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Mark and Alan welcome Thomas Dolby to discuss his band reforming, his collaborations with music legends, and current music news.

On this episode of Sound Up!, Mark and Alan welcome Thomas Dolby to talk about reforming his band The Lost Toy People for the Totally Tubular festival, as well as his history working with Joni Mitchell and David Bowie and his thoughts on music and AI. Roger reviews Bon Jovi at MSG and Alan has thoughts on the new Rolling Stones album. In music news, The Cure make a change in their touring line-up, Jennifer Finch from L7 reveals an illness, and the Michael Jackson movie—with a billion-dollar box office—becomes the biggest biopic of all time. Our new music picks this week come from Jack White and Nothing But Thieves.

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