Evening Session's comeback

DJS Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley are to revive their popular music show The Evening Session, it was announced yesterday.

The programme, which was the soundtrack for millions of students' college years with its parade of indie acts, returns next month.

The duo – who hosted the Radio 1 show together from 1993 to 1997 – will revive their partnership on threatened station BBC 6 Music.

Whiley and Lamacq helped to champion Oasis when they were an up-and-coming band, and the Gallaghers also made a notorious appearance in 1997 when they turned the airwaves blue.

The show's revival will be initially a one-off on Good Friday, 2 April, but it is hoped further shows could follow.

Started in 1991 by Mark Goodier, the show sound-tracked the 90s for a generation of music fans. Lamacq and Whiley took over two years later and Lamacq continued the show alone when Whiley moved to her own programme, until the The Evening Session was axed in 2002.