We’ve launched a collaborative Spotify playlist so Heaton Stan fans have a chance to decide the music we play before and during half time of home games at The Willow Park!

Here’s what we played at the 2-1 Jimmy Rowe Cup win over Newcastle Benfield on Saturday 5th July 2025!

If you want to join the collaborative Spotify playlist, here’s the link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6D1q7P20irFLM3RYngxQ2t?si=4c039bb1a3864845&pt=a6286f9b4b9c860199c4a1fa8110903e 

This playlist is basically an inbox folder where you can submit requests, which are then sifted through by media officer Liam, who then shuffles the playlist to generate enough music to fill an hour ahead of kick off and 15 minutes for half time, which is around 20-25 songs. Liam will try to make sure there’s a good mix of genres, styles and eras so there’s always at least something for everyone.

As you can see, there’s already a lot of music in the playlist so unfortunately we can’t guarantee that all requests will be fulfilled.

Here are some tips for selecting songs and making it past the sift:

• Because of the limited amount of time, long songs will generally be passed over in favour of shorter songs, even if they’re masterpieces! This is to give everyone a fair chance, but also to make sure there’s a good variety of tracks in the playlist. We also know that not everyone has the same taste, so shorter songs means we get to cover all bases. If the track you want has a shorter edit or radio edit, that has a far better chance of appearing!
• Because of the young age of some of our supporters, songs with explicit language will generally be passed over. If you’re able to find a clean version, or perhaps a track by the same artist which doesn’t contain explicit language, put that in instead!
• We want a sound that reflects the eclectic tastes of our fanbase and we’d love to play hidden gems or tracks from lesser-known artists, but when putting songs into the playlist, think about the kind of upbeat energy we’re trying to generate before games. We want to generate a great, lively atmosphere at The Willow Park, so slower, sadder, overly-challenging will probably miss out. We also don’t want to upset the neighbours, so things like death metal and hard techno music will unfortunately likely fail to make the cut.

Keep the requests coming! We want the playlist to be generated by supporters as much as possible, so feel free to add things when you think of them and share the link amongst other supporters who you think might like to add to it. We again apologise if your request isn’t heard, but hopefully you get to hear some things you love, things you’ve not heard in a long time, or perhaps things you’d never heard before and end up loving!

If you’re not a Spotify user, you can email liamheatonstan@gmail.com and we can put the requests into the playlist on your behalf.