Now We Are Five • Greatest Hits #5 — Broadcast

Phone interviews can be excruciatingly awkward (examples here and here) but that was far from the case when Wears The Trousers’ associate editor Clare Byrne called up Broadcast’s Trish Keenan for a chat in the summer of 2006. The band were about to mark their tenth anniversary with rarities collection The Future Crayon – surely one of the most interesting compilations of its kind ever made – so it was a great opportunity to really explore the workings of this complex, innovative and seemingly aloof duo.

Softly spoken but far from haughty, Trish turned out to be a wonderful bundle of contrasts – as Clare describes in her write up, “Simultaneously self-deprecating and confident, whimsical and incredibly incisive, gently spoken and utterly precise in what she says, serious and very funny” – and the two of them bonded over a shared love of American literature and experimental writing methods. I haven’t seen another interview with Trish quite like it.

Read the full interview here.

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