Following the release of a tantalising and atmospheric trailer earlier this month (below) which quoted John F Kennedy’s famous Rice Stadium address of 1962, Public Service Broadcasting are now excited to reveal full details of The Race For Space LP.
Tickets for the duo's return at two unique album launch shows at The National Space Centre sold out in under 24 hours, and the band now have their sights set on their biggest tour yet as they jet around the UK & Ireland in April & May 2015. The tour splashes down at the Roundhouse, London on 7 May – all dates listed below.
At Public Service Broadcasting's uniquely spell-binding live AV 'Transmissions' the audience will witness the band weave samples from archive footage around live drums, guitar, banjo and electronics as they teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future - beaming our past back at us through vintage TV sets and state of the art modern video projection devices. Granted unique access to historically important films from the BFI, PSB will go back in time and explore the period when the USA and USSR fought to gain the upper hand in a new frontier – space.
Before their UK & Ireland dates the duo will be embarking on a global tour, starting in Australia and New Zealand, before moving onto North America. The tour will finish with a string of European dates in May / June 2015 before they hurtle straight into another busy festival season. Additionally Public Service Broadcasting have been invited to be the sole support for Kaiser Chiefs on their UK arena tour in early 2015.
The Race For Space follows Inform – Educate – Entertain, Public Service Broadcasting’s debut album which reached #21 in the UK album charts and was nominated for ‘Best Independent Album’ at the AIM Awards 2013, as well as being The Guardian’s Album of the Week and one of BBC 6Music’s Top 10 albums of 2013.
Listeners will be able to choose which front cover they favour as the band release a double-sided sleeve for The Race For Space.
Tracklisting:
1. The Race For Space, 2. Sputnik, 3. Gagarin, 4. Fire In The Cockpit, 5. E.V.A., 6. The Other Side, 7. Valentina, 8. Go!, 9. Tomorrow
UK & Ireland dates
26th Feb – National Space Centre, Leicester **Sold out**
27th Feb - National Space Centre, Leicester **Sold out**
22nd April – Corn Exchange, Brighton
23rd April – O2 Academy, Bristol
24th April – Pyramids, Portsmouth
25th April – Corn Exchange, Cambridge
28th April – The Foundry, Sheffield
29th April – Ritz, Manchester
30th April – Riverside, Newcastle
1st May – The Ironworks, Inverness
2nd May – O2 ABC, Glasgow
3rd May – Mandela Hall, Belfast
5th May – Button Factory, Dublin
6th May – The Institute, Birmingham
7th May – Roundhouse, London
