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Cardiacs

Cardiacs is a group from the UK, active from 1977.

Group GB 1977–2020 progressive rock art punk progressive pop
TOTAL PLAYS
270
SONGS PLAYED
83
STATIONS
2
FIRST PLAYED
2005-09-02 05:29 · 6 Music — "R.E.S - BBC Session 29/11/1987"
LAST PLAYED
5 months ago · 6 Music — "The May"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2025
40 30 20 10 0
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 267 99%
Radio 1 3 1%
Radio 2 0 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 20:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Is This the Life? 21 2025-09-18
2 Day Is Gone 21 2023-09-12
3 Is This the Life 18 2015-12-10
4 Manhoo 11 2024-09-13
5 She is Hiding Behind the Shed 9 2025-04-16
6 Odd Even 9 2019-07-11
7 In A City Lining - BBC Session 29/11/1987 9 2013-08-15
8 Buds And Spawn - BBC Session 29/11/1987 8 2013-03-07
9 R.E.S - BBC Session 29/11/1987 8 2013-03-07
10 A Little Man and a House 7 2021-04-08
11 Volob 6 2025-10-07
12 Is This The Life? 6 2011-10-28
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2025-12-06 01:31 The May 6 Music
2025-12-01 22:42 Lovely Eyes 6 Music
2025-11-21 01:56 Spelled All Wrong 6 Music
2025-11-21 01:54 The May 6 Music
2025-11-19 21:36 Lovely Eyes 6 Music
2025-11-18 13:49 The May 6 Music
2025-11-17 20:51 Spelled All Wrong 6 Music
2025-10-20 20:04 Spelled All Wrong 6 Music
2025-10-07 21:25 Volob 6 Music
2025-10-06 21:30 Spelled All Wrong 6 Music
2025-10-05 19:03 Volob 6 Music
2025-09-30 20:06 Volob 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

83 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
A Cake For Bertie's Party (live) — 1 ▶
A Horses Tail — 1 ▶
A Little Man and a House — 7 ▶
Ain't He Messy Though — 1 ▶
All His Geese are Swans — 1 ▶
Anything I Can't Eat — 4 ▶
Arnald — 1 ▶
As Cold as Can Be in an English Sea (6 Music session 15 Oct 2015) — 1 ▶
Baby Heart Dirt — 3 ▶
Bell Clinks — 1 ▶
Big Ship — 3 ▶
Big Ship (6 Music Session, 17 June 2024) — 2 ▶
Blind in Safety and Leafy in Love — 1 ▶
Breakfast Line — 1 ▶
Buds And Spaw (Janice Long Session 29.11.1987) — 1 ▶
Buds and Spawn — 1 ▶
Buds And Spawn (Radio 1 Session, 29 Nov 1987) — 4 ▶
Buds And Spawn - BBC Session (11 June 1996) — 1 ▶
Buds And Spawn - BBC Session 29/11/1987 — 8 ▶
Cameras / Is This The Life (Janice Long Session 29.11.1987) — 1 ▶
Cameras / Is This The Life (Radio 1 Session, 29 Nov 1987) — 1 ▶
Cameras / Is This The Life - BBC Session 29/11/1987 — 2 ▶
Cameras/Is This The Life? (Radio 1 Janice Long Session, 29 Nov 1987) — 1 ▶
Day Is Gone — 21 ▶
Dirty Boy — 5 ▶
Ditzy Scene — 1 ▶
Dog Like Sparky — 1 ▶
Dog-Like Sparky - BBC Session (11 June 1996) — 1 ▶
Downup — 2 ▶
Eden on the Air — 1 ▶
Fairy Mary Mag — 1 ▶
Fast Robert (6 Music session 28 June 2007) — 4 ▶
Fast Robert - 6 Music session 28/06/2007 — 3 ▶
Fiery Gun Hand — 1 ▶
Fiery Gun Hand - BBC Session (11th June, 1996) — 1 ▶
Flap Off You Beak — 1 ▶
Gena Lolla Brigida — 3 ▶
Goosegash — 1 ▶
Helen And Heven — 1 ▶
Hope Day (6 Music Session, 15 Oct 2005) — 2 ▶
In a City Lining — 2 ▶
In A City Lining (Janice Long Session 29.11.1987 ) — 1 ▶
In A City Lining (Radio 1 Session, 29 Nov 1987) — 3 ▶
In A City Lining - BBC Session 29/11/1987 — 9 ▶
Insect Hoofs On Lassie — 3 ▶
Is This the Life — 18 ▶
Is This the Life? — 21 ▶
Is This The Life? — 6 ▶
Lovely Eyes — 2 ▶
Manhoo — 11 ▶
Mare's Nest — 2 ▶
Nurses Whispering Verses — 2 ▶
Nurses Whispering Verses - BBC Session (11 June 1996) — 1 ▶
Odd Even — 9 ▶
R.E.S (Radio 1 Session, 29 Nov 1987) — 5 ▶
R.E.S - BBC Session 29/11/1987 — 8 ▶
R.E.S. (Janice Long Session 29.11.1987) — 1 ▶
R.E.S. (Radio 1 Janice Long Session, 29 Nov 1987) — 4 ▶
She is Hiding Behind the Shed — 9 ▶
Spelled All Wrong — 5 ▶
Stoneage Dinosaurs (6 Music Session, 15 Oct 2005) — 4 ▶
Tarred and Feathered — 2 ▶
The Alphabet Business Concern (Home Of Fadeless Splendour) — 2 ▶
The Duck and Roger the Horse — 1 ▶
The Duck and Roger the Horse (6 Music session 28 June 2007) — 2 ▶
The Duck and Roger the Horse (6 Music Session, 17 June 2024) — 1 ▶
The Duck and Roger the Horse - 6 Music session 28/06/2007 — 3 ▶
The Ever So Closely Guarded Line — 1 ▶
The Everso Closely Guarded Line — 1 ▶
The Everso Closely Guarded Line (6 Music session 28 June 20070 — 2 ▶
The Everso Closely Guarded Line - 6 Music session 28/06/2007 — 2 ▶
The Everso Closely Guarded Line - 6 Music session 28t June 2007 — 1 ▶
The Leader Of The Starry Skys — 1 ▶
The May — 3 ▶
The Safety Bowl — 1 ▶
To Go Off And Things — 1 ▶
Two Bites of Cherry — 2 ▶
Volob — 6 ▶
Whole World Window — 1 ▶
Will Bleed Amen (6 Music Session, 15 Oct 2005) — 4 ▶
Wireless — 2 ▶
Wooden Eye — 2 ▶
Woodeneye — 5 ▶