Broadcasting live

You know what else I hate? Not finding out that one of my favourite groups are on tour and playing where I live until the night of the actual bloody concert and missing it as a result. This never happened back in the days when I read the NME religiously every week, now it's so much harder to keep your finger on the pulse. My old finger anyway.

The band in question were avant-pop radiophonic/electronic act Broadcast, who I saw live several years ago and would love to have seen again as they're on the ever-shrinking list of active bands whose new releases I buy automatically which helps to preserve the illusion that I'm still hep to what the kids are digging. The good news was they were on tour in support of their first new record in four years, an experimental mini-album with the brilliant title "Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age" which is all a bit peculiar and sounds like the incidental music to some cult 1960s horror movie you caught late one night on BBC2 when you were a kid that gave you nightmares for weeks. It comes with this beautifully creepy "trailer" video which has a major "Children of The Stones" vibe to it.



For those that aren't familiar with Broadcast's eerie radiophonics (shame on you) try these tracks from their previous albums on for size. The best description of them I can think of is Francoise Hardy singing the theme from Dr. Who.

Download: Pendulum - Broadcast (mp3)
Download: Unchanging Window/Chord Simple - Broadcast (mp3)
Download: The Book Lovers - Broadcast (mp3)

Just for the hell of it, here's one more video.