Midsomer Murders: 25th anniversary mixtape
Stephen Arnell
Broadcast/VoD Consultant for TV & Film, Writer/Producer (inc Bob Fosse, Alex Cox, Prince, Sinatra), Media/Culture Commentator & Author (novel The Great One published November 2022)
I met that Sergeant Ben Jones (Jason Hughes) at an annual ITV summer party once.
Nice bloke, he wanted to talk about This Life (where he played Warren Jones) rather than Midsomer though.
Big surprise, that.
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Toyah - It's a Mystery
Graham Parker - It Takes a Village Idiot
Audiomachine - The Dance of Death (Midsommar trailer music)
The Kinks - Do It Again
The Wicker Man - Corn Rigs - Paul Giovanni
Material featuring Nona Hendryx - Over and Over
Roxy Music - Same Old Scene
Klark Kent - Ritch in a Ditch
Ginalina - It Takes a Village
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper?
The Sonics - The Village Idiot?
David Bowie – Repetition (Live Paris 1999)
The Divine Comedy - 'Wood Shed' (Something for the Weekend)
Murder By Death (1976) Theme
The Brothers Four - Greenfields
XTC - Love on a Farmboy's Wages
Pink Floyd - Grantchester Meadows
The Average White Band - Let's Go Round Again
999 - Homicide
Nina and Frederick - Sippin' Cider
Nick Drake - Man In A Shed
EXTRAS - full movies:
The Shillingbury Blowers (1980) - Midsomer is occasionally filmed at the lovely Hertfordshire village of Aldbury.
I was up there myself only last Friday, popped in The Greyhound Inn for a nice half of pale ale.
Little Murders (1971)
Straw Dogs (1971)