PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - Elfstedentocht Part Two

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In April 2013 we were approached by the organisers of the Explore the North festival in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. They asked if we would use some footage of the Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Tour), the world's biggest ice skating race, and write some songs around it. So we did. A transcript in English is below
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Contains footage (C) Fries Film Archief. Used with kind permission. Written and produced by Public Service Broadcasting. Drums recorded by Gregor Reid at Fonica Studios, Glasgow.
"Newspaper: Eleven Cities Tour on Friday
Newspaper: Eleven Cities Tour to be a superhuman effort
January 18th, 1963
An ice-skating marathon that is unparalleled
5.30 in the morning
300km through a Friesland only the strongest can cope with
Newspaper: Elfstedentocht: Tough, Tough, Tough
The starting signal is given for the Eleven Cities Tour
But what everyone is preparing themselves for..
That is the Elfstedentocht
The twelfth Eleven Cities Tour
Temperature: 16 degrees Celsius below zero
A brutal tour of more than 200km
But what everyone is preparing themselves for...
550 professional skaters
Around 9,500 leisure skaters
Skaters from Sweden, Canada, Switzerland and Belgium
But what everyone is preparing themselves for...
Sneek
IJlst
Sloten
Stavoren
Hindeloopen
Workum
Bolsward
Harlingen
Franeker
Dokkum
Leeuwarden
But what everyone is preparing themselves for...
That is the Elfstedentocht."
J. Willgoose, Esq. and Wrigglesworth sample old public information films and archive material and set them to new music. Live, the films are screened simultaneously as laptops are fiddled with, drums are pounded, theremins are wafted at, guitars are bashed and banjos furiously plucked. Teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future.
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[@malwill54]

Winter of 1963 was one of the coldest for decades (I am informed) so the visuals are so accurate, the words descriptive and the music, like so much of PSB's music, so very,very good. Liverpool gig 25th November and informed last night that tickets are on the way. Transmission imminent!

[@sydswiersma9855]

Great! Thanks for remaking our footage into this new sensation! Greetings from Frisian Film Archive

[@carlmcdonnell5491]

Hard to beat their previous material, but with this track they've done it. Top class.

[@PESKYWAABBIT]

Saw PSB for the 3rd time the other day in Cambridge. This is still one of my favourite songs they play live. Absolutely fantastic lads!

[@snowbee8195]

This song, the intro especially, makes me so emotional and I can't explain why, it's like a nostalgia for something I've never experienced. Absolutely love this

[@jandekker6055]

Saw this for the first time last night in Cambridge. Brilliant. Though, as with the rest of the show, it was so bloody loud I couldn't hear the words!

[@andreawaterstreet3901]

Leeuwarden. Sneek. IJlst. Sloten. Stavoren. Hindeloopen. Workum. Bolsward. Harlingen. Franeker. Dokkum. Leeuwarden. Epic track!!!

[@CharlotteMissMadchesterYEWBEW]

This is the one I liked from when I saw them last night!!!! Couldn't pronoounce that name!!! Superb.

[@alq1082]

Love it PSB. Proud to have shaken the hand Of J at a cardiff gig. It was the fouth time I had exoerienced the show in 2014. Still awesome. See you soon guys

[@matt904sl]

Love the song and the 8mm film is beautiful.

[@davidmiller5573]

Brilliant lads!

[@Yonivigud]

Awesome... Love Music and images. Greetings from Venezuela

[@ajsonline]

Absolutely love the track guys

[@mradriankool]

PSB delivery an awesome new piece, dare I say that in this they have created a piece as good as kraftwerk's Tour de France .

[@Flur1]

Amazing footage,amazing PSB.I'm really looking forward to Dublin again chaps. Friendchip.

[@ECTOPLASTA]

me gusta mucho la musica que haceis, felicidades!

[@paulappleyard1256]

Fine Tune

[@akenatonto]

Excelente!! Saludos desde Argentina

[@eyelevelxyz6088]

How beautiful Europe was then.

[@eyelevelxyz6088]

I cry when I think of what is happening to our beautiful continent.

[@Lynneheal]

Thankyou for sharing

[@mjschwencke]

The music is terrible ...

[@Beatgeneration2010]

Turn on your hearing aid....tut tut

[@flashflashbang2102]

Turn on your brain.

[@erikkennedy]

Counterpoint: actually, it's good.