30 October – 1 November: Infidelity
Cheating, cheaters and the cheated. James Braly with a story about temptation, Dani Shapiro on being the mistress, and Ruby Wright with an unusually candid story from three perspectives.
Botton Brothers’ Ghost Train, photographed by Jack Leeson, 14 June 1965
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Dead – The Poets
My Wife and My Dead Wife – Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
El Contrabajo Fantasma – Generoso Jiminez
Haunted – Dusty Springfield
Ghost Riders in the Sky – Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers
Ghosts – Ladytron
The Lover’s Ghost – US Navy Sea Chanters
24 Hour Store – The Handsome Family
Laurie – Dickey Lee
Of Lillies and Remains – Bauhaus
Long Black Veil – Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
There’s a Ghost in My House – R Dean Taylor
The Spook – Emil & The Ecstatics
Ghostfaced Killer – The Dead 60s
Haunting Me – The Tiger Lillies
Ghost Dance – Prince Buster
The Haunted Ocean 2 – Max Richter
Wuthering Heights – The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Bach’s Cello Sonata in G Minor – Tom Koopman
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What Time is Love – Williams Fairey Brass Band and Jeremy Deller
I Remember Yesterday – Donna Summer
I Saw Daddy Today – Yann Tiersen
It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow – Jack Payne and his Orchestra
A Week From Tuesday – The Pastel Six
Summer is Over – Dusty Springfield
Teenage Winter – St Etienne
When the Springtime Comes Again – The Carter Family
No Time for Sorrows – Fabienne Delsol
Toot Toot – The Prints of Whales
The Fairest of the Seasons – Nico
Only Time Will Tell – Etta James
Time – The Rumble Strips
When I Go – Slow Club
Who Knows where the Time Goes – Fairport Convention
Last Orders – Richard Hawley
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I Think We’re Alone Now – Lene Lovich
Green Door – The Cramps
I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar – Jonathan Richman
Prove It on Me – Ma Rainey
Young Guns – Wham
Theme for Alan Mathison Turing – White Town
Girls and Boys – Blur
Lola – The Kinks
Michael – Franz Ferdinand
Mad About the Boy – Dinah Washington
Jailhouse Rock – Elvis
This Charming Man – The Smiths
It’s My Party – Bryan Ferry
Gloria – Patti Smith
Judy and the Dream of Horses – Belle and Sebastien
A Postcard to nina – Jens Lekman
Homosapien – Pete Shelley
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I Will Never Marry – The Carter Family
Underwater Moonlight – The Soft Boys
Drowned Lovers – Kate Rusby
Underwater Love – Smoke City
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? – Jimmy Smith
Aegean Waters – Tommy Sanderson Day and Hunter
Ma Laska Je Ze Velkou Louzi – Waldemar Matuska
Watery Grave – Heavenly Gospel Singers
Sie hiess Mary Ann – Ralf Bendix
Drowning In The Sea Of Love – Joe Simon
My Darling Clementine – Sadie Mae Carousel Band Organ
Where the Wild Roses Grow – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man – Elvis Costello
Wedding Tango – Michael Nyman
Ode to Billie Joe – Bobbie Gentry
Not Raving but Drowning – Julian Cope
Song to the Siren – Tim Buckley
House Carpenter – The Mammals
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Just One Look – Doris Troy
Les Deux Guitares – Charles Aznavour
The Magic Number – De La Soul
Green Grow My Nadgers Oh! – Kenneth Williams
5 Years Time – Noah And The Whale
Six Feet Under – Bob Fryfogle
Magnificent Seven – The Clash
Eight Ball – The Hustlers
Naughty Number Nine – Grady Tate
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Barbie Dolls – Pizzicato Five
11:59 – Blondie
12 Red Roses – Betty Harris
No. 13 Baby – The Pixies
Fourteen Carat Mind – Half And Half
Fifteen Minutes – Kirsty MacColl
Lonely Sixteen – Janie Black
Seventeen ‘05 – Ladytron
Jailbait – Andre Williams
Nineteen in Naples – Jonathan Richman
Top Twenty – The Delicates
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Cookies – Brother Soul
She’s an Apple Pie – Kissogram
The Taste of the Pudding – The Mighty Sparrow
Merengue – Malcolm McLaren
Baby Cakes – Dee Dee Sharp
Cakewalk Into Town – Taj Mahal
Cakes & Ale – The Silly Sisters
Burnt Biscuitss – Booker T & The MGs
I’m Gonna Bake My Biscuits – Little Miss Higgins
49 Biscuits – Doc Watson
Bubble Gum – Brigitte Bardot
Sugartown – Nancy Sinatra
A Taste of Honey – Ray Davies and his Button Down Brass
Sweets for My Sweet – The Drifters
Sweeter than Sugar – The Mills Brothers
Sweet Gene Vincent – Ian Dury
Mr Soft – Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Chocolate Sauce – Rachel Portman
Turkish Delight – Kalman Magyar
Milky White Way – Elvis Presley
Knickerbocker – Fujiya & Miyagi
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Poison Ivy – The Coasters
Deadly Nightshade – The Only Ones
Bella Bella Donna – Vico Torriani
Bella Donna – Ed Harcourt
Rhythm & Booze Part 1 – Jason Stone
The Praties They Grow Small – Clark Jones
Bluebells – Jehst
Daphne – Stephane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, Michael Warlop & Eddie South
Memo from Turner – Mick Jagger
Highweeds & Hemlock – Jon Wilcox
Chew Tobacco Rag Part 1 – Billy Briggs
Nagasaki – The Mills Brothers
Marijuana – Hayseed Dixie
Peyote Cowboy – The Frontier Constabulary
Mandrake – MF Doom
Mandrake – Paolo Moura
Venus – Zygmunt Jankowski
Grow for Me – Original Cast of The Little Shop of Horrors
He’s the Lily of the Valley – Texas Jubilee Singers
Holly – Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers
Jasmine – Kila
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Silver Threads and Golden Needles – Skeeter Davis
The Sewing Machine – Betty Hutton
To Maquine de Coser – Various (From Latin American Children Games Songs)
Sewing Machine Blues – Jimmie Davis
Red Velvet – The Kirkby Sisters
Rags & Old Iron – Oscar Brown Jr
Material Girl – Madonna
Needes & Pins – Jackie De Shannon
Pinns & Needles – Hardrock Gunter
Thread the Needle – Clarence Carter
De Fille en Aiguille – Cryz
De Fille en Aiguilles – Debout sur le Zinc
Touch the Hem of His Garment – Sam Cooke
Put on Your Best Dress – Eric ‘Monty’ Morris
Soulful Dress – Sugarpie De Santo
Russian Scissors – Oriental Orchestra
Needle in a Haystack – The Velvettes
Stitch Me Up – The Tiger Lillies
