Monday, 31 March 2025

Colin Murray Midnight Mixtapes

Colin's Midnight Mixtapes
1. Greatest Album Opening
2. Trumpets
3. Fruit
4. Foreign
5. Scotland
6. Shortest
7. Royals
8. Gone too soon
9. Wales
10. Elvis
11. 80s Movies
12. Holidays
13. Devils
14. Oh Brother
15. Oh Sister
16. One name
17. TV Themes
18. Non-Sport
19. James Bond
20. Question of Love
21. Dreams
22. Louder than war
23. Monster
24. Fireworks
25. Superheroes
26. Villains
27. La la land
28. More Cowbell
29. Radio
30. Children's Toys
31. 12 Days of Christmas
32. New Beginnings
33. Winter
34. Prison
35. Blood
36. Take me to the river
37. Rumours, Whispers, Gossip
38. Roses
39. Dogs
40. Eyes
41. Respect
42. Places in Ireland
43. Ships and Boats
44. Beatles Covers
45. Fast Songs
46. Memories are made of this (Happy)
47. Snooker Colours
48. Whisper it
49. The Best
50. Hello
51. Under the sea
52. Say what
53. Anyone for tennis
54. Spell that
55. In the toolbox
56. Going postal
57. Alone
58. Movie Stars
59. End of the road
60. Got wood
61. Liar Liar
62. Summer lovin'
63. Sugar
64. Rainbows
65. Couples
66. White Album
67. Magic
68. Choirs
69. Autumn
70. Hotels
71. Sight
72. Imagination
73. Deja vu
74. Set the table
75. Brain
76. Car Showroom 1
77. Car Showroom 2
78. Planets
79. Two Instruments
80. North Pole
81. Homeward Bound
82. Just Breathe
83. New Year
84. Cards
85. Day
86. Bridges
87. Groundhog Day 1
88. Groundhog Day 1
89. 3 Items
90. Human Spirit 1
91. Human Spirit 2
92. Lost Property
93. Kiss
94. Whistle
95. Fools
96. Trains
97. Records
98. Running 1
99. Running 2
100. Hundred
101. Windows
102. Search
103. Good Advice
104. Cleaning Up
105. Sunshine
106. Council Estate
107. Plants
108. Books
109. Breaking Law
110. DayNight Before
111. Spanish 1
112. Spanish 2
113. Dentist
114. Thunder & Lightning
115. Fame
116. Washing/Drying
117. Aliens
118. End of the world
119. Perfect
120. Baseball
121. Rats
122. Shyness
123. Dog Talk
124. Shoes
125. Shakespeare
126. Shopping List
127. Touch
128. Walls
129. Jamaica to Brum
130. Songs that refer
131. Referred Songs
132. Last Orders
133. New Beginnings

LNL Midnight Mixtapes

Livesey's Midnight Mixtapes

1. Toast
2. Swimming
3. Blue
4. Returns
5. Newy
6. Dinosaurs
7. King
8. News
9. Telephone
10. Goodbye
11. Flying
12. Sweets
13. Beds
14. Questions
15. Sunshine
16. Guitar Riffs
17. Home
18. Secret

Saturday, 29 March 2025

Weekend Playlist: Circus

Weekend Playlist: Circus

Here's the weekend playlist created by Lyricslinger with help from guest curator Leigh looking at X/twitter selections (28/03/2025) with Songs that reference anything at a circus.
This was inspired by Erasure's release of their second studio album "The Circus" which included one of their biggest hits, "Sometimes" on 30/03/1987.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist! Thank you for Lyricslinger created a "spotified playlist.

[Side 1] Start the fire
1. Prodigy - Firestarter
2. Webb Wilder - Human Cannonball
3. Nirvana - Trapeze
4. Bruce Springsteen - Wild Billy's Circus Story
5. Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant
6. Britney - Circus

[Side 2] Show goes on
7. Julius Fucik - Enter the Gladiators
8. Madness - Circus Freaks
9. Christina Aguilera - Welcome
10. Judy Collins - Send in the clowns
11. Newsboys - Reality
12. Leo Sayer - The show must go on

[Bonus]
Men at Work - High Wire
Beatles - Being for the benefit of Mr Kite!
REM - Carnival of sorts (Boxcars)

Long list

  • 5 finger death punch - Welcome to the circus
  • Beatles - Being for the benefit of Mr Kite!
  • Billy Connelly - Ivan the terrible
  • Britney Spears - Circus
  • Bruce Springsteen - The daring young man on the flying trapeze
  • Bruce Springsteen - Wild Billy's Circus Story
  • Bruce Springsteen/Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light
  • Bryan Adams - Into the fire
  • Christina Aguilera - Welcome
  • Circus Of Power - Mama Tequila
  • Counting Crowes - Raining In Baltimore
  • David Essex - Oh what a circus
  • Deacon Blue - Circus Lights
  • dEUS - Ghost
  • Doves - Walk in fire
  • Echo & Bunnymen - Bring on the dancing horses
  • Emeli Sandé - Clown
  • Erasure - The Circus
  • Goldfrapp - Clowns
  • Greatest Showman - Greatest Show
  • Greatest Showman Cast - This Is Me (Official Lyric Video)
  • Insane Crowd Posse - Ringmasters word
  • Janelle Monae - Tightrope
  • Judy Collins - Send In The Clowns
  • Julius Fucik - Enter the Gladiators
  • Katy Perry - Roar
  • Kings of Leon - Red morning light
  • Leo Sayer - The show must go on
  • Levellers - World Freak Show
  • Madness - Circus Freaks
  • Marc Almond - Bread and Circus
  • Marti Webb - Tell me on a Sunday
  • Men At Work - High Wire
  • Monkees - The Poster
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • Moony - Acrobats
  • Natalie Merchant - Carnival
  • Newsboys - Reality
  • Nirvana - Trapeze
  • Oasis - Wonderwall
  • Owl City - Under the Circus lights
  • Peggy Lee - Is that all there is?
  • Prodigy - Firestarter
  • R.E.M. - Wall of Death (Official Audio)
  • REM - Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
  • Skids - Circus Games
  • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
  • Stereophonics - C'est La Vie
  • Stone Roses - Tightrope
  • The Police - Peanuts
  • Tom Waits - Step right up
  • Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant
  • U2 - Acrobat
  • W.A.S.P - Inside the Electric Circus
  • Webb Wilder - Human Cannonball

Thursday, 27 March 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Secret

Midnight Mixtape: Secret

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (27/03/2025) with Songs that reference secrets! (after a few secrets been leaked out this week)

Songs in contention

  • Ian Dury - Profoundly in love with Pandora (Secret diary of Adrian Mole)
  • Beatles - Do you want know the secret
  • Driven - Secret police
  • Go-Go's - Our lips are sealed
  • Fun boy three - Our lips are sealed
  • Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets
  • Queens of Stone Age - Lost art of keeping a secret
  • Mud - The secrets that keep you
  • Taylor Swift - Enchanted
  • Bee Gees - Secret love
  • Dubliners - 7 drunken nights
  • Madonna - Live to tell
  • Zutons - Secrets
  • Urban Cookie Collective - The key, the secret
  • Warrant - Uncle Tom's cabin
  • Little Mix -Secret love song
  • Semisonic - Secret smile
  • ELO - Secret message
  • Atlantic Starr - Secret lovers
  • Deep Purple - Hush hush
  • Stevie Nicks - Secret love
  • Bangles - He's got a secret
  • Andy Pawlak - Secrets
  • All american rejects - Dirty little secret
  • Skunk Anasie - Secretly
  • Fiat lux - Secrets
  • Vain - Secrets
  • De la soul - Can you keep a secret
  • PJ Harvey - This is love
  • U2 - The fly
  • Karyn White - Secret rendez-vous
  • National - Secret meeting
  • P!nk - Secrets
  • Police - Secret journey
  • Leonard Cohen - In my secret life
  • George Michael - Heal the pain
  • Glasvegas - Secret truth
  • Fred Neil - I've got a secret
  • Van Halen - Secrets
  • ABC - Poison arrow
  • Tom Waits - Tango til we're sore
  • Duran Duran - Secret Oktober
  • Billy J Kramer & Dakotas - Do you want to know a secret
  • Onerepublic - Secrets
  • OMD - Secret
  • Depeche mode - Policy of truth
  • Doris Day - Secret love
  • Elbow - The birds
  • Secret Affair - My world
  • Doves - The man told everything
  • Softcell - Say hello wave goodbye

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Billy J Kramer & Dakotas - Do you want to know a secret
2. Fun boy three - Our lips are sealed
3. Deep Purple - Hush hush
4. Karyn White - Secret rendez-vous
5. ABC - Poison arrow
6. Glasvegas - Secret truth
[Side 2]
7. Mud - The secrets that keep you
8. Madonna - Live to tell
9. Queens of Stone Age - Lost art of keeping a secret
10. Urban Cookie Collective - The key, the secret
11. Doris Day - Secret love
12. Taylor Swift - Enchanted
Hidden: Dubliners - 7 drunken nights

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before, ABC, Billy J Kramer, Glasvegas, Mud, Urban Cookie Collective. Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 6: Madonna
  • 4: Taylor Swift
  • 3: Dubliners (2+1)
  • 2: Deep Purple, Queens of Stone Age (1+1)
  • 1: Doris Day, Funboy Three, Karyn White

Sunday, 23 March 2025

Weekend Playlist: Cinema

Weekend Playlist: Cinema

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian with help from guest curator NatalieBear looking at X/twitter selections (21/03/2025) with Songs that reference anything at a cinema.
This was inspired by first public film screen in Paris on 22nd March 1895 and what would have been Oscar-winning cinematographer David Watkin's 100th birthday on 23rd March.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist! Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.

[Side 1] Date Night
1. Pearl & Dean - Asteroid
2. Muppets - Popcorn
3. Prefab Sprout - King of Rock ’n’ Roll
4. Jeremy Nicholas -OR- Sarah Walker & Roger Vignoles - Usherettes blues
5. Drifters - Saturday Night at the Movies
6. John Travolta – Sandy
[Side 2] The Silver Screen
7. Felix da housecat - Silver Screen
8. Dolly Parton - Girl in the movies
9. Beatles - Act naturally
10. Alien Ant Farm - Movies
11. 10cc - The film of my love
12. Benny Benassi ft Gary Go - Cinema
[Bonus]
Two door cinema club - I can talk
Hollywood Vampires - Heroes
Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn!

Long list

  • 10cc - The film of my love
  • Alanis Morissette - You oughta know
  • Alien Ant Farm - Movies
  • Annie - Let's go to the movies
  • Bananarama- Robert De Niro's waiting
  • Beatles - Act naturally
  • Benny Benassi ft Gary Go - Cinema
  • Billy Joel - We didn't start the fire
  • British Cinema Curry House Advert (1970s)
  • Bruce Springsteen - Drive fast
  • Buck Owens & Buckaroos - Act naturally
  • Clash - Right Profile
  • Cornershop - Lessons learned
  • Corrs - Queen of Hollywood
  • David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday
  • Dire Straits - Skateaway
  • Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
  • Dolly Parton - Girl in the movies
  • Drifters - Kissin' in the back row of the movies
  • Drifters - Saturday Night at the Movies
  • Duran Duran - Girls on Film
  • Error Flynn - Dogs d'amour
  • Fall Out Boy - This ain't a Scene, it's an arms race
  • Felix da housecat - Silver Screen
  • Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors
  • Franz Ferdinand - Dark of the Matinée
  • Gershon Kingsley/Hot Butter - Popcorn
  • Hollywood Vampires - Heroes
  • Hothouse Flowers - Movies
  • Jeremy Nicholas - Usherette Blues
  • John Prine - Great Compromise
  • John Travolta - Sandy
  • Kissing The Pink - The Last Film
  • Left field - Open Up
  • Muppets - Popcorn
  • Natasha Bedingfield - Silent Movie
  • Nik Kershaw - James Cagney
  • Passions - I'm in love with a German film star
  • Pearl & Dean - Asteroid
  • Prefab Sprout - King of Rock ’n’ Roll
  • Radiohead - Exit Music
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
  • Rex Orange County - Pluto Projector
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction Double Feature
  • Sarah Walker & Roger Vignoles - Usherettes blues
  • Shakin' Stevens - Hot Dog
  • Sweet - Blockbuster
  • Taylor Swift - If this was a movie
  • Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive
  • Two door cinema club - I can talk
  • Usher - You make me wanna

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Home

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (20/03/2025) with Songs that reference home! This is to honour those NASA astronauts who finally made it home this week!

Songs in contention

  • Elbow - Station Approach
  • Powderfinger - Happiness
  • Lindifarne - Run for home
  • Marvin Gaye (Paul Young) - Whereever I lay my hat that's my home
  • Placebo - The bitter end
  • James - Come home
  • Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward bound
  • Talking Heads - This must be the place
  • John Denver - Take me home country Roads
  • Foo Fighters - New way home
  • Edward Sharp & Magnetic Zeros - This is zero
  • Wilco - Via Chicago
  • Busker - Home Newcastle
  • Del Amitri - Don't come home too soon
  • Michael Buble - Home
  • Blues Brothers - Sweet home Chicago
  • PJ Harvey - A place called home
  • Jon & Vangelis - I'll find my way home
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet home Alabama
  • Motley Crue - Home sweet home
  • Crystal Waters - Gypsy woman (she's homeless)
  • It's immaterial - Driving away from home
  • Rose Betts - Driving myself home
  • Carole King - Home again
  • Crowded house - Better be home soon
  • Rocky horror show - I'm going home
  • Chris Rea - Driving home for Christmas
  • Lou Pride - I'm com;un home in the morn'un
  • Adele - Hometown glory
  • FYC - Johnny come home
  • Bon Jovi - Who says you can't go home
  • Led Zepplin - Bring it on home
  • Gabrielle Alpin - Home
  • Ray Anthony - Show me the way to go home
  • Status Quo - Rolling home
  • Peters & Lee - Welcome home
  • Beatles - She's leaving home
  • Genesis - Home by the sea
  • Billy Joel - You're my home
  • Randy Newman - I'll be home
  • Ozzy Osbourne - Mama I'm coming home
  • Sinead O'Connor - Very far from home
  • Jimmy Perry/Taverner - Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler
  • John Denver - I'm leaving on a jetplane
  • Mark Knopfler - Going home
  • Bob Dylan - I was young when I left home/Subterranean Homesick blues

Final Mixtape

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

[Side 1] Away from home
1. Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward bound
2. Peters & Lee - Welcome home
3. Motley Crue - Home sweet home
4. Led Zeppelin - Bring it on home
5. Ray Anthony - Show me the way to go home
6. Beatles - She's leaving home

[Side 2] Being Home
7. Marvin Gaye - Whereever I lay my hat that's my home
8. Billy Joel - You're my home
9. Talking Heads - This must be the place
10. Genesis - Home by the sea
11. PJ Harvey - A place called home
12. Randy Newman - I'll be home
Hidden:  Crystal Waters - Gypsy woman

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 6 acts had never been on before... Crystal Waters, Genesis, Motley Crue, Peters & Lee, Ray Anthony Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 17: Beatles (15+2)
  • 9: Marvin Gaye
  • 8: Billy Joel, Simon & Garfunkel
  • 3: Talking Heads
  • 2: PJ Harvey (1+1)
  • 1: Led Zepplin, Randy Newman

Sunday, 16 March 2025

Weekend Playlist: Mathematics

Weekend Playlist: Maths

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian with help from guest curator Walt looking at X/twitter selections (13/03/2025) with Songs that reference mathematics.
This was inspired by International Mathematics Day on March 14

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Formulae
Little Boots - Mathematics
Pirates of Penzance - Major-General's Song
Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2
Kate Bush - Pi
Beta Band - B+A
Cherry Ghost - Mathematics

[Side 2] Numbers
Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances
Feist - 1234
Tom Robinson - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
Pixies - Monkey gone to Heaven
Barenaked Ladies - 7 8 9
De La Soul - Magic Number

[Bonus]
New Musik - Living by Numbers
Tom Lehrer - New math

Long list

  • Barenaked Ladies - 7 8 9
  • Jonathan Coulton - Mandelbrot Set
  • Pirates of Penzance - Major-General's Song
  • Little Boots - Mathematics
  • Los Campesinos - Dont tell me to do the maths
  • Tom Robinson - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
  • Einstein a Go-Go
  • Cardiacs - Signs
  • Pixies - Monkey gone to Heaven
  • So Solid Crew - 21 seconds
  • Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill
  • Modest Mouse - Never ending math question
  • Kate Bush - Pi
  • Sham 69 - If the kids are united (we will never be divided)
  • Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances
  • Bobby Darin - Multiplication
  • Proclaimers - I'm gonna be 500 miles
  • Shinedown - It all adds up
  • Counting Crows - Murder of one
  • Equals - Baby come back
  • Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
  • David Gray & Talia Raw - Plus & minus
  • Pet Shop Boys - Two divided by zero
  • Supertramp - Logical Song
  • Radiohead - 2+2=5
  • Feist - 1234
  • Sam Cooke - What a wonderful world
  • Haircut 100 - Love plus 1
  • Sons of Pythagoras - One man's thunder
  • Wombats - Let's dance to Joy Division
  • Beta Band - B+A
  • De La Soul - Magic Number
  • Sleaford Mods - Subtraction
  • Jimi Hendrix - If 6 was 9
  • Tenacious D - Tribute
  • TOOL - Lateralus
  • Violent Femmes - Add it up
  • Ed Sheeran - Mathematics
  • Paul Hardcastle - 19
  • Radiohead - Karma Police
  • Space - Neighborhood
  • ABC - All of my heart
  • Big Shaq - Man's not hot
  • Erasure - Ship of fools
  • Tom Lehrer - New ath
  • Guru Josh - Infinity
  • Jesus Jones v Prodigy - Zeros & Ones
  • Robert Miles ft Maria Nayler - One & one
  • New Musik - Living by Numbers
  • Undertones - My perfect cousin
  • Cherry Ghost - Mathematics
  • Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2