New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

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.