Mid November: the opening night of Jim Bob’s UK tour. We were in Leeds, it was sold out and I was due onstage in five minutes. Jim and me were chatting backstage, Mr Spoons was setting up his guitar tech stuff and Marc was out in the venue running the merch stall, talking with punters. Then Jim got a text. It was a message from Miles Hunt out of The Wonder Stuff.

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…