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Squid

Squid is a group from Brighton, active since 2015.

Group Brighton since 2015 post-punk experimental rock krautrock
TOTAL PLAYS
1,002
SONGS PLAYED
76
STATIONS
2
FIRST PLAYED
2017-08-28 01:00 · 6 Music — "Liquid Light"
LAST PLAYED
1 week ago · 6 Music — "Houseplants"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2017 — 2026
400 300 200 100 0
'17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 910 91%
Radio 1 92 9%
Radio 2 0 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 05:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Houseplants 194 2026-05-12
2 The Cleaner 113 2025-12-23
3 Match Bet 112 2025-11-02
4 Paddling 82 2025-09-09
5 Sludge 74 2024-08-29
6 Pamphlets 63 2025-07-24
7 Building 650 44 2025-12-20
8 Swing (In A Dream) 44 2023-04-02
9 Undergrowth 41 2023-12-14
10 The Blades 40 2023-10-25
11 Crispy Skin 35 2025-01-08
12 The Hearth and Circle Round Fire 34 2025-09-17
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-12 07:18 Houseplants 6 Music
2025-12-26 16:13 Building 650 (6 Music Session, 7th February 2025) 6 Music
2025-12-23 14:11 The Cleaner 6 Music
2025-12-20 06:03 Building 650 6 Music
2025-12-09 17:54 Houseplants 6 Music
2025-12-04 09:33 The Cleaner 6 Music
2025-11-18 15:33 Houseplants 6 Music
2025-11-04 06:00 The Cleaner 6 Music
2025-11-02 06:20 Match Bet 6 Music
2025-10-31 02:24 Match Bet (6 Music Session, 21 Aug 2019) 6 Music
2025-10-21 16:41 Building 650 (6 Music Session, 7th February 2025) 6 Music
2025-10-21 06:26 Houseplants 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

76 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
2010 — 3 ▶
2010 (6 Music session 13 May 2021) — 1 ▶
2010 (Live at Metropolis Studios, 7th April 2021) — 1 ▶
Blood on the Boulders (6 Music Session, 7th Feb 2025) — 1 ▶
Broadcaster — 1 ▶
Building 650 — 44 ▶
Building 650 (6 Music Session, 7th Feb 2025) — 1 ▶
Building 650 (6 Music Session, 7th February 2025) — 4 ▶
Clapping Music — 6 ▶
Cowards — 1 ▶
Crispy Skin — 35 ▶
Crispy Skin (6 Music Session, 7th Feb 2025) — 1 ▶
Cro-Magnon Man — 1 ▶
Cro-Magnon Man (6 Music Session, 7th Feb 2025) — 1 ▶
Documentary Filmmaker — 3 ▶
Fugue (Bin Song) — 4 ▶
G.S.K. — 2 ▶
Global Groove (6 Music session 13 May 2021) — 1 ▶
Global Groove (6 Music Session, 13 05 2020) — 1 ▶
Global Groove (Cosey Fanni Tutti Remix) — 5 ▶
GSK (6 Music Festival 2020) — 1 ▶
GSK (6 Music Session, 13 05 2020) — 1 ▶
GSK (6 Music Session, 13 May 2021) — 1 ▶
Houseplants — 194 ▶
Houseplants (6 Music Festival 2020) — 4 ▶
Houseplants (Glastonbury 2024) — 1 ▶
Houseplants (Live from SXSW 2019) — 1 ▶
Houseplants (Radio 1 Session, 10 Dec 2019) — 1 ▶
Houseplants (The Great Escape, 2019) — 1 ▶
Liquid Light — 2 ▶
Match Bet — 112 ▶
Match Bet (6 Music Session 21 Aug 2019) — 1 ▶
Match Bet (6 Music Session, 21 Aug 2019) — 11 ▶
Match Bet (6 Music Session, 21 Jan 2020) — 2 ▶
Match Bet (Live, The Great Escape 2019) — 1 ▶
Match Bet (Radio 1 Session, 10 Dec 2019) — 3 ▶
Match Bet (The Great Escape, 2019) — 1 ▶
Narrator — 4 ▶
Narrator (feat. Martha Skye Murphy) — 4 ▶
Narrator (Loraine James Remix) — 1 ▶
Paddling — 82 ▶
Paddling (6 Music Session, 7th April 2021) — 1 ▶
Paddling (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Paddling (SXSW, 14 Mar 2019) — 1 ▶
Paddling (The Great Escape, 2019) — 1 ▶
Paddling - SXSW Festival - RX 14/03/2019 — 1 ▶
Pamphlets — 63 ▶
Pamphlets (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Peel St. — 1 ▶
Resolution Square — 1 ▶
Rodeo — 2 ▶
Rodeo (6 Music Festival 2020) — 1 ▶
Rodeo (6 Music Session 21 Aug 2019) — 1 ▶
Rodeo (Radio 1 Session, 10 Dec 2019) — 1 ▶
Sludge — 74 ▶
Sludge (6 Music Festival 2020) — 1 ▶
Sludge (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Small Car (6 Music Session, 21 Jan 2020) — 1 ▶
Swing (In A Dream) — 44 ▶
Swing (In A Dream) (Glastonbury 2024) — 1 ▶
Terrestrial Changeover Blues (2007-2012) — 1 ▶
The Blades — 40 ▶
The Cleaner — 113 ▶
The Cleaner ( 6 Music Festival Live 090320) — 1 ▶
The Cleaner (6 Music Festival 2020) — 1 ▶
The Cleaner (6 Music Festival Camden 2020) — 1 ▶
The Cleaner (6 Music Session 21 Aug 2019) — 1 ▶
The Cleaner (6 Music Session, 21 Jan 2020) — 1 ▶
The Cleaner (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
The Cleaner (Radio 1 Session, 10 Dec 2019) — 1 ▶
The Cleaner (Radio 1 Session, 14th January 2020) — 2 ▶
The Dial — 18 ▶
The Dial (Radio 1 Session, 14th January 2020) — 1 ▶
The Hearth and Circle Round Fire — 34 ▶
Undergrowth — 41 ▶
Undergrowth (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶