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The Jesus and Mary Chain

The Jesus and Mary Chain is a group from the UK, active since 1984.

Group GB since 1984 alternative rock shoegaze scottish

TOTAL PLAYS

2,098

SONGS PLAYED

182

STATIONS

FIRST PLAYED

2005-02-22 13:32 · 6 Music — "Just Like Honey"

LAST PLAYED

2 months ago · 6 Music — "Happy When It Rains"

BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026

400 300 200 100 0

'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26

◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,999 95%

Radio 2 92 4%

Radio 1 7 0%

1Xtra 0 0%

◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 05:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT

#TITLEPLAYSLAST

1 Some Candy Talking 275 2026-05-18

2 Just Like Honey 274 2026-05-12

3 Happy When It Rains 256 2026-05-25

4 April Skies 166 2026-05-23

5 Far Gone and Out 107 2026-05-09

6 Sidewalking 87 2025-11-29

7 Amputation 86 2023-05-01

8 Always Sad 78 2024-12-05

9 The Two Of Us (feat. Sky Ferreira) 55 2023-06-09

10 All Things Pass 44 2017-06-25

11 Sometimes Always 42 2018-03-24

12 Never Understand 40 2025-11-17

◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-25 12:08 Happy When It Rains 6 Music

2026-05-23 10:33 April Skies 6 Music

2026-05-18 08:01 Some Candy Talking 6 Music

2026-05-16 06:26 Some Candy Talking (Radio 1 Session, 29 Oct 1985) 6 Music

2026-05-12 17:52 Just Like Honey 6 Music

2026-05-09 07:00 Far Gone and Out 6 Music

2026-02-14 19:30 Just Like Honey Radio 2

2026-01-31 20:33 Head On Radio 2

2026-01-12 03:51 Far Gone and Out Radio 2

2025-12-26 10:24 Some Candy Talking 6 Music

2025-12-12 22:52 Upside Down 6 Music

2025-12-04 20:03 April Skies Radio 2

◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

182 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z

BAR ▶

About You —

4 2025-01-19 ▶

All Things Must Pass (6 Music Festival 2017) —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

All Things Pass —

44 2017-06-25 ▶

Alphabet Street —

1 2014-02-23 ▶

Always Sad —

78 2024-12-05 ▶

Always Sad (6 Music Festival 2017) —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

Always Sad (Feat. Bernadette Denning) —

2 2017-02-27 ▶

Always Sad - 6 Music Festival, 24 Mar 2017 —

1 2017-03-28 ▶

Always Sad - 6 Music Festival, Barrowlands, Glasgow 24/03/2017 —

1 2020-04-02 ▶

American Born —

1 2024-09-29 ▶

Amputation —

86 2023-05-01 ▶

Amputation (6 Music Festival 2017) —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

April Skies —

166 2026-05-23 ▶

April Skies (6 Music Festival 2017) —

2 2021-03-27 ▶

April Skies (6 Music Festival, Live at Barrowlands 24/03/17) —

1 2022-03-13 ▶

April Skies (Live at the 6 Music Festival 24/03/2017) —

1 2020-01-25 ▶

April Skies - 6 Music Festival, 24 Mar 2017 —

1 2017-03-28 ▶

April Skies - 6 Music Festival, Barrowlands, Glasgow 24/03/2017 —

1 2020-04-02 ▶

Between Planets (6 Music Festival 2017) —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

Blues From a Gun —

1 2007-11-19 ▶

Blues From A Gun (6 Music Festival 2017) —

2 2017-03-24 ▶

Bo Diddley Is Jesus —

3 2023-05-04 ▶

Can't Stop the Rock —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

Cherry Came Too —

1 2019-12-29 ▶

Coast To Coast (Radio 1 Session, 31 May 1988) —

8 2021-07-01 ▶

Come On - BBC Session 06/07/1994 —

4 2013-12-06 ▶

Cracking Up —

14 2023-01-29 ▶

Cracking Up (Edit) —

1 2007-09-18 ▶

Cracking Up (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-24 ▶

Cracking Up (Live at The Electric Ballroom, 1988) —

3 2019-11-10 ▶

Cracking Up - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

6 2016-05-15 ▶

Cut Dead (Radio 1 Session, 29 Oct 1985) —

4 2025-10-30 ▶

Darklands —

8 2021-03-28 ▶

Deep One Perfect Morning —

2 2021-08-08 ▶

Degenerate —

1 2007-09-12 ▶

Degenerate Electric Ballroom 1988 —

1 2013-12-02 ▶

Degenerate (Evening Session, 1st April 1998) —

1 2014-05-12 ▶

Degenerate (Live at The Electric Ballroom, 1988) —

7 2019-11-10 ▶

Degenerate - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

1 2016-05-15 ▶

Down on Me —

1 2019-12-28 ▶

Dream Lover (Live at The Electric Ballroom, 1988) —

3 2019-11-10 ▶

Dream Lover - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

7 2016-05-15 ▶

Everybody I Know - BBC Session 06/07/1994 —

3 2015-04-22 ▶

Everything's Alright When You're Down —

1 2022-02-21 ▶

Facing Up To The Facts —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

Fall - BBC session 25/11/1986 —

1 2011-12-13 ▶

Far Gone and Out —

107 2026-05-09 ▶

Far Gone And Out (6 Music Festival 2017) —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

Far Gone and Out (6 Music Festival) —

2 2019-02-23 ▶

Far Gone Out - 6 Music Festival, Barrowlands, Glasgow 24/03/2017 —

1 2020-04-02 ▶

Far Out And Gone - BBC Session —

3 2009-09-02 ▶

Girl 71 —

6 2024-09-29 ▶

God Help Me - BBC Session 06/07/1994 —

2 2011-06-20 ▶

Good For My Soul —

1 2011-02-19 ▶

Half Way To Crazy —

1 2012-09-15 ▶

Halfway To Crazy (6 Music Festival 2017) —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

Happy Place - BBC Session 25/11/1986 —

1 2011-12-14 ▶

Happy When It Rains —

256 2026-05-25 ▶

Happy When It Rains (Glastonbury 2022) —

2 2022-06-25 ▶

Happy When It Rains (Live at The Electric Ballroom, 1988) —

3 2019-11-10 ▶

Happy When It Rains - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

9 2014-03-22 ▶

Head On —

32 2026-01-31 ▶

Head On (6 Music Festival 2017) —

4 2017-03-27 ▶

Head On (Live at The Electric Ballroom, 1988) —

1 2018-12-02 ▶

Head On - 6 Music Festival, Barrowlands, Glasgow 24/03/2017 —

1 2020-04-02 ▶

Head On - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

5 2014-03-22 ▶

Her Way of Praying —

1 2012-03-09 ▶

Here Comes Alice —

1 2007-01-29 ▶

Hey Lou Reid —

1 2024-09-29 ▶

I Hate Rock 'n' Roll —

1 2024-09-04 ▶

I Hate Rock N Roll —

1 2011-02-18 ▶

I Love Rock 'n' Roll —

6 2023-10-30 ▶

I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Live at The Electric Ballroom, 1988) —

2 2019-11-10 ▶

I Love Rock 'n' Roll - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

3 2013-12-02 ▶

I Love Rock and Roll —

1 2007-09-12 ▶

I Love Rock And Roll - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

1 2009-06-05 ▶

I Love Rock N Roll —

1 2016-04-09 ▶

I Love Rock N Roll/April Skies/Some Candy Talking —

1 2007-01-04 ▶

I Love Rock N'Roll —

27 2015-05-07 ▶

I Love Rock'n'Roll (Evening Session, 1st April 1998) —

1 2014-11-02 ▶

I'm A Hole - BBC Session 23/10/1984 —

3 2014-11-17 ▶

In A Hole (BBC Session, 23 Oct 1984) —

3 2022-12-13 ▶

In A Hole (Radio 1 Session, 23 Oct 1984) —

3 2016-11-28 ▶

In A Hole - BBC Session 23/10/1984 —

2 2012-12-11 ▶

Inside Me (John Peel Session 3rd Feb 1985) —

1 2018-05-15 ▶

Inside Me (Radio 1 Session, 3 Feb 1985) —

2 2020-01-28 ▶

jamcod —

38 2024-07-21 ▶

Just Like Honey —

274 2026-05-12 ▶

Just Like Honey (6 Music Festival 2017) —

4 2017-03-28 ▶

Just Like Honey (6 Music Festival) —

4 2019-10-19 ▶

Just Like Honey (6 Music Festival, Glasgow 2017) —

1 2019-03-26 ▶

Just Like Honey (Glastonbury 2022) (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) —

2 2023-11-07 ▶

Just Like Honey (John Peel Session 3rd Feb 1985) —

1 2018-05-14 ▶

Just Like Honey (Live At Barrowlands) —

1 2015-07-29 ▶

Just Like Honey (Peel Session) —

1 2015-07-04 ▶

Just Like Honey (Radio 1 Session, 3 Feb 1985) —

6 2025-02-23 ▶

Just Like Honey with (Live at Glastonbury 2022) (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) —

2 2025-06-28 ▶

Los Feliz —

1 2017-05-14 ▶

Man on the Moon —

1 2016-07-27 ▶

mo tucker —

1 2007-09-12 ▶

Mo Tucker (Live at The Electric Ballroom, 1988) —

1 2018-12-02 ▶

Mo Tucker - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

7 2016-05-15 ▶

Moe Tucker (Evening Session, 1st April 1998) —

1 2014-05-14 ▶

Mood Rider —

1 2017-05-12 ▶

Mood Rider (6 Music Festival 2017) —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

My Girl (Radio 1 Session, 31 May 1988) —

2 2019-05-30 ▶

My Little Underground —

3 2022-12-12 ▶

Never Saw It Coming —

1 2022-12-18 ▶

Never Understand —

40 2025-11-17 ▶

Never Understand (BBC Session, 23 Oct 1984) —

3 2022-12-13 ▶

Never Understand (Session Track) —

1 2007-09-25 ▶

Never Understand - BBC Session 23/10/1984 —

8 2015-10-26 ▶

Nine Million Rainy Days —

1 2016-08-21 ▶

Nine Million Rainy Days (6 Music Festival 2017) —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

Nine Million Rainy Days (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-24 ▶

Perfect Crime - BBC Session 06/07/1994 —

2 2009-05-23 ▶

Pop Seeds —

4 2024-09-17 ▶

Psycho Candy (John Peel session 20.10.1985) —

1 2015-01-04 ▶

Psychocandy —

1 2010-11-02 ▶

Psychocandy (Live at Barrowlands) —

1 2015-07-29 ▶

Psychocandy (Radio 1 Session, 29 Oct 1985) —

3 2025-10-29 ▶

Reverence —

5 2021-09-26 ▶

Reverence (6 Music Festival) —

1 2017-11-14 ▶

Reverence (Evening Session, 1st April 1998) —

1 2014-05-15 ▶

Reverence - 6 Music Festival, 24 Mar 2017 —

1 2017-03-28 ▶

Reverence - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

6 2016-05-15 ▶

Second of June —

1 2024-09-04 ▶

Sidewalking —

87 2025-11-29 ▶

Sidewalking (Radio 1 Session, 31 May 1988) —

6 2021-07-01 ▶

Silver Strings —

1 2024-03-15 ▶

Snakedriver —

1 2005-06-29 ▶

Snakedriver (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-24 ▶

Snakedriver - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

3 2012-05-06 ▶

Some Candy Talking —

275 2026-05-18 ▶

Some Candy Talking (6 Music Festival 2017) —

5 2017-03-27 ▶

Some Candy Talking (BBC session) —

4 2005-06-21 ▶

Some Candy Talking (Live At Barrowlands) —

1 2015-07-04 ▶

Some Candy Talking (Radio 1 Session, 29 Oct 1985) —

7 2026-05-16 ▶

Sometimes Always —

42 2018-03-24 ▶

Sometimes Always (feat. Hope Sandoval) —

37 2025-10-01 ▶

Sowing Seeds —

3 2022-04-30 ▶

Stardust Remedy - Electric Ballroom 1998 —

1 2019-11-10 ▶

Sugar Ray - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

2 2012-05-06 ▶

Sugar Ray - Electric Ballroom 1998 —

1 2018-08-06 ▶

Supertramp —

1 2007-09-12 ▶

Supertramp - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

2 2016-05-15 ▶

Supertramp - Electric Ballroom 1998 —

2 2019-11-10 ▶

Surfin' U.S.A. —

1 2023-05-22 ▶

Take It (Radio 1 Session, 31 May 1988) —

4 2021-07-01 ▶

Taste of Cindy —

2 2021-08-02 ▶

Taste Of Cindy (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-24 ▶

Taste The Floor (BBC Session, 23 Oct 1984) —

3 2022-12-13 ▶

Taste The Floor (Radio 1 Session, 23 Oct 1984) —

2 2015-10-28 ▶

Taste The Floor - BBC Session 23/10/1984 —

5 2014-11-19 ▶

Teenage Lust —

1 2007-09-12 ▶

Teenage Lust (6 Music Festival 2017) —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

Teenage Lust - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

6 2014-03-22 ▶

The Eagles and the Beatles —

1 2024-06-09 ▶

The Hardest Walk —

2 2014-11-19 ▶

The Hardest Walk (6 Music Festival 2017) —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

The Living End —

4 2021-04-19 ▶

The Living End (John Peel Session 3rd Feb 1985) —

1 2018-05-16 ▶

The Living End (Radio 1 Session, 3 Feb 1985) —

3 2022-03-13 ▶

The Perfect Crime —

1 2010-08-11 ▶

The Two Of Us (feat. Sky Ferreira) —

55 2023-06-09 ▶

Up Too High —

1 2015-02-19 ▶

Upside Down —

25 2025-12-12 ▶

Vegetable Man —

4 2022-09-29 ▶

Virtually Unreal —

2 2024-09-04 ▶

Virtually Unreal (Live at The Electric Ballroom, 1988) —

2 2019-11-10 ▶

Virtually Unreal - Electric Ballroom 1988 —

4 2016-05-15 ▶

War On Peace —

1 2017-03-24 ▶

War On Peace (6 Music Festival, 24 March 17) —

1 2017-03-31 ▶

War On Peace - 6 Music Festival, 24 Mar 2017 —

1 2017-11-14 ▶

You Trip Me Up —

36 2025-06-16 ▶

You Trip Me Up (BBC Session 29, Oct 1985) —

3 2022-02-22 ▶

You Trip Me Up (John Peel session 29.10.1985) —

1 2014-11-01 ▶

You Trip Me Up (Peel Session 29/10/85) —

7 2013-12-01 ▶

You Trip Me Up (Peel Session) —

1 2008-10-14 ▶

You Trip Me Up (Radio 1 Session, 23 Oct 1984) —

7 2019-08-19 ▶

You Trip Me Up (Radio 1 Session, 29 Oct 1985) —

1 2025-10-27 ▶

You Trip Me Up - BBC Session 23/10/1984 —

7 2014-11-20 ▶