Broadcast 2000 ( London , UK)

From Broadcast 2000 Website :

Broadcast 2000 is the creation of Devon bornmulti-instrumentalist Joe Steer. On hisdebut mini album 'Building Blocks' he combinescello, double bass, guitar, ukulele, glockenspiel,banjo, percussion and his own layered vocals.All written, recorded, mixed and mastered inthe bedroom of his north London flat.26-year old Steer has been writing songssince his early teens, "recording on atascam four track casette recorder at first",and has played in a number of differentbands previously. It was only last year,when long time co-writer and Artisan bandmate Lee Schofield decided to move to Africathat Joe decided "it might be worth puttingmy own record together. I’ve always enjoyedexperimenting with recording just for my ownkicks."The songs are born firstly by Steer's charmingtenor voice, which has been compared to SufjanStevens and Chris Martin and secondly by thebeautiful arrangements, "although I’ve neverreally thought of myself as a vocalist.I started writing the Broadcast 2000 songsalways thinking I’d just put some vocals on asa guide, then get a proper singer to sing themonce I was happy with the tune", he explains. Thefact that he has got a musical degree might havebeen a help: "I did things like composing fordemodulated traffic noise, to be performed usingmulti-speaker 'diffusion' around a concert hall.Whilst also playing in the university orchestraand doing all the classical music theory stuff."Steer's rural origin also had a huge impact onhis musical development: "Growing up the middleof Devon means you have little else that couldpossibly occupy your time apart from music. Nofootball teams to support, no high street/shopping centre to hang around in. In fact themajority of my school buddies were in bands."

Music Style: Indie/Folk/Pop

Myspace Link: http://www.myspace.com/broadcast2000