SOME BROADCAST NEWS

Trish Keenan, lead singer with Broadcast

The wonderful Broadcast, by far one of the most underrated UK acts, will be releasing a compilation of rarities and EP tracks on 21 August on Warp Records. The album, which will be available on CD and limited edition double LP, is entitled The Future Crayon and will feature eighteen tracks, as follow:

Illumination, Still Feels Like Tears, Small Song IV, Where Youth And Laughter Go, One Hour Empire, Distant Call, Poem Of A Dead Song, Hammer Without A Master, Locusts, Chord Simple, Daves Dream, DDL, Test Area, Unchanging Window / Chord Simple, A Man For Atlantis, Minus Two, Violent Playground, Belly Dance.

The band will also play a handful of dates throughout the UK in July. So far, dates confirmed are:

Bristol (19/07), Manchester (20/07, TBC), London (21/07) and Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival (22/07).

It was also recently announced on the band's forum that work is continuing on the follow-up to Tender Button, with a provisional release date of early 2007.