Thanks to Sound Shack for sending some interesting CDs to Bradford Beat, which I’ll be trying to play in the coming weeks – including Dooj and Jed’s Blues Band.

They’re promoting  a series of monthly gigs at Kirkgate Centre in Shipley which fans of live music should try to support.

The first is on Saturday March 24 and features reggae from Axis Sound System.

Finally here’s the playlist for last week’s show:

Wilful Missing – Cry For The City
Django Django – Wor
Trip and Stumble – I’m A Believer
Babybird – Beautiful Haze
Honour Before Glory – Maison (Bear Mask Remix)
Field Music – A New Town
Ellen and the Escapades – Run
Futureheads – Heartbeat Song
Whiter Than – Trying Hard To Be Myself
Threshold Shift – Take Me Down
M83 – Reunion
Little Comets – Worry

With the snow and ice showing no sign of going away, you might like to feel festive all over again by listening again to Bradford Beat’s 2011 Christmas special.

This week is your last chance to listen to the show, first broadcast on December 22 and featuring the top five in our Christmas Countdown.

Just click here to listen.

This week’s show, which you can listen to again here features these tracks:

Django Django – Default
Whiter Than – Trying Hard To Be Myself
Duffy’s Gypsy Band – Budapest
King Creosote – Nothing Rings Tue
Big Country – In A Big Country
handmadehands – Confidence
Alt-J – Matilda
Hooded Fang – Clap
The Wind-Up Birds – Cross Country
Eliza Carthy – Britain Is A Car Park
Wilful Missing – I Am Clay
City and Colour – The Grand Optimist

Looks like the Listen Again function failed for this week’s edition of Bradford Beat.

Maybe it was related to the fact there was no internet in the studio either!

For the record, the playlist for the show on January 26 featured these tracks:

King Creosote – Coast On By
Big Country – Fields of Fire
Holy State – Lady Magika
Kate Bush – The Red Shoes
The Wind-Up Birds – Cross Country
Baby Bird – The Best Day of our Lives
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Pictures
Half Man Half Biscuit – Tommy Walsh’s Eco House
Juffage – Small Fires
Arctic Monkeys – Black Treacle
Threshold Shift – Superclash Dub
Wilful Missing – London Road
City and Colour – O’ Sister
The Chevin – Menwith Hill

A couple of oldies but goodies from The Duke Spirit and Scaramanga Six sneaked in among the new releases on the latest edition of Bradford Beat.

Here’s the full playlist for the January 12 show:

Babybird – Not Love
Threshold Shift – Superclash
Mara Carlyle – Weird Girl
Wilful Missing – Don’t Be Scared 48
PJ Harvey – All and Everyone
Scaramanga Six – Misadventure
The Duke Spirit – My Sunken Treasure
The Chevin – Blue Eyes
Arctic Monkeys – Black Treacle
The Wind-Up Birds – Cross Country
City and Colour – The Grand Optimist
Cee Lo Green – Forget You
Kate Bush – Snowflake

You can listen again here

You can’t really say Happy New Year nearly a week into the new year can you?

But here I go anyway – Happy New Year!

We kicked off 2012 with some cracking tunes on Bradford Beat

Here’s the full tracklisting:

City and Colour – Weightless
The Wind-Up Birds – Cross Country
The Stone Roses – She Bangs the Drum
The Chevin – When The Party’s Over
Eliza Carthy – Britain Is A Car Park
Threshold Shift – Hang In There Dub
Slow Club – Trophy Room
Babybird – Can’t Love You Any More
Juffage – Small Fires
Half Man Half Biscuit – Something’s Rotten In The Back Of Iceland
Wilful Missing – Sleeptalking Over
Little Comets – Worry
State of Error – Story Of Our Lives

and remember you can listen again on the main BCB website