Public Service Broadcasting (band)

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Public Service Broadcasting
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Public Service Broadcasting performing during their The Race for Space Tour in 2015.[lower-alpha 1]
Background information
Origin London, England
Genres Alternative,[1] art rock, indie rock, electronica, dance-punk, krautrock[2]
Years active 2009–present
Labels Test Card Recordings, Believe Recordings
Website publicservicebroadcasting.net
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  • J. Willgoose Esq.
  • Wrigglesworth

Public Service Broadcasting are a London-based pseudonymous musical duo consisting of J. Willgoose, Esq. on guitar, banjo, other stringed instruments, samplings and electronic instruments; and Wrigglesworth on drums, piano and electronic instruments.[3] The band have toured internationally and in 2015 they were announced as nominees in the Vanguard breakthrough category of the fourth annual Progressive Music Awards, staged by Prog magazine,[4] which they won.[5]

History

At first, the band consisted solely of Willgoose. He made his public debut at The Selkirk pub in Tooting, London, England in late 2009. Shortly afterwards he issued EP One. Teaming up with Wrigglesworth on drums the band played its first festival in September 2010, Aestival in Suffolk, and work began on a second EP, The War Room, which was released in May 2012. Since then, the band has released two albums, Inform-Educate-Entertain (2013); and The Race for Space, released on 23 February 2015. While writing The War Room the band formed a close relationship with the British Film Institute, using their material during live shows.[6]

Music style and live performances

The band plays instrumental music, with Willgoose noting that "singing is never going to work. I'm not going to be happy with it, I'm not going to be comfortable playing it to other people."[6] They take samples from old public information films, archive footage and propaganda material, attempting (with tongue firmly in cheek) to 'teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future'.[7]

For live shows the pair are augmented by visuals expert Mr. B and bass guitarist and flugelhorn player JF Abraham, who also features on The Race for Space.

Discography

Albums

EPs

Singles

  • "ROYGBIV" - 5 March 2012 [13] which won the BBC Radio 6 Music Rebel Playlist.[14]
  • "Spitfire" - 26 March 2012 [15][16][17][18] which won the BBC Radio 6 Music Rebel Playlist.[19]
  • "London Can Take It" - 13 August 2012 [20][21]
  • "Everest" - 12 November 2012 only for digital downloading . The song is based around The Conquest of Everest, a 1953 film charting Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's first successful ascent of the mountain.[22]
  • "Signal 30" [23]
  • "Night Mail"[24]
  • "Elfstedentocht Parts 1 and 2" (Record Store Day single)[25]
  • "Gagarin" - 1 December 2014 (first single of the album "The Race For Space")
  • "Go!" - 23 February 2015
  • "Sputnik/Korolev" - 20 November 2015 #4 UK Physical [26]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ In this view of the band, taken on 26 February 2015, during the launch event for The Race for Space, J. Willgoose Esq., who performs on guitar and electronics, is pictured at right, and Wrigglesworth is pictured on drums at left. Live member JF Abraham is pictured at center on bass guitar and electronics.

Citations

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  26. ↑ http://officialcharts.com/charts/physical-singles-chart

External links

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