Broadcast's Trish Keenan

[Fatter Hipper]

...is, at best, extremely unwell- and various well connected people on twitter are now saying she's passed away.

I feel a little bit angry at the world, and very sad.

[Fatter Hipper]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

Chris Herbert has confirmed she's passed away. Awful.

[diggedy derek]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

http://warp.net/records/broadcast/a-statement

sad and bewildering news

[Fussbudget]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

My god, I don't even know what to say. Awful news.

[Renart]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

From pneumonia? That's just horrible, shocking news.

The wife and I were just listening to The Noise Made by People last weekend.

R.I.P.

[Incandenza]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

Very sad. I only really know Tender Buttons, which I love, but now I feel like I need to listen to everything they did.

[steveeeeeeeee]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

Shit, genuine lump in the throat, I've only heard through this thread.

I met her a lot in the 90's, my ex knew her. I was always a drunk fan boy when I met her, which I guess she liked because Broadcast were perennially one of those criminally underrated bands and she never told me to fuck off and leave her alone, like many have told me when I've had a few. It fucking sucks that she's passed away, but it really fucking sucks that it has to happen when the future for the band finally looked so promising.

[wingco]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

This just so completely sucks and makes me sad and angry.

[Crusoe]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

Awful news. Just tragic.

[Wyatt Earp]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

This happened to the young wife of a college friend of mine: dose of the flu, pneumonia, dead. It's utterly shocking. It's a thing you associate with Jane Austen novels, not 21st century Western reality. Horrible, horrible news.

[The Purple Cow]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

Not sure how relevant this is, but my brother's best mate is a consultant in charge of intensive care at a hospital here in the northwest. He lost a previously fit, sporty and healthy 22 year old female patient to pneumonia just last week.

It appears that swine flu sometimes leads to a form of pneumonia where the normal exchange of gasses just doesn't happen. He was saying it's totally heartbreaking, and as a physician totally baffling. You can ventilate these patients till the cow's come home, but if the normal exchange of oxygen and CO2 doesn't happen you are totally powerless to save them.

[Edit:sometimes.]

[Mumpo]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan



Long Was The Year

[Edie St Pierre]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

Ah, man.

I've been listening to an early compilation called 'Work and Non Work' a lot recently. I hadn't heard it before. It's great.

[linus]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

Yes, maybe their best CD, hard to find too, so hold on to it.

Mumpo, very nice understated tribute to what was perhaps the most interesting and talented musician from the last two decades.

[Edie St Pierre]

Broadcast's Trish Keenan

Oh, blimey. I didn't realise it was hard to get hold of.

I got it for under a fiver on ebay.

And yeah, it's excellent stuff.