In 2020 we played 1,662 tracks from 613 different artists.

That’s 3 more tracks than 2019 – but 62 more artists! (2019 stats here)

My last Thousand Yard Stare gig (to date) – Shiiine On alldayer, Birmingham, Sep 2018

The most popular artists played were THOUSAND YARD STARE who received 30 plays, BLUR who were played 25 times, IDLES (24), SALAD (23) and HIGH/LOW (21).

The top eleven songs we played during the year were:

1. Sybs – Anwybodaeth (11 plays)

2. New Pagans – Yellow Room (10 plays)

=3. Bugeye – When The Lights Go Out (8 plays)
=3. Tapeworms – Safety Crash (8 plays)
=3. Vix 20 – Try Again (8 plays)

=6. Easy – Crystal Waves (7 plays)
=6. High/Low – Slackers (7 plays)
=6. Metatrons – Population One (7 plays)
=6. The Only Ocean – Watch It Fall (7 plays)
=6. Thousand Yard Stare – Schism Algorithm (7 plays)
=6. Thousand Yard Stare – Sleepsound (7 plays)

Here’s every artist we played in 2020:

30 plays:

Thousand Yard Stare

25 plays:

Blur

24 plays:

Idles

23 plays:

Salad

21 plays:

High/Low

18 plays:

Asylums

17 plays:

Dream Wife

16 plays:

British Sea Power, Harkin

15 plays:

Emperor of Ice Cream, Sybs

14 plays:

Bugeye, Darling Buds, Melys

13 plays:

Carter USM, Charlatans, Jetstream Pony, Sleeper, Vix 20

12 plays:

Beabadoobee, Hybrid Kid

11 plays:

Art Brut, Franz Ferdinand, Sultans of Ping FC, Tame Impala, Young Knives

10 plays:

Anorak Patch, New Pagans, Pop Will Eat Itself

9 plays:

Fightmilk, Maximo Park, Metatrons, Shed Seven, Sports Team, Tapeworms, They Might Be Giants, Tim Burgess

8 plays:

Catatonia, Crimson Bloom, Divine Comedy, Easy, International Teachers of Pop, Others, Republica, Ride, Sorry, The Only Ocean

7 plays:

Blondfire, Eut, HMS Morris, Honeyblood, Hurtling, Institutes, Mirror Pictures, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Sandcastle Jesus, Scare Taxi, Wannadies

6 plays:

Are We Static, Baxtr, Bellatrix, Cardigans, Colorama, Dodgy, Dream Nails, Futureheads, Gorillaz, Johnny Marr, Kenickie, Lovely Eggs, MJ Hibbett and the Validators, Mourn, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Porridge Radio, Power of Dreams, Radiohead, Shader

5 plays:

Bloc Party, Coach Party, Courtney Barnett, Elastica, Family Gotown, Frank and Walters, Garbage, Heart Throbs, July Talk, Kaiser Chiefs, Kenny Hoopla, Killatrix, Mega City Four, Rews, S*M*A*S*H, Sleater-Kinney, Sløtface, Super Furry Animals, The Good The Bad and The Queen, Veruca Salt

4 plays:

Belly, Bleech, Cat SFX, Charley Stone, Close Lobsters, Clwb Fuzz, Cornershop, Derrero, Earl Brutus, Gulls., Hinds, iamarocketship, Keys, Lottery Winners, Narrow Margin, Pluto Is A Planet, Posable Action Figures feat Honeyblood, Powder, The Goa Express, Vini Vicious, Wedding Present

3 plays:

5 Billion In Diamonds, Abdoujaparov, Al Moses, Auteurs, Bikini Test Failure, Candyskins, Coldplay, Cribs, Cruel Hearts Club, Curve, Darling Boy, Dears, Echobelly, Eep, Feed Your Wolves, Feet, Forgetting The Future, Grae, Grouplove, Gwenno, Hot Puppies, I Like Trains, Inhaler, Jim Bob, Juliana Hatfield, Low Hummer, Marion, Menswear, Metric, Milltown Brothers, Needshes, New Age Healers, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Oscar Lang, Paul Weller feat Col3trane, Piroshka, Pizzicato Five, Pulp, Rocket From The Crypt, Rosehip Teahouse, Samurai Seven, Shambolics, Shame, Skylights, Sparks, Sunstack Jones, The Verdicts, Wolfhounds, Wonder Stuff, Ynys, Yonige, Yuck

2 plays:

Adwaith, Afflecks Palace, Andy Bell, Automatic, Bang Bang Machine, Beths, Bitch Falcon, Blab Happy, Blabbermouth, Bob, Boy Azooga, Brite Spires, Brownies, Bully, Cabbage, Chappaqua Wrestling, Cheerbleederz, Chopper IV, Churchhill Garden, Circadian, Clockworks, Courting, David Bowie, Dead Freights, Derw, Desperate Journalist, Do Nothing, Dreams of Empire, Dubstar, EoB, Estates, Estrons, Five Thirty, Flyying Colours, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Graham Coxon, Gurr feat Eddie Argos, Harriets, Horse Party, Hot Hot Heat, Jane Weaver, Julian Cope, Juliana Hatfield Three, Juliper Sky, Jupiter’s Beard, Just Like Honey, Kate Bush, Lathums, Laura Marling, Levellers, Long Blondes, Lush, Margaret Glaspy, Marquis Drive, Mattiel, Minimal Schlager, Mint, Mr Ben and the Bens, New Model Army, New Young Pony Club, Ocean Flaws, Odd Morris, Omaloma, One Morning In August, Pocket Gods, Polyhymns, Pondarosa, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Public Service Broadcasting, PXPRS, Quiet Marauder, Rage Against The Machine, Regent, Resque, Shampoo, Sibyl Vane, Sinead O’Brien, Some Sprouts, Sorcha Richardson, Stare, Stereolab, Stone Roses, Strokes, Superfood, Superglu, Supergrass, Taffy, Telquist, Temples, Ten Million Lights, The Pill, The Trusted, Tiger Mimic, Ting Tings, Twang, Waxahatchee, Wendy James, Wind-Up Birds, Yuka Tree

1 play:

1957 Tail-Fin Fiasco, 2:54, 3″ Porn Stars, A House, Ady Baker Sound, Agency-V, All Seeing I, Amanda Palmer, Amongst Liars, Andrew Johnson, Annie Christian, Arab Strap, Arctic Monkeys, Ash, Asking For A Friend, B-52’s, Baddies, Bait, Bananagun, Band Of Skulls, Barry Adamson, Bastille feat Graham Coxon, Baxter Dury, BC Camplight, Bdrmm, Beach Bunny, Beach For Tiger, Beach Riot, Beat Hotel, Before Breakfast, Belako, Big Baby, Bilinda Butchers, Billy Bragg, Birrell or Biscuit, Black Grape, Blanketman, Blossoms, Bloxx, Blue Aeroplanes, Blue River, Bluetones, Blushh, Bodega, Bradford, Breeders, Brix and the Extricated, Bryde, Busted, C33s, Cable, Cable Ties, Camera Obscura, Cardiacs, Carla J Easton feat Honeyblood, Cassyette, Catch, Catherine Feeny, Cayetana, Charlie Moss, China Drum, Chris T-T, Clash, COFFIN, Courteeners, Covasettes, Cowtown, Crushed Beaks, Cud, Cuesta Loeb, Cult Figures, Dan Amor, Danny Wright, David Newton and Thee Mighty Angels feat Eddie Argos, Dead Red Jets, Deaf Surf, Death Of Guitar Pop, Decaydes, Deeper, Delakota, Diet Cig, Digging For Apples, Dingus Khan, DISQ, Do Me Bad Things, Dog of Man, Dolan Hewison and Andy Spearpoint, Dolls, Doozer McDooze, Doves, Dr Veers, Drab City, Drahla, Dress Theque, Dress Thèque, Dry Cleaning, Ed Borrie, Ed The Dog, Eels, Egyptian Blue, Elcka, Electric Enemy, Electric Soft Parade, Eliza Shaddad, Ella’s Brother, Emma Kupa, Eskobar, Everything Everything, Family Cat, Feverist, Fishmonkeyman, Five O Fives, Flaming Lips, Flying Moon In Space, Fontaines DC, Foo Fighters, Fret Bear, Future Islands, Ganser, Gardening, Gaz Coombes, Gengahr, Ghum, Gold Baby, Grates, Guilt Coins, Gum, Half Moon Run, Headsticks, Hefner, Hen Ogledd, Hightown Pirates, Hockey Dad, Hole, Home Counties, Honey Lung, Honeymoon Suite, Humbleslug, Hurts, Indian Queens, Indigos, Italia 90, Ivory Wave, Jaded Hearts Club, James Dean Bradfield, Jane and John, JARV IS…, Jellyfish, Jesus Jones, John Baker, John Dredge and the Plinths, Jonny Cola and the A Grades, Joseph J Jones, Joy Formidable, Joy Zipper, Juju Wings, Julia Jacklin, Kate Rusby, Katy for Kings, Kelly Clarkson, Kent, Kill Bosco, Kill The Giants, Kingmaker, Kiwi Jr, Kosmonauts, Kraftwerk, Kul, Lacuna Common, Las Kellies, Last Known State, Late Of The Pier, Lazy Day, Lemonheads, Leopold and his Fiction, Let’s Be Strange, Letters To Cleo, Liam Gallagher, Liela Moss, Life, Lightning Seeds, Liines, Lily Konigsberg, Linda Guilala, Loup GarouX, Luxembourg Signal, Maddie Ross, Malady, Mandrake Handshake, Manic Street Preachers, Mansun, Mark Ronson, Matt McManamon, Maus, Mauv, Mellah, Mercury Rev, Metronomy, Micko and the Mellotronics, Midnight Alleys, Mighty Roars, Milk Teeth, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Modern Motive, Montrose Avenue, Moscoman feat Tom Sanders, Mosley Bar, Muckers, Muse, Mush, My Morning Jacket, Mysterines, Nada Surf, National Honor Society, New Picadillys, NewDad, Nightingales, Nile Marr, October and the Eyes, Orielles, Pacific, Painted Zeros, Palm Ghosts, Papur Wal, Party Dozen, Pastel, Paul Den Heyer, Pavement, Pelvis, Penfriend, Perfectparachutepicture, Peter Gabriel, Pillow Queens, Pixies, Pony, Poor Traits, Portishead, Pottery, Primitives, Psychedelic Furs, Psyence, PVA, Queen Zee, Rails, Rakes, Real Estate, Reclaim Vienna, Red Cavalry, Remington Super 60, Roleplay, Roma Palace, Rosie and the Goldbug, Sad Song Co, Saint Etienne, Scarlet, Scarlet Drive, Scumbag Philosopher, Seamonsters, Semisonic, Senseless Things, Shack, Shamen, Shattercones, Shïppa-63, Shishamo, Shop Assistants, Shopping, Silverbacks, Sing-Sing, Skin Games, Sleaford Mods, Slow Readers Club, Smokin’ Donuts, Something Leather, Space Monkeys, Spacehog, Spizzenergi, Starsailor, Stephen Malkmus, Steven Wilson, Stranglers, Strawberry Generation, Style Council, Suede, Sugarcubes, Sun Arcana, Suns, Suns Up, Sunstinger, Superbird, Supercrush, Surge, Swirlpool, Tacsidermi, Talk Show, Teenage Fanclub, Teleman, Tenek, Tennis, The Avenues, The Big Moon, The Decrees, The Milk, The Persian Leaps, The Syamisenist, The Terms, The Vision, The Waterfalls, Theaudience, Thecityisours, Thomas Tantrum, Thrillhouse, Tin Gun, Tina Boonstra, Tiny Fighter, Tiny Monroe, TJ Roberts, Tokky Horror, Toro Y Moi, Total Rubbish, Traams, Travis, TV People, Twin Atlantic, Two Year Break, U2, Ukrainians, Vertigo, Verve, Warm Digits feat The Lovely Eggs, We Are Scientists, Widowspeak, Wilma Archer feat Sudan Archives, Winter Gardens, Wolf Parade, Wonk Unit, Working Men’s Club, Worriers, Wynt, Young Wildfires, Youth Killed It