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Celebrate 30 years of Mute Records

To celebrate 30 years of one of Britain's greatest - and most innovative - labels, Q Radio looks back at the life and times of Mute Records with a special documentary.

Sonic Mute will chronicle the imprint that introduced the world to Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Erasure and Moby, as well as providing a home for many years to acts such as Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and Richard Hawley.

Q Radio exclusively interviews label founder Daniel Miller - who was also the first artist to release anything on Mute with his electro-punk single Warm Leatherette/TVOD in 1978. It goes without saying, there will be anecdotes galore.

The programme is to repeated on Saturday, October 18, at 8pm. You can hear a short clip of Miller speaking in the documentary about Mute's early days and his experiments with The Normal here.

You can listen again to the show here. And you can hear Q Radio live here.

Posted by Anthony Barnes at 01:54PM | October 7, 2008

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when are you going to make a tv show about mute i got momentarily excited thinking this was going to be a tv show. radio's cool but i wanted to see all about fad gadget, diamanda galas, the normal, nick cave, tg, depeche mode, goldfrapp, yazoo, erasure, and all the others in the endless list of incredibly cool bands that mute have been home to over the years. i want moving pictures! i already read and listened all about it. i want to seee! sorry i'll stop now just got a little excited! :O)

Posted by mhairi sinclair at 09:11AM | October 18, 2008

Loved the radio doc. I agree with the above comment -- how about a TV doc on Mute Records?
And could I listen to this program again in the Listen Again column? Can't come soon enough. ;)

Posted by anonymous at 01:46AM | October 19, 2008