Midnight Mixtape: Fictional Places
On the midnight mixtape,
Tony Livesey was joined by <
Jo Kendall to look at listener selections (04/06/2026) with
Songs that reference fictional places following the mention of the history of Thomas and the tank engine
Songs in contention
- Beach Boys - Kokomo
- Prince - Alphabet Street
- Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu
- Johnathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain
- Doobie Brothers - China Grove
- Eagles - Hotel California
- Harry McClintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Enya - Loxian Gate
- Blondie - Island of lost souls
- Who - Teenage wasteland
- Donovan - Atlantis
- Doris Day - Toyland
- B52s - Planet Clare
- Dean Martin - Hit the road to Dreamland
- Peter Paul Mary - Puff the magic dragon
- Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
- Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island
- Jam - Strange Town
- Specials - Ghost town
- XTC - Mayor of Simpleton
- David Bowie - Suffragette City
- Bucks Fizz - Land of make believe
- Pogues - Rain Street
- Martha & Muffins - Echo Beach
- Bob Dylan - Black diamond bay
- Weezer - Island in the sun
- Barry Manilow - Bermuda Triangle
- Lipps Inc - Funky town
- Bob Marley - Concrete Jungle
- Hollies - Gasoline Alley
- Seekers - Morning town ride
- Earth Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland
- Conny Conrad - Take my hand to Wonderland
- Beatles - Octopus' garden
- Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
- Max Bygraves - Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea
- Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
- Muse - Knights of Cydonia
- Wham! - Club Tropicana
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
- Tina Turner - We don’t need another hero
- Kinks - Shangri La
- Tight Fit - Fantasy Island
- Beatles - Yellow Submarine
- Monty Python - Knights of the round table (Camelot)
- Black Sabbath - Valhalla
- KLF - 3am eternal
- Talking heads - Road to nowhere
- Bush - Land of milk and honey
- Spooks - Karma Hotel
- Green Day - Coma city
- Urban Hype - Trip to Trumpton
- HMHB - Trumpton Riots
- Green Day - Boulevard of broken dreams
- Queen - Seven seas of Rhye
- Judy Garland - Somewhere over the rainbow
- Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
- Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits
- Madonna - La Isla Bonita
- Roxy Music - Avalon
Final Mixtape
Here's the final mixtape!
[Side 1]
1. Bucks Fizz - Land of make believe
2. Martha & Muffins - Echo Beach
3. Donovan - Atlantis
4. Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
5. Kinks - Shangri La
6. Max Bygraves - Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea
[Side 2]
7. David Bowie - Suffragette City
8. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
9. Johnathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain
10. Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits
11. Enya - Loxian Gate
12. HMHB - Trumpton Riots
Hidden: Judy Garland - Somewhere over the rainbow
Previous Appearances
From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 7 acts had never been on before, Bucks Fizz, Donovan (1), Enya (1), Half man Half Biscuit (3), Johnathan Coulton, Judy Garland (2), Max Bygraves (1)
(Numbers in brackets featured in Colin Murray's midnight mixtapes)
Appearances of those that have been on before:
- 9: David Bowie (17)
- 5: Kinks (11)
- 2: Led Zepplin (3), Tina Turner (6)
- 1: Frankie goes to Hollywood (2), Martha & Muffins
