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Broadcast transcend on debut North American tour
7 November 2000

Birmingham, England experimental/psychedelic pop act Broadcast played San Francisco’s Bottom Of The Hill this past Friday on their debut North American tour. It was a somewhat jarring sight—this extraordinarily creative and innovative band playing a small and dingy venue, hauling and setting up all their own gear, barely fitting on the stage. But, as their manager reminded me, few people in America know about Broadcast yet. Not that the band revealed the slightest hint of unwillingness or displeasure at the circumstances—clearly there was neither. I just picture them at Royal Albert Hall or the Kennedy Center.
    Launching straight into a track from their new album without so much as a 'hello,' the band proceeded to enrapture a tightly packed (and surely over capacity) crowd, performing with trancelike devotion to their songs. The delivery was simple (or so they made it look), devastatingly intense, transcendant—warping and twisting the time and space in the club for the hour they played and leaving many jaws hanging open in their wake.
    While Broadcast did not perform any previously unreleased material, the young quintet of Trish Keenan (vocals, keyboards), Roj Stevens (synths), Tim Felton (guitar), James Cargill (bass), and Keith Yorke (drums) performed extended versions of most of the tracks from their debut LP The Noise Made By People along with selections from each of their EPs.
    The band’s premiere North American tour began last month in New York during the annual CMJ Music Marathon. It continues Wednesday at 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis, running through 22 November with a show at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland. Catch Broadcast up close in a small club this time ’round while you can. | Broadcast | | Tommy Boy records site | | fan site | | tour dates | | bio | | discography | | sample | | CD | | top of page |

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