Bridges

05/07/2025

Bridges airs again tonight at 1900 hours on Radio Northumberland. This is another Bridges milestone as we reach programme 75 and begin the changeover to DAB. Lots of good stuff, old and new, and also plenty to keep the Numan faithful happy (if that's EVER possible) now that they've calmed down from the semi-orgasmic frenzy that was Glastonbury. Three tracks from the Klang all-day Solstice Festival and three from the Ako "Algorithms of Loving Grace" album launch gig at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.

This is the set list:

Part One : Somewhat loud..
Clan of Xymox, Is Vic there?
Gary Numan, Pure
MFBB, Blue Banana
AgencyV, Heart of Stone
Alison Goldfrapp, Sound & Light
Blancmange, BlindVision
Depeche Mode, Black Celebration, Matt One remix
Goldfrapp, Finding Xanadu
Ako, Algorithms of Loving Grace
Ako, Fear of God not successfully mapped
Ako, The future is a foreign country

Klang Solstice Festival
Neuroleptick, The Closed Circuit
Uranium Saints, Flying Over Blue Waters
Grant Beasley, Solar Mass

Part Two : Very loud...
Visage Versus Gary Numan, Matt One Mashup
Isaac Howlett & A State of Flux, Spiralling
Marsheaux, Pure
John Foxx, Cinemascope (Extended)
Agency-V, Stupid Girl (cover)
Rob Zombie, Dragula
Marsheaux, Eyes Without a face (Cover)
MFBB, Julia
Gary Numan, Prayer For the Unborn

08/03/2025

We have the Builders in at the moment and consequently recording vocals is nigh on impossible. Hence, tonight's Bridges is two hours of uninterrupted music and, because I'm feeling fairly bleak at the moment, it has a bit of a goth flavour.

Bauhaus, Ziggy Stardust (remix)
Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Passenger (cover)
MFBB, Crush (Instrumental)
Marilyn Manson, As Sick As The Secrets Within
DivineShade, Show Me The Way (with Chris Payne and Shan Moue)
Promenade Cinema, Vanish
Empathy Test, Incubation Song
Marilyn Manson, Personal Jesus (cover)
Empathy Test, LosingTouch
Marsheaux, Sunday
Bauhaus, Spirit
Divine Shade, Heaven
Uranium Saints, Know Fear
Porcupine Tree, Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (Live)
Tangerine Dream, You’re Always On Time
MFBB, MFBB
Marilyn Manson, Cry Little Sister
Empathy Test, Last Night On Earth
Marilyn Manson, Tainted Love
Empathy Test, Monsters
Promenade Cinema, Spellbound
Marilyn Manson, Coma White
Divine Shade, Hate And Oblivion
Tubeway Army, Fadeout 1930
Bauhaus, She’s in Parties

08/11/2024

Tomorrow's Bridges brings another chance to listen to a cherished classic from the Bridges Archive. Alas, whilst my poorly hand is improving, I need to focus completely on my Day job to prevent me falling even further behind.

Part One : Dark
Ultravox, Flow
Stabbing Westward, Nothing
Talk Talk, Today
OMD, Bauhaus Staircase
Gary Numan, Stories (Acoustic)
Tunnel Club, Track 02
Madonna, Ray of Light
MarqElectronica, Next to Nothing
Filthy Tongues, Underground City
Republika, Ready to Go
Paradise Lost, So much is Lost
The Mission, Butterfly on a Wheel
Coldplay, Talk

Part Two : Darker
Tunnel Club, Moon Road
MarqElectronica, Lifetime
Republika, Drop Dead Gorgeous
Madonna, Substitute for Love
Tubeway Army, Jo the Waiter
The Mission, Deliverance
Tunnel Club, Future Human
Madonna, The Power of Goodbye
OMD, Slow Train
Talk Talk, Talk Talk
Stabbing Westward, I am nothing
Ultravox, Brilliant

25/10/2024

Tomorrow's Bridges will be a repeat of a show from two years ago. Whilst my hand is mending quickly, it's still too uncomfortable to be able to edit audio files without me throwing the mouse at the wall. ;)

21/10/2024

06/10/2024

I forgot to post my track list for Bridges 69, which aired 28th September 2024 at 1900 hours on Radio Northumberland.

Here ya goes:

Part One Loud:

Agency V, Dangerous
Tears for Fears, The Girl that I call home
Mogwai, Helicon
Phantoms, Ion,
Coldplay, A Sky full of Stars
Jehnny Beth, We will sin together,
Brian Ferry, Star
Mogwai, God gets you back,
Dave Gilmore & Romany Gilmore, Between two points
Marsheaux, Mediterranean
Coney Island Beat Girl, Uranium Saints
The Police, Invisible Sun
Halsey, I am not a woman, I’m a God

Part Two : Loudermilk

Agency V, Pray for the Sun
Marsheaux, Strong Enough
A Flock of Seagulls I Ran
MFBB, Julia (Instrumental)
Brian Ferry, I Thought
Glass Beams, One Raga to a Disco beat
Specky Cult, Swish
Tubeway Days, I die, you die
Mogwai, Coolverine
Ultravox, Lament
Marilyn Manson, As sick as the secrets within
Tear For Fears, Shout

Heads up to Christopher Fielding, Peter Steer, Keith Newman, Specky Cult, Jeff Toman, Roger Lyons and marsheaux...

11/09/2024

Tremendous fun recording Phantom Frequencies for Radio Northumberland last night, talking about my collection of strange and unusual occurrences in and around my childhood home, the village of Spital Tongues in Newcastle.

24/08/2024

Tonight's episode of Bridges airs at 1900 hours on Radio Northumberland. Here's the playlist:

Monty Don Radio-friendly Mix:

Evanescence, Bring Me to Life
Tin Gun, Possibilities
Stock Image, Human
Goldfrapp, Number 1
The Smashing Pumpkins, Today
Tubeway Days, Remind me to smile
Shiva in Exile, Nomad
Aaron Hibell, Glued 2 deep in time
The Smashing Pumpkins, Stand Inside Your Love
ZZ Top, Rough Boy
Joan Foxx, Evergreen
OMD, History Of Modern pt II

Alan Titchmarsh Heavy Metal Mix:

GUNSHIP, Blood For The Blood God
Aaron Hibell, You look lonely
Shiva in Exile, Aldebaran
Customsynth, Clockworks
Marilyn Manson, Tainted Love
A Flock Of Seagulls, Some Dreams
Tin Gun, Mr Jones
Aaron Hibell, Levitation (Extended Icelandic Version)
Goldfrapp, Strict Machine
Tubeway Days, I doe, You Die
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Hong Kong Garden
Joan Foxx, The Running Man
Stock Image, Locked Away
Evanescence, Going Under

15/08/2024

Phantom Frequencies airs tonight at 2200 hours on Radio Northumberland. Listen in for tales of the paranormal from ordinary folk who have witnessed extraordinary events.

12/08/2024

Phantoms by Ion, to promote Phantom Frequencies on Radio Northumberland.

Pilot video to promote Phantoms Radio show.

12/08/2024

Phantoms by Ion, to promote Phantom Frequencies on Radio Northumberland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkSsuskQHho

27/07/2024

Bridges 67 will air tonight at 1900 hours on Radio Northumberland, if we can get the show uploaded in time. Here's the running order:

Part One : Louder

Drab Majesty, Forget Tomorrow
Bill Leeb, Terror Forms
Mark Gemini Thwaite, Every Little_Dream
Thomas Dolby, White City
Japan, Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Tunnel Club with Summer Night Air, Glow
Marsheaux , Now You Are Mine
Beauty in Chaos featuring Wayne Hussey, Diving for Pearls
David Bowie, I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship
Project Pitchfork, Rain
Eisbrecher, Ohne Dich

Part Two : This one goes up to eleven...

Robin Guthrie, Metropol
Marsheaux, To The End
Tunnel Club with Summer Night Air, Sky High
Front Line Assembly, Unknown
Thomas Dolby, One of our Submarines
Robin Guthrie, Atlas
Japan, Taking Islands In Africa (Steve Nye Remix)
David Bowie, Dead Man Walking
Front Line Assembly, Structures
Department S, So Far Away
Mark Gemini Thwaite, Reaping Reprise
Drab Majesty, Kissing the Ground