BBC Radio 2 has introduced the line-up for Piano Room month 2025!
Working from Monday, February third to Friday, February twenty eighth throughout Vernon Kay’s weekday mid-morning present, the annual sequence will characteristic 16 of pop’s most beloved artists singing stay while being accompanied by the BBC Live performance Orchestra from London’s BBC Maida Vale studios.
Every artist will carry out a brand new music, a basic and a canopy model – and, in addition to being on BBC Sounds, shall be accessible to observe on BBC iPlayer from later that day.
Try the complete line-up under:
Mon 3 February – Coldplay, performing a canopy by The Proclaimers
Tue 4 February – Kim Wilde, performing a Crowded Home cowl
Wed 5 February: Tom Grennan, performing a Harry Nilsson cowl
Thu 6 February: Mica Paris, performing a Bob Marley cowl for Piano Room on what would have been Bob Marley’s eightieth birthday
Mon 10 February: Myles Smith, performing a Inexperienced Day cowl
Tues 11 February: Kiefer Sutherland, performing a Phil Collins cowl
Wed 12 February: Celeste, performing a Labi Siffre cowl
Thu 13 February: 10cc’s Graham Gouldman is reuniting specifically for this Piano Room with fellow band co-founder Kevin Godley within the fiftieth anniversary yr of their seminal hit, I’m Not in Love, and performing a canopy by The Everly Brothers.
Mon 17 February: Natasha Bedingfield, performing an Oasis cowl
Tue 18 February: Deacon Blue, performing a Beyoncé cowl
Wed 19 February: Chesney Hawkes, cowl to be introduced
Thu 20 February: Kate Hudson, cowl to be introduced
Mon 24 February: Franz Ferdinand, performing a Britney Spears cowl
Tue 25 February: Elkie Brooks, performing a Rag’n’Bone cowl on her eightieth birthday
Wed 26 February: Teddy Swims, performing a Nat King Cole cowl
Thu 27 February: Gary Barlow, performing a Sam Fender cowl for The a hundredth Piano Room
Talking following the announcement of this years line-up, Vernon Kaye mentioned by way of a BBC press launch: “It’s been a privilege to characteristic a number of the world’s finest beloved performers within the Piano Room throughout the previous yr. The road-up for this February is awe-inspiring and represents the massive vary of music from throughout the many years that I like taking part in on my present every single day, so please do be a part of me for what shall be a really particular month of music.”
With Jeff Smith, Head of Music, Radio 2, including: “Radio 2 prides itself in presenting listeners with stay music from a number of the world’s hottest musicians, so I’m delighted to be bringing one other stellar line-up of artists to the Piano Room in February. This checklist is bursting with iconic entertainers who’ve sung a number of the finest songs ever written.”
Matthew Swann, Director of the BBC Live performance Orchestra, mentioned: “Piano Room month is now a much-anticipated annual event for the BBC Live performance Orchestra, and we’re delighted to be embarking on our fourth yr. The BBC CO shall be working with one other star-studded line-up of world-class musicians and can carry out a few of their best-loved songs. Reimaging their tracks with the depth and color of the stay orchestra by no means fails to create an evocative listening expertise for audiences, and we are able to’t wait to showcase it on Radio 2 in February.”
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