Bingley Music Live


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.
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.

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. 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.
In 2009 the format was a free family night followed by a ticketed Saturday and Sunday lineup.

2007

Saturday 1 September Line Up
- Free Admission
Sunday 2 September Line Up
- Ticketed day
SaturdaySunday

  • 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
    SaturdaySunday

  • 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
    FridaySaturdaySunday

  • 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

    2011

    2012

    FridaySaturdaySunday

    • 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 Words
  • Razorlight
  • DJ Fresh
  • The Pigeon Detectives
  • Delilah
  • Space
  • The Jim Jones Revue
  • Black Spiders
  • The Chevin
  • 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 Aljustrel
  • Nero
  • 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

    FridaySaturdaySunday

    • The Human League
    • Neville Staple
    • Kat Men
    • The Dirty Rivers
    • Nina Nesbitt
    • Frankie & The Heartstrings
    • The Dunwells
    • Dave McPherson
    • Warme
    • Patrick McCallion
  • Primal 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 Helliwell
  • Chic
  • 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.
    FridaySaturdaySunday

  • 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

    Discovery stage

    2018

    31 August, 1 and 2 September.

    Main stage