Our annual look back to see what we played this year!

In 2023 we played 1,694 tracks in total – 1,019 different tracks from 606 different artists.

That’s 53 more tracks than last year – but 73 less artists. (2022 stats here)

The most popular artists played were BLUR who received 31 plays, BE YOUR OWN PET (26 plays), SALAD (22), ANNABEL LEE (19), SNOW COATS (18), DREAM WIFE (17) and CIEL (16).

The top ten songs we played during the year were:

Salad, West Hampstead Arts Club – 27 May 2023. This turned out to be their final gig (for now).

=1. Annabel Lee – Kiss & Ride (12 plays)
=1. Salad – I Didn’t Know You’d Gone (12 plays)

=3. Be Your Own Pet – Hand Grenade (11 plays)
=3. Dream Wife – Hot (Don’t Date A Musician) (11 plays)
=3. Snow Coats- Dreaming In The Car (11 plays)

=6. Destroy Boys – Shadow (I’m Breaking Down) (9 plays)
=6. Worker & Parasite – Comfort Is Control (Live at HUM) (9 plays)

=8. Be Your Own Pet – Big Trouble (8 plays)
=8. Blur – Barbaric (8 plays)
=8. Blur – St Charles Square (8 plays)
=8. Louise Post – Guilty (8 plays)

Here’s every artist we played in 2023:

Blur, Newcastle City Hall – 28 May 2023

31 plays: Blur

26 plays: Be Your Own Pet

22 plays: Salad

19 plays: Annabel Lee

18 plays: Snow Coats

17 plays: Dream Wife

16 plays: Ciel

15 plays: Chroma, Pacifica

14 plays: Keeley, Shop Window, Truck

13 plays: Metatrons

12 plays: Adwaith, Art Brut, FMB, Obey Robots, Public Body, Sea Power

11 plays: Fightmilk, Thousand Yard Stare

10 plays: Coach Party, Home Counties, Laura Lee and the Jettes, Sultans of Ping FC, Vero

9 plays: Darling Buds, Destroy Boys, Echobelly, Elastica, Kynd, My Life Story, Pulp, Robocop Kraus, Swansea Sound

8 plays: Gaz Coombes, Louise Post, Others, Panic Pocket, Problem Patterns, Snake Eyes

7 plays: Ash, Blondfire, Boo Radleys, Bugeye, Fretblanket, Gold Baby, Humour, Maximo Park, Teenage Fanclub

6 plays: Bar Italia, Blondshell, Charlatans, Drop Nineteens, Eaves Wilder, Franz Ferdinand, Hepburns, Idles, Jody and the Jerms, L7, Primitives, Sleater-Kinney, Square Wave, Still Traffico, Sybs, Viji

5 plays: Anna’s Bones, Asylums, Black Honey, Bleach Lab, Blenko, Blokeacola, Buzzkill Joy, Catatonia, Cherym, Danny Goffey, Dream Nails, Easy, Flint, Franklys, Futureheads, Garbage, Groff, Hybrid Kid, Laetitia Sadier, Loupe, Low Hummer, Martha, Mega City Four, New Young Pony Club, Pearl Harts, Pip Blom, Quaint, Spacemaid, Suede

4 plays: Alexandra Leaving, Belly, Beths, Bloc Party, Distorted Model, Emma Anderson, En Attendant Ana, Healthy Junkies, Hurricane #1, Jim Bob, Kenickie, Kosmischer Läufer, Los Blancos, Melys, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, On, Personal Trainer, Peter Gabriel, Polly b Rose, Popguns, Radio Field feat Phantom Handshakes, Radiohead, Ratboys, Reverend Genes, Shed Seven, Silverbacks, Sleeper, Soft Science, They Might Be Giants, This Is War!, Veruca Salt

3 plays: 7ebra, Andrew Grumbridge, Apollo Junction, Beach Riot, Bellatrix, Bis, Blab, Blake Babies, Bratmobile, Bully, Carter USM, Cavalcade, Chappaqua Wrestling, Charley Stone, Ci Gofod, Coastal Fire Dept, Crystal Teardrop, Dazy, Dead Star Talk, Delonia, Desert Ships, Egyptian Blue, Frank and Walters, Greyshadow, Gruff Rhys, Jeen, Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something, Johnny Marr, Kristopher Aaron, Libertines, Lille Venn, Loose Articles, Louise Distras, Lush, Marion, Metric, Motorcycle Display Team, NewDad, Pale Blue Eyes, Pet Fox, Pleasure Dome, Pseudo Cool, Public Image Limited, Rogue Jones, Saloon Dion, Senses, Silent Forum, Stare, Supergrass, Thomas Tantrum, Under One Sun, We Melt Chocolate

2 plays: (International) Noise Conspiracy, Air In The Lungs, Alpine Circle, Alvvays, Audioweb, B-52’s, Bacci Pouch, Billobuckers, Billy Tibbals, Bleech, Blue Aeroplanes, Bodega, Brix Smith, Broken Bear, Brownies, Buddie, Cardigans, Carsick, Cheekface, Chemtrails, Collapsed Lung, Courtney Barnett, Craig Walker and the Cold, Craig Walker And The Cold, Cribs, CSS, Cud, Cuffed Up, Dead Pony, Death Valley Girls, Declan McKenna, Divine Comedy, Doozer McDooze, Dråpe, Dreamcoaster, Ducks Ltd., Duran Duran feat Chai, Earl Brutus, Echo Ladies, Eve’s Plum, Everything Everything, Eyelids, Family Gotown, Fan Girl, Fräulein, Fwango, Gaffa Tape Sandy, Girlo, Goa Express, Gorillaz feat Beck, Great Leslie, Greebo, Gurr feat Eddie Argos, Heartworms, Hefner, Highways, Honeyblood, Horse Party, Hot Hot Heat, Hot Puppies, Hotel Lux, Hyll, IDestroy, Institutes, Jacoby, Joiner, Juliana Hatfield, Kaiser Chiefs, Kathleen Turner Overdrive, Kent, Kicksie, Kingmaker, Launder, Lavalove, Lily Bias, Lottery Winners, Lumari, Madness, Marla Mase, Marseille, Melin Melyn, Mich, Miles Kane, Muncie Girls, My Name Is Ian, Nep, Oscar Lang, Perfect Angel at Heaven, Pet Needs, Pia Fraus, Picture Parlour, Pop Will Eat Itself, Popes of Chillitown, Powder, Public Service Broadcasting, Pynch, Rakes, Red Telephone, Resque, Rews, Rilo Kiley, Ruby Cross, Ry-Guy, Samurai Seven, San Quentin, Sarabeth Tucek, Schroeder, Scumbag Philosopher, Sea Breeze, Sky Larkin, Slow Readers Club, Sock, Soup!, Special Friend, Sprints, Stellar Echoes, Stills, Super Furry Animals, Supersaurus, Sweetmess, Tamar Berk, Tapeworms, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, Thick, Venus Grrrls, Vinny Pereira

1 play: A Cause In Distress, A House, Aberdeen City, Absent Kid, Alanis Morissette, Alias Kid, Andy J Gallagher, Animalhouse, Annie Christian, Apricity, Arlo Parks, Atmos Bloom, Audio Drones, Auteurs, Awst, Baits, Barry Adamson feat Jarvis Cocker, BC Camplight, Beatles, Beddy Rays, Belonging, Bergersen, Big Thief, Bjork feat Skunk Anansie, Blab Happy, Black Grape, Blindness, Blondes, Blood Arm, Blowout, Blubber, Blue Boredom, Blue Lupin, Blush, Boxteles, Boys In A Band, Brakes, Breeders, Bryan Cooper, Bug Club, Burning Feathers, Captain Starlet, Carabyll, Cari Cari, Catch, Cerys Matthews, CHAI, Chinese Football, Church Party, Clinton, Clockworks, Coldplay, Colossus, Coral, Corinne Bailey Rae, Courteeners, Courting, Crawling Eye, Cronin, Crystal Fighters, Culk, Dactyl Terra, Daffo, Dancer, Das Koolies, Das Pop, David Bowie, Dead 60s, Deadnotes, Declan Welsh and The Decadent West, dEUS, Divebar Youth, Dives, Do Nothing, Dodgy, Driven Snow, Durry, Eades, Echo In, Eddie Argos And The Lo Fi Punk Rock Motherfuckers, Electric Enemy, EMF feat Stephen Fry, English Teacher, Ergo Bria, Es, Estrons, Family Battenburg, Family Cat, Fauns, Feeble Strength, Feeder, Feet, Ffenest, Five Thirty, Foil, Fonda 500, Francis of Delirium, Fraulein, Frogpond, Ganser, Ghum, Gigolo Aunts, Gillie, Gloop Unit, Good Shoes, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Grade 2, Grant Lee Buffalo, Grian Chatten, Grin 051, Grrrl Gang, Guest Directors, Guided By Voices, Gurr, Guru Guru, Gwenno, Hala, Hallan, Hannah Jadagu, Hazy Sundays, HCK9, Heart Throbs, Heavenly, Heavy Lungs, Hives, Hold Steady, Hole, Holy Coves, Horse Heads, HotWax, Hungry, Hunny Buzz, Hurtling, Idlewild, Interpol, Isabel Maria, Isadora Eden, Ivers, Jaus, Jesse Tree, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jetstream Pony, JJ72, Jocasta, John Dredge and the Balcony Shirts Band, Jon Langford & The Men Of Gwent, Jonny Cola and the A Grades, Julian Cope, Keg, Kenny Hoopla, King Cujo, King Nun, Klang, Kristin Hersh, Kula Shaker, Kylie Minogue, Ladytron, Laptop, Laura’s Dream, Le Corps Mince de Francoise, Library Card, Lifeguard, Lightning Seeds, Lime Garden, Linda Lindas, Liz Phair, Local Girls, Lost Movies, Madder Rose, Maddy Davis, Magoo, Mallees, Mantra of the Cosmos, Margaret Glaspy, Marika Hackman, Mary Anne’s Polar Rig, Mary Shelley, Menstrual Cramps, Mexico 70, Mighty Roars, Millie Manders and The Shutup, Ming City Rockers, MJ Hibbett, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Modern Woman, modernlove., Mom’s Home, Momma, Monsterheart vs Paul & Pets, Montrose Avenue, Motrik, Mr Bewlay, Mull Historical Society, Nada Surf, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, New Pornographers, Nothin Serious, Nu, Oblong, of Verona, Orson Wilds, Overcity, Parker, Part Time Signals, Patter, Pelvis, Peter Baker, Pinkertons, Piroshka, Pissabed Prophet, Polysics, Postcards, Poster Paints, Power Of Dreams, Private Party, Purple Thread, Quiet Houses, Raavi, Radio Field feat Robert Stadlober, Real People, Republica, Rob & Jay, Rocket From The Crypt, Rowsie, Royal Arch, S*M*A*S*H, Safari Inn, Sahara Hotnights, Scouge, Senseless Things, shame, She’s In Parties, Shopkeeper Appeared, Silent Running, Silver Lines, Slow Pulp, Slowdive, Small Miracles, Soda, Soft Cell, Soho, Spacehog, Special Interest, Split System, Sports Team, Spyres, Stereolab, Stranglers, Sulk, Suncharms, Sunfade, Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam, Superchunk, Superfood, Supernaturals, SWiiMS, Swnami, Tacsidermi, Taffy, Taleen Kali, Talking Heads, Tantrum Zentrum, Telescopes, Temples, Ten Million Lights, Terry, that dog., The 95 Allstars, The Day, The Others Are Dead, The Smile, The Year In Pictures, Therapy?, Third Lung, Thomas Truax with Budgie, Thomas Walsh, Throwing Muses, Thurston Moore, Thus Love, Tiger, Tim Burgess, Ting Tings, Tired Radio, Toodles and the Hectic Pity, Trash Monroe, Trashcan Sinatras, Trusted, Ultrasound, Velocette, Velocity Girl, Venus and the Flytraps, Verdicts, Vice Killer, Viva Brother, Wannadies, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Wax-Tree-Cast, Wednesday