About the band

National Broadcast is:
Greg Robinson: lead vox, guitar
Bob Limbocker: guitar, vox, keys
Ed McKenzie: bass, vox, keys
Ben Smith: drums
Trevor Larkin: guitar, vox, keys

Greg Robinson is the main songwriter in the group, though he notes that “the tunes are just solo acoustic arrangements until the band sets them on fire.”

For two years, Greg played a weekly solo acoustic set at a local bar just around the corner from the Space Needle, while he finished up his Physics degree at the University of Washington. Why Physics? “I’ve always tried to understand what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, how the world works...it’s really motivating when you know something in its entirety and physics helps me to understand music on a much larger scale” says Robinson. Toward the end of this two-year stint, Greg invited Bob Limbocker, to lend his musical versatility to the project.

After recruiting melodic bassist Ed McKenzie and drumming powerhouse Ben Smith, the newly formed band reached out to their local contacts to try to get through the Seattle venue gatekeepers. In November 2009, after a year of gigging and sharing the stage with many talented guests the group decided to broaden their sound; with the addition of outstanding guitarist Trevor Larkin they got the sound they were looking for, and the band embarked on an ambitious recording project.

National Broadcast is planning a benefit show with the Experience Music Project (EMP) to support Seattle Children’s Hospital and the EMP education fund. The group has played gigs to support the American Heart Association as well as Musicares. When asked about the new band’s charity work even as the economy flounders, Robinson says, “The power of a group of happy people is unquantifiable. That’s what we imagined when we thought of the name National Broadcast: big sound, big world, big help.”