PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
VENUE THE BARBICAN HALL, LONDON
DATE 01/11/2025
J Willgoose Esq has his hands full.
If your band doesn’t have dancing astronauts, are you even
trying
to entertain?
KEVIN NIXON
The mid-century brutalism of London’s Barbican Centre was made for Public Service Broadcasting. Its concrete 70s modernism, which seemed so painfully dated a couple of decades ago, now feels relevant and contemporary – a celebration of yesterday’s future that now seems rather quaint. And celebrating the past in a retro-futuristic manner is something that Public Service Broadcasting do exceptionally well. With a string of UK Top 10 albums, and, lest we forget, two Top 30 singles behind them, they seem to forever be on the cusp of getting much bigger.