Broadcast

Big Machine recording artist Lauren Jenkins has been a touring artist since she was 15 years old. The Texas born, Carolina-raised singer-songwriter chose a life that would fit perfectly in the songs she writes: across countless smoky bars, fake IDs, and endless miles on the road, music has been her one constant companion. Lauren’s unfiltered lyrics and unmistakably authentic vocals blend traditional country roots with Americana influences; she’s equally at home with cheerful radio-friendly melodies one moment, and expressions of raw emotion the next. Named an Artist to Watch by the New York Times, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Pandora, and many more, she was also chosen as a member of the “Class of 2019” by influential radio DJ Bobby Bones. Lauren recently completed writing, co-producing, and starring in an original short film titled Running Out of Road that accompanies the release of her debut album, NO SAINT, due in March of 2019. The first single from that album, “Give Up the Ghost,” is available now.

PCL Presents
Lydia Ainsworth
+ Elisabeth Elektra
+ Marley Davidson
Friday, 13th September 2019
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7PM
18+ Only
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Tickets on Sale Now Via See Tickets & in-store at Tickets-Scotland:
https://pclpresents.seetickets.com/event/lydia-ainsworth/broadcast/1383128

Lydia Ainsworth’s third album, Phantom Forest, introduces a lush, complex dream world that the singer, composer, and producer created and inhabited largely on her own. She produced all the songs, and wrote and performed everything on the self-released collection outside of a re-imagined cover of Pink Floyd’s “Green is the Color” and two other tracks (“The Time,” “Give It Back To You”), which started as instrumentals written by Survive’s Kyle Dixon (who composed the Stranger Things soundtrack with his bandmate Michael Stein), to which Ainsworth wrote melodies and added lyrics.

Ainsworth, who’s relocated to Los Angeles from Toronto since 2017’s Darling of the Afterglow, explains that the collection revealed itself to her “as a play taking place in Mother Nature’s vanishing home,” aka Phantom Forest, and that she’s singing from three perspectives: herself, Mother Nature, and Greek Chorus. For instance, of the album’s opener, “Diamonds Cutting Diamonds,” she explains: “The Greek Chorus sets the scene, narrating and offering direction on how to enter Phantom Forest. It’s my hope that the listener will imagine the narration to be directed to them as well, as they begin the journey of the album.”

You’ll get a sense of this from the collection’s edenic cover art and the playful, pastoral video for the album’s first single, “Can You Find Her Place.” Its inspiration came from Ainsworth’s love for Italian Renaissance painter Botticelli’s 15-century masterpiece “Primavera,” an allegorical representation of the burgeoning fertility of the earth in spring. She notes: “The video features the Greek gods of the painting in a choreographed Baroque style dance.” Keeping with the personal feel of the collection, her sister Abby Ainsworth directed the clip.

In line with the classical and historical depths of Phantom Forest, Ainsworth, who holds a Masters Degree in film scoring composition from NYU and studied composition as an undergrad at McGill, notes that although the album might be considered pop, she approached it as an orchestrator. “Even if I’m dealing purely with synths,” she says, “The songs are like a score, each one an evolving journey. I love to use strings so I’ve included my string arrangements on ‘Tell Me I Exist’ and ‘Can You Find Her Place.’ I recorded live musicians on drums, bass, and guitar on ‘Edge of the Throne,’ ‘The Time,’ and ‘Floating Dream,’ and wove those live elements into my programmed elements.”

Phantom Forest is a beautiful, vast collection that mixes the historical and the hands on, with hooks about the apocalypse and people obsessively using face-recognition software to see what paintings their face match with, in search of some kind of connection. It’s a journey that holds up to close listening (and lyric reading) and to dance floors, but that can also exist on a purely emotional plane. In all cases, it asks that you listen, and take some kind of action.

PCL Presents
Frankie Lee
+ Steve Grozier
+ Flew The Arrow
12th September
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7PM
18+ ONLY
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Tickets on sale Monday 8th July, 10am, via See Tickets and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/frankie-lee/broadcast/1404519

Stillwater is a small town between two hills in the middle of
America. Frankie Lee was born there and has been running from it and to it ever since. Stillwater is also a record about life in middle America. A “record” meaning simply that, converting sound into permanent form. This is the story of how that record came to be…

For the recording of the follow up to American Dreamer
– “debut album of the year ”Rolling Stone – Frankie
Lee had visited a few studios and they all felt like the same big production factories.

He had spent the best part of a year wrangling livestock and had a pile of cash on the table to pay for the biggest and best gadgets which he then found he ultimately had absolutely no interest in. Lee wanted to get away from people who thought music should be made in isolation booths or that bigger was better. All the people who wanted the next big thing.

Lee wanted the last little thing, he just had to find the right
space to do it in. One day Frankie Lee was walking down main street in his hometown and it hit him that he could bring the studio to them.

Luckily, the house he grew up in was available. His mum had lived in the same house in Stillwater for most of Lee’s life.
It’s a small cedar-sided house on an acre lot on the northern end of town, tucked back in the woods on a small hill, it looks like a log cabin.

So they packed in their instruments, tuned the old upright piano and rolled out a tape machine next to the wood -burning stove.
Music was made from morning til night.

For three days straight, they ate together, stayed together and
played together. Cutting six songs the first day and five the next, most of what they captured was first or second take.

The music is minimal and warm. Lee describes his sound as “Western Music”, steel guitars and synths blend with acoustic guitars and omni chords. The musical brush is gold and green,
dipped in deep blue. He slips in and out of time throughout the record. One line in a song could be its first or last.

The song – stories are a blend of his own romantic grit.
Ex – lovers, lost land and hope flung out of a car window, fraying in the wind.

On American Dreamer, Lee’s characters were set loose in
a seemingly inescapable inheritance of self – destruction.
On Stillwater, they seek a path towards redemption by returning home and confronting the past. Based on the loss of
youth, with a focus on the dissolution of love, as well as the real life of the working class, Stillwater is a scrapbook of
short stories, reveries and musical growth by one of America’s
greatest unknown songwriters.

PCL Presents
LUST FOR YOUTH
+ Grand Prix
+ TBC
Wednesday, 11th September
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7PM
18+ ONLY
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Tickets on sale Online now via See Tickets or In-Store via Tickets-Scotland
https://pclpresents.seetickets.com/event/lust-for-youth/broadcast/1389115

Copenhagen-based Lust For Youth, made up of Hannes Norrvide & Malthe Fischer, return with their self-titled new album, which is set for release June 7th via Sacred Bones Records. The first single from the LP, “Great Concerns” is streaming online now.

Pirouetting on decadence, meeting eyes with a dizzy sensation, falling and flying at the same time—Lust for Youth have continually held poise through the most vitalising of times. Their new album, a self-titled collection of eight songs, is sure-footed where they had earlier feared to tread, and light-headed for a new set of reasons. The album is driven by a dance-pop agenda, hustling its way through upbeat peaks that level out into reflective ballads. While still taking clear cues from a crop of austere synth-pop, Lust for Youth sound brighter than they ever have before, taking tips from some of the flirtiest Eurobeat to aid their new direction.

On their previous album, Compassion, Lust for Youth examined euphoria and contemporary life with a wry wit. Where facetiousness masqueraded as commitment, compliments and fawning clearly yearned for a true connection. Lust for Youth sees Hannes Norrvide and Malthe Fischer taking some familiar strides, though to another place. The disaffected balearia is this time rendered into brighter pop compositions that bustle with intricate production. No longer galvanizing us with hooks, but with a songcraft unhindered by anxiety, the album presents a cohesion not seen in the project until now. Lyrically, the apprehension still hangs like tinsel. Often garish and celebratory, the droll mischief is this time more pointed, more personal, and far more self-aware. A thread of reflections upon the state of the world is artfully wound throughout the album, casting a quiet force upon the detachment of Norrvide’s vocals.

Lust for Youth have been one of love’s most honest confrères, detailing the pangs of what is all too often a sullen process. On this occasion, they look up. The pull of the world is different for us all, but it pulls us all.

PCL PRESENTS
The Velveteers
+ The Pearl Hearts + TBC

Tuesday, 10th September
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7PM
18+ ONLY
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Tickets available via See Tickets or in store at Tickets Scotland:
https://pclpresents.seetickets.com/event/the-velveteers/broadcast/1398302

The Velveteers are an American Rock trio from Denver, Colorado that is the epiphany of punk with the aggressive sound and grungy wisdom that transcends through 21 year old guitarist and lead singer Demi Demitro and her two drummers. Through
fuzzed out guitar riffs and thunderous drums they lure their audience with vibes that come right out of a classic horror flick, the band is often compared to the likes of The Stooges, T.REX, and Led Zeppelin. In 2018 the band released their self-titled debut EP and have since been busy on the road touring. The Velveteers have supported bands such as Julian Casablancas and The Voidz, Deap Vally, Chicano Batman, and CFM to name a few. Most recently The Velveteers completed their first UK
headlining tour after previously supporting Deap Vally in the UK back in 2016. The Velveteers are currently getting ready to record their first LP in 2019.

They began as a sibling duo with Demi Demitro on guitar at age 17, and brother John on drums. Whilst the world has seen a succession of drum-guitar duos come and go since Meg and Jack started doing their thing, The Velveteers managed to
exploit a loophole that allows them to explore their obvious love of 70’s prog and glam, as well as indulging later punk influences. More recently they have added a second drummer in the form of Adrian Pottersmith (age 20), and in doing so have
created something completely unique, not least through the way in which their two kits have been partly morphed together. The two sticks men now not only conjoin to create the rhythms but are also forced to share cymbals. The result is an aggressive primal sound, a thundering syncopation that spars against Demi’s vocals and distorted guitar for attention, and produces a listening experience like being slammed by a ten ton truck.

PCL Presents
THE WARLOCKS
+ Stevenson Ranch Davidians + Kundalini Genie
Monday 9th September
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7pm
18+ Only
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Tickets available via See Tickets or in Store with Tickets Scotland
https://pclpresents.seetickets.com/event/the-warlocks-stevenson-ranch-davidians/broadcast/1373138

Formed in America during 1999, The Warlocks produce a relentless, hypnotic wall of sound that suggests a collision between classic psychedelia, Krautrock and Velvet Underground style rock and roll. It’s just what the head doctor orders if you wish to be an underground stateside phenomenon and that’s exactly what The Warlocks became.

Front man Bobby Hecksher grew up in the swamps of Tampa Bay, Florida where he was practically raised at a radio station owned his grandfather and where his mum also worked as a secretary. As a result Bobby was soon eating and breathing rock’n’roll on a daily basis. Bobby recalls, “My granddad was an inspiration. He created the radio station out of thin air. And from it all these nuggets of rock’n’roll came toward me”.

At sixteen his family left the swamps and moved to LA where Bobby soon found kindred spirits. He jammed with Beck, playing bass on Stereopathetic Soulmanure, Beck’s second independently released album. He hung out in the decadent atmosphere of the Mad Hatter club and moonlighted in the Brian Jonestown Massacre whilst also attending parties with legendary acid guru Timothy Leary, a potent cultural and creative mix that led to the formation of The Warlocks.

Their debut album Rise & Fall (Bomp 2000) set out their template, allowing The Warlocks to build upon their reputation as a forceful live act. But it was the band’s signing of a worldwide deal with Mute (in conjunction with City Rockers in the UK and with Birdman in America) that led to the release of Phoenix (2003) a record that raised their profile significantly. The album’s varying moods and atmospheres range from the driving power of “Shake the Dope Out” to the 14-minute, hallucinogenic opus “Oh Shadie.” International touring in support of the release and the sheer power of Warlock’s gigantic live sound built a worldwide cult following for the band that has only grown and intensified.

2005 saw Hecksher and company team up with veteran producer Tom Rothrock (Beck, Elbow, Motörhead) for the band’s third album, the dreamy blissed-out Surgery. After some significant changes in personnel, the band returned just 2 years later with the darker Heavy Deavy Skull Lover released on Tee Pee Records, followed by 2009’s The Mirror Explodes produced by Rod Cervera and Joey Santiago of The Pixies. All the while, the band continued to develop their sound and grow their fanbase, and after a somewhat longer hiatus, the Warlocks returned in 2013 with Skull Worship.

For The Warlock’s newest album, Hecksher has dug deep into the demo vault for the most promising, undiscovered musical treasures, which the band then reworked and re-recorded to bring you Songs From The Pale Eclipse. Hecksher explains, “Songs From The Pale Eclipse is a collection I’ve been wanting to get to for the last decade or so. We’ve sifted through stacks of demos, odds and ends on my 8-track…not everything fits like it’s one cohesive album; it’s not supposed to! In this modern age, you can pick and choose as you like!”

The first single from Songs From The Pale Eclipse, “Lonesome Bulldog,” features Hecksher’s solemn, yet seductive, raspy voice paired perfectly with melodic guitars that chime and swirl and sharp, tight drums. Hecksher’s poetic lyrics, such as “trying to unwind the time, falling through the mirror, with acid on my mind” from the track “We Took All The Acid” are playful yet articulate. “Drinking Song” is complete with visionary themes of the personification of alcohol and deep moods that reveal the pain of alcoholism, expressed by the line “oh alcohol, you know me too well.” The album’s deft production illuminates the multi-textured instrumentation and harmonically-rich vocals. All together, the effortless sounds of Songs From The Pale Eclipse will leave the listener intoxicated

PCL PRESENTS
The Cactus Blossoms
+ support
Sunday 8th September
Broadcast, Glasgow

Blood Harmony. Whether it’s The Beach Boys, Bee Gees or First Aid Kit, that sibling vocal blend is the secret sauce in some of the most spine-tingling moments in popular music. The Cactus Blossoms – Minneapolis-based brothers Page Burkum and Jack Torrey – offer compelling evidence that this tradition is alive and well, with a deceptively unadorned musical approach that offers “creative turns of phrase, gorgeous harmonies, and an ageless sound” (NPR All Things Considered), not to mention spine tingles aplenty. Their 2016 debut You’re Dreaming, a stunning and transporting collection of original songs, earned high praise from Rolling Stone and Vice Noisey, tour stints with Kacey Musgraves and Lucius, and a perfectly cast performance on the third season of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. Now their unlikely rise continues with new album Easy Way, to be released on their own label Walkie Talkie Records.

While many bands would have been content to stick with the winning formula of their debut, the Blossoms refused to repeat themselves. If You’re Dreaming celebrated their vintage country and rock influences, Easy Way reveals a songwriting style that has changed, evolved, and gotten more modern. Dan Auerbach, another artist who knows from bedrock influences, co-wrote two songs on the album. “Dan’s love for songwriting was inspiring, just the kick in the pants we needed to start writing again after being on the road,” says Page.

The brothers’ decision to produce the new album themselves no doubt led to the new sound. “We wanted the freedom to experiment with our own weird ideas,” says Jack, “We used to joke that the working title album should be Expensive Demos.” As they crisscrossed the nation on tour, the brothers would stop through Alex Hall’s Reliable Recorders studio in Chicago to chase the new sound they were after. The result joins together what would otherwise be distant corners of the American songbook. Both the traditional twang of Chicago pedal steel guitarist Joel Paterson (Devil in a Woodpile, The Western Elstons) and the primal wail of free jazz saxophonist Michael Lewis (Bon Iver, Andrew Bird) are at home on the album. Just as they did with their debut, the brothers found a voice all their own.

PCL PRESENTS
DIRTBOX DISCO
+ Reaction
+ Buzzbomb
Saturday, 7th September
Broadcast, Glasgow
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Doors 7pm
18+ Only
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Tickets Available via See Tickets:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/dirtbox-disco/broadcast/1392309

The band plays about 40 gigs a year in sold-out clubs and halls all over the UK. Year by year they are amongst the heroes for the thousands of spectators on Rebellion festival in Blackpool. The band is a five-pronged phenomenon. Behind the crazily costumed combo stand two brothers who do everything: writing, composing songs, recording demos, recording CDs, distributing CDs, and making videos. PR can never do them justice – seeing is not believing. It’s 2010 – a punk-party mood and a single rehearsal preps their first appearance in a pub. (Spunk Volcano and Brother Number 1: “After that show a member of the audience asked us if we wanted to perform at his party. I thought he wanted to fool me.”). DIRT BOX DISCO have since released six CDs (the last one in April this year), an EP and a Christmas single, which have together sold more than 15,000 copies. In other words, a freight trainload full of punk rock hits, full of mad rhythm guitar riffs, kicking drums and unique vocals. Perfect, compact punk songs that are the antidote to everyday, pre-Brexit drudgery. Strangely (!), just one of their 6 CDs has found it’s way into official stores. DIRT BOX DISCO prefer to connect via social media posts and concert sales. “Why should we be interested in distribution of CDs? We just wanted to play. On stage and in our little studio”, says Maff Fazzo (Brother Number 2). The energy level of the two brothers is galactic, they have another five (!!!) CDs waiting to be recorded.

DIRT BOX DISCO have now played all the O2 clubs in the UK as well as several sold-out gigs at the legendary 100 Club in London. and nothing will change: although their fame is rising minute by minute the two brothers will just continue rehearsing and creating new songs in a little garage in their home town Swadlincote.

PCL Presents
Esperanza
Friday 6th September
Broadcast Glasgow
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7pm Doors
18+ Only
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Tickets available via See Tickets or In-Store at Tickets-Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/esperanza/broadcast/1411132

Esperanza are a nine-piece ska collective from Glasgow famed for live shows where their infectious rhythm has the crowd involuntarily jumping in time. In several hectic years of gigging around Scotland and beyond, they have honed and perfected a high-tempo set, with superb self-penned songs, until there isn’t an ounce of fat left on it.

The quality of the band’s live shows has led to them being increasingly in demand: playing at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony; festivals up and down the country; and sharing stages with some of the biggest names in ska, punk and reggae, including Toots and the Maytals, The Skatalites, Bad Manners, The Beat, The Selecter, Neville Staple, The Undertones, Fishbone and The Toasters.

DHP Family Proudly Present…

Charley Crockett   
With very special guest Jaime Wyatt
Live at Broadcast
Thursday 5th September 2019
14+ (under 16s to be accompanied by an adult)

Tickets go on sale Wednesday 27th February at 11am.
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