The Friday Music Shuffle (6th March 2026)

Good day, everyone, and welcome to the first shuffle of the spring of 2026.

What happens is this. My music device chooses ten tracks from my collection and I tell you what it’s chosen. I listen along ‘live’, so to speak, and I invite you to do the same. It’s easy to listen to the music. Just click on the song title and it will take you to a YouTube link. Volume up!

I hope you play along and find something that you like.

1. Train Drivers in Eyeliner by Saint Etienne. Well, this is a lovely start, from 2017’s Home Counties long player.
2. Do It All Over Again by Spiritualized. Here, the lads go all Beach Boys with this lovely joint from 2001’s Let It Come Down.
3. Officer by The Pharcyde. To my amazement, it’s back to 1992 with this banger from Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde.
4. How It Feels by Barry Can’t Swim. Short, sweet and quite brilliant from Barry’s 2023 long player When Will We Land.
5. Bandit by Say She She. Their 2025 album Cut And Rewind is absolutely fantastic. Buy it to listen to this and much more.
6. Dorothy Ashby by The High Llamas. I saw Sean O’Hagan’s brillant little band in Bristol last year. His music sounds like Brian Wilson’s could have from Smile! onwards. This from the excellent 2007 LP Can Cladders.
7. Jackie Blue by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Simply gorgeous song which can be found on their great album It’ll Shine When It Shines. Still, I believe, a Radio 2 favourite, and quite right too.
8. All Of You by Paul McCartney. Released in 2024, nearly 50 years after it was recorded,  Macca’s One Hand Clapping was a bit of a mixed bag of the great, the good and the not so good. This, I fear, comes under the final category, but hey, it’s still by a Beatle.
9. Making Plans For Nigel by XTC. And now we go back to 1979 for an all-time classic, which appeared on Drums and Wires.
10. Kármika by KAROL G, Bad Gyal, Sean Paul. And to close down this week’s shuffle, here’s a beauty from Karol’s 2023 LP Mañana Será Bonito.

A banging shuffle IMHO. This week’s Desert Island Disc is the exciting number seven song, Jackie Blue by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

I hope you sang along and enjoyed the show. I know I did.

Have a good week till next week.