In a recent interview for The Wire magazine Trish Keenan of the enigmatic Midlands based duo Broadcast said of their 2009 album : Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age’ : “I’d like people to enjoy the album as a Hammer horror dream collage where Broadcast play the role of the guest band at the mansion drug party by night, and a science worshipping Eloi possessed by 3/4 rhythms by day”.
I was intrigued to see how such a trippy atmosphere could be recreated live so I went along to see Trish and musical partner James Cargill in the flesh at the Rocca Brancalone as part of this year’s Ravenna Festiival, the second in a series of four individual audio-visual shows under the title ‘Musica & Visioni – Weird Tales’ (other performers being Austria’s Fennesz, Mexico’s Murcof & Italy’s own Massimo Volume) Continue reading
