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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.

Live in session on Bradford Beat

Ben and Steve (formerly of The Turn) are live in the studio this week on Bradford Beat.

They are playing two session tracks and chatting about their new band project together – which still doesn’t even have a name!

This week’s show (Thurs 8pm – 9pm and repeated Sun 7pm – 8pm) also features tracks by the likes of Flowered Up, Falconetti, The Only Ones and Roger Davies.

Bradford Beat

Feeling nostalgic this week with the likes of Magazine, the Only Ones and Public Image Ltd all reformed and on telly or coming on tour to West Yorkshire shortly.

Chiming in with that theme, the latest edition of Bradford Beat (on air 8pm Oct 22 and 7pm Oct 25) features a classic Echo and the Bunnymen track plus music from iLiKETRAiNS, Roger Davies, New Model Army, Scaramanga Six, Julian Casablancas, New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack, Blues Roses and even Raging Slab…

Bradford Beat

If you missed last week’s live studio session with Roger Davies, I’m playing one of the tracks again on this week’s show (Thurs Oct 9, 8-9pm)

The bard of Brighouse is well worth listening to – also on the show this week: Aggrevation live in the studio, New Model Army, The Very Best Of, Ash, Grammatics, Bloc Party, Jamie T, iLiKETRAiNS, The Skids, Soulsavers and the Maccabees…