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2024 Christmas Countdown revealed!

So here they are – out top tracks of the year!

Our number one for 2024 was Down The Pathway by Gevaudan Dogs –  big thanks to Vince Cayo for coming in to the studio to perform a session version of the song exclusively for BCB.

1 – Gevaudan Dogs – Down The Pathway
2 – The Waeve – You Saw
3 – Punky Muzzle – Bury Me Under The Disco
4 – Sisterly – Racing Snake
5 – Fontaines DC – Starburster

Listen again to the whole of our festive special:

2024 Christmas Countdown – part 3

We had loads to cram into our show this week!

Not only did we have two interviews – one with Dan McGlade about his new EP Mid Vice Crisis and the other with Johann Shepherd and Rachel Hickerton about their new book telling the story of the band The Undecided – but there was also the third part of our top 20 tracks of the year:

6 – Cowtown – Thru Being Zuul
7 – A Certain Ratio – All Comes Down To This
8 – Idles – Gift Horse
9 – Modern English – Not My Leader
10 – Dan McGlade and the Lords of Misrule – Bring Out Your Dead

Listen to the whole show here:

And don’t forget we’ll be revealing this year’s number one in our festive special on Boxing Day from 8pm to 9pm on BCB 106.6FM.

2024 Christmas Countdown – part 2

Here’s the second part of our Christmas Countdown – our top 20 tracks of the year:

11 – Wind-Up Birds – Guards
12 – Terrorvision – Lucifer
13 – Pom Poko – Growing Story
14 – Iron and Wine – Cutting It Close
15 – Mighty Muskrats – Feeling Pretty Stupid

You can listen again to this week’s show, which features these tracks:

2024 Christmas Countdown – part 1

It’s that time of year again!

We’ve picked our top 20 tracks of the year and the first batch went out as part of this week’s show:

16 – Kim Deal – Crystal Breath
17 – Mdou Moctar – Soussoume Tamacheq
18 – Cornershop – Double Denim
19 – Silverlites – Don’t Go, Don’t Stay
20 – First Ones – Contemplate My Rise

You can listen again to the whole show here:

Christmas Countdown 2020 – part 1

Tonight, we revealed the first 5 tracks in our annual chart of the best 20 tracks of the year.

Announced so far are:

16 Nick Toczek and Thies Marsen – Absalom to Zedekiah
17 Pillow Queens – Brothers
18 The Strangerz – Straight Gay Brother
19 Sports Team – Here’s the Thing
20 Maya Kally – Chose To Stay

Numbers 11 to 15 will be unveiled on Thursday 10 December between 8pm and 9pm.

But this week’s show was also tinged with sadness following the announcement by the Leeds band Mush about the death of founder member Steve Tyson.

Here are the rest of the tracks we played this week:

Mush – Blunt Instruments
Terrorvision – Our Christmas Song
Robert Wyatt – I’m A Believer
Maria Helena – My Skin Is A Map
Songhoy Blues – Assadja
Laura Groves – Sunset
Dirty Projectors – Overlord
Thies Marsen – Da Virus Geht Um
Fontaines DC – You Said
Working Men’s Club – Teeth

We upload Bradford Beat each week to https://www.mixcloud.com/BradfordBeat/

 

2018 Christmas Countdown – the full top 20

Here’s the full list of our top 20 tracks of the year – speak to you again in 2019!

1 Field Music – Count It Up
2 Bodega – How Did It Happen?
3 Idles – Danny Nedelko
4 Goat Girl – The Man
5 Sleaford Mods – Stick In a Five And Go
6 Darwin Deez – The World’s Best Kisser
7 The DMAs – For Now
8 Team Picture – (I Want Your) Life Hack
9 Ezra Furman – Suck The Blood From My Wound
10 Parquet Courts – Almost Started a Fight / In and Out of Patience
11 Alice Boman – Heartbeat
12 No Age – Soft Collar Fad
13 Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood – Feast to Famine
14 Car Seat Headrest – Bodys
15 Angelo Palladino featuring Chris Matthews – Gone
16 Fatoumata Diawara – Nterini
17 Courtney Barnett – Charity
18 Engine – And I Say
19 Everything Is Recorded – Carry Me
20 The Breeders – All Nerve

2018 Christmas Countdown – part 4

Our special festive show featured the top 5 in the 2018 Christmas Countdown – our choice of the best tracks of the year. Here’s the full list of what we played:

Wind-Up Birds – Working Christmas Day
Slow Readers Club – On The TV
Eugene McGuinness – Christmas In Killarney
Dexys – Curragh of Kildare
Mi Mye – That Night In Thurso

Christmas Countdown – part 4
5 Sleaford Mods – Stick In a Five And Go
4 Goat Girl – The Man
3 Idles – Danny Nedelko
2 Bodega – How Did It Happen?
1 Field Music – Count It Up

Staple Singers – Who Took The Merry Out of Christmas?
Whiter Than – Christmas Is No Time To Be An Eco-Warrior
Bella Gaffney – The Devil In Me
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake (Danny Krivit mix)

We’ll be repeating the show from 8pm to 9pm on Thursday 27 December on BCB 106.6FM or you can listen again on Mixcloud.

Christmas Countdown in full

Happy New Year – and here’s our 2017 Christmas Countdown in full (our favourite tracks of the last 12 months):

1 Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now
2 Kate Tempest – Tunnel Vision
3 The XX – Say Something Loving
4 This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
5 Idles – Well Done
6 Oumou Sangare – Mogoya
7 Elbow – Magnificent (She Says)
8 Sparks – What The Hell Is It This Time?
9 Josefin Ohrn and the Liberation – Rushing Through My Mind
10 Chastity Belt – Caught In a Lie
11 Glass Mountain – Cowboy Song
12 Morrissey – Spent The Day In Bed
13 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Holy Mountain
14 Moonlandingz – Black Hanz
15 Carseat Headrest – Unforgiving Girl
16 The Tiny Minds – Jealous Sea
17 Furr – Another Fable
18 Alt-J – 3WW
19 Daughter – Burn it Down
20 Team Picture – Back To Bay Six

Christmas Countdown 2017 – part 4

So now we can reveal our top 5 favourite tracks of 2017.

Here’s the full list of what we played on our festival special edition:

Staple Singers – Who Took The Merry out of Christmas?
The Tragically Hip – We’ll Go Too
Iron and Wine – About A Bruise
Wind-Up Birds – Working Christmas Day

Christmas Countdown Top 5
5 Idles – Well Done
4 This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
3 The XX – Say Something Loving
2 Kate Tempest – Tunnel Vision
1 Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now

Alt-J – Pleader
The Waitresses – Christmas Wrapping
Fats Domino – The Fat Man
Asian Dub Foundation – Taa Deem

You can listen again here – and we’ll also be repeating the show from 8pm to 9pm on Thursday 28 December

Christmas Countdown 2017 – part 3

Now we’re into the Top 10 in the Christmas Countdown – our favourite 20 tracks of the year.

Team Picture – Back To Bay Six
Billy Bragg – World Turned Upside Down
Terrorvision – Celebrity Hit List
British Sea Power – Bad Bohemian

Christmas Countdown

10 Chastity Belt – Caught In a Lie
9 Josefin Ohrn and the Liberation – Rushing Through My Mind
8 Sparks – What The Hell Is It This Time?
7 Elbow – Magnificent (She Says)
6 Oumou Sangare – Mogoya

Young Cub – Fragile
Animal Collective – My Girls
The Duke Spirit – Serenade
The Breeders – Wait In The Car
Reef – Place Your Hands

You can listen again here >