Sunday, 19 April 2026

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)

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