Music
03 Sep 18

Public Service Broadcasting To Headline The Olympia In January

It's their first show confirmed for the new year.

Public Service Broadcasting will be bringing their unique brand of visual instrumentation to Dublin in 2019, confirming a spot at the Olympia Theatre on January 31st. The art rock trio promise to provide an absorbing live performance as they blend guitar, drum and electronic sounds with samples taken from the likes of old public information films, archive footage and old propaganda material.

The Dublin show will likely be one of their last touring their current album, Every Valley, which was released in the summer of 2017 to widely positive reviews. At face value the concept of the album revolved around coal mining in Wales, although lead man J. Willgoose Esq insists that there's more to it than meets the eye.

“This album isn’t just about mining, and isn’t just about Wales," he says. "It’s a story reflected in abandoned and neglected communities across the western world, and one which has led to the resurgence of a particularly malignant, cynical and calculating brand of politics.”

It's an ambitious vision for an album from a band that largely relies on instrumentation and samples with minimal vocals, but Willgoose Esq claims that the world changing around the band is what drew them to the theme.

“It’s often difficult to say with precision where an idea came from and when or why it arrived. What I can say with conviction is that the more I thought about it and the more the world changed over the past couple of years, the more pertinent and gripping the idea of writing an album about coal mining, centred on the communities of South Wales, became.”

The nature of the subject matter led to Public Service Broadcasting showing more variety with their sound, as it was the first project of theirs to include guest vocals. The prime example of this being their current single 'Progess' featuring Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura. You can listen to the track below.

Public Service Broadcasting will headline Dublin's Olympia Theatre on January 31st 2019. Tickets are €31.50 inclusive of booking fee and go on sale this Thursday (September 6th) from Ticketmaster.