Bingley Music Live was an annual music festival held in Myrtle Park, Bingley, West Yorkshire, England. The festival featured a range of musical genres including rock, alternative rock, indie rock and pop music. Organised by City of Bradford Council, it was held on the Saturday and Sunday and since the 2009 event, also on the Friday at the end of August, with one of the days having free admission. First held in 2007, it was shortlisted in the ‘Best New Festival’ category of the Virtual Festival Awards.BBC Bradford & West Yorkshire Virtual Festival Awards 2008 The ethos of the event was to present high quality music at an affordable price and give a platform for local bands from across West Yorkshire to a large audience.Community Pride June 2008 Local free paper produced by Bradford Council
History
Bingley Music Live evolved from a previous event at the same venue called Music At Myrtle. Music at Myrtle was first held in 1991, had free admission, and featured headline performances by tribute acts and bands from the 1960s and 1970s, such as The Searchers, Alvin Stardust, local band Smokie, Suzi Quatro, Showaddywaddy, Hot Chocolate, Edwin Starr and Boney M.
In 1998, it became a two-day event with the addition of The Pulse Party in The Park (external link). Programming for the Party in the Park was by local radio station, Pulse FM and featured contemporary pop acts, such as Rachel Stevens, McFly, Liberty X, Busted and Gareth Gates. In this format, it continued successfully for eight years.
In February 2007, it was announced that the event was to be cancelled because of escalating costs, shrinking audiences and a decline in support from the music industry for this type of event. Bradford Council took on the sole responsibility for organising the event giving it a new identity as Bingley Music Live in September that year.The Telegraph and Argus 1 September 2008.
In 2009 the format was a free family night followed by a ticketed Saturday and Sunday lineup.The Telegraph and Argus 10 June 2009. The 2019 event was cancelled, in part due to the cost of running the event, which was running at a loss of £300,000 for 2018. It has not been held since 2018, but it was discussed again in 2026 in the hopes that the event could be revived.
2007
Saturday 1 September Line Up - Free Admission
Sunday 2 September Line Up - Ticketed day
Saturday Sunday From the Jam The Bluetones White Light Parade The Touch, Splash Alley The Analogue Bombs Sharp Darts. The Charlatans The Twang Milburn Elliot Minor Random Hand Scars on 45 The Good Die Young Talk to Angels.
2008
Saturday 30 August Line Up - Ticketed day
Sunday 31 August Line Up - Free Admission
Saturday Sunday Happy Mondays Scouting for Girls The Automatic Terrorvision Delays Infadels Ebony Bones Sergeant Billy The Kid Michael Mallinson Echo & the Bunnymen Alabama 3 Natty The King Blues Jubilee The Sylvias Desert Eskimo redwire, Hundred Dollar Cigar.
2009
Friday 4 September - Free Admission
Saturday 5 September / Sunday 6 September - Ticketed
Friday Saturday Sunday The Undertones Toploader New 2 Pama International Doves The Zutons Ocean Colour Scene The Sunshine Underground The Dykeenies Detroit Social Club The Moons The Little Black Hearts Disco Machine Gun Editors Calvin Harris Reverend and The Makers The Futureheads The Qemists VV Brown White Belt Yellow Tag Vandal Supreme Spike Island
2010 Friday Saturday Sunday Buzzcocks The Blackout Dreadzone Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius PipJames Public Image Ltd Reef Example Frightened Rabbit Gaggle Sound of Guns The Mexanines Jasmine KennedyThe Enemy Seasick Steve The Levellers Hadouken! Professor Green Craig Charles Fantasy Funk Band Kassidy The Dawnriders Black Diamond Bay
2011 Friday Saturday Sunday Fun Lovin' Criminals Skindred The Go! Team Young Guns Alice GoldMaxïmo Park Feeder Mystery Jets Athlete Jon Fratelli White Denim Dot Rotten Dionne Bromfield State of Error Thirteen16Chase & Status The Coral Eliza Doolittle Wretch 32 Stereo MCs The Sunshine Underground Russo Kingheadlock Geek
2012
Friday Saturday Sunday The Charlatans Martha Reeves and the Vandellas Kids in Glass Houses Stooshe Driving Lolita Miles and Erica Skinny Lister Sadie and the Hotheads Matt Belmont Spirit of John Barefoot Beware All Too Human Ballyhoo Eventide Patrick McCallion's Small WordsRazorlight DJ Fresh The Pigeon Detectives Delilah (musician) Space (band) The Jim Jones Revue Black Spiders The Chevin (band) The Scandal The Lancashire Hotpots King Charles We Were Evergreen Jake Bugg Karima Francis Lilygreen & Maguire Maquipucuna The Milk Ti Amo Deadwall Dan Audio Down The Machine Gods of Hellfire Control is Dead Talking To Strangers Return to AljustrelNero White Lies Maverick Sabre Hard-Fi Katzenjammer Clement Marfo & The Frontline Citizens! L Marshall Marsicans The Idiot B*stard Band Yes Sir Boss Ellen and the Escapades Juan Zelada Coco and the Butterfields Me and My Friends Nico Cara The Coopers Eskimo Fandango The Simon Pollard Band Foxes Faux Tom Savage and the Hash Mafia Joseph Tilston Lunar Coup Den Miller
2013
Friday Saturday SundayThe Human League Neville Staple Kat Men The Dirty Rivers Nina Nesbitt Frankie & The Heartstrings The Dunwells Dave McPherson Warme Patrick McCallionPrimal Scream The Fratellis Tinchy Stryder Wilko Johnson Summer Camp The Virginmarys Loveable Rogues The Temperance Movement Down Radio Chris Helme The Electric Swing Circus The Struts The Lake Poets Natasha Haws Blackbeard's Tea Party By Toutatis Jade HelliwellChic The Cribs Katy B The Wonder Stuff Theme Park China Rats Sons And Lovers St. Somebody Lucy Spraggan JJ Rosa Cry Baby Cry Man Can't Fly Holy Moly And The Crackers Dolomite Minor Born Thief Issimo
2016 2,3 and 4 September. Friday Saturday Sunday Echo and the Bunnymen The Lightning Seeds Sigala The BML David Bowie Celebration Imani Williams Alias Kid As Sirens Fall Tinie Tempah Sigma Peter Hook and The Light Barenaked Ladies Bill Ryder-Jones Age of L.U.N.A. Jake Isaac Sound of the Sirens The Membranes Fling Travis All Saints We Are Scientists Black Grape Clean Cut Kid The Jacques Blaenavon Cattle & Cane Pusher
2017 1, 2 and 3 September.
Main stage Friday Saturday Sunday Manic Street Preachers Maxïmo Park Twin Atlantic Cabbage Kaiser Chiefs Peter Doherty Milburn Sundara Karma British Sea Power Yak Dan Owen Willie J Healey Sifaka The Wombats Feeder Soul II Soul Badly Drawn Boy Little Comets High Tyde Krumm Your Illuminations
Discovery stage Friday Saturday Sunday Tom Grennan The Pale White Dead Pretties Lea Porcelain The Big Moon Stevie Parker Tigercub Anteros Fangclub The Old Pink House Shimmerband The Harriets The Orielles Muncie Girls Get Inuit Island Neon Waltz Tom Walker Marsicans Able's Army
2018 31 August, 1 and 2 September.
Main stage Friday Saturday SundayShed SevenJake BuggNoel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
References
External links Bingley Music Live Spike Island Myspace