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The Maccabees

The Maccabees is a group from the UK, active from 2004.

Group GB 2004–2017 indie rock rock and indie

TOTAL PLAYS

2,738

SONGS PLAYED

135

STATIONS

FIRST PLAYED

2006-09-11 21:14 · Radio 1 — "First Love"

LAST PLAYED

2 months ago · 6 Music — "Pelican"

BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2006 — 2026

700 525 350 175 0

'06 '09 '12 '15 '18 '21 '24

◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,514 55%

Radio 1 1,034 38%

Radio 2 190 7%

1Xtra 0 0%

◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 05:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT

#TITLEPLAYSLAST

1 Pelican 493 2026-05-12

2 Marks To Prove It 298 2026-03-15

3 Love You Better 263 2026-05-06

4 Something Like Happiness 248 2026-03-20

5 Toothpaste Kisses 239 2026-02-14

6 Can You Give It 222 2025-12-11

7 Feel To Follow 175 2025-12-03

8 Spit It Out 151 2025-11-21

9 No Kind Words 120 2025-09-19

10 Went Away 110 2025-10-10

11 First Love 51 2026-05-04

12 Ayla 46 2022-04-29

◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-12 06:33 Pelican 6 Music

2026-05-06 18:34 Love You Better Radio 2

2026-05-05 10:33 Pelican 6 Music

2026-05-04 06:39 First Love Radio 1

2026-04-08 08:08 Pelican Radio 1

2026-04-01 02:20 Pelican Radio 1

2026-03-23 19:10 Pelican Radio 2

2026-03-20 10:54 Something Like Happiness Radio 1

2026-03-16 12:02 Lean On (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 14 May 2015) Radio 1

2026-03-15 22:05 Marks To Prove It Radio 1

2026-02-14 05:54 Toothpaste Kisses Radio 2

2026-02-11 19:19 Something Like Happiness Radio 2

◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

135 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z

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About Your Dress —

17 2024-04-15 ▶

About Your Dress/Diamond/First Love <live at Reading 2007> —

1 2007-08-27 ▶

All In Your Rows —

1 2021-02-17 ▶

All In Your Rows - Litc 21/5/07 —

1 2007-05-23 ▶

Annie's Weekend Anthem - For Reggie —

1 2007-12-15 ▶

Annie's Weekend Anthem - For Sara —

2 2007-12-16 ▶

Ayla —

46 2022-04-29 ▶

Ayla (Huw's Houseband) —

2 2012-09-15 ▶

Bag of Bones —

1 2009-08-09 ▶

Bag Of Bones (Part B - Album Version) —

4 2024-12-16 ▶

Bag Of Bones Part B —

2 2025-10-05 ▶

Bicycles —

1 2018-07-01 ▶

Can You Give It —

222 2025-12-11 ▶

Can You Give It - The Roundhouse, Camden 2009 —

1 2012-05-04 ▶

Can You Give It? —

1 2009-05-04 ▶

Can You Give It? (6 Music Festival 2015) —

1 2015-02-22 ▶

Chariots of Fire —

1 2016-08-13 ▶

Child (Radio 1 Maida Vale Session) —

1 2011-12-15 ▶

Dawn Chorus —

5 2025-11-09 ▶

Empty Vessels (feat. Roots Manuva) —

5 2025-10-14 ▶

Feel To Folllow (Live at T In The Park 2012) —

1 2012-07-08 ▶

Feel To Follow —

175 2025-12-03 ▶

Feel To Follow (Glastonbury 2015) —

1 2015-06-29 ▶

Feel To Follow (Glastonbury 2025) —

1 2025-06-29 ▶

Feel to Follow (Live at Glastonbury, 27 Jun 2015) —

1 2025-06-09 ▶

Feel To Follow (Live At Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) —

4 2012-06-28 ▶

Feel to Follow (Live for Jo Whiley) —

1 2012-12-18 ▶

Feel To Follow (Live From Reading Festival) —

1 2012-08-28 ▶

Feel To Follow (Live Lounge) —

3 2012-03-18 ▶

Feel To Follow (Live) —

3 2023-05-03 ▶

Feel To Follow (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 14 May 2015) —

1 2015-05-14 ▶

Feel To Follow / Pelican (Glastonbury 2015) —

1 2015-06-28 ▶

First Love —

51 2026-05-04 ▶

First Love (Glastonbury 2025) —

1 2025-06-29 ▶

First Love (Live At York Fibbers) —

1 2010-02-24 ▶

First Love (Live Napster Session) —

1 2023-01-11 ▶

First Love - The Roundhouse, Camden 2009 —

1 2012-05-04 ▶

First Love <Live Underage 08> —

2 2008-08-12 ▶

Forever I've Known —

1 2016-08-14 ▶

Glimmer —

2 2012-05-02 ▶

Grew Up at Midnight —

12 2023-05-12 ▶

Grew Up At Midnight (Glastonbury 2015) —

1 2015-06-27 ▶

Happy Faces —

1 2021-02-17 ▶

Hello (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 03 Nov 2015) —

7 2016-02-24 ▶

Home Alone Christmas Medley (Radio 1 Maida Vale Session) —

1 2011-12-14 ▶

I Drove All Night —

1 2016-12-04 ▶

Just Like the Rain —

1 2016-03-16 ▶

Kamakura —

20 2018-07-12 ▶

Kamakura (Glastonbury 2015) —

2 2024-09-27 ▶

Kamakura (Glastonbury 2025) —

1 2025-06-29 ▶

Kiss 'n' Resolve - The Roundhouse, Camden 2009 —

1 2012-05-04 ▶

Koya —

3 2025-10-30 ▶

Latchmere —

29 2025-08-22 ▶

Latchmere - 6 Music Festival - RX 22/02/2015 —

1 2015-02-24 ▶

Lean On (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 14 May 2015) —

6 2026-03-16 ▶

Lego —

6 2025-09-02 ▶

Lego (Glastonbury 2025) —

1 2025-06-29 ▶

Lego - Litc 21/5/07 —

1 2007-05-22 ▶

Lego - The Roundhouse, Camden 2009 —

1 2012-05-04 ▶

Lonely Boy —

10 2024-04-08 ▶

Lonely Boy (Live Lounge) —

5 2012-08-24 ▶

Lonely Boy (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 15 Mar 2012) —

6 2025-12-05 ▶

Love You Better —

263 2026-05-06 ▶

Love You Better (Live From Camden Crawl) —

1 2009-04-28 ▶

Love You Better - The Roundhouse, Camden 2009 —

1 2012-05-04 ▶

Love You Better <Live from Reading 2010> —

1 2010-08-30 ▶

Marks To Prove It —

298 2026-03-15 ▶

Marks To Prove It (6 Music Festival 2015) —

1 2015-02-22 ▶

Marks to Prove It (6 Music Session, 20 Jul 2025) —

3 2025-12-15 ▶

Marks To Prove It (Glastonbury 2015) —

3 2023-06-22 ▶

Marks To Prove It (Glastonbury 2015) (feat. Jamie T) —

1 2015-06-29 ▶

Marks To Prove It (Live at Glastonbury 2015) —

2 2025-06-28 ▶

Marks To Prove It (Public Service Broadcasting Remix) —

3 2015-06-02 ▶

Marks To Prove It (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 14 May 2015) —

3 2016-05-12 ▶

Mary —

1 2021-02-17 ▶

No Kind Words —

120 2025-09-19 ▶

No Kind Words 05/05/2008 —

1 2024-10-28 ▶

O.A.V.I.P. —

1 2021-02-17 ▶

One Hand Holding —

1 2009-05-04 ▶

Pelican —

493 2026-05-12 ▶

Pelican (6 Music Festival 2015) —

7 2025-03-22 ▶

Pelican (6 Music Session, 20 Jul 2025) —

1 2025-06-23 ▶

Pelican (Glastonbury 2015) —

1 2024-06-28 ▶

Pelican (Glastonbury 2025) —

1 2025-07-01 ▶

Pelican (Huw's Houseband) —

1 2012-09-09 ▶

Pelican (Live at Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) —

6 2012-06-28 ▶

Pelican (Live At T In The Park 2012) —

1 2012-07-09 ▶

Pelican (Radio 1 Maida Vale Session) —

2 2011-12-18 ▶

Pelican (Radio 2 Session, 17 Sept 2015) —

1 2015-12-08 ▶

Pelican (T in the Park 2012) —

1 2012-10-30 ▶

Pelican - 6 Music Festival 2015 —

2 2015-02-28 ▶

Pelican - 6 Music session 30/05/2012 —

1 2015-06-07 ▶

Pioneering System —

1 2015-08-03 ▶

Pioneering Systems —

2 2025-04-06 ▶

Precious Time —

13 2025-09-17 ▶

Precious Time (6 Music Festival 2015) —

1 2015-02-22 ▶

Precious Time (Glastonbury 2025) —

1 2025-06-29 ▶

Precious Time (Lamacq Version) —

1 2012-08-22 ▶

Precious Time (Radio 1 Session) —

3 2021-11-02 ▶

Precious Time (Radio 1 Session, 21st Nov 2005) —

3 2024-01-09 ▶

Ribbon Road —

1 2015-08-03 ▶

River Song —

1 2015-07-30 ▶

Seventeen Hands —

1 2009-04-24 ▶

Silence —

2 2025-11-16 ▶

Slow Sun —

2 2015-08-06 ▶

Something Like Happiness —

248 2026-03-20 ▶

Something Like Happiness (Radio 1 Session, 04 Aug 2015) —

1 2015-08-05 ▶

Something Like Happiness (Radio 1 Session, 04 Aug 2015) —

2 2015-08-08 ▶

Something Like Happiness (Radio 2 Session, 17 Sept 2015) —

2 2017-09-04 ▶

Spit It Out —

151 2025-11-21 ▶

Spit It Out (Glastonbury 2025) —

1 2025-06-29 ▶

Spit It Out (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 03 Nov 2015) —

5 2015-11-21 ▶

Spit It Out (Radio 1 Session, 04 Aug 2015) —

1 2015-08-11 ▶

Spit It Out (Radio 1 Session, 04 Aug 2015) —

1 2015-08-04 ▶

Tissue Shoulders —

1 2021-02-17 ▶

Tissue Shoulders - The Roundhouse, Camden 2009 —

1 2012-05-04 ▶

Tissue Shoulders <Live at Underage Festival> —

1 2008-08-10 ▶

Toothpaste —

1 2025-05-04 ▶

Toothpaste (Underage Festival) —

1 2008-08-12 ▶

Toothpaste Kisses —

239 2026-02-14 ▶

Toothpaste Kisses (6 Music Session, 20 Jul 2025) —

2 2025-08-01 ▶

Toothpaste Kisses (Live) Underage Festival —

1 2008-08-10 ▶

Toothpaste Kisses (Radio 1 Session, 04 Aug 2015) —

1 2015-08-05 ▶

Toothpaste Kisses (Radio 1 Session, 04 Aug 2015) —

1 2015-08-04 ▶

Toothpaste Kisses (Single Version) —

3 2007-12-04 ▶

Toothpaste Kisses - The Roundhouse, Camden 2009 —

3 2016-04-26 ▶

Toothpaste Kisses Chain clip —

1 2022-04-17 ▶

Walking In The Air —

3 2022-12-24 ▶

Wall Of Arms (Glastonbury 2025) —

2 2025-06-29 ▶

Went Away —

110 2025-10-10 ▶

WW1 Portraits —

2 2015-12-18 ▶

X-Ray —

9 2025-04-03 ▶

X-Ray (Glastonbury 2025) —

1 2025-06-29 ▶

X-Ray - The Roundhouse, Camden 2009 —

2 2012-05-04 ▶

Young Lions <Session> —

1 2008-05-06 ▶