Weekend Playlist: Stress

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Don't Leave

Weekend Playlist: Rise to the top

h2>Weekend Playlist: Rise to the top Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator Kate looking at X/twitter selections (09/05/2026) with Songs that reference the rise to the top!
This was inspired by the release of... This was commemorate teams such as Coventry and Kate's Ipswich getting promoted to the Premier League

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
Public Image Ltd - Rise
M People - Moving on up
Imagine Dragons - Rise up
McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't no stopping us now
Stevie Salas Colorcode - The harder they come
Carpenters - Top of the world

[Side 2]
KC & Sunshine Band - Give it up
Defcee & Parallel Though - Graduation Picture
Blutengel - Unsere Zeit läuft ab (Our time)
Jigsaw - Sky High
Yazz - Only way is up
Paul Hardcastle - The Wizard

[Bonus]
Stone Roses - Going down
Dio - Before the fall
Zombies - Time of the season

Weekend Playlist: Play

Weekend Playlist: Play

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Leigh looking at X/twitter selections (01/05/2026) with Songs that have play in title or lyrics.
This was commemorate celebration of National Play Outside Day on the first Saturday of every month.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Let's play
Barry White - Let the music play
Jennifer Lopez - Play
Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
Bizarre Inc. - Playing with knives
Billie Eilish - Come out and play
Bobby Brown - Two can play that game

[Side 2] The Game
Motörhead - The Game (Triple H)
Janet Kay - Silly Games
Peter Gabriel - Games without Frontiers
Joss Stone - Snakes & Ladders
Cardigans - My favourite game
Andy Williams - Solitaire

[Bonus]
Nicki French - Don't play that song again
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (my baby shot me down)

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Spoken Bits

Midnight Mixtape: Spoken Bits

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (30/04/2026) with Songs that reference songs with spoken words in them based on the number of speeches at King Charles III state visit to the USA!

Songs in contention

• Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
• Michael Jackson - Thriller
• Bucks Fizz - Land of make belief
• Paolo Nutini - Iron sky
• Madness - My name is Michael Caine
• Paul Hardcastle - 19
• Kinks - Come dancing
• Meatloaf - Paradise by the dashboard light
• Little Simz - 101FM
• Jackson & McCartney - Girl is mine
• Elvis - Are you lonesome tonight
• Benny Hill - Ernie
• Byrds - 2-4-2 Fox Trot
• Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
• Franz Ferdinand & Sparks - Johnny Delusional
• REM - Radio Song
• Lou Reed - Walk on the wildside
• All saints - Never ever
• Faithless - Insomnia
• Traffic - Hole in my shoe
• New Order - World in motion
• Stan Ridgway - Camfloguage
• Blur - Parklife
• Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
• Birkin & Gainsbourg - Je t'aime
• Britney - Oops I did it again
• ELO - Telephone line
• S&G - Sounds of silence
• Dolly Parton - I will always love you
• Barry White - First last my everything
• Tom Jones - Green green grass of home
• Thomas Dolby - Blinded by science
• Boyz II Men - End of the road
• Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly
• Simon Dupree & Big Sound - Kites
• NWA - Straight Outta Compton
• Pulp - Acrylic afternoons
• 10cc - I'm not in love
• Nick Cave - Oh wow wow
• Dr Feelgood - Down at the doctors
• Young ones - Living doll
• Queen - These are the days of lives
• Damned - New Rose
• Soft cell - Say hello wave goodbye
• Tubeway Army - Are friends electric?
• Boney M - Rasputin
• Wham! - Wham Rap
• Ian Dury - Sweet Gene Vincent
• Dexys - Knowledge of beauty
• Don Estelle & Windsor Davies - Whispering grass
• Human League - Louise

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
2. Paolo Nutini - Iron sky
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Meatloaf - Paradise by the dashboard light
5. Elvis - Are you lonesome tonight
6. Tubeway Army - Are friends electric?
[Side 2]
7. All saints - Never ever
8. Birkin & Gainsbourg - Je t'aime
9. Damned - New Rose
10. Soft cell - Say hello wave goodbye
11. Boney M - Rasputin
12. Dexys - Knowledge of beauty
Hidden: Lou Reed - Walk on the wildside

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before All Saints (1), Boney M (1), Damned (2), NWA (2), Tubeway Army (1) (Numbers in brackets featured in Colin Murray's midnight mixtapes)
Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 4: Elvis (13)
• 2: Meatloaf (5), Michael Jackson (5), Soft Cell (3)
• 1: Birkin & Gainsbourg (2), Dexys (6), Lou Reed (3), Paolo Nutini (3)