Broadcast (band)

Broadcast
Broadcast performing at Sónar Galicia in A Coruña, Spain in June 2010
Background information
Origin	Birmingham, England
Genres	Indie electronic, dream pop, neo-psychedelia
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Wurlitzer Jukebox, Duophonic, Warp, Tommy Boy/Warner Bros.
Associated acts	Hayward Winters, Seeland, The Focus Group
Website	http://futurecrayon.blogspot.com/
Members	James Cargill
Past members	Trish Keenan (deceased) Steve Perkins Tim Felton Roj Stevens Keith York Phil Jenkins Jeremy Barnes Neil Bullock

Broadcast are an indie electronic band, founded in Birmingham, England in 1995. The band has released three albums as well as several EPs, singles and EP collections.

Broadcast's original members were Trish Keenan (vocals), Roj Stevens (keyboards), Tim Felton (guitar), James Cargill (bass) and Steve Perkins (drums). Various other drummers played with the band, including Keith York, Phil Jenkins, Jeremy Barnes and Neil Bullock. As of 2005, the group consisted of the duo of Keenan and Cargill. Following the 2011 death of Keenan, Cargill remained as the only member.

Keenan (formerly of folk duo Hayward Winters) and Cargill met in the mid 1990s at the Sensateria psychedelic club, and formed Pan Am Flight Bag in 1995, renamed Broadcast after several concerts.

The band's first releases, both in 1996, were the "Accidentals" 7" single (issued on Wurlitzer Jukebox Records) and The Book Lovers EP (issued on 25 November by Duophonic Records). They attracted the attention of Warp Records, who compiled the single and EP as a compilation album, Work and Non Work, issued on 10 November 1997.

The 1999 Broadcast track "You Can Fall" was included on the soundtrack album Morvern Callar, released by Warp in 2002. This soundtrack accompanied the Lynne Ramsay film Morvern Callar, based on the Alan Warner book of the same name.

The group's debut studio album, The Noise Made by People, was released by Warp on 20 March 2000; the band also issued two EPs that year, Extended Play and Extended Play Two.

Second album Haha Sound was released on 11 August 2003, preceded by two EPs, Microtronics Volume 01: Stereo Recorded Music for Links and Bridges and Pendulum. Felton departed after Haha Sound to form a new project, Seeland, with Billy Bainbridge (formerly of another Birmingham Warp act, Plone), leaving Broadcast as a duo of Keenan and Cargill, who released their third album, Tender Buttons, on 19 September 2005.