Feb 24 2025 49 mins 2
Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for our 30th episode, it's a treat to mark the occasion with a chat with J. Willgoose, Esq, band-leader and instrumentalist-auteur in the brilliant Public Service Broadcasting!
Described on their very own website as “masters of conceptual pop historiography”, for 15 years Public Service Broadcasting have been crafting conceptual pieces on subjects such as the highest peaks of Everest, societal struggles via Britain’s coal industry and the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, utilising archived material from NASA, the BFI and more.
Concept records never seem to go out of fashion and over the past decade, the band have had four records in the Official Albums Chart Top 20, three of which landed in the Top 5!
Their latest album ‘The Last Flight’ - released October 2024 via SO Recordings - concerns Amelia Earhart and the final voyage of America’s pioneering female “aviatrix”. Featuring turns from This Is The Kit and Andreya Casablanca, the record came about with the band wanting to do a woman-focused story, given most of the archive material they have access to is overwhelmingly male.
Ahead of their forthcoming March 2025 tour, we caught up with J. Willgoose, Esq over Zoom to discuss the record and the history of the band, as well as playing and working with the likes of James Dean Bradfield and what goes into the making of a Public Service Broadcasting over the years.
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