Graeme Black met Pete MacDonald while they were working in a library in Glasgow in 2004. After subsequently bumping into each other at various gigs they got talking about music, enthusing about Lambchop and Clem Snide and comparing favourite Smiths songs. Considering this to be a pretty good sign, they tried playing some songs together in Graeme’s kitchen and, when this wasn’t a complete disaster,… decided to call themselves The State Broadcasters.
After some early formative gigs with Graeme on guitar and vocals and Pete on piano and trombone, they asked Pete’s brother Fergus to join in to fill out the sound a little and play all the extra guitar counter-melodies they felt would suit Graeme’s songs. Fergus and Pete had spent much of their teenage years playing Wilco and Josh Rouse songs together in their living room, so the Broadcasters knew he would fit perfectly into their quiet “no-guitar-solos” musical ethic. The State Broadcaster’s first full-length release ‘The Ship and the Iceberg’ arrived in March 2009 on Electric Honey to much acclaim including 4 star reviews in Uncut Magazine described as a harmony soaked gem, with hope and beauty and there can be few whose lives would not be enriched by a little more hope and beauty this typifies the State Broadcasters sound
After some early formative gigs with Graeme on guitar and vocals and Pete on piano and trombone, they asked Pete’s brother Fergus to join in to fill out the sound a little and play all the extra guitar counter-melodies they felt would suit Graeme’s songs. Fergus and Pete had spent much of their teenage years playing Wilco and Josh Rouse songs together in their living room, so the Broadcasters knew he would fit perfectly into their quiet “no-guitar-solos” musical ethic. The State Broadcaster’s first full-length release ‘The Ship and the Iceberg’ arrived in March 2009 on Electric Honey to much acclaim including 4 star reviews in Uncut Magazine described as a harmony soaked gem, with hope and beauty and there can be few whose lives would not be enriched by a little more hope and beauty this typifies the State Broadcasters sound
The Fat Angel Sings 