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The Wombats

The Wombats is a group from the UK, active since 2003.

Group GB since 2003 indie pop rock and indie

TOTAL PLAYS

3,640

SONGS PLAYED

151

STATIONS

FIRST PLAYED

2006-10-16 19:23 · Radio 1 — "Moving to New York"

LAST PLAYED

2 weeks ago · Radio 1 — "Can't Say No"

BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2006 — 2026

900 675 450 225 0

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

◦ WHERE

By station

Radio 1 3,119 86%

6 Music 449 12%

Radio 2 72 2%

1Xtra 0 0%

◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 13:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT

#TITLEPLAYSLAST

1 Let's Dance to Joy Division 481 2026-07-23

2 Moving to New York 400 2012-01-22

3 Backfire at the Disco 273 2012-08-18

4 Kill the Director 265 2011-09-08

5 Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) 252 2026-02-21

6 Jump Into The Fog 164 2011-11-06

7 Is This Christmas? 158 2025-12-25

8 Moving To New York 122 2026-08-14

9 Techno Fan 112 2018-05-08

10 Cheetah Tongue 109 2026-01-25

11 Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come 103 2025-01-15

12 I Love America And She Hates Me 101 2025-06-19

◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-22 11:38 Can't Say No Radio 1

2026-08-14 20:50 Moving To New York 6 Music

2026-08-13 01:18 Moving To New York Radio 1

2026-08-09 21:10 Kill The Director Radio 1

2026-07-23 09:54 Let's Dance to Joy Division Radio 1

2026-07-21 23:19 If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming with You 6 Music

2026-05-21 01:18 Moving To New York Radio 1

2026-05-15 21:19 If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming with You 6 Music

2026-04-24 01:46 Let's Dance to Joy Division Radio 1

2026-04-24 01:43 Greek Tragedy Radio 1

2026-04-24 01:41 Moving To New York Radio 1

2026-04-19 09:20 Kill The Director Radio 1

◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

151 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z

BAR ▶

1996 —

39 2011-12-04 ▶

Always On My Mind (Radio 1 Session) —

2 2010-12-10 ▶

Anti-D —

39 2011-05-01 ▶

Anti-D performed in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge for Fearne Cotton —

1 2011-04-16 ▶

Backfire At The Disco —

2 2025-11-12 ▶

Backfire at the Disco —

273 2012-08-18 ▶

Backfire AT The Disco (Bestival Live Track) —

1 2007-09-10 ▶

Backfire At The Disco (Big Weekend 2009) —

1 2022-10-16 ▶

Backfire At The Disco (Glasto '08) —

1 2008-06-30 ▶

Backfire At The Disco <Edit> —

2 2008-03-11 ▶

Backfire At The Disco <Live for Sound> —

1 2008-04-26 ▶

Backfire at the disco <radio edit> —

3 2008-03-04 ▶

Backfired At The Disco <LIVE> —

1 2008-04-27 ▶

Be Your Shadow —

1 2015-06-27 ▶

Bee Sting —

11 2018-10-24 ▶

Bee Sting ***EMBARGOED UNTIL 2000 290818*** —

1 2018-08-29 ▶

Blood On The Hospital Floor —

2 2025-01-05 ▶

Can't Say No —

97 2026-08-22 ▶

Can't Say No (R1 Session, 18th Feb 2025) —

2 2025-05-21 ▶

Can't Say No (Sofa Session, 12 Mar 2025) —

1 2025-03-12 ▶

Cheetah Tongue —

109 2026-01-25 ▶

Cheetah Tongue (Radio 1 Session, 6 Mar 2018) —

1 2018-03-06 ▶

Cheetah Tongue (Radio 1 Session, 6th Mar 2018) —

1 2018-03-07 ▶

Dr. Suzanne Mattox PHD —

1 2022-10-16 ▶

Dressed to Kill —

10 2023-01-17 ▶

Emoticons (Radio 1 Session, 10th Feb 2015) —

1 2015-02-11 ▶

Everything I Love —

96 2022-05-15 ▶

Everything I Love Is Going To Die (Radio 1 Session, 6 Jan 2021) —

2 2022-01-13 ▶

Fix Yourself, Not The World —

6 2022-08-29 ▶

Friday I'm In Love (Sofa Session, 12 Mar 2025) —

2 2025-03-13 ▶

Frosty The Snowman —

1 2008-12-21 ▶

Frosty the Snowman <Live Lounge> —

3 2008-12-20 ▶

Give Me a Try —

32 2015-04-18 ▶

Give Me A Try (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 16 Apr 2015) —

3 2015-04-17 ▶

Greek Tragedy —

98 2026-04-24 ▶

Greek Tragedy (Bastille Remix) —

1 2015-02-07 ▶

Greek Tragedy (Bastille Remix) —

1 2015-01-27 ▶

Greek Tragedy (Radio 1 Session, 10th Feb 2015) —

3 2015-02-12 ▶

Greek Tragedy (Radio 1 Session, 6 Jan 2021) (feat. Dan Smith) —

1 2022-01-12 ▶

Greek Tragedy (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) —

1 2025-05-25 ▶

Greek Tragedy (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025, 23 May 2025) —

4 2026-04-06 ▶

Greek Tragedy - Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025 - RX 23/05/2025 —

6 2025-05-28 ▶

Here Comes The Anxiety —

1 2022-10-16 ▶

Here Comes the Anxiety —

1 2007-11-05 ▶

Here Comes The Anxiety (Acoustic) —

1 2008-07-01 ▶

Holy Sugar —

74 2026-02-21 ▶

I Love America And She Hates Me —

101 2025-06-19 ▶

I Love America and She Hates Me (R1 Session, 18th Feb 2025) —

2 2025-05-04 ▶

I Really Like You (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 16 Apr 2015) —

7 2022-02-08 ▶

I'm Sorry I'm Late I Didn't Want To Come —

1 2024-10-25 ▶

Ice Cream —

1 2018-02-13 ▶

If You Ever Leave Me —

2 2021-08-17 ▶

If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming with You —

93 2026-07-21 ▶

If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming With You (Radio 1 Session, 6 Jan 2021) —

1 2022-01-12 ▶

If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming With You (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) —

1 2025-05-25 ▶

Is this Christmas —

4 2025-12-05 ▶

Is This Christmas? —

158 2025-12-25 ▶

Is This Christmas? <Live Lounge> —

2 2008-12-19 ▶

Is This Christmas? <Radio 1's Live Lounge> —

1 2011-12-06 ▶

Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This? —

12 2022-11-13 ▶

Jump In The Pool —

1 2011-02-04 ▶

Jump Into the Fog —

13 2013-04-23 ▶

Jump Into The Fog —

164 2011-11-06 ▶

Jump Into The Fog (Radio 1's Big Weekend) —

1 2011-05-17 ▶

Jump Into The Pool —

1 2011-02-04 ▶

Kill The Director —

50 2026-08-09 ▶

Kill the Director —

265 2011-09-08 ▶

Kill the Director (CSS remix) —

5 2008-05-05 ▶

Kill The Director <Live acoustic for Jo Whiley at Reading 2008> —

1 2008-08-24 ▶

Kill The Director <Live From Reading 2008> —

3 2008-08-28 ▶

Kill The Director NEW ENTRY —

1 2007-07-01 ▶

Lemon To A Knife Fight —

80 2025-11-28 ▶

Lemon To A Knife Fight (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) —

1 2025-05-25 ▶

Let's Dance And Enjoy Revision (feat. HUW STEPHENS) —

2 2012-04-29 ▶

Let's Dance to Joy Division —

481 2026-07-23 ▶

Let's Dance To Joy Division (Big Weekend 2009) —

1 2022-10-16 ▶

Let's Dance To Joy Division (Colin Murray Session Track) —

1 2008-06-19 ▶

Let's Dance To Joy Division (Live From Radio 1's Big Weekend in Swindon) —

2 2009-05-16 ▶

Let's Dance to Joy Division (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) —

1 2025-05-25 ▶

Let's Dance To Joy Division (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025, 23 May 2025) —

4 2026-04-06 ▶

Let's Dance To Joy Division - Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025 - RX 23/05/2025 —

6 2025-05-28 ▶

Let's Dance to Joy Division <Colin Murray Session> —

2 2007-12-12 ▶

Lethal Combination (Acoustic) —

1 2019-02-03 ▶

Little Miss Pipedream —

1 2022-10-16 ▶

Los Ageless (Radio 1 Session, 6 Mar 2018) —

1 2018-03-06 ▶

Lost In The Post —

1 2022-10-16 ▶

Lost in the Post —

1 2007-10-26 ▶

Messy (R1 Session, 18th Feb 2025) —

2 2025-05-21 ▶

Moving To New York —

122 2026-08-14 ▶

Moving to New York —

400 2012-01-22 ▶

Moving To New York (Colin Murray Session) —

1 2007-12-05 ▶

Moving To New York (Glasto '08) —

1 2008-06-30 ▶

Moving To New York (Live - Reading 2019) —

1 2019-08-28 ▶

Moving to New York (Live at Maida Vale) —

1 2012-09-14 ▶

Moving To New York (Live Lounge) —

1 2011-09-21 ▶

Moving To New York (One Tro Branded) —

3 2008-06-06 ▶

Moving To New York (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) —

1 2025-05-25 ▶

Moving To New York (Reading 2008) —

1 2022-10-16 ▶

Moving to New York (Reading 2019) —

2 2025-09-09 ▶

Moving To New York (Sofa Session, 12 Mar 2025) —

1 2025-03-12 ▶

Moving To New York - Live At Glastonbury 2008 —

2 2008-07-01 ▶

Moving To New York - R1 Live Lounge —

4 2009-05-13 ▶

Moving to New York - Reading and Leeds 2019 —

1 2023-08-24 ▶

Moving To New York <in Session for Huw BH Monday> —

1 2008-05-26 ▶

Moving to New York <Live Lounge> —

5 2008-02-27 ▶

Moving To New York <New Edit> —

3 2007-12-13 ▶

Moving To New York [live at R1BW] —

1 2008-09-07 ▶

My Circuitboard City —

51 2009-03-06 ▶

My Circuitboard City (Blitzkrieg Edit) —

1 2009-02-02 ▶

My First Wedding (Glastonbury 2008) —

1 2022-10-16 ▶

Our Perfect Disease —

26 2011-08-21 ▶

Out Of My Head —

1 2018-02-14 ▶

Party In A Forest (Where's Laura?) (Reading 2008) —

1 2022-10-16 ▶

Patience <Live Lounge> —

3 2008-01-13 ▶

Patricia The Stipper —

1 2007-10-30 ▶

Patricia the Stripper —

3 2008-08-21 ▶

Patricia The Stripper (Glastonbury 2008) —

1 2022-10-16 ▶

Perez & Kill The Director —

1 2008-06-15 ▶

Price Tag (Live lounge) —

1 2011-05-31 ▶

Price Tag performed in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge for Fearne Cotton —

1 2011-04-17 ▶

Price Tag recorded in the Live Lounge for Fearne Cotton —

1 2011-04-17 ▶

School Uniform @ Swsw —

1 2007-03-20 ▶

School Uniforms —

2 2022-10-16 ▶

Sorry I'm Late I Didn't Want To Come (Sofa Session, 12 Mar 2025) —

1 2025-03-12 ▶

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come —

103 2025-01-15 ▶

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) —

1 2025-05-25 ▶

Sorry Im Late, I Didnt Want To Come —

9 2024-12-18 ▶

Stronger <3.00> Let's Dance To Joy Division —

1 2007-10-27 ▶

T in the Park Opener and Kill the Director —

1 2008-07-14 ▶

Take Her Back —

1 2008-10-14 ▶

Tales of Boys and Girls and Marsupials —

1 2009-04-29 ▶

Techno Fan —

112 2018-05-08 ▶

Techno Fan (Radio 1 Session) —

1 2010-12-12 ▶

Tequila Sunrise —

1 2015-06-06 ▶

The English Summer (Radio 1 Session, 10th Feb 2015) —

2 2015-02-12 ▶

There She Goes —

1 2008-05-06 ▶

This Car Drives All by Itself —

6 2022-03-24 ▶

Tokyo —

5 2019-02-19 ▶

Tokyo (Radio 1 Session) —

2 2010-12-11 ▶

Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) —

252 2026-02-21 ▶

Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) —

1 2025-05-25 ▶

Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves) —

1 2010-10-02 ▶

Turn —

49 2023-10-19 ▶

Turn (Radio 1 Piano Session, 03 Feb 2019) —

3 2022-01-12 ▶

Turn (Radio 1 Session, 03 March 2019) —

1 2025-05-18 ▶

Turn (Radio 1 Session, 6 Mar 2018) —

1 2018-03-06 ▶

Turn (Radio 1 Session, 6th Mar 2018) —

2 2018-04-03 ▶

Turn (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) —

1 2025-05-25 ▶

White Eyes —

1 2018-02-15 ▶

Wildfire —

1 2022-01-17 ▶

Your Body Is a Weapon —

11 2013-12-18 ▶