Here’s the playlist for Midnight Campfire episode #43, first broadcast Wed 17 June 2015 on Juice 107.2. The second hour was all songs about bicycles.

You can LISTEN ONLINE HERE. I don’t think this is a prime episode – equipment acted up, I made a bunch of mistakes, plus some songs I thought would be great sounded shonky (and there was no Campfire Songbook entry because it wouldn’t play). Still I really enjoyed the second hour. I loved sticking Katie Melua between Tom Waits and Half Man Half Biscuit. It was also lush that listeners picked so many of the themed songs. Thank you. Here’s the listen online link and here’s what I played…

Jackie Oates – Doffing Mistress (The Spyglass & The Herringbone, ECC)
Oh Sister – Don’t Leave (Watch The Water EP, Moonshiner)
Owen Tromans – No Heart (single, Sacred Geometry)
Frank Turner – Get Better (Positive Songs For Negative People, Xtra Mile/Polydor)
Chumbawamba – Torturing James Hetfield (ABCDEFG, No Masters Co-op)
Ralph McTell – Jesus Wept (Sand In Your Shoes, Transatlantic)
Joan Osborne – Eliminate The Night (Breakfast In Bed, Direct Holdings)
Bethia Beadman – Chinatown (Chinatown, Rosalie)
Daria Kulesh – Fata Morgana (Eternal Child, Folkstock)
Siv Jakobsen – Fix You (The Lingering, Nordic Mellow)
David John Sheppard – Thumbnail Sketch Of Infinity (Vertical Land, Village Green)
Nic Jones – Barrack Street (Penguin Eggs, Topic)
The Dreaming Spires – All Kinds Of People (Searching For The Supertruth, self-release)

Gerald Adams – Daisy Bell (75 Songs Of World War 1, Delta)
Lucy Rose – Bikes (Like I Used To, Sony)
The Decemberists – Apology Song (5 Songs EP, Hush/self-release)
Anna Laube – The Bike Song (Anna Laube, self-release)
Tom Waits – Broken Bicycles (Music From One From The Heart, Sony)
Katie Melua – Nine Million Bicycles (Piece By Piece, Dramatico)
Half Man Half Biscuit – See That My Bike’s Kept Clean
(Voyage To The Bottom Of The Road, Probe Plus)
CloudDEAD – Physics Of A Bicycle (Well Deep: Ten Years Of Big Dada, Big Dada)
Johnny Flynn – Bikes (A Bag Of Hammers (Film Score), Transgressive)
Kimya Dawson – I Like My Bike (Thunder Thighs, Great Crap)
Tom Rosenthal – Bicycle Lane (B-Sides, Tinpot)
Rosie Thomas – Bicycle Tricycle (When We Were Small, Sub Pop)
Hauschka – Blue Bicycle (Volker Bertelmann: Ferndorf, FatCat)
Luka Bloom – The Acoustic Motorbike (The Acoustic Motorbike, Reprise)
John Fahey – Bicycle Built For Two (The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death, Fantasy)

Big thanks to: Nancy Reeves, Andy Waller, Dee Richards, Johny Lamb (Thirty Pounds Of Bone), Sean Carroll, Beattie Wood, Loz Miller and Joanne Chapman, whose song suggestions got into the mix.