Bright Magic

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BBC Proms 2019: Public Service Broadcasting. BBC Proms. 26 July 2019 . Retrieved 3 August 2019. Cerys Matthews introduces cult London band Public Service Broadcasting who take to the Royal Albert Hall stage for their Proms debut. To mark the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landings, they are joined by the Multi-Story Orchestra to perform a specially commissioned new orchestral arrangement of the band's 2015 studio album The Race for Space.

On 2 June 2021, PSB debuted the first single, called "People, Let’s Dance" from their fourth studio album "Bright Magic". [12] People, Let's Dance" contains elements of "People Are People" by Depeche Mode (Gore), published by EMI Publishing Group Ltd. used with kind permission. Announce UK tour for October and November 2021 with a London show at O2 Brixton Academy on 10th November Goods that are faulty or sent in error must be returned to Crash Records Limited, 35 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 6PU within 7 working days of the item being received by the customer.Go! captures the final minutes of the Apollo 11 moon landing, except in the PSB version the mission controllers all shout their positive mission states of “Go!” in perfect 4/4 time. The audience did it too, with associated punching of the air. This tune is a massive crowd favourite and was notable for some of the fastest rhythm guitar playing I’ve ever heard. I’ve no idea how Willgoose’s Telecaster retained all six strings by the time he’d finished with it. Perhaps it didn’t. Perhaps it never does. At one level Bright Magic represents both a bold departure and Public Service Broadcasting’s most ambitious outing yet; largely dispensing with the tics which made you sort of famous is a skin-shedding which often results in confused audiences and a messy halfway house of unfulfilled ideas.

J F Abraham – flugelhorn, bass guitar, drums, assorted other instruments including a vibraslap, electronic musical instruments, arrangements (2016–present; session contributions 2014–2015) In a sense, this mirrors Berlin’s postwar journey, from being invidiously twinned to emerging into an uncertain new light and embracing the radical shapes into which it had to take. Closer Ich und die Stadt floats between these realities, actress Nina Hoss voicing over, but that the words are in German is incidental, its spectral washes the ideal complement to a nighttime view from way above its present and past skylines. Public Service Broadcasting release their fourth album, Bright Magic, via Play It Again Sam. An album in three parts ( Building A City / Building A Myth / Bright Magic), it is their most ambitious undertaking yet, bringing you to Europe’s heart and de facto capital, the cultural and political metropolis that is the ‘Haupstadt’ of the Federal Republic of Germany – Berlin. Public Service Broadcasting will release their fourth album, Bright Magic, on 24th September 2021 via Play It Again Sam. An album in three parts (Building A City / Building A Myth / Bright Magic), it is their most ambitious undertaking yet, bringing you to Europe’s heart and de facto capital, the cultural and political metropolis that is the ‘Hauptstadt’ of the Federal Republic of Germany – Berlin. Chris Hawkins: J.Willgoose interviewed about the making of the single Spitfire". BBC 6 Music programmes . Retrieved 20 May 2012. [ dead link]

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The single and album, to be entitled Bright Magic, were recorded in Berlin’s famous Hansa Tonstudio recording complex (home to Bowie’s Heroes, U2’s Achtung Baby and Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life among others). The album is themed as a tribute to the art and expression of the city of Berlin and moreover to Europe as a whole. It’s likely to continue the establishment in the single of German-speaking sung vocals and a near absence of vocal samples. To get his head in the right space, lead Broadcaster J. Willgoose Esq. (really) for eight months in 2019 relocated to the city formerly divided by the Cold War, channeling its somewhat chaotic, bohemian energies, in the process creating, he says, is an ‘impressionistic portrait of a city from the ground up’. Separated into three parts (‘Building a City’, ‘Building a Myth’, ‘Bright Magic’), this album offers an absorbing overview of an incredible city – and others like it – complete with samples from ‘Wochende’, a 1928 tape recording by Walter Ruttman that blends speech, field recordings and music together. After hearing this, J. Willgoose, Esq decided to make his own version that sums up the state of the modern world. Elfstedentocht Parts 1 & 2". Banquet Records. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016 . Retrieved 8 May 2015.

The final song tonight was the final song at every Public Service Broadcasting show and one of only two taken from the debut PSB album, Inform-Educate-Entertain. Everest is the everyday tale of Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing’s successful ascent to the top of the world in 1953. “Two very small men cutting steps in the roof of the world,” says one of the narration samples. Given that, at the time it was recorded, the band consisted of just Willgoose and Wrigglesworth, this seems apt indeed. Through subsequent albums, the band have explored the cold war US/Soviet quest for dominance aloft in The Race For Space and the rise and fall of the Welsh coal mining industry in Every Valley. With each iteration, the music has evolved: choirs, strings and horns abound and the reliance on archive audio samples has reduced. 2017’s Every Valley had vocals contributed by Manic Street Preacher’s James Dean Bradfield, Welsh language singer Lisa Jên Brown and Camera Obscura’s Tracyanne Campbell. a b c Lester, Paul (12 December 2012). "New band of the week: Public Service Broadcasting". The Guardian. An album in three parts (Building A City / Building A Myth / Bright Magic), it is their most ambitious undertaking yet, bringing you to Europe’s heart and de facto capital, the cultural and political metropolis that is the ‘Hauptstadt’ of the Federal Republic of Germany – Berlin. Public Service Broadcasting have been “ teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future” for more than a decade now. 2013’s debut album Inform – Educate – Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as audio-portals to the Battle Of Britain, the summit of Everest and beyond. Two years later, The Race For Space used similar methods to laud the superpowers’ rivalry and heroism in orbit and on the Moon. In 2017, joined by voices including Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield, Every Valley was a moving exploration of community and memory via the rise and fall of the British coal industry. Pointedly topical in its analyses, it reached number four on the UK charts.

Doing this felt inevitable, somehow,” muses J. Willgoose, Esq. “In my head, it was whirring and pulsing away for a long time, even before Every Valley– this fascinating, contrary, seductive place. I knew the album was going to be about the city, and its history and myths, and I was going to move there. So it’s quite a personal story. It’s become an album about moving to Berlin to write an album about people who move to Berlin to write an album…” a b Musicpublished, Computer (6 October 2021). "Public Service Broadcasting: "I don't think we've had so much fun in the studio as the day we were just smashing stuff up" ". MusicRadar . Retrieved 16 February 2023.

Public Service Broadcasting have been “teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future” for more than a decade now. 2013’s debut album Inform - Educate - Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as audio-portals to the Battle Of Britain, the summit of Everest and beyond. Two years later, The Race For Space used similar methods to laud the superpowers’ rivalry and heroism in orbit and on the Moon. In 2017, joined by voices including Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield, Every Valley was a moving exploration of community and memory via the rise and fall of the British coal industry. Pointedly topical in its analyses, it reached number four on the UK charts.He wrote and recorded in Kreuzberg’s famous Hansa Tonstudio recording complex. This brought closer several inescapable musical touchstones: Depeche Mode’s classic eighties triumvirate, U2’s Achtung Baby and, crucially, Bowie’s “Heroes” and Low. “The whole shape and structure of the record is very much in debt to Low,” says Willgoose. Indeed, the Warszawa-evoking “The Visitor” – whose designated colour is the particular Orange of that album’s sleeve – was initially intended to feature a sample of Bowie reflecting, says Willgoose, on “how he viewed himself as this vessel for synthesizing and refracting other influences, and presenting avant-garde influences to the mainstream. We tried to absorb a bit of that spirit.” More anthemic still is the Marlene Dietrich-inspired Blue Heaven, a chugging bassline, motorik beat and rousing flourishes from Wilgoose’s guitar fusing together as Andreya Casablanca sings “I am all my own invention, I’m in my blue heaven”. It’s one of those huge, universal Public Service Broadcasting productions expertly honed to roll out across massed festival crowds next summer. Next stop? Berlin. The London band have created an album in three parts ( Building A City / Building A Myth / Bright Magic), that brings you to Europe’s heart and de facto capital, the cultural and political metropolis that is the ‘Hauptstadt’ of the Federal Republic of Germany. Bright Magic will arrive on September 24th, 2021 via Play It Again Sam. Sheffield, Hazel (6 February 2014). "Public Service Broadcasting keep calm and carry on". The Guardian.