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Matters relating to Simon Ashberry’s Bradford Beat show on Thursdays at 8pm (UK time)

Feeling wintry?

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

Computer says no

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

 

Old and new

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

Belated New Year greetings

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

 

Festive special

So here it is – not Noddy Holder but the final part of the 2011 Christmas Countdown.
The full chart – listing Bradford Beat’s favourite 20 tracks of the year, was unveiled on the show’s Christmas Special.
Here it is in full:
1 The WInd Up Birds – Meet Me At The Depot
2 Half Man Half Biscuit – Descending The Stiperstones
3 Juffage – My Weakness
4 PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder
5 Young Knives – Love My Name
6 Phoenix Foundation – Buffalo
7 handmadehands – Over The Edge
8 Pigeon Detectives – Lost
9 Chapel Club – Surfacing
10 Alt-J – Matilda
11 Billy DeLines – Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?
12 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Senator
13 Pete and the Pirates – Half Moon Street
14 Trespassers William – I Could Go Back
15 Colourmusic – Yes!
16 Kingheadlock – Lifeless Life
17 Threshold Shift – Hang In There
18 Terrorvision – Rock Radio
19 Gomez – The Place and the People
20 Lulu and the Lampshades – Feet To The Sky

The Christmas special, which also features festive tracks by the likes of Frank Sidebottom and the Staple Singers, is repeated at 8pm on Thursday 29 December.

Nearly there…

We’re not far from unveiling the top five in our 2011 Christmas Countdown.

The final leg of our chart featuring our favourite 20 tracks of the year will feature on the Bradford Beat Christmas Special, which will go out twice – on Thursday 22 December and Thursday 29 December, both from 8pm – 9pm

So far we’ve had:

20 Lulu and the Lampshades – Feet To The Sky
19 Gomez – The Place and the People
18 Terrorvision – Rock Radio
17 Threshold Shift – Hang In There
16 Kingheadlock – Lifeless Life
15 Colourmusic – Yes!
14 Trespassers William – I Could Go Back
13 Pete and the Pirates – Half Moon Street
12 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Senator
11 Billy DeLines – Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?
10 Alt-J – Matilda
9 Chapel Club – Surfacing
8 Pigeon Detectives – Lost
7 handmadehands – Over The Edge
6 Phoenix Foundation – Buffalo

Bradford Beat special guests – The Wind Up Birds

Don’t miss the Wind-Up Birds on Bradford Beat this week.

Three out of the four members of the West Yorkshire-based band are in the studio chatting about their new charity track Working Christmas Day and their forthcoming album.

There’s also a chance to hear a sneak preview of Cross Country, one of the songs on the new album, which they’re hoping to release in April.

You can catch the Wind Up Birds on Bradford Beat from 8pm  – 9pm this Thursday (December 8) or use our listen again service.

The show also features the second part of this year’s Christmas Countdown, our chart of the top 20 tracks of the year.

Christmas Countdown is up and running

The 2011 Christmas Countdown is underway – that’s our favourite 20 tracks of the year.

So far we’ve had these five tracks:

20 Lulu and the Lampshades – Feet To The Sky
19 Gomez – The Place and the People
18 Terrorvision – Rock Radio
17 Threshold Shift – Hang In There
16 Kingheadlock – Lifeless Life

Will the likes of The Wind Up Birds, Juffage and Billy DeLines make the cut?
Tune in to Bradford Beat over the three weeks before Christmas to find out – we’re on from 8pm to 9pm every Thursday plus you can listen again.

Catch The Chevin in session

Otley band The Chevin are in the studio on this week’s edition of Bradford Beat.

The four-piece will be chatting about the new EP on Fierce Panda, their recent support slot with the Pigeon Detectives and their upcoming show at Wembley Arena.

The Chevin will also play a couple of live acoustic session tracks.

Bradford Beat in on air from 8pm – 9pm every Thursday.

Listen again here:  http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?id=4271

Working Christmas Day?

Are you feeling festive yet?

It’s perfectly OK to say no as it’s only November – however, next week sees the release of what’s almost certain tobe this year’s best Christmas tune.

The Leeds-based band Wind-Up Birds release Working Christmas Day on Monday

It’s download only, pay what you like and proceeds go to charity.

You can preview it here http://thewind-upbirds.bandcamp.com/track/working-christmas-day and we’ll be playing it on this week’s Bradford Beat!