Deb Grant
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DJ. Dubliner. Radio host @bbc6music . Columnist @bigissue . Co-host @whatgoespod . Radio agent: @katehaldane at @pbjmanagement . Live gig agent: Ali at @warmhq .
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My latest piece for the
@BigIssue
about a lifechanging concert recording from Alice Coltrane 🗝️
Alice Coltrane was a pianist, harpist, composer, bandleader, Hindu spiritual leader and the wife of John Coltrane until his death in 1967.
@djdebgrant
explores why five decades on, there is a snowballing public enthusiasm for Alice Coltrane’s music. 🎶
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What a week. Tried to speak about my own mental health journey on
@BBC6Music
on Monday and was shocked to find I could barely get the words out. The support and generosity from listeners was incredible & we’ve spent the week sharing stories and songs that have seen us through.
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Street Sounds! Surely one of the greatest comp series of all time?!
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Yesterday marked 2 years since my first ever show on
@BBC6Music
! Here I am looking terrified at 5am that morning on Early Breakfast. The terror has thankfully subsided & now all I feel is lucky and grateful to work at the best radio station in the world. Dreams came true! 🥲
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Never understood the appeal of dissing books/music/films etc that other people like as though your opinion is an objective fact. Any art that brings anyone a sliver of joy in this terrifying world is ok by me.
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So…. bit of exciting news! I’ll be covering early breakfast on
@BBC6Music
for two weeks from the 13th of September, sitting in for the mighty
@chris_hawkins
! SET YOUR ALARM CLOCKS TO EARLY!!!
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What a JOY it's been sitting in for
@chris_hawkins
at
@BBC6Music
over the past two weeks! Thank you for making me feel so welcome. I've loved every very early minute! If you've got a Daybreaker request I'm all ears 👇👇👇
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Treated myself to some new bins to celebrate getting blinder 🤓
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Some more news!!! ❤️✨
✨ New Music Fix Daily (Monday - Thursday, 7-9pm)
Presented by Tom Ravenscroft and Deb Grant, New Music Fix Daily will be dedicated entirely to new releases - the best music being made, performed and shared right now from all genres and across the globe.
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Finally back in my own kitchen & contemplating a vow of silence 🙃 thanks to everyone who tuned in to various breakfast shows on
@bbc6music
over the past couple of weeks. Epic early fun. Catch up on
@bbcsounds
if you’d like. Normal service resumes on Tuesday with NMFD 🫡📻
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Having so much fun on
@BBC6Music
this week. Getting to play Zappa, Don Cherry & the Cramps before 7am - pinch me I’m dreamin’! 😍
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Twitter! Rehashing this photo cause I’m putting together a radio tribute to the epic Street Sounds series for its 40th anniversary year. Please share your fave tracks & memories of the comps & culture below!👇⚡️
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Back on the big desk at
@BBC6Music
with some lovely tunes for your Sunday evening, Avalanches, Weezer, Kokoroko, XTC, Erykah Badu and plenty more. Join us ❤️
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Happy Christmas everyone! I’m slightly drunk as per tradition 🍻
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Excited to say I’m returning to
@BBC6Music
very soon! W/C 25th October LET’S DO THIS ⏰
What a JOY it's been sitting in for
@chris_hawkins
at
@BBC6Music
over the past two weeks! Thank you for making me feel so welcome. I've loved every very early minute! If you've got a Daybreaker request I'm all ears 👇👇👇
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Happy birthday
@bbc
. You are a treasure and I love you. This was taken at 4am outside Dock House, the morning of my first
@BBC6Music
shift. Makes me proud to wear the lanyard. Dreams comin true and all that 🥲
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FINAL SHOW on
@jazzfm
! Come join me and some of my favourite tracks til 2pm as I say goodbye to this wonderful place 🥲
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Always at this time of year I think of the post-Xmas dread that finally forced me to quit my office job. Told my boss I was going to be a DJ full time and he clearly thought I'd lost my mind. This track was ringing in my ears the whole time.
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Off on a big bday adventure! See you on Monday New Zealand! ✈️
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This used to be my commute to college every day. Can��t believe I was such an angry little goth 🥲
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@WeWantPlates
just been served my lunch in Greece on a miniature skateboard. It's a mineral spa by a lake full of elderly people. 🤔🤔🤔
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Came to baked potatoes late in life because I could never comprehend having to wait an hour and 20 minutes to eat a fucking potato. What a fool I was.
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Idiotically impractical nonsense garment. Someone please have a party so I don’t have to send it back 🖤
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In for lovely Lauren this morning & the next couple of weeks here on
@bbc6music
and GUESS WHAT the sun is shining! Records lined up from Jonathan Richman, S’Express, Roots Manuva, St Vincent, Weezer, Serge Gainsbourg & more… shur where else would you get it? Join me from 7:30!🌞
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Didn’t get the chance to post last night cause I was asleep by 8pm! Had some dreams come true last year, if 2022 is even half as good I’ll be laughing. Thank you to everyone who has tuned in to me over the past 12 months. I love radio and I can’t believe this is my life ✌️❤️📻
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One more time before the weekend! Music from Maceo Parker, Bowie, the Earlies, Public Image, Smashing Pumpkins, Ibeyi, Nick Lowe, Le Tigre, Sports Team, Kraftwerk, let's do this
@BBC6Music
💪
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After Christmas back to business! From sitting on my sofa eating brandy butter with a teaspoon to filling in on
@BBC6Music
for the legendary
@maryannehobbs
on
@BBC6Music
💥 come join me til 1pm and get well soon MAH!
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Just bumped into Trevor Nelson in the lift and shrieked HELLO TREVOR NELSON! Right in his face. They may never let me come back here 👀
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Wogan House baby! Here I am sitting in for OG
@BBC6Music
legend Gideon Coe til midnight! Weird & wonderful tunes from Hopeton Lewis, the Petticoats, Shirley Collins, Psychic Mirrors, Sun Ra & heaps more. Join me! 📻
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GOOD MORNING
@BBC6Music
early crew! My alarm went off in time and I'm here waiting for your Daybreaker requests! Let me know what you want to hear 👇
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Very happy to say I’m BACK on
@BBC6Music
& sitting in for the Hawk again from 27th-31st December and at various points throughout 2022! Let’s do this early AM thing! 💪 ⏰
What a JOY it's been sitting in for
@chris_hawkins
at
@BBC6Music
over the past two weeks! Thank you for making me feel so welcome. I've loved every very early minute! If you've got a Daybreaker request I'm all ears 👇👇👇
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Poised here at
@BBC6Music
about to press one of these buttons & drown you in sounds from Link Wray, Quando Quango, Bert Jansch, George Harrison, Jackie Mittoo, a Tribe Called Quest, Stomu Yamashta’s East Wind & the Chills in session, let’s do this late night thing! ⚡️
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What’s that BILL MURRAY? Let’s chat on Wednesday afternoon on
@jazzfm
? Ok friend! Catch you there!
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Hey guess what?! I’m back for breakfast on
@BBC6Music
! In for LL this week from the very lovely and very green LDN studios. Music this morning from Gil Scott Heron, Kelis, Beta Band, Al Green, Khruangbin, Bryan Ferry & MORE get into it from 7:30 🕢☝️
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SO WEIRD. I’m sitting opposite the same woman on the central line home as I was on the jubilee line here. I smiled at her and she gave me a look of utter confusion and terror
#london
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Here I am on
@BBC6Music
again this morning! Get your Daybreaker request in to me! 64046 or put it here 👇
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Back on hallowed ground at Wogan House for another
@BBC6Music
shift sitting in for the mighty Gid. Madness in session, Manu Dibango, the Meters, Prince Buster, 23 Skidoo, Moondog, plenty more, lock in 🔒
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We made it! Join me tomorrow on
@jazzfm
from 10 where I’ll be broadcasting from the legendary Beale Street in Memphis, home of the blues!
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Was lucky enough to catch Tor's set in person & it was brilliant, because she is brilliant. A Glasto highlight for me. Looking forward to watching it again.
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Oh this is devastating! An absolute legend, trailblazer, one of a kind and a personal hero. RIP.
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Happy Valentine’s Day from LONDON & the shiny new
@BBC6Music
studios! I’m in for Lauren & ready to put some love on you from 7:30 🥰 Santigold, the B-52s, Peaches, Beasties, Terry Hall & Tom Tom Club all in the mix. Join me 🌹
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I'm gonna make a million pounds inventing this new thing I'm calling a normal black t-shirt. Not oversized, not boxy, not 'boyfriend fit', just NORMAL, and everyone will buy one because it'll be the only normal black t-shirt to exist anywhere on earth (believe me, I've looked)
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Off out to drink a beer and watch a rock & roll band after eating a chunk of Comte for dinner. Defo enjoying my second adolescence more than the first.
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Chilling out with
@soulwax
ahead of our
@bbc6music
2ManyDJs anniversary special tonight for Now Playing! Edits, collabs, soundclashes and mashup madness from 6pm tonight! Get your suggestions in with the
#np6music
tag ✌️
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In for Gid one last time this week! Tracks from the wizard of the harmonica Sonny Terry, library music legend Keith Mansfield, Assagai, Extra T’s, Fela, Leo Kottke, YMO, the Fearless Four, Delta 5 and the Sugarcubes in session and obvs some Zappa too, let’s go
@BBC6Music
⚡️
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Adorable proto-hipster godson and me (or as he likes to call me, Uncle Deb)
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My face when I realised we’d only walked over one Sister and there were still six more to go 😒
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Always a pleasure to spend some time in the company of
@GregoryPorter
🥰 I maintain his hugs should be available on prescription
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I’ve had the most incredible day in Memphis. Being preached to this morning by Al Green himself - not sure I’ll ever get over that. Make sure you’re tuned in to
@jazzfm
for all the gossip tomorrow from 10 ✨
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This is devastating 😢 an absolute powerhouse, way ahead of her time. RIP.
Sinead O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56
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BIG NEWS! I’m taking care of the People’s Party for the brilliant
@AFRODEUTSCHE_AD
tomorrow night on
@BBC6Music
! Come get the weekend rolling with me from 7pm!
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Here we go! Back on the early shift covering for
@chris_hawkins
on
@bbc6music
! With you from 5 with tracks from Nina Simone, Public Enemy, Tune-Yards & T-Rex in session, Foals, Mama’s Gun, Beck, The Beat, Laura Nyro & tons more. Wake up and lock in 🐅
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GOOD MORNING! Back in for RadMac on
@BBC6Music
til 10, music from Witch, M.I.A., Quantic, ESG, Lupe Fiasco & celebrating 50 years of Tubular Bells 🔔 join me!
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In the estate agent’s office waiting for my new keys and they’ve got
@BBC6Music
on in reception… a good sign surely 🔑
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I’m BACK! It’s VERY early in the morning! Come keep me company on
@bbc6music
! Tracks from Lush, Lou Reed, Arctic Monkeys, Kraftwerk, Led Zep in session, Leftfield in MySpace, tons more ✨
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Had a photoshoot today and I can’t get over this eyeliner. I may never wash my face again.
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Back to early breakfast business here on
@bbc6music
for one day only while
@chris_hawkins
sits in for Craig! Music from the Au Pairs, Gang of Four, Alt-J, Beck, Nas, Camera Obscura, Nick Cave, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, I look like I failed a Bay City Rollers audition, let's do this 💪
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Hello early risers hello algorithm, I’m for breakfast all week on
@BBC6Music
! 🥐
In for lovely Lauren with stacks of great tunes and chats and radio magic. Join me from 7:30! ✨
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I’m in for lovely Lauren this morning on
@BBC6Music
! Music from The Comet is Coming, Talk Talk, Cleo Sol, The Smile, your Cloudbusting requests and a chat with the OG Big Boys Jack Rooke and Jon Pointing! Join us from 7:30 👩🏻💼
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WE MADE IT! The sun is shining! The vibes are good! I am live RIGHT NOW on
@jazzfm
from
@lovesupremefest
!
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Casually leaning by this piano & gaffer tape to let you know I’m in for RadMac today & tomorrow on
@bbc6music
with gorgeous tunes from Konk, Andre 3000, Lee Hazlewood, Beck, Efterklang & more besides and yes I’ve pretty much only been home to change my t-shirt 😎📻 join me at 8!
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RIP Pharoah Sanders. Sad to hear this confirmed. When I was having a shit old time his music got right in between the cracks where nothing and no one else could reach. I’m so grateful to him.
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School is in session! I wanna know about the tracks that educated you, the albums that indoctrinated you & the bands that taught you everything you know. Meet me at 6pm sharp here on
@BBC6Music
for
#NP6Music
! ⏰
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Took this pic 4 years ago when I snuck into the
@jazzfm
awards, hoping if I charmed the right people aggressively enough they might consider giving me a show. Loitered feet away from Mick Jagger, cried at Laura Mvula’s performance. In 2021 I’m the bloody host. Is this real life.
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I've seen a larger-than-normal amount of antisemitism from Irish people on social media recently... from friends, friends of friends and strangers. It's almost like they feel safe doing it cause they think Irish Jews don't exist. Well, hello. Please stop talking shit about us.
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BTW I’m back on
@BBC6Music
on Monday for two weeks taking care of early breakfast business for
@chris_hawkins
🥳
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In for the marvellous
@freshnet
this evening on
@BBC6Music
for our 2000s ALL DAY RAVE afterparty! Come with me on a journey through time & space, when electroclash was king and music came on minidiscs, and don’t forget to send your chilled out 00s requests my way!
#np6music
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I’M BACK BABY! Catch me right now on
@BBC6Music
, in for
@chris_hawkins
with music from Betty Harris, Goldfrapp, St Etienne, Nora Dean, David Gedge of the Wedding Present is giving us a MySpace tour! Yes that’s tinsel! Let’s get festive 🎅🏽
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Here we gooooooo Monday morning on
@BBC6Music
! Mos Def, Kokoroko, Spiritualized, De La Soul, Mazzy Star, Pixies, Ian Dury, Gil Scott Heron, Phoenix in MySpace, tons more, lock in 🔒
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Here we GO! In for lovely
@laurenlaverne
this morning on
@BBC6Music
so WAKE UP and stick your radio on! Got a whole stack of big tunes to celebrate the first day of term 👩🎓
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In for the brilliant
@gidcoe
tonight on
@BBC6Music
with a stack of weird stuff that I can’t WAIT to share from Charles Stepney, Slim Smith, Don Cherry, Serge Gainsbourg, Shirley Bassey, newness from Unkle and Panda Bear, Beastie Boys and Connan Mockasin in session, lock in NOW 🔒
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