PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING Oxford Art Factory, May 10 THINGS ARE NOT always what they appear to be with Public Service Broadcasting. And that’s no bad thing for a band whose style is a mix of pre-fashioned voices (from film, documentaries, interviews and miscellaneous recordings) instead of singing, and semi-electronic/semi-analogue live playing often looped on stage. People, we’re talking about a band whose most recent album drew on the stories, and the voices, of the Wel

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING Every Valley (Inertia) THERE ARE MANY, MANY voices on this album: tutored ones, cultured ones, natural ones, raw ones, massed ones. They are angry, resigned, perplexed, enquiring, sorrowful and melodious. Some of them were recorded between the wars, some in the dark-yet-unbowed days of the 1970s, some during and after the devastating days of the mid-1980s. And some are singing: songs of their fathers and mothers, songs created for this project