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Public Service Broadcasting
last updated 2026-09-11 11:26
Public Service Broadcasting
Plays on LTZ: 15 across 14 shows (2023-01-05, 2023-04-13, 2023-05-11, 2023-08-10, 2024-01-25, 2024-07-11, 2024-10-03, 2024-10-10, 2024-10-24, 2025-08-06, 2025-10-16, 2025-11-06…)
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(artist profile) Public Service Broadcasting — researched 2026-09-11
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Public Service Broadcasting
Origin: London, England · 2010 · active
Members: J. Willgoose, Esq. (guitar, banjo, strings, samples, electronics), Wrigglesworth (drums, piano, electronics), JFAbraham (flugelhorn, bass, drums, vibraslap), Mr B (visuals and set design)
Genre: Rock (mostly instrumental), built on samples from old public information films, archive footage and propaganda material
Discography:
The Last Flight (2024) — Test Card Recordings — concept album about Amelia Earhart's final flight, released 4 October 2024
Bright Magic (2021) — Test Card Recordings — fourth studio album
This New Noise (2023) — — — album-length live piece with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, commissioned for the BBC's centenary at the Royal Albert Hall
Every Valley (2017) — Test Card Recordings — concept album about the rise and fall of the Welsh coal industry, recorded in Ebbw Vale
The Race for Space (2015) — Test Card Recordings — UK No. 11; No. 1 on the UK Independent Chart in release week
Inform-Educate-Entertain (2013) — Test Card Recordings — debut studio album
LTZ context: 15 plays across 14 shows between 2023-01-05 and 2026-04-02 (main artist credit; additional plays under collaboration credits including the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jules Buckley live material).
Facts:
Won the Vanguard breakthrough category at Prog magazine's 2015 Progressive Music Awards.
Began as the solo project of J. Willgoose Esq., who debuted at The Selkirk pub in Tooting in August 2009; Wrigglesworth joined on drums soon after.
The Race for Space was launched with two shows at the National Space Centre in Leicester.
Performed a specially commissioned arrangement of The Race for Space at a late-night BBC Prom in July 2019 with London Contemporary Voices and the Multi-Story Orchestra.
The band were given exclusive access to the British Film Institute's archives while writing The War Room EP (2012). LTZ has also played multiple PSB remix collaborations (Nabihah Iqbal, Baltic Fleet, Peter Sandberg) and "Progress" feat. Tracyanne Campbell.