This news must be worth an entry here although it broke earlier today from Adam himself on the BBC 6Music Blog, if you were paying attention.
I’m hoping to do a show on my own and this week I’ll be recording a pilot for a weekly 2 hour show with our regular producer James Stirling in London. At the moment it’s called ‘Adam Buxton’s Big Mix Tape’ (can’t help doing the puns, sorry) and it’s supposed to be kind of like a compilation tape that I’ve made for the listeners with a different theme or mood each week. The pilot Mix Tape is called Øddens and features some of my favourite weird but accessible music by both well known and less well known artists. The show is 2 hours so it’s divided into two sides with a guest joining me for an hour to add their own tracks and just talk generally about any other rubbish that comes up.
The Guardian’s John Plunkett quickly put this together but there’s a long interview also covering the pilot at Shortlist.com.
With Adam’s mixtape talents and generally superior musical knowledge we are expecting this to be a wonderful show and wish him every success in turning this into a regular feature.
It would also seem that Adam is going to be doing Latitude again this year. More information about that when the dust of excitement has settled on the Big Mix Tape news.
