Dear Listeners, Well, there’s a triumvirate for you, if ever there was one. Good news comes in threes, it seems! In no particular order: 1) We’ve been nominated for an Artrocker Award for ‘ Best Electro Act’. You can vote for us here, should you so desire (do you desire? We hope so). 2) Hot on the heels of our sold out Brighton transmission on November 11, we are extremely excited to be supporting British Sea Power (!) at the Kristmas Krankenhaus on Friday December 14. This one will be fun. Tickets are here - there are only 30 left at the time of writing so don’t hang about! 3) We’ve been invited (and have accepted the invitiation) to play at Eurosonic 2013 in Groningen, the Netherlands. We’ll be journeying over for a set on January 11 – you can read a bit more about the festival here. It’ll be our first transmission of 2013 – really looking forward to it! Maybe see some of you in Chelmsford this weekend, or on the south coast the weekend after (more details over there —> or on the live page). Yours triangularly, J. Willgoose, Esq.
Inform. Educate. Entertain. With these three principles, John Charles Walsham Reith laid down a remit for a fledgling BBC that would go on to influence public service broadcasting the world over – and, 90 years later, Public Service Broadcasting, the creative outlet of one J. Willgoose, Esq and his dependable drummer Wrigglesworth. After some well-received singles and calling card EP The War Room, the band titled their debut album after the Reithian ideals – and entertain they did, with a high-concept, high-impact sound combining motorik rhythms, propulsive, hook-filled melodies and an array of archive-sourced samples. It’s the latter that provides PSB their USP: they’re neither the first nor only band to utilise spoken-word snippets in such a manner (the haunted/haunting work of The Advisory Circle and other Ghostbox artists come to mind but they’re the only contemporary practitioners to bring these voices from the past to within a hair’s breadth of the top 20. Factor in keen radio support and a strong showing on the festival circuit and the duo emerge as one of the year’s true musical success stories. This month, the band consolidate their annus mirabilis with a new single ( Night Mail) and a DVD originally intended to accompany the album on its initial release, but pushed back when a self-imposed May deadline meant there was “physically no time to put it all together.” Alongside some newly filmed extras ( Willgoose in conversation with the BFI, a mini tour diary, live footage) are all of the band’s promo videos and other visuals. Like the music, they’re drawn from a variety of archive material, ranging from US road safety films to 1930s naval newsreel to George Lowe’s 1953 feature documentary The Conquest of Everest, celebrating Hillary and Norgay’s landmark ascent. With The War Room we took a definite step away from novelty – J. Willgoose Esq The collected clips.
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