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BROADCAST - Come On Let’s Go (2000)
What’s the point in wasting time
On people that you’ll never know
Come on let’s go
When you’re looking for a friend
But it’s empty at the end
When everybody’s disappeared
You won’t be alone
English pop band Broadcast’s singer Trish Keenan died Friday (January 14) of complications from pneumonia. She was 42.
Starting out as a girl-with-boys group making cinematic, retro-futuristic pop when such things were trending in mid-’90s UK music, it was convenient to lump them in with the likes of Saint Etienne, Dubstar, Ivy, Mono and even Pizzicato Five. Ultimately, Broadcast’s spacey sound owed more to Stereolab than any of the aforementioned, although it was more delicate, and the lyrical concerns steered well clear of ‘Lab’s Marxist screed in favour of the personal.
Keenan’s haunting, halting delivery was key to Broadcast’s ambient aesthetic. Its delicacy may have proven too specious for the record-buying public - Broadcast’s chart appearances were fleeting and modest - but that cinematic, ’60s bachelor pad vibe caught at least one VIP’s ear: debut single “The Book Lovers” appeared in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, alongside the likes of Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘66, Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Cardigans, when the latter was at its most beguilingly lounge-poppy.
Broadcast released three LPs and a host of singles and collaborative works. Reduced to a functional duo of Keenan and James Cargill, Broadcast had just finished a late-2010 Australian tour when Keenan took ill. She was admitted into intensive care in London, where she died Friday morning. Pneumonia. Good grief.
Broadcast were perennial favourites of BBC legend John Peel, regularly appearing on his year-end Festive Fifty countdowns. “Come On Let’s Go,” featured here in a great performance shot for Later…With Jools Holland, was #5 on Peel’s 2000 list.
