Bridges

10/01/2026

Apologies but tonight's Bowie Special has been delayed. Because...

03/12/2025

Devout : Depeche Mode Tribute : Newcastle Student's Union 12th December 2025

See you there?

28/09/2025

Bridges Extended #2 aired at midnight on 28th September 2025 on Radio Northumberland. I'd be grateful if the featured artists would share the set list with their fans so we can try and grown the audience a bit more. We're on DAB now, which isn't cheap and the show needs advertisers and/or a sponsor, or it will end.
Here's the set list.
Dave Bessell, Unheimlich
Xan Alexander, Dark Is Rising
State Azure, Silk Nebulae
Robert Rich, Erinacea
Grant Beasley, Linear Memories
Grant Beasley, Graviton Drift
State Azure, The Kardashev Scale
Chemical Brothers & Kraftwerk - Believe_The Robots (Matt One 2025 remix/ mashup)
Robert Rich, Neurogenesis
Paul Smith, Going Home
Xan Alexander, IllusionOfTime
State Azure, , Subsurface Europa
Ion, Eridania
Ultravox, Lament (Extended Mix)
Paul Smith, Leap Vista
Ion, Tharsis Rise
State Azure, To a Distant World,

07/09/2025

Bridges 77 aired last night at 1900 hours on Radio Northumberland with a special focus on Mark Shreeve. Here's the track listing:

Mark Shreeve, Ride The Lightning
Nine Inch Nails, As Alive As You Need Me To Be
The Passions, I’m in love with a German Film Star
Scenius, Five Arm Crystal
The Sisters Of Mercy & The Mission, Marian / Wasteland (Matt One 2025 cover / mashup)
Thomas Dolby, Europa And The Pirate Twins
Mark Shreeve / Christopher Franke, Icon
Ion, Memnoria
Ocean Lab, Above and Beyond (Daniel Kandi trance mix)
Gary Numan, She’ s Got Claws (DJ Dave-G mix)
Soft Cell, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

Depeche Mode / Rob Zombie, Dangerous / Dragula (Matt One Mashup)
Cymatics (Science Vs. Music), Nigel Stanford
Mark Shreeve, Storm Column
Thomas Dolby, One of Our Submarines is missing
Daniel Kandi, Make me believe
Uranium Saints, The Productivity Matrix
Automatica (Robots Vs. Music), Nigel Stanford
Nine Inch Nails, The Perfect Drug
Chemical Brothers & Kraftwerk, Believe / The Robots (Matt One 2025 remix / mashup)
The Mission, Butterfly On A Wheel
Mark Shreeve, Darkness Comes

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...