New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

i NEED the rest of the EP, but i'm gonna buy it when it comes out defo. up well up for either the ULU or Brighton gig too. i love Trish.

Sheffield? I thought they were from Birmingham area...

Sorry, I just feel that since I'm currently living in Brum that I should get very annoyed about that incorrect geographical accreditation.

captured under hypnosis
faster and faster images

can a reading be obtained
all this mystery explained
i'm in orbit
held by magnets
under forcefields
so much closer than love

logic offers no defence
underneath this influence

why disguise our ...? ...?
holds emotion in suspense
i'm in orbit
held by magnets
under forcefields
so much closer than love

caught between the day and night
...?

i'm in orbit
held by magnets
under forcefields
so much closer than love

----

i'm sure i'm wrong somewhere...

But shit, it is good. Really, really good. My feet haven't involuntarily tapped like that in sometime...

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.

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.

2003. It is a fucking top year (music wise).

Thank you so, so much.

(Me no like Ladytron 'cept for one single when they do an ace rip off of the Human League :-P )

sigh, isn't it GREAT?!

I feel the need to convert the whole world to this one. I'm in orrr-bit...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

"we want to re-enter life"

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?

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.

review: BROADCAST - Haha Sound
http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/broadcast_hahasound.htm

Broadcast interview
http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/broadcastiw_1.htm

a couple listens in i feel like "pendulum" is what had been promised from the beginning and from here the only places to go are back to the radiophonic workshop or in circles round add n to x and middling twee pop. :(

Monday 18.08.03 on xfm (10.30 pm to 1 am, I think)

Tuesday 19.08.03 on John Peel/BBC radio 1 (10 pm to midnight)

'Man Is Not A Bird' echoes 'Pendulum' rhythmically but the vocals are less urgent, more sullen and melancholic - just as haunting overall

'Minim', 'Lunch Hour Pops' and 'Hawk' are my other favourites...i'm not sure its quite as good as 'The Noise Made By People' but i don't know how to rationalise that - i think mitch may have been otm regarding they've pedestrianised things a little with the song structure and the starkness and sheer celebration of sonics inherent in previous work has been a little obscured here by sweet lyrics and dulcit unintrusive tones. i think i like Trish Keenan's voice because of that 'unintrusiveness' aspect - often it just seems like she's there observing and commentating on the song or its scenery rather than really pushing some kind of soul-baring introspection ala Beth Gibbons or whoever. but then if you think back to 'Papercuts', 'Message From Home' or even something like 'Living Room' which sounds more like Sean Lennon singing (may not have been Keenan but hard to tell!) it seems that there was more 'effort' in the singing but acceptance seems to have set in that there's a restricted range to her voice and the new songs have been written with that more in mind (considering the vastness of their forthcoming American tour perhaps this was a good idea). but i don't really know enough about singing to judge her like that. i'll keep listening and loving it anyway.

one thing tho - listen to Broadcast's remix of St Etienne's 'Angel' and perhaps compare Cracknell's vocals on that to Keenan's to see whether a voice more like Cracknell's would work better on other Broadcast material?

Kerrrrrrrazily I HAVE come to love TNMBP over last couple of months and am currently playing it near-constantly, so I dunno. Broadcast may be the ultimate grower group ever ever, although they've had enough hugely-immediate moments (Come On Let's Go, The Book Lovers, etc etc) to suggest that this isn't the case. Haha Sound is fantastic though and I can only see myself getting more into it, rather than going off it.

Current personal best track = 'Valerie' - great tune, the breathy vocals, spooky lullaby quality. I hope they play more UK dates after the monster US tour, as from their ULU showing in May some of these songs sound even stronger live!

Colour Me In, though, does actually sound like it's been written for the soundtrack of Playschool. Which is great.

They are a great band though: on their Peel Session last night they finished with a song ('60/40') that is better than several on the album & they didn't even include it on it! The band build & build, going into accelerating orbit whilst Trish stays cool & calm on the same level all the way through. Magic. If you missed it I am afraid you will have to listen all the way through to nearly the end of the programme to hear it.

No silly album titles for Mary! Hey wait, what's this copy of Your Arsenal doing in your collection? (But I tease Mary. :-))

Mary's jones for Yoko Ono now public (assuming it already wasn't)

thanks v much steve!

stevem - would it be really cheeky of me to ask for a copy of the gig if you succeed in recording it? I'm obv. happy to pay costs.

if i manage to record the gig ok it will be online. CD copy also possible (tho i am horribly slack with burning and posting discs as the 'post your 700mb cd of stuff you love' thread will testify)

Oh don't worry, I have already had the pleasure of Broadcast live this year, at ULU in, uh, June or something. And they were fucking splendid. I've just decided, big-hearted fool that I am, to forfeit my place this evening for the benefit of someone who hasn't seen 'em yet. And for the benefit of my ailing liver, natch.

i assume you mean 'Hammer Without A Master' - on record there are no vocals but Keenan took to doing some extremely brittle banshee-style wailing at the start of it when played live. this is probably the furthest she goes in evoking real emotion on stage but her 'jilted science girl' style is still kinda appealing elsewhere.

Of course she's not remotely in the same league as Alison Goldrapp as a singer, technically. Even, say, the girls in Ladytron, whose voices sound a little weak on their records, are much more convincing live (although that is no doubt partly because they know their limitations and are more determined to stay within them. Trish was attempting a lot of lower-register stuff that probably took a number of takes to get right on the record, and she struggled badly).

That said, for those who were there, what gear did they have on stage? I've been trying to figure out what equipment was used on Haha Sound but sometimes I draw a blank when it comes to figuring out what made a particular noise.

All I can say is they were absolutely fine the one time I heard them, earlier this year - much better than I expected from hearing the records. Not naturally gifted singers, but they'd obviously put in the rehearsal hours and as a result - intonation good, harmonies tight, no timing problems. I attended the concert with a female singer who, with the exception of Alison Goldfrapp, is substantially more gifted than any of the singers we've been discussing and she was surprised and impressed.

??? isn't ATP always at Camber? and aren't Broadcast ALWAYS there?

also i doubt Trish is a raging coke fiend, more a Vimto girl

I enjoyed them on Monday (in Cardiff), especially when they got a bit gnarly and cranked up, but they were probably better when I saw them three and a half years ago, and I'm not sure what *that* says.

Did anyone pick up the 3" CD they were selling? It's 11 short tracks of mostly instrumental kinda link music, and very nice, especially if you liked the collaborations that were on that EP from earlier this year.

i thought about buying 'Microtronics' but i'm not too keen on the noizak stuff the band do.

Yeah, if you don't go for the "sound" based stuff, as I think someone said up there, you prolly won't get much out of Microtronics to be honest.

I have absolutely no idea if Trish is TECHNICALLY better/worse vocalist than the Ladytron gels, agree that they probably make a point of not trying to do stuff that's beyond their vocal means wheras she does NOT, but they did sound pretty much flawless when I saw them earlier in the year. The Broadcast live experience is maybe fractionally more hard work overall than the Ladytron one, but not in negative sense at all.

and..surely its possible to like broadcast and yoko ono? and sarah cracknell, for that matter..

they're playing the first atp weekend? arse. i wanted to go to the second one.

Proof: Michelle Branch - A Drop in the Ocean (small mp3 sample)

Trish is dope as hell but could stand to wear sexier clothes. Arf Arf, I think you got lucky, because at my Ladytron experience I walked the fuck out after four songs cuz it sounded like bad karaoke.

my voice is on it, i am the idiot who thinks they should've covered 'Black Hole Sun', hahaha

-- Melissa W (MelCarame...), December 11th, 2003.

goddamn you work filters for not letting me hear this.

An Update

Dear All,
Sorry for not posting recently but it's been a little quiet in the world of Broadcast.
Since the end of the last tour the band have just been busily working away on the new LP, the tracks that I've heard so far sound fantastic - Trish's vocals sound sublime and the songs are spot on.
We hope to have the LP out in Summer 2005 with shows to follow.
Cheerio,
Martin

new compilation in about a month,

Future Crayon:
1 Illumination
2 Still Feels Like Tears
3 Small Song IV
4 Where Youth and Laughter Go
5 One Hour Empire
6 Distant Call
7 Poem of a Dead Song
8 Hammer Without a Master
9 Locusts
10 Chord Simple
11 Dave's Dream
12 DDL
13 Test Area
14 Test Area
15 Unchanging Window / Chord Simple
16 A Man For Atlantis
17 Minus Two
18 Violent Playground
19 Belly Dance

new compilation in about a month,

Future Crayon:
1 Illumination (EP2)
2 Still Feels Like Tears (P)
3 Small Song IV (P)
4 Where Youth and Laughter Go (EP)
5 One Hour Empire (P)
6 Distant Call (?)
7 Poem of a Dead Song (EP2)
8 Hammer Without a Master (?)
9 Locusts (COLG)
10 Chord Simple (COLG)
11 Dave's Dream (EP)
12 DDL (?)
13 Test Area (EA)
14 Test Area (?)
15 Unchanging Window / Chord Simple (EP2)
16 A Man For Atlantis (EP2)
17 Minus Two (P)
18 Violent Playground
19 Belly Dance (EP)

quick look at back catalogue suggests it's the eps minus the lp tracks:
(COLG = Come on Let's Go, missing title track)
(EP = Extended Play EP, missing Papercuts)
(EP2 = Extended Play 2 EP, missing Drums On Fire)
(P = Pendulum, missing title track)

don't know where the ? tracks are from. think 14 may be a typo. (http://angryape.com/news/2006/05/broadcast-the-future-crayon has only 18 tracks)

from Broadcast site:

On August 21st 2006 Warp records will be releasing a collection of EPs and rarities. Entitled The Future Crayon the compact disk and limited edition double vinyl will comprise the following tracks:

Illumination
Still Feels Like Tears
Small Song IV
Where Youth And Laughter Go
One Hour Empire
Distant Call
Poem Of A Dead Song
Hammer Without A Master
Locusts
Chord Simple
Daves Dream
DDL
Test Area
Unchanging Window / Chord Simple
A Man For Atlantis
Minus Two
Violent Playground
Belly Dance

Broadcast will also be playing a handful of UK shows towards the end of July - we are hoping within the week to confirm shows in Bristol, London and Manchester along with the already announced show at the Supersonic festival in Birmingham on July 22nd.

Hammer Without A Master was an exclusive for the We Are Reasonable People/WAP 100 compilation.

(and only have the broadcast cds with me (ie not the various artists things or the 7" singles). and didn't know about 'DDL'. and 'Misc' still missing...)

'my' list doesn't have Test Area twice int. also it was a xpost to your first one.

There's a new song here: http://www.warprecords.com/?news=1359

Haven't heard it myself so I've no idea what sort of line-up/sound they're in these days.

OMG YAY.

The track is not taken from any forthcoming Broadcast release

Oh. :(

It's not bad, sounds like something off of Microphonics.

Microtonics*

What's the deal? Any word on a new release?

A member seems to disappear each time there's a new album, so I'm expecting the next one to be Trish all by her lonesome.

Echo's Answer is scary in a little-boy-staying-up-to-watch-scary-movies-on-USA-Network way.

stop reviving this thread if there isn't any new broadcast!

YEAH

First news on their website in 12 months:

Broadcast play live 13th January 2009

Dear All, Broadcast will be playing live on May 31st 2009 at Le Weekend, a great little festival in Stirling, Scotland. Cheerio Martin

New EP in October! And a US/CAN tour.

Nice!

Finally!

oh good, i was just pondering the other day how long it's been since they put out something.... and figured there were on ice.

*they were on ice

Someone tell Spotify they've got two different Broadcasts occupying one page. Our Broadcast, and some daft power-pop group.

Any new track out there?

Just flagging up a live date at Vortex in London:

11 October: NEW REALMS OF THE UNCANNY
Broadcast (live) & Julian House (Ghost Box) (film)
The Caretaker
Thomas Ankersmit

Fantastic line-up/event. Such a thing will never happen in the Netherlands I presume (even though 25% is dutch!) :-|

Cover of the new isssue of the Wire. New EP is 'Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age'.

http://www.accesshiphop.com/images/covers/18045_b.jpg

Ah, I missed this thread last time it was bumped, was just going to post details of that show in October. Tickets should be available here http://www.wegottickets.com/f/977 but they're 'currently not available'. I'm going to selfishly hope it's not happening because I'm out of the country.

Is that the EP sleeve then? It's very similar to the last one, in a way that their previous stuff hasn't been.

I think that's it. Comic book font makes me think of SY's Goo.

Wooooo! Playing here on my birthday again. This happened five years ago.

i should go to this Vortex thing, didn't see it before cheers nick/jona

"Ghost Box 12, The Transactional Dharma of Roj, by Roj will be available on CD and download from our shop on 28th September or you can pre-order it right now.

Roj, a former member of Broadcast, executes psychedelic tone paintings with a battery of exotic percussion, analogue electronics, and tape. Beautiful booklet design by Julian House and text by Ken Hollings, journalist, broadcaster and author of Welcome to Mars . You can hear some clips here.

Broadcast and The Focus Group

We're very excited to confirm that in October this year, Warp records will be releasing a mini album by Broadcast and The Focus Group - we're hoping to have copies available in the Ghost Box shop when its available."

very excited about both of the above, btw

That Vortex gig sold out now, by the looks of things. After I changed my entire life so I wouldn't be away that week.

According to the Wire interview the Ep is something like 30mins long and has 15 songs or something, although I think only 5 or so have singing (these numbers are completely off the top of my head tbh). Kind of like the Pendulum single with extra Microtonics I guess.

this is gonna be a noise thing huh

from the look of them (in wire) it's going to be hippy dippy / more folky (because people always sound how they dress)

focus group samples here:

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=5183

it's not 1000000 miles away from last broadcast lp.

hauntology LOLs

http://warp.net/records/broadcast/new-mini-album-broadcast-and-the-focus-group-investigate-witch-cults-of-the-radio-age-out-now-to-download/

sounding pretty haha sound-ish

Well, I love it.

Esp. when it gets deliberately Valerie & Her Week of Wonders-ish toward the end.

From that (great) video it seems that The Focus Group has injected a new kind of strangeness into the Broadcast sound.
There's a short post by Simon Reynolds about this year's crop of Ghost Box recordings at his blog: http://blissout.blogspot.com/

Yeah. A lot of fantastic stuff on that label.

I've heard the first ten (except the Mt Vernon Arts Lab cd) and my favorites at the moment are The Advisory Circle's "Other Channels" (truly eerie, great structure) and The Focus Groups "Let Loose Your Love"

The Advisory Circle's "Other Channels" is fantastic. I wish this new Broadcast EP was on the Ghost Box label, so I'd get it on eMusic. Alas, it's on Warp (technically on eMusic, but new titles only occassionally show up there).

I've been ordering mine directly from Ghost Box (great design!), but it usually takes a few weeks for them to reach the west coast.

just got a ticket to see them, Oct. 30th!

Going to see them on the 18th with Atlas Sound, hopefully.

Yeah, what is Atlas Sound?

solo side project of Bradford Cox from Deerhunter.

The first Atlas Sound is better than anything Deerhunter's put out, imo. The one that's about to come out features a few songs with Panda Bear and Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab, but on the whole I found it a little underwhelming. The track with Sadier kicks ass, though, gotta say.

as a sample bore i'd like to point out that said Laetitia song uses the drums from a Chrome record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbh2ZsK73VA

also, new Broadcast/Focus Group is odd but fun

That Vortex gig sold out now, by the looks of things. After I changed my entire life so I wouldn't be away that week.

Due to overwhelming demand, Broadcast, The Caretaker and Thomas Ankersmit will be doing an extra performance on the final day of The Wire's Into The Vortex festival.
The extra show will take place on the afternoon of Sunday 11 October at East London's Vortex venue. Doors: 2pm. Tickets: £12 from wegottickets

oh hell yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqINetENovg

Really enjoying this on the first listen, hippy-folk-joe Byrd style tracks mixed with sound collage type stuff.

There's a tour EP about as well, similar but more playful/experimental/all over the shop. A good companion.

Thanks, will check out. There's a bit of a wicker man feel to some of the lp tracks

seeing them wed!

this EP is v. good

Both the mini-LP with The Focus Group and the new Tour EP are great. I like the collab with The Focus Group better than Tender Buttons, actually. so trippy and sound collagey and fun. really what drew me into Broadcast in the first place back with The Book Lovers, etc

Saw them last night in Philly- you're in for a treat, Dan, they're on fucking fire right now. One of the best starts to a show I've ever seen, too. They opened with a nearly 10-minute piece that reminded me of nothing so much as Chris & Cosey set to (I'm guessing here) Julian House projections- creepy British countryside, oscilloscope patterns, swirly op art, all in black and white- then when the tension (and volume) got almost unbearable, wham, the projections go to eyeball-searing color and they launch into "Corporeal," with the addition of super-heavy drumbeats. Best show I've been to in years.

wow. wish i could score a ticket to this.

wish they weren't playing chicago on a fucking monday. no way i can make that. dammit. i saw them live in 2000 and they were great.

Tempted to make the trip down to Manchester in december, that description sounds amazing. Really looking forward to getting the new LP next week, blew me away first listen

I'm finally listening to the Focus Group EP at work (bought a copy at the show, ripped it last night) and it sounds almost nothing like the live show. Still great, just way more calm and pastoral. Still spooky, but in a quiet sad way instead of upfront menace.

Also ripped the tour EP, "Mother Is the Milky Way" or something like that*, but stupidly forgot to transfer it to my ipod.

*and yeah, Broadcast have been around for long enough and distinguished themselves more than enough to have to put up with this kind of bullshit, but: is that not the most Stereolab title ever?

btw, I'll be happy to circulate copies of the EP to people who have trouble finding it, but only after the tour is over and any remaining copies (if any) have been sold off through Bleep or wherever.

They are playing w/ Atlas Sound in a couple of weeks, but not headlining (hmmph).

They are playing in Boston this Thursday with Atlas Sound as well. I am also wondering if they are not headlining. I think I may go anyway.

I thought they were headlining when they played in DC this weekend but that was not the case. To be honest, I'm scratching my head a bit at the above reactions to the live show. I saw them a couple years back at the same venue when they were supporting Tender Buttons and they put on a great show. But this time my friends and I all found it a chore to sit through. We barely lasted a half hour before we left.

Saw them tonight (didn't stick around for Atlas Sound) and they played for 45 minutes but it seemed longer than that. They've definitely got a great presence on stage. First twenty minutes were indeed straight up drones/low bassy pulses with an industrial feel and some of Trish's wordless vocals here and there. Pretty good for the most part but it could have been a bit shorter. They also played about 7 songs after that - the 3 new ones sounded like a dubbier/spacier take on Ha Ha Sound, which is exciting.

The title Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age does sound like it game directly from Tim Gane himself. It might have even been the working title for what became Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night

more an evocation of the occult and the marginal than the glossily technophilic, though. but point taken.

i was that show as well michael and also left before Atlas Sound. It was good, I did miss live drums and it certainly wasn't the stripped down distorted Young Marble Giants I expected to see on the Tender Buttons tour when I didn't expect live drums and guitar but got it. I thought it was great last night but felt the dubbiness overwhelmed them at times...moments when I wished the drums and vocals were clearer and crisper, I didn't mind the processing, the space echo or whatever, but you lost some of the melody and beauty of the singing. For what it's worth I wrote this on another list, it's pretty stupid but paints a picture:

Saw Broadcast last night. Unlike their last time, they didn't have a drummer or
much live instruments beyond the occasional bass or guitar. But it was no
stripped down electro-rock set. This was some deep, deep, dark, electro-acoustic
psychedlia of the highest order. Using samples perhaps in a way not to different
then a lot of current bands, such as Animal Collective, but coming from a darker
more gothic place. And somehow still pastoral. Like if the United States of
America teamed up with Mia Farrow singing the Rosemary's Baby soundtrack but
instead of Rosemary's Baby the movie was the Wicker Man shot by the people who
made the Blair Witch Project and it was all recorded in Cabaret Voltaire's
basement circa 1975.

Trying to distill something out of that last sentence, I got to this bootleg: The Basement Tapes by Mia Farosemary's Witcherman Cabaret.

Dan, you're in Boston? Drop me a line.

"It's pretty stupid but it paints a picture" is a phrase I've often uttered to myself many times when trying to write or read music reviews.

sorry, when you said "tonight" I thought you meant wed, so I assumed you were in brooklyn.

Seeing them tonight! Their gig of 5 years ago is still fresh in my mind as being the pinnacle of wonderful so I cannot wait for this.

Extremely intense show. Laetitia Sadier showed up for the last number of Atlas Sound's set (fortunately the only one I caught). Has she been on tour or was this a one-off? This was Portland btw.

She wasn't there on Friday (Vancouver). I was pretty disappointed in the show. They lacked stage presence and confidence this time, focussing on their gear rather than on the audience. Even their clothes were pretty scruffy and boring. The stage at this venue was pretty low and so they kind of disappeared, especially the one guy who sits on the floor for the whole show. The sound was quite bad - I think they were having a few problems with the microphones and everything was a bit muffled together. Whatever it was they were trying to do was not coming across. Overall, I prefer seeing them with a full band - I really missed the drummer they previously worked with (though I know he bailed ages ago).

Finally the crowd was really boring - a real sausage party with countless identical 30-something dudes in second hand v-neck sweaters, drainpipes, messily styled hair and some kind of reasurringly expensive shoes, standing around with their arms crossed. This must've been the only venue in town that wasn't getting it's Halloween freak on. I was so glad when it ended.

Atlas Sound WTF? The songs were pretty cool but he did the first part of the show sitting down at the back of the very low stage which just caused the audience to ignore him and chat away to themselves. This led to some Andy Kaufmann-esque fake arguing with the crowd and pretending to get offended at hecklers etc, numerous times between songs. The gaps between the songs were huge and pretty much everyone was asking "who the fuck is this dork?". Jeez, what a downer.

Snapped up the Focus Group album this weekend. This might be my favorite thing so far this year. Very mildly spooky (the ambience kinda reminds me of Olivia Tremor Control's field recording cut-up side project-y things) and busy enough/operating on subliminal enough of a wavelength to reward multiple listens. I like how there are lovely little tunes just kind of buried here and there within this plush, pastoral bed of noise.

Went to the sold out San Francisco show last night at Great American Music Hall. Opening band, The Selmanaires, were pretty great- unpretentious VU-inspired guitar drones, psych riffs, and the occasional Happy Mondays bongo club beat.

I have to agree with some of the above criticism re: Broadcast's current live show. Their LA show I saw five years back was fantastic- a full band spread across stage dominating a backdrop of weird projections, the overall experience being very full and rich and psychedelic. The two piece line-up last night was split by the projection screen (abstract images definitely generated by Julian House or someone over in the Ghost Box camp), and given the dominance of the images, and the tendency to go with sound drones over actual songs, their presence on stage became a mute point. Granted, I LOVED the projections, as would anyone familiar with GB's "Phenomena and Occurrences" film or the GB aesthetic in general, and the sound drones definitely fit, but Broadcast (i.e. the band I paid to see) kind of disappeared in the process. While I definitely like their newer and more experimental explorations, the delivery seemed kind of too deliberate and, dare I say, soulless (which I think here was the real disappointment- The Wire's recent feature on them couldn't let go of words like "pagan", "occult", and "conjure", but I got no sense of such in their show). That all said, the new record is killer, and their set was far superior to other recent shows I've seen (Dirty Three, Six Organs to name a few).

The real treat turned out to be Atlas Sound (wasn't terribly familiar), who was backed up by The Selmanaires and had Trish from Broadcast sing on a few songs. Really really great music and a stage presence that was quite refreshing in the wake of Broadcast's colder delivery.

The Selmanaires cancelled the show I was at without warning which was disappointing as I was looking forward to seeing them and also it meant that Atlas Sound had to perform solo. I think we missed out.

i was there last night, too, and agree a little with above sentiments, though i was stoked all-in-all. the opening noize was a little baffling, and made me sort of wonder if the set was gonna be one weird 35min piece. it was beautiful, though, and the projections totally contributed. lots of library-record sounds, and trish's vocals kept sounding like that ah-ah-ahhh song in the little mermaid, where ariel is trying to break out of the water or whatever. anyway, it WASN'T the whole set, of course. the remainder of the set was REALLY beaty and dirty electronics, and some gtr/bass/keys action on top. the new arrangements of black cat and corporeal were totally beautiful, and the new songs were more of the same cryptic, noisy, pop. so, on balance, maybe it wasnt as good as the tender buttons tour show i saw of theirs, with a drummer AND beaty electronics and sawtooth waves. but it was rad and unexpected, and that rules.

oh and the tour-only CDR rules, too -- their version of the first song from it last night was another one of my favorites.

ps i only saw the broadcast so i have no opinion on either other set

the tour CD reminds me of His Name is Alive.

pastoral lo-fi pagan shoegaze experiments w/ female vox

This album is heaven in headphones. Or earbuds. I like how they got some Pipers from The Gates Of Dawn and some Moles from The Ministry to play on this. Super psychedelic. I'm also not a big fan of the Ghost Box stuff but this is really sweet.

listened to some songs upthread and this sounds wonderful. what broadcast album should i get, ILM?

whoever answers first that's the one i'll get

unless it's a joke answer in which case probably i'll just go to bed

"Work And Non Work" probably.

none of them would be a disappointment

thanks!

ha ha sound

Haha Sound seconded.

Yes. Ha Ha Sound.

er, the julian house graphics thing, he is The Focus Group so it all makes sense

"House releases music under the alias The Focus Group on the label Ghost Box Music, which he is co-founder of with Jim Jupp."

Work and Non-Work here, those early singles... (but yes, any of them). the samples i've heard of the new one, which isn't many, all sound like there's one too many layers of things going on.

The Noise Made By People is my clear favourite now

those early singles on work and non work are great, particularly "the world backwards," but in retrospect they sound to me too often like they were splitting the difference between stereolab and portishead. by haha sound they'd come completely into their own

They are all great, but Ha Ha Sound is definitely the best.

tender buttons is every bit as good as the noise made by people i reckon, the new 'un is a riot though, quite a surprise after the relative starkness of TB. very annoyed about missing that matinee show at the vortex, just down the road for me as well...

it's great to know that most of you don't even consider "work and non work" their best because i already love it a lot. been listening to it since morning and it's turned the whole day into a lovely dream. and i don't hear much portishead, thankfully.

like many a good band, they've managed to shift their sound and styles around here and there, but always retaining a certain "broadcastness". So it's hard to choose.

It's funny, despite being in their shadow, they really are like Stereolab in so many ways, even though they don't really sound like Stereolab. I have this blog post in my head about how both bands are a certain british take on Hip-Hop, how they are possibly the two most derivative bands of the last twenty years while being two of the most distinct, I mean, Stereolab would steal licks and riffs and melodies, Broadcast goes even further and samples old library records, but in both cases, it's recontextualized in such a way to serve their purpose, the reference isn't hidden but used to their own means etc etc.

this was brought up by watching those Origins of Stereolab clips on youtube and realizing they started a series for Broadcast as well.

well i know what i'm off to go watch right now

it's not as satisfying because the stereolab one is like...Neu!, Canned Heat! Silver Apples! while the Broadcast one is like Basil Kirchin!

wario land?

a friend of mine drummed for broadcast for a little while and they gave him a tape of, i suppose, the big influences, i remember ennio morricone: his name is nobody was on it and i seem to recall the valerie theme and, yep, bits of basil kirchin. i'd love to hear it now. this was a good while ago and i remember at the time thinking hmmmmmm, so which bit DID broadcast come up with then. and the answer was no bit. in the best possible way. does anybody like seeland by the way?

there was a broadcast radio mix that they did for some website, perhaps it's the same mix.

actually, there's one on their blog at the moment, number 5

http://futurecrayon.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post_19.html

thanks koogs! yeh i remember it did have some kind of serial number. sounds great anyway.

hey cw, you still in touch with drummer j? here's broadcast radio mix 4 which has kirchin/morricone/etc for anyone interested

hello firebrand! yeh i still get quarterly book reports from JB and see him when he plays in london, he's doing fine. yep that's the tape i heard, thanks!

Fuuuuuck there was a tour cd? I looked over towards the merch booth and only saw the microtronics discs so I assumed there was nothing new. Anyone care to hook me up?

finally listening to Radio Mix 4. See the others referenced here:

http://www.broadcast.uk.net/radio.php

but don't seem to work. Any idea where to find them, online or otherwise? In any case, talk about a shopping list...

i am not liking the new lp, it's like aural adhd.

i found a pages that referenced the first 3 radio mixes but they all pointed back to the defunct warprecords site that was originally hosting them. i guess 4 and 5 will have to do.

Was just listening to HA HA sound and my god, what a perfect album. Trish Keenan's got to be one of my all-time favourite singers. Her voice is just so beautifully simple. I wish all the recent Kate-Bush wannabe songstresses (Florence, Marina, Ellie Goulding, etc) would learn from her and understand that you don't have to do add unnecessary quirks to your voice to make your music "interesting", it just makes it annoying.

someone on the broadcast forum has re-upped all the radio mixes. which is nice.

http://www.broadcast.uk.net/index3.html?http://www.broadcast.uk.net/forum/viewtopic.php?TopicID=791&page=1

(odd looking url, but it seems to work. i think the forum is hosted elsewhere and in a frame)

Thanks for posting. There's some great stuff on there.

get better trish keenan

^^^yes. def pulling for her

oh no :( hope she gets well soon

Oh shit, that's awful.

Saving u a google:
http://pitchfork.com/news/41200-broadcasts-trish-keenan-hospitalized-seriously-ill/

http://echostains.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/man_ray_glass-tears.jpg

This sucks, I can't believe it! Now I'm totally depressed. I hope she pulls through.

daaamn. life support since as long ago as christmas sounds bad. is there any confirmation of this besides some facebooker who may or may not be someone?

Awful news.

will trish get better?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HMTcR_29J-w/TS0HDKp_G2I/AAAAAAAAGkg/Cufrf2UOPiI/s1600/15.jpg

magic eye says YES

:(

Good luck Trish. Sorry to hear this. Wonderful band.

^^ otm

get well soon plz trish

Hoping the life support is inaccurate, nobody's confirmed that yet have they? And the FB mention seems to have been removed (unless I'm looking at the wrong page)?

this and the jay reatard tribute are makin it a sad indie day :(

best wishes and prayers for trish.

Wow, this is bad to read about. I hope she recovers.

Oh shit, I came here hoping for some news about the new album. Wasn't expecting this. Terrible.

Christ, must've been just the other week I was listening to an interview with Trish where she mentioned how much she was looking forward to visiting Australia. I really hope she pulls through.

Trish has passed away.

http://twitter.com/#!/search/trish%20keenan

OH FUCK

oh my god.

I can't really take this in. I guess with the news only emerging the other day a few weeks on that was not a good sign but this is devastating.

:-( horrible news

omg :( RIP

blueski otm. So sad. RIP Trish.

We're saying goodbye
We're waving our hands
The waves and the tide
Move the grains of sand

Oh jeez, that's terrible. When I saw the thread revive I assumed they must have some new material. Really wad'nt expecting this.

Clutching at straws here, but has this been confirmed by Warp or someone yet?

I mean, this is a joke isn't it? ;_;

i haven't seen it confirmed. just lots of tweets .

Oh no. Awful, just awful.

Sadly it is true.

i went by andrew hung of fuck buttons tweet and figured he'd be in the know - he didn't quote a source but the sparseness of his message just seemed like a reaction to direct confirmation. it does seem to have snowballed from there tho so i'm sorry to have passed it on without that confirmation.

Well, that's just a pile of awful fucking shit then. Thanks Jamie. RIP Trish. xp

Oh man! I didn't see this thread yesterday so this is a total shock - though I'm sure it must be even for those who knew she was ill. RIP and thanks for the music. :(

Confirmation: http://warp.net/records/broadcast/a-statement

Awful awful news.

fuck. RIP. :(

Oh God. Really shocked by this news. Thoughts go to friends and family. RIP.

how the fuck do people die of pneumonia in 2010??? idgi

She apparently caught H1N1 in December and the pneumonia developed out of that. Get your shots people. R.I.P.

RIP

You would be surprised how easy it is. Your immune system doesn't even have to be weak or compromised in some way. xxp

RIP, I love Broadcast.

Terrible news, terrible and shocking. RIP.

xp yeah a friend's 21yr old sibling, fit and healthy, passed away from the same causes.

RIP - love her voice and she seemed like a stand-up character from what I could gather

You would be surprised how easy it is. Your immune system doesn't even have to be weak or compromised in some way.

Rep. Giffords is another example -- one of the chief concerns of the doctors this week was that she not end up developing pneumonia, which is why they've left in the breathing tube so long.

Very, very sad to hear this. Only saw them once with Languis some years ago here in Costa Mesa -- wonderful performances from both.

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGtMxXtlo-Q

Oh my god this is so sad. I kind of got into Broadcast through a weird way last year with that Focus Group record then went back and heard Tender Buttonns which I absolutely loved.

Yeah, Tender Buttons was their peak imo, but nevertheless I was *really* keen to hear what they would do next.

Tender Buttons is a top 10 album of the 00s for me.

I tended to love the EPs more than the LPs but The Future Crayon is an essential collection too, interesting 'b-sides' etc. I will probably give the Witch Cults LP some more time.

Geeta linked to the Wire interview Trish did in 2009 which is v interesting:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3069/

Ha Ha Sound forever and ever and ever. I've spent weeks listening to it.

Nice interview. Anyone who mentions Mort Garson and Alan Garner mere sentences apart is my kind of person.

Listening to Tender Buttons interspersed with various other tracks on Youtube now. Like NickB, Tender Buttons is my favourite (though I love Ha Ha Sound too, it doesn't get enough love) but I was looking forward to hearing where they'd go next. So sad.

It's desperately sad.

They were probably the one remaining band I've liked consistently since the mid-90s. Though they almost lost me with Tender Buttons, they more than won me back with the Focus Group stuff. And yeah I agree about the EPs - I was moved to make my own pre-Future Crayon CDR of those tracks for car listening back in the day.

I'm kind of freaked out to think that after waiting for 14 years or so, I saw what must have been her 2nd last performance. Allegedly 24 hours before early H1N1 symptoms arose. Could never have known that something awful awaited when she finally made it to the antipodes... :(

This is very sad, I discovered them through the Focus Group disc and I have been following them closely ever since.

:(

stevem pointed me in their direction with the 2nd post on this thread. like with all my favorite artists, there are bouts where i hardly listen to anything else. ha ha sound is how i like my pop. but tender buttons with its monochromatic coating is where i love to get lost in. all their output's great though...

Wow, really unfortunate and sad.

i'm still just stunned by this. words fail.

^^

RIP Trish and thanks for the tremendous music

This is completely terrible. I also clicked on this thread thinking they had finally gotten around to making some new music and totally was not expecting this. Just devastating.

I was lucky enough to see Broadcast in Austin when they toured in support of Ha Ha Sound. More than anything, I was blown away by how good Trish's voice sounded.

RIP

Jesus christ. My wife had pneumonia as a complication of tuberculosis a couple of years ago. There but etc.

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we3uPdZWBto&NR

Totally love "Echo's Answer." Discovered it by accident in a sale bin--had never heard of them before that.

found out on P4k earlier this morning -- so, so sad

RIP

awful news to wake up to, i love 'the noise made by people' so much. RIP

Such awful news. I've seen them live countless times, going right back to a few dates around the release of their first 7-inch. I feel for their manager, Martin "Pikey" Pike, who is also Stereolab's manager and has now lost both Trish and Mary Hansen.

Ugh god, I was just listening to "Before We Begin" yesterday.

This photo sums up so much, I feel:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/14/article-1347160-0CC2A386000005DC-371_233x423.jpg

It's this combination of technology as familiar constant while her look and dress conveying something serene, mystic and old. Makes me think of Coil, in a way.

Thanks, Ned--well put. RIP Trish.

Devastating news. Very very upsetting.. RIP

Very very sad news :(

RIP. a tragic loss.

jesus, this is devastating. her voice was like a blanket when life was shitty and confusing. She was like warm apparition that melted cold, technological burdens into something friendly and familiar. she healed digital sickness.

Totally love "Echo's Answer." Discovered it by accident in a sale bin--had never heard of them before that.

COSIGN, with emphasis -- this is my fav broadcast tune, and one of my fav songs probably ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7-gk_RsIL0

broadcast were, to me, made some of the most consistently compelling music of the last decade. lots of interesting records, new turns and twists in their sound with each, and quality never flagged. trish's voice of course was the constant thread between everything -- the familiar pillow to sink into as the music warped and mutated, went new places and folded back onto itself again. everyone should know and love this band. a stunning, singular talent.

r.i.p.

Dear god, I can't believe that such a thing could happen in this day and age.

Consistently good music, and a beautiful, warm singing voice. Also, they were a great live band back when they were a 5-piece, one of the best bands I've seen. I feel like someone who had much more music to give has been taken away. Fucking awful.

Very well said ilxor, thanks. Just got chills listening to "Echoes Answer".

no words :(

holy shit this is awful

RIP, terrible news

Saw them touring the first album, Bottom of the Hill, fall/winter 2000-ish?

Was blown away by the VOLUME, sheer decibels, quite a pretty sound that just roared.

My gal at the time was huge into them... I should let her know about this.

Work and Non Work is actually their best, amirite?

That was the one I listened to the most.

When I was dating my last and only girlfriend (turned me gay lolol) I burned her a copy of Haha Sound. It almost never left her car cd player.

Love that Winter Now clip.

One question: didn't they have a long-in-the-works album ready to come out? I wonder if we'll get to hear it..

I hope all the news spurs people to discover this wonderful band.

oh shit!!
what a great singer and band.
r.i.p

I was most heavily into Work and Non Work and the Focus Group collaboration out of all their stuff. Which I guess just goes to show that their genius managed to span their whole career. Not been able to listen to anything today, I'm just a bit too devastated by this - it's not like, say, Beefheart, where it's a respectful salute to a life, but rather this makes me very very angry and very very upset.

It's true. It is so frustrating when someone with so much potential and so much to give to the world dies before their time.

I feel much the same way as I did when Mary Hansen passed away. It's just way too soon.

A bit of my blog muttering.

this is so terrible RIP

God, this is so awful. Condolences to her loved ones, she made such fantastic music.

Im actualy in tears listening to her now,so sad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WVVWXcbBJs

:'(

goodbye girl

this makes me very very angry

It's weird, this is how I feel too! Feel like raving against the world... how could this happen? How? Definitely gonna sip a pint or two for Trish later.

And then I will read Ned's blog.

I'm in complete shock, completely gutted.

One of the finest voices and very best bands or recent times.

Great piece Ned.

Thanks much.

ned's blog is worth reading all the time imo, but his thoughts on this tragedy are especially worth a few minutes' time (and hooooly shit that run of youtube links at the end-- PHENOMENAL)

RIP. So sad, I remember discovering work and non-work right around 2000, and then proceed to buy everything I could find by them. Saw them live a few times and it was very memorable.
In an eerie coincidence, I was writing a poem this morning called "Sudden Loss" while all this was happening. Freaked me out a bit.

I'd like to reiterate what was said above - your piece is wonderful, Ned.

Shit. Just seen this. This is... so unjust. RIP, Trish

wait... someone just told me she was 42? is that right?

I last saw Trish & James play an improv set at The Vortex Jazz Club in - *checks* - Oct '09 (damn, seems like only a couple of months ago).

They'd just featured on the cover of The Wire (this issue: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3069/). It was a rainy day, on and off, and before their performance they sat quietly, just outside the cafe-bar downstairs, having a coffee, dressed casually and with cagoules on to help ward off the next shower or keep warm - James was even wearing the same sweater he wore for The Wire photoshoot - and looking very anonymous and not at all rock'n'roll (or jazz). Then they went upstairs, set up their own gear, and transformed into the ever-spooky and beautiful other selves for the 20 minutes or so of their set.

My favourite Broadcast recordings have been the more recent ones: they seemed to be slowly refining their sound and reaching for something transformative - and often getting there. God knows what James must be feeling right now.

xpost yeh that sopunds about right. flatmate was just telling me that she'd seen Trish support Delta as part of a folkish duo called (maybe?) Trish & Jude circa 1993ish, and even then it was obvious this was a hugely talented person.

Just found out. Can't really believe it. One of my all-time favorite acts and one who always progressed and pushed their own boundaries. They were always my first reference point when friends ignorantly told me nothing new could be done in music (despite their constant influences from the past). Who will sing my lullabies now?

they started out perfect and slowly improved. what a miserable loss. poor trish,

That's a nice piece, Ned.

Im actualy in tears listening to her now,so sad

― nakamura, Friday, 14 January 2011 17:27 (2 hours ago)

I actually have shed a few tears today, over this person I never even met. It's weird, the power that good music can have over your emotions.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^This completely. Her voice was just so warm and kind that you felt you'd known her your whole life.

This song for some reason just seems like a good way to remember. I love the sentiments in it. Love the album version, but youtubed it to discover that footage of "Halloween" was playing behind it. Prefer to let the band stand in themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3B1XtWD0gY&feature=related

This is terribly sad.

Feel punched in the gut. I can hardly believe it. :(

trish lives forever in our dreams

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5001/5354827591_b41642cbc9_b.jpg

Joe Muggs just posted this on Twitter:

Here's a compilation Trish Keenan made for a friend of mine just before going to Australia: great way to remember her.

Shortcut to link:

http://bit.ly/eI1wmT

thanks for the heads up, ned

Joe's friend said more on FB:

Before she went to Australia Trish sent me a mix CD of bonkers pop music she compiled, I never thanked her. Its called Mind Bending Motorway Mix and I want to share it with you, please pass the link on, share it far and wide, its a little tribute to a (as a friend referred to her today) exhilarating woman

d/ling now

Broadcast used to have a series of radio mixes up on their website that were really fantastic. There is still one of these up on their newer site, but I can't seem to track down the previous ones. Lots of great, obscure psych music.

no tracklisting!

some Broadcast live sets from bygone years can be found at http://www.percussionlab.com/

interview with Trish on Australian radio from December
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2QAMVQRK

seriously anybody got a tracklisting for this thing, I don't recognize anything so far...

> Broadcast used to have a series of radio mixes up on their website that were really fantastic.

these are from the broadcast forum, posted in the "Radio Files - can't open them" thread by Teclo. (website jiggerypokery stops me from posting link to the message itself so i'll just paste it here)

haven't checked these. first one appeared to still be there.

Radio Mix 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mqtdyinwmzu
2:
http://www.mediafire.com/?uamttmdqzwy
3:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wtqmedxhkxj
4:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ggmz04nftzm
5:
http://www.mediafire.com/?kzjunyjkdoj

have been listening all afternoon. brian cant, godzilla, morricone...

thanks for that link stevem. never saw them live.

shakey - second song from that mix is Harumi "what a day for me" .. . haven't recognized anything else yet ... only a couple songs in though

What a shock this is ... heard them for the first time in '98 on Warp's "We Are Reasonable People" compilation and couldn't stop listening to "Hammer Without a Master". It was the best track on an album that I listened to all the time in the summer of '98. In a way, they let me down for several years after that, because they couldn't top that song. Nothing from "The Noise Made By People" could touch it. But I became an even bigger fan of them after "Tender Buttons", which was tremendous. Great band, and such a sad loss. RIP.

this is bumming me out so much

this sucks ;_;

was in berlin for a few months in fall 2005, no internet and no money to buy music. tender buttons was the last thing i put on my mp3 player before the trip. discovering that album and a new city at the same time was wonderful... and then they came through on tour! just perfect. fuck :(

haven't read this, but http://pitchfork.com/news/41229-artists-react-to-death-of-broadcasts-trish-keenan/

Mix CD is totally great - wish there was a tracklist

wtf!

this is awful. Broadcast put out some of my favorite records of the 2000s, & the Focus Group collab last year was just as rewarding and promising as anything else in their remarkably consistent discog. just terrible..

of Montreal's reaction annoys me especially for whatever reason (it reeks of self-image promotion) but otherwise this tops the slew of deaths that affected me most lately. Even MJ's didn't entirely get me as much as it did the world - the guy seemed clearly past his prime, while Broadcast I was still waiting to release that classic album.

I can't stop thinking about this.

while Broadcast I was still waiting to release that classic album.

see, this is where i go: have you heard any of the 3-4 classic albums they already released??

was just going to say...

Didn't mean for it to be demeaning, I just never really felt the band had reached their prime yet.

she definitely had a lot of music left in her

^ I can dig it. Too young, too arbitrary, too bright a future... I don't think any other 'popstar death' has affected me more deeply.

of Montreal's reaction annoys me especially for whatever reason (it reeks of self-image promotion)

Unless its since been edited, I don't get this complaint. No less so than the Toro Y Moi talking about how big of an influence she was.

yeah, this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and i'm no of-montreal fan.

Not to get too nitpicky here about such a non-issue considering this thread, but how is of Montreal's thing worse than The Antlers... who actually linked to their cover of a Broadcast song? I mean, thats untimely self-promotion.

Anyway, back on topic, I happened to be meeting a friend near a record store today and had a few minutes to kill inside. Walked out with copies of The Noise Made By People and Work and Non-Work.

Another elegy http://www.bangthebore.org/archives/630

"If it was once written of Nico that her voice was so deadpan it could flatten a coffee jingle, Keenan was the polar opposite – her voice could make the speaking clock sound like your childhood best friend." Great article, Karen!

Another memoir by Bob Stanley: http://caughtbytheriver.net/2011/01/trish-keenan-remembered-by-bob-stanley

Lovely article, Karen. (Your B&W image of Trish is by my friend Ga1l 0'H4r4, if you want to credit that).

I haven't read my blogs recently, this has passed me by. This is so sad.

Only own the two last albums, I guess. And I really want all the others. Tender Buttons is such an appropriate name, I've never heard computer music sound so close to a hug and a roaring fire before. Listening to it seems like going to one of those empty but warm and inviting pubs with an old friend. I didn't even know Trish's name, I've never seen them live, I rarely read about them or anything but this feels like losing an old school buddy. The type you may have not spent a lot of time with an yet still ended up sharing a ton of secrets and in jokes with.

Tender Buttons and Haha sound really should be in everyone's collection, especially after how mental people went for The xx last year. And when I get a bit of money and sort my life out and can afford records again, I bet I will pick up their others and feel exactly the same way about them.

The Noise Made By People is their best!

hey y'all the tracklist for the Mind-Bending Motorway mix is here:

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=4565

Thanks for that!

ahhhhhh muchas gracias! was hoping that would turn up

Still two unlisted tracks but at least most of them now have an ID.

Victor Jara! awesome

Andy Votel's tribute, really good:
http://fingersports.blogspot.com/2011/01/bye-trish.html

this sunday's Freak Zone (radio 6, sunday) is apparently a tribute - featured album is Noise Made By People and he'll be playing related tracks.

Those Bob Stanley and Andy Votel pieces are really pretty great.

Incidentally, the Motorway Mix also formed the basis for the pre-show soundtrack for those final dates. I distinctly remember the Harumi and Tangerine Peel tracks, at the very least, playing at high volume while they were merrily plugging in cables and erecting the projection screen, etc, on December 9th.

jess harvell's piece on pfork today is nice

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7917-appreciation-broadcasts-trish-keenan

nitsuh's for vulture also

^^

http://dublab.com/archive/broadcast-live-at-the-el-rey-11-01-00/

Only finding out just now... Am absolutely gutted... RIP Trish.

Sound and Safe with Trent on WFMU devoted his last show on January 19 to Trish Keenan/Broadcast. The 128 kbps mp3 is ususally available for two or three weeks:

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38905

Freak Zone tribute show (available for another week for englishers)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xp3n6

also Freakier Zone with words by Prof Justin Spear
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xj7x3

I was listening to Broadcast last night lying in bed. It stuck me that there is something very ghostly about more recent Broadcast, and now Trish Keenan is a ghostly electronic presence.

i was wondering if people were generally aware of the mother is a milky way tour lp from 2009? cos it certainly passed me by.it'a a lovely bucolic, valerie ahwow-ish twin of the witch cults record. less sound collage and spookiness but with the same faust-y all runing together quality, quite folky and at times jazz-y instrumentation . a tour release seems such an un-broacast thing but this was a real unlooked for joy to listen to.

I got that on tour...they did that with a few releases. I have the 3" Microtonics CD. Mother is the Milky Way reminded me of His Name is Alive, stuff like King of Sweet.

Tracklist update from another forum:

03. Truck, "Earth Song"
14. Carl Erdmann, "Devil Worship"

That Koji Ueno song, apart from the vocals, could be lifted straight from a Broadcast album. Been playing this mindbending mix a lot, it's a gorgeous bubble to float around in.

wha? which mix

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=4565

sweet thx

Been playing this mindbending mix a lot, it's a gorgeous bubble to float around in.

Was relistening to it the other day. And a very good description that is.

[[[[man I am still bummed about this

nice formatting. drunk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4U7GZSerUw

Nearly a year ago, seems longer

This is sooo good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNhsiKad18
(should've waited for 4 days maybe but I've been playing their stuff again this week so hey)

don't know if it was posted elsewhere, but a recent interview with James Cargill quoted him as saying he's working on another album with vocals Trish recorded before her death.

I read about that somewhere, probably not the interview itself but a headline. Needless to say, looking forward to hear it.

sad anniversary. i think it's two records actually, a film score also.

Will be wandering around a lot listening to 'Mother Is the Milky Way' this weekend.

Relevant here I think: Berberian Sound Studio

I miss Broadcast. BTW she's playing an early 90s Roland MIDI controller, the same as I have. It has 49 keys, a pitch bender you can push up on to use as a mod wheel, and one slider, that's it. This IMO is the best MIDI controller out there.

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/137368-broadcast---berberian-sound

you can pre-order/preview it at Warp

http://warp.net/records/broadcast/berberian-sound-studio-soundtrack/

This is great news, as is the info about the album being made using some of Trish's stockpiled vocals. Those kinds of records can be awkward, and it doesn't change how sad it is that Trish died so suddenly, but as her partner is the one putting the record together it seems like it could be a really cool and touching record. Really looking forward to hearing both in due time.

Berberian Sound Studio streaming here

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/30/168144618/first-listen-broadcast-berberian-sound-studio?ps=mh_fl

pretty amazing

The soundtrack is nice enough but I just don't think I'll play it that much. Holding out hope that their final album will be more the kind of Broadcast I love. I might be stating the obvious here but I really want to hear Trish's vocals when I listen to them.

I thought this was their final work?

In this interview James says there were two albums he's been working on. http://thequietus.com/articles/07478-broadcast-new-material

Ah! Excellent.

Interview on the (making of) the Berberian Sound Studio score.

James, Roj & Julian (Broadcast & Ghost Box) announced for the Deerhunter ATP.

big feature in new Shindig mag this month

Tender Buttons demos:

http://futurecrayon.blogspot.com/2014/09/happy-birthday-trish_28.html

Reissues later in the year.

http://www.factmag.com/2015/01/27/warp-announces-reissues-of-long-out-of-print-broadcast-discography/

Think this is the last act I saw at Maxwell's, so yet another reason to get nostalgia/saudade thinking about them. The room was really filled with energy that night.

Not so later, Fact cacked up Euro date format. March 9.

like I said

Broadcast. How could I have been so wrong?

i guess some are technically out of print, but all can be had really easily. or are these vinyl-only reissues?

I am so happy about these vinyl reissues. I have been waiting for them for years. I am going to buy that bundle and it will be the best thing ever.

they're not going to sound any better on vinyl than they do on CD.

IDGI

What's a CD?

ha. i just find it weird that people get excited to pay $30 (or whatever) for an album they already own, or could own for much cheaper.

http://api.ning.com/files/qBjysj9canaPSqPKfc*wg7ZRdX8CCPtqUD*WVvqpk-KnZHym3rRTvNtJv940VxCmTGI0--MlTTp09SFqa5yLlv13EmA4kpa6/cherrykoolaid7x5.jpg

I will be excited to buy the albums I've never owned! I've only ever had Tender Buttons. And... if I buy that on vinyl as well... just look away. Don't look at me.

Records are nice

people have too much money

Not that easily got, some going for $100.

Odd Nosdam, whose name has been on my all-time worst list for over a decade running just getting that out there, released an ep in tribute to Trish Keenan today.

Through the Broadcast facebook page:

Debut album from Children Of Alice, a collaborative project consisting of Broadcast’s James Cargill, frequent collaborator Roj Stevens and Julian House (Ghost Box Records, The Focus Group)
http://www.childrenofalice.com/

^ So stoked!

Oh, that's awesome. I'm so glad that they're progressing in some form.

No new material here, apparently, but good to have it all in one place and easy to get hold of.

Was just coming here to post this. So stoked! Children of Alice name is a tribute to Trish, apparently: http://www.factmag.com/2017/01/12/broadcasts-james-cargill-announces-debut-album-warp-children-alice/

super excited for this one - i haven't heard the cassette. is it similar to broadcast? or like recent ghost box stuff? or more ambient?

i was not that into the berberian sound studio. should i give it another try? what with its theme of fragmentation and disintegration, "investigate witch cults..." seemed like a more fitting end to the broadcast project

So, this is out...incredibly stoked to hear this record!

https://bleep.com/release/stream/78524-children-of-alice-children-of-alice

not crazy about this one ... yet

he sure does love the backward tape effect, though

my main complaint is that the tracks sounded the same but i only listened to this once, and in the car, which was probably not the best place to listen

Not crazy about it either initially. Clearly another evolution from the sound they were cultivating on Witch Cults and Mother Is The Milky Way. Loving tribute to Trish' interest in Alice In Wonderland and their hammer horror plunderphonics. Feels like a Focus Group record with the slapdash found sounds and absence of Trish.

witch cults was my favorite album of theirs so i don't mind the sound in theory but ...

I love Witch Cults but miss Trish

nah this is great, though probably best approached as a follow through from the last focus group lp than witch cults. Having said that, the last time i saw broadcast on the south bank, they sounded pretty much this way.

Thought I'd posted this record from last year here. Really great stuff with "strange sounds" by Phil Jenkins.

https://v-twin.bandcamp.com/album/choose-your-own-adventure

^ Awesome record. Best merger of pram/stereolab/broadcast/USA/white noise I've heard

Yeah I live for this stuff. Is there a Rolling (whatever) Thread we could come up with?

^ Not sure, but I'm 100% on board with that

Slightly random thought but ... whatever happened to Keith from Wurlitzer Jukebox?

Sounds like a proto Broadcast?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z3yb88fA4U

Great song. It seems it was sung by Michal Shapiro? Shame she only was on one Elephant's Memory album, because I love her voice. She's an artist now, but doesn't even mention the Midnight Cowboy success in her bio.

I think this is the song it reminds me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJWkbSq_qTs

I fucked that up (as usual). It's actually this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WdrHOTtI4g

this must be intentional

There's a whole series of videos on YouTube with broadcast times and the things that inspired them. Ditto Stereolab.

i love those