Public Service Broadcasting: Every Valley review – poignant elegy to coalmining

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By their own admission, as “middle-class Londoners”, Public Service Broadcasting aren’t obvious candidates to musically chronicle the rise and destruction of the Welsh coalmining industry. However, they have put a shift in: relocating to Ebbw Vale, conducting painstaking research and recording former miners’ testimonies to set to music along with select historical narratives. Richard Burton powerfully describes “the arrogant strut of the lords of the coalface