Category Archives: Bradford Beat

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

Don’t miss Skeletal Family

We’ll have Stan and Anne-Marie from Keighley band Skeletal Family as studio guests on this week’s Bradford Beat from 8pm – 9pm tonight (Thursday 5 October)

Meanwhile here’s what we played last week:

Morrissey – Spent The Day In Bed
Alt-J – Deadcrush
This is The Kit – Hotter Colder
Jon Jones and the Beatnik Movement – No Brainer
Belle and Sebastian – We Were Beautiful
Stand Alone – Save You (BCB session)
Daughter _ Burn it Down
Embrace – Target
Ben Harper – Glory and Consequence
Magic Mountain – Zodiac
Oumou Sangare – Minata Waraba
Car Seat Headrest – War Is Coming (If You Want It)
Pigeon Detectives – Enemy Lines

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Better late then never

I complete forgot to post the tracks from our previous show – here they are!

Primate – Overwound
The National – The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness
Magic Mountain – Zodiac
Kate Tempest – Tunnel Vision
Embrace – Refugees
Super Cat – Fight Fi Power
Stand Alone – Save You (BCB session)
Iron and Wine – The Truest Stars They Know
The XX – I Dare You
The Seagulls – I Know, I Know, I Know
Oumou Sangare – Mogoya
Jon Jones and the Beatnik Movement – No Brainer
Superfood – Unstoppable

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Late summer sounds

We played some tunes to mark late summer on the latest edition of Bradford Beat. Here’s the full list of what we played:

Iron and Wine – Summer Clouds
Urge Overkill – Positively Bleeding
Stand Alone – Never Stand Alone (live BCB session)
Amadou and Mariam – Filaou Bessame
Methera – Fox/Blackbird
Wolf Alice – Beautifully Unconventional
Old Joe Zydeo – Zydeco Gris Gris
Kate Tempest – Tunnel Vision
The Seagulls – Choke You In Your Sleep
Oumou Sangare – Yere Faga
Glass Mountain – Cowboy Song
Superfood – Unstoppable
Sparks – Edith Piaf (Said It Better)

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Where it all Leeds…

This week’s show saw us bemoaning the lack of women performing on the main stages at this year’s Leeds Festival – despite the launch of a new initiative to promote female talent!

Here’s what we played:

Alt-J – Deadcrush
Superfood – Unstoppable
Oumou Sangare – Mogoya
Stand Alone – Save You (BCB session)
Smoking Popes – I Need You Around
The Seagulls – Silver or Lead
The XX – I Dare You
This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
Chastity Belt – Caught In A Lie
Kwai Change Caine – Kwai Change Caine
Honeyblood – Love Is A Diseas
Haim – If I Could Change Your Mind
Methera – Ramsegrubben

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Stand Alone in session

Here’s a reminder that you can still hear our Stand Alone acoustic session – you can listen again here

This is the full list of the music on that edition of Bradford Beat:

Queens of the Stone Age – The Way You Used To Do
Stand Alone – Save You (BCB session)
Stand Alone – Never Stand Alone (BCB session)
Stand Alone – False Beginnings (BCB session)
This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
Stand Alone – Learn How To Feel
Furr – Another Fable

What The Hell Is It This Time?

Here’s the full list of tracks we played on our 6 July show:

Oumou Sangaré – Bena Bena
The Delvaux – He Wants Her World
This is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
RIIB – Conveyor Belt
Benjamin Booker – Right On Ya
Alt-J – Deadcrush
The Pixies – Blue-Eyed Hex
Terrorvision – Stop The Bus
The Sparks – What The Hell Is It This Time?
Team Picture – Back to Bay Six
Brian Cant – Trumpton Theme
The Maccabees – Marks To Prove It
Glass Mountain – Cowboy Song
Kate Bush – How To Be Invisible

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Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub

Sad new that Brian Cant, the voice of Trumpton and Camberwick Green, has died. Here’s a full list of what we played on our latest show:

Brian Cant – Trumpton Roll Call
Oumou Sangaré – Kamelemba
Natural Rhym – This Is Ska
Diesel Park West – Info Freako
Furr – Another Fable
This is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
Alt-J – Hit Me Like That Snare
Sham 69 – Hersham Boys
Dead Naked Hippies – Drain You
Queens of the Stone Age – The Way You Used To Do
Western Dance – What Does It Take?
Brian Cant – Camberwick Green Theme
Superfood – I Can’t See
The XX – I Dare You
The National – The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness

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Ska and Sgt Pepper

A forthcoming ska and reggae festival and the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ legendary album featured on our latest show. Here’s the full list of what we played:

Gomez – Getting Better
The Delvaux – Evering
Goat Girl – Country Sleaze
RIIB – Conveyor Belt
The Sinatras – Sweat
Terrorvision – Still The Rhythm
The Selecter – Three Minute Hero
Natural Rhythm – People Unite
Courtney Barnett – Aqua Profunda
Alt-J – 3WW
Benjamin Booker featuring Mavis Staples – Witness
Western Dance – To and Fro
Tiny Minds – Jealous Sea
Prince – Raspberry Beret

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RIP Chris Cornell

This week’s Bradford Beat paid tribute to Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. Here’s the full list of what we played:

Soundgarden – Spoonman
Kwai Chang Caine – God Luv Ya
Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now
Furr – Another Fable
Sparks – Hippopotamus
Flight of the Conchords – Hiphopopotomus v Rhymenoceros
Terrorvision – Middleman
Black Uhuru – Happiness
Glass Mountain – Cowboy Song
Sleaford Mods – Mop Top
Lamia – Not Mine
The Beatles – Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Alt-J – In Cold Blood

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I must be out of my tiny mind

I’ve completely forgotten to post the list of tracks we played on our latest show until now. Oh well – here goes anyway:

Grandaddy – The Crystal Lake
Tiny Minds – Jealous Sea
Alt-J – In Cold Blood
The Beatles – A Day in The Life
Paul Weller – Nova
The XX – Say Something Loving
Kwai Change Caine – Beautiful Dreams
Too Many Chiefs – Devil Bird
Warpaint – The Stall
Comsat Angels – Eye Dance
Pigeon Detectives – Romantic Type
Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye

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