The art rock electronica instrumental duo Public Service Broadcasting is bringing their multimedia performance to the UK and Europe starting this week. One-half of the band, J. Wilgoose, Esq. (the other being Wrigglesworth), described their Nottingham gig earlier this year as “the musical equivalent of palliative care.” If you’ve ever spent time blissing out with their albums The Race for Space or Inform-Educate-Entertain on headphones, you already know this description to be true. Their own website promises:
PSB’s uniquely spell-binding live AV Transmissions see them weave samples from old public information films, archive footage and propaganda material around live drums, guitar, banjo and electronics as they teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future — beaming our past back at us through vintage TV sets and state of the art modern video projection devices.
Forthcoming UK & EuropeanTour Dates
15 July Skral Festiva,l Grimstad, Norway
17 July Latitude Festival, Suffolk
18 July Truck Festival, Oxfordshire
20 July Rome Villa Ada / Roma Incontra il Mondo, Rome, Italy
24 July Secret Garden Party, Cambridgeshire
31 July Y-Not Festival, Derbyshire
1 August Kendal Calling, The Lake District
2 August The Beatyard, Dublin, Ireland
7 August Forgotten Fields Festival, Sussex
8 August Northbound Festival, Cumbria
23 August Green Man Festival, Glanusk
4 September Lindesfarne Festival, Northumberland
5 September Freedom Festival, Hull
6 September Together The People Festival, Brighton
10 October Rockaway Beach Festival, Bognor Regis
17 November Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
18 November University Refectory, Leeds
19 November 02 Academy, Liverpool
20 November Rock City, Nottingham
21 November OPEN, Norwich
26 November Great Hall, Cardiff
27 November 02 Guildhall, Southampton
29 November Brixton Academy, London
Public Service Broadcasting official site
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