I don’t know about you guys, but Halloween is my favourite celebration of the year – it really should be a holiday!

It’s a shame London doesn’t celebrate it properly but fortunately not too far, about 4:30hrs by train from us, Edinburgh does an incredible parade of the yearly battle between summer and winter. If you ever get a chance to see it, I HIGHLY recommend it!

Anyway, Halloween is not just a time to dress up in spooky costumes, scare your friends without guilt (as if I felt guilty any other time of the year!), work on your pumpkin art and stuff your face with chocolate. It’s also a time to binge-watch classics such as Hocus Pocus and The Craft. I mean, it’s also an excellent excuse for a playlist!

Obviously, we’ve got all of those anyone expects in a respectable Halloween mix: Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Ramones, Black Sabbath…even “I Put a Spell On You” (I know, so predictable!) with its million covers makes an appearance and of course we chose the Marilyn Manson version. I mean, only because Spotify doesn’t have the Bette Middler one from Hocus Pocus…now THAT is a true Halloween classic.

But anyway, besides covering the pre-requisite and adding half of The Craft soundtrack, we also added a shitload more tracks from, as usual with a playlist like this, a mix of genre but, funnily enough, with a majority of 80s sounds…what happened to the chilling, dark music of the past?! Maybe people should take a break from making wrist-slitting music and get back to the haunting themes.