The 2025 Festive 50 Part 1: 50 to 21 Press play and away we go! www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

Ashes lost - time for a cup of tea and a lie down. Just a few cracks papered over today….

The 2025 Festive 50 countdown will be done over two nights this year. We’ll have a bumper show on Sunday 21st counting down 50 to 21 and then the top 20 will be on Monday 22nd. Exactly times to follow but probably around 8pm starts. At least that’s the plan!

It's DEADLINE DAY! Today's your last chance to vote in this year's Festive 50. Please send me your top 10 tracks of 2025 before the clocks strike midnight (or I just go to bed or something). Thank you for voting & sharing. I'll stop shouting at you all again very soon.

The vote for the 2025 Festive 50 is officially OPEN! Please send me your top 10 tracks from 2025 before the vote closes on 14th December. Votes can be public by replying or @ ing me on a post (no hashtags) or in private by sending me a DM. Please also spread the word cos we need more voters!!!

Job done. My #iPod playthrough is complete. All tracks listened to and rated. Thanks for being with me 😀

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

So #myiPod playthrough is nearly complete - You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me is posted here because it was the first single I ever bought (with a record token I won in a kids BBC competition for my music-related joke)

Here we go again - Crawley and Duckett unlikely to accumulate runs calmly for the next couple of hours ….

Two overs and no wickets - are we in for a less frenetic night’s cricket today? #ashes2025

What a night’s cricket. I will sleep well today #ashes2025

England doing ok against county medium pacers Boland and Doggett

Test match progressing at a pace which suggests sleeping patterns won’t be disturbed for too long this weekend

Typical Crawley - 0-1 😡

Ok let’s do this #ashes

Should be more comfortable in less cramped, less orange surroundings when proceedings begin tonight

Through the 99% point of #myiPod playthrough with Local Natives from California and Neil Young from Canada

The Dears with track 6350 of 6456 on #myiPod playthrough

Reached the 98% point of #myiPod playthrough with this Athlete track while weeding this morning

Early Bloc Party in slot 6300 of 6456 as we enter the home straight of #myiPod playthrough

Dug up a few potatoes this morning

Two absolute bangers as we pass the 97% point of #myiPod playthrough

38 years ago today I went to an entertaining football match in Manchester

Vintage U2 in slot 6250 of #myiPod playthrough. Just 206 tracks to go 😢

Manchester based electronic trance band Delphic have their debut single at the 96% point of #myiPod playthrough

A slice of “afrobeat and rockabilly infused post punk from Leeds band The Wild Beasts as we track track 6150 on #myiPod playthrough

Only taken three and a half years but now 95% through #myiPod playthrough

Busy busy busy 😀

Classic Aztec Camera in slot 6100 of #myiPod playthrough. Not far to the end now

94% through #myiPod playthrough with Mary of the 4th Form (year 10 in modern parlance)

Up to track 6050 of 6456 with Elvis Costello - not many tracks left on #myiPod playthrough

Los Campesinos! At slot 6000 and 93% through #myiPod with The Czars missing Life on Mars by one track

Crowded House take us past the 92% point of #myiPod playthrough and the purple one in in slot 5950

We are Somerset - come and join us!

Track 5900 of 6456 on #myiPod playthrough is from Embrace

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91% point of #myiPod playthrough is about as mainstream as it gets

Only had to wait 5867 tracks for this personal favourite and life manifesto to appear #myiPod

A song about the miners’ strike from a compilation cd of protest songs occupies slot 5850 of #myiPod playthrough

Two songs which hold up well with the passage of time see us crashing through the 90% point of #myiPod playthrough on the Eurostar to Brussels

Nice to see this pop up at slot 5800 of #myiPod playthrough - good album

Everything by The Jam is on here somewhere as #myiPod reaches the 89% playthrough point with Takin my Love

Two fat ladies 88% through #myiPod playthrough with this fruity number from The Stranglers - saw them down ‘ Diggers IYKYK

Death is not a Parallel Move according to Of Montreal. Obscure stuff as we pass the 87% point of #myiPod playthrough

5600 slot is from The Divine Comedy and a contribution to a CD compilation of acoustic tracks #myiPod

David Bowie in slot 5550 and Nick Cave at the 86% point of #myiPod playthrough

Track 5450 from REM and I remember nothing about The Field Mice as we reach 85% point on #myiPod playthrough

Track 5400 of this playthrough - The Beatles and the Stones (made it good to be alone)…. #myiPod

Up to track 5350 of 6456 in #myiPod playthrough with this Flogging Molly song from 2002