Sorry, I just feel that since I'm currently living in Brum that I should get very annoyed about that incorrect geographical accreditation.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
captured under hypnosisfaster and faster images
can a reading be obtainedall this mystery explainedi'm in orbitheld by magnetsunder forcefieldsso much closer than love
logic offers no defenceunderneath this influence
why disguise our ...? ...?holds emotion in suspensei'm in orbitheld by magnetsunder forcefieldsso much closer than love
caught between the day and night...?
i'm in orbitheld by magnetsunder forcefieldsso much closer than love
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i'm sure i'm wrong somewhere...
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
But shit, it is good. Really, really good. My feet haven't involuntarily tapped like that in sometime...
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
In travelling on the tube, zipping through the stations and staring at the pictures of the POWs, that is what struck me about the new Broadcast was that the songs speed by; that need for speed. The violence could come from my own thoughts about the war and the general anxiety. Broadcast make something new their own.
― Samson, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Her voice is working beautifully, too, singing to someone about half a yard to the left of wherever it is you're looking. I was gonna listen to the Donnas album, but this has just overtaken it big time.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
2003. It is a fucking top year (music wise).
Thank you so, so much.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Samson, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Samson, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Me no like Ladytron 'cept for one single when they do an ace rip off of the Human League :-P )
― Samson, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
sigh, isn't it GREAT?!
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
I feel the need to convert the whole world to this one. I'm in orrr-bit...
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm gonna write something big on this, I fear. Even if I can't make out the lyrics you can't make out either.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
The EP will be followed by the band's second proper LP, 'hahasound', due for release in August. The Birmingham group's acclaimed debut album 'The Noise Made By People' was released in 2000.
Broadcast play a string of US dates in May before commencing their UK tour. The dates are:
Glasgow Academy 3 (May 27) Manchester Hop and Grape (May 28) Cambridge Boatrace (May 29) London ULU (May 30) Brighton Pavilion (June 1)
Support comes from Imitation Electric Piano, except for Brighton Pavilion which is co-headlined with Alfie. The Projects also provide support at the ULU show.
For ticket availability
i will be at the ULU gig defo - got ticket already, see you down the front for a good heavy session of, erm, sage nodding
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 5 April 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 April 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tag (Tag), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
and yeh Tag i put that up, i got it from a friend who's into everything in the Warp vein - i recorded an MD round his house but we forgot to keep track of what was going on the disk - loads of Broadcast on there so i mistook it for one of their tunes for ages. i keep meaning to play it to this guy and hopefully he will remember what it is and i'll finally get around to that this week so the mystery will be solved.
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tag (Tag), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 29 May 2003 09:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
as far as I understand it: not really. they were in love with new technologies. But of course new technologies => could be a really kule sound making machine or new 'weapons of mass destruction' so it was fuzzy logic.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 29 May 2003 09:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― doom-e (Jam), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 29 May 2003 13:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
I still don't know where that is in relation to ULU! (I'd already guessed you didn't mean the one in Hoxton...)
I'll be the fule in the...oh I dunno, who organises these things in advance? A ninetynine t-shirt, probably.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 30 May 2003 11:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 May 2003 12:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― blutroniq (blutroniq), Friday, 30 May 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 30 May 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
"we want to re-enter life"
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 May 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 31 May 2003 00:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
but I had to leave straight after "Unchanging window" - what did I miss? Goddamn livingoutsidelondonness - anyone need a house-sitter between now and the end of july?
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 31 May 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
s'not with it's successes tho: i think it was marcello who chided boards of canada for lazily appropriating abstract loveless sound smear in place of other ideas please, but "valerie" is one of the few songs i've heard that's really learnt the (RIGHT!) lessons of "to here knows when" (the only exceptional mbv song/vacuum cleaner preset in my humble estimation). when that queasy keening dips into pure corrupt-hard-disk density.. sigh. and "the little bell" has that NASA-processing alien information sound in the background, that stuff always kills me - some impossibly urgent message fighting against the technology of its medium to be heard, a staged battle of signal vs noise (cf. "pen expers", "to here knows when" again). those impossibly prickly sounds at the end of "winter now" set against the blurry strings. the interrupted verses and the interrupting chorus of "man is not a bird".
i think it'll be a grower.
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 1 June 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 1 June 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
I like anticipating whether 'Unchanging Window' will be allowed to morph into 'Chord Simple' at length. It's seemingly the dominant live arrangement.
Thanks for the feedback re poll. Sounds like it might be viable after all!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 24 March 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
everyone otm on Maida Vale - so great and the Lights Out just stopped me dead.
I've liked Broadcast for what, 20, 25 years now & it's always been a drifting in-and-out thing for me - always approving, occasionally loving tracks. But in the last few weeks they've become all I want to listen to - the soundworld I suddenly need - like I'm hearing just how good they were for the first time & wondering why I wasn't paying better attention even while having their albums on & just feeling that death should fuck off.
Anyway, I'd vote
― woof, Thursday, 24 March 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link
I really caught the bug between Haha Sound and Tender Buttons, had thought of them as a kind of alt Stereolab but then realised what a magical thread they were pursuing. Blown sideways by Trish's death and there has been a hole missing from me ever since.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 24 March 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
Maida Vail feels a bit like a best-of from the early years, lovely stuff.
Dug out the Children of Alice LP recently and really liked it. Was that just a one-off thing?
― Position Position, Friday, 25 March 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
For those who expressed interest, I proposed holding a Broadcast poll after the current Daft Punk one. So commencing in late-ish April perhaps. No one has vetoed it so far.
May as well open it up to the various side projects as well. I'm also tempted to allow fairly un-cramped ballots (maybe a maximum of 40 selections), so squiggly instrumentals need not be crowded out by poptastic choices. Their output doesn't feel tiny at all once I contemplate a ballot and remember that, actually, "A Man for Atlantis" or "Microtronics 04" (or whatever) was their secret peak.
Aside from a handful of late live tracks (eg. the ones posted upthread a year ago) and posthumously released demos (eg. these: https://soundcloud.com/james-broadcast ), I'm thinking a pool of eligible tracks could look a bit like this, though I may still have missed stuff: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4HSZmkHJvR6JHrDiki9M6E
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 9 April 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
Excellent! Looking forward to it.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 9 April 2022 03:01 (two years ago) link
Brilliant!
― piscesx, Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:45 (two years ago) link
love the idea of a poll. i'd participate. came here to praise the "Sixty Forty" on the Maida Vale Sessions. lovely lovely cover of a song I didn't know before this.
― gman59, Thursday, 14 April 2022 20:37 (two years ago) link
Poll thread now over here:
Come On Let's POLL - ILM Artist Poll #114 - BROADCAST (Polling and Lobbying Thread)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 24 April 2022 12:42 (two years ago) link
I'm loving these new Warp vinyl issues. But sadly, Maida Vale Sessions has pretty bad sibilance, especially on the A side, particularly on 'World Backwards'. It's a great pressing apart from that. Hopefully future pressings sort out the issue..
― The Ghost Club, Saturday, 23 July 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
All parts of Maida Vale that have Peel’s intros have been sourced from mp3s of radio broadcasts, I’d say. Considering that, the sound is amazing, but it seems original tapes for 2 sessions have been lost.
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 23 July 2022 03:37 (one year ago) link
Digital tracks don't have the sibilance though. It's a pressing issue.
― The Ghost Club, Saturday, 23 July 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
This year's Trish Keenan birthday track post from James Cargill, beautiful version of a song from Haha Sound https://t.co/L8fV1ct7AI— Disciples (@Discipl36278031) September 28, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
That was wonderful, thanks Ned!
― The Ghost Club, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
Aww that was nice. She was the best.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
This is not your sawtooth wave
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 6 May 2023 04:22 (one year ago) link
"Dead The Long Year" came on shuffle and I thought it was some mid-90s RZA track until it got a bit weird.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 30 June 2023 23:32 (eleven months ago) link
still tripping out to “… investigate with cults of the radio age” over here
― the late great, Saturday, 1 July 2023 00:51 (eleven months ago) link
greatest band of the late 90's/00's
― fpsa, Saturday, 1 July 2023 01:21 (eleven months ago) link
New album of demos coming out in early 2024 - been waiting so long for something like this, total holy grail release
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Thursday, 28 September 2023 09:24 (eight months ago) link
Since Trish's untimely passing in 2011, James has continued to remember her by sharing unreleased Broadcast demos each year on her birthday, September 28th.
In the spirit of those birthday demos Broadcast present “Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006-2009"
The collection comprises songs and sketches drawn from Trish's extensive archive of 4-track tapes and minidiscs. The recordings lay the groundwork for what would have been Broadcast’s fifth album, offering an intimate window into the creative process of Trish and James during this period post Tender buttons.
'Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006-2009' will be released via Warp Records in early 2024.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Thursday, 28 September 2023 10:24 (eight months ago) link
I’m both sad and thrilled
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 28 September 2023 10:51 (eight months ago) link
Yes, that.
― djh, Thursday, 28 September 2023 22:03 (eight months ago) link
Was inspired to listen to The Noise Made By People in between listening to Gwenno’s solo albums which are somewhat similar on another thread and it’s sounding so great right now.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 December 2023 00:29 (six months ago) link
Some days it feels like Until Then is the last song ever written.
― vmajestic, Sunday, 3 December 2023 04:01 (six months ago) link
https://broadcast.warp.net/?fbclid=IwAR3A5VKqAN5RVkWj1LajxcfAZiaA0rmkN7eRBHFR-mTpFK8N3JcYIJrN7IY
Can't wait for these!
― kitchen person, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:43 (two months ago) link
hard same
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:45 (two months ago) link
Damn straight.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:56 (two months ago) link
C'mon don't put a 36 song release on streaming with ONE song available and we have to wait till May?
Cruel.
One sample song is beautiful of course and one can only wonder what could've been.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:10 (two months ago) link
Holy cow!
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:44 (two months ago) link
woah new song sounds great, all in on this
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:45 (two months ago) link
yeah new song great but "Tears In The Typing Pool" (demo) also amazing... seemingly effortless to have a melody and structure like that already fleshed out from the start.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 21 March 2024 16:01 (two months ago) link
that new song is stunning, amazing how hypnotic and compelling and complete it sounds with just three (?) elements - it makes me think of how tender buttons was an unfinished recording that was actually perfect, similar (much sadder) vibes here
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Friday, 22 March 2024 20:18 (two months ago) link
it’s going to kill me, I expect. it must be very hard for James to put these out. I love the cover art as well.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 22 March 2024 21:23 (two months ago) link
Gee, it really is two discs. September (!) for the 2000-2006 volume lol. Wasn't sure how to interpret the cover images on a certain Context-Free Streaming Platform. Only got as far as digging that photocopier aesthetic.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:46 (two months ago) link
Both are coming out in May, a couple of weeks apart. Unless you mean vinyl?
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:17 (two months ago) link
Never mind I didn’t read the small type properly. Dammit, seriously, September?!
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:18 (two months ago) link
Duh. Distant Call is coming out on Trish’s birthday — what a beautiful way to wrap up this tradition, and the whole story.
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Sunday, 24 March 2024 02:29 (two months ago) link
There's something very final (obviously) but probably healthy about "This will be the last music from Broadcast".
― djh, Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:23 (two months ago) link
had a look at the Spell Blanket track listing and nothing seemed to be obviously ‘Eyes Open’ or ‘Dulcimer Jam’… but i guess time will tell
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:54 (two months ago) link
Spell Blanket now streaming (and my physical copy just arrived)
― woof, Friday, 3 May 2024 10:33 (one month ago) link
Joy and unbearable ache in equal measures
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:11 (one month ago) link
spell blanket is well titled. some absolutely beautiful songs, all of it is mesmerizing. almost like the acapella sketches more than the finished ones.
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:25 (three weeks ago) link
"i run in dreams" is an instant pantheon one for me: https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/i-run-in-dreams
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:26 (three weeks ago) link
Mondrian child let loose with the pen <3
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:35 (three weeks ago) link
this is great
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 16:27 (three weeks ago) link
yeah, this is really fantastic. not that I expected them to be barrel scrapings or something, but still found myself frequently amazed at how gorgeous some of these are!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 22:25 (three weeks ago) link