New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

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.