Broadcast

PCL PRESENTS
Gaye Bykers on Acid
8th February 2021
Broadcast, Glasgow
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AGE 18+
Doors 7pm
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Tickets available via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/gaye-bykers-on-acid/broadcast/1523717

PCL PRESENTS
Warm Digits
Thursday 28th January 2021
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7PM
AGE 18+
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Tickets on sale via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/warm-digits/broadcast/1609694

Warm Digits are Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s thunderous motorik space-disco duo with a pounding post-punk pulse. On their new album “Flight of Ideas”, Warm Digits make a call to arms: when we all think our ideas are right, what are the costs of never believing you could be wrong? Looking back to the history of psychology to find out what happens when ideas outlive their sell-by date, with their vocal guests they set up a blistering musical exchange between fluorescent agit-funk, primary-coloured synth-bounce and fizzing sheets of guitar noise. The LP features vocal contributions from Maximo Park’s Paul Smith, The Lovely Eggs, The Orielles, Rozi Plain and the Delgados’ Emma Pollock.

On this album, Warm Digits burst into technicolour, with a record that effortlessly captures the kaleidoscopic abandon of their rapturously-received live shows while moving into increasingly accessible and tuneful territory. “Flight Of Ideas” embraces a musically bright-eyed, even cautiously optimistic approach, filled with shameless melodicism and a more song-based sound, while never losing sight of the sonic hurricane that remains at the band’s core. Whether you dream of Can playing with the Chemical Brothers in an exploding fireworks factory, or if you’d rather hear Gang Of Four jamming with Giorgio Moroder on Jupiter, Warm Digits will turn your desires into reality.

Warm Digits are Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis. Their previous album for Memphis Industries, “Wireless World”, featured guest vocals from Field Music and Sarah Cracknell, amongst others, and garnered plaudits from BBC 6Music including an “Album of the Day” slot and a 6 week playlist place for “Growth of Raindrops” which featured the aforementioned Saint Etienne lead singer. A phenomenal live act, they have graced the stages of Bluedot, Green Man and Festival No.6 in recent years.

“An irresistible mix of Neu!-nodding analogue propulsion and math rock drive” – Electronic Sound “Rich, widescreen ambition and polyrhythmic playfulness” – Loud & Quiet
“An incessant groove that induces excited dancing whenever it’s played” – Louder Than War

PCL PRESENTS
HOLY F*CK
Saturday 16th January 2021
Broadcast, Glasgow
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Tickets available via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/holy-f-ck/broadcast/1533303

Canadian quartet Holy Fuck have always been happy to plow a distinctly lone furrow. Never ones to chase the limelight or hop on any genre-wagon that happens to be passing by,
they’ve played by their own rules for the past part of 15 years and five albums.

It’s for that reason that they’ve become one of the country’s finest, and most influential, exports, with their widescreen, technicolour, crescendo-heavy and highly danceable sound often finding itself imitated, but never bettered.
Even after attracting mainstream attention thanks to appearing on the soundtracks to both Breaking Bad and Mr Robot, the band has continued to go against the grain in a cultural landscape that that prioritises and lionises the safe and predictable over the marginal and single-minded.
Arriving a moment where attention spans are shot and anxieties are going into overdrive,

Deleter, Holy Fuck’s fifth studio LP, is a typically full-bodied affair. Polyrhythmic and pleasure- focused, Deleter sees Brian Borcherdt, Graham Walsh, Matt Schulz, and Matt “Punchy”

McQuaid taking their signature super-dense sound to new creative heights, seamlessly fusing the gauzy drive of krautrock and deep house’s dreamy ineffability, expertly blending purring motorik percussion with the sort of fuggy synthetic fizz and tang that so often sends clubbers into states of unselfconscious rapture.

From the thrusting minimalism of opener ‘Luxe’ through to the triumphant chug of closing track ‘Ruby’, via club-ready rollocker ‘Free Gloss’ and the cosmic clatter of ‘San Sebastian’, Deleter is a record that joins the Holy Fuck dots in fine style, sounding like no one else in the business.
Ideological inspiration has come from some slightly unlikely sources, such as the long-running Canadian television show Electric Circus. Effectively a club-friendly version of British cultural mainstay Top of the Pops, Electric Circus, in Holy Fuck’s eyes at least, is the crystalistion of a musical era that spanned Technotronic to TLC- a touch point for a group who’ve always tried to make people dance in their own way.

As Brian puts it, Deleter is partly an attempt to “make peace” with the dance music that was popular during his adolesence – an adolesence largely spent in the company of Black Sabbath rather than Black Box.”We were trying to step out of the corner we’ve been painted into,” he says. “Now we’re more in the dance world than ever. And this is the kind of dance
music I like.”

More than just a musical influence, the programme’s freewheeling sense of raw self-expression – from the hyper-colour sartorial ensembles donned by audience members and dancers alike to the totally unselfconscious dancing on display episode after episode – has bled into the hyperkinetic energy which drives Deleter on and on into hitherto uncharted sonic territory. Both Deleter and Electric Circus explore what happens when humanity and technology coalesce into one big, semi-organic celebration of the joys of spontaneity, repetition, and individuality.

Staying true to your own identity was crucial to the group during the LP’s gestation. “From the very beginning the approach has been lets try and make something so musical out of something that isn’t intended to be musical in the first place” Brian says. By this he means that the one constant in a career that has always put the focus firmly on moving into uncharted territory with each new record, is a fearless approach to musicianship, with the intention always having been to find a way of accessing the inherent humanity of technology.

“It’s been long enough now, somewhere around the last record maybe that it felt like we’ve done this long enough that we’ve kind of invented our own language. I think we’re pretty idiosyncratic and hopefully our music exists in it’s own realm. That’s not an easy thing to do. It takes a certain amount of dedication and faith but I think we’ve been doing it long enough
that we figured out that language.”

In a way, Deleter is an album that was written without realisation. Ever unconventional, Holy Fuck eschewed the usual writers-retreat approach to crafting an album. There was no romantic sojourn in a secluded cabin in the woods, nor did the group sozzle themselves in booze hoping to find inspiration at the bottom of a pint glass. Instead, Deleter’s basic vocabulary was formed of series of super-rough sonic sketches caught here and there at soundchecks and rehearsals. Those jams, field recordings, snippets and snatches of semi-coherent ideas where then fleshed out in a cross-continental processfrom which nine fully-realised songs emerged.

Brian admits that before the studio trips he was feeling a little isolated, a little down, a little lacking in forward momentum. “And then I opened up one of the folders I had that was filled
with those jams”, says Holy Fuck’s founder. Suddenly I had an epiphany: I was like, our record is nearly done!”

A succession of what the group describes as “happy accidents” saw them dividing their time between studios in Brooklyn, the Catskills, rural Ontario and finally Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Growing, swelling, waxing and waning, the resulting record is a defiantly ecstatic document of a band who evidently thrive off the sense of unbridled creativity and chaos that emerges
when the “four-headed hydra-beast” that is Holy Fuck find themselves in tandem.

“It happens pretty much every time we play together”, says Brian. “It’s part of the process of being four people playing the sort of music we do. We think of it like a game, as if it was a
really exciting version of chess. And in that game we find chemistry, euphoria, and catharsis.” Graham adds, “When we play live there’s a moment when we’re all playing and it’s like
levitation. That’s when you know something is really happening. That is euphoria.” As the band puts it, “the robots are smarter than ever, and the algorithm knows more and more what we like as individuals, but we have to remind ourselves that there is music in the margins that can go missing and that that music is more important than ever.”

Marginal or not, Deleter is the sound of Holy Fuck freely ebbing and flowing in their own unique ecosystem. As a listener you’ve got a choice – carry on with the passive consumption
in the way that the algorithm so desperately needs you to, or strike out and engage with something that’s actually worthy of your time. Something like Deleter.

9pm – 12am

It’s great to be back! We’ll be joined by Kitti for a Laid Back Listening session as part of our Normal Broadcast Will Resume Shortly programme. Our kitchen is open all night for our new vegan pizza menu (2-4-1 7 days!), and there is beer in the taps again.

COVID-19 guidelines are of course in place. We will be operating as a one metre zone, bar staff will be following an enhanced cleaning model, and we ask that you give us your name and phone number on entry as part of the track and trace initiative. All other measures, such as social distancing, increased handwashing, and general vigilance, are as applicable here as they are outside.

9pm – 12am

It’s great to be back! We’ll be joined by Lemon Drink for a Laid Back Listening session as part of our Normal Broadcast Will Resume Shortly programme. Our kitchen is open all night for our new vegan pizza menu (2-4-1 7 days!), and there is beer in the taps again.

COVID-19 guidelines are of course in place. We will be operating as a one metre zone, bar staff will be following an enhanced cleaning model, and we ask that you give us your name and phone number on entry as part of the track and trace initiative. All other measures, such as social distancing, increased handwashing, and general vigilance, are as applicable here as they are outside.

9pm – 12am

It’s great to be back! We’ll be joined by Kubitaru for a Laid Back Listening session as part of our Normal Broadcast Will Resume Shortly programme. Our kitchen is open all night for our new vegan pizza menu (2-4-1 7 days!), and there is beer in the taps again.

COVID-19 guidelines are of course in place. We will be operating as a one metre zone, bar staff will be following an enhanced cleaning model, and we ask that you give us your name and phone number on entry as part of the track and trace initiative. All other measures, such as social distancing, increased handwashing, and general vigilance, are as applicable here as they are outside.

9pm – 12am

It’s great to be back! We’ll be joined by Free Hat Records for a Laid Back Listening session as part of our Normal Broadcast Will Resume Shortly programme. Our kitchen is open all night for our new vegan pizza menu (2-4-1 7 days!), and there is beer in the taps again.

COVID-19 guidelines are of course in place. We will be operating as a one metre zone, bar staff will be following an enhanced cleaning model, and we ask that you give us your name and phone number on entry as part of the track and trace initiative. All other measures, such as social distancing, increased handwashing, and general vigilance, are as applicable here as they are outside.

2pm – 5pm

FREE ENTRY

Thanks to everyone who has come to visit us since we’ve reopened, it’s been class so far. On Saturday 1 August we’ll be open at 1pm as Tam Coyle helps us celebrate three legendary record labels. ?

We’ve been pretty busy, so book ahead by sending us a message on Facebook or Instagram, or emailing us at bar@broadcastglasgow.com to avoid disappointment as space is limited. Enjoy 2-4-1 on our Vegan Pizza Menu ? and expect music from:

Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Teenage Fanclub, Slowdive, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, and more!

9pm – 12am

It’s great to be back! We’ll be joined by The Novacs for a Laid Back Listening session as part of our Normal Broadcast Will Resume Shortly programme. Our kitchen is open all night for our new vegan pizza menu (2-4-1 7 days!), and there is beer in the taps again.

COVID-19 guidelines are of course in place. We will be operating as a one metre zone, bar staff will be following an enhanced cleaning model, and we ask that you give us your name and phone number on entry as part of the track and trace initiative. All other measures, such as social distancing, increased handwashing, and general vigilance, are as applicable here as they are outside.

9pm – 12am

It’s great to be back! We’ll be joined by Atlas Run for a Laid Back Listening session as part of our Normal Broadcast Will Resume Shortly programme. Our kitchen is open all night for our new vegan pizza menu (2-4-1 7 days!), and there is beer in the taps again.

COVID-19 guidelines are of course in place. We will be operating as a one metre zone, bar staff will be following an enhanced cleaning model, and we ask that you give us your name and phone number on entry as part of the track and trace initiative. All other measures, such as social distancing, increased handwashing, and general vigilance, are as applicable here as they are outside.