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RIP Gregory and Ari

We’ll be playing tracks to mark the deaths of two unique musical talents on this week’s Bradford Beat.

Ari Up, of the ground-breaking post-punk band The Slits, died last week – and this week we also lost reggae legend Gregory Isaacs.

This week’s Bradford Beat, broadcast on BCB 106.6FM from 8pm – 9pm on Thursday, 28 October, will also feature a couple of spooky tunes to get you in the Hallowe’en mood.

Full tracklisting:

The Slits – Typical Girl

Gregory Isaacs – Common Sense

Vessels – Meatman, Piano Tuner, Prostitute

Whole Sky Monitor – Shoot The People

The Damned – Nasty

Monochrome Set – Love Zombies

Hoodoo Gurus – Dig It Up

Talk To Angels – Brain Man (BCB session)

Black Mountain – The Hair Song

Filthy Essentials – Suck Out

Vampire Weekend – Run

Grinderman – Worm Tamer

worriedaboutsatan – You’re In My Thoughts

And we’ll be revisiting the theme of lyrics which refer to Bradford next week – thanks for all the responses on this topic!

Bradford Beat – Thursday 6 May

Here’s the playlist for this week’s show:

Magic Numbers -  The Pulse
Fionn Regann – Catacombs (BCB session version v official single version!!)
New Model Army – God Save Me
Catherin Wheel – Bill and Ben
Steve and Ben – Our Sounds
Benjy Ferree – Fear
Broken Bells – The High Road
Honour Before Glory – Broken Bottles, Empty Hearts
Sunshine Underground – Coming To Save You
Futureheads – The Connector
The Negatives – Black Panther

Looking back…still

While we’re still gazing back over the past decade (just), here’s a reminder of the previous four Christmas Countdowns – our pick of Bradford Beat’s favourite 20 tracks of the year – going back to 2005.

It’s nice to see some bands have become almost regulars – The Lodger, Roger Davies and The Futureheads among those appearing more than once.

But whatever happened to The Old House? Or AFS?

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Albums of the decade

It’s the last Bradford Beat of the decade – even though it doesn’t feel quite as momentous as moving from, say, the 70s to the 80s as we don’t really have a universally-agreed name for the decade just ending or the one beginning!

Either way, over the next two shows we’re playing tracks from our favourite albums from the last 10 years – there are so many I just couldn’t fit them into one show!

So expect the likes of Radiohead, The White Stripes, Just Sullivan, The Strokes, Cornershop, Embrace, Futureheads and lesser known bands such as Malibu Stacey, The Blueskins, Clearlake and Reindeer Section.

Bradford Beat is on air at 8pm every Thursday, repeated at 7pm on Sundays.

Christmas Countdown 2009

Here it is – the full list of Bradford Beat’s Christmas Countdown, our favourite 20 tracks of 2009:

1 Super Furry Animals – Inagural Trams
2 Depeche Mode – Peace
3 Rev Chunky/Jam Sponge – Wednesday Downers
4 Crystal Stilts – Shattered Shine
5 Ben and Steve (ex-The Turn) – Our Sounds (demo)
6 Tricky – Puppy Toy
7 Tiny Masters of Today – Pop Chart
8 Sky Larkin – Beeline
9 Lord Auch – Maredo
10 Secret Machines – Last Believer, Drop Dead
11 Grizzly Bear – While We Wait For The Others
12 Roger Davies – Brighouse On A Saturday Night
13 Frank Turner – Poetry of the Deed
14 Blue Roses – I Am Leaving
15 Benjy Ferree – Blown Out (Gold Doubloons and PCs of 8 )
16 The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa
17 Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
18 Prom Knight – Counter Intelligence
19 Scaramanga Six – Misadventure
20 New Model Army – Autumn

To hear our choice of the best albums of the decade so far, tune in on New Year’s Eve!

Bradford Beat is on BCB 106.6FM on Thursdays from 8pm-9pm and repeated Sunday 7pm-8pm.

This week’s Bradford Beat

Tracks for this week’s Bradford Beat on Thursday, 5 November and repeated from 7pm – 8pm on Sunday, 8 November include:

Blur – Bang
iLiKETRAiNS – Sea of Regrets
Frank Turner – Poetry of the Deed
New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack – Guns and God
Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension
Chumbawamba – Anarchist (live)
Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For the Others
New Model Army – Bad Harvest
Morrissey – November Spawned A Monster
Ben and Steve – Sweet
Echo and the Bunnymen – Think I Need It Too
Roger Davies – The Ballad of Knockin’ Nelly
Eureka Machines – Being Good Is OK But Being Better’s Better