Public Service Broadcasting at Colston Hall in Bristol on 23 October 2017
Public Service Broadcasting will perform at Colston Hall in Bristol on Friday 23 October 2017.
Public Service Broadcasting have established a reputation for weaving forensic audio research into evocative experimental storytelling. Following the stargazing success of 2015’s ‘The Race For Space’, PSB have set their sights in the opposite direction and will be taking listeners down the mineshafts of the South Wales valleys.
Their third album ‘Every Valley’ (due for release in July) channels the history of coal mining and its communities through PSB’s customarily compelling fusion of sampled speech and thrilling music. In transposing the story of the South Wales miners into the 21st Century of ‘fake news’, populist politics and a total disregard for the voiceless, ‘Every Valley’ is a resounding call to arms.
Public Service Broadcasting is a London-based band active since 2009. Comprised of J. Willgoose Esq. and Wrigglesworth, they weave historical audio samples with live instruments to project conceptual stories in musical form.
Their debut album ‘Inform-Educate-Entertain’ (2013) features samples from the British Film Institute and British Archives, from which they created music about the first expedition of Mount Everest, the invention of colour television and the creation of the Spitfire plane. They were nominated for Best Independent Album at the AIM Awards and included in BBC 6 Music’s Top 10 Albums of the Year.
They attracted enormous popular appeal and widespread critical acclaim for second album ‘The Race For Space’ (2015), which curates an emotive narrative around humanity’s first explorations into space in the 1960s, again built from a broad selection of samples. It charted at No.11 in the UK Albums Chart, hitting No.1 in the UK Indie Albums Chart before achieving silver sales status.
If you need some food beforehand check in at Smoke Haus Bristol just around the corner for burgers, ribs, dogs and wings.
Age 14+ and this show is stalls part-standing.
Tickets are £25.80 including booking fees - SOLD OUT