Bluedot Festival: Official | Facebook | Twitter “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” The words of the great cosmologist Carl Sagan, the spiritual godfather of Bluedot Festival, the annual celebration of music, science, arts, culture and exploration that this month returns for its third instalment. For the first time the […]
-ACADEMY 1, MANCHESTER- The night opens with a public service broadcast of our own. A light-hearted message about not using your phones as “the video and sound won’t be any good anyway”. I agree, enjoy the gig and don’t stick a phone in front of any other gig-goer’s view! Although I’m up in the lofty […]
‘Turn No More’ is the third single to be taken from Public Service Broadcasting’s new album Every Valley, which charted at #4 in the UK album charts in July. Joining them on this single is Manic Street Preachers’ frontman James Dean Bradfield. J. Willgoose Esq. says of the single and how it fits into the […]
Boasting of a “secure future in Welsh coal” and “having enough coal for another four hundred years“, ‘People Will Always Need Coal’, the latest track from Public Service Broadcasting’s new album Every Valley, offers a window into the world of Welsh mining in its heyday. Laced with dark irony given the events that were to […]
Taking their inspiration from the title of the track and concept of their new record, Public Service Broadcasting’s new video for ‘They Gave Me A Lamp’ reflects on the history of coal mining communities in the UK. The clip was shot underground in south-east England in a former mine and incorporates VHS footage of the […]
Focusing on the political awakening among the women’s support groups at the time of the South Wales mining strike between 1984-1985, ‘They Gave Me A Lamp’ is the new single from Public Service Broadcasting, and the second to be taken from their upcoming album Every Valley. The track features instrumental, post–rock trio Haiku Salut. Speaking […]
Public Service Broadcasting have announced details of a major UK tour in October in support of new album, Every Valley (out Friday 7th July 2017). Stopping in twelve cities – including their biggest headline to date at London’s Eventim Apollo, plus a selection of some of the best live rooms across the country – the […]
Public Service Broadcasting have shared the video for their current single ‘Progress’. Directed by Lucy Dawkins and Tom Readdy; previous collaborators of the band on their videos for ‘Sputnik’ and ‘Go!’, and produced by Yes Please Productions – the video is a playful look at a serious and pertinent topic, namely mechanisation and its true […]
After two years up in the stratosphere with the hugely successful The Race For Space, Public Service Broadcasting are returning to earth with new album, Every Valley, due to be released Friday 7th July 2017. With J. Willgoose, Esq. who has an established reputation for weaving forensic, historical research into evocative storytelling – this time […]
‘I believe in progress’. As statements go, it’s a pretty powerful one, and entirely suitable for Public Service Broadcasting. They are a band who have risen from eccentric, self-releasing, DIY outsiders to major festival mainstays and radio favourites in seemingly no time at all. With their new single ‘Progress’, set to impact on Friday 5th […]
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