Made up of multi instrumentalists J Willgoose, Esq. and Wrigglesworth, the duo released their second album, The Race For Space, in February 2015 with two special shows at the National Space Centre. The album went on to chart at #11 in the UK and spent a further 5 weeks in the Top 40. The band embarked on a global tour, including a sold-out UK tour finishing at The Roundhouse in London.

After two years up in the stratosphere with the hugely successful ‘The Race For Space’, Public Service Broadcasting are returning to earth. J. Willgoose, Esq., now has an established reputation for weaving forensic, historical research into evocative storytelling. This time he is taking us on a journey down the mineshafts of the South Wales valleys and using the history of coal mining to shine a light on the disenfranchised.

The band’s first release through independent label Play It Again Sam, ‘Every Valley’ examines the history of coal mining in South Wales. It is a record about community and what happens to an area when its lifeblood is ripped from it and as much as anything, it is a metaphor for a much larger, global and social malaise.

J. Willgoose, Esq., explains: “I have no personal ties to mining, be it coal or otherwise, and I have no family links to the area, but something about the story drew me in. Perhaps the romanticism of the valleys and their geography attracted me to South Wales in particular. You can’t always explain these things, as I’ve learned. What’s certain in my mind is that this album isn’t just about mining, and isn’t just about Wales. 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.”

'Y Dydd Olaf' has gained critical acclaim across the board, it also won both the Welsh Music Prize 2015 and Welsh Album of the Year at the National Eisteddfod in Meifod in 2015. Gwenno is a native Welsh and Cornish speaker and it’s this along with co-producing and co-hosting Welsh language show Cam O’r Tywyllwch (A Step Away From The Darkness) with Peski for Radio Cardiff and more recently, Resonance FM, that has led her to create music that translates her internationalist influences into layered, home-fi keyboard sounds wrapped in echoed vocals and musique concrète-inspired beats.

It is music about burying yourself in an avalanche of words and warm bodies in an endless search for the right ones.

The band’s writing duo, Gaz Roberts (vocals, guitar) and Joe Forshaw (bass) draw on a wide range of influences to create their eclectic and adventurous music. Gaz, whose often heavily politicised lyrics are inescapably prominent, chooses the band’s song topics with unusual care.

“For me a song always has to be about something tangible, has to tell a story or be an explanation of something. We always try to make each song unique and unusual. So whilst one song might be a story set in a fictitious right-wing pub, another is a lament at widespread political apathy. We have a song that is an attempted explanation of a Roland Barthes essay and another that is just a list of things a carer has to do in a day. If I can’t think of an interesting lyric for something I don’t force it so I end up with something meaningless, I just wait until I see or hear something that gives me an idea.”

At one moment Gaz will be spitting and bawling his lyrics, at another singing in a haunting falsetto with harmonic accompaniment from his band mates. His ragged guitar sound sits alongside Joe’s pounding, hooky bass, the virtuosic keys of Chris Gallagher and Joey Bennett’s steady, splashy drum beats to create an exciting, inimitable sound, both live and on record.

The band signed to legendary A&R man James Endeacott’s rejuvenated 1965 label in November 2014.

Their first release was Honeysucker in April 2015 coinciding with the General Election; it’s an attack on specific companies, specific politicians, who are named in the song and shown in the video. The release caught the attention of protest rock icon Billy Bragg, who invited them to play the Leftfield stage at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

The bands second release, All Right, which will appear together with Honeysucker on limited 7” for release in August, is currently out digitally alongside another DIY video.