Category Archives: Bradford Beat

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

Must we evolve?

The answer is yes – by playing the new Jarvis Cocker track,

Here’s the full list of what we played:

The Mekons – After The Rain
Jarv Is – Must I Evolve?
Jesca Hoop – Red, White and Black
Terrorvision – Oblivion
Honeyblood – She’s A Nightmare
Elvis Costello – My Science Fiction Twin
The Delvaux – Main Content
Fontaines DC – Boys in the Better Land
Siren – Tree of Knowledge
Flaming Lips – All For the Life of the City
The Mekons – Andromeda
Sinead Campbell and Postculture – Back To Basics

You can listen again on Mixcloud.

The End is here

Still playing the DMAs…

The DMAs – The End
The Delvaux – The Drunken Card School
Flaming Lips – All For The Life of the City
Siren – We Go Round
Mark Lanegan Band – Stitch it Up
Bella Gaffney – English Summer Rain
Pottery – The Craft
The Mekons – Weimar Vending Machine
Feet – Ad Blue
Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way
Mini Mansions – Bad Things (That Make You Feel Good)
Terrorvision – Celebrity Hit List

RIP Roger

A belated tribute to Ranking Roger of The Beat – here’s the full list of what we played:

Siren – Checking Out
Snapped Ankles – Letter From Hampi Mountain
Psychedelic Furs – President Gas
The Delvaux – Main Content
Cate Le Bon – Daylight Matters
Hoodoogurus – I Want You Back
Bella Gaffney – Many Places
The Mekons – Mirage
Ex Re – The Dazzler
Aldous Harding – Fixture Picture
The Beat – Ranking Full Stop
The DMAs – The End

Still in the desert

On this week’s show we continued to work through the new Mekons album Deserted – here’s a full list of what we played:

The Mekons – In the Desert
The Drifters – Under The Boardwalk
Siren – Collapsing
Fontaines DC – Boys in the Better Land
A Night In November – Cynic
Feet – English Weather
Jesca Hoop – Shoulder Charge
Signia Alpha – Anyway
The Undertones – Here Comes The Summer
The Delvaux – The Drunken Card School
Kurt Vile – Check Baby
Tamlin Cook – Break The Mirror

Mekons double dose

We’re enjoying the new Mekons album so much we squeezed in two tracks from it tonight.

Here’s the full list of what we played:

Mekons – In The Sun
Ian Brown – First World Problems
Siren – Tree of Knowledge
Penetration – Come into the Open
Walker Brothers – The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Any More
Holly Herndon – Eternal
My Mye – On this Beach
The DMAs – The End
Fontaines DC – Big
Tamlin Cook – Takatata
Ex Re – Crushing
The Mekons – How Many Stars?

Another sad loss

On this week’s show we remembered the great dick Dale – here’s the full list of what we played:

Dick Dale and his Del-Tones
Soundgarden – Spoonman
The National – You Had Your Soul With You
Soak – Deja Vu
Siren – Checking Out
Dick Dale – Motion
Aldous Harding – The Barrel
The Mekons – Harar 1883
Fontaines DC – Big
Panic Pocket – Mr Big
Snapped Ankles – Rechargeable
Mi Mye – Hay Powerfool Leader
Tamlin Cook – Break the Mirror

RIP Keith Flint

We paid tribute to Keith Flint in our latest show – here’s the full list of what we played:

The Prodigy – Breathe
The Delvaux – Evering
Fontaines DC – Big
Honeyblood – The Third Degree
The Mekons – Lawrence of California
Bear’s Den – Fuel on the Fire
Max – Shake Your Hips
A Night in November – Cynic
Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It
Team Picture – Strange Year
Stiff Little Fingers – Here We Are Nowhere
Mercury Rev – Ode To Billie Jo
The Prodigy – Stand Up

They’re gonna be big

We’re just loving Fontaines DC at the moment – here’s the full list of what we played on this week’s show:

Angelo Palladino – Let Us Go Down
JJ Cale – Chasing You
Fontaines DC – Big
Maria Helena – Balkan Night
Honeyblood – Third Degree
Memory Drawings – The Island of the Day Before
Be Bop Deluxe – Ships In The Night
Mercury Rev (featuring Susanne Sundfor) – Tobacco Road
Bella Gaffney – The Devil in Me
Deerhunter – Plains
Forever Cult – Graves
Frank Turner – Don’t Worry
Beirut – Landslide
A Night In November – You and Me
Snapped Ankles – Rechargeable

Not a Valentine’s show

Thanks to the excellent Soak, we were able to debunk 14 Feburary…

Here’s a full list of what we played:

Soak – Valentine Schmalentine
Crystal Stilts – Shattered Shine
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Cyboogie
Mercury Rev (featuring Lucinda Williams) – Ode to Billie Joe
Angelo Palladino (featuring Chris Taylor) – The Hawk Is Blue
Bodega – Williamsburg Bridge
Idles – Samaritans
Terrorvision – Oblivion
A Night in November – Cynic
Slowthai – Doorman
Fontaines DC – Too Real
Young Cub – Fragile

Lovin’ the fun

Here’s what we played on our latest show – including Fun Lovin’ Criminals new and old.

Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Smoke ‘Em
Mi Mye – The First Waltz
Dada – Dizz-Knee Land
A Night In November – You and Me
Julia Jacklin – Pressure To Party
The Declining Winter – Break The Elder
Ex Re – Crushing
Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Daylight
Angelo Palladino featuring Chris Taylor – Lime House
Fontaines DC – Chequeless Reckless
Dylan Cartlidge – Love Spoons