I don’t like cricket… I love it! That was the kind of mood I found myself in when compiling this months 75 track playlist. Put it down to the current heatwave gripping the UK, in conjunction with some delightfully gripping entertainment delivered by our much maligned summer sport, not to mention my laid back ice cold beer in hand disposition I adopted while watching it. Whatever, for one month I have abandoned my regular monthly mission of representing my current new musical discoveries and vinyl hunting obsessions and instead just put together a four and a half hour compilation of excellent summer tunes. Most of them have some summer sun front and centre, in the song titles or the subject matter (there are a good few surf tunes featured, only right as the world lost the genius of Brian Wilson over the past month), whilst there are others that simply have the feel of those hot months in the sound, style and tone. And of course, as this is a Fruit Tree Records playlist, there is some warm weather melancholy to be found amongst these selections too. And if you think there are some glaring omissions, well I just do not care that much for Bryan Adams or Will Smith and I cannot separate the association Mungo Jerry’s ‘In The Summertime’ has with road traffic accidents after it was used in an anti-drink driving advertising campaign years ago. That’s just me I guess, but I back these 75 pieces to work just fine as you pour yourself a tall cool one then kick back and enjoy.