After a typically quiet post-Christmas period on the live music scene, things are finally looking up.
And on this week’s Bradford Beat we’ve been looking ahead to some of the imminent West Yorkshire gig highlights.
One band I’m definitely going to see are Sunshine Underground at the Leeds Academy on Feb 19.
Before then is a gig by on Feb 6 at the Leeds Cockpit by Detroit Social Club who were on the bill at last year’s Bingley Music Live with TSU.
Other touring bands to watch out for include The Maccabees, Passion Pit, New Model Army, The XX and The Editors (the latter playing St George’s Hall in Bradford on March 8).
Miike Snow – Black and Blue
The Nextmen – Round of Applause
The Luminaries interview
The Luminaries (BCB Session) – Grace O’K
Reverend & the Makers interview
F*ck Buttons – Surf Solar
Broadcast – Tender Buttons
The Luminaries (BCB Session) – OCD
Editors interview
Gig guide
The Futureheads interview
The Luminaries (BCB Session) – Run to Mexico
I have to confess it gives me an extra thrill to stand and watch Bingley Music Live every year. I spent the first 18 years of my life living in and around Bingley and so to come back and stand in Myrtle Park and watch the event grow into a what is becoming a full blown music festival is very exciting, and a little bit surreal.
BML’s a fantastic music three day-er in the picturesque setting of Myrtle Park in Bingley (near Bradford). So many bands were brilliant but  my favourite moments were spent dancing to Editors (proper anthems), Reverend & the Makers (ripping it up and going for it the day after Jon and his now wife got married!) , Calvin Harris (all the kids wearing specs and loving the disco vibe)…seeing Ocean Colour Scene and Top Loader was great – didn’t realise how many of their tunes I knew!
Also, a big thumbs up to Disco Machine Gun, The Little Black Hearts, Spike Island and vAndal supreMe. They opened the procedings on Saturday and Sunday. Confess I didn’t catch all the sets (busy sticking my nose back on…see video for details) but got great feedback from punters and BCB’s broadcast of DMG & TLBH sets. Know this is a bit daft but felt really excited and happy for all four bands – seeing you go through the competition to get there, the band playoffs in Shipley, into BCB for sessions and then on the big stage – I’m a right softy but a very proud one! Hope something good comes from the opportunity.
I’ve recorded some tasty morcels for you…tune into ‘The BCB Sessions’ this Wednesday night at 9pm to catch interviews with Reverend & the Makers, Editors and The Futureheads. I’ll also pop them up on here for you as soon as I’ve got myself out of big weekender mode and into ‘organised mode’.
If you want to see some top bands doing things they wouldn’t usually do in an interview, here’s a little something I made earlier…starring big bands (not elastic), a whole host of revellers (maybe you???) and more celebrities.
