Public Service Broadcasting

[homesickalien]

I've only heard a few songs but I like I've heard  - especially the recent ones about the coal valleys of South Wales  - remind me alot of boards of canada/mogwai

Thinking of seeing them in Liverpool (I like the look of the Olympia as a venue too)

What do you reckon?

[sevendaughters]

I really hate them. Proper fag end krautdork. The first record was a reasonable stab and yeah I hear the BoC comparison - but it does my head in! Was in a tour van last year with my ears corked up to avoid listening to it as the rest of the band love it. It should be known that I am difficult to please though.

[holyzombiejesus]

As I've stated on here before, they are undoubtedly my most loathed band.

[Head Gardener]

had 'em in session once, not as cunty as they may seem



https://www.mixcloud.com/Gardener/public-service-broadcasting-in-session-mix/

[holyzombiejesus]

They are. Look at the fucking state of that cunt.

[Head Gardener]

ah yes I deliberately posted a cunty picture of one of them to try and give them a cunty edge - it's very IN y'know, I have my finger on the cunt pulse
(or should I say the PSB clitoris)

[rue the polywhirl]

had 'em in session once, not as cunty as they may seem



https://www.mixcloud.com/Gardener/public-service-broadcasting-in-session-mix/

"THIS IS A LOCAL BAND FOR LOCAL PEOPLE". Who else was in the line up, Papa Lazarou?

[Head Gardener]

"THIS IS A LOCAL BAND FOR LOCAL PEOPLE". Who else was in the line up, Papa Lazarou?

what, the tracklist?

1 Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd
2 Time Enough by Eat Lights Become Lights
3 Signal 30 by Public Service Broadcasting
4 Shining by Woods
5 Love Is Distraction by HTRK
6 Everest by Public Service Broadcasting
7 Modern Music suite by Be Bop Deluxe
8 Roygbiv by Public Service Broadcasting
9 Gimme a K! by Kid Koala
10 Tearisci by Plaid
11 13 Angels Standing Guard... by A Silver Mt. Zion
12 Spitfire by Public Service Broadcasting
13 Mellow by Giallos Flame
14 What's The Use Of Getting Sober? by Louis Jordon

[phantom_power]

I like them

[homesickalien]

Started listening to their latest album - yeah it's actually not for me.  I like the theme and the odd song but other bands do this thing better

[VelourSpirit]

They were quite funny on stage at bluedot but I wouldn't listen to them outside of a space science wank festival. They do seem to be on every festival lineup I look at though.

[PaulTMA]

Made by the same Observer/6Music genetic engineering team who produced the microscopic-sized heads of Field Music

[sevendaughters]

Made by the same Observer/6Music genetic engineering team who produced the microscopic-sized heads of Field Music

think they're worlds apart. obviously not just sonically. i can see how they occupy the same sort of 'here's a daytime 6 Music raaaandom pick/third on the second stage at Glandhand Fest' space in the British music psyche. but there's just so much craft and subtlety in Field Music and i don't just use those words to hide obvious delights such as having hooks and melodies and interesting uses of the harmonic series. Measure is a beautiful album, full of purpose and ambition. but whatever right.

[Spiteface]

Saw them supporing the Manics at their Everything Must Go 20th anniversary gig at Swansea Liberty Stadium. Seemed a bit gimmicky with the automated voice between songs, wasn't bowled over by them, but far from the worst support I've ever seen at a Manics gig. Which seems like a weird thing to say, really.

[alan nagsworth]

nah they're fucking piss

the quietus - who very frequently divide my opinion on what is good journalism and what is antagonistic shite - wrote this brilliantly scathing review of their latest album, it's well worth a read.

[itsfredtitmus]

ghost box for dads

[mobias]

I really like them. I discovered them very early on and saw them play here in Edinburgh in front of about 50 or people back in the day. Its been nice to see their rise up the ladder and despite what many may think they're a really nice bunch of guys, although everything is pretty much the work of one guy - J. Willgoose, Esq.

I do wonder how long they can really keep doing what they're doing, basing everything around dialogue samples,  Its the sort of thing could get ubiquitous very quickly. They're melodically really good though, which is why I like them I guess. They also have a clear sense of humour about them. Which for me is another appeal.

[holyzombiejesus]

J. Willgoose, Esq.

The case for the prosecution rests.

[spamwangler]

that album about the valleys sounds like some top poverty porn, i will give them this tho- i bet all the middle class art centers full of English art teachers in the Pontcanna end of cardiff are foaming at the fucking gash for it.

J. Willgoose could probably pickle him self in complimentary craft beer and vegan carrot cake for all eternity, and thats a better future than ive got planned

[sevendaughters]

What I will say in their favour is that they started out with a very strong identity. It's a good name for a band! It works for Quietus types as it connects to that particular era of pre-gentrified media that they ponce around and pretend to love and have weirdly taken guardianship of in a way not quite befitting their remit as a bunch of sweaty twats in Stratford. And it works for the festival hands-aloft off-their-box crowd too. There's more money in chasing the latter, triggering funny samples in the same Pavlovian way Pendulum would drop an Amen break, making easy-to-digest music, and all power to them.

Quietus are upset that a group deliberately cosplaying Reithian-era BBC in an uncritical way didn't manage to honour the negative legacy of Thatcher and mining with the same depth and sorrow as Test Dept, a group who stood at the pickets with miners. That's probably true but also a little bit apples and oranges. It's like asking a blogger born since 1980 to capture what Primo Levi saw.

[jobotic]

ghost box for dads

That's what I've always assumed. Sounds like it's worse than that.

[Neville Chamberlain]

Test Dept

Blimey, not heard of them in yonks! Are they still out there, banging things very, very loudly indeed?

[spamwangler]

That's what I've always assumed. Sounds like it's worse than that.

its Derek for miners

[DrGreggles]

I really like them.

Likewise. The Race For Space is one of my favourite albums of... whatever this decade is called.

[sevendaughters]

Blimey, not heard of them in yonks! Are they still out there, banging things very, very loudly indeed?

they do the left-field fest circuit under the name Test Dept: Redux and it seems to be poring over computers with a live drummer and visuals, but it sounds a right racket.

[PaulTMA]

I thought 'Quietus types' were the handful of cunts who actually liked the writing in 90s Melody Maker

[itsfredtitmus]

That's what I've always assumed. Sounds like it's worse than that.

Position Normal for uncles

Can't remember a second of their music, btw, just going by their name and know their music is sample based

Negativland for QI fans

[spamwangler]

Negativland for QI fans

love it

[mobias]

Likewise. The Race For Space is one of my favourite albums of... whatever this decade is called.

Yeah TRFS is a great album. Its definitely a favourite of mine from recent years too. I've never massively got into Every Valley. Its got some nice tunes on it but I guess the subject matter hasn't really grabbed my imagination much. It would possibly have been better as an EP, like The War Room, rather than a full blown album but it got decent reviews so what do I know....

[alan nagsworth]

lemon jelly for people who like... i dunno, history shit