The ‘best band in Britain’ British Sea Power are set to play the Princess Pavilion in Falmouth on Wednesday April 16 with support from Falmouth’s Pastel Colours.

In an extremely short space of time Pastel Colours have become hot property. The release of debut single 'Hands Like Silk' - which demonstrates a heavy influence of bands like The Byrds, early Pink Floyd and a number of cuts from 'Nuggets' compilations – has seen national tastemakers such as Xfm and BBC 6 Music clambering to get in on the action.

Although only formed earlier this year the band are already making waves on the sea of psychedelic music that’s out there at the moment.

Second single which recently featured as Lauren Laverne’s MPFree on her BBC6 show ‘She Can’t Decide’ was recorded by “two guys in a basement making the best of cheap and broken equipment.” and released through Art is Hard's Pizza Club. This will be the band first major Cornish appearance and worth the ticket price alone for what looks set to be one of those ‘I was there’ moments.

In 2013, ten years on from their debut album, British Sea Power are hitting their stride. New album Machineries Of Joy is a creative high, a superbly composed, multi-stylistic tour de force. Beautifully mechanised rhythms sits alongside wind-blasted Brontë-rock cinematics.

A recent poll of BBC 6Music listeners – on the most important hundred tracks of the station’s lifetime – placed the British Sea Power track Remember Me at number nine, just above Radiohead, just below Johnny Cash. It’s a placing that indicates both the band’s longevity and the deeply dedicated nature of their audience.

BSP have enjoyed a diverse array of cultural endorsement. David Bowie, Lou Reed, Jarvis Cocker, Radiohead, Bill Oddie, the National Maritime Museum, Bill Bailey, Jeremy Vine, Julian Cope, Stella Vine, Flaming Lips, Caitlin Moran, Keith Allen, Peter Capaldi, Andrew Weatherall, Grace Dent and Brian Cox have all run up the BSP colours at one time or another.

The BSP audience is unusual in its dedication. A good few have seen the band over 200 times. Captain Riot, a cross-dressing Midlands civil servant, has seen the band over 300 times.

The first time The Killers ever toured anywhere was supporting BSP in the UK in 2004. After they’d blasted to multi-platinum success the kindly Killers returned the favour by covering all expenses and flying BSP to the US to support them at packed stadiums.

BSP’s Do You Like Rock Music? album was nominated for the Mercury Prize. The album also reached the top ten in the UK albums chart.

BSP have played numerous striking shows: atop the Great Wall Of China and at London’s Natural History Museum. At Jodrell Bank and at London’s Czech Embassy. On the Scilly Isles and on Arctic islets. Down a Cornish slate mine and at the Chelsea Flower Show.