Bradford Beat has teamed up with the Yorkshire Music Collective this festive season for a special programme showcasing the best of local music.
You can listen to hour-long programme hosted by Simon Ashberry and Michelle Dalgety from 4pm to 5pm on BCB 106.6FM today (31 December).
It’s part of BCB’s series of Christmas Collaborations shows.
In case you missed it, here’s this year’s Christmas Countdown in full:
1 Alt-J – Every Other Freckle
2 Seafood – Beaty Heart
3 Against Me! – Unconditional Love
4 St Vincent – Birth in Reverse
5 Warpaint – Love is to Die
6 Archie Bronson Outfit – Two Doves On A Lake
7 Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
8 The Bohicas – Swarm
9 New Pornographers – Dancehall Domine
10 Parquet Courts – Black and White
11 Tune-Yards- Water Fountain
12 Brody Dalle – Meet the Foetus/Oh The Joy
13 Blank Realm – Bulldozer Love
14 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Coming Down
15 Superfood – Right On Satellite
16 The Delvaux – At The Jeunesse Doree
17 Stand Alone – Easier Said Than Done
18 Phox – Kingfisher
19 Prince – Pretzel Body Logic
20 Slow Club – Everything is New
Speak to you all in 2015!
Here’s our festive selection of music to help your Christmas and New Year go with a bang.
The full list of the tracks we played on our seasonal special edition is:
Eugene McGuinness – White christmas
Vessels – On Monos
Blank Realm – Falling Down The Stairs
Christmas Countdown
5 Warpaint – Love is to Die
4 St Vincent – Birth in Reverse
3 Against Me! – Unconditional Love
2 Seafood – Beaty Heart
1 Alt-J – Every Other Freckle
Louis Armstrong – Zat You Santa Claus?
Rattlesnake Shake – Some Like it Hot
Cate Le Bon – I Can’t help You
Embrace – In The End
Maximo Park – Give Get Take
Eugene McGuinness – In The Bleak Midwinter
You can listen again by clicking here and the show is being repeated from 8pm – 9pm on New Year’s Day
The festive season is in full swing – and here’s part three of our annual Christmas Countdown of the Top 20 tracks of the year.
The full tracklisting for our most recent show was as follows:
Biscuithead and the Badgers – Snow
Thurston Moore – The Best Day
The Delvaux – Spider’s Bride
Christmas Countdown:
10 – Parquet Courts – Black and White
9 – New Pornographers – Dancehall Domine
8 – The Bohicas – Swarm
7 – Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
6 – Archie Bronson Outfit – Two Doves On A Lake
Zed – White Knuckle Ride
Mini Mansions – Death is A Girl
Eugene McGuinness – Christmas in Killarney
Mark Heslop – Song for the City Gent
Jed’s Blues Band – Dirty Water
Lone Lady – Groove It Out
You can listen again by clicking here – and don’t forget the Top 5 will be part of Bradford Beat from 8pm to 9pm on Christmas Day.
We’re now halfway through this year’s rundown of the best 20 tracks of the past 12 months.
Here’s a full list of the tracks we played on this week’s Bradford Beat:
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Christmas Eve
Embrace – Quarters
Gorgeous – The Chill
Marika Hackman – Drown
Christmas Countdown
15 Superfood – Right On Satellite
14 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Coming Down
13 Blank Realm – Bulldozer Love
12 Brody Dalle – Meet the Foetus/Oh The Joy
11 Tune-Yards- Water Fountain
The Delvaux – At The Jeunesse Doree
Thurston Moore – The Best Day
Vessels – On Monos
You can listen again by clicking here.
The latest edition of Bradford Beat saw us kick off a rundown of our favourite tracks of the last 12 months.
Here’s a full list of what we played on the show:
Nadine Shah – Stealing Cars
Manchester Orchestra – Girl Harbor
Champion Jack Dupree – Third Degree
Christmas Countdown:
20 Slow Club – Everything is New
19 Prince – Pretzel Body Logic
18 Phox – Kingfisher
17 Stand Alone – Easier Said Than Done
16 The Delvaux – At The Jeunesse Doree
Girlpool – Blah Blah Blah
Lisa Marie Glover – Mad Mary
Cheap Girls – Style
Wind up Birds – Working Christmas Day
Thumpers – Devotee
Jude Brown Band – Green Light
The Top 20 continues throughout December with the top 5 being revealed on Christmas Day.
You can listen again here.
Pre-festive frivolities are officially underway – as Bradford Beat prepares to embark on its 10th annual Christmas Countdown.
This Thursday (4 Dec) from 8pm-9pm we’ll be playing the first part of our seasonal chart of our favourite tracks of the year.
To whet your appetite, here are the previous number ones:
2013
Simon Crabtree – The Spirit of Bradford City
2012
Whiter Than – Note To Self
2011
The Wind Up Birds – Meet Me At The Depot
2010
Divine Comedy – Indie Disco
2009
Super Furry Animals – Inaugural Trams
2008
Jonjo Feather – I Suppose
2007
Sky Larkin – Summit
2006
iLiKETRAiNS – The Beeching Report
2005
Beck – Girl
Well, here they are – the very best tracks ever produced by artists from Bradford (in our humble opinion).
And, our opinion being really very humble indeed, we want to hear from you about any glaring omissions, Let me know what we’ve unforgivably missed out by emailing me at simon.ashberry@bcbradio.co.uk
1 Embrace – All You Good Good People
2 Ooberman – Sugar Bum
3 New Model Army – Smalltown England
4 Terrorvision – My House
5 The Word – Wide Awake
6 Whiter than – Note To Self
7 Bobby Charltons – Hole In The Sky
8 Poppy Factory – 7×7
9 The Invaders – Girl’s In Action
10 Zed – Easy Does It
We also played the following:
The Delvaux – Spider’s Bride
Jimmy Ruffin – What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?
Saint Saviour – Let It Go
and you can listen again to the show here.
We just couldn’t cram the best Bradford tracks into a Top 10 so we’ve expanded the concept into a Top 20 instead!
Over the next two weeks we’re bringing your our choice of the finest songs produced by acts from our neck of the woods. Here’s the countdown from numbers 20 to 11:
11 Anita Madigan – The Dalai Lama Loves You All
12 Threshold Shift – Hang In There
13 Leafeater – Garden of Love
14 Negatives – 69
15 Creation Roots – Let Jah Music Play
16 handmadehands – Over The Edge
17 Laura Groves – Coast
18 Daisy Cutter – Morning Sun
19 Yo El Rey – And One For The Doctor
20 Talk To Angels – He Loves Cilla
We also played these other tracks this week:
Girlpool -Blah Blah Blah
Alt-J – Left Hand Free
The Delvaux – At The Jeunesse Doree
Mini Mansions – Death Is A Girl
You can listen again here – and the Top 10 will be broadcast on Bradford Beat on Thursday 27 November from 8pm.
Nostalgia was the watchword on Bradford Beat this week as we delved into the two new CDs compiled by Bradford’s Noise of the Valleys.
As well as oldies from L’Orchestre du Cafe, Zed and Worm, we previewed a new album by Shipley band The Delvaux.
Here’s the full list of tracks played:
The Delvaux – O Wronged World
Dub Colossus – Boom Ka Boom
L’Orchestre du Cafe – Dark Eyes
New Pornographers – Dancehall Domine
Alt-J – Left Hand Free
Against Me! – True Trans Soul Rebel
Zed – White Knuckle Ride
Billy the Kid – Riverbank
Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
Worm – Cyber Sex
Chantel McGregor – I’m No Good For You
Real Estate – Had To Hear
Click here to listen again