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In the three and a half years of the Graveyard Shift hundreds of bands came into the BBC Manchester Studios off Oxford Road to play three or four tracks live. Unlike other Radio 1 programs which played pre-recorded sessions the sessions on the Mark Radcliffe show were truly live. We got to hear them as they were being played which also meant that we could hear any mistakes, cock-ups or the true brilliance of bands which is usually destroyed in the production room.

Artist	Songs	Date	Notes (Interesting Facts etc)
18 Wheeler	Crabs Prozac Beach		The first attempt of Crabs ground to an untidy halt after 10seconds because the singer was in a different key to the rest of theband.
AC Acoustics			96
Adventures Of Parsley	Shooting Star I Can't Let Maggie Go	05/06/95	AOP play 'Danger Man' live, instead of the standard theme tune.
Andy Bell			2/96
Aphex Twin	Cancels appearance	11/02/97	(SM*)
Ash	Girl from mars Uncle pat Punk boy (Helen Love) Kung Foo *	03/07/95	The session neally didn't go ahead because Ric had broken his drumkit so Mark lent him loads of bits off his drum kit so the session could take place.
Ash	Warmer Than Fire Shining Light	31/01/01	(AFT) (AC)
Baby Bird	Goodnight * (AC)	05/09/95
Baby Bird	CFC You're Gorgeous Dead Bird sings Bug In A Breeze	24/07/96	Baby Bird borrowed Mark and Lard's new dustcoats to muffle their drums but then didn't give them back till their 97 session for the show.
Baby Bird	July Farmer Hate Song You're Gorgeous	20/01/97	As a tribute to Mark and Lard Stephen Jones changed some of theYou're Gorgeous words to the words in You're A Bastard. They also returned Mark and Lard's dustcoats which they had stolen on the previous session.
Banco De Gaia		18/07/96	Phoenix Festival concert coverage on the show.
Bandit Queen		03/03/94
Barefoot Contessa	Someone Over Me E		9/95
Barefoot Contessa	Miss Peachy To Know and Not to Care	14/11/96	(SM)
Belle & Sebastian	Judy And The Dream Of Horses Like Dylan In The Movies The State I Am In The Stars Of Track And Field	11/07/96
Belle & Sebastian	I Could Be Dreaming Seeing Other People (alternate version - slower) We Rule The School This Is Just A Modern Rock Song	02/12/96
Belly	Red Thief The Bees Judas My Heart	18/01/95
Belly	Seal my fate Super connected Now they'll sleep Red	24/07/95
Ben Folds Five	Underground Where's Summer B? Alice Childress Philosophy	13/05/96
Bennet			(JP) February, March or October 1996
Beth Orton	Touch Me With Your Love Pedestal It's Not The Spotlight	21/01/97	Beth grew rather attached to Lard's novelty Let Rip pot and madefarty noises with it all through the show.
Bettie Serveert	21 Days Musher Re-Feel It		6/95
Big White Stairs	Live the life Memory lane Under the fir Non star		94
Big White stairs	45 Help me out Non star		96
Billy Bragg	Upfield Brickbat Goalhanger	20/08/96	They chatted about his upcoming Reading festival apperance.
Bivouac	Slack		92
Blue Aeroplanes		03/02/94
Bluetones	Bluetonic Time And Again Are You Blue Or Are You Blind? The Fountainhead	22/05/95
Bluetones	Don't stand me down Cut some rug Putting out fires	20/02/96
Blur		07/03/94
Blur	Jubilee Girls & Boys Trouble In The Message Centre Lot 105	03/08/94
Blur	Country Sad Ballad Man Movin' On On Your Own Song 2	03/02/97	Lard presented Blur with the kettles that they had won on Fish OrFoul.
Blur		23/06/99	(AFT)
BMX Bandits	Little hands Gettin' dirty		94
BMX Bandits	She She Started To Ride		7/95 She Started To Ride is a cover of a Jonathan Richman song
Boo Radleys	Melodies for the dead Everything is sorrow Ride the tiger C'mon kids		96
Boo Radleys	Naomi Skyscaper Song For Up Smile Fades Fast	18/09/91	(HTN)(SEC)
Boo Radleys	Find The Answer Within * (AC)	27/04/95
Brassy			95
Breed		15/12/93	(HTN)
Broardcast	The World Backwards The Booklovers Message from Home	04/11/96
Buzzcocks	Libertine Angel * Roll It Over Last to Know * Energy *	11/04/94
Calvin Party		20/03/96	(JP)
Cardiacs	A Horse's Tail Ideal Is This The Life Joining The Plankton	24/04/95
Cardiacs	Buds and Spawn Dog Like Sparky Fiery Gun Hand Nurses Whispering Verses	11/06/96
Cast	Alright Sandstorm Finetime Reflections	07/08/95
Cast	Back of my mind Sandstorm * Finetime	16/03/96	(AC)
Catatonia			96
Catatonia	Sweet Catatonia Message Infantile Acupulco Gold		95
Catatonia	Sweet Catatonia * Whale * (AC)	22/04/96
Catatonia	Johnny come lately You've Got A Lot To Answer For Do You Believe In Me Bleed	18/07/96	This was done when Mark went to The Phoenix festival to do the showfrom a mobile studio over there.
Catatonia	You've Got A Lot To Answer For	18/11/96
Catchers	Cotton Dress	19/05/94	Band from Northern Ireland
Charlatans	Jesus Hairdo I Never Want An Easy Life If Me And He Were Ever To Get There Autograph Feel Flows	06/06/94
Charlatans	Crashing in Just when you're thinking things over Here comes a soul saver	31/07/95
Charlatans	One To Another Impossible Forever	15/10/99	(AFT)
Charlie's Angels	Thrill Me Give It Up Whatever You Do To Me I Don't Want To Love You		95 By playing Whatever You Do To Me they were the first and the last band to get a Take That song into the show.
Charlie's Angels		08/04/96
Chumbawamba		08/12/93	(HTN)
Clique			(ML)
CNN	Looking Forward Esther's Letter Unnatural Passions	05/01/93	(HTN) The show was a glam special and also featured an interview with Roy Wood and Giant Haystacks
Cocteau Twins		09/02/94	Live from Nottingham
Cocteau Twins	Serperent Skirt * Golden-Vein * Half-Gifts * Seekers Who Are Lovers *	12/03/96	Go to http://www.cocteautwins.com/Flo/radcliff.htmlto see some photos taken at this session of the band.
Cornershop	England's Dreaming Waterlogged Summer Fun In A Beat-Up Datsun Kawasaki (More Heat Than Chapati) Moonshine	20/01/93	(HTN) This was Cornershop's very first radio session.
Cowboy Junkies		27/01/94
Cowboy Junkies	Lay It Down	27/02/96	(JP)
Crane	Firepower	25/11/92
Cranes		07/09/94
Creation	Making time Power surge Creation Painter man		94
Crispy 3	The Groove	25/03/92	(HTN)
Cud		01/02/94
Damned		29/11/93
David Bowie		19/09/95	That US Special Show
David Bowie	Heroes Strangers When We Meet Lust for Life All The Young Dudes White Light White Heat Moonage Daydream	18/07/96	Radcliffe 'panics' after 1st tune, because DB walks off stage. We hear Mark go off mike and start egging him on to do an encore, if only for Aiman/Iman his supermodel wife. There had been some traffic problems getting to the festival. They had been stuck behind the car carrying David Bowie's coat. Only Mark actually made it to the show. Maconie went missing and Lard does a live link from the festival pub, clearly drunk,before disappearing completely.
David Bowie	Survive Drive-In Saturday Something In The Air Can't Help Thinking About Me Repetition.	25/10/99	(AFT)
David Devant & His Spirit Wife	The Last Ever Love Song Life On A Crescent		12/96
Dead Flowers	Chocolate Staircase Slow Burn Full Fist		93 (HTN)
Delgados	Falling & Landing * Tempered * Thirteen Gliding Principles * Friendly Conventions *	10/07/96	(AC) These tracks are on their BBC sessions compilation CD
Denim		06/02/96
Dick Dale	Nitro Crankin' for now Catamount Miserlou	10/07/95
Dig	I'll stay high * Believe * Fearless * Unlucky friend *	05/09/94	Fearless is a Pink Floyd track.
Divine Comedy		27/10/93	(AC) The second ever session of The Graveyard Shift
Divine Comedy	Something For The Weekend Your Daddy's Car	29/04/96
Divine Comedy	Everybody Knows Except You Through a Long and Sleepless Night Songs of LOve If	13/02/97	(SM*)
Divine Comedy	Love What You Do Bad Ambassador	28/02/01	(AFT) (AC) Neil Hannon came in and did a couple of acoustic tunes
Doctor Phibes & The House of Wax Equations	Mr Fantasy Mirrors Burning Cross	23/04/91	(HTN)(SEC)
Dodgy	So let me go far Crossroads Staying out for the Summer Sylvia's Bedroom *	07/11/94	Dodgy try to get lippy but fail dismally.
Dodgy		22/10/96	(MAH)
Drugstore	Solitary party groover She don't use jelly (flaming lips) Superglider Favourite Sinner *	06/04/95
Dubstar	Just A Girl *	13/11/95
Durutti Column		26/02/91	(HTN)
Durutti Column	Silent Night Untitled Organ Donor	04/12/96
Dweeb	Scooby Doo Me & You Beat Me	04/02/97	Beat Me is an Adam & the Ants Cover
Echobelly	Car Fiction *	29/08/95	(ML)
Edward Ball	Mill Hill Self Hate Club Love is Blue	21/08/96
Edwin Collins	A Girl Like You	19/09/94	Ex Sex Pistol Paul cook played drums.
Edwin Collins	Low Expectations *	23/02/95	(SM)
Edwin Collins	Keep On Burning What Presence? Out Of this World * Psychedelic Soul	29/01/96	Psychedelic Soul is a Saxy Russell cover
Elastica	Rockunroll Gloria Car song 2:1		95 Justines describes Adam Ant as 'F***ing brilliant'.
Electrafixion	Zephyr Sister Pain Who's Been Sleeping In My Head Bed Of Nails	27/06/94
ElectraFixion	Feel My Pulse Never Holy Grail Loose	25/09/95	Loose is a Stooges cover
Embrace	Hooligan I Wouldn't Wanna Happen To You 3 Is A Magic Number	14/06/00	(AFT) This show came live from Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Eric Matthews		13/03/96
Eskimos in Egypt		27/01/93	(HTN)
Everclear		20/05/96
Fatima Mansions	Loyaliser Night Flight Walk your Way Belong Nowhere	25/07/94
Flaming Stars		17/12/95
Flaming Stars		17/10/96	(SM)
Flinch	Jamie D Faking Skin Deep		95/96
Frank & Walters	Little Dolls Indian Ocean Colours Tony Cochran	27/06/96
Frank Black			94
Frank Black			96
Freak Power		12/06/95
Frente	Ordinary angel Bizarre love triangle Testimony	08/03/94	Bizarre love triangle was an acoustic cover of the New Order song.Mark and Lard also take the piss out of guitarist Simon because he lookslike Uncle Fester.
G love and Special Sauce	Cold Beverage Lila Walk To Slide *		94 Mark and Lard did a live programme with them at Digbirth Civic Hall along with Gene.
Galon Drunk	Come Onto Me		96
Gene	We could be kings Speak to me someone Voice of the father	13/01/97
Gentle People
Go-Betweens		07/08/96
Goldblade		21/10/96	(MAH)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci		27/11/96
Half Man Half Biscuit	A Lilac Harry Dorrs Prag Vec At The Melkweg Trecnoc Kcor Naitsirhc No Regrets		2/91 (HTN)
Half Man Half Biscuit	Bad Review Deep House Victim's Minibus Appeal Dead Men Don't Need Season Tickets Shropshire Lad Paintball's Coming Home	14/10/96	(JP)
Hawkwind
Helen Love	Punk boy Love kiss run sing shout jump Rockaway beach for me heartbreak hotel for you		95
Helen Love	We Love You Bubble Gum Girl About Town		96 They had to start Bubble Gum about three times after Dave their DAT man totally cocked up the starting of the tapes.
High Llamas			March/April 96 Played tracks from the then-new "Hawaii"album.
High Llamas	Checking in, Checking Out		7/95
High Llamas	The Dutchman Holland Gideon Gaye Checking in Checking out	08/08/94	Holland is the old Beach Boys song.
Ian Macnab	Still got the Fever Sometimes I think about you	15/09/93	(HTN) MacNabb says (or rather sings) "f***ing" live onBBC radio. Radcliffe is slightly, just slightly, uncomfortable.
Ian McNabb		09/01/93	(HTN)
Ida		17/03/94
Inspiral Carpets	Born Yesterday * Cobra * I Don't Want To Go Blind * Paranoid *	13/06/94
James	Lost A Friend To The Sea * Tomorrow Come Home * Greenpeace *	29/01/97
Jeff Buckley	Grace So Real	22/08/94	Jeff did an instrumental piece whilst Mark read out his tour dates in a Jeff Buckley voice.
Jocasta	Perfect Swings & Roundabouts Change Me		6/96
John Cale	Dancing Undercover Entre Nous Some Friends Leaving It Up To You	26/11/96	(SM)
John Parish & P J Harvey	Civil War Correspondent Urn with Dead Flowers in a Drained Pool Un Cercle Autour Du Soleil City Of No Sun	15/10/96	(JP)
John Shuttleworth	Austin Ambassador Y-Reg		6/96
John Spencer Blues Explosion	2 kindsa love Eyeballin Afro R.L. Got Soul Love All Of Me Identity F* S* Up		10/96
Johothan Fire*Eater			Late 96
Jonathan Richman			Mark did not seem to get on very well with Johnathan
Julian Cope	Conspiracist Blues 1995	22/06/95	Spontaneous-ish acoustic set around the Radio 1 campfire on the eve of Glastonbury
Julian Cope	When I Walk Through The Land Of Fear The Great Dominions Sleeping Gas	04/07/96	Performed entirely on theramin and moog, as well as a poem, 'There's Nothing Highbrow about the Eyebrow Brothers'. On his cover of The Teardrops Explode's 'Sleeping Gas' Mark played the drums and Lard played the guitar.
Julian Cope	I Come From Another Planet Baby I've Got My TV and My Pills Greedhead Detector Girl,Part 1	07/10/96	Scrawn joins in on Girl, which fades out after 5 minutes.
Juliana Hatfield	My Darling My Sister Spin The Bottle	02/12/93
Kaisers	Patricia Ann Little Twister Angel of Love Hip Shake Shimmy Kitten What'd I say	13/08/96	Mark froths at the mouth in admiration and squeezes in the last song.
Kaliphz		02/02/94	(HTN)
Kenickie	Millionaire Sweeper Girls Best Friend People We Want Acetone	11/11/96	(SM)(AC) During People We Want Kenickie started giggling through the song everytime they did the handclaps.
Kenickie	Classic I Never Complain In Your Car Freedom	05/02/97
Kevin Ayers And The Wizards Of Twiddly	Am I Really Marcel? Lady Rachel Everybody's Sometime, Some People's All The Time Blues Super Salesman	02/01/95
Killing Joke	Whiteout Exorcism Psych	26/04/94
Kula Shaker	Grateful When You're Dead * Into The Deep * Tattva *	13/02/96
Kula Shaker	Hey dude 303 Govinda	18/09/96
Kylie Minogue	Some Kind Of Bliss Did It Again	16/09/97	(BRK)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo	The 99 Rugby World Cup Anthem	28/09/99	(AFT)
Land Of Barbara	-		93 (HTN) Their van broke down on the way to the session and they couldn't make it so Wonky Alice came in at very short notice and did a session instead.
Leather Face	Not Superstitious One To Say Discipline	04/12/91	(HTN)(SEC)
Lionrock
Lisa Germano			12/94
Lisa Germano		09/03/94
Lisa Germano	A Beautiful Schitzophrenic I Love A Snot Message From Lisa	30/07/96
Loopzilla		02/04/91	(HTN)
Luna	Indian Summer Lost In Space Minutes In Brussels	13/12/95
Lush	Single Girl 500 Runaway Demystification		95
Lush		04/01/96
Madder Rose		31/01/94
Magic Mushroom Band			This was the last performance together by the band
Magnapop		07/02/94
Mambo Taxi	Push that pram under the train Kiss kiss kiss Tom Velvet youth		94
Man Or Astroman	Inside the Atom 24 Hours Uranus Maximum Radiation Level	08/05/96
Manic Street Preachers			97 (BRK)(AC) James Dean Bradfield came in to do a few Manics tunes.
Manic Street Preachers	If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Ocean Spray	11/05/01	(AFT) (AC) The show came live from Cardiff. James Dean Bradfield performed the two tracks live and also Nicky Wire was interviewed.
Mansun	Stripper Vicar She Makes My nose Bleed Wide Open Space Ski Jump Nose		96-97?
Marion		23/03/94	(HTN) This was the last Hit The North show
Mark Burgess & The Sons Of God		04/12/93
Mazzy Star	Holah Rhymes of an hour Flowers in December Ghost highway		Hallowe'en 96
Me			Early 94
Mediaeval Baebes
Mega City Four		11/03/96
Melons	Hell To Helsinki Losing It Throw Your Arms Around Me	18/05/95
Melons	Fast Lane The Big Freeze Wishes	15/03/96	(AC)
Mice	The Milkman Mat's Prozac Blue Sonic Boy Dear Sir	03/06/96
Mick Harvey and The Dirty Three	Bonnie and Clyde Harley Davidson Les Jardinese Barrel of my 45	07/05/96
Mike Scott			Mike refused to sing untill Lard had left the room.
Minty	Minty That's Nice Manners Means Dream / Art		5/96
Moby	Porcelain Every Time You Touch Me	13/11/00	(AFT) (AC) Moby was joined by guest vocalist Diane Charlamaine (formerly of 52nd Street and Urban Cookie Collective) on Every Time You Touch Me
Molly Half Head			(HTN)
Moloko		26/03/96	(ML)
Moonflowers			Late 93
Mystreated	I Won't Pay The Price Soul Memories My Place In Your Life Never Questioning Why	19/12/94
Nick Cave		14/03/94
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds	O'Malley's Bar (Part 1) * O'Malley's Bar (Part 2) O'Malley's Bar (Part 3) Henry Lee	26/02/96	O'Malley's Bar was done in 3 parts because it is a very long track.(Is that a bit obvious?)
No-Man	Ocean Song Heartcheat Pop Break Heaven Days In The Trees Taking It Like A Man	07/10/92	(HTN)
Northern Uproar	Goodbye Head Under Water Town Mood		96 Acoustic set with just PK on Guitar and Lion singing.
Number One Cup	Paris	18/03/96	(JP)
Nut	Giant Sticky Scream		96
Oasis	Supersonic Married With Children		94 (AC)
Oasis	Cigarettes & Alcohol		7/92 (HTN) This Hit The North Session was Oasis's first ever radio session.
Octopus	Jealousy Your smile Adrenalina From a to b		96
One
Orange	Judy over the rainbow The world revolves around me		94
Orb	Oxbow Lakes Towers of Dub Montaigne D'Or *	12/07/95
Orb	Passing Of Time	10/02/97	(SM*)
Out Of My Hair	In the groove again Strange Company Wendy		94
Pale Saints			(HTN)
Papas Fritas		28/03/96	(ML)
PJ Harvey	Good Fortune This Is Love	08/11/00	(AFT)
Placebo	Teenage angst Bruise pristine 36 degrees Nancy boy		96?
Placebo	Teenage Angst Nancy Boy Burger Queen	22/01/97	(AC) Mark and Lard managed to take the piss out of the band many times during the show.
Pooka		15/09/93	(HTN)
Porcupine Tree	Radioactive Toy Burning Sky Always Never	06/12/93
Porcupine Tree	The Sky Moves Sideways Moon Touches Your Shoulder	30/01/95
Powers that Be	JellyBaby	22/07/92	(HTN)
Pulp	Space Death II Live On Countdown My Legendary Girlfriend.	11/09/91	(HTN)
Pulp	Razzmatazz Pink Glove Stacks 59 Lyndhurst Grove Sheffield: Sex City.	17/02/93	(HTN)
Pulp	Lipgloss Joyriders Have You Seen Her Lately His 'N' Hers.	16/11/93
Quickspace			96
Radiohead	Pyramid Song	30/05/01	(AFT) The show came live from Verona. Thom Yorke performed the song on a piano, the other members of the band appeared throughout this and the following day's show.
Revillos	Hip City * Last Of The Secret Agents * Motorbike Beat * Crush *	25/03/96	(ML) Reunion gig
Ride	Walk on water Let's get lost 1000 miles I Don't Know Where It Comes From *	21/07/94
Robert Foster			8/96
Robert Fripp	No Potty Training		94-96?
Robert Fripp	The Trumpeting Horse Return Of the Trumpeting Horse 2 Untitled tracks	12/11/96	(SM)
Robyn Hitchcock		03/03/94
Robyn Hitchcock	Man with a Woman's Shadow I something you	16/02/95
Robyn Hitchcock	Di Chirico Street Heliotrope Feels like 1974	14/08/96
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians	Oceanside Driving Aloud I something you City of Shame	15/11/93	Noddy Holder & Joolz were guests
Rocket From The Crypt	Young Livers * Don't Darlene * Suit City * Lorna Doom *	28/05/96
SMASH	Another love Tidal wave I'm gonna take your breath away Round and round		95
Salad	Kiss My Love	20/12/93
Scorpio Rising	Freedom No. 5 Freedom 13 Peace Frog Watermelon	16/10/91	(HTN)(SEC) Peace Frog is a Doors cover.
Screach Owls	Genius Dirty Pictures Standing Still Close Your Eyes	06/11/96
Seahorses	Love Is The Law		97 (BRK)
Secret Goldfish	Pet Thang Dandelion Milk Summer Hey Mr Fox Venus Bonding		96
Shed 7	Getting Better Where Have You Been Tonight Going For Gold Out By My Side	04/03/96	Mark reckoned they were using paracetamol tablets as maraccas cos they'd forgotten to bring them.
Skylab
Sleeper	Inbetweener		96
Sleeper	What Do I Do Now? Statuesque Sale Of The Century Feeling Peaky	09/01/95
Soft Boys	Zipper in my Spine Acid Bird Insanely Jealous	18/01/94	Soft Boys reunion, led by Robyn Hitchcock.
Sons Of Selina	Climb Of The First Water For Want Of A Better Name Terminus		Steve Sync and Lard also played a monosynth duet
Soul Bossa	Malcontent		9/96 Mark Lamarr was filling in.
Soul Coughing		26/06/95
Sparklehorse	Dead opera star Gosoline horses Homecoming queen Come on in		Summer 96
Sparks	This town ain't big enough for the both of us	04/11/93
Spiritualized	Let It Flow
Spiritualized
StereoLab	French Disko Wow & Flutter Golden Ball Le Boob Oscillator	13/12/93
StereoLab	Seeperbold Untitled 2 International Colouring Contest Anarmophose	22/11/94
Steven Duffy	London Girls Starfit Sugar High She Freak	14/08/95
Subcircus	You Love You 86'd	27/01/97
Suede	My Insatiable One * (AC)	10/02/94	(AC)
Suede	Lazy Europe Is Our Playground Starcrazy Saturday Night	23/09/96
Super Furry Animals	Demons (AC) Fire In My Heart (AC)	23/07/99	(AFT)
Super Furry Animals	Fragile Happiness Juxtaposed With U	03/07/01	(AFT) (AC) Gruff and Cian performed the songs and were joined by a harpist and Mark on drums for Juxtaposed With U.
Supergrass	Condition		8/95 Condition is a Kenny Rodgers song. On this day Mark played his Supergrass piss-take songs "Feels Like Shite" and another about having sex with Supergrass.
Supergrass	Strange Ones Sitting Up Straight Lenny	24/10/94	Their first ever radio session.
Surge	Filter through	28/10/92	(HTN)
Tanya Donelly	Bury My Heart Restless Mysteries of the Unexplained Acrobat	20/11/96
TC Hug		26/01/94	(HTN) The show included a New Fast Automatic Daffodils interview
Teenage Fanclub	Verismilitude Going Places I Feel A Whole Lot Better Starsign		7/95 (AC) 'I Feel' is a Byrds cover.
Teenage Fanclub	120 mins Every step is a way through The Shadows * Don't look back	11/12/95	'Every step is a way through' & ' The Shadows' had Mark on drums as The Fannies drummer Paul was ill.
They Might Be Giants	(thank you for putting me back in my) Snail shell Sleeping in the flowers Birdhouse in your soul Frankenstein Particle man Spy		94
Throwing Muses	Shark Serene Ruthie's Knocking		96
Thrum	The Excitor Slower Dark Heart When It All Turns Around		96
Tiger	Depot I'm In Love With RAF Nurse	12/08/96
Tindersticks	Tiny Tears	25/10/93	The very first Graveyard Shift session.
Tindersticks	She's Gone *	17/10/95
Tindersticks	Here Seaweed Dick's Slow Song Rhumba	28/10/96
Tindersticks	Her Travelling Light Buried Bones Tiny Tears	06/02/97	They were the very first session guests and the very last. Tiny Tears marked the end of the Graveyard shift.
Townes Van Zandt	Pancho and Lefty Kathleen	28/04/94	"Kathleen", had just been covered by Radcliffe show regulars the Tindersticks. He spent the rest of the show telling an interminable story about how he went to buy a pink shirt in the Manchester Arndale Centre and got lost.
Travis	More Than Us	12/03/99	(AFT)
Travis	Why Does It Always Rain On Me? (AC) Baby One More Time * (AC)	06/08/99	(AFT) Yes that is the Britney Spears tune. Live from Robin Hood's Bay
Trembling Blue Stars	She's Always There Do People Ever? Abba On The Jukebox	02/07/96
Trippin Daisy	Bang I Got A Girl Piranha Wiggle	19/03/96	(JP)
Vent 414	Laying Down With Fixer Life before you Kissing the mirror	29/07/96	The new band of Miles Hunt from the Wonderstuff.
Veruca Salt	Get back All hail me Side of the road (lucinda williams) Sundown *	17/01/95
Verve			(HTN) Their first ever radio session
Verve	New Decade This Is Music Life's An Ocean Come On	19/06/95
Vic Chesnutt	Doubting Woman Strange Language Sad Peter Pan		95
Vic Chesnutt	Giant Sand Taragon Mertyl Poor Little Jesus	09/12/96
Vic Chestnutt		23/03/94
Wannadies	You and me song Might be stars Cherryman Blister in the sun		96
Webb Brothers	The Liar's Club I Can't Believe You're Gone	16/01/01	(AFT) I Can't Believe You're Gone was preceeded by a short speech telling us why we should buy the single of the track when it was released
Wedding Present	AM 15 mins Dalliance, Dare, Carolyn, Crawl.	22/01/91	(HTN) A further song 'Heather' was recorded but not broardcast.
Westworld		27/07/94
White Town	A Week Next June Undressed Reject Once I Flew		97
Wizards of Twiddly	Slug Alert The Eye Of the Potato		92 (HTN)
Wonky Alice	Son Of A Son Kings		(HTN) Filled in for Land Of Barbara who's van broke down

Key:
(JP) - John Peel was filling in. He filled in for three weeks in February, March and October 1996.
(SM) - Stuart Maconie was filling in.
(SM*) - Mark & Lard had finished the Graveyard Shift but the timeslot still went on for a week with Maconie filling in and treating it like the Graveyard shift.
(MAH) - Mary Anne Hobbs was filling in.
(ML) - Mark Lamarr was filling in. He stood in on the weeks beginning 21/8/95 and 28/8/95
(AFT) - Afternoon show session.
(BRK) - A Breakfast Show Session
(HTN) - Indicates a Hit The North Session
(AC) - Accoustic
(SEC) - Featured on the 'Seconds Out' compilation album
* - Session track which has been released on record. See Released Sessions page for details

Thanks to everyone who has helped me compile this list including Popstar, Tim Joseph, Steve Roden, Ian Greaves, John Donaldson, James Wood, Rob Brewer, Aca, Oliver, Campbell, James, Richard , Edward, Ian, Eoin, Andrew Dawson, Neil, Chris, Mark Leonard, Jodie Wood. I'm very grateful.

If you know any other Graveyard Shift or even Hit the North session details then please email me

Sessionology

Artist

Songs

Date

Notes (Interesting Facts etc)