Hour 1
 The River is the fifth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. It was released on October 17, 1980
Track: The price You Pay
 Boy is the debut studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Steve Lillywhite, and was released on 20 October 1980Â
Track: Shadows and Tall Trees
 Never for Ever is the third studio album by English singer Kate Bush. Released in September 1980, it was Bush’s first number 1 album and was also the first ever album by a British female solo artist to top the UK album chart, as well as being the first album by any female solo artist to enter the chart at number 1
Track: All We Ever Look For
 Peter Gabriel III is the third eponymous album by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released in May 1980.
Track: Lead A Normal Life
 Darlingside is a four-person indie folk band from Boston, MA, Extralife is their latest album, appearing at the Thekla, Bristol on Tuesday 7th August, also in Cambridge & Leicester in August, full detail ents24.com
Track: Extralife
Graham Nash is making a few appearance in the UK in July, at the 20th St Georges Bristol, also Liverpool, London, Bexhill, Perth, Salford.
His latest album Over The Years
Track: Myself at Last
 Emily Barker is appearing at St Georges, Bristol on 22nd July
From her album Sweet Kind of Blue
Track: Sunrise
 Steve Earl is on tour in the UK, appearing in Birmingham on 28th July, also London, Perth, Belfast.
Album Copperhead Road
Track: Back to the Wall
 Wild Pink is an American band from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City. Their new album Yolk in the fir is just released.
Track: Love is Better
 Kenneth Arnold Chesney is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has recorded 20 albums, his 21st Songs for the Saints will be released this week
Track: Pirate Song
 Adyn Townes – “Didn’t Mean Anything” from album After the Fall
A Canadian alt-indie-folk singer-songwriter who used to perform under his birth-name Andy Brown, but decided he needed a new sound and a new moniker to go with it – so ‘Adyn Townes’ was born. Debut album due 13th July.
 Graeme Connors – “One Life” from album From the Backcountry
Some country favoured music courtesy of an Australian singer-songwriter with some fourteen studio albums under his belt (it must a big one). This then must be his fifteenth, which is due 3rd August.
 The Devil Makes Three – “Paint My Face” from album Chains Are Broken
A 3-piece Americana outfit from Santa Cruz, California with a number from their forthcoming seventh studio album. The release date is 24th August.
 Hour 2
 Kenny Loggins Alive is a live album by soft rock singer, Kenny Loggins. Released in 1980, it contains material from Loggins’ three previous solo albums,Â
Track: Whenever I Call You Friend
 24 Carrots is the ninth studio album by Al Stewart, released in 1980. This was Stewart’s first album with his new band Shot in the Dark.
Track: Murmansk Run/Ellis Island
Sails of Silver is an album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span. The album was produced two years after the band’s ostensible break-up.
Track: Where Are They Now
 21 at 33, released May 1980, is an album by Elton John. It is his fourteenth studio album.
Track: Two Rooms at the End of the World
 Voices is the ninth studio album by Hall & Oates, released in 1980.
Track: You’ve Lost That lovin’ feelin’
 The Album is an album released in 1980 by Caravan
Track: Heartbreaker
 Short Stories is the debut album by Jon and Vangelis, the collaborative effort between Jon Anderson of the prog rock band Yes and electronic music pioneer Vangelis. This was not the first time that the two had worked together
Track: I Hear You now
 Making Movies is the third studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 17 October 1980
Track: Hand in Hand
 Get Happy!! is a studio album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions, 1980. The fourth album by Elvis Costello, his third with the Attractions,
Track: Clowntime is Over
 Crimes of Passion is the second studio album by American rock singer Pat Benatar, released on August 5, 1980Â
Track: Wuthering Heights
 The Turn of a Friendly Card is the fifth studio album by the British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in March 1980
Track: Time
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