New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

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.