Phil Selway on BBC 6 Music

Philip Selway sits in for Guy Garvey on 6 Music's Finest Hour and opens with X-Ray Spex's “Oh Bondage! Up Yours!”, a record he played as a teenager with the bedroom door shut and the volume down. The memories keep coming between records. In the early 80s his eldest sister, at Leeds University, formed a band called the Daktaris that never played a gig and probably never rehearsed, and it planted a seed. Decades later he found a Brooklyn Afrobeat band of the same name and liked to imagine she had left the Oxfordshire countryside for New York. The Pogues take him back to 1985 and his A levels, “at least doing them for the first time anyway”.

Band names are a thorny issue for a man whose band was stuck with On a Friday for about five years. Introducing Oumou Sangaré, he tells how she launched her own car, built by a Chinese firm, then suspects Wikipedia is having him on and goes with the story anyway. Radiohead had played straight after Savages at Primavera in Barcelona, and Dawn of Midi and Shabazz Palaces are opening for them in America, at which point he wonders whether he has mentioned his own band rather too much. Japan's “Quiet Life” is on because he likes bands with brothers in them. “I have a vested interest in one.” My Bloody Valentine took 22 years to follow Loveless, he says, which makes Radiohead look positively prolific.