Nick Grimshaw opened the week on 6 Music with a chat to multi-instrumentalist and producer Rostam about his acclaimed album American Stories, released earlier this year. Rostam discussed blending Persian folk music with Americana, saying he wanted "to try to make music that maybe only I can make." He revealed some song ideas date back to 2012, and that a new single is close to finished, which he hopes to release "asap, early next year." He also picked Sam & Louise Sullivan's "Down on Love" as his featured track of the morning.
Craig Charles also joined the show to preview 6 Music's Way with Words, the station's National Poetry Day celebration running all week and culminating on Thursday. Charles said this year's line-up includes Gorillaz in session, Questlove, John Cooper Clarke, Rupi Kaur and Joe Talbot from Idles. He'll also head back to Liverpool to film a spoken word piece about the city's music history, telling Nick it's "a real journey down memory lane."
As usual, the show featured the Cloudbusting hour of listener requests via text and WhatsApp, with shout-outs to listeners in Essex, Belfast, the Wirral and Northumberland, plus mentions of recent gigs including the Manic Street Preachers in Valencia. Nick also flagged Sunday's exclusive broadcast of Pet Shop Boys' reworked piece A Man from the Future, about Alan Turing, airing on 6 Music at 8pm. New music came from Serpent With Feet, The War on Drugs, Fat Dog and Snail Mail-adjacent acts, with Lauren Laverne taking over from 1pm marking Gilles Peterson's birthday with a Six of the Best feature.
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