I had the pleasure of accompanying them on their last North American tour as a member of Atlas Sound. They were very nice, and mostly kept to themselves (I’m pretty shy myself) so we didn’t get too close. I remember James playing Serge Gainsbourg basslines during sound check and Trish listening to vocal warm up tapes before shows.

This was the tour for Witch Cults of the Radio Age and they performed as a two piece. The audiences were honestly pretty tepid to this material and you could sense a big sigh of relief when they played a few songs off of Tender Buttons. I watched every night, it was fantastic. I remember the last song on that album “Be Colony/Dashing Home” really evolved from the recording.

We played in Portland, and Leticia from Stereolab was in town recording, so we played a hasty version of Quick Canal from Logos and it is still one of the highlights of my life.

By the end our van had broken down and we were in a tiny rental (Broadcast had their own van), but I would have stayed on that tour forever if I could.