Midnight Mixtape: Council Estate

Council Estate

On the midnight mixtape, Colin Murray was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (29/06/2023) with Songs that reference actual Council Estates, either generic or specific name!

Songs in contention

• Inspiral Carpets - This is how it feels
• Jake Bugg - Trouble Town
• Lonnie Donegan - My old man's a dustman
• Elbow - Lippy Kids
• Michael M - Do people in America wear Easterhouse t-shirts?
• Jam - Saturday kids (Live in council houses wear v neck shirts and baggy trousers)
• Jam - Town called malice
• Tricky - Council Estate
• Oasis - Round are way
• NWA - Straight outta Compton
• Plan B - Ill Manors (Council estate kids, scum of the earth)
• Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry (Government yard in Trenchtown)
• Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto
• Goldie Lookin Chain - Newport state of mind
• Pulp - Mile End
• Suede - Animal Nitrate (in your council home he jumped on your bones)
• Suede - Lazy (From raves to the council estates)
• Space - Neighbourhood
• Billy Bragg - A New England
• Streets - Has it come to this? (original pirate material)
• Only fools and horses
• Vampire weekend - Walcott
• Reytons - Kids of the estate
• Odyessy - Going back to my roots
• Zutons - Secrets
• Gerry Cinnamon - Diamonds in the mud
• UB40 - How can a poor man stand such times and live

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Jam - Saturday kids
2. Jake Bugg - Trouble Town
3. Tricky - Council Estate
4. Plan B - Ill Manors
5. Michael M - Do people in America wear Easterhouse t-shirts?
6. Goldie Lookin Chain - Newport state of mind
[Side 2]
7. Suede - Lazy
8. Space - Neighbourhood
9. Gerry Cinnamon - Diamonds in the mud
10. Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto
11. Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry
12. Elbow - Lippy Kids
Hidden: Billy Bragg - A New England

Previous Appearances

Gerry Cinamon, Jake Bugg, Marlena, Michael M, Plan B, Space, Suede are all debutants.
Of the other acts with previous appearances:

Artist	#	Other Appearances
Elbow	2	"Fugitive Motel" (Hotels)
Goldie Lookin Chain	2	"Guns don't kill people" (Wales)
The Jam	2	"English Rose" (Roses)
Tricky	2	"Hell is round the corner" (One Name)
Billy Bragg	4	"Saturday Boy" (2 instruments) "Sexuality" (Car Showroom I) "Waiting for the great leap forward" (12 Days of Xmas)
Bob Marley	7	"Dreamland" (Dreams) "Is this love?" (Question of Love) "No woman no cry" (Wood) "Redemption Song" (Respect/Human Spirit II) "Three little birds" (12 Days of Xmas)