New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

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.