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The postie has been - possibly the most improbable delivery since Warne vs Gatting
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🎉Happy 5th birthday to The Race For Space and a big 'thank you' to everyone still listening to it 🎉
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A date for the diary - please join us on Wednesday 13 May at 9pm (BST) as we listen through to The Race For Space along with
@Tim_Burgess
and the cast of
#timstwitterlisteningparty
, sharing thoughts and nonsense (mostly nonsense) on the way 🚀🌙
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It's not imminent (we don't think) so forgive the shameless tease, but anyone fancy a bit of UK touring action later in the year? 💃🕺
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We know we have a lot of autistic & neurodiverse fans, for whom gigs can be a bit overwhelming. If you ever want to try and bring a neurodiverse fan or youngster along, please do email jwillgoose
@publicservicebroadcasting
.net & we'll do our best to try and make something work..
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Thanks a lot to everyone who's bought, streamed, downloaded Bright Magic this week. Records like this by bands like us don't get to number 2 very often - it's because of our wonderful fans (that's you) and the support you give us. Thank you thank you thank you 🙏🖤🧡🖤🙏
Public Service Broadcasting (
@PSB_HQ
) score their highest-charting album yet as their new record Bright Magic debuts at Number 2 on the Official Albums Chart:
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Lots going on in the world, but just time to wish Every Valley a (quite frankly unbelievable) happy 5th birthday. Those 5 years have flown by.. very odd.
Thanks for those who are still listening - music only exists when it has an audience & we're always grateful for ours.
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Right I’ve pressed ‘go’ on the Bandcamp page and I think Spotify et al have done similar so I suppose the album is out now. We really hope you enjoy it. It was (really) hard to make but then most worthwhile things are. Lots of love, PSB HQ xxx
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A reminder! Tomorrow evening - ignore the newfound and hard-won freedom to exercise in as many garden centres as you like and join us, instead, at 9pm BST to listen to The Race For Space as we host a
#timstwitterlisteningparty
. See you then!
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.
@Tim_Burgess
has been in touch by the way and asked if we're up for a return visit.. I think we can say 'yes' to that already. Thanks again Tim
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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An honour to be asked to be part of this Twitter phenomenon (because that's what it is!) - looking forward to it very much 📡🚀
#timstwitterlisteningparty
J. Willgoose Esq. will be hosting a
@PSB_HQ
listening party for The Race For Space.
Meet us on the launchpad. Date tbc
Over.
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Thank you everyone for the mentions re
#Apollo11
/
#Apollo50th
and our modest effort The Race For Space, particularly Go!. It's lovely to see that our songs are part of the celebration for some of you (especially the young ones) & very humbling. Lots of love from all at PSB HQ xx
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Crikey. Ten years old today - happy birthday Spitfire and thanks to everyone who's still listening. I remember thinking it'd be amazing if anyone was still hanging in there after a year, let alone ten. 🙏
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4,000,000 plays on
@Spotify
for this little number now. I remember the days of our Bandcamp account when I'd religiously check the number of single-digit plays that week. Very daft, very lucky. Thanks everyone
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Nothing quite beats hearing your own music on the radio for the first time. Thanks a lot
@steve_lamacq
&
@bbc6music
and hope you all (all!) enjoyed it 🙏
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@darrengrimes_
Did you have goods? A carnet? Anything to declare? Any merchandise you were hoping to sell?
If you have any of those things, Swiss border waits can be anything from 2-5 hours.
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Best band / act never to have headlined Glastonbury? (Be realistic, they need to have the songs or act, or both)
I'll start (and, I believe, finish): Talking Heads
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@darrengrimes_
The basic lack of understanding of key import / export procedures (and more worryingly the lack of any desire to come to such an understanding, making facile points like the above instead) on the part of many pro-Brexit 'campaigners' is really quite telling.
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In recognition of the BBC's 100th anniversary in 2022, we'll be performing 'This New Noise' with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on 30 August as part of the
@bbcproms
, incorporating BBC Archive material with brand new music to tell the story of the corporation's founding.
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Right then - tonight's
@bbcproms
concert will be live in full on both
@BBCRadio3
and
@BBC6Music
, and will be televised tomorrow evening at 11pm BST on
@BBCFOUR
. See some of you here in a bit. Here's a 6Music link for streaming, or see the main R3 site:
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Haaaaaappy Christmas everyone, from all at PSB Towers - lots of love 🎄🍾🍽🎅
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Back home and feeling vaguely more human after our recent tour dates - sincere thanks to everyone who came along to see us. We had a lovely time.
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Happy 4th birthday to this little number and thanks for listening, folks. Not too long to go until the next one either (buy buy buy) 🎉
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Big thanks to
@Tim_Burgess
for his continued excellent work, and for asking us back. EV trumped I-E-E in terms of replies so please join us for the below 👇
Saturday June 20th
6pm (U.K. time)
Every Valley by
@PSB_HQ
will be our featured album. It was recorded in Ebbw Vale, South Wales and charts the history of the mining industry from the ‘golden age’ to its decline at the end of the 20th century and the knock on effects
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Saw confusing reports about this (and denials) yesterday evening but sad to learn it's true. She was a very good interviewer & on a personal level we greatly appreciated her support, especially in the early days - hundreds of acts feel similarly I'm sure.
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Good news / bad news (everything depends on your perspective): I now have all the demos for the new record done, minus some fairly gaping holes. Maybe some new music later in the year but I doubt the album will be ready before 2021 for various reasons...
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And a massive thanks to
@TimBurgess
for letting us do this, and for all the other listening parties. Give that man a knighthood, if he wants one. Lots of love from all at PSB HQ. Take care xxx
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Really sad to hear about Vangelis. I'd (JW) say that Blade Runner is one of the best scores ever written but it's so much more than 'just' a score, isn't it... Such mastery of space, scale, atmosphere. A great legacy even before you add in all his other work. RIP
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Well.. looks like I picked a good time to lock myself in the garage for 3 months to finish this record then..
#noexcuses
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Getting ready to annoy or provoke at least 90% of you tomorrow at 10am by the way. In the meantime we'd just like to make it clear (again) that not playing shows in certain towns, cities or countries is always, always very deliberate and personal💃🕺👀
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I'm pretty much 100% certain that our band has paid more US taxes on three wildly unsuccessful tours of America in the past 5 years than the current president has in the past 15 years. That seems.. odd
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I'm not saying it's been a long time since we played a gig (nearly 2 years) but I'm doing a draft setlist and just had to consult Spotify to remind me of our songs. Forgot about Sputnik. And Progress. And Korolev. And... (etc)
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Ok! New single gets its first spin today courtesy of the good ship
@BBC6Music
, more pertinently Mr Steve Lamacq. Listen in from 4pm BST from here, anywhere in the world:
Hope you like what you hear. More news tomorrow - lots of love, PSB HQ 💡✨📡
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Saturday at 6pm! Join us as we host a
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
(courtesy of
@Tim_Burgess
, who else?) for our album Every Valley. We'll be tweeting another veritable info-dump along with the record - see you then, we hope 📡⚒️🖤
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Thanks for all the love & support in 2021 folks - see you next year
#remembertoplacetheemphasisonYEARnotNEW
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We've got a gig today. Been wanting to write that for over 2 years now. See some of you later and the rest of you soon enough we hope
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None of these Tory dilettantes should ever be allowed near a cultural event again. Pure, wilful, pointless self-harm. Absolutely enraging. ccing the useless
@OliverDowden
UK ‘rejected offer’ of visa-free tours by musicians in EU, despite blaming Brussels for permit blow
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Everyone loves a 'something's happening tomorrow but I'm not telling you what'-type tweet, don't they? Well, something's happening tomorrow but I'm not telling you what. Although I will tell you it relates to Willgoose (me) & his lockdown music-making efforts. Stay tuned 📡
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Reminded that it's now a whole year since our last gig.. Heavy sigh. We miss playing, a lot. In the meantime though we have now done 6 days of proper, actual recording for the next album so that's good. More photos over on the old Instagram
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If this is the case then new and emerging UK bands can probably kiss goodbye to touring in Europe. An already costly outlay will become positively prohibitive (carnets, administration costs, time costs, extra days to travel). Great work guys
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Anyone want a vague, unhelpful, attention-seeking bit of mild self-promotion? Congratulations, you're following the right account, and as your reward consider yourself notified that the next single will be out and about in approximately 2.5 weeks. Please and thank you 🙏
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Anyway, we ended up in the USA in early 2015 just after the record came out. Jeannie Kranz, one of Gene’s daughters and a longtime NASA employee too, came to our Houston show and gave me this photo. It is one of my most treasured possessions
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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And what would happen to
@BBC6Music
, the lifeline and support for so many alternative artists and bands? No other UK broadcaster does what they do, or even wants to. This would be self-harming cultural vandalism (as would the wider cuts)
.
@thesundaytimes
reports only Radio3 & Radio 4 will survive under new govt rules. BBC will be forced to sell all other radio stations. Is that the same Radio 4 the government is currently boycotting in the morning?How will scrutiny of politicians work post 2027? Asking for a mate
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What an honour to be part of the
@bbcproms
this year - more info below. In brief: The Race For Space (+ Korolev) performed by us & the marvellous
@MULTISTORYORGUK
at the
@RoyalAlbertHall
on July 25. Arranged by our very own maestro
@PSB_JFA
. Ticket booking from May 11!
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The next record features PSB album debuts for the following:
- Harpsichord
- 12-string guitar
- Castanets
- Classical guitar
- Dar(a)buka
- Hammered dulcimer
Let's be honest, that sounds like some kind of concoction from the depths of hell.. But there you go. At least no cajon
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Did a rehearsal at this old place earlier ahead of The Big Day tomorrow
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I don't know, you wait ages for a numerical milestone and then there are 2 in as many days... (in all seriousness this is an incomprehensibly large number & all rather daft. Thanks, as ever, for listening, however you do)
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But finish it we did, listener, and we’re incredibly grateful that so many people have enjoyed it and continue to. It’s especially gratifying that so many kids have got into space after hearing it. Thank you
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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These got delivered today - test pressings for a 2LP release. Must be a mistake, absolutely nothing like that planned around here...
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We have lost a giant.
Remembering Stephen Hawking, a renowned physicist and ambassador of science. His theories unlocked a universe of possibilities that we & the world are exploring. May you keep flying like superman in microgravity, as you said to astronauts on
@Space_Station
in 2014
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Thanks again to a lovely bunch up in Wakefield (
@Expwakefield
) for last night's show. Pulling the shutters down for a while now (besides occasional despairing Br*xit tweets no doubt) while writing album 4. Lots of love, PSB HQ
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Here’s a few photos of the recording session – the choir was led by
@JoForbesLE
, and arranger
@petergregson
turned my MIDI scribbles into something intelligible by actual musicians
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Whatever your politics, it serves the Tories right. There hasn't been a lazier, more arrogant, more insulting campaign. Brits not stupid
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PSB-branded facemasks with the logo on & all profits to NHS charities? Good idea? Terrible idea? Somewhere in the middle idea? Those of us in London are going to need a good supply of masks for the foreseeable...
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Thanks for all the kind words about last night, folks. You can listen again to our performance of This New Noise with the
@BBCSO
conducted by Jules Buckley below, and it's on BBC Four on Friday at 8pm.
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On pretty much any measurable level this is extraordinary / ridiculous. Thank you to everyone for the support
Congratulations to
@PSB_HQ
on reaching number 4 in the
@officialcharts
📺
@bbclamacqshow
live session
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Oh no. Very sad news. 'Carrying the Fire' was one of the best books I read during the research of The Race For Space, and he was always such a dry, witty and warm presence in interviews. I know it's cheesy but.. godspeed sir.
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Hope everyone out there is well and taking care of each other, especially the more vulnerable. Meanwhile on here I think it would be generally useful if those with no specialist knowledge (ie most of us) stopped pontificating or posting on subjects we have little understanding of
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Am I allowed to say look out for something exciting / interesting tomorrow morning from us (and other interested parties)? I hope so, because that's what I'm saying.
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Ok folks it's new single time tomorrow with various album details etc to follow.. there have been cryptic bits and bobs over on for a few days now plus the odd bit of nonsense here so for the next 30 mins let's play What's The Album About? Best guesses..
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... So really I haven't said anything useful at all there and probably just wanted some attention. But hey, that's what Twitter is for, and writing is a lonely old business, so there you go! (insert manic waving gesture here)
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Few things in the life of a modern-day band are as horrifying as marketing folks somehow gaining access to your account and writing posts like this. 'We're stoked!' Oh dear
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This is your slightly-less-than-one-hour warning for imminent PSB / BBC Four action - 8pm tonight
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Can't confirm or deny(-de-hi) at this stage. Mostly concerned with finding out where the leak came from, obviously. The smart money is on the drummer, paradoxically
NEWS! New Public Service Broadcasting record to be based around Hi-De-Hi
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Good news - they spelled it properly this time!
Times for tonight:
Doors 7pm
@EERAmusic
8pm
Us 9pm
All done c. 10.45pm for those last tube-type-fretters (plenty o time)
Mirth, merriment and - dare I say - magic to come
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Crikey what a (big) crowd last night at
@GreenManFest
. Thanks to everyone who came to see us & have a lovely rest of the weekend folks 💚💚💚
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Keep your eyes out for some special (new music) news tomorrow folks... 🎸🎺🎻👀
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3 Big Bits of News
1) New record Bright Magic, out Sept 24, is available to pre-order now! Artwork by Studio Posselt below 💙
Written and recorded at the Hansa Tonstudio complex in Berlin 🖤❤️💛
Pre-order here or from your local indie:
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New profile picture you say? Hadn't noticed.
Not really of course, it's all part of phase 1 of the new album masterplan - for all the latest news, pre-sale tour tickets and general JW-generated-waffle you really ought to sign up to the mailing list here:
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Seeing this doing the rounds so it's worth repeating - because it isn't anywhere in the article - that Spotify pays (us) per stream:
79% less than Qobuz
71% less than Amazon Premium
59% less than Tidal
58% less than Apple
56% less than Deezer
They do not care about music.
‘Putting a number on art’: musicians nervous as Spotify announces royalty changes
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Thanks a lot for all the nice comments about the show at the
@RoyalAlbertHall
last night. Glad so many of you enjoyed it. We did. Onwards
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We're delighted to be heading back out on tour in the UK this autumn - full dates below, and tickets go on sale on Thursday 31 March at 10am. Hope to see as many of you there as possible! Lots of love, PSB HQ xxx
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Filing this away for when we get desperate and have to do The Race For Space - pt2
In 1969 a mysterious turd was found floating around Apollo 10. Everyone onboard denied responsibility and the culprit has never owned up. (Image: NASA)
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Have you seen this man, c. 2010? Last seen ineffectively trying to persuade people to come to his Edinburgh Fringe show. Steer clear & do not approach
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Numbers aren't everything (obviously) but this is still very nice. Thanks for listening, folks xxx
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Discussions currently taking place at HQ for a cheese & wine night v2, watching the Proms & streaming the results to YouTube.. Any appetite for 4 idiots wittering on?
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The results of our Ukraine Emergency appeal, raising funds for
@UNRefugeesUK
to help those fleeing the war, are finally in. We've been delighted to send the absolutely amazing sum of £25,960.50 (!!!) from the special edition Go! t-shirts. Please see below from UNHCR:
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We're saying goodbye to Every Valley in the best way we could think of - a run of special, stripped back Welsh shows before landing up at the
@RoyalAlbertHall
. General sale 10am Fri, pre-sale 10am Weds (mailing list email imminent).
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Happy new year for later* everyone, and well done for getting through this one. Lots of love from all at PSB HQ xxx
*timezone-dependent
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A lovely belated 5th birthday present for our youngest ✊
Congrats to
@PSB_HQ
! 🙌 Their debut album 'Inform - Educate - Entertain' has just been
#BRITcertified
Silver 🇬🇧💿
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Long live public service broadcasting ✊
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Thanks to everyone who's tweeted nice things about yesterday's
#BiggestWeekend
show. For those asking, we should have news at some point soon(ish) re the new material. Lots of love, PSB HQ
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Tonight on
@BBCFOUR
at 11pm! Thanks a lot to everyone for coming,
@LCVchoir
,
@MULTISTORYORGUK
, the Beeb for asking us to do it & of course (!)
@PSB_JFA
for his fantastic arrangements
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Proms audience tomorrow please note - we expect it to be very (very) hot in the hall tomorrow evening so please dress appropriately... full corduroy suits are probably best left to the (melting) professionals
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Back from Australia & NZ to wish a belated happy 5th birthday to Inform - Educate - Entertain, released 7 May 2013. Thanks to those of you still listening 👍
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