sur

    • Virgin.

  • Santigold & Karen O

    Go!

    • Master Of My Make-Believe.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • The Killers

    Mr Brightside

    • Lizard King Records.

  • Bloc Party

    Banquet

    • Wichita.

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Date With the Night

    • Polydor.

  • Oasis

    Rock 'N' Roll Star

    • Helter Skelter.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Do You Want To

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Domino.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Australia

    • Epic.

  • Beastie Boys

    (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)

    • Grand Royal.

  • Sleater‐Kinney

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone

    • Call the Doctor (Remastered).
    • Sub Pop Records.
    • 7.

  • Richard Ashcroft

    A Song For The Lovers

    • Hut Music.

  • My Bloody Valentine

    Only Shallow

    • LOVELESS.
    • CREATION.

  • Of Monsters and Men

    Little Talks

    • Little Talks.
    • Island Records Group.
    • 1.

  • Doves

    Black And White Town

    • Heavenly.

  • Swim Deep

    King City

    • CHESS CLUB/RCA.

  • Liam Lynch

    United States Of Whatever

    • Global Warming.

  • Kula Shaker

    Tattva

    Remix Artist: John Leckie.
    • Classic Rock: Les Classiques de Marc Ysaye 90s00s.
    • Parlophone Belgium.
    • 13.

  • Ida Maria

    Oh My God

    • CD SINGLE.
    • WATERFALL.
    • 1.

  • New Order

    Bizarre Love Triangle (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2015)

  • Babes in Toyland

    He's My Thing

    • Spanking Machine.
    • Twin/Tone Records.

  • The 1975

    Robbers

    • Dirty Hit.

  • The Charlatans

    Weirdo

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Beggars Banquet.

Broadcasts

  • Wednesday 16:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
  • Monday 08:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
  • Next Saturday 19:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
  • Sun 8 Nov 2026 06:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
  • Fri 13 Nov 2026 15:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever