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New tracks from Fool’s Gold, Cloud Control and She Keeps Bees!

On The BCB Sessions (Wed 27 July), we served up new tunes, archive sessions and west Yorkshire bands…hope it took your fancy.

If you missed the show – you can listen via BCB’s listen again service: www.bcbradio.co.uk

Fool’s Gold – Wild window
Belle and Sebastian – Write about love
Mini Mansions – Monk
She Keeps Bees – Vulture
Scars on 45 (BCB Session) – Heart on fire
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The body
Hannah Trigwell – Come home soon
Bibio – Take your shirt off
Warpaint – Undertow
Cloud Control – Gold canary (Cymbals remix)
Gui Boratto – The verdict
Pete and the Pirates – Half moon street
Cold Cave – Youth and lust
The Mexanines – Give you love

I’m back next Wednesday night at 9pm on 106.6fm in Bradford and www.bcbradio.co.uk (where you can listen live and listen again).

If you’re in a band or you’re a solo artist and you’d like to get your music on the show then get in touch: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

It doesn’t matter if it’s your first or fiftieth session we’d love to hear from you. You can also send tracks to: Laura Rawlings, The BCB Sessions, BCB Radio, 11 Rawson Road, Bradford BD1 3SH.

23rd March – Jasmine Kennedy on The BCB Sessions!

Hello you,

Hope you enjoyed the show…Jasmine Kennedy’s session sounded great. She’s got such a soulful voice – listening back to the tracks made me really smile. If you missed the show, you can listen again via www.bcbradio.co.uk click on ‘listen again’ and scroll down for The BCB Sessions, 23rd March, 9pm. Thanks Jasmine for popping in. She’s got some gigs coming up so for the dates go to http://jasminekennedy.co.uk/home

If you’d like to get your music on the show – perhaps record a session – then get in touch. Just email me: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk and I’ll get my people to talk to your people and we’ll sort it. No, seriously, it’s not that complicated….

So this is what we served up:

Pete and the Pirates – United

The Death Set – We are going anywhere men

Love Inks – Black eye

Jasmine Kennedy interview

Jasmine Kennedy (BCB Session) – Good for each other

Smith Westerns – Weekend

Husky Rescue – Fast lane

Battles – Ice cream

Jasmine Kennedy (BCB Session) – Dinner for breakfast

About Group – Don’t worry

Maia (session track from the archives) – Sidelines (from Hudds. Ones to watch. They’re playing in Hebden Bridge in April so if you’re free go see http://www.myspace.com/maiatheband)

Clock opera – Let the lifeboats go

Jasmine Kennedy (BCB Session) – Cardigan sweater

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16 March – Joe Tilston on The BCB Sessions!

Hello,

Are things better late than never? Hmmmm….hope so! At least if you listen again to the The BCB Sessions (go to BCB’s www.bcbradio.co.uk) you can see the matching track listings! Shows last on the system for listen again purposes for four weeks after broadcast. So, on 16th March Joe Tilston was my featured artist. Joe and Luke performed a great session so it’s definitely worth going back to. He’s got a great radio voice and I love playing the little jingle he did for the show. Thanks for coming in chaps. Here’s where you find out more about Joe T: http://www.myspace.com/joetilston

This is what made the line up:

Joan As Policewoman – Magic

The Heavy – How you like me now?

Smiling Ivy – Life backwards (Like this band from Shef lots – Checkout www.smilingivy.co.uk)

Interview with Joe Tilston and Luke

Joe Tilston & Luke (BCB Session) – Liza and Henry

Bibio – K is for kelson

Ellen and the Escapades – Preying on your mind (acoustic version from Number 42 Records, new Hudds label http://www.facebook.com/thenumber42records)

Black Mountain – Rollercoaster

Joe Tilston (BCB Session) – Different Feet

Cloud Control – This is what I said

Handmadehands – Sunshine (great track from Bradford band)

Animal Collective – My girls

Joe Tilston (BCB Session) – Little Scars

Bye for now,

Special delivery – The BCB Sessions, Wed 16th Feb

Hello you,

Thanks for checking into The BCB Sessions. I’m back from my travels and have got loads of new music to play you…hooray! Here’s what made the show on Wed 16th Feb:

Beardyman – Where does your mind go? (great one to get you going)
Gruff Rhys – Honey all over
Jesca Hoop – City bird (she’s coming to Leeds in March – check out leedsgigs.co.uk for date)
The Death Set – Slap slap slap pound up down snap (total blow out with this one!)
Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou (BCB Session) – Allotment song (from the archives. Get in touch if you’d like to come in and do a session – email me laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk and we’ll get you on the show).
Thomas Truax – February, what ya doing to me? (quirky monthly installment from TT – top talent)
Stateless – Song for the outsider
Gossip – Heavy cross
Disco Machine Gun – Weekend friends (DMG’s new single – launch on 9th April at Bradford Playhouse, be there).
Lia Ices – Love is won
Flats – Never again
Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern – Winter makes you want more
The Lodger (BCB Session) – I can’t stop
Suuns – Arena (in Leeds on Monday…should be fab).

Get in touch if you’re in a band and you’ve got a tune you’d like to get on the radio. Also, if you’ve got a gig you’d like us to plug – get in touch! laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

The BCB Sessions – Wed 6 October

Hi folks,

Another tasty serving for you – bigger and better than your average portion! Feeling like a very happy bun today because we’ve had Sparrow and the Workshop in to record a session and it went really well. They’re a lovely, lovely band and I can’t wait to bring you their tunes on a soft velvet cushion in the next week or two.Â Thanks Alb for mixing the songs (…tune into Eclectic Mainline if you haven’t already dipped your toe in, Weds at 8pm).

Mountain Man, tonight's session guests

So here’s the main course for Wednesday 6 October:

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The BCB Sessions – double helping

Hi folks,

How’s your week been? Mine’s been hectic so apologies for tardiness with tracklistings…it means there’s a double dose in this message.

Loads of great music out there at the mo – hope you enjoy the show.

Get in touch if you’re in a band and have some tunes you’d like me to play: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

Have a great time if you’re off to Bingley Music Live!

Wed 1 Sept
Vampire Weekend – White sky
The pains of being pure at heart – say no to love
Matthew Dear – Soil to seed
Frightened rabbit – Old old fashioned (BCB session 2008)
The Arcade Fire – Rococo
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Push the envelope
Printed circuit – Adventure games
Anti pop consortium – Volcano (Four tet remix)
Chief – Night and day
Karen Elson – Season of the witch
Zola Jesus – Sea Talk
Neon Indian – Deadbeat summer
School of seven bells – Heart is strange

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Wednesday 11th August – playlist

Hello folks,

We’re unearthing some more musical gems on The BCB Sessions…and mixing in some great songs from YorkshireÂ bands playing at this weekend’sÂ Moor Music Festival (I’ve marked them with *). Here’s how it looks:

Silver Columns – Always on (Caribou Rmx)
Clinic – I’m Aware
!!! – The most certain sure
*East Park Reggae Collective – The Frontline
We Fell to Earth – Lights out
*The Luminaries – Grace o’k
James Yuill – First in line
*Grinny Grandad – The good girl
The Duke & the King – Shaky
John Grant – I wanna go to Marz
Lo Fi Fnk – Sleepless
*Freyed Knot – Who got the funk
Yeasayer – Madder Red
*Black Diamond Bay – Worship the sun

Sessions news…

Bingley Music Live final

Hi folks,

On Wednesday night I’ll be playing music from four more bands competing to open Bingley Music Live in September. It’s the big final competition at St George’s Hall on Saturday 24th so if you want to have a say in who goes through, get yourselves to the gig.

These are the runners and riders:

Jasmine Kennedy, Sharp Darts, The Mexanines, Secrets Sirens, Northern Glory, The Beat Marshalls, Black Diamond Bay and The Dawnriders. Good luck one and all! I’ve been at some of the heats and I can promise you these guys are great.

I’m getting ready to go to WOMAD – very excited already. I’m off to see Rolf Harris for goodness sake! Getting giddy about Horace Andy, Nouvelle Vague Club, Soil & Pimp, Ghislain Poirier, DJ Kentaro…so much good stuff. Promise to play some WOMAD treats on the show over the next few weeks.

Don’t forget, get in touch if you’ve got some tunes you’d like me to play, gigs to plug: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk
OOh and next week’s session (28th July) comes from Leeds lovelies Pifco!

The BCB Sessions’ playlist 14th July

Here we go…
Part 1 of 2 shows featuring music from bands competing to win a slot at Bingley Music Live!

Playlist – Wed 14 July
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly – Collapsing Cities
Health – Die Slow (Tobacco remix)
Phoenix – Armistice
The Dawnriders* – Gold Rush
Cherry Ghost – Kissing Strangers
The Beat Marshalls* – Best Before
Thomas Fehlmann – fluss im wasser
Caitlin Rose – Piano (t-shirt version)
Patrick Pulsinger – A-Z Radioedit feat. Teresa Rotschopf
Northern Glory* – Check the Nation
Figure 8 – Secrets & Lies
Johnny Flynn – Barnacled Warship
Gotan Project – La Gloria
Black Diamond Bay* – Peace

Let me know who you think should be doing the honours and opening up proceedings…I’ll be playing the four other finallists on next week’s show.

Ta-raa

Playlist for Wed 7 July

Hi folks,

Watching the play ‘Dandy in the Underworld’ so it’s a recorded show this week but it’s probably more carefully crafted than usual! Incidently, if you want a memorable, witty and oh so wrong read then ‘Dandy in the Underworld’ by recently deceased Sebastian Horsley is great.

So here’s what’s spinning on the BCB Sessions:

Wed 7 July – playlist

Featured local band: Tiger Shadow

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