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Valley high – back in touch with Public Service Broadcasting’s J. Willgoose Esq.
Commercial success doesn’t seem to have changed the pseudonymous J.Wilgoose Esq. Unless of course his excuse of not picking up his phone straight away as he was ‘carrying a cup of tea into the studio’ is shorthand for some rock’n’roll … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged 9Bach, Beaufort Male Choir, Camera Obscura, coalmining, Ebbw Vale, Every Valley, Haiku Salut, Inform Educate Entertain, J Willgoose Esq, James Dean Bradfield, Lisa Jên Brown, Manic Street Preachers, miners' strike, Public Service Broadcasting, South Wales, The Race for Space, Tracyanne Campbell
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Public Service Broadcasting / Smoke Fairies – The Ritz, Manchester
It’s ironic that the night we decided to do without the car and took the train to Manchester, my better half and I were let down by public transport. Not so much Public Service Broadcasting as Replacement Bus Service, cheated … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged DEC Appeal, Everest, Gagarin, J Willgoose Esq, Jessica Davies, Katherine Blamire, Manchester, Nepal, Smoke Fairies, Sputnik, The Race for Space, The Ritz, Wild Winter
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The Race for Space by Public Service Broadcasting – a writewyattuk review
It was supposedly a happy accident that Public Service Broadcasting stumbled upon correlations between the sublime Everest on their debut LP and a mention of George Mallory’s historic Peak XV explorations while working on their second. Either way, it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, Everest, Gagarin, NASA, Public Service Broadcasting, Sputnik, The Race for Space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok, Willgoose, Wrigglesworth
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Exploring the gravitational pull of Public Service Broadcasting – a writewyattuk interview
I’m not alone in my fascination for all things space-related, and was captivated as a child by the later Apollo missions, at least one of which I vaguely recall catching on telly at primary school in the early ’70s. And … Continue reading
