Songs to spacewalk to

By Hazel Sheffield

Last Friday, the Cosmonauts exhibition at the Science Museum in London opened late to host the electronica band Public Service Broadcasting. Their latest album, “The Race for Space”, is a musical exploration of archive film footage and sound clips from the American and Soviet space missions between 1957 and 1972. The Science Museum doesn’t usually hold gigs, but PSB’s frontman, J. Willgoose Esq, said they had always dreamed of playing there. “Not many bands can say that!” he quipped.

While PSB put the finishing touches to a makeshift stage in the museum’s IMAX theatre, including an LED-encrusted model of Sputnik on a robotic arm, guests wandered around the exhibition and drank Russian-vodka milkshakes at the bar.