Programm

***OFF THE RADAR CLUB*** Chris Brokaw (Come, Codeine) + Support: Scout Gillet

Four years after his rock juggernaut PURITAN, Chris Brokaw delivers GHOST SHIP, a landscape meditation (at sea) for vocals and electric guitars.
I set out to make an 8 song statement like 'Desert Shore' or 'Raw Power', but it became a 9 song...something else. I've described it to friends as 'Twin Peaks-ish' but that feels only part right. The songs were written on a 60's Teisco Del Rey electric guitar, set up by the Belgian luthier Flip Scipio with heavy gauge flat wound strings and an .80 gauge low E string tuned down to a low A, which reframes how you play the instrument.
I wrote them all quickly in a kind of fever. - Brokaw
You need to listen to GHOST SHIP from beginning to end. Stand too close to the speaker holding a plastic cup of seltzer with lime and really crank it up. If you have a purple light bulb, screw that into the ceiling fixture, and it will be like seeing Brokaw play the kind of live Brokaw set that puts you on the bottom of the ocean, standing under a transmission tower with a semicircle of effects pedals at its feet. If I'm making this sound vaporous, consider the conversational chords of "8 Or 9 Things", the sharply descending final notes of "Profile", or the extinction burst of "Anything Anymore". Think of echolocation: sonics defining space and distance, time elapsing, the disappearance of something - maybe drugs or a doomed love, possibly in the same form. "I'm a ghost ship on a long trip / and if you come aboard I'll never run ashore." - Mimi Lipson
Chris Brokaw is perhaps best known for his work with the bands Codeine and Come. He has released over two dozen solo albums of instrumental and vocal music since 2002, and played in The New Year, Pullman, Charnel Ground and the Lemonheads. He has scored nine films, most recently 'Crookedfinger' by Julia Halperin and Jason Cortlund, and written for dance and arts associations, most recently 'Lowlands' with Rimi/Imir in Stavangar, Norway. He has recorded and performed as an accompanist to Thurston Moore, Christina Rosenvinge, Rhys Chatham, Jennifer O'Connor, Steve Wynn and GG Allin. Currently he plays in Lupa Citta (w/Sarah Black and Jenn Gori), the Martha's Vineyard Ferries (w/Bob Weston and Elisha Wiesner) and the Chris Brokaw Rock Band (w/Clint Conley and Luther Gray). He continues to perform periodically with Codeine and Come; and will be touring internationally on GHOST SHIP both solo and in his trio.

https://chrisbrokaw.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCI5a7cdBi04PqYtCWDGL-A
https://www.instagram.com/chris.brokaw/?hl=de


From singing in church with her dad to performing on international stages, Scout Gillett has built a career on her lifelong passion for music. A self-taught artist from Independence, Missouri, her work blends Midwestern grit with the authenticity of years of creative exploration.
Raised in a family of creatives, she grew up making home movies, exploring nature, and developing a love for DIY expression. After studying Music Technology but feeling isolated in small-town Missouri, she dropped out in 2016 to pursue music full-time. Encouraged by Sharon Van Etten, she moved to Brooklyn in 2017 and quickly immersed herself in the DIY scene—forming the band Shadow Year, releasing solo music, and founding her own touring company, Road Dog Booking.
In 2022 she released her first solo EP, one to ten, showcasing her eclectic influences and warm, genre-blending sound. Just months later came her full-length debut, no roof no floor, praised by outlets like Rolling Stone and The Fader for its atmospheric fusion of alt-twang and experimental rock. Recorded in upstate New York with a cast of collaborators, the album explores themes of trust, loss, and finding home.
Since then, Gillett has toured extensively, including a recent headlining European run, and is currently working on new music inspired by artists such as Mazzy Star, The Cranberries, and PJ Harvey. Leaning further into her roots while pushing her sound forward, she shows no signs of slowing down—declaring she’ll be “performing, creating and dreamin’ til I croak.”

https://scoutgillettmusic.bandcamp.com/track/enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOD8tm9YAKM