Public Service Broadcasting, Pretenders among new names for Bearded Theory 2023


Photo of Public Service Broadcasting @ the Manchester Apollo. Nov '21 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Public Service Broadcasting @ the Manchester Apollo. Nov ’21 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Public Service Broadcasting will be in Derbyshire between May 25th-28th.

Public Service Broadcasting, the Pretenders, Anna Calvi and Billy Bragg are some of those on the second wave of artists confirmed for this year’s Bearded Theory Festival.

For PSB, it adds to their previously confirmed UK appearances at Deer Shed and Beautiful Days in Devon following the 2021 release of Bright Magic.




“The longest shadow of all however is perhaps inevitably cast by David Bowie, particularly the era from which sprung the incontestable genius of Heroes and Low,” our album review reads.

“Here, the Warszawa-evoking The Visitor pays tribute, ruminating on his other worldly gift for helping society to assimilate concepts once seen by many as uncomfortably alien.”

“In a sense, this mirrors Berlin’s postwar journey, from being invidiously twinned to emerging into an uncertain new light and embracing the radical shapes into which it had to take.”


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