Daniel Johnston On Bbc 6 Music This Evening

If I did casually mention tonight…

Marc Riley has a very special guest in the shape of Daniel Johnston on his BBC 6 Music show this evening. In fact, the guest isn’t just in the shape of Daniel Johnston, it’s actually him!

Daniel, who David has championed on these pages several times over the years, was a guest at both Bowie’s Meltdown festival in 2002 and at last year’s High Line festival, where he performed on both occasions on the same bill as The Legendary Stardust Cowboy.

Indeed, they are the only two artists that played at both festivals off the top of my head…oh and The Polyphonic Spree…and anyone else you lot think of!

For tonight’s broadcast Daniel performs two songs with the aid of a supergroup of sorts, (see below) and he has a chat with Marc on the likes of The Beatles and David Bowie.

Above is the band (assembled for Daniel’s most recent shows) outside the BBC in Manchester yesterday. They include, from left to right: Jad Fair on percussion; Marc Riley on drugs; Kristian Goddard on drums and stilts; Daniel Johnston vocals and keyboard; Scout Niblett guitar and vocals; James McNew of Yo La Tengo on bass; Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse on guitar.

If this item was too short notice for you, there is always the BBC listen again feature on Marc’s home page to fall back on.