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Catherine Wheel

Catherine Wheel is a group from the UK, active from 1990.

Group GB 1990–2000 shoegaze alternative rock
TOTAL PLAYS
84
SONGS PLAYED
34
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2008-11-05 23:40 · Radio 1 — "Sparks Are Gonna Fly"
LAST PLAYED
6 months ago · 6 Music — "Crank"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2008 — 2025
20 15 10 5 0
'08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 81 96%
Radio 2 2 2%
Radio 1 1 1%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 02:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Black Metallic 9 2022-07-19
2 She's My Friend 5 2019-11-05
3 Little Muscle (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jul 1995) 5 2019-04-13
4 Heal (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jul 1995) 5 2019-04-13
5 Way Down (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jul 1995) 5 2019-04-13
6 Texture - The Marquee Club, London 1991 4 2020-03-19
7 Judy Staring At The Sun (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jul 1995) 4 2019-04-13
8 Shallow 4 2012-01-19
9 I Wanna Touch You - The Marquee Club, London 1991 3 2020-03-19
10 Let Me Down Again - The Marquee Club, London 1991 3 2020-03-19
11 Shallow - The Marquee Club, London 1991 3 2020-03-19
12 Balloon 2 2021-03-09
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2025-11-05 17:50 Crank 6 Music
2023-12-05 06:42 Broken Nose 6 Music
2022-07-19 16:05 Black Metallic 6 Music
2021-09-24 15:50 Black Metallic 6 Music
2021-03-30 15:39 Black Metallic 6 Music
2021-03-09 18:41 Balloon 6 Music
2020-03-19 02:54 I Wanna Touch You - The Marquee Club, London 1991 6 Music
2020-03-19 02:51 Upside Down - The Marquee Club, London 1991 6 Music
2020-03-19 02:45 Black Metalic - The Marquee Club, London 1991 6 Music
2020-03-19 02:42 Let Me Down Again - The Marquee Club, London 1991 6 Music
2020-03-19 02:38 Texture - The Marquee Club, London 1991 6 Music
2020-03-19 02:34 Shallow - The Marquee Club, London 1991 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

34 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Balloon — 2 ▶
Black Metalic - The Marquee Club, London 1991 — 2 ▶
Black Metallic — 9 ▶
Black Mettalic — 1 ▶
Broken Nose — 1 ▶
Crank — 1 ▶
Delicious — 2 ▶
Heal (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jul 1995) — 5 ▶
Heal - BBC Session 12/07/1995 — 2 ▶
I Wanna Touch You - The Marquee Club, London 1991 — 3 ▶
I Want To Touch You — 1 ▶
Judy Staring At The Sun — 2 ▶
Judy Staring At The Sun (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jul 1995) — 4 ▶
Judy Staring At The Sun - BBC Session 12/07/1995 — 2 ▶
Let Me Down Again - The Marquee Club, London 1991 — 3 ▶
Little Muscle — 1 ▶
Little Muscle (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jul 1995) — 5 ▶
Little Muscle - BBC Session 12/07/1995 — 2 ▶
Ma Solituda — 1 ▶
Painful Thing — 2 ▶
Shallow — 4 ▶
Shallow (Radio 1 Session, 9 Apr 1991) — 1 ▶
Shallow - BBC Session 09/04/1991 — 1 ▶
Shallow - The Marquee Club, London 1991 — 3 ▶
She's My Friend — 5 ▶
She's My Friend (Radio 1 Session, 9 Apr 1991) — 2 ▶
She's My Friend - The Marquee Club, London 1991 — 1 ▶
Something Strange — 1 ▶
Sparks Are Gonna Fly — 1 ▶
Strange Fruit — 1 ▶
Texture - The Marquee Club, London 1991 — 4 ▶
Upside Down - The Marquee Club, London 1991 — 2 ▶
Way Down (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jul 1995) — 5 ▶
Way Down - BBC Session 12/07/1995 — 2 ▶