British Sea Power go with the flow as a singular force in contemporary rock

British Sea Power are very serious about being wacky. Ed Power finds out more.

By Ed Power

British Sea Power are very serious about being wacky. The Brighton-based band materialised in a thunder-clap of eccentricity in 2003, with live shows featuring stuffed animals as props, and songs influenced by Joy Division, Black Flag, and Monty Python. The results were strange and sublime — eerie in the way of Victorian ghost stories or public information films of the early 1970s.