OnRadioNow BBC ARCHIVE · SINCE 2006
Home / Artists / Kevin Ayers
ARTIST loading photo…

Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers is a person from the UK, active from 1944.

Person GB 1944–2013 canterbury scene psychedelic rock art rock
TOTAL PLAYS
322
SONGS PLAYED
106
STATIONS
2
FIRST PLAYED
2005-03-09 19:54 · 6 Music — "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes"
LAST PLAYED
4 weeks ago · 6 Music — "Song for Insane Times"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

Loading biography…

◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
40 30 20 10 0
'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 317 98%
Radio 2 5 2%
Radio 1 0 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 21:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes 37 2025-07-06
2 Butterfly Dance 34 2023-03-30
3 The Lady Rachel 20 2024-08-26
4 Shouting in a Bucket Blues 15 2026-07-15
5 Girl On a Swing 10 2024-04-07
6 Whatevershebringswesing 9 2021-11-24
7 Decadence 7 2016-01-04
8 Girl on a Swing 7 2010-11-01
9 Oyster And The Flying Fish (Radio 1, Bob Harris Session, 17 May 1972) 5 2022-06-01
10 Butterfly Dance (Radio 1, John Peel Session, 17 May 1972) 5 2022-06-01
11 Lady Rachel 5 2021-01-11
12 Song for Insane Times 4 2026-08-16
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-16 15:15 Song for Insane Times 6 Music
2026-07-15 20:38 Shouting in a Bucket Blues 6 Music
2025-12-16 22:04 It Begins With a Blessing/Once I Awakened/But It Ends With a Curse 6 Music
2025-09-03 21:52 Cold Shoulder 6 Music
2025-08-26 20:44 Shouting in a Bucket Blues 6 Music
2025-07-06 15:11 Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes Radio 2
2025-06-22 20:27 Town Feeling 6 Music
2025-05-18 20:02 Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning) (feat. Syd Barrett) 6 Music
2025-04-16 21:55 Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning) (feat. Syd Barrett) 6 Music
2025-03-16 21:46 Song from the Bottom of a Well 6 Music
2025-02-11 22:22 Lady Rachel (Radio 1 Session, 9 July 1974) 6 Music
2025-02-10 22:23 Didn't Feel Lonely (Radio 1 Session, 9 July 1974) 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

106 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
After the Show — 3 ▶
Another Whimsical Song (Radio 1 Session, 9 July 1974) — 1 ▶
Baby Come Home — 2 ▶
Ballad of Mr Snake (John Peel session 13/07/1976) — 1 ▶
Butterfly Dance — 34 ▶
Butterfly Dance (BBC session) — 3 ▶
Butterfly Dance (Htd Version) — 1 ▶
Butterfly Dance (Radio 1 Session, 17 May 1972) — 1 ▶
Butterfly Dance (Radio 1, John Peel Session, 17 May 1972) — 5 ▶
Caribbean Moon — 3 ▶
Champagne Cowboy Blues — 1 ▶
Circular Letter — 4 ▶
Clarence in Wonderland — 1 ▶
Clarence In Wonderland - BBC Session 10/02/1970 — 2 ▶
Cold Shoulder — 3 ▶
Decadence — 7 ▶
Didn't Feel Lonely (Radio 1 Session, 9 July 1974) — 3 ▶
Didn't Feel Lonely - BBC Session 09/07/1974 — 1 ▶
Didn't Feel Lonely Til I Thought of You — 1 ▶
Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought Of You (Radio 1, John Peel Session, 9 Jul 1974) — 1 ▶
Didn't Feel Lonely Until... — 1 ▶
Don't Feel Lonely Until I Thought of You (John Peel session 9th July 1974) — 1 ▶
Don't Let It Get You Down — 1 ▶
Eleanor's cake — 2 ▶
Eleanor's Cake (Which Ate Her) — 4 ▶
Eleanors Cake (Which Ate Her) — 1 ▶
Everybody's Sometime And Some Peoples All The Time Blues — 1 ▶
Fake Mexican Tourist Blues — 2 ▶
Falling in Love Again — 1 ▶
Falling In Love Again (Radio 1 Session, 17 May 1972) — 1 ▶
Gemini Child — 1 ▶
Gemini Child (BBC Session) — 1 ▶
Girl On a Swing — 10 ▶
Girl on a Swing — 7 ▶
Hat Song — 1 ▶
Hymn — 1 ▶
Irreversible Neural Damage — 1 ▶
It Begins With a Blessing/Once I Awakened/But It Ends With a Curse — 1 ▶
Joy of a Toy Continued — 1 ▶
Lady Rachel — 5 ▶
Lady Rachel (Radio 1 Session, 9 July 1974) — 2 ▶
Lady Rachel (BBC Session) — 1 ▶
Lady Rachel (John Peel session 9th July 1974) — 1 ▶
Lady Rachel (Radio 1 Session, 9 July 1974) — 1 ▶
Lady Rachel - BBC Session 09/07/1974 — 2 ▶
Lullaby — 1 ▶
Margaret — 3 ▶
May I — 4 ▶
May I? — 3 ▶
Mr Cool (John Peel session 13.7.1976) — 1 ▶
Oh My — 1 ▶
Oh What - BBC Session 20/05/1970 — 4 ▶
Oh What A Dream (Bob Harris session 11th April 1973) — 1 ▶
Oh! Wot A Dream (Radio 1, Bob Harris Session, 11 Apr 1973) — 3 ▶
Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong — 1 ▶
Oyster And The Flying Fish (Radio 1 Session, 17 May 1972) — 2 ▶
Oyster And The Flying Fish (Radio 1, Bob Harris Session, 17 May 1972) — 5 ▶
Oyster And The Flying Fish - BBC Session 17/05/1972 — 1 ▶
Puis Je — 1 ▶
Puis Je? — 2 ▶
Puis Je? (2003 Remaster) — 1 ▶
Puis-Je? — 1 ▶
Queen Thing (Radio 1 Session, 17 May 1972) — 1 ▶
Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning) (feat. Syd Barrett) — 4 ▶
Rheinhardt And Geraldine/Colores Para Dolores — 1 ▶
See You Later/Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought of You — 1 ▶
Short Departure (BBC Session) — 1 ▶
Shouting - BBC Session 20/05/1970 — 4 ▶
Shouting in a Bucket Blues — 15 ▶
Shouting In A Bucket Blues (Bob Harris session 20th May 1970) — 1 ▶
Shouting In A Bucket Blues (Live At The Rainbow Theatre) — 1 ▶
Shouting In A Bucket Blues (Radio 1, Bob Harris Session, 11 Apr 1973) — 3 ▶
Singing a Song in the Morning — 4 ▶
Song for Insane Times — 4 ▶
Song for Insane Times (2003 Remaster) — 1 ▶
Song from the Bottom of a Well — 3 ▶
Song From the Bottom of a Well — 1 ▶
Soon Soon Soon — 1 ▶
Star — 1 ▶
Stop This Train — 3 ▶
Stop This Train (BBC Session ?) — 1 ▶
Stop This Train - BBC Session 10/02/1970 — 2 ▶
Stop ThisTrain (Radio 1 Session, 9 July 1974) — 2 ▶
Stop ThisTrain - BBC Session 09/07/1974 — 1 ▶
Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes — 37 ▶
The Clarietta Rag — 3 ▶
The Interview ( (Bob Harris session 11th April 1973) — 1 ▶
The Interview (Radio 1, Top Gear Session, 20 May 1970) — 1 ▶
The Interview - BBC Session 20/05/1970 — 4 ▶
The Lady Rachel — 20 ▶
The Oyster & The Flying Fish — 2 ▶
The Oyster and the Flying Fish — 3 ▶
There Is A Loving Among Us There Is Loving — 1 ▶
There Is Loving Among Us There Is Loving — 1 ▶
There Is Loving/Among Us/There Is Loving — 2 ▶
There is Loving/Among Us/There is Loving — 1 ▶
Town Feeling — 3 ▶
Walk On Water — 2 ▶
We Did It Again — 1 ▶
We Did It Again - BBC Session 09/06/1970 — 1 ▶
Whatevershebringswesing — 9 ▶
Whatevershebringswesing (Radio 1 Session, 17 May 1972) — 2 ▶
Whatevershebringswesing (Radio 1, Bob Harris Session, 17 May 1972) — 4 ▶
Where Do The Stars End — 1 ▶
Wide Awake — 2 ▶
Yes I Do — 1 ▶