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Coffee Break: European Vacation - Birmingham!

Duran Duran at Stubb's Bar-B-Q, South by Southwest (SXSW) 2011; Austin, Texas; March 16, 2011
Duran Duran at Stubb's Bar-B-Q, South by Southwest (SXSW) 2011; Austin, Texas; March 16, 2011Jason Persse - Flickr: Duran Duran / Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 2.0)

by Anna Weggel

June 07, 2019

The morning crew has no fabulous vacations planned this summer. We will be here in the studio all summer spinning tunes, eating hard boiled eggs, and giving you always learning moments.

But we're happy to have taken you on a European vacation this week - with one final stop over at Birmingham.

What bands do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break - and the last leg of our European tour - that hail from Birmingham?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

Have an idea for a Coffee Break topic? Submit your idea for a future theme and browse past Coffee Breaks in our archive. Or, when you register for a Minnesota Public Radio account, you can send requests via Alexa, too Just say "Alexa, ask The Current to play Song by Artist" e.g. "Alexa, ask The Current to play Left of the Dial by The Replacements."

Songs played

The English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
The Move - I Can Hear the Grass Grow
Broadcast - Corporeal
Duran Duran - Girls On Film
The Streets - Don't Mug Yourself
Steel Pulse - Ravers
Nick Drake - From the Morning
Black Sabbath - The Wizard