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

LNL Midnight Mixtape: McMixtape

Midnight Mixtape: McMixtape

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (09/04/2025) with Songs that reference Mc's, Mac's or Macks! Inspired by Jane McDonald and her cruise show mentioned on a recent Tony Livesey show.

Songs in contention

  • Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
  • Mac Band - Roses are red
  • McFly - All about you
  • Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
  • MC Hammer - U can't touch this
  • Donna Summer - Macarthur Park
  • Bobby Darin - Mack the knife
  • Michael McDonald - I keep forgettin'
  • Pogues - Sally MacLennane
  • Paul McCartney - Coming up
  • McGuinness Flint - When I'm dead and gone
  • Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC^2
  • Kirsty MacColl - New England
  • Los Del Rio - Macarena
  • Rod McKuen - Love’s been good to me
  • Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals
  • Middle of the road - Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum
  • McAlmont & Butler - Yes
  • George McCrae - Rock you baby
  • Echo & Bunnymen - The Cutter
  • Mike McGear - Leave it
  • Kenneth McKellar - Song of the Clyde
  • Val Doonican - Paddy McGinty's goat
  • Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Rattler
  • Don McLean - American pie
  • Amy McDonald - This is the life
  • Highwaymen - Me & Bobby McGee
  • Ralph McTell - Streets of London
  • Ewan MacColl - Manchester Rambler
  • Bobby McFerrin - Don't worry be happy
  • Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
  • Reverend & Makers - Haircut
  • Gwen McCrae - All this love that I'm giving
  • Martha & Vandelas - Jimmy Mack
  • Kris Kross - Jump
  • Associates - Party fears 2
  • Van McCoy - Do the hustle
  • Bing Crosby - MacNamara’s Band
  • Mary MacGregor - Torn between two lovers
  • MC Sar & Real McCoy - Another Night
  • Maccabees - Marks to prove it
  • Scott McKenzie - San Francisco
  • McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't no stopping us now
  • Half man half biscuit - McCalliog and his hens
  • Eels - Goldy
  • David McWilliams - Days of Pearly Spencer
  • Huey Lewis & News - Power of love

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1] mAc Side
1. Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
2. Mac Band - Roses are red
3. Donna Summer - Macarthur Park
4. Kirsty MacColl - New England
5. Pogues - Sally MacLennane
6. Bobby Darin - Mack the knife

[Side 2] McB Side
7. Paul McCartney - Coming up
8. George McCrae - Rock you baby
9. Van McCoy - Do the hustle
10. Michael McDonald - I keep forgettin'
11. Rod McKuen - Love’s been good to me
12. Bobby McFerrin - Don't worry be happy
Hidden: Huey Lewis & News - Power of love

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 9 acts had never been on before: Bobby Darin (2), Bobby McFerrin (2), George McCrae, Mac Band (1), Michael McDonald, Paul McCartney (3), Rod McKuen, Van McCoy (Numbers in brackets featured in Colin Murray's midnight mixtapes)
Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 5: Pogues (11)
  • 2: Huey Lewis (3), Kirsty MacColl (3)
  • 1: Donna Summer (4), Mark Morrison (1)
* Notes: Pogues have made mixtape 2 weeks running

Monday, 6 April 2026

Weekend Playlist: 404

Weekend Playlist: 404

Here's the weekend playlist created by Snail OB with help from guest curator Andrew looking at X/twitter selections (03/04/2026) with Songs that reference anything related to 404 such as the area code, not found (missing), error or stupid (UK slang).
This was commemorate 404 day on the 4th April.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Missing/Not Found
Everything but the girl - Missing
Zombies - She's not there
Evanescence - Missing
Franz Ferdinand - Academy Award
Magic Numbers - Forever lost
Outkast - Ain't no thang

[Side 2] Stupid/Mistake
Green day - American Idiots
Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
Sheryl Crow - My favourite mistake
Gabrielle Aplin - My mistake
Gareth Gates - Anyone of us
Britney Spears - Oops I did it again

[Bonus]
Tag Team – Whoomp there it is

Long list

  • 404 Not Found - Not found
  • Adam Mac - All dollars no sense
  • AEED - Error Code
  • Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
  • Apollo 440 - Lost in space
  • Beatles - Nowhere man
  • Beautiful South - Dumb
  • Beautiful South - Good as gold (stupid as mud)
  • Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Year Zero
  • Black Crowes - Twice as hard
  • Bravery - An Honest Mistake
  • Britney Spears - Oops I did it again
  • Bruce Springsteen - You're missing
  • Chet Baker - Let's get lost
  • Cliff Richard - Miss you nights
  • Cranberries - Empty
  • Darren Hayes - Stupid Mistake
  • Depeche Mode - Wrong
  • Dwight Yoakam - Missing heart
  • Elvis - A fuel such as me
  • Elvis - Return to sender
  • Empress - Error 404
  • Evanescence - Missing
  • Everything but the girl - Missing
  • Franz Ferdinand - Academy Award
  • Gabrielle Aplin - My mistake
  • Garbage - Stupid Girl
  • Gareth Gates - Anyone of us
  • Green day - American Idiots
  • INXS - Disappear
  • James - Born of frustration
  • James Blunt - You're beautiful
  • John Waite - Missing you
  • Kings of Convenience - Failure
  • London Grammar - Missing
  • Lyricslinger - But for the ouchages
  • Madonna - Gone
  • Magic Numbers - Forever lost
  • Men At Work - It's a mistake
  • My chemical romance - I'm not okay
  • Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
  • New Model Army - Stupid Questions
  • New Order - Ever little counts
  • Nick Jonas - Area Code
  • Offspring - Pretty fly for a white guy
  • Outkast - Ain't no thang
  • Plan B - Missing links
  • Primal Scream - Movin' on up
  • Queensryche - Screaming in digital
  • Sarah McLachlan - Stupid
  • Shawn Mullins - My stupid heart
  • Sheryl Crow - My favourite mistake
  • Sparks - Looks looks looks
  • Specials - Stupid marriage
  • Sultans of Ping - Stupid Kid
  • Tag Team – Whoomp there it is
  • Taylor Swift - Glitch
  • Thomas Dolby - One of our submarines
  • U2 - I still haven't found what I'm looking for
  • Unkle - Broken
  • War on drugs - Disappearing
  • Warning - ERROR
  • Zombies - She's not there

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Moon

Midnight Mixtape: Moon

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (02/04/2025) with Songs that reference the Moon! This is commemorate the launch of Artemis 2 on 02/04/2026.

Songs in contention

  • REM - Man on the moon
  • Waterboys - Whole of the moon
  • Nick Drake - Pink Moon
  • Television - Marquee Moon
  • Toploader - Dancing in the moonlight
  • Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
  • Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
  • Police - Walking on the moon
  • Duran Duran - New moon on Monday
  • Fairport Convention - Riding for the moon
  • Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
  • Frank Ocean - Moon river
  • Shirley Bassey - Moonraker
  • Frank Sinatra - Fly me to the moon
  • Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
  • Laurel & Hardy - Shine on harvest moon
  • Duke of Stratosphere - Bike ride to the moon
  • Creedance Clearwater Revival - Bad moon rising
  • Stranglers - Rocket to the moon
  • Neil Young - Harvest Moon
  • Black Sabbath - Barking at the moon
  • Rah Band - Clouds around the moon
  • Joy Division - Atmosphere
  • Handsome Family - Sad Milkman
  • DJ Jean - The Launch
  • Bonnie Tyler - Total eclipse of the heart
  • Only ones - Another girl another planet
  • Echo & Bunnymen - Killing moon
  • Savage Garden - To the moon and back
  • Johnny Cash - You are the sunshine
  • David Bowie - Space Oddity
  • ELO - Ticket to the moon
  • Dubliners & Pogues - Irish Rover
  • Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
  • Elton John - Rocketman
  • Carpenters - Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
  • Europe - Final Countdown
  • Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - I’m the urban spaceman
  • Starbuck - Moonlight feel right
  • Tori Amos - Edge of the moon
  • Sam Ryder - Spaceman
  • Firm - Star Trekkin
  • Sun Ra - Walking on the moon
  • Jeff Wayne - Eve of the war
  • Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
  • Showwaddywaddy - Under the moon of love
  • Fat Larry’s Band - Zoom

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
2. David Bowie - Space Oddity
3. Frank Sinatra - Fly me to the moon
4. Only ones - Another girl another planet
5. Laurel & Hardy - Shine on harvest moon
6. Sun Ra - Walking on the moon

[Side 2]
7. Waterboys - Whole of the moon
8. Echo & Bunnymen - Killing moon
9. Television - Marquee Moon
10. Handsome Family - Sad Milkman
11. Dubliners & Pogues - Irish Rover
12. Public Service Broadcasting - Go!

Hidden: Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 4 acts had never been on before, Richard Strauss, Sun Ra, Television (1), Handsome Family (Numbers in brackets featured in Colin Murray's midnight mixtapes)
Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 8: David Bowie (16)
  • 4: Frank Sinatra (11), Pogues (10)
  • 3: Dubliners (5)
  • 2: Warren Zevon (4)
  • 1: Echo & Bunnymen (4), Laurel & Hardy (2), Only ones (2), Public Service Broadcasting (2), Waterboys (3)

Monday, 30 March 2026

Weekend Playlist: Fuel

Weekend Playlist: Fuel

Here's the weekend playlist created by Lyricslinger with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (27/03/2026) with Songs that reference fuel, petrol, diesel or oil.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Gimme Fuel
Metallica - Fuel
Kinks - Gallon of Gas
Billy Bragg - Price of oil
Lee Dorsey - Working in a coal mine
Waterboys - Fisherman's blues
Cat Stevens - Where do the children play

[Side 2] Dire Straits of...
Madness - I like driving in my car
Love/Hate - Fuel to run
Peat & Diesel - Calum Dan's Transit Van
Dire Straits - Heavy fuel
Tom Robinson Band - Winter of 79
Byrds - Bells of Rhymney

[Bonus]
Thomas Dolby - Windpower
Houndmouth - Gasoline
Jackson Browne - Running on empty