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The Smile

The Smile is a group from England, active since 2021.

Group England since 2021 art rock alternative rock post-punk
TOTAL PLAYS
578
SONGS PLAYED
43
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2021-06-25 10:44 · 6 Music — "We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings"
LAST PLAYED
1 week ago · 6 Music — "Friend of a Friend"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2021 — 2026
300 225 150 75 0
'21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 548 95%
Radio 1 18 3%
Radio 2 7 1%
1Xtra 5 1%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 11:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 The Smoke 112 2025-09-30
2 Wall of Eyes 72 2025-12-28
3 Friend of a Friend 60 2026-05-14
4 Free in the Knowledge 59 2025-12-13
5 Zero Sum 51 2025-02-13
6 Read the Room 49 2025-12-12
7 Eyes & Mouth 32 2025-01-05
8 Bending Hectic 24 2024-07-29
9 Foreign Spies 18 2025-06-08
10 Skrting on the Surface 11 2024-07-21
11 You Will Never Work in Television Again 9 2022-06-30
12 You'll Never Work in Television Again 8 2022-12-19
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-14 09:14 Friend of a Friend 6 Music
2025-12-28 19:26 Wall of Eyes 6 Music
2025-12-13 06:49 Free in the Knowledge 6 Music
2025-12-12 02:06 Read the Room 6 Music
2025-11-16 02:07 Tiptoe 6 Music
2025-10-19 01:14 Free in the Knowledge 6 Music
2025-09-30 10:33 The Smoke 6 Music
2025-09-14 04:03 The Smoke 6 Music
2025-08-25 02:41 The Smoke Radio 1
2025-08-24 19:11 The Smoke Radio 1
2025-08-23 05:08 Wall of Eyes 6 Music
2025-08-17 18:26 Wall of Eyes 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

43 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Bending Hectic — 24 ▶
Don't Get Me Started — 7 ▶
Don't Get Me Started (James Holden remix) — 2 ▶
Don't Get Me Started (James Holden Rmx) — 1 ▶
Eyes & Mouth — 32 ▶
Eyes and Mouth — 1 ▶
Foreign Spies — 18 ▶
Free in the Knowledge — 59 ▶
Friend of a Friend — 60 ▶
Friend of a Friend (6 Music Festival 2024) — 1 ▶
I Quit — 2 ▶
No Words — 1 ▶
Open the Floodgates — 3 ▶
Pana-Vision — 6 ▶
Pana-vision (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival) — 2 ▶
Read the Room — 49 ▶
Read the Room (6 Music Festival 2024) — 1 ▶
Skrting on the Surface — 11 ▶
Speech Bubbles — 7 ▶
Teleharmonic — 4 ▶
The Opposite — 1 ▶
The Opposite (6 Music Festival 2024) — 2 ▶
The Same — 4 ▶
The Same (6 Music Festival 2024) — 1 ▶
The Smoke — 112 ▶
The Smoke (6 Music Festival 2024) — 1 ▶
The Smoke (Damian Lazarus & Bedouin Re-Shape) — 1 ▶
The Smoke (Dennis Bovell Remix) — 4 ▶
The Smoke (Dennis Bovell RMX) — 5 ▶
The Smoke (live at Worthy Farm 2021) — 1 ▶
Thin Thing — 2 ▶
Thin Thing (6 Music Festival 2024) — 1 ▶
Thin Thing (Live at Worthy Farm 2021) — 1 ▶
Tiptoe — 2 ▶
Wall of Eyes — 72 ▶
We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings — 2 ▶
We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings (live at Worthy Farm 2021) — 3 ▶
You Will Never Work in Television Again — 9 ▶
You Will Never Work in Television Again (6 Music Festival 2024) — 1 ▶
You Will Never Work In TV Again — 1 ▶
You'll Never Work in Television Again — 8 ▶
You'll Never Work in TV Again — 2 ▶
Zero Sum — 51 ▶