Useful Resources

Downloads

Web Links

Here is a collection of links to other websites you might find useful. Not all sites linked to are affiliated to the Bradford Music Collective.

Forums, Communities, News & Zines

  • Cypher Music - an online local music community, where bands, artists, businesses and music fans exchange ideas.
  • Beep! Magazine - a pop culture magazine based in West Yorkshire. Made my students Beep! Magazine like to review, interview and generally rant about music, art, fashion and fim.
  • The Telegraph & Argus - Bradford's local news paper.
  • BBC Raw Talent - lets you get your ears on the very best new music from West Yorkshire and around the UK and gives new bands a unique opportunity to reach a huge audience on radio, TV, on the web and beyond!

Local Radio

Photography & Design

  • Danny Payne Photography - Danny is a published gig/festival/promo photographer based in Bradford.
  • Hobo Tom - Tom is a local photographer/video producer who has been involved in the Bradford music scene for several years.
  • The Mouse Department - Graphic Artwork and Design.
  • Timmie Pics Timmie has supplied many of the photos on this site.

Recording Studios / Band Management

  • Voltage Studios - Established Bradford recording studio, rehearsal rooms and PA hire. Very reasonable rates and top class service.
  • Factory Street Studios - the only facility of its kind in Yorkshire offering seven large quality rehearsal rooms, a recording studio, an instrument repair service, chill out area and function room.
  • Northern Music Company - Based in Saltaire. Finds, launches and builds rock/metal bands, helping them achieve a multi album career, and in many cases enabling them to keep the ownership of their masters.

Shops

Non BMC Affiliated Venues

  • The Theatre In The Mill - The little venue with the big ideas. Theatre in the Mill: engage with some of the best and most radical theatre makers in the country and watch the most innovative work on offer
  • The Alhambra Studio - a flexible space for theatre, exhibitions, meetings, conferences, wedding receptions, private parties and themed events.
  • St. George's Concert Hall - renowned for its exceptional acoustics and an intimate atmosphere, the venue seats over 1,500 people and is a popular choice for bands at the cutting edge of British music from The Young Knives to Paul Weller. The venue hosts one of the UKs longest running Orchestral Seasons, with the Halle as resident orchestra.
  • Tasmin Little Music Centre - establishing itself as one of the centres of excellence for live world music making in Bradford and the local area.
  • The Treehouse Cafe - a collectively run community social centre, with a cafe serving organic, locally sourced, fairtrade food. There are also meeting rooms, a variety of live music, zine, poetry and storytelling events.

Misc

  • Bradford Noise Of The Valleys - Landmark Bradford project. A book and accompanying CDs documenting a history of Bradford rock & pop. Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys is a trawl through local music history between the years of 1967 and 1987. More volumes are in the pipeline covering up to the present day.

Promoters