Midnight Mixtape: Insects
On the midnight mixtape,
Johnny I'Anson was joined by
Jo Kendall to look at listener selections (21/10/2026) with
Songs that reference Insects! Theme was based on the news of a
massive wasps' nest in an office being dismantled.
Songs in contention
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the bumblebee
- Melanie - Alexander Beetle
- XTC - Ladybird
- Who - Boris the spider
- Altered Images - Insects
- Bob Lind - Elusive butterfly
- Nancy Sinatra & Lee Aizlewood - Lady bird
- Cure - Lullaby
- Cure - Caterpillar
- U2 - The Fly
- XTC - Fly in the wall
- XTC - Across the ante
- XTC - I'm bugged
- Modest mouse - Do the Cockroach
- Depeche Mode - Fly on a windscreen
- Wire - I am the fly
- Echo & Bunnymen - Bedbugs & Ballyhoo
- Richard Thompson - Beeswing
- Fall - Cyber insekt
- Disney Studio Chorus/Mousercise - Bug a boo
- Gary Lucas - Glo worm
- Christy Moore - Reel in the flicking light
- Slim Harpo - I'm a king bee
- Wham! - Wake me up (before you go go)
- Frank Sinatra - Fly me to the moon
- Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
- Blur - Beetlebum
- Jim Stafford - Spiders & Snakes
- Brian Eno - Spider & I
- Funkadelic - Maggot brain
- Herb Alpert - Spanish Flea
- Shaggy - Boombastic
- Editors - Escape the nest
- Adam Ant - Ant music
- Edgar Broughton - Moth
- B Bumble & Stingers - Nut rocker
- Elvis - I got stung
- Mission - Butterfly on the wheel
- Dolly Parton - Love is like a butterfly
- Norah Jones - What am I to
- Wings - Little lamb Dragonfly
- Bob Dylan - Locusts
- Cole Porter - Let's do it
- Burl Ives - Ugly bug ball
- Val Doonican - Elusive Butterfly
Final Mixtape
Here's the final mixtape!
[Side 1]
1. Altered Images - Insect
2. Cure - Caterpillar
3. Herb Alpert - Spanish Flea
4. Modest Mouse - Doin' the cockroach
5. Gary Lucas - Glo worm
6. B Bumble & Stingers - Nut rocker
[Side 2]
7. Adam & Ants - Ant music
8. XTC - Lady bird
9. Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly
10. Blur - Beetlebum
11. Jim Stafford - Spider & Snakes
12. Christy Moore - Reel in the flickering light
HIDDEN TRACK: Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Previous Appearances
From the new era of midnight mixtapes, 8 acts had never been on before B Bumble & Stingers, Bob Lind, Curtis Mayfield (3), Gary Lucas, Herb Alpert, Jim Stafford, Modest Mouse (1), XTC (1)
(Numbers in brackets featured in Colin Murray's midnight mixtapes)
Appearances of those that have been on before:
- 7: Adam Ant (10)
- 5: Blur (13)
- 2: Christy Moore (3)
- 1: Altered Images (1), Cure (8)
