Faris Badwan has been played on NTS in shows including Channeling w/ Ivan Smagghe & Nathan Gregory Wilkins, featured first on 9 March 2017. Songs played include Controller and Controller.

Faris Badwan (also known as Faris Rotter) is the lead singer for The Horrors, a five-piece band from Southend-on-Sea. He also works with Canadian-Italian singer Rachel Zeffira in their 60s pop influenced two-piece Cat's Eyes. Previously, he was the drummer in The Rotters, and released a single as part of Lumina, with Cherish Kaya of Ipso Facto. He is also an artist, and exhibited his work in August 2010 at an exhibition called Drawing A Straight Number 9.