Sunday, 3 May 2026

Weekend Playlist: Play

Weekend Playlist: Play

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Leigh looking at X/twitter selections (01/05/2026) with Songs that have play in title or lyrics.
This was commemorate celebration of National Play Outside Day on the first Saturday of every month.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Let's play
Barry White - Let the music play
Jennifer Lopez - Play
Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
Bizarre Inc. - Playing with knives
Billie Eilish - Come out and play
Bobby Brown - Two can play that game

[Side 2] The Game
Motörhead - The Game (Triple H)
Janet Kay - Silly Games
Peter Gabriel - Games without Frontiers
Joss Stone - Snakes & Ladders
Cardigans - My favourite game
Andy Williams - Solitaire

[Bonus]
Nicki French - Don't play that song again
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (my baby shot me down)

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Spoken Bits

Midnight Mixtape: Spoken Bits

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (30/04/2026) with Songs that reference songs with spoken words in them based on the number of speeches at King Charles III state visit to the USA!

Songs in contention

  • Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
  • Michael Jackson - Thriller
  • Bucks Fizz - Land of make belief
  • Paolo Nutini - Iron sky
  • Madness - My name is Michael Caine
  • Paul Hardcastle - 19
  • Kinks - Come dancing
  • Meatloaf - Paradise by the dashboard light
  • Little Simz - 101FM
  • Jackson & McCartney - Girl is mine
  • Elvis - Are you lonesome tonight
  • Benny Hill - Ernie
  • Byrds - 2-4-2 Fox Trot
  • Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
  • Franz Ferdinand & Sparks - Johnny Delusional
  • REM - Radio Song
  • Lou Reed - Walk on the wildside
  • All saints - Never ever
  • Faithless - Insomnia
  • Traffic - Hole in my shoe
  • New Order - World in motion
  • Stan Ridgway - Camfloguage
  • Blur - Parklife
  • Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
  • Birkin & Gainsbourg - Je t'aime
  • Britney - Oops I did it again
  • ELO - Telephone line
  • S&G - Sounds of silence
  • Dolly Parton - I will always love you
  • Barry White - First last my everything
  • Tom Jones - Green green grass of home
  • Thomas Dolby - Blinded by science
  • Boyz II Men - End of the road
  • Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly
  • Simon Dupree & Big Sound - Kites
  • NWA - Straight Outta Compton
  • Pulp - Acrylic afternoons
  • 10cc - I'm not in love
  • Nick Cave - Oh wow wow
  • Dr Feelgood - Down at the doctors
  • Young ones - Living doll
  • Queen - These are the days of lives
  • Damned - New Rose
  • Soft cell - Say hello wave goodbye
  • Tubeway Army - Are friends electric?
  • Boney M - Rasputin
  • Wham! - Wham Rap
  • Ian Dury - Sweet Gene Vincent
  • Dexys - Knowledge of beauty
  • Don Estelle & Windsor Davies - Whispering grass
  • Human League - Louise

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
2. Paolo Nutini - Iron sky
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Meatloaf - Paradise by the dashboard light
5. Elvis - Are you lonesome tonight
6. Tubeway Army - Are friends electric?
[Side 2]
7. All saints - Never ever
8. Birkin & Gainsbourg - Je t'aime
9. Damned - New Rose
10. Soft cell - Say hello wave goodbye
11. Boney M - Rasputin
12. Dexys - Knowledge of beauty
Hidden: Lou Reed - Walk on the wildside

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before All Saints (1), Boney M (1), Damned (2), NWA (2), Tubeway Army (1) (Numbers in brackets featured in Colin Murray's midnight mixtapes)
Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 4: Elvis (13)
  • 2: Meatloaf (5), Michael Jackson (5), Soft Cell (3)
  • 1: Birkin & Gainsbourg (2), Dexys (6), Lou Reed (3), Paolo Nutini (3)

Monday, 27 April 2026

Weekend Playlist: Stars

Weekend Playlist: Stars

Here's the weekend playlist created by Lyricslinger with help from guest curator Chris Foster looking at X/twitter selections (24/04/2026) with Songs that reference Stars.
This was commemorate National Stars Day in America on April 26th.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Stars
1. Erasure - Star
2. Kiki Dee - Star
3. Nick Heyward - Stars
4. Dubstar - Stars
5. Watercress - Stars shine on
6. Janis Ian - Stars

[Side 2] Into the Galaxy
7. Alan Parsons Project - Sirius / Eye in the sky
8. Muse - Starlight
9. Darwin Deez - Constellations
10. Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
11. Don McLean - Vincent
12. Monty Python - Galaxy song

[Bonus]
Leonard Cohen – Darkness
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Dance Routines

Midnight Mixtape: Dance Routines

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Jo Kendall to look at listener selections (22/04/2026) with Songs that reference dance routines!

Songs in contention

  • Dexys Midnight Runners - C’mon Eileen
  • Los Del Rio - Macarena
  • DJ Casper - Cha cha slide
  • Black Lace - Agadoo
  • Mud - Tiger feet
  • Tweets - Birdie Song
  • Little Eva - Locomotion
  • Soulja boy - Crank dat
  • Bee Gees - Night fever
  • Van McCoy - The hustle
  • Chubby Checker - The twist
  • Madness - One step beyond
  • Whigfield - Saturday night
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show - Time warp
  • PSY - Gangnam style
  • Extra Ts - ET Boogie
  • New Order - Blue Monday
  • Stray Cats - Stray cats strut
  • Elvis - Bossa nove baby
  • Beyonce - Single Ladies
  • Cameo - Candy
  • T-Rex - Jitterbug love
  • Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - Time of my life
  • Madonna - Vogue
  • Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
  • James - Sit down
  • Steps - Tragedy
  • Las Ketchup - Ketchup song
  • OK go - Here it goes again
  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the dancefloor
  • Nancy Sinatra - These boots are made for walkin'
  • Gap Band - Oops upside your head
  • Shirley Ellis - Clapping song
  • Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 dances
  • Genesis - I can't dance
  • Backstreet boys - Backstreet's back
  • Kenny - The Bump
  • Roxy Music - Do the strand
  • House of Pain - Jump around
  • Joy Division - Dance to the radio (Transmission)
  • Walk the moon - Shut up and dance
  • Village People - YMCA
  • Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy breaky heart
  • Doop - Doop
  • Bad Manners - Can Can
  • Housemartins - Happy hour
  • Michael Jackson - Thriller
  • DCUP - We no speak Americanos

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Los Del Rio - Macarena
2. Mud - Tiger feet
3. PSY - Gangnam style
4. Village People - YMCA
5. Gap Band - Oops upside your head
6. Madness - One step beyond
[Side 2]
7. Madonna - Vogue
8. Rocky Horror Picture Show - Time warp
9. Beyonce - Single Ladies
10. Las Ketchup - Ketchup song
11. Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 dances
12. Bad Manners - Can Can

Hidden: Roxy Music - Do the strand

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 6 acts had never been on before, Bad Manners, Gap Band, Las Ketchup (1), Psy, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Village People (Numbers in brackets featured in Colin Murray's midnight mixtapes)
Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 4: Madness (8)
  • 2: Beyonce (6), Madonna (8), Mud (2),
  • 1: Los Del Rio (2), Wilson Pickett (4), Roxy Music (1)

Sunday, 19 April 2026

Weekend Playlist: Weddings

Weekend Playlist: Weddings

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator Paul looking at X/twitter selections (17/04/2026) with Songs that reference Weddings.
This was commemorate the wedding of Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier III of Monaco, 70 years ago on April 19. It was also Husband appreciation day on April 18 (celebrated every third Saturday in April)

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
Proclaimers - Let's get married
Specials - Friday night Saturday morning
Bruce Springsteen - The river
Stanley Holloway - I'm getting married in the morning
Dixie Cups - Chapel of love
Felix Mendelssohn - Wedding March

[Side 2]
All about eve - She moves through the fair
ABBA - I do I do I do
Shirley Bassey - Diamonds are forever
Elton John - Kiss the bride
Associates - Breakfast
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon

[Bonus]
Oysterband - Blood wedding
Billy Idol - White wedding

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Barbershop

Midnight Mixtape: Barbershop

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (16/04/2025) with Songs that reference to things found in a barbershop after last week, Tony "2 trims" Livesey going to barber's twice!

Songs in contention

  • Rodgers & Hammerstein - Surrey with the fringe on top
  • Haircut 100 - Love plus one
  • Scissor Sisters - I don't feel like dancing
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein - I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair
  • Foo Fighters - Razor
  • Idles - Never fight a man with a perm
  • Nirvana - Floyd the barber
  • INXS - Suicide blonde
  • Flaming lips - She don't use jelly
  • William Michael Morgan - Cheap Cologne
  • Divine Comedy - Something for the weekend
  • Rolling Stones - She's a rainbow
  • Rod Stewart - First cut is the deepest
  • Dollar - Mirror mirror
  • Beck - Devil's haircut
  • Cocteau Twins - Squeeze-Wax
  • Guns n'Roses - Live and let die
  • Prince - She's always in my hair
  • Barber - Adagio for strings
  • Human League - Mirror man
  • Cutting Crew - Any colour
  • Symarip - Skinhead moonstomp
  • Jimmy Osmond - Long haired lover from Liverpool
  • Shampoo - Trouble
  • Beach Boys - Barbara Ann
  • Echo & Bunnymen - The cutter
  • Pavement - Cut your hair
  • Corduroy - Ponytail
  • 10cc - Dreadlock holiday
  • Crosby Stills Nash & Young - I almost cut my hair
  • Madness - Razor blade alley
  • Razorlight - Golden touch
  • William Orbit - Barber's Adagio for Strings
  • Cat Stevens - First cut is the deepest
  • Sheryl Crow - First cut is the deepest
  • LCD Soundsystem - Emotional haircut
  • Twisted Sister - Under the blade
  • Beatles - Lend me your comb
  • Nancy Sinatra - Bang bang
  • Black Sabbath - Johnny blade
  • Status Quo - In my chair
  • Odyessy - Going back to my roots
  • Michael Jackson - Man in the mirror
  • Visage - Fade to grey
  • Morrissey - Suedehead
  • Camper van Beethoven - Take the skinheads bowling
  • Bob Marley - Crazy baldhead
  • Roger Taylor - A nation of haircuts
  • Split Enz - Split Ends
  • Beastie Boys - Mullethead
  • Morrissey - Hairdresser on fire
  • Who - Cut my hair
  • Happy Mondays - Kinky afro
  • Beatles - Penny Lane
  • Hozier - Parting glass
  • George Thorogood - Get a haircut

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Divine Comedy - Something for the weekend
2. Rodgers & Hammerstein - I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair
3. Foo Fighters - Razor
4. Idles - Never fight a man with a perm
5. Beck - Devil's haircut
6. Barber - Adagio for strings

[Side 2]
7. Symarip - Skinhead moonstomp
8. Flaming lips - She don't use jelly
9. Morrissey - Suedehead
10. Echo & Bunnymen - The cutter
11. Haircut 100 - Love plus one
12. Odyessy - Going back to my roots

Hidden: Beatles - Penny Lane

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 6 acts had never been on before Foo fighters (3), Idles (1), Odyessy (1), Rodgers & Hammerstein, Samuel Barber, Symarip. (Numbers in brackets featured in Colin Murray's midnight mixtapes)
Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 9: Beatles (24)
  • 2: Beck (6), Divine Comedy (8), Echo & Bunneymen (5), Flaming Lips (6)
  • 1: Haircut 100 (2), Morrissey (1)

Thursday, 16 April 2026

Weekend Playlist: Wild

Weekend Playlist: Wild

Here's the weekend playlist created by Leigh with help from guest curator Wee Bear looking at X/twitter selections (10/04/2026) with Songs that reference wild.
This was commemorate "Walk on the wild side day" on Sunday (April 12th)

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Wild at heart
Steppenwolf - Born to be wild
Troggs - Wild Thing
Talking Heads - Wild wild life
Sophie Ellis Bextor - Wild forever
Cat Stevens - Wild world
Iggy Pop - Real wild child

[Side 2] Into the wild
Paul Weller - Wild wood
Rolling Stones - Wild horses
Nick Cave & Kylie - Where the wild roses grow
Wandering Hearts - Wild Silence
Jessie J - Wild in it
Sam Fender - Wild grey ocean

[Bonus]
Wild Cherry - Play that funky music
WILD - All my life

Long list

  • All About Eve - Wild hearted woman
  • Bessie Smith - I'm wild about that thing
  • Bon Jovi - Wild in the streets
  • Bon Jovi - Wild is the wind
  • Bow Wow Wow - Go wild in the country
  • Bright Eyes - Old soul song
  • Bruce Springsteen - Bobby Jean
  • Cardiacs - VOLOB
  • Cat Stevens - Wild world
  • Christina Perri - The Words
  • Coldplay - Life in Techicolor II
  • Coral - Wild bird
  • Cult - Wild Flower
  • David Bowie - Wild is the wind
  • Deacon Blue - The Wildness
  • Dixie Chicks - Hole in my head
  • DJ Supreme - Tha Wildstyle
  • Duran Duran - Wild boys
  • Dwight Yoakam - Wild ride
  • Escape Club - Wild wild west
  • Iggy Pop - Real wild child
  • Japan - Ghosts
  • Jessie J - Wild in it
  • Johnny Cash - Mary of the wild moor
  • Keane - Sovereign Light Cafe
  • Kim Wilde - Kids in America
  • Leaan Rimes - Wild things run
  • Lou Reed - Walk on the wild side
  • Marky Mark - Wildside
  • Marty Wilde - Rubber ball
  • Maxi Priest - Wild world
  • Michael Jackson - She drives me wild
  • Michaela Strachan - Take good care of my heart
  • Natalie Cole - Wild women do
  • Nick Cave - Wild God
  • Nick Cave & Kylie - Where the wild roses grow
  • Ocean Colour Scene - Day we caught the train
  • Paul Weller - Wild wood
  • Pitbull - Wild wild love
  • Pogues - Wild rover
  • PremRock - Steal wool
  • Prodigy - Wild Frontier
  • Raul Orellana - Real wild house
  • REM - Near wild heaven
  • Rolling Stones - Wild horses
  • Sam Fender - Wild grey ocean
  • SAULT - Wildfires
  • Scouting for Girls - Michaela Strachan
  • Silencers - Wild mountain thyme
  • Skid Row - Youth gone wild
  • Slade - Cum on feel the noize
  • Sleeping at last - Neptune
  • Smokie - Wild wild angels
  • Sophie Ellis Bextor - Wild forever
  • Steppenwolf - Born to be wild
  • Suede - Wild Ones
  • Talking Heads - Wild wild life
  • Tinned Meats - Caught in the wild
  • Tone Loc - Wild Thing
  • Tricky - Running wild
  • Troggs - Wild Thing
  • U2 - Who's gonna ride your wild horses
  • Ultravox - Reap the wild wind
  • Vamps - Wild heart
  • Wandering Hearts - Wild Silence
  • WILD - All my life
  • Wild Cherry - Play that funky music
  • Will Smith - Wild Wild West