Editing Shipping Forecast (section)

===Music===
The Shipping Forecast has inspired a number of songs and poems, including the following:
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|"Shipping Song" on [[Lisa Knapp]]'s 2013 album ''Hidden Seam''
|"Mercy" on [[Wire (band)|Wire]]'s 1978 album ''[[Chairs Missing]]'' includes the lyrics:{{blockquote|<poem>Snow storms forecast imminently in areas
Dogger, Viking, Moray, Forth, and Orkney</poem>}}
|"[[This Is a Low]]" on [[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s album ''[[Parklife]]'' includes the lyrics:{{blockquote|<poem>On the Tyne, Forth and Cromarty
There's a low in the high Forties</poem>}}
The song also contains references to Biscay, Dogger, Thames ("Hit traffic on the Dogger bank / Up the Thames to find a taxi rank") and Malin Head, one of the [[List of coastal weather stations of the United Kingdom|coastal stations]].

Blur's early tour film, ''[[Starshaped]]'', also uses extracts from the Shipping Forecast during the opening and closing credits.
|The [[Chumbawamba]] song "The Good Ship Lifestyle" on the album ''[[Tubthumper]]'' mentions Shipping Forecast regions (in the wrong order):
{{blockquote|<poem>
Faeroes, Bailey, Fair Isle, Hebrides
Malin, Rockall, Shannon, Sole
Trafalgar, Finisterre, Irish Sea, Biscay
Humber, Portland, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne
...
Dogger, Fisher, German Bight; Viking, Thames, Dover, Wight  (3x)
Dogger, Fisher, German Bight
... </poem>}}
|[[Radiohead]] used lyrics relating to the Shipping Forecast in their song "[[Kid A|In Limbo]]" to represent a theme of being lost:
{{blockquote|<poem>Lundy, Fastnet, [[Irish Sea]]
I've got a message I can't read</poem>}}
This song appears on the album ''[[Kid A]]'', the vinyl release of which has the names of several of the forecast's sea areas etched into the runoff space.
|[[Dry the River]] song "New Ceremony" on the album ''[[Shallow Bed]]'' includes lyrics:
{{blockquote|<poem>But after we danced to the shipping forecast
the words escaped your mouth...</poem>}}
|The [[The Mekons|Mekons]] song "Shanty" from ''The Edge of the World'' begins with a sample of the shipping forecast, and includes the lyrics:{{blockquote|<poem>Concrete and steel and a flame in the night
Cromarty Dogger and Bight</poem>}}
|In the [[2012 Olympics opening ceremony|opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games in London]], the shipping forecast was played in the opening part of the production with Elgar's ''[[Enigma Variations|Nimrod]]'' to represent Britain's maritime heritage.
|[[The Young Punx]] sampled the shipping forecast as read by BBC presenter [[Alan Smith (radio)|Alan Smith]] for their track "Rockall". The shipping forecast forms the entire lyric for the track, both used in its original form (yet rhyming and scanning) e.g. "Tyne, Dogger, German Bight. Humber, [[Thames]], Dover, Wight" and also with the words re-edited into new orders to form new meanings and puns such as "expected to, Rock All, by midnight tonight".
|Other popular artists who have used [[Sampling (music)|samples]] of the Shipping Forecast include [[Andy White (singer-songwriter)|Andy White]] who added the forecast to the track "The Whole Love Story" to create a very nostalgic, cosy and soporific sound, highly evocative of the British Isles; [[Tears for Fears]], whose track "[[Everybody Wants to Rule the World#B-side: "Pharaohs"|Pharaohs]]" (a play on the name of the sea area "Faeroes") is a setting of the forecast to a mixture of mellow music and sound effects; and [[Thomas Dolby]], who included a shipping forecast read by the [[BBC]]'s John Marsh on the track "Windpower".
|The British DJ [[Rob Overseer]]'s album ''Wreckage'' has a final track entitled "[[Heligoland]]", where the Shipping Forecast surrealistically alternates between reporting the weather and the emotional states of an individual.
|The band [[British Sea Power]] entitled a B-side of their "[[Please Stand Up]]" single "Gale Warnings in Viking North".
|[[Beck]] includes a 27-second sample five minutes into the track "The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton" on the album ''[[The Information (Beck album)|The Information]]''.
|The experimental electronic musician [[Robin Storey]], recording under the name [[Rapoon]], sampled the shipping forecast for the track "Falling More Slowly" on his 1997 album ''Easterly 6 or 7'', itself named for the Forecast.
|[[The Prodigy]] sampled a short section of the shipping forecast in their song "Weather Experience" on their album ''[[Experience (Prodigy album)|Experience]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theprodigy.info/samples/experience.shtml#Weather_Experience|title=Prodigy samples >> Experience era | work=Juge's Prodigy Net | publisher = Jussi Lahtinen | access-date=6 January 2009}}</ref>
|[[Manfred Mann's Earth Band]] extensively used samples of shipping forecasts as a part of the backing track to "Stranded", from their 1980 album, ''Chance''.
|The [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] album ''[[Stormwatch (album)|Stormwatch]]'' features the shipping forecast between verses of "[[North Sea Oil]]". It is read by [[Francis Wilson (meteorologist)|Francis Wilson]], a TV weatherman who also reads the introduction to "Dun Ringill" on the same album.
|[[Silly Wizard]] includes a snippet of a gale warning from the shipping forecast in the closing instrumental of "The Fishermen's Song", which tells of the loss of a fishing boat in a North Sea storm.
|''Shipping Forecast'' by the composer [[Cecilia McDowall]] was commissioned by Portsmouth Festival Choir and conducted by Andrew Cleary. It was first performed in June 2011.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13773797 | work=BBC News | title=Music inspired by Shipping Forecast | date=15 June 2011}}</ref> The work combines the poetry of Seán Street, [[Psalm 107]], and the words of the shipping forecast itself.
|There is a three-bell [[change ringing]] method named "Shipping Forecast Singles". It was composed by Sam Austin and was rung to a peal in 2004 at St John the Baptist in [[Middleton, Warwickshire|Middleton]], Warwickshire. Other three-bell methods by the same composer are named after various shipping areas.
|[[Justin Sullivan]], lead vocalist and founding member of [[New Model Army (band)| New Model Army]], released a solo album in 2003 called ''Navigating by the Stars''. Featuring a nautical theme, the album samples part of the Shipping Forecast on the track "Ocean Rising".
|In 1966, four English singers calling themselves [[The Master Singers]] released a record of "The Weather Forecast"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAMlem3KGaA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/aAMlem3KGaA| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Weather Forecast Master Singers Slideshow with subs www keepvid com|date=13 December 2010 |via=YouTube|access-date=18 November 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> which was a typical Shipping Forecast sung in Anglican chant.
|The Creative Commons-licensed artist Cakeflap's song, "The Bakery Is Open",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jamendo.com/album/16995/the-bakery-is-open?language=en | title=The Bakery Is Open on Jamendo}}</ref> contains a mock version of the shipping forecast, with several areas and weathers altered.
|The [[Mull Historical Society]]'s single "The Final Arrears" ends with a twenty-second recording of the Shipping Forecast from "Tuesday 17th October" (presumably 2000).
|The 2018 album ''Between Wind and Water'' by British folk band [[The Longest Johns]] ends with the bonus track "Shipping Forecast" parodying the BBC forecast format. The band is known for covering sea shanties and their music's maritime theme.
|The 2020 Harry Harris EP ''Open Up The Pit'' includes a track, "While The Radio Plays" which features the regions of shipping forecast in its chorus.}}