Pop Will Eat Itself are an English

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band formed in 1986 in

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in the West Midlands of England with members from

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and the

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. Initially known as a grebo act, they changed style to incorporate

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-driven indie and

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. Graham Crabb describes their sound as "electronic, punk, alternative hip-hop, hybrid music for fucking, fighting & smoking cigars". Their highest- charting single was the 1993 top-ten hit "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!". After initially disbanding in 1996, and having a brief reformation in 2005, they issued their first release in more than five years in 2010.

Career

Early years: 1981–1988

An early permutation of the band formed in 1981 under the name From Eden. Members included

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, Adam Mole, Chris Fradgley, Malcolm Treece and

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(Treece and Hunt went on to form The Wonder Stuff). From Eden recruited Graham Crabb from ‘Kit-Form Colossus’ to replace Hunt on drums before splitting up. Crabb, Mole and Mansell recruited Richard March and changed their band name to Wild and Wandering (known locally as Blind and Blundering because they always performed in an intoxicated state). The name came from a Wasted Youth album under which one E.P. was released (''2,000 Light Ales from Home'' on Iguana Records) before eventually becoming Pop Will Eat Itself in 1986. The new name was taken from a quotation in an '' NME'' article on

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First single: "Poppies Say Grrr!" and tour

In 1986, the band released the "Poppies Say Grrr!" single, which became Single of the Week in the ''NME'' and playlisted by Janice Long on

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. The single was sold in a brown paper bag and was made available for sale at Martin

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High Street as well as from the home of one of the band. With their new-found popularity, the band set off on a six-week tour of Europe, often encountering hostility at the set length being less than half an hour, even though this comprised around 16 tracks: all the band had.

Influences

During this time the band was listening to more hip hop ( Run DMC,

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and

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) as well as music from a new emerging movement of sample-heavy dance records ( The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu, MARRS, S'Express and Bomb The Bass). After hearing Robert Gordon's remix of their cover of

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's " Love Missile F1-11" and

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's mini-LP ''Crush Collision'' (also engineered by Gordon), the band glimpsed their future as hip-hop/dance/rock music pioneers and decided to record their debut album '' Box Frenzy'' with Robert at Sheffield's FON studios in June/July 1987. It was here the band met

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, which was to be the start of a very successful partnership. The album came out on manager Craig Jennings' Chapter 22 label. 'CJ' still manages the band to the present day, along with the roster at Jennings' firm, Raw Power Management. The transition from punky guitar music to incorporating state-of-the-art production and new musical territories was not dissimilar to a path previously trodden by one of the band's musical heroes

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and subsequently

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. The album surprised the band's fans and perplexed the music critics. Crabb, now more immersed in sample-finding and songwriting, moved from behind the drum kit to being a co-vocalist with Mansell and was replaced by a drum machine called Dr. Nightmare. March took on programming duties and became the band expert on all things Atari and Akai. "Beaver Patrol", a cover of the Wilde Knights song, (suggested to the band by

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of Primal Scream), caused some controversy for its offensive lyrics but "There Is No Love Between Us Anymore" made the lower reaches of the UK charts and as a result, PWEI were signed to the

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. Whilst much confusion ensued around the dramatic change of direction, PWEI secured a first by being the first Western independent band to be invited to play the then

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Chart success

The band achieved

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with " Can U Dig It?" and " Wise Up! Sucker" from their

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, '' This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!'' In late 1988 PWEI were invited by Rush Management to support Run DMC on their European tour. Main support act

were becoming increasingly popular and had a large and militant following who booed off all support acts, in particular, PWEI, who agreed to leave the tour when the situation deteriorated in

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The RCA years: 1989–1993

They released three successful albums on RCA. The first two (''…This is This!'' and ''Cure for Sanity'') were recorded with the aid of

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, known for his work with

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, U2 and

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. The band toured extensively in the UK, Europe, and US, including appearances at Reading Festival. Their singles charted progressively higher, with every single release charting inside the UK Top Forty from 1990 until their final single release in 1994. On 1992's '' The Looks or the Lifestyle?'' the band recruited John "Fuzz" Townshend as their drummer to complement their standard array of loops and pre-programmed drums. The band had discussed adding a live drummer in 1990, however touring commitments made it impractical to do so until the band were able to break touring activity in late 1991 to commence recording. The album peaked at UK No. 15 and featured the Top 30 hit singles "Karmadrome" and "Bulletproof!" Despite healthy sales and successful widescale touring the band's biggest supporters at RCA had left the company by January 1993 and the remaining executives did not understand the band or their music, suggesting at one meeting that EMF 'write a hit' for them. The band was dropped from the label before the "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!" single was released. It went on to peak at number 9 in the

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, becoming the band's biggest hit and making the band at that time the highest charting act to appear on Top of the Pops without a record deal. In an attempt to recoup their investment, the label released a live album ''Live at Weird's Bar and Grill'' recorded in London in October 1992.

Industrial influence: 1994–1995

PWEI's political stance became more explicit with the release of the single " Ich Bin Ein Auslander". A collaboration with Asian group Fun-Da-Mental, the song had anti-Nazi styled

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and reached the UK Top 30. A different version of this song later appeared as the opening track on the 1994 album, '' Dos Dedos Mis Amigos''. The album peaked at No. 11 in the

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and spawned their then final single release, " Everything's Cool", which became their ninth Top 30 UK hit. The band also collaborated with

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on the track " Their Law", featured in their breakthrough second album '' Music For The Jilted Generation''. This track also had political content, serving as a protest against Great Britain's

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, which had criminalized rave culture. The band found some new popularity after signing with

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's Nothing Records in the US, and touring with

, as well as having their songs used on the

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game '' Loaded''. In March 1995 the band released the ''Dos Dedos Mis Amigos''

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album ''Two Fingers My Friends!'' which featured remixes by

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, Apollo 440 and Renegade Soundwave. Crabb left the band in Summer 1995 - originally proposing to contribute in a non-touring capacity due to fatherhood - however, the band decided to replace him with Kerry Hammond on guitar and backing vocals, with Mansell taking over full vocal duties. The band decided to split in May 1996, (with 12 songs recorded and mixed in a state of near completion), and toured the UK briefly in June 1996 with a final live show at Roskilde. At this point, their set contained several unreleased songs from the unfinished album. Two tracks from this period were released at the time, a

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's "Friends", released on the 1997 tribute album ''

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'', and an instrumental track called "Zero Return" on a magazine sampler. In 2013, the songs from the unfinished album were assembled into a bonus disc with the reissue of "Dos Dedos Mis Amigos", comprising the 'unreleased 1996 album', now titled '' A Lick of the Old Cassette Box''.

Disbanded: 1996

Crabb concentrated on his ambient side project

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. After the rest of the band split in 1996, March and Townshend went on to form the

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band Bentley Rhythm Ace. Townshend also released two solo albums and Mansell wrote a number of

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scores, including '' Requiem for a Dream'', '' π'', ''

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'', '' The Fountain'', '' The Wrestler'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Reformation: 2005

The band reformed to play their first gigs in eight years, in Nottingham, Birmingham, and London in January 2005. These gigs were notable for their

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albums, whereby ten minutes after the completion of each gig,

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s of the performance could be purchased. The band released a preview of new material called ''Sonic Noise Byte'' on 4 November 2005, as a torrent download for members of their official website pweination. However, an announcement on the official website in March 2006 confirmed that Mansell and March would no longer be involved in the project due to other work commitments, effectively ending the PWEI reformation. However the remaining band members continued as Vileevils, and released the tracks "Retro Dreaming" and "Street Fightin" for download via the pweination website. A secret, one-night PWEI reunion was scheduled to happen at the Vileevils show at Stourbridge Rock Cafe on 9 June 2007, but was foiled when Mansell was unable to obtain a visa in time to fly back to the UK. March still appeared at the show, and after the Vileevils set they played the planned PWEI songs, without Mansell. Vileevils performed their final live date in December 2008 supporting Ned's Atomic Dustbin, before recording an unreleased album, which was cancelled prior to release in 2010. Some songs from this record were re-recorded for the 2011 Pop Will Eat Itself album ''New Noise Designed By A Sadist'', whilst others remain unreleased to date.

New PWEI: 2011–present

In July 2011, a new line-up was announced, featuring Graham Crabb (as the only original member), fellow vocalist Mary Byker (

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, Apollo 440, Pigface), guitarist Tim Muddiman (

), drummer Jason Bowld ( Pitchshifter,

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) and bassist Davey Bennett (This Burning Age). In October that year the album '' New Noise Designed by a Sadist'' was released on Cooking Vinyl, produced by Monti & Rob Holliday (Sulpher,

) and was followed by a UK tour. The band further toured in March and December 2012. The single "Disguise" was featured as Radio 6 Breakfast Show 'Single of the Week' and an instrumental "Back to Business" was used on Top Gear. Crabb & Byker also guested on Soccer AM. The band began working on a remix album to complement ''New Noise Designed by a Sadist'', but this project was discontinued in favour of the ''Watch the Bitch Blow'' EP. They toured the UK in December 2013 as one third of a triple bill featuring The Wonder Stuff and Jesus Jones. The ''Watch the Bitch Blow'' EP was released in March, 2014, through

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, and the "Reclaim the Game (Funk FIFA)" single featuring Brazilian rapper BNegão ( Planet Hemp) followed in June 2014 for the

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, as a protest song against FIFA. The album ''

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'' was planned for release in September–October, but was delayed to fit in with the band's live schedule in 2015. It was released exclusively and independently through the band's shop: shop.popwilleatitself.net in April 2015. A 9-date UK tour was undertaken in May. In May, the band signed a publishing administration deal with Bucks Music Group for the ANL album only. On Friday 26 August 2016, PWEI headlined the opening day of Infest, with Fuzz Townshend rejoining on drums. Over the following years, they continued playing occasional concerts in the UK, with line-ups varying between shows to agree with the availability of the band members. In addition to Townshend, former band members Richard March and Adam Mole rejoined the band, resulting in a near original lineup by 2018. Seven years after its original release, ''Anti-Nasty League'' was made available digitally on the band's official store and major music streaming and download services. Two months later, in June 2022, a new single, "The Poppies Strike Back", was released. A second, "Chihuahua", followed in September. It was the first new music to be released by the band since 2015's ''Anti-Nasty League'' aside from a 2018 box set compilation which included several unreleased remixes and a rough demo.

Vestan Pance

All PWEI songs were credited to Vestan Pance. It was a

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for the band as a whole. Although the songs were mainly Crabb or Mansell compositions, using a pseudonym was considered more interesting than just "All songs by Pop Will Eat Itself". When Townshend joined the band, an attempt to change the name to 'Vestan Pance and Socks' was denied by RCA.

Members

* Graham Crabb - vocals, drums, keyboards, programming *

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- vocals, keyboards, programming * Davey Bennett - guitars, bass * Richard March - bass, guitars, keyboards, programming * Adam Mole - guitars, keyboards, programming * Fuzz Townshend - drums, keyboards, programming

Former members

- vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards, programming, samples, turntables, drums * Kerry "The Buzzard" Hammond - guitars * Tim Muddiman - guitars, bass, keyboards * Jason Bowld - drums, programming

Timeline

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Discography

Albums

Live albums

* ''Weird's Bar and Grill'' (Live) (1993) UK No. 44 * ''The Radio 1 Sessions 1986-87'' (1997) * ''Reformation: Nottingham Rock City 20.01.05'' (2005) * ''Reformation: Birmingham Carling Academy 22.01.05'' (2005) * ''Reformation: Birmingham Carling Academy 23.01.05'' (2005) * ''Reformation: London Shepherds Bush Empire 24.01.05'' (2005) * ''Reformation: London Shepherds Bush Empire 25.01.05'' (2005) * ''On Patrol in the UK 2012'' (2012)

Compilations

* '' Now for a Feast!'' (1988) * ''16 Different Flavours of Hell'' (Best of) (1993) UK No. 73 * ''Wise Up Suckers'' (BMG best of) (1996) * ''PWEI Product 1986-1994'' (Anthology) (2002) * ''The Best Of'' (2008) * ''Def Comms 86-18'' (2018)

Remix albums

* ''Two Fingers My Friends!'' (1995) UK No. 25 * ''Reclaim the Game (Funk FIFA)'' (2014)

EPs

* ''2000 Light Ales from Home'' (1986) under the name 'Wild and Wandering' * '' The Poppies Say GRRrrr!'' (1986) * '' Poppiecock'' (1986) * '' Very Metal Noise Pollution'' (1989) UK No. 45 * ''Amalgamation'' (1994) * ''Watch the Bitch Blow'' (2014)

Singles

Video releases

* ''Unspoilt by Progress'' VHS (1991) * ''Reformation: Birmingham Carling Academy 23.01.05'' DVD (2005)

Music videos

* "Sweet Sweet Pie" (1987) * "Love Missile F1-11" (1987) * "Beaver Patrol" (1987) * "There Is No Love Between Us Anymore" (1988) * "Def.Con.One" (1989) * "Can U Dig It?" (1989) * "Wise Up! Sucker" (1989) * "Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina" (1990) * "X Y & Zee" (1990) * "92°F" (1991) * "Karmadrome" (1992) * "Bulletproof!" (1992) * "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!" (1993) * "R.S.V.P." (1993) * "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" (1994) * "Everything's Cool" (1994) * "Chaos & Mayhem" (2011) * "Oldskool Cool" (2011) * "Disguise" (2012) * "Watch the Bitch Blow" (2014) * "Babylon RIP" (2014) * "Reclaim the Game (Funk FIFA)" (2014) * "Hollow" (2014) * "21st Century English Civil War" (2015) * "Angry Man's Deathbed" (2015)

References

External links

*
The Designers Republic
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