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Ian Dury & The Blockheads

Ian Dury & The Blockheads is a group from the UK.

Group GB new wave pub rock punk rock
TOTAL PLAYS
871
SONGS PLAYED
52
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2010-01-07 22:58 · 6 Music — "Billericay Dickie (Andy Serkis)"
LAST PLAYED
3 days ago · Radio 2 — "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2010 — 2026
200 150 100 50 0
'10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 466 54%
Radio 2 401 46%
Radio 1 4 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 18:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 359 2026-05-17
2 Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3 138 2025-12-20
3 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 132 2026-05-14
4 What A Waste 66 2026-04-13
5 Sweet Gene Vincent 29 2026-05-11
6 Reasons To Be Cheerful 22 2025-10-22
7 Clevor Trever 20 2025-09-20
8 Reasons to be Cheerful (Pt. 3) 13 2016-06-30
9 My Old Man 8 2022-03-17
10 Clevor Trevor (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 30 Nov 1977) 6 2020-06-10
11 Sweet Gene Vincent (Radio 1 Session, 30 Nov 1977) 6 2017-12-04
12 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 30 Nov 1977) 5 2022-11-14
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-17 15:04 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Radio 2
2026-05-14 08:36 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Radio 2
2026-05-14 04:15 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 6 Music
2026-05-12 20:00 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 6 Music
2026-05-11 02:53 Sweet Gene Vincent 6 Music
2026-05-07 03:53 Sweet Gene Vincent 6 Music
2026-04-24 03:04 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Radio 2
2026-04-13 11:03 What A Waste Radio 2
2026-04-08 18:22 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Radio 2
2026-03-19 15:06 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Radio 2
2026-03-05 11:03 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Radio 2
2026-02-05 18:19 Sweet Gene Vincent Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

52 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Billericay — 1 ▶
Billericay Dickie — 2 ▶
Billericay Dickie (Andy Serkis) — 1 ▶
Blockheads — 2 ▶
Blockheads (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 30 Nov 1977) — 1 ▶
Blockheads (Radio 1 Session, 30 Nov 1977) — 3 ▶
Books & Water — 1 ▶
Bus Driver's Prayer — 2 ▶
Clever Trevor — 1 ▶
Clever Trevor (Radio 1 Session, 30 Nov 1977) — 1 ▶
Clevor Trever — 20 ▶
Clevor Trevor — 2 ▶
Clevor Trevor (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 30 Nov 1977) — 6 ▶
Clevor Trevor - Hammersmith Odeon 1979 — 1 ▶
Common As Muck — 1 ▶
Don't Ask Me — 1 ▶
England's Glory — 1 ▶
Geraldine — 1 ▶
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick — 359 ▶
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Mean Fiddler Disco Version) — 1 ▶
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, 9 Aug 1979) — 4 ▶
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Hammersmith Odeon 1979 — 3 ▶
Hit Me With Your Rhythym Stick — 1 ▶
I Believe — 1 ▶
I Want To Be Straight — 2 ▶
Inbetweenies — 1 ▶
Lullaby For Franci/es — 2 ▶
Lullaby for Francies — 2 ▶
My Old Man — 8 ▶
one love — 2 ▶
Profoundly In Love With Pandora — 5 ▶
Razzle In My Pocket — 1 ▶
Reasons To Be Cheerful — 22 ▶
Reasons to be Cheerful (Pt. 3) — 13 ▶
Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3 — 138 ▶
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll — 132 ▶
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 30 Nov 1977) — 5 ▶
Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll (Radio 1 Session, 30 Nov 1977) — 1 ▶
Sink My Boats - Hammersmith Oeon 1979 — 1 ▶
Superman's Big Sister — 2 ▶
Sweet Gene Vincent — 29 ▶
Sweet Gene Vincent (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 30 Nov 1977) — 1 ▶
Sweet Gene Vincent (Radio 1 Session, 30 Nov 1977) — 6 ▶
Sweet Gene Vincent - Hammersmith Odeon 1979 — 1 ▶
There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards — 1 ▶
This Is What We Find - Hammersmith Odeon 1979 — 1 ▶
Wake Up and Make Love With Me — 2 ▶
What A Waste — 66 ▶
What A Waste (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, 9 Aug 1979) — 4 ▶
What A Waste - Hammersmith Odeon 1979 — 2 ▶
You'll See Glimpses — 3 ▶
You'll See Glimpses. — 1 ▶