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

Saturday, 15 March 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Guitar Riffs

Midnight Mixtape: Guitar Riffs

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (13/03/2024) with Songs that reference guitar riffs! After Tony chatted to iconic guitarist Steve Jones of Sex Pistols fame on BBC5 Live.

Songs in contention

  • Sex Pistols - Anarchy
  • Stiff Little fingers - Alternative Ulster
  • AC/DC - It's a long way to the top
  • Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta love
  • Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the jar
  • Talking Heads - Pyscho Killer
  • Who - I can't explain?
  • Dire Straits - Money for nothing
  • AC/DC - Thunderstruck
  • Ocean Colour Scene - Riverboat Song
  • Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
  • Steely Dan - Don't take me alive
  • Crazy Horse & Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
  • (Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street)
  • Deftones - My own summer
  • Suede - Animal Nitrate
  • Cory Brass Band - Animal Nitrate
  • Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
  • Derek & Dominos - Layla
  • Queens of the Stone Age - No one knows
  • Beach Boys - Wipeout
  • Franz Ferdinand - Take me out
  • Muse - Plug in baby
  • Metallica - Master of puppets
  • Rolling Stones - Jumpin Jack Flash
  • Guns'n'roses - Sweet child o' mine
  • Wolfmother - Joker & the thief
  • Tom Auton - Go back
  • Pearl Jam - Alive
  • Spin Doctors - Off my line
  • Focus - Hocus Pocus
  • Smiths - This charming man
  • Eagles - Hotel California
  • Deep Purple - Smoke on the water
  • Kinks - You really got me
  • (Stranglers - Golden Brown)
  • (Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown)
  • UFO - Rock bottom
  • AC/DC - Back in black
  • Skids - Into the valley
  • Church Party - How can u know
  • Rainbow - Since you been gone?
  • U2 - I will follow
  • Electric 6 - Gay bar

Final Mixtape

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

[Side 1] Classic
1. Dire Straits - Money for nothing
2. Derek & Dominos - Layla
3. AC/DC - Back in black
4. Metallica - Master of puppets
5. Guns n'Roses - Sweet child o' mine
6. Focus - Hocus Pocus
[Side 2] Modern
7. Muse - Plug in baby
8. Deftones - My own summer
9. Electric 6 - Gay bar
10. Queens of the Stone Age - No one knows
11. Suede - Animal Nitrate
12. Church Party - How can u know
Hidden: Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 7 acts had never been on before Church Party, Derek & Dominos, Focus, Muse, Deftones, Electric Six, and Earl Scruggs. Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 7: AC/DC
  • 6: Metallica
  • 4: Guns n'Roses
  • 3: Dire Straits
  • 1: Queens of the Stone Age, Suede

Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Weekend Playlist: Women

Weekend Playlist: Women

Here's the weekend playlist created by Alexandra with help from Kate looking at X/twitter selections (xx/xx/2024) with Songs that reference hard and/or soft.
This was inspired by International Women's day on March 8th.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Lady / Woman
1. Alicia Keys - Girl on fire
2. Shania Twain - Man I feel like a woman
3. Lisa Stansfield - All Woman
4. Labelle - Lady Marmalade
5. Eurythmics ft Aretha Franklin - Sisters are doing it for themselves 
6. Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman

[Side 2] Names
7. Amy Winehouse - Valerie
8. Dolly Parton - Jolene
9. Rhiannon Giddens - Julie
10. Tina Turner - Proud Mary
11. Kirsty MacColl - A New England
12. Kate Bush - Babooshka

[Bonus]
Percy Sledge - When a man loves a woman
Sisters of Mercy - Alice

Long list

  • Alanis Morissette - Woman Down
  • Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire
  • Alicia Keys - Superwoman
  • Alison Moyet - Ordinary Girl
  • Amy Winehouse - Valerie
  • Barbara Streisand -- Woman In Love Video HQ
  • Beverley Craven - Woman to woman
  • Beyonce - Run the world
  • Big mama Thornton - They call me big mama
  • Carole King - (You make me feel like) A natural woman
  • Cat Power feat Lana del Ray - Woman
  • Chaka Khan - I'm every Woman
  • Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club (Official Music Video)
  • Crystal Waters - Gypsy woman
  • Cyndi Lauper - Girls just want to have fun
  • Dolly Parton - Jolene
  • Eternal - Power Of A Woman
  • Eurythmics ft Aretha Franklin - Sisters are doing it for themselves
  • Fleetwood Mac - Gold dust woman
  • Florence & Machine - Which witch
  • Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
  • Halestorm - White Dress
  • Kate Bush - Babooshka
  • Kate Bush - This woman's work
  • Kate Bush - Wedding list
  • Kirsty MacColl - A new England
  • Lisa Stansfield - All woman
  • Little Simz - Woman feat. Cleo Sol
  • Maria Taylor - Lady Luck
  • Marlena Shaw - Woman of Ghetto
  • Mecona - Mujer contra mujer
  • Nina Simone - Four Women
  • Pandora's Box - Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)
  • Patti Labelle - Lady Marmalade
  • Percy Sledge - When a man loves a woman
  • Rhiannon Giddens - Julie
  • Shania Twain - Man I Feel Like A Woman
  • Shania Twain - She's not just a pretty face
  • Sinead O'Connor - Nothing compares 2 u
  • Sister Rosetta tharp - Shout sister shout
  • Sisters of Mercy - Alice
  • Skunk Anansie - Weak
  • Slits - Typical Girls
  • Stan Getz (Astrud Gilberto) - Girl from Ipanema
  • Tina Turner - Proud Mary
  • Tori Amos - Only women bleed
  • Toyah - Marionette
  • X ray spex - Oh Bondage Up yours!

LNL: Midnight Mixtape: Sunshine

Midnight Mixtape: Sunshine

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (06/03/2025) with Songs that reference sunshine! This to commemorate the American jazz-producer, Roy Ayers who passed away on Tuesday and noted for "Everybody loves the sunshine"

Songs in contention

  • Lorde - Solar Power
  • Roy Ayers - Everybody loves the sunshine
  • Johnny Nash - I can see clearly now
  • Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
  • Stevie Wonder - You're the sunshine of my life
  • Misundersood - Children of the sun
  • Magnetic Fields - I don't believe in the sun
  • Nik Kershaw - I won't let the sun go down
  • Soundgarden - Black hole sun
  • Morecambe & Wise - Bring me sunshine
  • Sex Pistols - Holidays in the sun
  • Rotary Connection - I am the black gold of the sun
  • Rammstein - Sonne
  • Tom Waits - San Diego Serenade
  • Gabrielle - Sunshine
  • Pink Floyd - Set the controls of the heart of the sun
  • Teenage Fanclub - Ain't that enough
  • Eagles - Tequila Sunrise
  • Buddy Holly - Raining in my heart
  • Corrs - Summer Sunshine
  • Polyphonic Spree - It's the sun
  • Frankie Valli - Sunny
  • Bill Withers - Ain't no sunshine
  • Velvet Underground - Who loves the sun
  • Dario G - Sunchyme
  • Primal Scream - Higher the sun
  • Beatles - Good day sunshine
  • Velvet Underground - Riding to the sun
  • Katrina & Waves - Walking on sunshine
  • Arctic Monkeys - When the sun goes down
  • Nirvana/Vaselines - Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam
  • Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
  • Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
  • Super Furry Animals - Hello Sun
  • Beach boys - Soulful old man sunshine
  • John Denver - Sunshine on my shoulders
  • Len - Steal my sunshine
  • Cream - Sunshine of your love
  • Johnny Cash - I see a darkness
  • Central Line - Walking into the sunshine
  • Animals - House of the rising sun
  • Fifth Dimension - Aquarius

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Morecambe & Wise - Bring me sunshine
2. Frankie Valli - Sunny
3. Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
4. Katrina & Waves - Walking on sunshine
5. Rotary Connection - I am the black gold of the sun
6. Rammstein - Sonne
[Side 2]
7. Sex Pistols - Holidays in the sun
8. Bill Withers - Ain't no sunshine
9. Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
10. Dario G - Sunchyme
11. Cream - Sunshine of your love
12. Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
Hidden: Buddy Holly - Raining in my heart

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 3 acts had never been on before, Cream, Dario G, Rotary Connection. Bill Withers makes it back-to-back mixtapes.
  • 9: Oasis (8+1)
  • 6: Kinks
  • 4: Proclaimers
  • 3: Bill Withers (2+1)
  • 2: Buddy Holly
  • 1: Frankie Valli, Morecambe & Wise, Katrina & Waves, Rammstein, Sex Pistols

Sunday, 2 March 2025

Weekend Playlist: Smile

Weekend Playlist: Smile

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian Eason with help from guest curator Leigh looking at X/twitter selections (28/02/2025) with Songs that reference smiles.
This was to celebrate "Share a smile day"

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Leigh for the spotified list
[Side 1] You make me smile
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make me smile
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson said
Louis Armstrong - When you're smiling
Rosie Vela - Magic Smile
Taylor Swift - You belong with me
Annie - You're never fully dressed without a smile

[Side 2] Smiling through the tears
Killers - Smile like you mean it
Supernaturals - Smile
Barry Manilow - Can't smile with you
Lily Allen - Smile
Nat King Cole - Smile
Isley Brothers - Behind a painted smile

[Bonus]
Semisonic - Secret smile
Frank Turner - A wave across a bay

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Questions

Midnight Mixtape: Questions

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (27/02/2025) with Songs that reference Questions!

Songs in contention

  • Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk?
  • Clash - Should I stay or should I go?
  • Jimmy Cliff - Guns of Brixton
  • Dionne Warwick - Do you know the way to San Jose?
  • Pulp - Do you remember the first time?
  • Marvin Gaye - What's going on?
  • New Order - Who Joe?
  • Bee Gees - How deep is in your love?
  • Waterboys - How long will I love you?
  • Baha Men - Who let dogs out?
  • Smiths - How soon is now?
  • Heart - What about love?
  • Mock Turtles - Can you dig it?
  • Buzzcocks - What do I get?
  • Bill Withers - Who is he?
  • Libertines - What became of the likely lads?
  • Destiny's Child - Independent Women
  • Rod Stewart - D'ya think I'm sexy?
  • Barbara Acklin - Am I the same girl?
  • Travis - Why does it always rain on me
  • Department S - Is Vic there
  • Oasis - What's the story morning glory?
  • Monaco - What do you want from me?
  • Sham 69 - Questions & Answers
  • Pixies - Where is my mind?
  • Cardiacs - Is this life?
  • Haddaway - What is love?
  • Meatloaf - Paradise by he dashboard
  • Van Morrison - Have I told you lately?
  • Queen - Who wants to live forever?
  • Who - Who are you?
  • Racing cars - They shoot horses don't they?
  • Whitney - How will I know?
  • Human League - Don't you want me?
  • Jesus Jones - Who where why
  • Gary Numan - Are friends electric?
  • 50 Cent - 21 Questions
  • David Bowie - Space Oddity
  • Andy Stewart - Donald where's your troosers?

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1] Love
1. Whitney - How will I know?
2. Pulp - Do you remember the first time?
3. Human League - Don't you want me?
4. Bill Withers - Who is he?
5. Barbara Acklin - Am I the same girl?
6. Destiny's Child - Independent Women
[Side 2] Existential
7. Who - Who are you?
8. Pixies - Where is my mind?
9. Cardiacs - Is this life?
10. Jesus Jones - Who where why
11. Mock Turtles - Can you dig it?
12. Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk?
Hidden:
Sham 69 - Questions & Answers
Thank you for Mog created an "applified" and a "spotified playlist.

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 7 acts had never been on before, Barbara Acklin, Cardiacs, (surpisingly) Human League, Jesus Jones, Mock Trutles, Sham 69, Spizzenergi. Of those that have been on before:
  • 8: Pixies
  • 6: Pulp (5+1)
  • 4: The Who
  • 2: Bill Withers, Whitney
  • 1: Destiny's Child