The Night Train®

If it’s a choice between no show and a ropey show, most listeners would probably like a ropey show. That’s what this one is. Not the bits on the mic, those are as stellar as always. The music is also good. It’s the ordering of it, we’re a bit rusty so it doesn’t quite flow as well as it has in the past. Perhaps we’re over-thinking it (very likely). Anyway, here’s the show. Early morning upload for...

With this show it’s best to just focus on the music. Please ignore us butchering the Portuguese language when trying to pronounce artists and song titles. We did our best. As it’s Carnival Season (and the big day tomorrow), we promised some people a Brasil special. If you’re not lucky enough to be celebrating Carnival/Mardi Gras, use this as the soundtrack to your Pancake Day. Back this Sunday wit...

A Tuesday evening upload?!? Madness. It’s almost like you’ll never know when an upload is going to happen. So here’s Sunday’s show. It’s Steve on his own which means there’s a good chance there’ll be a Mary Lattimore cut, a 78 and some Osees. We’re back next week with a Brasil special in preparation for Carnival. Get your requests and suggestions in, pronto. https://www.instagram.com/radionighttra...

How’s everybody’s Wednesday going? We’d like to think that with this show dropping in your feed, the day has got considerably better. Truth be told, this could have been uploaded on Sunday night but we were being lazy. Please forgive us. The show. It’s a small record special so we packed some 45s in the bags and headed to the studio. For a show with very little planning, it’s actually turned out p...

What a week! We’ve been dealing with a whirlwind of bullshit, jet lag and other annoyances. This is a flimsy excuse as to why this show is only now being uploaded. Anyway, it’s a great show. A different show. It features our first ever LIVE guest presenter, DJ Kalinka. He can be heard on Sheffield Live as one of the crew that brings you Two Foot Left. We’re back on Sunday (hopefully) with a small...

Evening all. Yesterday’s show for your listening consideration. The first of 2026. Still the same though. New music, old music, new old music, old new music. Hot chat, recommending shows on other stations and all sorts of other nuggets of goodness. We will say, this has been uploaded in a bit of a hurry, so if there’s any mistakes, please let us know. We will say, there are excellent show notes th...

Here's the 411... last week was big records, this week it was small records. It's late, I've got a cold and I need to get to bed as we're up late tomorrow Djing in Leeds (oooo, check us out). As such, there's very little show notes. If there is something we talked about that you want a link for, just message and we'll get back to you. As always though, get in touch with requests, recommendations a...

Season’s greetings. Coming in just under the wire, a nice Christmas present for you to soundtrack your wrapping and cooking. As is tradition, we finish the year with a look at what we’ve purchased on wax over the last 12 months. This is part 1, big rekkids. LPs and 12”s. Next week, all being well, it’ll be little records. Have a good festive period, whatever you end up doing. As always though, get...

Mornin' everyone. No new show last night. We both had a busy weekend (DJing, Channel One Soundsystem, late night Kebabish, a pub crawl and a birthday) so decided to take the week off. So we didn't leave you with nothing, we've delved into the "archives" for a "classic" show from 2016. It's the Christmas special. Two hours of festive songs without us talkin' over them so you can play this to friend...

Morning all. Well, it was morning when this was written. Sunday’s show is here for your listening consideration. Including a great guest mix by R.Seiliog which meant less work for us and less of our waffle you’ll need to hear. Back this Sunday with part 1 of our annual “Reasons why we’re skint” shows. That’s not to be missed! As always though, get in touch with requests, recommendations and guest...

Morning all. You’d think with the weather outside being frightful we’d be inside more and doing the show upload quicker. Well, you’d be wrong! We’re busy people. Comedy shows, DJing in a bar, movies, meals with friends, the fun doesn’t stop for us. The good news is that in the midst of being popular we’ve managed to do a show on Sunday. So here it is. Standard fare, starts heavy and ends horizonta...

This is mad. 10 years. Honestly, did any of you think we’d make it THIS far? Did anyone think we’d still be this shambolic? Should we have had one show in 10 years with no self-inflicted problems? For this show we picked songs from 1991 to celebrate the show’s birthday. Shout-out to everyone that sent us suggestions. We really appreciate it! As always though, get in touch with requests, recommenda...

Show 409. A nice blend of new and old music. And some new music that sounds like old music. There’s some reissue stuff and 4 songs featuring slide guitars. Apologies if this blurb isn’t great, it’s a race against time to get this edited and uploaded and shared before it’s Monday. Back next week for the 10th birthday. Let us know if you’ve got a song from ‘91 you’d like to hear. As always though, g...

It must be being a regular listener. Sometimes the show’s up on a Monday morning ready to soundtrack you taking on another working week. Other times, it’s a Thursday evening and there’s still no sign of an upload. Anyway, here is Sunday’s show. It’s a doozy. Mainly as it’s got a smokin’ hot excerpt from Pete “Spinning Jazz” Evans’ set at the Sheffield Live! fundraiser a few weeks ago. Wrapped arou...

It’s show #407. You know what that means? You don’t? Ah, perhaps we should have hyped it up more. It’s Small Records Week* on The Night Train. 10 shows ago, we did a Global Sounds on 45 that was all P. This week, it’s all S playing records he’s got that aren’t from England or The US. Hopefully back next week with a standard show. As always, get in touch with requests, recommendations and guest mix...

Strike when the iron’s hot. Or as we like to say, upload the show on Sunday night when you can’t sleep. There’s a lot of benefits to doing it now and not procrastinating on it for a few days. The biggest one is that the Listen Again Crew that are up to date with the backlog won’t be badgering us over WhatsApp or in the street to do the upload. So, here it is. Steve said it was a struggle to make,...

It’s hump day, what better way to celebrate getting closer to the weekend than to listen to 2 hours of top quality community radio?!? The best thing about this show is that 30 minutes of it has nothing to do with us. It’s Dubcentral’s Mr Meerkat from the station fundraiser a few weeks ago.  Wrapped around that is the usual good stuff that we like to share. As always, get in touch with request...

Enjoy 2 hours of music collected and sequenced by two people. There’s also plenty of hot-chat in between the records (but in the usual places). As always, get in touch with requests, recommendations and guest mix inquiries! https://www.instagram.com/radionighttrain/ https://bsky.app/profile/thenighttrain.co.uk Don’t forget, we’re also available for family functions, weddings, funerals, boat launch...

It must be the end of the summer as we’re both in the studio! For the first time in a while. Press play to find out why we’ve been doing solo shows (SPOILER ALERT… it’s not that interesting). To make sure we didn’t make any massive mistakes, it’s a standard show. Some dance-y stuff to begin with. A discomix in the middle and then a slow reduction in BPMs to finish the show. There probably won’t be...

We’ve been promising it long enough, it’s finally happened. A Sunday night/Monday morning upload! Don’t get used to it. It’s happening as Steve can only do it tonight. This show was supposed to happen last week. It didn’t. So it got done this week. There were gonna be two hosts, then there wasn’t. Hopefully it’s turned out ok. The music is pretty good so just skip past the beds and you’ll be fine....

Evening. Steve here. Originally, I had planned to do a weirdo show for #401. Two hours of challenging music. Then I realised it was a Bank Holiday Weekend which is when we tend to have a few more live listeners. Felt a bit mean to hit ‘em with 120mins of music that some would call “unlistenable”. Instead, inspired by a post on Bsky by a pal who declared it to be a 1994 weekend, I thought “I’ll jus...

The Bad News: The Sheffield Live website is down so we can’t upload the show with our waffle. So this is the show without us. The Good News: The Sheffield Live website is down so we can’t upload the show with our waffle. So this is the show without us. So this is show #400 and what better way to celebrate the occasion than with a show that doesn’t have either of the hosts on it. A benefit of this...

Finally! Back in the studio to deliver 2 hours of “fantastic” radio. The summer is always tricky as we’re away more often than we’re on the air. Not that you lot would know, as you’re The Listen Again Crew. We like you though, as you sometimes message us nice things about the show a few weeks after broadcast. Which is nice. This week’s show is a little different. Steve had an existential crisis wh...

DO NOT ADJUST YOUR PODCAST SET! There wasn’t a show yesterday. We don’t like leaving you with nothing so we thought we’d take this week to hip you to a Bsky pal, Sean, who’s got a show on Love Will Save The Day FM. Sean’s monthly show is called Suspended in Air, which is very good. This isn’t one of those shows though. It’s a one-off he did for Easter.  Same as this week, potentially back nex...

Howdy folks. Finally, a normal show! Yes, we’re aware that we’re the ones that keep choosing daft themes. Please look past that. Also, is a show without a theme actually a theme? Who knows? So, the show. You know it’s a gem when there’s extensive homework notes to include for the Listen Again Crew. Honestly though, this stuff is great. You should check it out. Potentially back next week with a sho...