New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

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More italian futurism from the Sheffield crew, you feel the need for speed whilst playing the new Broadcast, the need for speed in the beatz that fly in and out of your head phones. Abstract noises abound. The singer still sounds like she's singing variations on the Barberalla theme as she goes on about force fields and protection. Being stuck at Highbury and Islington actually felt strangely sci-fi, whilst looking at a japanese advertisements. Could have been anywhere and anytime. Half hoping to see space craft as the most effective mode of transportation around the decaying buildings of London. But alas, it was still Stockwell and the Broadcast EP ended. 5/5. Cause man they gave me experience. What else would you want from Broadcast?

Samson, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

http://www.base58.com/tunes/broadcast_pendulum.mp3

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.

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

Italian futurism tho? explain!

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

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:09 (10 years ago) Permalink

THEY'RE FROM BIRMINGHAM.

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

tried to capture the lyrics, this is what i got:

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...

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

No idea.

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

The intentions of this manifesto was a wake-up call to Marinetti's countrymen to make them aware that they had been 'wearing second-hand clothes for too long.' It was time for them to create a new art for themselves, forged out of the beauty of speed and a glorification of war: Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice.

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

'Pendulum' is one of their darkside tracks, like 'Hammer Without A Master' and 'DDL' but they've also got the subdued melancholic numbers ('Lights Out', the extraordinary 'Echo's Answer'), breezy pop ('Living Room', 'message From Home', 'Come On Lets Go') and the spymovie surreal odysseys ('Dave's Dream', 'The Man From Atlantis') - there's often a lot more going on in their stuff than meets the ear, incredible sounds, sequences, sonic events, Trish has a sweet, dulcit and subtle voice, not soulful like Beth Gibbons or warped like Roisin but beautiful nonetheless.

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'm in a computer lab. People are looking at me. I cannot help it. It's pulsing, repetitive, pounding... the whole slightly tacky wood-panelling effect - you can almost see paint peeling off their instruments, especially on the bizarre kind of shimmer - is it guitar or synth? Don't know, but this isn't secondary school music lessons... yet that's how it feels. Decaying tape, too much fuzz, and those drums, never, ever going away...

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

oh god i listened to some of The Donnas last night but was not too impressed. great website tho, ha - a band to be seen and not heard?

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

Hmm, dunno. I'm the computer block at uni (the big one - there's a lot of them, but this is the nicest - flatscreen swivelling monitors - yum), with the full intention of writing a shitload of stuff for CTCL. Broadcast have just utterly fucking wrecked that.

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

Thank you so, so much.

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

Which is a nicer way of saying - not too fussed on the Donnas, but I could probably do 150 words on them.

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:42 (10 years ago) Permalink

Thing that just got left out about Italian Futurists: they were fascists, no?

nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

The MP3 sounds cool, maybe I need to check them out. A bit Stereolab sounding. It didn't make me "feel the need for speed", which at this point in time I count as a blessing.

Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

Everyone in a rock'n'roll band is a facist, Nabisco. Sometimes I think ART is facism.

Samson, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

i await the inevitable 'what the fuck is all the fuss about you curmudgeons? this is tedious drivel' backlash, tho not with glee

stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

That's the thing that makes it so great, though - the sheer, unrelenting seriousness of it all, serious because they couldn't do it any other way, because doing it any other way would be a bit rubbish and pointless. So when the drums drive, they mean it, and that makes them all the more hard and fantastic.

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

Stevem I feel sorry for Broadcast haterz. No need to crack down. They are talking to hear themselves talk!

Samson, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:59 (10 years ago) Permalink

samson why are you posting here when you could be listening to '604'? ;)

stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

I am about to go to bed. And my London mullett is not properly grown in yet so I can't feel the painfully obvious irony of'604' yet.

(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 (10 years ago) Permalink

painfully obvious irony

sigh, isn't it GREAT?!

stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

Came back into uni today solely to hear this again (forgot CD-R DAMN)...

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

The new mp3 didn't do all that much for me: I'm a little scared!

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

well to be honest, i think its far from one of their best tracks but i'm just excited they're back, and its great to see William's (and others) enthusiasm for it, makes the thread (and me uploading the tune) entirely worthwhile

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

Thank you.

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

from nme.com...

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, they're playing a nice small show here in Costa Mesa May 7. Must get tickets...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 April 2003 00:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

Steve, or anyone else who might know - do you have any idea what the "unknown" mp3 on base58 is? base58 matey seems to think it's Bola, but it doesn't really sound like them.

Tag (Tag), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'm up for the review for the May show, Steve. Maybe I will see you there?

Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

sure thang Sonny

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ah, OK. Let me know when you find out, ta.

Tag (Tag), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:54 (10 years ago) Permalink

it was Blue States' 'Stereo 99' all along

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:42 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...
haha sound is on slsk now, if people didn't already know. i'm four tracks into my first listen and i'm loving it so far...

toby (tsg20), Thursday, 29 May 2003 09:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

''Thing that just got left out about Italian Futurists: they were fascists, no?''

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

i wonder where this EP got in the charts...number 137?

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

Anyone going to see them at ULU tomorrrow night? FAP maybe?

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

yes charlie, will be in the Bricklayers Arms (if its not too busy) around 7pm

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

nah, i don' want to see any of you bitches anywhere near me! ; - )

doom-e (Jam), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

er i better point out thats the Bricklayers Arms just off Tottenham Court Road

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

Saw them in San Francisco a few weeks ago, first time. I like listening to them but there always seems to be something off about them. They really are kind of Pram for poseurs, and the new ep goes a long way toward pushing them toward Pram territory with more weird instrumentals and slightly atonal jazzy jammy bits. I don't know; it's alright but it's not Dark Island and something about them seems insincere (maybe it was the crowd though; they definitely pull the styley anglophile popscensters in SF, and I'm having a hard time divorcing the band experience from the show experience right now).

anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 29 May 2003 13:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

er i better point out thats the Bricklayers Arms just off Tottenham Court Road

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

forget Bricklayers, will now be in the Rising Sun on TCR from 6pm, i am in a red t-shirt that says 'supreme being' in swiss type on the front...hmmm, maybe i SHOULD go to the Brickies in Hoxton...

stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 May 2003 12:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

Also going.

suzy (suzy), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

(And to give a late post, the Costa Mesa show was indeed really good.)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

That new EP was awful. They're putting sounds ahead of songs, which is a big mistake... just like that last Add N To X album.

blutroniq (blutroniq), Friday, 30 May 2003 16:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

Saw them in Montreal a couple of weeks ago. Terrific, charming concert. Everyone was thrilled & terribly impressed.

slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 30 May 2003 17:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

doom-e, you got the speed but where is the war? where is the grind! marinetti ain't about no ethereal star trek themes! no empty space, no protections; BODY KINESIS ZTT!

"we want to re-enter life"

Chip Morningstar (bob), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

well it was a good (occasionally GREAT) gig but i cam away gutted they didnt play 'Echo's Answer', 'Papercuts' or 'Message From Home' - and nothing from 'Work And Non Work'...sure they've got a new album to play out but still...'Hammer Without A Master' was particularly ace tonight tho

stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 May 2003 23:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

Really nice projections too.

slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 31 May 2003 00:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

fucking great show!

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

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.

"jobs" (a hoy hoy), Monday, 17 January 2011 13:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

The Noise Made By People is their best!

ilxor, Monday, 17 January 2011 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

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

sleeve, Monday, 17 January 2011 19:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

Thanks for that!

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 03:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

ahhhhhh muchas gracias! was hoping that would turn up

ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

Victor Jara! awesome

ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

Jeff W, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 11:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

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.

koogs, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 11:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

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.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 11:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

jess harvell's piece on pfork today is nice

ilxor, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

nitsuh's for vulture also

idgi fridays (blueski), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

^^

ilxor, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 05:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 20 January 2011 21:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

Kaolin Warrior (KMS), Friday, 21 January 2011 15:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

koogs, Sunday, 23 January 2011 21:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

koogs, Monday, 24 January 2011 14:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

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.

The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 01:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

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.

cw, Saturday, 12 February 2011 20:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

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.

dan selzer, Saturday, 12 February 2011 20:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

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.

willem, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 05:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

wha? which mix

tremendoid, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 22:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

sweet thx

tremendoid, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

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.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

nice formatting. drunk?

ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Friday, 25 March 2011 03:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

blueski, Saturday, 18 June 2011 19:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Nearly a year ago, seems longer

This is sooo good

(should've waited for 4 days maybe but I've been playing their stuff again this week so hey)

willem, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

dan selzer, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 04:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

willem, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

cw, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

Yeah Yeah Bohney (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 13 January 2012 12:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Relevant here I think: Berberian Sound Studio

Stewart D or Raheem? (useless chamber), Sunday, 2 September 2012 13:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

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.

3×5, Sunday, 2 September 2012 19:05 (8 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

you can pre-order/preview it at Warp

dan selzer, Thursday, 1 November 2012 13:24 (6 months ago) Permalink

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.

grandavis, Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:32 (6 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Berberian Sound Studio streaming here

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

Gouty_Ted, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:19 (4 months ago) Permalink

pretty amazing

Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 23:55 (4 months ago) Permalink

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.

Kitchen Person, Thursday, 10 January 2013 00:35 (4 months ago) Permalink

I thought this was their final work?

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 10 January 2013 01:20 (4 months ago) Permalink

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

Kitchen Person, Thursday, 10 January 2013 01:33 (4 months ago) Permalink

Ah! Excellent.

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 10 January 2013 03:27 (4 months ago) Permalink

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

willem, Friday, 11 January 2013 14:32 (4 months ago) Permalink

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

Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 23:31 (4 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

big feature in new Shindig mag this month

koogs, Saturday, 13 April 2013 13:54 (1 month ago) Permalink


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