Join John & Sue for a  great selection of music from Canadian artists, old & new………..(plus a Dylan track – well, Minnesota is quite near to Canada!)
Festival curator Andy Abbott was a studio guest of Bradford Beat to chat about the event.
The free festival takes place across several venues across the city over the Bank Holiday weekend of May 24 to 26.
The show features music by some of the bands taking part, including Ruby Tombs, Mother Earth and Hobbes Fan Club.
Here’s the full tracklisting:
Arrows of Love – The Knife
Ruby Tombs – Humdrum
Mother Earth – A Number of Wolves
Koala – Lead Me From This Town
Dean McPhee – Water Burial
Hobbes Fan Club – Your Doubting Heart
Negative Panda – Suicide On The Moon
Steve Mason – Oh My Lord
You can listen again by clicking here and the show will be repeated on Thursday May 23.
One of the most interesting albums I have heard this year is Voices by Kink Gong on Descrepant Reocords. Â The album is based on location recordings Laurent Jeanneau made in South East Asia. Â Laurent has manipulated the recordings, but with reverence to the original performers, and the end result is rather marvellous. Â As I first listened, and read about the project, I thought of the field recordings I made during my own travels in South East Asia. Â I keep thinking that I should do something with these recordings, at the very least put them online for people to hear. Â Hearing Voices may just be the inspiration I need to finally do this. Â Have a listen to the hypnotic, captivating opening track from Voices here:
I played that in my show on BCB this week, as I did this by Deco Child:
If you care to listen back to the show, you will find it on today’s BCB Listen Again page. Here’s the full playlist:
Still Corners – ‘Midnight Drive’ (LP – Strange Pleasures) (Sub Pop)
Lord Tang – ‘Fog’ (LP – Lord Tang) (Alarm)
The Electric Soft Parade – ‘Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone’ (single) (Helium)
Scout Niblett – ‘No Scrubs’ (LP – It’s Up To Emma) (Drag City)
Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’ (single) (Domino)
King Gong – ‘Baozoo Khen’ (LP – Voices) (Discrepant)
Alessi’s Ark – ‘Tin Smithing’ (LP – The Still Life) (Bella Union) (this week’s Brief Candle)
Balthazar – ‘Sinking Ship’ (single) (Play It Again Sam)
Lloyd James Fay – ‘From The Eyewall’ (single and LP – The Black River Chronicles) (Platform)
Betacicadae – ‘jjjjj’ (LP – Mouna) (Elagua)
Deco Child – ‘Skinless (Part One)’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
She & Him – ‘Never Wanted Your Love’ (single) (Double Six)
Neil Halstead – ‘Spin The Bottle (Alt. Version)’ (single) (Sonic Cathedral)
Who’d have thought we’d be doing one Wembley preview show on Bradford Beat this season – let alone two?
This week’s show dips its toe back into the Wembley waters ahead of the play-off final with a couple of Bradford City songs.
Other new names on the show this week include The Hobbes Fan Club, Larry and His Flask and Gerrard Bell-Fife.
Full tracklisting is:
Bradford City Food and Beverage Sub Committee – Spirit of Bradford City
Billy Bragg – No One Knows Nothing Any More
Hobbes Fan Club – Your Doubting Heart
Human League – Mirror Man
Venusian Plow – Park For Cars
Steve Mason – Oh My Lord
Roger Sutcliffe – Death Letter Came This Morning
Larry and his Flask – Closed Doors
Fossil Collective – Boy With Blackbird Kite
The Great Malarkey – Merry Profits
Gerrard Bell-Fife – Falling Down
Ron Sexsmith – Nowhere To Go
The 1975 – The City
Tom and Dom – Let’s Get Ready For Wembley
John Grant is playing not once, but twice in Leeds this Saturday. In the afternoon he is doing an instore at Jumbo Records, and then he’ll be at Leeds Met in the evening. If you are in reach of Leeds you really should think about going to one, if not both.
And here’s a Letherette a tune from the self-titled album that I played in my show last night:
The latest edition of Bradford Beat previewed the Live At Leeds event taking place over the May Bank Holiday weekend.
The full tracklisting for the 2 May show was:
Ron Sexsmith – Nowhere To Go
Venusian Plow – Happy/Angry
Billy Bragg – Do Unto Others
Alt-J – Breezeblocks
Vaccines – Blow Your Mind
Negative Panda – She Is Right
Dinosaur Pile-Up – Arizona Waiting
Pigeon Detectives- I Won’t Come Back
Everything Everything – Cough Cough
Billy Delines – Everybody Gotta Make a Change Sometime
Arrows of Love – The Knife
Welfare State – Come Away, Come Away
Paul Weller – Flame Out
Fossil Collective – The Magpie
Simon Ashberry plays tracks from two Bradford compilation CDs on this week’s Bradford Beat.
The show features Sound Shack’s April CD/’zine and the Bradford Noise of the Valleys release Missing Music 2.
Here’s the full track listing:
Fossil Collective – Let It Go
Cave Painting – Leaf
Billy Delines – Everybody Gotta Make a Change
Billy Bragg – January Song
Sentimentalists – Tobacco
Darwen Deez – Constellations
Pigeon Detectives – I Won’t Come Back
Teleman – Cristina
We’re Gonna Have A New World Champion
Tim Burgess – The Doors of Them
Richard Marriott – Honey From The Honeycomb
Steve Mason – Oh My Lord
Roger Davies and the Durbevilles – Stephanie
Ron Sexsmith – Nowhere To Go
After writing a little about music videos in this blog last week, I expanded on the topic on my own blog. That’s pretty much all my blogging power for this week used up, so I’ll be brief tonight.
New music in tonight’s show included Locust:
…The Uncluded:
…and Raffertie:
You can listen back to the show if you desire. Here is the show’s full playlist:
King Midas Sound – ‘Aroo’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
Marika Hackman – ‘Bath Is Black’ (single) (Dirty Hit)
Locust – ‘Fall For Me’ (LP – You’ll Be Safe Forever) (Editions Mego)
The Jim Jones Review – ‘7 Times Around The Sun’ (single and LP – The Savage Heart) (Play It Again Sam)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – ‘Mermaids’ (LP – Push The Sky Away) (self-released)
Bonobo – ‘Sapphire’ (LP – The North Borders) (Ninja Tune)
Glorytellers – ‘New T-shirt’ (LP – Current Resident) (Damnably)
Scout Niblett – ‘Can’t Fool Me Now’ (LP – It’s Up To Emma) (Drag City)
Raffertie – ‘Build Me Up’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
The Child Of Lov – ‘Fly’ (single and LP – The Child Of Lov) (Double Six)
Mick Harvey – ‘I Wish That I Were Stone’ (LP – FOUR (Acts Of Love)) (Mute) (this week’s Brief Candle)
Still Corners – ‘Berlin Lovers’ (single and LP – Strange Pleasures)
The Uncluded – ‘Delicate Cycle’ (single) (Rhymesayers)
Sigur Rós – ‘Brennisteinn’ (XL)
During the recent Bradford International Film Festival, several BCB DJs provided additional evening entertainment in the cafe area. I’ve put together a Spotify playlist of some of the tunes we played. The tracks in the playlist were contributed by the following DJs:
One of the (numerous) highlights of this year’s Bradford International Film Festival was Adam Buxton’s Best of BUG show.  In the Pictureville cinema he screened videos of several tunes that I have heard, and that I like, but have never seen. I don’t always get to see videos so it was a real eye-opener to see what amazing pieces of art have been created in the name of a music video recently, such as these by Shogu Tokumaru,  Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Bonobo.
Adam didn’t discuss the evolution of the music video, which I thought he might. Â I find it interesting how we have moved beyond the MTV era and are now in the YouTube era whereby, to the best of my knowledge, most music video consumption is now online. Â Gone are the days when I used to eagerly await The Chart Show once every 3rd Saturday morning on ITV to see if I might get to see a video by one of my favourite bands in the show’s Indie Top 10.
Anyway, moving seamlessly on from Adam’s BIFF show, the video for the next Bonobo single is also rather satisfying:
Other tunes I played in this week’s show include the new single by Marnie Stern:
..this from the new Locust album:
https://soundcloud.com/mark-van-hoen/07-oh-yeah
…and the new Bleached single:
If you wish to listen back to the show, you’ll find it on the BCB Listen Again service (look for the 8pm show). Â This is the full playlist:
