Suzy Bradley - Vocals/Guitar /
David Martin - Guitars
Influences
Tori Amos, Beth Gibbon, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, , Chrissie Hynd, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tracy Chapman, Sandy Denny
Sounds Like
A girl playing the guitar. and singing some songs.
A songwriting style that is is intimate, sometimes confessional and always from the heart.
Semi finalist position for 'Striving for perfection' in the UK songwriting competition 2008.
Runner up 'songwriter of the year' BBC North Yorkshire Songwriting competition Nov - 2006. The collection of the best songs was collated into Best of Yorkshire Songwriting 2006 CD, featuring 'Striving for Perfection' which receieved regular local air play.
Finalist in york acoustic music competition, strung out, 2005.
2008 has seen the launch of the long time in the making debut EP 'Striving for Perfection'. The 6 track EP includes tracks 'Striving for perfection', 'Dust to dust', 'Blue', 'Lucky', 'What we do' and unaccompanied bonus track 'That suits me'. Watch MySpace.
Review~TimProcter, The Talk
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York rock fans may know Suzy Bradley as singer with bass-driven trio The Murderhouse, but she first set out on the solo acoustic path, and returns to it on this neat 6-tracker. She's possessed of a magnificent voice, clear and powerful ... Moreover she backs up her vocals with a sinewy guitar style without too much fiddly picking, which makes for a refreshingly direct and unfussy listen.... Standout is "Dust To Dust", a gutsy tale of tests of faith and resolve which has the feel of an old folk-rock classic, and the smouldering passion of "What We Do" and "Lucky"'s jaunty ramble aren't far behind. Like her band, she's a bit of an under-rated gem
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Now working in a trio with David Martin on guitar and Lucy Blakeson on Cello we can be found operating as 'Suzy Bradley & The Morning After'
CHRIS HELME, DAISY B, TWO, THE TROUBADORS + MARBLED at The Little Num Num Club, Sat 3rd Oct 41 Monkgate, York. 7:30pm. £6 otd Should be a good night! Hope you can make it down! x
message from ukulele bill/springboard i was a tad shy on friday so i didn't relate my pastiche from '08 too well. so...
a hard headed woman said "i don't give a damn, so she took her ukulele down to cott-ing-ham. she was looking for an open loose jam, and she'll play any venue she can. she played the spriiiiiiiiingboard, oooooooaaaahh oh oh
i promise never to do it again!!! with love and thanks ukulele bill
would jus like to say thank you for the freindship (YOU are my favarote freind!..lol)
i apologise for spamming
the album - No Take Twos - will be avalible to download on itunes, amazon and all major download sites from the 1st of May. I will post a link for my page on release day.
You may like to check out my recently released book - 100 Great Albums. It's a 220 page review of the best music recorded during the period 1965-08 featuring the Beatles,Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, Joy Division, U2, Nirvana, Radiohead, the Strokes and many more! Also, 500 vital album tracks are spotlighted (split between five categories... pre-1970, the 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000-08).
My aim is to prolong the existence of something close to my heart, something currently under severe threat from the download generation - The Album! With the modern world increasingly more interested in cherry-picking individual tracks, it seems to me a great shame that the sacred long-player is losing its importance. I'm on a mission to save the album before it's too late. All musicians, whether new or old to the scene, can appreciate the importance of that.
If you click on the button below you can access further details about the book (including an option to preview some of the content) before deciding whether you want to buy. All the best Andy.
It was a very pleasant change to hear you at the Springboard on Fri night... I tend to be at the Sunday "Acoustic Underground" K. Billy nowadays... See you around, Tim x
OI!!..bradley, you deaf or sommink??..you know, like deaf, from a visual point of view, cus you seem to net be able to hear my text..MWAHAHA...anyway, very simple question...are avoiding me...a single yes, will make me go away forever!!...just so I stop wasting my time trying to get ya to answer anything.
After a short break the Little Num Num club returnsthis friday 28th March to the city screen basement in York, with all it's usual delights of the local areas best acoustical type musicians, chilled out atmosphere and slapdash djing... Check out this months line up, it's proper bo I tell thee:
Suzy Bradley and the Morning After
Lights
Sarah Stabler
Karl Culley
GT Turbo
Andy Gaines
Should be a ruddy good do!
Doors at about 7:30 and cheap adv tickets are available from the venue right now for only a fiver! So secure yourself a seat and grab one while you can!
hey chick, man, are ya ya too busy for old friends or wot? lol.. gimme a shout sometime, of if you have facebook, I'm more likely to be on there!.. cheers shorty
Happy New Year, and all that good stuff!..may you um...can't think of anything good, you think of something, then go do it, and it'll all work out!!!....just like the A-Team...yeah
pls come to London for another gig soon!! I have a new resolution for 09 which is MORE MUSIC!!! :-D and/or let me know of any others you have coming up... t'as been a while since I was the one to make the effort and leave London etc... ;-) hope you had a great Christmas and NYE - you were missed but all understood xx
December Num Num Fun! Saturday 13th Dec The nights are drawing in, and the days are getting decidely chilly, but don't let it get you down! Come along to December's Num Num club and warm the cockles of you heart (and ears!) The line up is ace and looks a bit like this:
Andy Stones - "John Martyn meets Nick Drake: Folky, finger picking brilliance!"
Ryan Spendlove - "Ex-Blueskins frontman now playing solo acoustic blues goodness"
Martyn Fillingham - "98 PAGES singer and guitarist, singing and playing his guitar - mint!"
Delta Maid - "Acoustic blues sung by a modern female Mississippi John Hurt - ace!"
Andy Gaines - "York singer songwriter and purveyor of all things Cardboard and Runaway!"
Val Marshall - "Americana female singer songwriter a la Lucinda Williams / Alison Krauss"
Should be rather special night! Cheaper, advanced tickets are now on sale from the City Screen Box office.
Doors at 7:30pm
Hope to see you there!
PS. Coach tickets are now on sale for 'Num Num Club on tour' in January! visit: www. myspace. com/numnumtour for more info!
Hiya We are playing at the Junction in York on Friday 21th November; it would be really nice to see you there but we understand if you can't make it
We are also playing The HOWDEN-RiBFEST-2008 on Saturday afternoon doors open at 1pm at Howden Working Mens Club 36 Bridgegate, Howden, Goole,, Howden, Northeast DN14 7AB Cost: £3
We’ve put some of the new live recording up on our Myspace and are re-mixing our mini album ‘Kitchen Drums and Turn-up Tantrums’ which will be freely available from us at gigs soon Take care
Me Talented??...Are you sure you rememeber me?..mwahahaha...actually, I just went to look at how to lay it all out, and some automatic thing kicked in...so yes it turned out nice, but it took about 10 minutes, and none of it was my work but the typing!!...still, if you insist, okay, I'm talented!!!... :O)
This Sat, 1st Nov @ The Little Num Num Club in York...
Andy Gaines, David Ward Maclean, Holly Taymar, Joe Solo, DaisyB, Andy Stones and Aimie J Ryan all playing together in a big acoustic night of fun! Only £5 in adv, or £6 otd. Come along, it should be ace! City Screen Basement, Coney St, York. 7:30-11:00pm Sat 1st Nov
Thanks for playing on Sunday, it went down really well, the landlord said he really liked it last night. I look forward to playing up north soon. Do you knwo anywhere I maybe able to play a week today 24/10/08? I'm off to lincoln to visit my jailbird next week!
We are headlining an Oxjam Charity gig at the Junction in York on this Sunday (26th October) with support from Hannah & the Junk Funk, Euphoria Audio & The Review, £3 on the door (8pm start), We hope you can make it; we’d love to see you there.
We are also playing the York Speakeasy 6th Nov, the Packhouse in Leeds on the 7th Nov and back at the Junction (in York) on the 21st Nov,
We have nearly finished mixing our mini album ‘Kitchen Drums and Turn-up Tantrums’ which will be freely available from us at gigs Hope to see you soon
Hi We’ve enrolled in the Orange UnsignedAct competition and we’d like you to vote for us. The voting is from now until midnight on the 14th September, you will be able to vote for us once each day, as a thank-you for voting for us, we’ll give you our new 7 track mini album (download or CD) which we are just in the process of finishing.
You will need to sign up with Orange UnsignedAct as a fan http://orangeunsignedact. co. uk/ to be able to vote, e-mail us once you’ve started voting to let us know and remember to vote every day until the 14th September.
Also come and see us at one of the following gigs: The New Roscoe, Leeds - 15th Sept (£3 flyer on our Myspace) The Stone Roses Bar York – 18th Sept City Screen, Basement Bar York – 20th Sept (Acoustic gig)
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