One of those decades-spanning love stories that puts you through the emotional wringer, Mix Tape is a perfect binge for anyone who still wistfully remembers One Day (Netflix series, book or movie).
And in a twist of fate, the BBC/Binge four-parter also stars Jim Sturgess, the lead in the 2011 One Day movie, as another lovelorn character who holds a torch for an old flame from his teenage years into his middle years.
Sturgess plays Daniel and The Fall Guy’s Teresa Palmer is his long-time crush Alison in a music-soaked romantic drama that follows the pair from their partying youths (where they’re played by Bridgerton’s Florence Hunt and newcomer Rory Walton-Smith) to wobbly married lives with other people on different continents.
As its title implies, the bond of music – especially alternative anthems of the ’80s and ’90s – offers a motif for the pair’s enduring connection throughout the series. And what a soundtrack it is, reflecting the music scenes of its two cities – Sheffield and Sydney – in fairly iconic style.
In common with the novel on which its based, the show packs in a crate load of tunes: from Aussie bands like 1927 and The Church, to British post-punk legends like The Psychedelic Furs and The Cure, and Sheffield hometown heroes Arctic Monkeys and Richard Hawley. Listen out for the great Nick Drake too.
Here’s the soundtrack in full:
EPISODE 1
Fool’s Gold – The Stone Roses
Home is the Range – The Comsat Angels
Bizarre Love Triangle – New Order
Fluorescent Adolescent – Arctic Monkeys
Sweet Tooth Outlaw – The Psychs
Prize – Kitchens of Distinction
Northern Sky – Nick Drake
Late Again - ALWAYS
Road – Nick Drake
Outro – Jackson Reid Briggs & The Heaters
Under The Milky Way - The Church
Close To Me - The Cure
Stephanie Says - The Velvet Underground
Some Candy Talking - The Jesus and Mary Chain
EPISODE 2
Hit the North – The Fall
That's When I Think of You - 1927
Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs
Lovesong - The Cure
Tainted Love - Gloria Jones
The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadows - Gang of Youths
EPISODE 3
Big Jet Plane - Angus and Julia Stone
Something Is - Richard Hawley
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente!
EPISODE 4
I Fall Apart - Rory Gallagher
She is Everything – Blue In Heaven
Background Check - Display Homes
I Love You - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Live It Up - Mental As Anything
Lovesong - The Cure
How can I watch Mix Tape?
All four episodes are on BBC iPlayer now.
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