New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

I've been thinking a lot about the fact that we lost Trish to the H1N1 pandemic. Not a coronavirus, but I hope our leading lights are staying safe. There's not a month goes by that I don't wonder what we lost from her work to come.

I've been playing a lot of my favourite records for comfort over the last few days and Broadcast have been right up there. Work & Non Work and The Noise Made By People are the ones I went for first and they just sounded as perfect as ever.

Here's a mix I made in tribute to Broadcast a few years back:

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HB Trish

https://soundcloud.com/james-broadcast/where-are-you-4-track-demo-2002

Just came to post that! One of my favorite things ever.

Happy belated birthday, Trish.

After listening to that I was led back to some of Neanderthal’s recordings. Good stuff.

Miss her presence in the world.

Trish Keenan of Broadcast died ten years ago today. I love this band. pic.twitter.com/9dHrwyZGJa

— Brett Davis (@BrettDavisRIP) January 14, 2021

me too

I wonder if the last Broadcast songs will ever be released? there were some really good songs played live towards the end that aren't on any of the records

eg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRnDmDC2tVk

it would be pretty special if there was enough for a final album, feels like a "new" release would also be a nice occasion for a really big celebration of her life and art

I was particularly intrigued by the "what you want is not what you need" song from that same show. (Now popularly known as Dulcimer Jam) It was only upon seeking news of possible new recordings that I heard that something had gone awry on her homeward journey. :(

yeah I saw the Sydney show and that dulcimer song was a highlight - it was all highlights really - seeing her so alive and radiant as a performer made it all the more difficult to process her loss only a week or so later

an all-Broadcast day here today

Good lord, the Peel version of Echo's Answer is marvelous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STA36QgxdB0

Wow were the Peel sessions never released officially? I think I’d forgotten that.

i remember being disappointed with the official Youth And Laughter after hearing the peel session version first. i think the vocals and the music just go together better on this version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfzzKZ1QQio

Happy Birthday Trish - https://t.co/WYtRatBN3o

— Duophonic Super 45s (@45sSuper) September 28, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxsxFUilMic

Just started listening to Ominous Cloud as this thread popped up, think it might be my favourite now. When are we having that Broadcast poll?

It's haha sound season all right.

popped in a coffee shop a couple weeks back terribly under the weather and just hearing them play haha sound over the speakers lifted my spirits considerably.

that demo is so beautiful - there’s something about those intimate (dictaphone?) recordings of Trish that I find really transporting - it’s like they open up another dimension

Weird coincidence considering the posts upthread from last year but there’s a new BBC sessions album coming out soon. It’s in Mojo but I can’t find anything about it online so far.

oh yeah, I saw a screenshot of a Jon Dale I think review, BBC sessions but also two other releases? Maybe the witch cult one? Also didn't see anything online.

Maida Vale Sessions, Microtronics 1 & 2, and Mother is the Milky Way all getting releases on Warp. It's in Uncut. It doesn't say how they are being released.

oh right. I have the microtonics 3" Cds.

And here's the details

Broadcast release three archival albums 18 March 2022, available for the first time across formats.

‘Microtronics - Volumes 1 & 2’ [WARP335]
‘Mother Is The Milky Way’ [WARP336]
‘BBC Maida Vale Sessions’ [WARP337]

Pre-order
→ https://t.co/TrrYbPThrR pic.twitter.com/whfUK0LV0I

— Warp Records (@WarpRecords) January 25, 2022

Can't wait to hear the Maida Vale sessions! (and have a legit copy of Mother is the Milky Way)

Woah

various levels of things i already have. not sure i've heard the evening session tracks though.

some of those peel sessions i prefer to the 'real' versions. 'where youth and laughter' go sounds more playful, for instance.

Maida Vale Sessions is fantastic

It really is.

yeah it is absolutely wonderful, the 2003 session in particular is breath-taking. Mother is the milky way is a revelation too, liberated from headphones and wooly mp3 compression, it make perfect sense as an lp. I always thought of it as an endearing footnote to witch cults, but i think i might actually prefer it.

Never heard the Nico cover Sixty Forty before (nor the original!). It's absolutely gorgeous.

definitely gonna pick up the vinyl of the BBC sessions

selling Mother is the Milky Way as a full-priced LP feels a little cheeky - would have been cool even just to bulk it out with the Familiar Shapes and Noises EP (which is sometimes my favourite Broadcast release)

Maida Vale Sessions is fantastic

― willem

Absolutely! Some of these versions are unbelievable. I felt so emotional listening to Echo's Answer.

Whoa, didn't even know this was coming. *opens streaming client*

I did the exact same thing!

Pretty sure "Echo's Answer" is the pinnacle of mankind's achievements in my lifetime tbh.

I guess I should have heard "Forget Every Time" and "Sixty Four" via unofficial channels by now, but I never did. I'm digging them.

Will have to seek some actual retail CDs, for the first time in a while, if only so I can conduct a ceremonial trashing of my Microtronics and Mother CDRs lol.

^er, "Sixty Forty" rather.

Incidentally, might there be potential voters for a Broadcast ballot-based poll frequenting this thread? It's been on the to-do list in the poll organising thread for some time, but the response has mostly been lukewarm over there. Just occurred to me that I never enquired more broadly...

I'd be up for that!

Same!

Def up for a Broadcast poll

Not exactly a huge amount of material to cover, but I'd do it

this is undeniably old broadcast but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LicRs6WXVo

down for a poll

idk how the pollz system works around here but since these new re-re/releases have come out i'd hope some delay is given.

Here is a perfect live performance that was recorded for CBC Radio during the HaHa Sound Tour. They were so special. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNnGDzrciw

I like anticipating whether 'Unchanging Window' will be allowed to morph into 'Chord Simple' at length. It's seemingly the dominant live arrangement.

Thanks for the feedback re poll. Sounds like it might be viable after all!

everyone otm on Maida Vale - so great and the Lights Out just stopped me dead.

I've liked Broadcast for what, 20, 25 years now & it's always been a drifting in-and-out thing for me - always approving, occasionally loving tracks. But in the last few weeks they've become all I want to listen to - the soundworld I suddenly need - like I'm hearing just how good they were for the first time & wondering why I wasn't paying better attention even while having their albums on & just feeling that death should fuck off.

Anyway, I'd vote

I really caught the bug between Haha Sound and Tender Buttons, had thought of them as a kind of alt Stereolab but then realised what a magical thread they were pursuing. Blown sideways by Trish's death and there has been a hole missing from me ever since.