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Trish Keenan: Working-Class Psychedelic Hero

By: Fergal Kinney

Since the 2011 death of singer Trish Keenan, Birmingham electronic group Broadcast have become increasingly influential for a style that applies a notably internationalist and modernist interpretation to the psychedelia of the 1960s.

(Photo by Gary Wolstenholme / Redferns)

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Like a surprising number of British teenagers during the 1980s, Trish Keenan had become consumed by a black-and-white, nostalgic vision of Britain’s recent past. ‘I was obsessed with the kitchen sink idea of the 60s,’ Keenan told The Wire magazine in 2009. ‘I felt umbilically connected with it because of my upbringing. It was the […]

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Like a surprising number of British teenagers during the 1980s, Trish Keenan had become consumed by a black-and-white, nostalgic vision of Britain’s recent past. ‘I was obsessed with the kitchen sink idea of the 60s,’ Keenan told The Wire magazine in 2009. ‘I felt umbilically connected with it because of my upbringing. It was the […]

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Like a surprising number of British teenagers during the 1980s, Trish Keenan had become consumed by a black-and-white, nostalgic vision of Britain’s recent past. ‘I was obsessed with the kitchen sink idea of the 60s,’ Keenan told The Wire magazine in 2009. ‘I felt umbilically connected with it because of my upbringing. It was the […]

Like a surprising number of British teenagers during the 1980s, Trish Keenan had become consumed by a black-and-white, nostalgic vision of Britain’s recent past. ‘I was obsessed with the kitchen sink idea of the 60s,’ Keenan told The Wire magazine in 2009. ‘I felt umbilically connected with it because of my upbringing. It was the […]

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