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Junior's Eyes - Battersea Powerstati
'igginbottom
Love Affair
Local Folk
Moonkyte
New Model Army
Nick Toczek
Nogsy at the Cathedral Centre
Requiem
Roger Sutcliffe
Seething Wells
Rhabstallion
Silver Grass
Chapter 5 logo
Skeletal Family
New Model Ary sample tree
Southern Death Cult
Swamp Flower
The Accent
Swan Arcade
Spectre
The Donkeys
The Negatives
The Negativz
BN back
1919 live
The Accent promo
Kindness Smokie
Bradford Noise Chapter 7 logo
Paul McCartney Black Dyke Mills Band
Somebody's Brother 2004
Vegetable Section
Smokie Barton Uttley Silson
Monorail
Slack
Twister 5
Embrace
Hardware
Blues Bite
Dawnwatcher
Vegetable Section
Ghost Dance
Tasmis Archer sample page
Doctor & The Inmates
1919 live
Bradford Noise Preface logo
Jed's Blues Band
LOVE AFFAIR PIC
Chronic
Bradford Noise Chapter 4 logo
Siren
JJ's Bones
The Edge
The Negatives
GRIM BCB PIC 1
Threshold Shift live
Skidoo
The Big Bang
New Model Army
Malcolm Hanson Willi Beckett Mike Priestley
Joolz
Liz Narey
Midnight
Little Brother
Chapter One Logo
Cajun Aces
Clocks & Clouds
BCB BRADFORD BEAT PIC 2
CHAPTER HEAD GUITAR LOGO 2
Bobby Charltons
Bottleneck Boogie Band
Griff's Magic Theatre
Jan Dukes De Grey
IGINBOTTOM PIC 1
Jed's Blues Band
Guido
Silver Grass

Bradford Noise - the books

Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys Volume 1 (1967 - 1987)

Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys Volume 1

A History of Bradford Rock & Pop. Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys is a trawl through local music history between the years of 1976 and 1987.

It contains over a hundred and thirty 'rock family trees' naming more than five thousand local musicians and over a thousand bands, ranging from The Cresters to Smokie to New Model Army.
 

It features individual profiles of over a hundred bands and artists and over sixty local clubs and venues. Every page is packed with photos, articles, posters and images from the period.
 

Also available to order is the accompanying four CD set with more than four hours of music from over eighty of the local artists featured in this book.
 

‘A fascinating journey through the rich tapestry of the local music scene, marvelous...’  Daily Mutiny
 

‘...this work of breathtaking scholarship. Books like this send you spiraling back through the landscapes of your memory...’  Ian Clayton

How to buy Bradford’s Noise Of The Valleys Volume One


Bradford's Noise of the Valleys Volume One is available for £17.99 from all good book stores. 

You can also buy the book from Amazon or from this site using the links below.

Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys Volume One - 17.99

Postage to the UK is £3.50. Europe - £8.50 and Rest of The World - £14.00.

Purchasers of the book should also be interested in Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys - The Music 1967-1987 -  a 4 CD set containing over four hours of music from the bands featured in the book. Containing more than 80 tracks, this essential audio companion CD set is also available from our shop.

Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys Volume 2 (1988 - 1998)

Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys Volume 1

Bradford’s Noise Of The Valleys Volume Two is an in depth study of local music history between the years 1988 and 1998.

It contains over a hundred ‘rock family trees’ naming more than five thousand local musicians and over a thousand bands, ranging from Zed to Tasmin Archer to Terrorvision.


It features individual profiles of hundreds of bands and artists and many local clubs and venues. Every page is packed with photos, articles, posters and images from the period and covers a massive range of musical styles from pop and rock to folk and blues to indie and punk to hardcore and doom metal to the dance scene.


Released as a companion to this book is a 6 CD box set, The Music 1988-1998, containing more than eight hours of music from over a hundred of the local artists featured in this book.


‘...it’s this city’s infinite diversity and variety that keeps me interested and shows the full effect of the region’s endless talent potential...’  Tim Walker, Voltage

How to buy Volume 2


Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys Volume 2 is available for £25 from all good book stores.

You can also buy the book from Amazon or from this site using the links below.

Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys Volume 2 - £19.99

Postage to the UK is £3.50. Europe - £8.50 and Rest of The World - £14.00

Purchasers of the book can send off for the equally fabulous Bradford's Noise Of The Valleys - The Music 1988-1998 - a 6 CD set containing over five hours of music from the bands featured in Volume 2! Containing over 100 tracks, this essential audio companion CD set is available from our shop.

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