Monday, 18 August 2025

Weekend Playlist: Promises

Weekend Playlist: Promises

Here's the weekend playlist created by Leigh with help from guest curator Graham looking at X/twitter selections (15/08/2025) with Songs that reference promises.
This was inspired by the release of Calvin Harris' "Promises" featuring Sam Smith on Sunday, 8 years ago (17/08/2018)

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Promise Me
1. Girls Aloud - The Promise
2. Simple Minds - Promised you a miracle
3. Shayne Ward - No Promises
4. Beverley Craven - Promise me
5. Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
6. Eric Clapton - Promises

[Side 2] Promises Promises
7. When in Rome - The Promise
8. Robin S - Show me love
9. Beautiful South - A little time
10. Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet
11. Leona Lewis - Footprints in the sand
12. Terrorvision - Promises

[Bonus] 
My Chemical Romance - I'm not okay (I promise)
New Order - Broken Promise
UB40 - Promises & Lies

Long list

  • Radiohead - I promise
  • Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
  • Cock Robin - The promise you made
  • Jon & Vangelis - Beside
  • Oysterband - We'll be there
  • Simple Minds - Promised you a miracle
  • Christone "kingfish" Ingram - Empty promises
  • Terry Kowaski - Empty promises
  • Alarm - Declaration
  • Carpenters - We've only just begun
  • Script - The man who can't be moved
  • Beverly Craven - Promise me
  • Julie Covington - Don't cry for Me Argentina
  • Police - Every breath you take
  • Thin Lizzy - Don't believe a word
  • Cranberries - Promises
  • Eric Clapton - Promises
  • Terrorvision - Promises
  • All 4 One - I swear
  • Bruce Springsteen - If I should fall behind
  • José Gonzales - Heartbeats
  • Michael Garrick Septet featuring Joe Harriott - Promises
  • Richard & Linda Thompson - Dimming of the Day
  • Talk Talk - I believe in you
  • Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love
  • Nero - Promises
  • Shayne Ward - No Promises
  • Madness - Promises Promises
  • Tracy Chapman - The Promise
  • UB40 - Promises and lies
  • Dwight Yoakam - Promise you can't keep
  • Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
  • Vince Gill - Pocket full of gold
  • Dionne Warwick - Promises Promises
  • Buzzcocks - Promises
  • Dennis Brown & Aswad - Promised Land
  • John Denver & Muppets - Poems, Prayers and Promises
  • Cast - Promised land
  • My Chemical Romance - I'm not okay
  • Shania Twain - From this moment on
  • Muse - Starlight
  • Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
  • Queens of the Stone - The lost art of keeping a secret
  • Girls aloud - Promise
  • Broken Records - A Promise
  • King Creosote - Something to believe in
  • Ultravox - Western Promise
  • Aerosmith - Lick and Promise
  • Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet
  • Saw Doctors - It won't be tonight
  • Chumbawamba - The day the Nazi died
  • Foo Fighters - Everlong
  • Jam - Going underground
  • Garbage - Vow
  • Michael Nyman - The heart asks pleasure first / The Promise (The Piano)
  • New Order - Broken Promise
  • Beautiful South - A Little Time
  • Robin S - Show Me Love
  • Delirious - Promise
  • Take That - Promises
  • Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name
  • Rammstein - Du Hast
  • Calvin Harris ft Sam Smith - Promises
  • Joe Smooth - Promised land
  • When in Rome - The Promise

Friday, 15 August 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Sleeping

Midnight Mixtape: Sleeping

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Jo Kendall to look at listener selections (13/08/2025) with Songs that reference sleeping! This is to do with a feature about Conch shells being a rememdy for snoring and helping people to sleep better.

Songs in contention

  • Pretenders - I go to sleep
  • Natalie Imbruglia - When you're sleeping
  • Crystal Gayle - Talking in my sleep
  • Faithless - Insomnia
  • Everly Brothers - Wake up little Susie
  • Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
  • Salad & Terry Hall - Dream a little dream
  • Smiths - Asleep
  • Empire of the sun - Walking on a dream
  • Tight fit - Lion sleeps tonight
  • Teardrop explodes - Sleeping gas
  • Beatles - I'm only sleeping
  • Metallica - Enter sandman
  • Seekers - Morningtown Ride
  • Roy Orbison - In dreams
  • Leonard Cohen - Lullaby
  • 5 Eurythmics - Sweet dreams
  • Gillan - Sleeping on the job
  • Graham Nash - Sleep song
  • Keith Whitley - Don't close your eyes
  • Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep deprivation
  • Suede - Sleeping pills
  • Romantics - Talking in your sleep
  • Simple Minds - Big Sleep
  • Sam Smith - How do you sleep?
  • 5th Dimension - (Last night) I didn't get to sleep at all
  • Melissa Ehteridge - You can sleep while I drive
  • Wham! - Wake me up before you go-go
  • Colter Wall - Sleeping on the blacktop
  • Jack White - I guess I should go to sleep
  • Beck - Sleeping bag
  • Robert Wyatt - Heaps of sheeps
  • Ray Peterson - Goodnight my love
  • Radiohead - Go to sleep
  • Rotimi - In my bed
  • Alyson Williams - Sleeptalk
  • Go West - We close our eyes
  • Billy Woods - Sleep
  • Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Sleeping Dancer Sleep
  • Aerosmith - I don't want to miss a thing
  • Annie Lennox - Into the west
  • REM - I don't sleep I dream
  • Mamas & Papas - Dream a little dream of me
  • Beastie Boys - No Sleep till Brooklyn
  • Boo Radleys - Wake up Boo
  • Kate Bush - And dream of sheep
  • Matt Bianco - Get out of your lazy bed
  • Suzanne Vega - Tired of sleeping
  • Charlatans - Can't get out of bed
  • XTC - Wake up

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1]
1. Kate Bush - And dream of sheep
2. Faithless - Insomnia
3. Radiohead - Go to sleep
4. Robert Wyatt - Heaps of sheeps
5. Eurythmics - Sweet dreams
6. Beastie Boys - No Sleep till Brooklyn
[Side 2]
7. Roy Orbison - In dreams
8. Metallica - Enter sandman
9. Everly Brothers - Wake up little Susie
10. Wham! - Wake me up before you go-go
11. Matt Bianco - Get out of your lazy bed
12. Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Sleeping Dancer Sleep
Hidden: Seekers - Morningtown Ride

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before, Art Blakey, Robert Wyatt, Roy Orbison, Matt Bianco, Seekers Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 16: Kate Bush (4)
  • 10: Faithless (10)
  • 7: Metallica (1)
  • 4: Beastie Boys (2)
  • 3: Wham! (1)
  • 2: Eurythmics (0), Everly Brothers
  • 1: Faithless (0)

Sunday, 10 August 2025

Weekend Playlist: Wizard of Oz

Weekend Playlist: Wizard of Oz

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Lennway looking at X/twitter selections (08/08/2025) with Songs that reference the Wizard of Oz.
This was commemorate the release of Wizard of Oz on 10/08/1939.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
1. Who - Pinball Wizard
2. Alison Moyet - Dorothy
3. Mumford & Sons - Little lion man
4. America - Tin man
5. Pink Floyd - Scarecrow
6. Donovan - Season of the witch

[Side 2]
7. National - Not in Kansas
8. Seekers - Emerald City
9. Scissor Sisters - Return to Oz
10. Kate Bush - Red shoes
11. T-Rex - Teenage Daydream
12. Elton John - Goodbye yellow brick road

[Bonus]
Toto - Africa
Kansas - Dust in the wind
Men At Work - Down Under

Long list

  • Beatles - Lucy in the sky with diamonds
  • Gary Numan - Magic
  • Marie de Malicorne - La Nuit Des Sorcières
  • Angel Witch - Angel Witch
  • Redbone - Witch queen of New Orleans
  • Black Sabbath - Wizard
  • Elton John - Goodbye yellow brick road
  • Elvis Costello - The angels wanna wear my Red Shoes
  • Nina Simone - I put a spell on you
  • Don McLean - Magdalene Lane
  • Rick Springfield - Living in Oz
  • Tracy Chapman - Remember the Tinman
  • Mumford & Sons - Little lion man
  • Scissor Sisters - Return to Oz
  • Waterboys - My love is my rock in the Weary Land
  • Eagles - Witchy Woman
  • Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
  • Paul Hardcastle - The Wizard
  • Dave Gardner - Mad Witch
  • Gang Starr - You Know My Steez
  • Minor Threat - Cashing in
  • Doug Wood Band - Drag Racer (BBC Snooker Theme)
  • Fall out boy - Alpha dog
  • Tracy Chapman - Remember the Tinman
  • Frank Sinatra - Witchcraft
  • America - Tin man
  • Madness - The Wizard
  • Men At Work - Down Under
  • Bon Jovi - Let's dance
  • Kate Bush - Waking the witch
  • National - Not in Kansas
  • John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - I'm your Witch Doctor
  • Lily Allen - Hot air balloon
  • Suede - Asbestos
  • Kate Bush - Red shoes
  • Arctic Monkeys - Old Yellow Bricks
  • Panic at the Disco - Northern Downpour
  • Wizzard - See my baby jive
  • Angus & Julia Stone - Yellow brick road
  • Mission - Swim with the dolphins
  • Rufus Wainwright - Oh What a world
  • Who - Pinball Wizard
  • Alison Moyet - Dorothy
  • Pink Floyd - Scarecrow
  • Furniture - Love your shoes
  • Mogwai - Lion rumpus
  • Kansas - Dust in the wind
  • Aerosmith - Farm
  • Metallica - Frayed ends of Sanity
  • T Rex - Teenage Daydream
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Burn the witch
  • Sinead O'Connor - John I love you
  • Bon Jovi - Mystery Train
  • Tamperer ft Maya - Feel it
  • Glen Campbell - There's no place like home
  • Make A Wish - Beatsteaks
  • Donovan - Season of the witch
  • Seekers - Emerald City
  • Toto - Africa
  • Chad Jackson - Hear the drummer (get wicked)

Friday, 8 August 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Doctors

Midnight Mixtape: Doctors

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (07/08/2025) with Songs that reference Doctors to celebrate the return of Dr Beat Joe Bennett to late nights on BBC5 live!

Songs in contention

  • Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor
  • Steely Dan - Dr Wu
  • P!nk - Just a pill
  • Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
  • Hannah Marcus - Demerol
  • Kiss - Calling Dr love
  • Dr Dre ft Eminem & Skylar Grey - I need a doctor
  • Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
  • Bee-Gees - Stayin' alive
  • Huey & News - I want a new drug
  • Robert Palmer - Bad case of loving you
  • Queen - Another bites of the dust
  • Sheryl Crow - First cut is the deepest
  • Weird Al Yanokvic - Like a surgeon
  • Shawn Mendes - Stitches
  • Counting Crows - Hospital
  • Dolly Parton - Chemo Hero
  • Cheaptrick - The doctor
  • First Choice - Doctor Love
  • David Saville - Witch Doctor
  • Black Keys - Fever
  • Blondie - Hanging on the telephone
  • Harry Styles - Medicine
  • Doobie Brothers - The doctor
  • Fray - How to save a life
  • Cutting Crew - I just died in your arms tonight
  • Velvet Underground/Fatima Mansions - Lady Godiva's operation
  • Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
  • Bea Miller - I can't breathe
  • Ramones - I wanna be sedated
  • Wyclef ft Wayne Wonder - I am your doctor
  • David Gray - Hospital Food
  • Marvlettes - You're my remedy
  • Colbie Caillat - Oxygen
  • Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
  • Evanescence - My Immortal
  • Stephanie Mills - Medicine Song
  • Caged the elephant - Cold cold cold
  • Coldplay - Fix you
  • David Bowie - Lazarus
  • Garbage - Trick is to keep breathing
  • Alanis Morrisette - Not the doctor
  • Frank Ocean - Novocaine
  • Verve - Drugs don't work
  • Aqua - Dr Jones
  • Madness - Cardiac arrest
  • Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine - Dr Pressure
  • Pogues - Sick bed of Cuchulainn
  • Fugazi - Waiting room
  • Kasabian - Club foot
  • Dr Feelgood - Down at the doctors
  • Smiths - Girlfriend in a coma
  • Wet Leg - CPR
  • Black Sabbath - Rock'n'Roll Doctor
  • White Stripes - The nurse

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1]
1. Ramones - I wanna be sedated
2. Marvlettes - You're my remedy
3. Bee Gees - Stayin' alive
4. Madness - Cardiac arrest
5. Dr Feelgood - Down at the doctors
6. Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine

[Side 2]
7. Hannah Marcus - Demerol
8. Gregory Isaacs - Night nurse
9. Coldplay - Fix you
10. Fugazi - Waiting room
11. Black Sabbath - Rock'n'Roll doctor
12. Verve - Drugs don't work
Hidden: David Bowie - Lazarus

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 6 acts had never been on before, Dr Feelgood, Fugazi, Gregory Isaacs, Hannah Marcus, Ramones, Verve Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 11: David Bowie (8+3)
  • 7: Rolling Stones
  • 5: Madness
  • 4: Black Sabbath (3+1)
  • 2: Bee Gees
  • 1: Coldplay, Marvelettes

Sunday, 3 August 2025

Weekend Playlist: Hairdressing

Weekend Playlist: Hairdressing

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (01/08/2025) with Songs that reference hairdressing.
This was to commemorate "Hair Gloss Day" on August 3rd.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Hair
1. De la soul - Can you keep a secret
2. Pavement - Cut your hair
3. Monkees - Daydream believer
4. South Pacific - Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
5. Jens Lekman - Shirin
6. We are scientists - I cut my own hair

[Side 2] Hairstyle
7. Little mix - Hair
8. 1 giant leap - Braided hair
9. Sparks - Veronica lake
10. Beck - Devil's haircut
11. Creatures - Festival of colours
12. Divine Comedy - Something for the weekend

[Bonus]
Wandering hearts - Almost cut my hair
Norman Beaton - Don't scratch my soca
Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts

Long list

  • De la soul - Can you keep a secret
  • Echo & Bunmymen - Cutter
  • Norman Beaton - Don't scratch my soca
  • Wandering hearts - Almost cut my hair
  • South Pacific - Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
  • Flaming lips - She doesn't use jelly
  • Sparks - Veronica lake
  • Monkees - Randy scouse git
  • Morrissey - Hairdresser on fire
  • Who - Cut my hair
  • Shania Twain - Man i feel like a woman
  • Monkees - Daydream believer
  • Divine Comedy - Something for the weekend
  • Capital Cities - Farrah Fawcett Hair
  • Nirvana - Hairspray queen
  • Beck - Devil's haircut
  • Scissor Sisters - Hair baby
  • Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
  • We are scientists - I cut my own hair
  • Dead Prez - The Beauty Within
  • Pulp - Help the aged
  • Pavement - Cut your hair
  • At the drivein - One armed scissor
  • Fugees - Nappy heads
  • 1 giant leap - Braided hair
  • Super furry animals - Something for the weekend
  • Ben Lee - Running with scissors
  • Dollar - Mirror mirror
  • Bob Seger - Turn the page
  • Cowsills - Hair
  • Mark Ronson - Uptown funk
  • John Lennon - Oh Yoko
  • Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray) - Good morning Baltimore
  • Rod Stewart - First cut is the deepest
  • Lumineees - Flowers in your hair
  • Super furry animals - Ice hockey hair
  • Symarip - Skinhead moonstomp
  • Alma - Dye my hair
  • Reveremd & Makers - Haircut
  • David Bowie - Sorrow
  • Shania Twain - That don't impress me much
  • Frabkie Avalon (Grease) - Beauty school dropout
  • Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
  • Lauryn Hill - Doo wap
  • Mivhael Jackson - Man in the mirror
  • Beastie Boys - Fight for your right to party
  • Pulp - Common people
  • Scissor Sisters - Laura
  • Cutting crew - Died in your arms
  • Little mix - Hair
  • McFly - 5 colours in her hair
  • Odyssey - Going back to my roots
  • Oasis - Morning glory
  • Lorde - Buzzcut season
  • Tesla - Signs
  • Type o negative - Black #1
  • Alice Cooper - Teenage Lament 74
  • Jens Lekman - Shirin
  • Tom McRae - You cut her hair
  • Tom Jones - Delilah
  • Beatles - Penny lane
  • Bryan Adams - Cuts like a knife
  • Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts
  • Idles - Never fight a man with a perm
  • Shampoo - Shampoo you
  • Sleaford Mods - Moptop
  • Beatles - Day in the life of
  • Ricky Martin - She bangs
  • Veggie Tales - Hairbrush song
  • Patrick Juvet - L'enfant aux cheveux blancs
  • Yello - Si senor the hairy grill
  • Creatures - Festival of colours
  • PJ Harvey - Hair
  • Tori Amos - General Joy

Friday, 1 August 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: One hit wonders

Midnight Mixtape: One hit wonders

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (31/07/2025) with Songs that are one hit wonders!

Songs in contention

  • Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level
  • Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
  • Laurie Anderson - O Superman
  • Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
  • Toni Basil - Mickey
  • Band Aid - Do they know it's Christmas
  • McAlmont & Butler - Yes
  • Black - Wonderful Life
  • Buggles - Video killed the radio star
  • Cameo - Word up
  • Cardiacs - Is this the life
  • Charlene - I've never been to me
  • Deee-Lite - Groove is in the heart
  • Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
  • Martha & Muffins - Echo beach
  • Tony DiBart - The real thing
  • Joe Dolce - Shaddp you face
  • Carl Douglas - Kung fu fighting
  • Clive Dunn - Grandad
  • Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsboro - Je t'aime
  • Gotye - Somebody that I used to know
  • Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the sky
  • Benny Hill - Ernie
  • House of Pain - Jump around
  • It's Immaterial - Driving away from home
  • Gary Jules - Mad world
  • Knack - My Sharona
  • La's - There she goes
  • Lotus Eaters - First picture of you
  • MARRS - Pump up the volume
  • Scott McKenzie - San Francisco
  • Lee Marvin - Wandrin' Star
  • Nena - 99 red balloons
  • New Radicals - You get what you give
  • Nizlopi - JCB Song
  • Peter Sarstedt - Where do you go?
  • Teletubbies - Teletubbies say eh-oh
  • Anita Ward - Ring my bell
  • Wheatus - Teenage dirtbag
  • Firm - Star Trekkin'
  • Men without hats - Safety Dance
  • John Otway - Cor baby that's really free
  • Chesney Hawkes - One and only
  • Las Ketchup - Ketchup Song

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1]
1. Deee-Lite - Groove is in the heart
2. McAlmont & Butler - Yes
3. Althea & Donna - Uptown top ranking
4. Cameo - Word up
5. House of Pain - Jump around
6. MARRS - Pump up the volume
[Side 2]
7. Joe Dolce - Shaddap you face
8. Scott McKenzie - San Francisco
9. Peter Sarstedt - Where do you go?
10. Nena - 99 red balloons
11. Martha & Muffins - Echo beach
12. La's - There she goes
Hidden: New Radicals - You get what you give

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, all but McAlmont & Butler and M/A/R/R/S have never appeared before. Both McAlmont & Butler (Bring it act on "Returns" LNL mixtape) and M/A/R/R/S ("Pump up the volume" on "Records" mixtape) have appeared once before.

Monday, 28 July 2025

Weekend Playlist: Never

Weekend Playlist: Never

Here's the weekend playlist created by Snail with help from guest curator Alexandra looking at X/twitter selections (25/07/2025) with Songs that reference Never.
This was inspired by the release of Rick Astley's "Never gonna give you up", 38 years ago on Sunday (27/07/2025).

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Never
1. Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up
2. INXS - Never tear us apart
3. George Benson - Never give up on a good thing
4. Limahl - Never ending story
5. Metallica - Enter Sandman
6. Luther Vandross - Never too much

[Side 2] Never Again
7. Tom Jones - I'll never fall in love again
8. All Saints - Never ever
9. Deacon Blue - I'll never fall in love again
10. Taylor Swift - We are never ever getting back together
11. Lady Gaga - I'll never love again
12. Gerry & Pacemakers - You'll never walk alone

[Bonus]
Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
My Vitriol - Always your way

Long list

  • Embrace ft Kerri Watt - Never
  • Spear of destiny - Never take me alive
  • Jesus & Mary Chain - Never understand
  • Fleetwood Mac - Never going back again
  • Sparks - Never turn your back on Mother Earth
  • Classix Nouveau - Never never comes
  • Crane Wives - Never love an anchor
  • Joe Cocker - N'oubliez jamais
  • Spear of Destiny - Never take me alive
  • Daniel Beddingfield - Never gonna leave your side
  • Sister Sledge - Mama never told me
  • Albert Hammond - It never rains in Southern California
  • Assembly - Never Never
  • Ian Dury - Clever Trevor
  • Bob Seger - Rock n Roll never forgets
  • Gerry & Pacemakers - You'll never walk alone
  • Smiths - There is a light that never goes out
  • Heart - Never
  • John Holt - Never Never Never
  • En Vogue - My lovin' (You'll never gonna get it)
  • Marc Almond - Pain of never
  • Pigeon Detectives - I'm not sorry
  • My Vitriol - Always your way
  • Outkast - Ms Jackson
  • Digable Planets - For Corners
  • Steve White & The Protest Family - Never mind your Bollocks
  • This Will Destroy You - They move on tracks of never-ending light
  • Fray - Never say never
  • Lathums - I'll never forget the time I spent with you
  • View - Superstar Tradesman
  • Deacon Blue - I'll never fall in love again
  • Streets - Never went to church
  • ‪Kenny Rogers - Coward of the county
  • All Saints - Never ever
  • Limahl - Never ending story
  • Dwight Yoakam - It's never alright
  • Eric Carmen - Never gonna fall in love again
  • Tom Jones - I'll never fall in love again
  • Grange Hill Cast - Just say No
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tell me
  • Gloria Gaynor - Never can say goodbye
  • Jesus Jones - Never enough
  • Lady Gaga - I'll never love again
  • Lumidee - Never leave you
  • Elvis Presley - Always on my mind
  • Black Sabbath - Never say die
  • Kaiser Chiefs - Never miss a beat
  • Taylor Swift - We are never ever getting back together
  • George Benson - Never give up on a good thing
  • Katy Perry - Never really over
  • Mel C & Lisa Left-eye Lopez - Never be the same again
  • Depeche Mode/Terry Hoax - Policy of Truth
  • Foo Fighters - Tired of you
  • Portishead - Roads
  • INXS - Never tear us apart
  • Depeche Mode - Never let me down again
  • Dogs D'Amour - How come it never rains
  • Metallica - Enter Sandman
  • W.A.S.P - Scream until you like it
  • Mazzy Star - Fade into you
  • Meat Loaf - I'd do anything for love
  • Puressence - Never be the same again
  • Heart - Never
  • Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
  • Roxette - Things will never be the same
  • Bryan Adams - There will never be another tonight
  • New Order - Dreams never end
  • Lani Hall - Never say never again
  • Motorhead - God was never on your side
  • Luther Vandross - Never too much
  • Greatest Showman - Never Enough
  • Sonia - You'llnNever stop me loving you
  • Andrew Gold - Never let her slip away
  • Prince - I could never take the place of your man
  • Elvis Presley - It's now or never
  • Dionne Warwick - I'll never fall in love again
  • Barry White - Never never gonna give you up
  • Faith Evans - Love like this
  • Sandra - (I'll never be) Maria Magdalena

Friday, 25 July 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Not giving up

Midnight Mixtape: Don't give up

On the midnight mixtape, Connor Phillips was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (24/07/2025) with Songs that reference not giving up on the news the England Lionesses reaching the final of the Women's Eurow 2025!

Songs in contention

  • Journey - Don't stop movin'
  • Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
  • Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
  • Christina Aguilera - Fighter
  • Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't give up
  • David Guetta ft Sia - Titanium
  • David Soul - Don't give up on us
  • 2Pac - Keep your head up
  • Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
  • 5ive - Keep on movin'
  • Wren - Hold on
  • Corey Hart - Never surrender
  • Bon Jovi - It's my life
  • Tom Petty - I won't back down
  • Chumbawamba - Tubthumpin'
  • Matthew Wilder - Break my stride
  • Ben Howard - Keep your head up
  • Twisted sister - we're not gonna take it
  • Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up
  • Destiny's Child - Survivor
  • Elton John - I'm still standing
  • P!nk - Try
  • NIN - We're in this together
  • Labi Siffre - Something inside so strong
  • Barrington Levy - Struggler
  • Rush - Marathon
  • Cure - Fight
  • Fleetwood Mac - Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
  • New Radicals - You only get what you give
  • Ozzy Osbourne - I don't wanna stop
  • Wilson Phillips - Hold on

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. David Guetta ft Sia - Titanium
2. Christina Aguilera - Fighter
3. Destiny's Child - Survivor
4. Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
5. Journey - Don't stop believin'
6. 5ive - Keep on movin'
[Side 2]
7. Elton John - I'm still standing
8. Tom Petty - I won't back down
9. Ben Howard - Keep your head up
10. David Soul - Don't give up on us
11. Labi Siffre - Something inside so strong
12. Peter Gabriel ft Kate Bush - Don't give up
Bonus: Ozzy Osbourne - I don't wanna stop
Hidden: 2Pac - Keep your head up

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 4 acts had never been on before, 5ive, Ben Howard, David Soul, Journey, Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 15: Kate Bush
  • 8: Elton John
  • 7:
  • 6:
  • 5: Peter Gabriel
  • 4: Labi Siffre
  • 3: Tom Petty
  • 2: Destiny's Child, Gloria Gaynor, (Sia)
  • 1: 2Pac, Christina Aguilera, David Guetta, Ozzy Osbourne

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Teens (Non-Starter)

Midnight Mixtape: Teenagers

On the midnight mixtape, Nick Bright to look at listener selections (17/07/2025) with best songs about being a teenager with the voting age in the UK being reduced from 18 to 16!

Songs in contention

  • Alberto y los Trios Paranoios - Kill
  • Alice Cooper - I'm 18
  • Ash - Oh yeah
  • Beatles - I saw her standing there
  • Beatles - She's leaving home
  • Billy Idol - Sweet 16
  • Blur - Girls & Boys
  • Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
  • Broken Science Scene - Anthems for a 17yo
  • Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
  • Chicks - Travellin' Soldier
  • Chuck Berry - You never can tell
  • Cliff Richard - Young ones
  • Climie Fisher - Love changes everything
  • Clive Pig & Hopeful Chinamen - Happy birthday sweeet 16
  • Commercials - 16 again & again
  • David Bowie - Young Americans
  • Depeche Mode - Little 15
  • Dion & Belmonts - Teenager in love
  • Echosmith - Cool kids
  • El Wali - Youth of the Nation
  • Elbow - Lippy kids
  • Fred Wedlock - Oldest swinger in town
  • Fureys - WHen you were sweet 16
  • Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
  • Half man half biscuit - I was a teenage armchair honved fan
  • Heaven 17 - Come live with me
  • House of Love - Shine on
  • Jam - Saturday's Kids/When you're young
  • Janis Ian - At 17
  • Jesus & Mary Chain - Teenage Lust
  • John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane
  • Katy Perry - Teenage dream
  • Ladytron - 17
  • Madness - House of fun
  • Marvelettes - When you're young and in love
  • Mott the Hoople - All the young dudes
  • My chemical romance - Teenagers
  • Nina Simone - To be young gifted & black
  • Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
  • Partners in Kryme - Turtle Power
  • Paul Hardcastle - 19
  • Pete Wingfield - 18 with a bullet
  • Placebo - Teenage Angst
  • Queen - Radio ga ga
  • Queen - These are the days of our lives
  • Ramones - I don't want to grow up
  • Sam Cooke - Only 16
  • Sam Fender - Seventeen going under
  • Sonic Youth - Teenage riot
  • Sound of Music - 16 going on 17
  • Stephen Duffy - 17
  • H Supergrass - Alright
  • Supergrass - Caught by Fuzz
  • Sweet - Six teens
  • Sweet - Teenage Rampage
  • T-Rex - Teenage Dream
  • Taylor Swift - 15
  • Tom Waits - I don't wanna grow up
  • Undertones - Teenage kicks
  • Wheatus - Teenage dirtbag
  • Who - Baba O'Reilly
  • Who - Kids are alright
  • Who - My generation

Final Mixtape

No final mixtape because of the Lioness penalty shootout exploits in the QFs of the Women's Euro 2025. This is merely for information proposes
[Side 1]
1. Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
2. Undertones - Teenage kicks
3. Dion & Belmonts - Teenager in love
4. Queen - Radio ga ga
5. Wheatus - Teenage dirtbag
6. Who - Baba O'Reilly
[Side 2]
7. Elbow - Lippy kids
8. Echosmith - Cool kids
9. John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane
10. Janis Ian - At 17
11. Alice Cooper - I'm 18
12. Paul Hardcastle - 19
Hidden: Supergrass - Alright

Monday, 21 July 2025

Weekend Playlist: Guns

Weekend Playlist: Guns

Here's the weekend playlist created by Lyricslinger with help from guest curator Stephen looking at X/twitter selections (18/07/2025) with Songs that reference guns or weapons.
This was inspired by the release of Gun n'Roses anthemic studio album, "Appetite for destruction" which was released on 21st July 1987.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Lyricslinger for the spotified list (Guns 1)
[Side 1] Me & my gun
1. M.I.A. - Paper planes
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Saturday night special
3. PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise
4. Tori Amos - Me and a gun
5. Aerosmith - Janie's got a gun
6. Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues

[Side 2] Multi guns
7. Gun n' Roses - Civil War
8. Angelic upstarts - Guns for the Afghan rebels
9. Cranberries - Zombie
10. Foster the people - Pumped up kicks
11. INXS - Guns in the Sky
12. John Farnham - You're the voice

[Bonus A]
Nirvana - Come as you are
B52s - Love shack
Thanks to Lyricslinger for the spotified list (Guns 2)
[Side 3] 3,2,1 Bang!
13. ShrapKnel & Controller 7 - Deep Space 9 Millie pulled a pistol
14. New Order - 1963
15. Bruce Springsteen - 41 Shots
16. Motorhead - 1916
17. Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
18. Alarm - 68 Guns

[Side 4] Other Weapons
19. Grinderman - Depth charge Ethel
20. Fairpoint Convention - Matty Groves
21. Fischer Z - Cruise missles
22. Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missle
23. Cher - If I could turn back time
24. Taylor Swift - Call it what you want

[Bonus B]
Fixx - Red skies
Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello - The Ghost of Tom Joad

Long list

  • Fairpoint Convention - Matty Groves
  • Dean Martin - My rifle my pony and me
  • Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Angelic upstarts - Guns for the Afghan rebels
  • Alarm - 68 Guns
  • Junior Walker - Shotgun
  • Bruce Springsteen - 41 Shots
  • Cher - Bang Bang
  • New Order - 1963
  • Fischer Z - Cruise missles
  • Moby - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
  • John Farnham - You're the voice
  • Cher - If I could turn back time
  • Aerosmith - Janie's got a gun
  • Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missle
  • Andy White - Religious Peruasion
  • Bruce Springsteen - Johnny 99
  • Jam - Eton Rifles
  • Prefab Sprout (or Cher) - Gunman
  • Clash - Guns of Brixton
  • Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
  • Wham! - Young Guns
  • Kasabian - Fire
  • Nirvana - In bloom
  • Space - Me & you vs the world
  • ShrapKnel & Controller 7 - Deep Space 9 Millie pulled a pistol
  • Neneh Cherry - Shot gun shack
  • Run The Jewels - A few words for the firing squad
  • Bon Jovi - Blaze of glory
  • Planet Perfecto - Bullet in the gun
  • Wombats - Lemon to the knife
  • M.I.A. - Paper planes
  • Clash - Guns of Brixton
  • Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang
  • Selecter - Celebrate the bullet
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - Saturday night special
  • Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues
  • Marty Robbins - Big Iron
  • Garth Brooks - Thunder rolls
  • Madonna - Revolver
  • Tommy Shaw - Girls with guns
  • INXS - Guns in the Sky
  • Cannonball - The Breeders
  • Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
  • Stiff Little fingers - Each dollar a bullet
  • Depeche Mode - Barrel of a gun
  • Nirvana - Come as you are
  • Betty Hutton - You can’t get a man with a gun
  • George Ezra - Shotgun
  • Tori Amos - Me and a gun
  • Rage against the machine - Bullet in the head
  • Fatboy Slim - Weapon of choice
  • Foster the people - Pumped up kicks
  • Madonna - God Control
  • Sam Fender - The Borders
  • PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise
  • Fixx - Red skies
  • Tom McRae - Boy with the bubblegun
  • Cranberries - Zombie
  • House of Pain - Jump Around
  • Grinderman - Depth charge Ethel
  • Public Enemy - Louder than a bomb
  • Taylor Swift - Call it what you want
  • Clash - Guns on the roof
  • Gun n' Roses - Civil War
  • Motorhead - 1916
  • Skid Row - 18 and live
  • Warren Zevon - Roland the headlessThompson Gunner
  • Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
  • Dire Straits - Brothers in arms
  • Green Day - 21 guns
  • ABBA - Fernando
  • Mike Oldfield ft Maggie Reilly - Moonlight Shadow
  • Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth
  • Ice Cube - It was a good day
  • Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
  • Bon Jovi - Stick to your guns
  • JX - Son of a gun
  • Rod Stewart - Shotgun wedding
  • Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello - The Ghost of Tom Joad
  • Guns of Navarone - Night Boat to Cairo
  • Kirsty MacColl - Miss Otis Regrets
  • B52s - Love shack
  • Bob Marley - I shot the sheriff

Sunday, 13 July 2025

Weekend Playlist: Life

Weekend Playlist: Life

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (11/07/2025) with Songs that reference life or lives.
This was inspired by the 40th anniversairy of Live Aid!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist 1!

[Side 1] Journey of Life
1. Queen - Radio Ga Ga
2. David Bowie - Life on Mars
3. Snow Patrol - Life on Earth
4. Tom Cochrane - Life is a highway
5. Ronan Keating - Life is a rollercoaster
6. Cars - Drive
Bonus: Lightning Seeds - Life of Riley

[Side 2] Living your life
7. Noah and whale - LIFEGOESON
8. Ezra Collective (Ft Sampa the great) - Life goes on
9. John Cougar - Jack and Diane
10. Jay-Z - Hard knock life
11. Frank Sinatra - That's life
12. Wings - Live and let die
Bonus: Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

[Hidden]
Bryan Adams & Tina Turner - It's only love

Here's the final playlist 2!

[Side 3] Help Life
1. Band Aid - Do they know it's Christmas
2. Fray - How to save a life
3. Indeep - Last night a DJ saved my life
4. Evanescence - Bring me to life
5. Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking
6. Bill Withers - Lean on me
Bonus: Birdy - People help the people

[Side 4] Celebrate Life
7. American Authors - Best day of my life
8. OPUS - Live is life
9. Black - Wonderful life
10. Level 42 - Sun goes down (livin' it up)
11. Talk Talk - Life's what you make it
12. Iggy Pop - Lust for life
Bonus: Amy Macdonald - This is the life

[Hidden]
David Bowie - Heroes

Long list

  • James - Life's a f***ing miracle
  • Richard Ashcroft - This thing called life
  • James - Sit down
  • David Bowie - Heroes
  • Cars - Drive
  • Hampshire/Horsey (Oliver!) - Consider yourself
  • Oasis - Live forever
  • Iggy Pop - Lust for life
  • Elton John - Someone saved my life tonight
  • Frank Sinatra - That's life
  • Japan - Quiet Life
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - AKA..What a life
  • Inner City - Good life
  • Manic Street Preachers - A design for life
  • Noah and whale - LIFEGOESON
  • Jay-Z - Hard knock life
  • Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking
  • Good Life Theme
  • Queen - One vision
  • Elton John - Someone saved my life
  • Four Tops - Reach out I'll be there
  • Buju Banton - Helping hand
  • Joan Armatrading - Help yourself
  • Birdy - People help the people
  • American Authors - Best day of my life
  • Amy Macdonald - This is the life
  • Blue Oyster Cult - Don't fear the reaper
  • Self Esteem - How can I help you
  • Catmando - Today's the first day of your life
  • Indeep - Last night a DJ saved my life
  • 21 Pilots - My blood
  • Fray - How to save a life
  • Passenger - Life’s for the living
  • Band - Life is a carnival
  • Rascal Flatts - Life is a highway
  • 10cc - Life is a minestrone
  • Madness - Run for your life
  • OPUS - Live is life
  • Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
  • Steve Winwood - Back in the high life again
  • Talking Heads - Life during wartime
  • Simple Minds - Life in a Day
  • David Bowie - Life on Mars
  • Tina Turner - One of the living
  • Snow Patrol - Life on Earth
  • Dream Academy - Life in a Northern town
  • Oasis - Live Forever
  • George Harrison - What is life
  • Wings - Live and let die
  • Band Aid - One year on
  • Queen - Radio Ga Ga
  • Girls Aloud/Pretenders - I'll stand by you
  • John Cougar - Jack and Diane
  • Skid Row - 18 & Life
  • Thunder - Low life in high places
  • Talk Talk - Life's what you make it
  • Eric Idle - Always look on the bright Side of life
  • Dido - See the sun
  • Evanescence - Bring me to life
  • Mike & Mechanics - Get up
  • Audioslave - Show me how to live
  • Eagles - Life in the fast lane
  • Level 42 - Sun goes down (livin' it up)
  • Black - Wondeful life
  • Kirsty MacColl - Still life
  • Ronan Keating - Life is a rollercoaster
  • Carole King - You've got a friend
  • Ezra Collective (Ft Sampa the great) - Life goes on
  • Lightning Seeds - Life of Riley
  • Glasvegas - Geraldine
  • Kris Kristofferson - Help me make it through the night
  • Levellers - One way
  • Slade - Do you believe in miracles?
  • Shania Twain - C'est la vie
  • Bryan Adams & Tina Turner - It's only love
  • Tina Turner - Help
  • USA for africa - We are the world
  • Bill Withers - Lean on me

Friday, 11 July 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Foreign Words

Midnight Mixtape: Foreign Words

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (10/07/2025) with Songs with foreign words in them! This comes after King Charles III speaking French at the French state banquet.

Songs in contention

  • David Bowie - It's no game (part 1)
  • Beck - Loser
  • Tommy Cash - Espresso Macchiato
  • Lana Del Rey - Carmen
  • Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Patio Song
  • Wyclef Jean ft Lauren Hill - Sang Fezi
  • Doris Day - Que sera sera
  • Visage - Fade to grey
  • Blondie - Sunday girl
  • Bill Wyman - Je suis un rockstar
  • Sandie Shaw - Monsieur Dupont
  • Wizkid - Essence
  • Beatles - Michelle
  • Eighth Wonder - I'm not scared
  • Manhatten Transfer - Chanson d'amour
  • Roxy Music - Song for Europe
  • Ian Drury - Hit me with your rhythm stick
  • DCUP & Yolanda be cool - We no speak Americano
  • Stardust - Music sounds better with you
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Cabron
  • ABBA - Hasta Manana
  • Dean Martin - Volare
  • Simon Dupree - Kites
  • LaBelle - Lady Marmalade
  • M83 - Bibi the dog
  • Plastic Bertrand - Ca plane pour moi
  • Clash - Spanish Bombs
  • Blur - To the end
  • PSY - Gangnam Style
  • Franz Ferdinand - Darts of pleasure
  • 4hero - Les fleur
  • Ricky Martin - Living la vida loca
  • Talking Heads - Psycho killer
  • Paul Young & Zucchero - Senza una donna
  • ELO - Hold on tight
  • Engelbert Humperdinck - Quando quando quando
  • Kylie - Your disco needs you
  • U2 - Vertigo
  • Cat Stevens - Rubylove
  • Elvis - Wooden heart
  • Falco - Rock me Amadeus
  • Lionel Richie - All night long
  • Lady Gaga - Bad romance
  • Stevie Wonder - Ma Cheire amour
  • Shakira - Hips don't lie
  • Chic - Le Freak
  • Tom Tom club - Wordy rappinghood
  • Kula Shaker - Tattva
  • Burna boy - Last last
  • Paul Simon - Diamonds on the soul of her shoes

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Beck - Loser
2. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Patio Song
3. Kula Shaker - Tattva
4. Franz Ferdinand - Darts of pleasure
5. Wyclef Jean - Sang Fezi
6. Lionel Richie - All night long
[Side 2]
7. Dean Martin - Volare
8. Simon Dupree - Kites
9. David Bowie - It's no game
10. ELO - Hold on tight
11. Cat Stevens - Rubylove
12. Paul Simon - Diamonds on the soul of her shoes
Hidden: Roxy Music - Song for Europe

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before Kula Shaker, Wyclef Jean, Simon Dupree, Cat Stevens and Roxy Music. Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 10: David Bowie (8+2)
  • 6: Paul Simon (5+1)
  • 4: Beck, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
  • 3: Dean Martin (2+1)
  • 2: ELO, Franz Ferninand, Lionel Richie (1+1)

Sunday, 6 July 2025

Weekend Playlist: Health

Weekend Playlist: Health

Here's the weekend playlist created by Cookie and Fozzie looking at X/twitter selections (04/07/2024) with Songs that reference health (but not solely doctors/nurses).
This theme based on the 77th anniversairy of the NHS.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] What seems to be the matter?
1. Depeche Mode - Shake the disease
2. Kylie - Fever
3. Matchbox 20 - Unwell
4. The The - Infected
5. Smiths - Still Ill
6. George Michael - Heal the pain

[Side 2] Making me feel better
7. Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor
8. Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
9. Dr Feelgood - She does it right
10. Julie Andrews - A spoonful of sugar (Sound of Music)
11. P!nk - Just like a pill
12. Sellers & Loren - Goodness gracious me

[Bonus]
Simple Minds - Alive & kicking
Bee Gees - Stayin' alive
Cure - Numb

Long list

  • Carter USM - Is wrestling fixed?
  • Dolly Parton - Chemo Hero
  • Weird Al Yankovic - Like a surgeon
  • Damned - Street of dreams
  • Dr Feelgood - She does it right
  • Nick Lowe - Dose of you
  • Fischer Z - Pretty Paracetamol
  • The The - Infected
  • Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive
  • Red hot chili peppers - Scar tissue
  • Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
  • Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
  • Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
  • Smiths - Still III
  • Sellers & Loren - Goodness gracious me
  • Miami Sound Machine - Dr Beat
  • Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
  • Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor
  • Soft Play - Cut and run
  • Harry Nillson - Coconut
  • Radiohead - Fitter happier
  • Billy woods x Messiah Music - Pollo Rico
  • Joe Gideon - Heart attack girl
  • NRG - I need your lovin'
  • David Gray - Hospital Food
  • Huey Lewis & The News - I want a new drug
  • Owl City - Hospital Flowers
  • Conor Oberst - Bright eyes
  • Jam - Bitterest Pill
  • Madness - House of fun
  • Prodigy - Take me to the hospital
  • Dr Hook & Medicine Show - Sylvia's mother
  • Jason Isbell - Elephant
  • Robert Palmer - Bad case of loving you
  • Cheaptrick - The doctor
  • Simple Minds - Alive & kicking
  • Julie Andrews - A spoonful of sugar (Sound of Music)
  • Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours
  • Fray - How to save a life
  • Disturbed - A reason to fight
  • Kylie - Fever
  • Depeche Mode - Shake the disease
  • Garbage - I think I'm paranoid
  • Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb
  • Marvin Gaye - Sexual healing
  • George Michael - Heal the pain
  • U2 - Electric Co
  • Athlete - Wires
  • Alice Cooper - Ballad of Dwight Fry
  • Metallica - Welcome home (sanitarium)
  • Quiet Riot - Bang your head
  • Bee Gees - Stayin' alive
  • P!nk - Just like a pill
  • Ramones - I wanna be sedated
  • Beatles - Dr Robert
  • Garbage - Medication
  • Goldfrapp - A&E
  • Cold War Kids - Hospital beds
  • Lemonheads - My drug buddy
  • Radiohead - My iron lung
  • Switchfoot - Mess of me
  • Faithless - God is a DJ
  • Elton John - Healing Hands
  • Ultra Nate - Found a cure

Friday, 4 July 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Landforms

Midnight Mixtape: Landforms

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (03/07/2025) with Songs that have a connection with natural landforms (like mountains, rivers, lakes, caves, oases)!
This is on the news that Oasis' long awaited reunion tour starts on Friday.

Songs in contention

  • Marvin & Tammi - Ain't no mountain high enough
  • Mumford & Sons - The Cave
  • Billie Ellish - Ocean Eyes
  • John Denver - Take me home country roads
  • Biffy Clyro - Mountains
  • Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
  • Brand New Heavies/Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis
  • Led Zeppelin - Black Mountain Side
  • Kenny & Dolly - Islands in the stream
  • Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
  • Justin Timberlake - Cry me a river
  • Nick Cave - Song of the lake
  • Ed Sheeran - I see fire
  • Weeknd - Hills
  • Nightwish - Ocean of strange islands
  • CMAT - Geography teacher
  • Doors - Yes the river knows
  • Blue Nile - Over the hillside
  • Noah Cahan - Caves
  • Neil Young - Deep Forbidden Lake
  • Yes - Roundabout
  • James Bay - Hold back the river
  • Don Estelle - Whispering Grass
  • Bob Seger - Fire Lake
  • Mountains - Valleys
  • Jam - Going underground
  • Steely Dan - Caves of Altamira
  • 10cc - Waterfall
  • Milky Chance - Down by the river
  • Fats Domino - Blueberry hill
  • Tauren Wells - Hills and valleys
  • Willie Nelson - Whiskey River
  • Billy Joel - River of dreams
  • Stevie Nicks - Love is like a river
  • Dan Mangan - Peaks & Valleys
  • Skids - Into the valley
  • Groove Armada - At the river
  • Pendlefolk - Old Pendle
  • Osmonds - Down by the lazy river
  • Jake Xerxes Fussell - River St Johns
  • Ike & Tina - River deep mountain high
  • JJ Cale - River runs deep
  • Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay
  • Stone Roses - Waterfall
  • Toyah - Thunder in the mountains
  • Bjork - Hyperballad
  • Gorillaz - On melancholy hill
  • Doves - Winter Hill
  • Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne
  • Iron Maiden - Run to the hills
  • Erasure - Blue Savannah
  • ELO - Mr Blue Sky
  • Nicki Minaj - Starship
  • Boney M - Rivers of Babylon

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1] Peaks & Valleys
1. Marvin & Tammi - Ain't no mountain high enough
2. Ike & Tina - River deep mountain high
3. Blue Nile - Over the hillside
4. Fats Domino - Blueberry hill
5. Pendlefolk - Old Pendle
6. Skids - Into the valley

[Side 2] Waterside
7. 10cc - Waterfall
8. Willie Nelson - Whiskey River
9. Bjork - Hyperballad
10. John Denver - Take me home country roads
11. Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay
12. Nick Cave - Song of the lake
Hidden: CMAT - Geography teacher

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 3 acts had never been on before Pendlefolk, Skids and CMAAT... Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 11: Nick Cave, Marvin Gaye (9+2)
  • 6: 10cc (4+2)
  • 5: Tina Turner (4+1)
  • 4: Otis Redding
  • 3: John Denver (2+1), Willie Nelson (2+1)
  • 2: Bjork
  • 1: Blue Nile, Fat Domino

Sunday, 29 June 2025

Weekend Playlist: Hearts

Weekend Playlist: Hearts

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator a href="https://twitter.com/Rhonddalad">Leigh looking at X/twitter selections (27/06/2025) with Songs that reference hearts.
This was inspired by World Series of Poker which currently taking place in Las Vegas.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist! Thanks to Leigh for the spotified list

[Side 1] Heartfelt (Love)
1. Bluebells - Young at heart
2. Feargal Sharkey - Good heart
3. Aztec Camera - Somewhere in my heart
4. Annie Lennox & Al Green - Put a little love in your heart
5. Janis Joplin - Piece of my heart
6. Alison Moyet - Love letters

[Side 2] Heartbreak
7. Blondie - Heart of Glass
8. Christina Perri - Jar of Hearts
9. Heart - Heartless
10. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
11. Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't go breaking my heart
12. Olivia Rodrigo - Happier

[Bonus]
Phil Collins - 2 Hearts
Dave Edmunds - Queen of hearts
Dubstar - Stars

Long list

  • Bruce Springsteen - Two hearts
  • Psychedelic Furs - Heartbeat
  • Saw Doctors - Me heart is living in the 60;s still
  • Heart of Lothian by Marillion
  • Mon CÅ“ur by Josephine Baker
  • Positive Noise - Change of heart
  • Brian O'Higgins - A stor mo chroi
  • Only boys aloud - Calon lan
  • Dave Edmunds - Queen of Hearts
  • Blondie - Heart of glass
  • Bluebells - Young at heart
  • Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't go breaking my heart
  • Hart to Hart Theme
  • Queen - Sheer heart attack
  • Runrig - Hearts of olden glory
  • Taylor Swift - I can do it with a broken heart
  • Cardiacs - Baby heart dirt
  • Gerry Rafferty - Whatever's written in your heart
  • Squeeze - Someone else's heart
  • Patrick Shiroishi - Beachside Lonelyhearts
  • Reverse - Abstract Heart
  • Wilco - I am trying to break your heart
  • T'Pau - Heart & Soul
  • Courteeners - Are you in love with a notion?
  • Martha Wainwright - Bring back my heart
  • Rufus Wainwright - Harvester of hearts
  • Annie Lennox & Al Green - Put a little love in your heart
  • Ellie Goulding - Beating Heart
  • Libertines - Heart Of The Matter
  • Rolling Stones - Heart of stone
  • Olivia Rodrigo - Happier
  • Neil Young - Heart of Gold
  • Coronas - Hearts for eyes
  • Depeche Mode - It's called a heart
  • Heart - These Dreams
  • Nirvana - Heart-shaped box
  • Christina Perri - Jar of hearts
  • MARINA & Diamonds - How to be a heartbreaker
  • Sugababes - Jungle
  • Sting - Shape of my heart
  • Aztec Camera - Somewhere in my heart
  • Bring me the horizon - Can you feel my heart
  • Sinead O'Connor - In this heart
  • Lloyd Cole & The Commotions = Are you ready to be heartbroken?
  • Spiritualized - Broken heart
  • U2 - Two hearts Beat As One
  • Phil Collins - 2 Hearts
  • Alice Cooper - Only my heart talkin'
  • Feargal Sharkey - A good heart
  • Amateur Transplants - Anaesthetist’s Hymn
  • Tom McRae - My vampire heart
  • Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
  • Heart - Heartless
  • Dubstar - Stars
  • Heart - Sylvan Song/Dream of the archer
  • Colin Chisholm - Heart Song
  • John Parr - Restless Heart
  • Moby - Why does my heart feel so bad?
  • Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren - Goodness gracious me
  • Runrig - Hearthammer
  • Alison Moyet - Love Letters
  • Deee-Lite - Groove is in the heart
  • Taylor Dayne - Tell it to my heart
  • Janis Joplin - Piece of my heart
  • Kelly Clarkson - Heartbeat Song
  • Roxette - Listen to your heart
  • Toni Braxton - Un-break my heart

Friday, 27 June 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Live Tracks

Midnight Mixtape: Live Recordings

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (26/06/2025) for best live recordings in tribute to the Glastonbury festival noted for lots of excellent live performances!

Songs in contention

  • Specials - Too much too young
  • Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
  • Pulp - Common People
  • Lovin' Spoonful - Darling be home soon
  • INXS - Need you tonight
  • UFO - Doctor Doctor Please
  • Rush - Closer to the heart
  • Runrig - Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
  • Miles Davis - My funny valentine
  • U2 - I will follow
  • Van Morrison - These dreams of you
  • Jaimie Branch - Theme 001
  • Yes - I've seen all good people
  • Florence & Machine - Drumming Song
  • Thin Lizzy - Rosalie/Jailbreak
  • Slade - Hear me calling
  • Bob Marley - No woman no cry
  • Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll
  • Beatles - Don't let me down
  • Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
  • Talking Heads - Girlfriend is better
  • Metallica - Ecstasy of Gold
  • Beyonce - Formation
  • Marillon - Garden Party
  • Bob Dylan - I shall be released
  • Deep Purple - Smoke on the water
  • Peter Frampton - Show me the way
  • Stiff Little Fingers - Running bear
  • Nirvana - Man who sold the world
  • Jimi Hendrix - Killing floor
  • Mariah Carey - I'll be there
  • Paul Weller - What was I made for?
  • Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song
  • Kings of Leon - Fans
  • Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues/Boy named Sue
  • Elvis Presley - America Trilogy
  • Jerry Lee Lewis - Your cheating heart
  • Who - Heaven & Hell [Live in Leeds]
  • Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus is coming to town
  • Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
  • George Michael & Elton John - Don't let the sun go down on me
  • Elvis Presley - Are you lonesome tonight?
  • Queen & George Michael - Somebody to love
  • Sam Cooke - Bring it on home to me
  • Queen - Spread your wings
  • Simon & Garfunkel - Late in the evening
  • Elton John - Benny and the Jets (not played)
  • Stone Roses - Made of Stone (Amateurs)

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues/Boy named Sue
2. Beatles - Don't let me down
3. Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus is coming to town
4. Elvis Presley - Are you lonesome tonight?
5. Specials - Too much too young
6. Bob Marley - No woman no cry

[Side 2]
7. Pulp - Common People
8. Mariah Carey - I'll be there
9. Thin Lizzy - Rosalie/Jailbreak
10. Jimi Hendrix - Killing Floor
11. George Michael & Elton John - Don't let the sun go down on me
12. Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song
Hidden: Stone Roses - Made of Stone (Amateurs)

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 1 act had never been on before...Mariah Varey! Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 18: Beatles (15+3)
  • 14: Johnny Cash (11+3)
  • 12: Elvis (10+2)
  • 11: Bob Marley (first time on Livesey)
  • 7: Bruce Springsteen (6+1), Pulp (5+2)
  • 6: Thin Lizzy (5+1)
  • 5: George Michael (4+1), Specials (4+1), Jimi Hendrix (3+2)
  • 3: Stone Roses (first time on Livesey)
  • 1: Leonard Cohen (first time on Livesey)

Sunday, 22 June 2025

Weekend Playlist: Clubs

Weekend Playlist: Clubs

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator a href="https://twitter.com/IanEason">Ian Eason looking at X/twitter selections (20/06/2025) with Songs that reference clubs.
This was inspired by World Series of Poker which currently taking place in Las Vegas.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Join the Club
S Club 7 - S Club Party
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Bombay Bicycle Club - Always like this
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
Red Rum Club - Would you rather be lonely
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Spread your love

[Side 2] Club Culture
St Etienne - Join the club
Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club
Barry Manilow - Copacabana
Wham! - Club Tropicana
Chic - Le Freak
Soft Cell - Say hello wave goodbye

[Bonus]
Associates - Country club
Iggy Pop & Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Escape Club - Wild Wild West

Long list

  • Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
  • Elvis Costello - Clubland
  • Associates - Country club
  • Sting - Shape of my heart
  • Iggy Pop (ft David Bowie) - The Idiot (Nightclubbing)
  • Wham! - Club Tropicana
  • Levellers - What a beautiful day
  • KC & Sunshine Band - Queen of Clubs
  • Red Rum Club - Would you rather be lonely
  • 50 Cent - In Da Club
  • Ian Dury - Upminister Kid
  • Barry Manilow - Copacabana
  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Spread your love
  • S Club 7 - Don't stop movin'
  • will.i.am ft. Britney Spears - Scream & Shout
  • Armand Hammer - Total Recall
  • Cramps - No club lone wolf
  • Bombay Bicycle Club - Always like this
  • Drifters - At the club
  • Chic - Le Freak
  • Death of guitar pop (ft Neville Staple) - Suburban Ska Club
  • Kinks - Lola
  • Madness - Never knew your name
  • Escape Club - Wild Wild West
  • Elton John - Club at the end of the street
  • Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop
  • Camila Cabello - Crying in the club
  • Kasabian - Club Foot
  • Helen Love - It’s my club
  • UKDown - Down in the dive
  • Rob Dougan - Clubbed To Death
  • Specials - Nite Klub
  • Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club
  • Alicia Bridges - I love the nightlife
  • Ting Tings - Wrong club
  • S Club 7 - S Club Party
  • Specials - Ghost town
  • Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl
  • U2 - Angel of Harlem
  • US3 - Cantaloop
  • Lyricslinger & Mikey - Your brain's like a nightclub
  • Rage Against The Machine - Freedom
  • Van Morrison - Don't go to nightclubs
  • Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
  • Arctic Monkeys - Four out of Five
  • Levellers - Just the one
  • Marillion - Bitter Suite
  • Sugababes - Shape
  • St Etienne - Join the club
  • Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • Soft Cell - Say hello wave goodbye
  • Cake - Rock'n'Roll Lifestyle
  • Libertines - Music when the light goes out
  • Iggy Pop & Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
  • Ian Dury - Hit me with your rhythm stick
  • Benny Goodman - Stomping at the Savoy
  • Destiny's Child - Jumpin' jumpin'

Friday, 20 June 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Schools

Midnight Mixtape: School

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (19/06/2025) with Songs that reference Schools and teachers! This is commemorate "Thank a teacher" day on June 18th.

Songs in contention

  • Alice Cooper - School's out
  • Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall Pt2
  • Vampire Weekend - Campus
  • Jackson 5 - ABC
  • Gym Class Heroes - Scandalous Scholastics
  • Hall & Oates - Adult Education
  • Rufus Wainwright - Art Teacher
  • Phish - Chalkdust torture
  • James Brown - Don't be a drop-out
  • Kanye West - Graduation Day
  • Kinks - Education
  • Blink-182 - Going away to college
  • Smiths - Headmaster Ritual
  • London Music Works - Please Sir
  • Barenaked Ladies - Grade 9
  • Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr A
  • Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays
  • Ramones - I don't wanna be learned
  • Asher Roth - I love college
  • Steely Dan - My old school
  • 21 Pilots - Next semester
  • Paul Simon - Me and Julio down by the schoolyard
  • Bobbettes - Mr Lee
  • Specials - Rat Race
  • Gene Summers - School of rock'n'roll
  • Belle & Sebastian - We rule the school
  • Wombats - School Uniforms
  • Cliff Richard - Schoolboy crush
  • Kelly Rowland - Stole
  • Rush - Subdivision
  • Jethro Tull - Teacher
  • Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
  • Taylor Swift - 15
  • John K Samson - When I write my master's thesis
  • Donna Summer - Love's unkind
  • White Stripes - We're going to be good friends
  • Strangers - School Mam
  • Sam Cooke - Wonderful world
  • Lulu - To sir with love
  • Nada Surf - Popular
  • Brownsville Station - Smoking in the boys room
  • Busted - What I go to school for
  • Pet Shop Boys - It's a sin
  • Supertramp - School
  • Madness - Baggy Trousers
  • Flock of Seagulls - This used to be my playground
  • Deftones - Back to school
  • Pulp - Babies
  • Hot Chip - Boy from school
  • Jam - Art school
  • Jam - Eton Rifles
  • ABBA - When I kissed the teacher
  • Doris Day - Teacher's pet
  • Cocoa tea - Stay in school
  • Van Halen - Hot for teacher
  • Rod Stewart - Maggie May
  • Kinks - David Watts
  • Eels - Dog-faced boy

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1]
1. Smiths - Headmaster Ritual
2. Belle & Sebastian - We rule the school
2. James Brown - Don't be a drop-out
3. Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays
4. Specials - Rat Race
5. Kinks - David Watts
6. Bruce Springsteen - Glory days

[Side 2]
7. Doris Day - Teacher's pet
8. Rod Stewart - Maggie May
9. Lulu - To sir with love
10. Busted - What I go to school for
11. Sam Cooke - Wonderful world
12. White Stripes - We're going to be good friends
Hidden: Alan Hackshaw - Chicken man (Grange Hill theme)

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 2 acts had never been on before Alan Hackshaw and Busted... Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 8: Kinks (6+2)
  • 6: Bruce Springsteen
  • 5: White Stripes
  • 4: Sam Cooke, Specials
  • 3: James Brown
  • 2: Boomtown Rats, Doris Day (1+1), Rod Stewart, Smiths
  • 1: Lulu
Note: Bruce Springsteen has made the long list 7 times before but the first time he's made the final 12 in his 8 appearance on the long list with Tony Livesey.

Sunday, 15 June 2025

Weekend Playlist: Spades

Weekend Playlist: Spades

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian Eason with help from guest curator Hastings looking at X/twitter selections (13/06/2025) with Songs that reference spades.
This was inspired by World Series of Poker which currently taking place in Las Vegas.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
1. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
2. Clash - Card Cheat
3. BPA ft Martha Wainwright - Spade
4. Bob Dylan - I want you
5. Duke Ellington - Trumpet in Spades
6. Genesis - Driving the last spike
[Side 2]
7. Frank Turner - Get better
8. Travis - Driftwood
9. Gravediggaz - Pass the Shovel
10. Mississippi John Hurt – Monday Morning Blues
11. Nizlopi - JCB Song
12. Bernard Cribbins - Hole in the ground
[Bonus]
Gene Kelly – Dig dig dig
Great Escape – Tonight we dig

Long list

  • Clash - Card Cheat
  • Bruce Springsteen - Does this bus stop at 82nd street
  • Frank Turner - Get better
  • Housemartins - Build
  • The Band - 4% Pantomime
  • Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo
  • Link Wray - Ace of Spades
  • KRS1 - Jack of Spades
  • Robert Johnson - Little Queen of Spades
  • Bernard Cribbins - Hole in the ground
  • BPA ft Martha Wainwright - Spade
  • Echo & Bunnyman - The Disease
  • Snow White - Heigh ho
  • Motorhead - Ace of Spades
  • M People - Moving on up
  • Sting - Shape of my heart
  • Blow Monkeys - Digging your scene
  • Duke Ellington - Trumpet in Spades
  • Gravediggaz - Pass the Shovel
  • Mississippi John Hurt – Monday Morning Blues
  • Linkin Park - Bleed it out
  • Paramore - Brick by boring brick
  • Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus dig
  • Incredible String Band - Smoke shovelling song
  • Silverbacks - Selling shovels
  • Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
  • Shovels and Rope - Coping Mechanism
  • Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon
  • Ike & Tina - I dig you
  • Genesis - Driving the last spike
  • Carter USM - Bloodsport for all
  • Clash - Bankrobber
  • Travis - Driftwood
  • Pogues - Navigator
  • Mock Turtles - Can you dig it?
  • Simon Boswell - A Spade, We Need A Spade
  • Bob Dylan - I want you
  • Styx - Queen of Spades
  • X - Tonight we dig
  • Christy Moore - Don't forget your shovel
  • Christy Moore - Missing you
  • Levellers - Hard fight
  • Lady Gaga - Poker Face
  • Nizlopi - JCB Song
  • Doris Day - Steam Heat
  • Rosemary Clooney - Snow
  • Jethro Tull - Up the pool
  • Gene Kelly – Dig dig dig
  • Great Escape – Tonight we dig

Friday, 13 June 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Siblings

Midnight Mixtape: Siblings

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by <Claire Lim to look at listener selections (12/06/2025) with Songs that reference sibilings! This was in honour of legendary Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson who had brothers in the band!

Songs in contention

  • Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
  • Pointer Sisters - I'm so excited
  • Chloe x Halle - Do it
  • Arcade Fire - Ready to start
  • Bangles - Manic Monday
  • National/Taylor Swift - The Alcott
  • Spandau Ballet - True
  • Veronicas - Untouched
  • Angus & Julia Stone - Mango Tree
  • Isley brothers - It's your thing
  • Beach boys - Barbara Ann
  • Kings of Leon - Pyro
  • Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles
  • Kinks - Lola
  • Oasis - Stop crying your heart out
  • White stripes - Icky thump
  • Bee Gees - More than a woman
  • Radiohead - Fake plastic trees
  • Delfonics - Didn't I blow your mind
  • HAIM - The Wire
  • Jackson 5 - Who's loving you
  • Everly Brothers - Walk right back
  • Kill - 30 seconds to Mars
  • Carpenters - Yesterday once more
  • Bay city rollers - Shang-a-lang
  • Sister sledge - We are family
  • INXS - Never tear us apart
  • Undertones - Teenage kicks
  • No Doubt - Don't speak
  • Biffy Clyro - Mountains
  • Kool and gang - Celebration
  • Cribs - Men's needs
  • Dire straits - Romeo & Juliet
  • Scissor Sisters - I don't feel like dancing
  • Doves - Caught by the river
  • Wilson Phillips - Hold on
  • Gerry - You'll never walk alone
  • Appleton - Don't worry
  • Sparks - This town ain't big enough...
  • First aid kit - Emmalou
  • Thompson twins - Sisters of Mercy
  • Alisha's attic - I am I feel
  • Jagged edge - Lets get married
  • Level 42 - Running in the family
  • Split Enz - Message to my girl
  • Nolans - I'm in the mood for dancing
  • Heart - Barracuda
  • Breeders - Cannonball
  • B*witched - Blame it on the weatherman
  • Corrs - Breathless

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1] Sisterly
1. Wilson Phillips - Hold on
2. Sister Sledge - We are family
3. Breeders - Cannonball
4. Alisha's attic - I am I feel
5. HAIM - The Wire
6. No Doubt - Don't speak

[Side 2] Brotherly
7. Beach boys - Barbara Ann
8. Kinks - Lola
9. Sparks - This town ain't big enough...
10. Level 42 - Running in the family
11. INXS - Never tear us apart
12. Carpenters - Yesterday once more
Hidden: Von Trapp Children (Sound of Music) - So long farewell

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 2 acts had never been on before, Alisha's Attic and Level 42 Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 7: Kinks (6+1)
  • 6: Beach Boys (4+2)
  • 4: Carpenters (2+2)
  • 3: Sister Sledge, Sound of Music (2+1)
  • 2: HAIM, INXS (1+1)
  • 1: Breeders, No Doubt, Sparks, Wilson Phillips

Monday, 9 June 2025

Weekend Playlist: Diamonds

Weekend Playlist: Diamonds

Here's the weekend playlist created by SnailOB with help from guest curator Walt looking at X/twitter selections (06/06/2025) with Songs that reference Diamonds.
This was inspired by World Series of Poker which currently taking place in Las Vegas.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Snail for the spotified list
[Side 1] Hidden Gems
Sade - Smooth Operator
Dubliners - Black Velvet Band
Steely Dan - Reeling in the years
Carter USM - Skywest & Crooked
Cab Callaway - Minnie the Moocher

[Side 2] Diamonds are forever
Rihanna - Diamonds
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Paul Simon - Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Beatles - Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever

[Bonus]
Jim Diamond - Should have known better
Neil Diamond - Diamond Girls

Long list

  • Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds
  • Beatles - Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
  • Beck - Diamond Bollocks
  • Belly - Diamond rib cage
  • Ben Harper - Diamonds on the inside
  • Billy Woods - Hack
  • Blue Rodeo - Diamond Mine
  • Bring me the horizon - Diamonds aren't forever
  • Cab Callaway - Minnie the Moocher
  • Carter USM - Skywest & Crooked
  • Dallas Diamond Page - Self hi-five / Smells like teen spirit
  • David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
  • David Lee Roth - That's Life
  • Diamond Head - Call me
  • Dubliners - Black Velvet Band
  • Dwight Yoakam & Willie Nelson - If teardrops were diamonds
  • ELO - Four little diamonds
  • Eminem - Mockingbird
  • Foo Fighters - Tired of you
  • Frank Sinatra - Take me out to the ball game
  • George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone
  • Gerry Cinnamon - Diamonds in the Mud
  • Glenn & Chris - Diamond Lights
  • Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Diamond Dew
  • Inez & Charlie Fox - Mockingbird
  • Jim Diamond - Should have known better
  • Joan Baez - Diamonds and rust
  • Johnny Cash - Best friend
  • Kanye West - Diamonds are from Sierra Leone
  • Lonnie Donegan - Jack O' Diamonds
  • Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds are a girl's best friend
  • Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - I dug up a diamond
  • Moor Mother - All the Money
  • Nadia - Re de denari
  • Neil Diamond - Foreverin blue jeans/Diamond Girls
  • Nick Heyward - Stars
  • Oysterband - Diamonds on the water
  • Paolo Nutini - Candy
  • Paul Simon - Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
  • Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
  • Prince - Diamonds & Pearls
  • Rihanna - Diamonds
  • Rihanna - We found love
  • Rob Thomas - Her diamonds
  • Sade - Smooth Operator
  • Sally Ann Morgan - Diamond Joe
  • Sam Smith - Diamonds
  • Shinedown - Diamond Eyes
  • Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever
  • Skip James - Jack O' Diamonds
  • Spandau Ballet - She loved like diamond
  • Steely Dan - Reeling in the years
  • Stylistics - I can't give you anything
  • Taylor Swift - Bejewelled
  • Tom McRae - How the west was won
  • XTC - Dear God

Friday, 6 June 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Cheese

Midnight Mixtape: Cheese

On the midnight mixtape, Steffan Powell was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (05/06/2025) with Songs that reference Cheese!
This is to commemorate National Cheese Day in the States on June 4th.

Songs in contention

  • Wham! - Wake me up before you go-go
  • Aqua - Barbie Girl
  • Nirvana - Big Cheese
  • Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up
  • Super Furry Animals - Death by melody
  • Eiffel 65 - Blue
  • Vengaboys - We like to party (Vengabus)
  • Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Song (Touch my bum)
  • Los Del Rio - Macarena
  • Streetband - Toast
  • Simple Minds - Don't you (FETA about me)
  • Vengaboys - Boom boom boom boom
  • Right Said Fred - I'm too sexy
  • Tim Minchin - Cheese
  • Jimmy Buffet - Cheeseburger in paradise
  • Kings of Leon - Milk
  • Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
  • S Club 7 - Bring it all back
  • Fast Food Rockers - Say Cheese
  • Rednex - Cotton eyed Joe
  • Baha men - Who let the dogs out?
  • Kelis - Milkshake
  • Culture Beat - Mr Vain
  • Walk the moon - Shut up & dance with me
  • Cole Porter - You're the top
  • Haddaway - What is love?
  • Chesney Hawkes - One and only
  • Men without hats - Safety dance
  • Isley Brothers - Summer Bries
  • Toni Basil - Mickey
  • Lou Bega - Mambo #5
  • Foundations - Build me up Buttercup
  • Leann Rimes - How do I live
  • 10cc - Life is a minestrone
  • ABBA - Dancing Queen
  • Blue - One Love
  • Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
  • Steps - 5,6,7,8
  • Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1] Cheesy
1. Vengaboys - We like to party (Vengabus)
2. Aqua - Barbie Girl
3. S Club 7 - Bring it all back
4. Chesney Hawkes - One and only
5. Los Del Rio - Macarena
6. Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up
[Side 2] Cheese
7. Tim Minchin - Cheese
8. Jimmy Buffet - Cheeseburger in paradise
9. Super Furry Animals - Death by melody
10. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
11. 10cc - Life is a minestrone
12. Cole Porter - You're the top

Hidden: Fast Food Rockers - Say Cheese

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before Chesney Hawkes, Fast Food Rockers, Jimmy Buffet, Rick Astley, S Club 7... Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 5: 10cc (4+1)
  • 3: Sugarhill Gang (2+1)
  • 2: Super Furry Animals, Tim Minchin
  • 1: Aqua, Cole Porter, Los Del Rio, Vengaboys

Sunday, 1 June 2025

Weekend Playlist: Hearing

Weekend Playlist: Hearing

Here's the weekend playlist created by Lyricslinger with help from guest curator Leigh looking at X/twitter selections (30/05/2025) with Songs that reference hearing.
This is to commemorate "Save your hearing day" on May 31st.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Simon for the spotified list
[Side 1]
Supergrass - Pumping on your stereo
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
Metallica - One
Celeste - Hear My Voice
Sinead O'Connor - Thank you for hearing me
Mike & Mechanics - Living years

[Side 2]
Jimi Hendrix - Hear my train a comin’
Donna Summer - On the radio
Frank Turner - I still believe
Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
Madonna - Like a prayer
Roberta Flack - Killing me softly

[Bonus]
Phil Collins - In the air tonight
Hear'Say - Pure & Simple
Fall out boy - Our lawyer made us change the name of this song so we wouldn't get sued

Long list

  • James - Sound
  • Nils Lofgren - Do you hear what I hear?
  • Sinead O'Connor - Thank you for hearing me
  • Fun Boy Three - Our lips are sealed
  • Gary Numan - Listen to my voice
  • OMD - Talking loud and clear
  • Jimi Hendrix - Hear my train a comin’
  • Ronettes - I can hear music
  • Verdi - Anvil Chorus (Trovatore)
  • Duran Duran - Planet Earth
  • Dave Edmunds - I hear you knocking
  • Deniece Williams - Let hear it for the boy
  • Lisa Loeb - Stay
  • Randy Orton - Voices
  • Mike & Mechanics - Living years
  • Ronettes - I can hear music
  • Sea Girls - All I wanna hear you say
  • Marilyn - Calling your name
  • Mike And The Mechanics - Silent Running
  • REO Speedwagon - Take it on the run
  • Kula Shaker - Sound of Drums
  • Owl City - Fireflies
  • Sam Cooke - Sugar Dumpling
  • Ex - Boohoo
  • Jaimie Branch - The Mountain
  • MF Doom - I Hear Voices
  • Hear'Say - Pure & Simple
  • Jimmy eat world - Hear you me
  • They might be giants - Hearing Aid
  • Bob Dylan - Don't think twice, it's all right
  • Cascades - Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Song for the deaf
  • Beatles - I feel fine
  • Move - I can hear the grass grow
  • Who - See me feel me
  • Bob Dylan - Hurricane
  • Queen - The Prophet Song
  • Til Tuesday - Voices carry
  • Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain
  • David Guetta ft Sia - Titanium
  • Phil Collins - In the air tonight
  • Supergrass - Pumping on your stereo
  • Smiths - Stop me if you think you've heard this one before
  • Bananarama - I heard a rumour
  • Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
  • Billie Myers - Kiss the rain
  • Doobie Brothers - Listen to the music
  • Frank Turner - I still believe
  • Celeste - Hear My Voice
  • Donna Summer - On the radio
  • Pulp - Babies
  • Roberta Flack - Killing me softly with his song
  • Camera Obscura - Big Love
  • James - Sit down
  • U2 - 40
  • B52s - Love Shack
  • Coldplay - Viva la vida
  • Dan Reed Network - Let's hear it for the king
  • Metallica - One
  • Emilia Jones - Both sides now
  • Marvin Gaye - (Heard it through the) Grapevine
  • Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
  • Ace of Base - Hear me calling
  • Madonna - Like a prayer
  • Queen - Radio ga ga
  • Beats International - Dub be good to me
  • Madness - My girl
  • Scorpions - Wind of change
  • Doobie Brothers - Listen to the music
  • INXS - Listen like thieves
  • Roxette - Listen to your heart
  • Beatles - Do you want to know a secret
  • Shamen - Ebennezer Goode
  • Fall out boy - Our lawyer made us change the name of this song so we wouldn't get sued
  • Gloria Estefan - Oye mi canto
  • Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Best Intros

Midnight Mixtape: Greatest Intros

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (29/05/2025) with Songs that have the best/greatest intros! (Paul was making his 50th appearance on the midnight Mixtape!)

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1]
1. Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
2. Only ones - Another girl another planet
3. Who - Won't get fooled again
4. U2 - Where the streets have no name
5. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
6. Arctic Monkeys - I bet you look good on the dance floor
[Side 2]
7. Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
8. Survivor - Eye of the tiger
9. Beastie Boys - Fight for your right
10. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
11. Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft
12. Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
Hidden: Derek & Dominoes - Layla

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 3 acts had not been on before Little Richard, Only ones, Survivor. However Survivor had been on Colin Murray's, 3 times with "Eye of the tiger" Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 6: Arctic Monkey (4+2), U2 (5+1)
  • 5: Glen Campbell (4+1), Nirvana (3+2), Who (4+1)
  • 3: Warren Zevon (2+1), Beastie Boys(2+1), Survivor
  • 2: Gloria Gaynor (1+1)
  • 1: Derek & Dominoes, Isaac Hayes, Little Richard, Only Ones

Songs in contention

  • Wham! - Freedom
  • Monkees - I'm a believer
  • Glen Campbell - Try a little kindness
  • Van Morrison - Wavelength
  • Chicago - If you leave me now
  • Muse - Supermassive black hole
  • Isley brothers - This old heart
  • Stone Roses - I am the resurrection
  • Dire Straits - Money for nothing
  • Underworld - Born slippy
  • Jean michel jarre - Equinoxe
  • Isaac Hayes - Shaft
  • Queen - Another bites the dust
  • Arctic Monkeys - I bet you look good on the dancefloor
  • ABC - Show me
  • Kinks - Sunny afternoon
  • Blue Oyster Cult - Don't fear the reaper
  • Diana Ross - I'm coming out
  • Gun - Race with the devil
  • Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
  • Metallica - Enter Sandman
  • Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
  • Procol Harum - Whiter shade of pale
  • Deep Purple - Smoke on the water
  • Amii Stewart - Knock on wood
  • Undertones - Teenage Kicks
  • Doors - Light my fire
  • Derek & Dominoes - Layla
  • Rolling Stones - Start me up
  • AC/DC - Back to black
  • Outkast - Sorry miss Jackson
  • Beastie Boys - Fight for the right
  • David Bowie - Sound & Vision
  • Queen - Tie your mother down
  • Beatles - She loves you
  • Joy Divison - Dead soul
  • Incredible Bongo Band - Apache
  • Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
  • Joe Esposito - You're the best
  • Oasis - Live forever
  • Gun n'Roses - November Rain
  • Glen Campbell - Witchia Lineman
  • Rammstein - Du hast
  • Ultravox - Vienna
  • Pixies - Debaser
  • U2 - Where the streets have no name
  • Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
  • Barry Ryan - Eloise
  • 10cc - I'm Mandy fly me
  • Rush - Spirit of Radio
  • Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
  • Michael Jackson - Will you be there
  • Harry Styles - As it was
  • Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
  • Marvin Gaye - Let's get it on
  • Black Sabbath - The Wizard
  • Chic - Everybody dance
  • Meatloaf - You take the words...
  • Judas Priest - Painkiller
  • Warren G - Regulate
  • Only ones - Another girl another planet
  • Prince - Let's go crazy
  • ELO - Mr Bluesky
  • Derek & Dominoes - Layla
  • Tempations - Papa was a rolling stone
  • Chaka Khan - I feel for you
  • Led Zeppelin - Whole lotta love
  • Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
  • Bruce Springsteen - Born to run
  • Who - Won't get fooled again
  • Survivor - Eye of the tiger
  • Bon Jovi - Keep the faith
  • Thin Lizzy - Do anything you want to do
  • Earth Wind & Fire - Got to get you into my life
  • INXS - New Sensation
  • Cranberries - Dreams

Monday, 26 May 2025

Weekend Playlist: Brown

Weekend Playlist: Brown

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian Eason with help from guest curator Dan looking at X/twitter selections (23/05/2025) with Songs that reference brown.
This was commemorate National Brown Bag it day on May 25th.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
Van Morrison - Brown eyed girl
Guns N'Roses - Mr Brownstone
Boney M - Brown girl in the ring
Nina Simone - Brown baby
Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
Kae Tempest - Brown eyed man

[Side 2]
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
Mamas & Papas - California Dreamin’
Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Muddy water
Pogues - A pair of brown eyes
Dee Dee Sharp - Gravy (for my mashed potatoes)
Stranglers - Golden Brown

[Bonus]
George Baker Selection - Little green bag
Roni Size & Reprazent - Brown paper bag

Long list

  • Brother Bones - Sweet Georgia Brown
  • Crystal Gayle - Don't it make my brown eyes blue
  • Saw Doctors - Bless me father
  • A Flock of Seagulls - Remember David
  • Billy Bragg - Help save the youth of America
  • Stanely Holloway - Brown Boots
  • Big Audio Dynamite - James Brown
  • Coasters - Charlie Brown
  • D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
  • Stranglers - Golden Brown
  • Inner circle - Sweat
  • Billy Connolly - In the brownies
  • Mamas & Papas - California Dreamin’
  • Noah Kahan - Stick Season
  • Cardiacs - Burn your house brown
  • 1975 - Chocolate
  • Don Henley - Boys of Summer
  • Hot Chocolate - No doubt about it
  • Bobby Brown - On our own
  • Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
  • Van Morrison - Brown eyed girl
  • Don Cherry - Brown Rice
  • Kae Tempest - Brown eyed man
  • Moor Mother & ​Billy Woods - Arkeology
  • Lighter Shade of Brown - Hey DJ
  • George Baker Selection - Little green bag
  • Pogues - Sally MacLennane
  • Elton John - Captain Fantastic & Brown dirt cowboy
  • Fleetwood Mac - Brown Eyes
  • Roni Size & Reprazent - Brown paper bag
  • Stan Getz - Girl from Ipanema
  • Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
  • Destiny's Child - Brown eyes
  • Shit Towne - Throwing Copper
  • Clash - All the young punks
  • Dee Dee Sharp - Gravy (for my mashed potatoes)
  • Harry Styles - Adore You
  • Prima Queen - Brownstone
  • Duke Special - Brixton Leaves
  • PJ Harvey - Colour ff the Earth
  • Shack - Cornish Town
  • Guns N'Roses - Mr Brownstone
  • Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
  • ZZ Top - Brown Sugar
  • Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Muddy water
  • Pogues - A pair of brown eyes
  • Mika - Billy Brown
  • Coldplay - Charlie Brown
  • Primus - Wynonna's big brown beaver
  • Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
  • Jim Croce - Bad bad Leroy Brown
  • Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
  • Don Henley - Boys of Summer
  • Boney M - Brown girl in the ring
  • Cece Peniston - Finally
  • Nina Simone - Brown baby

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Cover Versions

Midnight Mixtape: Definitive Cover Versions

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (22/05/2025) with Songs where the cover version is better than original or the "definitive" version or as U2 put it, "Even better than the real thing!"

Songs in contention

  • UB40 - (I can't help) falling in love with you [Elvis Presley]
  • Guns n'Roses - Live and let die [Wings]
  • Isaac Hayes - Walk on by [Dionne Warwick]
  • Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends [Beatles]
  • Morrissey - That's entertainment [Jam]
  • Damned - Eloise [Barry Ryan]
  • Marvin Gaye - I heard it through the grapevine [Gladys Knight]
  • Joan Jett - I love rock'n'roll [Arrows]
  • Jimi Hendrix - All along the watchtower [Bob Dylan]
  • G Flip - Cruel Summer [Taylor Swift]
  • Maxwell - This woman's work [Kate Bush]
  • Nirvana - Man who sold the world [David Bowie]
  • Natalia Imbruglia - Torn [Ednaswap]
  • Arctic Monkeys - Baby I'm yours [Barbara Lewis]
  • Pet Shop Boys - Always on my mind [Elvis Presley]
  • Alien Ant Fram - Smooth Criminal [Michael Jackson]
  • Patti Smith - Gloria [Van Morrison/Them]
  • Aretha Franklin - Respect [Otis Redding]
  • Whitney - I will always love you [Dolly Parton]
  • Specials - Message to you Rudy [Dandy Livingstone]
  • Sinead O'Connor - Nothing compares 2 u [Prince]
  • Rod Stewart - Handbags & gladrags [Chris Farlowe]
  • Vic & Wonderstuff - Dizzy [Tommy Roe]
  • Soft Cell - Tainted love [Gloria Jones]
  • Tori Amos - Smells like teen spirit [Nirvana]
  • Siouxsie & Banshees - Dear Prudence [Beatles]
  • Clash - I fought the law [Crickets]
  • Mark Ronson ft Amy Winehouse - Valerie [Zutons]
  • Manic Street Preachers - Umbrella [Rihanna]
  • Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats [Knife]
  • Tricky - Black Steel [Public Enemy]
  • Roberta Flack - First time I ever saw your face [Ewan MacColl]
  • My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row [Bob Dylan]
  • Johnny Cash - If you could read my mind [Gordon Lightfoot]
  • John Cale - Heartbreak hotel [Elvis Presley]
  • Snapped Ankles - Fish needs a bike [Blurt]
  • Johnny Cash - Hurt [NiN]
  • Led Zeppelin - Dazed and confused [Jake Holmes]
  • Bryan Adams - Sunny [Bobby Hebb]
  • Blondie - Hanging on the telephone [Nerves]
  • Communards - Never can say goodbye [Jackson 5]
  • John Cale - Hallejuah [Leonard Cphen]
  • Plaebo - Running up that hill [Kate Bush]
  • Paul Young - Wherever I lay my hat (that's my home) [Marvin Gaye]
  • Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine of your love [Cream]
  • Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson [Simon & Garfunkel]
  • Housemartins - Caravan of love [Isley Brothers]
  • Disturbed - Land of confusion [Genesis]

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape! Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist (plus the originals

[Side 1]
1. Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends
2. Joan Jett - I love rock n roll
3. Aretha - Respect
4. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing compares 2 u
5. Rod Stewart - Handbags & Gladrags
6. Soft Cell - Tainted love
[Side 2]
7. Roberta Flack - First time ever...
8. Clash - I fought the law
9. Nirvana - Man who sold the world
10. Marvin Gaye - ...Grapevine
11. Jimi Hendrix - All along the watch tower
12. Johnny Cash - Hurt
Hidden: Isaac Hayes - Walk on by

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 8 acts had never been on before Joe Cocker, Joan Jett, Aretha, Sinead O'Connor, Soft Cell, Roberta Flack, Clash, Isaac Hayes. Joan Jett and Isaac Hayes have in fact never appeared before. Appearances of those that have been on before altogether:
  • 13: Johnny Cash (11+2)
  • 10: Marvin Gaye (9+1)
  • 5: Aretha Franklin, Clash
  • 4: Jimi Hendrix (3+1),Nirvana (3+1), Sinead O'Connor
  • 3: Roberta FLack
  • 2: Joe Cocker
  • 1: Rod Stewart, Soft Cell
Clash been mentioned numerous times on Tony Livesey's midnight mixtape (4 times previously) but it's the first time, they have made the final 12.
Whilst first time Marvin Gaye's "I heard it through the grapevine" has appeared on Livesey's midnight mixtape, it's the 6th time in total that song has made an appearance. Joe Cocker has only ever appeared on the mixtape with "With a little help from my friends" (3 times).
Johnny Cash has now appeared in the last two mixtapes following "One piece at a time" in last week's "Betrayal" mixtape.

Monday, 19 May 2025

Weekend Playlist: Mining

Weekend Playlist: Mining

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (16/05/2025) with Songs that reference or associated with mining.
This was inspired by the anniversairy on Tuesday (13/05/1949), Paul Robeson visited and sung for the miners at Woolmet Colliery near Edinburgh.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
Lee Dorsey - Working in a Coalmine
Johnny Cash - Dark as a dungeon
Dubliners - Working man
Loretta Lynn - Coal miner's daughter
Chumbawamba - Diggers' Song
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground

[Side 2]
Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez (Brassed Off)
Whitehall Parade - Black Stone
Billy Bragg - Between the wars
Dick Gaughan - Pound a Week rise
Paul Robeson - Joe Hill
Pet Shop Boys - Go west

[Bonus]
Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft
Mock Turtles - Can you dig it

Long list