Public Service Broadcasting
London-based duo Public Service Broadcasting released their debut in 2013. Last year, they won Progressive Music Awards in the category of best anthem (“Gagarin”). Willgoose and Wrigglesworth combine electronic instruments with guitar, banjo and drums. According to The Guardian, their music “slips between krautrock, synth-pop and cinematic post-rock.” In their own words (with tongue firmly in cheek), they want to “teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future.” They are a great unusual band and we're looking forward to seeing them in Trenčín...
19. February 2016
Public Service Broadcasting take samples from old public films, archive footage, film weeklies and propaganda material. Their debut Inform-Educate-Entertain received 5* from Artrocker magazine, 4* from The Guardian and The Independent. It was also picked by BBC 6 as the 9th Best Album of the Year. Their follow up album The Race for Space (2015) was even more successful as it reached #11 in the UK chart and #1 in the UK Indie Album Chart. Working with sound samples from the British Film Institute, the album relives the story of the American and Soviet space race. The Independent praises the album as “richly entertaining, immersive and evocative, orchestrated with fastidious care and feeling.” Even though some thought of the band as an interesting but one-time project, now it's clear that the blasts from the past by PSB have a bright future ahead of them.
“We discovered PSB at International Festival Forum conference in September where the biggest world agencies presented their most promising new acts. Right after a brilliant and really entertaining PSB gig, we met with their agent as we got interested in having the band play Pohoda. It took a while but here we go,” says Michal Kaščák.