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On 25 June 2009 the song Amateur Hour was involved in a stunt when UK magician and mentalist Mark Cairns predicted that radio personality George Lamb would choose the Sparks song in a free choice from a list of 100 tracks that had been recently played on Lambs BBC 6 Music show.
Tracks from the band's debut release received airplay on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music.
Although they had been loosely working on ideas since 2006, in an interview with Andrew Collins on BBC 6 Music, Wayne revealed that both he and Julianne were collaborating but did not have any firm plans at that time.
Lemmy appeared on BBC 6 Music's radio programme Bruce Dickinson's Friday Rock Show on 11 July 2008 to promote the album, playing the track "Runaround Man" (which he described as "Nonsense set to an infectious beat"), "Rock Out" and "The Thousand Names of God" ("It's completely extraneous, the title... It's about soldiers being conned into going into battle, for like, business men. It isn't even a cause anymore").
Nick Luscombe is a British radio DJ, having presented various self-selected new music shows since 1999 for the likes of XFM, BBC 6 Music, BBC World Service, Tokyo FM, NME Radio, Samurai FM and Resonance FM.
Operahouse released their debut single, "Man Next Door" in March 2007 on Glaze Records to great response, earning plaudits and airplay from such stations as BBC 6 Music, Xfm, and BBC Radio 2's Jonathan Ross.
As well as having radio play on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, and Radio Magnetic in the UK (on their playlist), Penny Broadhurst's work has been broadcast on FM4 in Austria, Slovakia and other local and international stations.
"Incredible ... this album has absolutely blown my socks off!" Gilles Peterson - BBC 6 Music
Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town also found its way onto airwaves in the United Kingdom through John Kennedy at XFM and Jane Gazzo at BBC6.
He is currently writing for the football magazine When Saturday Comes and The Quietus, a music and pop culture website, and presents a monthly feature for the radio programme Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service on BBC 6 Music.
The track was added to several UK playlists, including the B-List of BBC Radio 2, the A-List of BBC 6 Music, and XFM London's playlist.
His most recent projects include series 4 of Listen Against; a Christmas special for BBC 6 Music featuring Steve Lamacq, Greg Davies, and Suede; and Britain Unzipped for BBC Three.