The Night Train®

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...

OK. We forgot that this week was going to be 45s show. But, we had already done some prep to make it less painful! The plan for this show was “2 hours of songs from places that aren’t The UK or The USA”. That’s not a very catchy name so we’ve gone for “Global Sounds on 45s” which we can all agree is a MUCH better name. We were both going to be playing records but in the end, Steve made Paul do all...

Apologies this is so late. It’s been a busy week! Anyway, less of the excuses and back to the music. Here it is, the much promised Chicken Special! 2hrs of chicken and chicken-related music. Possibly the daftest theme show we’ve done in a while. For such a specific subject-matter it’s actually pretty varied. Back on Sunday with what we hope will be a standard show. As always, get in touch with req...

Howdy folks. Here’s our tribute to Sly Stone, who passed away a couple of weeks ago. It’s a bit late but that’s due to reasons that are lost to the midsts of time/are too boring to bring up. We’ve picked some of the hits and some of the (many) songs that sampled him over the years. It’s made with love, despite how ramshackle and under-researched links are. We say in the show, if you wanna know mor...

Sunday’s show, finally uploaded for your listening enjoyment. Fresh from our adventure in Chesterfield, 2 hours of pretty decent music. No theme this week. Just the two of us picking a bunch of songs from our “To Play” folder(s).  The next show is a bit up in the air as we were tempted to make a Sly Stone Tribute Show but honestly, that just feels like a lot of hard work and we won’t be able...

Morning all. Hope you’re all having a good week. We hadn’t realised the show hadn’t been uploaded. We’ve been too busy with birthday planning, birthday celebrations and looking at 45s we don’t need but need. Anyway, enough of the excuses. Here it is. It’s standard fayre. High energy hour one. Low(er) energy hour two. Hopefully we’ll be back on Sunday. We haven’t really go a choice thanks to how th...

Morning all. Another day, another oddly-timed upload. This week we played long songs on wax. It’s an idea we’ve had for a while and to be honest, we wanted to do it as it took minimal preparation. As with these shows we do on the fly they can be hit or miss. We think this one is a hit though. Hopefully you’ll agree. Hopefully we’ll be back on Sunday with a normal show with our hot-chat and field r...

Sunday’s show. Get into it. Steve did it on his own. He didn’t talk much so if you like drones and synths and delay and pads and not a lot else, this is the show for you. Hopefully back on Sunday for a Big Bank Holiday Show. 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 f...

Another week, another daft idea for a theme show. This was made even harder due to us being sticklers for the rules. The rules we made. It’s two hours of songs named after the artists that made them. Nobody asked us to do it but the good news is we’ve done it, so nobody else really needs to. There may or may not be a show next week, depending on if Steve can drag himself to the studio for a solo s...

There are many joys that a Bank Holiday can bring, 2 of which are A normal TNT A quick upload Here is last night's show, uploaded in under 24 hours. What about that? Imagine how this operation would be if we didn’t have to work. Best case scenario is that we can retire at 60 and put even more effort into the show. If that’s the case, we’ve just gotta ride it out for another 17 years. Anyway, here’...

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A daytime upload? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely in your podcast feed? Sunday saw us spinnin’ small rekkids as it’s show #387. Made on the fly, we had a rough idea of what we wanted to play but with no real plan. We’re pretty pleased with the outcome. Apologies to the live listeners that had to endure technical gremlins. We’ve tweaked the...