UKNY For December 30
Headed home via train? Tonight's UKNY at 11 is an hour's journey on the rails across Britain, America, and other locales, via Public Service Broadcasting, Saint Etienne, Marika Hackman, Underworld, Poppy Ackroyd and others.
Mid-flight on an airline instead? Catch up to UKNY on demand in the Weekend Archives for up to two weeks after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Public Service Broadcasting, “Night Mail,” Inform-Educate-Entertain
2. Marika Hackman, “Eastbound Train,” I’m Not Your Man
3. Andy Cato, “Moscow to St. Petersburg by Train,” Times & Places
4. Saint Etienne, “Train Drivers in Eyeliner,” Home Counties
5. (Copenhagen, DK-Berlin, DE) Liima, “Trains in the Dark,” ii
6. Underworld, “Dark and Long (Dark Train),” 1992-2012: The Anthology
7. Teleman, “Steam Train Girl,” Breakfast
8. George Fitzgerald, “Passing Trains,” All That Must Be
9. A Little Orchestra feat. Haiku Salut, “Train Tracks for Wheezy,” Clocks
10. (UK and US) Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, “The Midnight Special,” Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad
11. The Clash, “Train in Vain,” London Calling
12. Poppy Ackroyd, “Trains,” Resolve