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About Simon

Simon Ashberry has been playing the best of local music on Bradford Beat for almost a quarter of a century . He was music columnist for the Telegraph & Argus for several years, covering local acts such as Embrace, Terrorvision, Tasmin Archer and New Model Army, and has played bass in several bands himself. He was previously part of Bradford-based Loom with John Rigby from Trip and Stumble and currently plays with innovative blues trio West Yorkshire Noblemen's Society.

Vote with your ears

As election time approaches, vote with your ears and listen again to the latest edition of Bradford Beat.

Here’s what we played:

To Kill A King – Compare Scars
Vessels – Glass Lake
Maccabees – Marks To Prove It
The Delvaux – Nightman
Warpaint – I’ll Start Believing
Threshold Shift – Hang In There
Laura Marling – Gurdjieff’s Daughter
Whiter Than – Planning A Journey
Thurston Moore – Detonation
Alt-J – Gospel of John Hurt
Tame Impala – Let It Happen
Malibu Stacey – Grade A Fellini
Public Service Broadcasting – Go!

Get set for Record Store Day

It’s Record Store Day this weekend – and Shipley band The Delvaux are using the occasion to launch their album Blunderkammer at the Record Cafe in Bradford.

Here’s what we played on our latest edition of Bradford Beat – including a couple by The Delvaux:

The Delvaux – When Ownership Shifts
Public Service Broadcasting – Go!
Leafeater – She’s So Fine
Paul Weller – Saturn’s Pattern
Vessels – Echo In
Superfood – You Can Believe
Billy Delines – Everybody’s Gotta Make A Change Some Time
Bear’s Den – Agape
Eaves – Pylons
Pop Group – Mad Truth
Whiter Than – Note to Self
The Broux – Knock Three Times
The Delvaux – At The Jeunesse Doree

Cold Easter

It might be T-shirt weather now but it WAS cold when this show was broadcast, honest!

Here’s what we played on on Easter special anyway:

Ricky Ross – Cold Easter
Anita Madigan – Run With The Bulls
Clang Group – Shipbuilding
Malibu Stacey – Init2winit
Lone Lady – Groove It Out
The Delvaux – Trouble Buried Deep
Neil Young – Down To The Wire
Ghostpoet – Yes, I Helped you Pack
Dragster – Meteorite
Vessels – Vertical
Thurston Moore – Speak To The Wild
The Delvaux – Hawk of the North

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Spring is in the air

The latest edition of Bradford Beat endeavoured to find a springtime vibe.

Here are all the tracks we played:

Ghostpoet – X Marks The Spot
Alt-J – Ballad of John Hurt
Seasick Steve – Summertime Blues
The Pop Group – Box 9
Trip and Stumble – The Ovaltinies
Warpaint – No Way Out
Vessels – Attica
Whiter Than – Trying Hard to be Myself
Marika Hackman – Animal Fear
The Delvaux – The Fountain Statues
Wolf Alice – Giant Peach
Rolling Stones – It’s All Over now
Terrorvision – Tequila

You can listen again here

Albums ahoy

Two exciting new album releases have landed at BCB Towers.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be playing most – if not all – of the tracks on the new releases by The Delvaux (from Shipley) and Leeds-based Vessels.

Both new albums featured on the latest edition of Bradford Beat – here’s the full list of what we played:

Benjamin Booker – Wicked Waters
Vessels – Echo In
Wolf Alice – Giant Peach
Portico featuring Joe Newman – 101
Decemberists – Cavalry Captain
The Delvaux – Viesalgia
Parma Violets – Danger in the Club
Warpaint – No Way Out
Chutzpah – Eyes
Seasick Steve – Summertime Boy
Zed – White Knuckle Ride
Cold War Kids – Hot Coals
Vessels – Elliptic

You can listen again here

New tunes galore

A veritable stackful of brand new records was spun in the latest edition of Bradford Beat.
Here’s the full list of what we played:

Seasick Steve – Summertime Boy
Vessels – on Monos
Ghostpoet – Off Peak Dreams
Embrace – I Run
Nadine Shah – Fool
The Delvaux – Strange Anatomies
Paul Weller – White Sky
Alt-J – Warm Foothills
Clang Group – Shipbuilding
Thurston Moore – Speak to The Wild
Biscuithead and the Biscuit Badgers – Land Hermit Crab
Jude Brown Band – Green Light
St vincent – Bad Believer
Slow Club – Everything is New

You can listen again here

Shake your stick here

As ever, yhere was more new music than you can shake a stick at on the latest edition of Bradford Beat.

Here’s what we played:

Thurston Moore – Speak to The Wild
The Delvaux – The Rosey Hours
Gruff Rhys – The Last Conquistador
Anita Madigan – The Dalai Lama Loves Us All
Django Django – Storm
Vessels – On Monos
Slow Club – The Pieces
Interpol – Anywhere
Embrace – Quarters
Jack White – All Alone In My Home
Alt-J – Warm Foothills
Arrested Development – People Everyday
Marika Hackman – Animal Fear

And you can listen again here

All new for 2015

Bradford Beat is armed with a fistful of brand new records for to keep us going through the snow and ice.

Here are the tracks we played this week:

Vessels – On Monos
Laura Marling – Short Movie
The Delvaux – At The Jeunesse Doree
Jack White – All Alone In My Home
Vehicle Derek – Sometimes She Will
Alt-J – Warm Foothills
Superfood – You Can Believe
Stand Alone – Easier Said Than Done
Decemberists – Make You Better
Gorgeous – The Chill
Parkay Quarts – Pretty Machines
Biscuithead and the Badgers – Snow
Belle and Sebastian – The Party Line (Cyclist Rave mix)

You can listen again by clicking here

Better late than never

I never got round to posting the tracks we played on 8 January – so here goes:

The Decemberists – Make You Better
Champion Jack Dupree – Third Degree
Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
Julian Cope – World Shut Your Mouth
Alt-J – Warm Foothills
Belle and Sebastian – The Party Line
Super Furry Animals – Inagural Trams
Les Shelleys – I’m On Fire
Fold – Be Water My Friend
Nadine Shah – Stealing Cars
Vessels – On Monos
The Delvaux – At The Jeunesse Doree
Lone Lady – Groove It Out

You can listen again to the show by clicking here.

Twice the fun

If you missed the Christmas collaboration between Bradford Beat and Michalle Dalgety’s Yorkshire Music Collective show, here’s your chance to listen again.

And here’s a run-down of the tracks we played:

Embrace – Refugees
Fold – Be Water My Friend
Mark Heslop – Song for the City Gent
Cry Baby City – Go Go
Uncle Wally and Uncle Steve – Doing Nothing
Allusondrugs – Nervous
Roger Davies – The Grand Depart
Catfish and the Bottlemen – Fallout
Stand Alone – Learn How To Feel
Polo – Running Deep