Weekend Playlist: Silence

Weekend Playlist: Silence

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian with help from guest curator Paul the trucker looking at X/twitter selections (17/10/2025) with Songs that reference silence.
This was inspired by the original release of Simon & Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" on 19/10/1964.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Sounds of Silence
1. Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
2. John Cage - 4'33"
3. Tremeloes - Silence is golden
4. Tori Amos - Silent all these years
5. Dido - Quiet Times
6. Miles Davis - In a silent way
[Side 2] Enjoy the silence
7. Mylène Farmer - Peut-être toi
8. Nils Lofgren - Shine silently
9. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the silence
10. Bjork - It’s oh so quiet
11. Gorillaz - Silent Running
12. Queensrÿche - Silent lucidity
[Bonus]
Go-Gos - Our lips are sealed
Anthrax/Public Enemy - Bring the noize

Long list

• Nils Lofgren - Shine silently
• Depeche Mode - Enjoy the silence
• John Cage - 4'33"
• Tremeloes - Silence is golden
• Japan - Quiet Life
• Supertramp - Even in the quietest moments
• Fun boy three - Our lips are sealed
• Bjork - It’s oh so quiet
• Stromae - Silence
• Crowded House - Silent House
• Japan - Quiet Life
• Mark Hollis - A life (1895-1915)
• Miles Davis - In a silent way
• Pastor TL Barrett & Youth for Christ Choir - Blessed Quietness
• Mike + Mechanics - Silent Running
• Linkin Park - One step closer
• Bjork - It's oh so quiet
• Feeder - Wall Of Silence
• Ren - Tale of Jenny & Screech
• Five satins - In the still of the night
• Vince Gill - When I call your name
• Who - Pinball Wizard
• Queensrÿche - Silent lucidity
• Birdy - Quietly yours
• Keane - Silenced by the night
• Roe - Quiet place
• No Doubt - Don’t speak
• Ronan Keating - When you say nothing at all
• Ian Dury - Quiet
• Queen of the stone age - Song for the deaf
• Starsailor - Silence is easy
• Dido - Quiet Times
• Missy Elliott - Get ur freak on
• Shakespear’s Sister - Stay
• King Crimson - Epitaph
• Massive Attack - Silent Spring
• Radiohead - Stop whispering
• Badly Drawn Boy - Silent Sigh
• Joy Division - Atmosphere
• Anthrax/Public Enemy - Bring the noize
• Hans Erdmann - Nosferatu
• Idlewild - Quiet crown
• Annie Lennox - No more I love yous
• Natasha Bedingfield - Silent movie
• New Order - Your silent face
• Gorillaz - Silent Running
• Radiohead - Dollars & Cents
• REM - Nigthswimming
• Madison Beer - Silence between songs
• Delerium - Silence
• Mark Lanegan - Radio Silence
• Mylène Farmer - Peut-être toi
• Patrick Rondat - World of Silence
• Disturbed - Sound of Silence
• Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
• Tori Amos - Silent all these years
• Go-Gos - Our lips are sealed

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Weird Weather

Midnight Mixtape: Weird weather

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (16/10/2025) with Songs that reference weird/impossible weather conditions on the anniversairy of Michael Fish downplaying and getting weather wrong about the Great storm of 1987

Songs in contention

• Fortunes - Storm in a teacup
• Weather Girls - It's raining men
• Jimi Hendrix - Winds cries Mary
• Len - Steal my sunshine
• Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
• Peter Gabriel - Red rain
• Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
• Doors - Riders on the storm
• Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather
• Prince - Purple Rain
• Leo Sayer - Thunder in my heart
• Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
• Counting Crows - Rain King
• Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
• Buddy Holly - Raining in my heart
• Adele - Set fire to the rain
• Robert Cray - Forecast (Calls for pain)
• Slayer - Raining blood
• Stevie Wonder - Sunshine of my life
• Christopher Cross - Ride like the wind
• Bob Marley - Rainbow country
• Justin Heyward - Forever Autumn
• Fuzzbox - Pink Sunshine
• Lindasfarne - Fog on the tyne
• Rolling Stones - She’s a rainbow
• AC/DC - Thunderstruck
• Elvis Presley - Kentucky Rain
• Taylor Swift - Lavender haze
• Spinal Tap - Break like the wind
• Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
• Anggun - Snow in the Sahara
• Mud - Moonshine Sally
• Barry Manilow - It never rains in Southern California
• ELO - Mr Blue Sky
• Jam - Burning Sky
• Scorpions - Rock you like a hurricane
• Vanessa Williams - Save the best for last
• Steps - Hundred years of winter
• Frank Zappa - Don't eat the yellow snow
• Donald Fagen - Weather in my head
• Crowded House - Four seasons in one day
• Mogwai - Sun smells too loud
• Bill Withers - Ain’t no sunshine
• Grease - Grease Lightning
• Manic Street Preachers - You stole the sun from my heart
• Yoko Ono - Who has seen the rain
• Rolling Stones - Get off my cloud
• Katrina & Waves - Walking on sunshine
• Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.

[Side 1]
1. Weather Girls - It's raining men
2. Leo Sayer - Thunder in my heart
3. Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather
4. Barry Manilow - It never rains in Southern California
5. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
6. Slayer - Raining blood

[Side 2]
7. Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
8. Grease - Grease Lightning
9. Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
10. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
11. Buddy Holly - Raining in my heart
12. Prince - Purple Rain
Hidden:
Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 3 acts had never been on before, they are Grease (1), Leo Sayer, Slayer (2) Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 5: Kate Bush (17)
• 3: Arctic Monkeys (7), Bob Dylan (13)
• 2: Barry Manilow (2), Bruce Springsteen (8), Isaac Hayes (2)
• 1: Buddy Holly (3), Marianne Faithfull (1), Prince (14), Weather Girl (1)

Weekend Playlist: Tube

Weekend Playlist: Tube

Here's the weekend playlist created by Leigh with help from guest curator Alun looking at X/twitter selections (10/10/2025) with Songs that reference the tube/london underground.
This was inspired by the anniversairy of the opening of Wood Lane underground station on Sunday (12/10/2008)

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Leigh for the spotified list

[Side 1]
ABBA - Waterloo
Squeeze - Up The Junction
Belle & Sebastian - Mornington Crescent
Catatonia - Londinium
Alan Hacksaw - Grange Hill
Kinks - Victoria

[Side 2]
Fergie - London Bridge
Underworld - Born Slippy
Jade - Angel of my dreams
Duffy - Warwick Avenue
Wombles - Wombling Song
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

[Bonus]
Girls aloud - Sounds of the underground
Northern Line - Love on the Northern Line
Jam - Down in the tube station at midnight

Long list

• Pierre Perret - Bercy Madeleine
• Pogues - White City
• Steve Harley - Harrow on the Hill
• Kitchens of distinction - On Tooting Broadway Station
• Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
• Judy Collins - Sunny Goodge Street
• Duffy - Warwick Avenue
• Girls aloud - Sounds of the underground
• Al Stewart - Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres
• Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
• Tom Robinson Band - Winter of 79
• Catatonia - Londinium
• ELO - Last train to London
• Squeeze - Piccadilly
• Clash - Guns of Brixton
• Pet Shop Boys - King's Cross
• Royksopp & Robyn - Momument
• Chubby & Gang - All along the Uxbridge road
• Pete Townshend - Stardom in Acton
• Taylor Swift - London boy
• Alan Hacksaw - Grange Hill
• Tim & Roly - Northern Line Song
• LV - Northern Line
• Jonathan Kirby - Stratford
• Lisa O'Neill - Seven Sisters
• Steve White & Protest Family - One night in Walthamstow
• Ramz - Barking
• Roxy Music - Do the Strand
• Suggs - Camden Town
• Squeeze - Up The Junction
• Fall - Victoria
• Belle & Sebastian - Mornington Crescent
• Fergie - London Bridge
• Dire Straits - Walk of life
• J Geils Band - Centerfold
• Notting Hillbillies - Your own sweet way
• Dolly Parton - Unlikely Angel
• Jam - Down in the tube station at midnight
• Feeling - Blue Piccadilly
• Ian Dury & Blockheads - What a waste
• Jay Foreman - Every tube song
• Nathan Lay - It's a long way to Tipperary
• Northern Line - Love on the Northern Line
• Appleton - Everything Eventually
• Wombles - Wombling Song
• Jade - Angel of my dreams
• Massive Attack - Angel
• Rufus Wainwright - Damsel in Distress
• Depeche Mode - Monument
• Kitchens of Distinction - On Tooting Broadway station
• My life story - Angel
• Aerosmith - Angel
• Dan Reed Network - Seven Sisters Road
• Rainbow - Temple of the King
• ABBA - Waterloo
• Jane's Addiction - Been caught stealing
• Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
• St Etienne - Archway people
• Madness - Primrose Hill
• Gary P Nunn - London Homesick Blues
• Gomez - Whippin’ Piccadilly
• John Sullivan - Only fools & Horses (Closing Theme)
• Pulp - Mile End
• Underworld - Born Slippy
• Marillon - Kayleigh
• Carter USM - Only living boy in New Cross
• Clannad - Tower Hill
• Roddy Frame - Marble Arch
• Clash - London calling
• Ralph McTell - Streets of London
• Odin - Turnpike Lane
• Clash - Train in vain
• Scouting for girls - Mind the gap

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Gameshows

Midnight Mixtape: Gameshows

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (09/10/2025) with Songs that reference gameshows on the return of Celebrity Traitors!

Songs in contention

• Olivia Rodrigo - Traitors
• Europe - Final Countdown
• Peter Gabriel - Games without frontiers [It’s a knockout]
• Who - My Generation
• Charles’n’Eddie - Would I lie to you
• Huey Lewis - Hip to be square [Hip hop square]
• Kay Starr - Wheel of fortune
• Motorhead - Chase is better than the catch
• Sleeper - Sale of the Century
• Sweet - Blockbuster
• Manfred Mann - 5-4-3-2-1
• Beyonce - Countdown
• Carole King - It’s too late [Up late game show]
• Franz Ferdinand - Take me out
• James Arthur - Impossible
• Shed Seven - Going for gold
• Just Jack - Starz in their eyes
• Alan Parsons Project - Games people play
• Prmatics - Tipping Point
• Stranglers - Raven
• Queen - We are the champions
• Breeders - Cannonball
• Survivor - Eye of the tiger
• Frank Sinatra - Who wants to be a millionaire?
• Undertones - My perfect cousin [University Challenge]
• Nanci Griffith - The wheel
• Lucy Dacus - Bullseye
• Kinks - (Strictly) Come Dancing
• Lewis Calpadi - Pointless
• Sugababes - Push the button
• Slade - In for a penny
• Surfaris - Wipeout
• George Michael - Spinning the wheel
• Fox & Hound - Best of friends
• Giorgio Mordoer - The Chase
• Tears for Fears - Tipping Point
• Frankie goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
• Sonic Youth - 100.00%
• Dannii Minogue & Soul Seekers - Perfection
• Bad Company - Shooting star
• Sparks - Beat the clock
• Planet Funk - Chase the sun
• Taylor Swift - Mastermind
• Bag Raiders - Shooting stars

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Franz Ferdinand - Take me out
2. Breeders - Cannonball
3. Sleeper - Sale of the Century
4. Sonic Youth - 100.00%
5. Charles’n’Eddie - Would I lie to you
6. Frank Sinatra - Who wants to be a millionaire?
[Side 2]
7. Frankie goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
8. Giorgio Mordoer - The Chase
9. Sparks - Beat the clock
10. Surfaris - Wipeout
11. Shed Seven - Going for gold
12. Queen - We are the champions
Hidden: Europe - Final Countdown

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 9 acts had never been on before Sonic Youth (2), Charles'n'Eddie (1), Europe (1), Frankie goes to Hollywood (1), Sleeper, Surfaris.

Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 3: Queen (18)
• 1: Breeders (2), Frank Sinatra (8), Franz Ferdinand (3), Giorgio Mordoer (2), Shed Seven (2), Sparks (2)

Extended Long List

• ABBA - Winner takes it all
• Ace of base - Wheel of fortune
• Alice Cooper - School’s out
• Alicia Myers - If you play your cards right
• Andy Williams - Impossible dream
• Anouk - We are [Only Connect]
• Barenaked Ladies - It’s all been done [Price is Right]
• Bell & Spurling - Goldenballs
• Bellhead - Double Jeopardy
• Benny the Butcher - Deal or No Deal
• Billy Joel - We didn’t start the fire [Wheel of Fortune]
• Blues Traveler - Run around
• Bob Dylan - Wheels on fire
• Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a hero
• Brainbug - (K)nightmare
• Calling - Final Answer
• Cardiacs - Stoneage Dinosaurs [Crackerjack]
• Carter USM - Rubbish [Price is right]
• Chris Rea - Every second counts
• Clash - Remote Control
• Cliff Nobles - Price is right
• Cloura - Only Connection
• Coventry City - Go for it
• Damien Rice - Cannonball
• Damned - Silly kid’s games
• Dave - My 19th birthday [Takeshi’s Castle]
• Destiny’s Child - Survivor
• Dion - Runaround Sue
• Dolly Parton - Crackerjack
• Ed Sheeran - Punchline
• Elton John - Circle of life [Wheel of fortune]
• Eurythmics - Would I lie to you
• Flaming Lips - (Sorry) Haven’t got a clue
• Freddie Mercury - Great Pretender
• Genesis - Domino
• Genesis - Whodunnit
• Gloria Estefan - 1-2-3
• Gloria Gaynor - Let’s make a deal
• Greg Kikn Band - Jeopardy
• HMHB - Knobheads on Gameshows
• HMHB - Paintball’s coming home [Crystal Maze]
• Howard Jones - The Chase
• Iron Maiden - Ace’s high
• Jam - News of the World
• Jefferson Airplane - Runaround
• JJ Cale - Runaround
• John Farnham - You’re the voice
• John Parr - Restless heart [Running Man*]
• Julius Fucik - Entry of the Gladiators
• Kate Bush - Babooshka
• Lady Gaga - Poker Face
• Lene Lovich - Jeopardy
• Lulu - Man with the golden gun (golden shot)
• Madness - House of fun
• Mandamyth - Bullseye
• MC Hammer - U can’t touch this
• Megadeth - Tipping Point
• Morgen - Odd one out
• P!nk - Funhouse
• Perrie - Punchline
• Pet Shop Boys - Opportunity Knocks
• Phil Collins - I missed again
• Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall
• PJ Harvey - The wheel
• Platters - Great Pretender
• Portishead - Chase the tear
• Roachford - Cuddly Toy
• S’Xpress - Theme from S’Xpress [Countdown]
• Shinedown - Second Chance
• Shontelle - Impossible
• Sister Sledge - We are family (fortunes)
• Snuff - Blankety Blank
• Somewhere in Between - Mr & Mrs
• St Etienne - You’re in a bad way [Generation Game]
• Stereophonics - Mr & Mrs Smith
• Supertramp - Cannonball
• Survivor - High on you [wheel of the fortune]
• Tate McRae - Call my bluff
• Terrorvision - Celebrity Hitlist
• Tom Waits - Day after tomorrow [21/The Wheel]
• Tony Hatch - Mr & Mrs
• Weather Girls - It’s raining men [Have we got news for you]
• Wham! - I’m your man [you bet]
• Whitesnake - Would I lie to you
• Who - University Challenge
• Who - You better you bet

Weekend Playlist: North & South

Weekend Playlist: North & South

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (03/10/2025) with Songs that reference North and/or South.
This was inspired by the match between Adrian's Preston North End and Benny's Charlton Athletic

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] North
Dream Academy - Life in a Northern town
Renaissance - Northern Light
Johnny Horton - North to Alaska
Charlatans - North country boy
Razorlight - North London trash
JAMs - It's grim up North

[Side 2] South
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet home Alabama
Moby - South side
Neil Young - Southern man
Ed Sheeran - South of the border
Little Mix - Power
Frank Sinatra - South of the border

[Bonus]
Louise Attaque - Du Nord au Sud
Cho Yong-pil - Holo Arirang

Long list

• Icicle Works - Up here in the North of England
• Renaissance - Northern Lights
• Japandroids - North East South West
• Bruce Springsteen - Somewhere North of Nashville
• Robert Fripp - North Star
• LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
• Thomas Dolby - Flying North
• Musical Youth - Pass the dutchie
• REM - Stand
• Charlatans - North Country Boy
• Louise Attaque - Du Nord au Sud
• Praga Khan - Northern Lights
• Isaac Hayes - Southern Breeze
• Texas - South side
• Doves - Northenden
• Gerry Rafferty - North & South
• JJ72 - Long way south
• Fabulous Thunderbirds - Way down south (My Cousin Vinny)
• Gigspanner Big Band - Northern Frisk
• Throwing Muses - South Coast
• Elkhorn - South
• E-motion - Naughty north and sexy south
• Icehouse - Great Southern Land
• Bloc Party - Helicopter
• Ordinary Boys - Boys will be boys
• Bananarama - Nathan Jones
• Frank Sinatra - South of the Border
• Madness - NW5
• Fall - NWRA
• Johnny Horton - North to Alaska
• Elvis - American Triology
• Nash & Crosby - Southbound Train
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
• Tom Petty - Southern Accents
• Kate Bush - Lyra (Golden Compass)
• Razorlight - North London Trash
• Mark Knopfler - Going home
• Fall - Hit the north
• Frank Turner - The Road
• Robbie Williams - South of the Border
• Little Mix - Power
• Northern Line - Love on the Northern Line
• Disney - Song of the South (Zip a Dee Doo Dah)
• Nick Drake - Northern Sky
• Death Cab for Cutie - Northern Lights
• Ian Brown - Northern Lights
• Beautiful South - One last love song
• Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
• Ed Sheeran - South of the Border
• Sea Power - North Hanging Rock
• Hope & Social - South facing
• Camera Obscura - Look to the East, Look to the West
• Christy Moore - North & South of the river
• Black Sabbath - Sign of the Southern Cross
• Neil Young - Southern man
• Cho Yong-pil - Holo Arirang
• IdleWild - Quiet Crown
• Feelers - Venus
• Moby - South side
• U2 - North & South of the river
• Dire Straits - Sultans of swing
• Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
• Noah Kahan - Northern Attitude
• Jay Semko - Due South Theme
• JAMMs - It's grim up North
• Louis Armstrong - It's sleepy time down south
• Clash - North & South
• Edwyn Collins - North of Heaven
• Mica Paris - South of the river
• Melanie C - Northern Star

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Wild Animals

Midnight Mixtape: Wild Animals

On the midnight mixtape, Nick Bright was joined by Jo Kendall to look at listener selections (02/10/2025) with Songs that reference wild animals/wildlife! This is in memory of primatologist Jane Goodall who passed away at the age of 93

Songs in contention

• Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
• Duran Duran - Hungry like a wolf
• Kinks - Apeman
• Pixies - Monkey gone to Heaven
• Tones & I - Dance Monkey
• Flanders & Swann - Gnu Song
• Elton John - Crocodile Rock
• Alien Ant Farm - Movies
• ABBA - Eagle
• Adam & Ants - Dog eat dog
• Prince - When doves cry
• Echo & Bunnymen - Crocodile
• Bloodhound Gang - Bad touch
• Mumford & Sons - Little lion man
• Toots & Maytals - Monkey Man
• Gorillaz - Feel good inc
• Crazy Town - Butterfly
• Blow Monkeys - He shedding
• Arctic Monkeys - I wanna be yours
• Goodies - Funky gibbon
• Shakira - She wolf
• Toy Dolls - Nellie the Elephant
• Led Zeppelin - Black dogG
• Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier
• Ted Nugent - Cat scratch fever
• Black Sabbath - War pigs
• Ylvis - The Fox
• Dave Matthews band - Shake me like a monkey
• Blossoms - Gary
• Meatloaf - Bat out of hell
• Vampire Weekend - Young Lion
• Survivor - Eye of the tiger
• Beatles - I am the walrus
• Scissor Sisters - Only the horses
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Slow cheetah
• Mud - Tiger Feet
• Kate Bush - And dream of sheep
• Beck - Paper tiger
• Nirvana - Very ape
• Nicki Minaj - Anaconda
• VV Brown - Shark in the water
• Elvis - Hound dog
• Jefferson Airplane - Whit Rabbit
• Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Deer & Wolf
• A-Ha - Cry wolf
• Rolling Stones - Wild horses
• Tight Fit - Lion sleeps tonight
• TV on the radio - Wolf like me
• Heart - Barracuda
• Wolf Alice - Silk
• Stevie Nicks - Jane

Final Mixtape

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

[Side 1]
1. Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc
2. VV Brown - Shark in the water
3. TV on the radio - Wolf like me
4. Toots & Maytals - Monkey Man
5. Toy Dolls - Nellie the Elephant
6. Flanders & Swann - Gnu Song
[Side 2]
7. Mud - Tiger Feet
8. Beatles - I am the walrus
9. Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier
10. Echo & Bunnymen - Crocodile
11. Scissor Sisters - Only the horses
12. Vampire Weekend - Young Lion
Hidden:

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 9 acts had never been on before Echo & Bunnymen (3), Flanders & Son (1), Gorillaz (1), Scissor Sisters, Toy dolls, TV on the radio, Vampire Weekend, VV Brown

Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 6: Beatles (21)
• 1: Bob Marley (12), Blossoms (2), Mud (1), Stevie Nicks (1), Toots & Maytals (4)