Ding dong merrily on high… here we go, it’s time for all my favourites of the #BestYearEver (TM) in one ridiculous list. Beware, this is a longer slog and gets more boring, nerdier and minutiae-obsessed even than previous years…

Here’s what I played on Midnight Campfire episode #111, first broadcast Wed 14 Dec 2016, the penultimate programme of 2016. This episode was largely made on tour, so it’s a bit of a patchwork with no Album Of The Month or Campfire Songbook entry – but it turned out lovely. You can listen again online at TotallyRadio and here’s the playlist:

Here’s the playlist for Midnight Campfire #110 first broadcast Wed 23 Nov 2016 on Brighton’s Juice 107.2 and archived at TotallyRadio.com. You can listen online and here’s what I played:

Here’s the tracklisting for Midnight Campfire #109 first broadcast Wed 16 Nov on Brighton’s Juice 107.2 and archived at TotallyRadio.com. New music from Daoirí Farrell, Bon Iver, Josienne & Ben, Aimee Mann and Roxanne De Bastion. Judy Collins’ Lodestar is November’s Album Of The Month and there’s a sad sprinkling of Leonard Cohen songs. You can listen online and here’s what I played…

Here’s the tracklisting for Midnight Campfire #108 first broadcast Wed 9 Nov 2016 on Brighton’s Juice 107.2 and archived online at TotallyRadio.com. Shirley Collins is still album of the month and the second hour is entirely devoted to artists I crossed paths with on the ‘Love Me I’m A Liberal’ UK tour through October. You can listen online and here’s what I played…

Here’s the track listing for Midnight Campfire episode #107 first broadcast Wed 2nd Nov 2016 on Brighton’s Juice 107.2 and archived to listen online on TotallyRadio.com. Here’s what I played:

Hello, I hope you’re golden. I want to say 1000 thanks and send you a big virtual hug if you came out to hear me sing on the Love Me, I’m A Liberal UK Tour.

Here’s the playlist for Midnight Campfire episode #106, an ‘on tour’ episode (put together in cheap hotel rooms around Britain), first broadcast Wed 26 Oct on Brighton’s Juice 107.2. Two tracks from George Monbiot’s collaboration with Ewan MacLennan, two from Dark Mountain’s Uncivilised Poetics CD (accompanying their latest book compendium) and it’s the final outing for October’s Album Of The Month, The Furrow Collective’s Wild Hog. Listen online via TotallyRadio and here’s what I played:

Here’s the playlist for Midnight Campfire #105, first broadcast Wed 12 Oct 2016 on Brighton’s Juice 107.2 and archived on TotallyRadio.com. You can listen online and here’s what I played…

Here’s the playlist for Midnight Campfire episode #104, first broadcast Wed 5 Oct 2016 on Brighton’s Juice 107.2. I enjoyed this show, played two from Jon Boden’s Painted Lady reissue and two from Bruce Springsteen’s new Chapter & Verse collection. Billy Bragg & Joe Henry sing the Campfire Songbook entry and October’s Album Of The Month is The Furrow Collective – The Hog. You can listen again at TotallyRadio and here’s what I played: