Panchiko ( ) is a British
indie rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent reco ...
band originating from
Nottingham
Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located south-east of Sheffield and nor ...
, England. Formed between 1997 and 1998,
the band originally consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Owain Davies, guitarist/keyboardist Andrew "Andy" Wright, bassist Shaun Ferreday, and a drummer named John. A year after the revival of Panchiko in 2020, they were joined by guitarist Robert "Rob" Harris and John Schofield, who replaced their original drummer.
The band first received public attention in 2016 when their 2000 demo EP ''
D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'' was discovered by a
4chan
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user in a
charity shop
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in
Sherwood, Nottingham
Sherwood ( ) is a large district and ward of the city of Nottingham, England, north of the city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 15,414. It is bordered by Woodthorpe to the northeast, Mapperley to the east, Carrington to the s ...
and shared online through the music discussion section of the messageboard; the disc was notably distorted due to
disc rot
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, lending further mystery to the EP, leading to a dedicated
cult following
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and a community devoted to tracking down the band.
This was unbeknownst to the band until 2020, when Davies was found and contacted by a fan through
Facebook
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.
Panchiko have since released two compilation albums remastering their older music: a reissue of ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'' combining their first two EPs and ''Ferric Oxide (Demos 1997-2001)''. In December 2021, the band performed their first show in over twenty years in their hometown of Nottingham,
after which they embarked on their first tour in the
United States
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.
The band's debut album ''
Failed at Math(s)'' was released on 5 May 2023, followed by their second full tour in the United States.
Their second studio album, ''
Ginkgo
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'', was released on 4 April 2025. In November 2021, they amassed over ten million streams on
Spotify
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. As of January 2025, they have over 1.45 million monthly listeners.
History
1997–2001: Formation, ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'', and disbanding

Panchiko formed between 1997 and 1998 when their members were 16–17 years old
and nearing the end of
secondary school
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.
The band consisted of childhood friends from
Nottingham
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—Owain Davies, Andy Wright, Shaun Ferreday, and John.
Panchiko's band name is derived from a misspelling of
pachinko
is a mechanical game originating in Japan that is used as an arcade game, and much more frequently for gambling. Pachinko fills a niche in Gambling in Japan, Japanese gambling comparable to that of the slot machine in the West as a form of l ...
. Davies has stated that
otaku
is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, such as anime, manga, video games, computers or other highly enthusiastic hobbies. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in '' Manga Burikko''. ...
culture had an influence on the band's lyrics and image,
describing himself to be a fan of
anime soundtracks
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...
,
JRPGs and
Studio Ghibli
is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo."Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment". ''Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment''. Retrieved 2020-12-14. It has a strong presence in the animation industry and has exp ...
.
The music they made was primarily influenced by
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon-on-Thames, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band members are Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Gre ...
,
Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band formed in Cardiff in 1993. For the duration of their professional career, the band consisted of Gruff Rhys (lead vocals, guitar), Huw Bunford (lead guitar, vocals), Guto Pryce (bass guitar), Cian C ...
,
Ultrasound
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,
Air
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,
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatle ...
,
DJ Shadow
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He uses l ...
,
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English Rock music, rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris (musici ...
,
New Order,
Nirvana
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, and
Kid Loco
Jean-Yves Prieur, Kid Loco is a French electronic musician, DJ, remixer and producer. His best-known album is '' A Grand Love Story'' (1997), and he has also compiled and mixed a DJ mix album for the Another Late Night series on Azuli Record ...
.
The band initially performed live covers in local
pubs
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despite being underage.
They also performed in
Battle of the Bands competitions, but never won and rarely received positive feedback.
After an unsuccessful visit to a studio, Panchiko eventually began to produce music in their basements and bedrooms using cheap equipment.
Davies has stated that their first
extended play
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, ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'', was recorded between 1999 and 2000, with Wright serving as the group's producer.
The EP was completed in June 2000.
The cover artwork was taken from a panel of ''
Mint na Bokura
is a Japanese manga series by Wataru Yoshizumi. The story centers on the life of a pair of 14-year-old twins. It was initially published in the July 1997 issue of ''Ribon Comics'' until February 2000. It is completed in 6 volumes. However, i ...
'', a
Japanese manga series by
Wataru Yoshizumi
is a Japanese manga artist. She was born as on June 18, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated with a degree in economics from Hitotsubashi University.
Yoshizumi started her career as a Japanese manga artist while working as an office lady. Her d ...
spanning from 1997 to 1999.
Notably, the EP's
liner notes
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Origin
Liner notes are descended from the prog ...
only credit the band members by their first names.
The music on the EP has been described as
emo
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,
industrial,
dream pop
Dream pop (also typeset as dreampop) is a subgenre of alternative rock and neo-psychedelia that emphasizes atmosphere and sonic texture as much as pop melody. Common characteristics include breathy vocals, dense productions, and effects such ...
,
psychedelic
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,
shoegaze
Shoegaze (originally called shoegazing and sometimes conflated with dream pop) is a subgenre of indie rock, indie and alternative rock characterized by its ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion (music), distortion and effects, a ...
,
trip hop
Trip hop is a musical genre that has been described as a psychedelic music, psychedelic fusion of hip hop music, hip hop and electronica with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound. The style emerged as a more experimental music, experimental var ...
, and
vaporwave
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.
Roughly 30 self-produced copies were burned on
CD-Rs and shared among friends, with a few copies being sent to reviewers and labels.
Aside from some "not very positive" reviews, Panchiko only received one response from a label they had sent their EP to,
London
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-based record label
Fierce Panda
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.
[ Label owner Simon Williams made the following note in his demo logs documenting his impressions of the EP:
Despite Fierce Panda showing some interest, the band ultimately remained unsigned. Davies stated that they did not have the means to perform in ]London
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at the time, and speculated that "no A&R would travel to Nottingham to see one band." Between 2000 and 2001, Panchiko recorded three more songs for an EP called ''Kicking Cars'', which would go unreleased. In 2001, the band members were in sixth form
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and college
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. Ferreday said that he was balancing college, studying classical guitar
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, and working different part-time jobs. Their second EP has been described as "art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from entertainment to an ar ...
".[ Wright remembers performing at a small festival in ]Sutton-in-Ashfield
Sutton-in-Ashfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 36,404 in 2021. It is the largest town in the district of Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, Ashfield, four miles west of Mansfield, from the Derbyshire border and ...
in mid-2001 after which Panchiko disbanded. Davies recalls that this decision was not entirely conscious because he, Wright, and Ferreday were already enrolled in college, while John was enlisted into the military.
In between the time of ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'' and the band's resurgence, Wright and Davies both remained involved in music. After college, Wright performed with the Nottingham-based art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from entertainment to an ar ...
band Swimming
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. Afterward, he began his own musical project called We Show Up on RadaR. Wright has mixed, mastered, and produced for the aforementioned groups and other bands as a professional sound engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a sound recording, recording or a Concert, live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization (audio), equalization, Dynamic range ...
. Davies produced electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...
for years (some of which was released via MySpace
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) and served as a video jockey
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Origins
The term " ...
at live events in the gaming industry Gaming industry, game industry, or games industry may refer to:
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** Especially in reference to casinos
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, but he eventually pursued a career in the field of education. Ferreday sold his guitars and had not played music until Panchiko's future reunion. He now works as a tree surgeon
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. The original drummer John was enlisted into the military soon after Panchiko disbanded. Afterward, the other three members lost contact with him completely.
2016–2020: Resurgence and search effort
On 21 July 2016, a copy of Panchiko's EP ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'' was discovered in an Oxfam
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charity shop
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by an anonymous user of the online message board 4chan
4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from video games and television to literature, cooking, weapons, mu ...
. The user shared an image of the CD on the music board /mu/ and requested assistance in uncovering more information about the band. The liner notes
Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets that come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or cassette j-cards.
Origin
Liner notes are descended from the prog ...
contained only the band members' first names and the EP's year of release, making further investigation difficult. Shortly after the initial post, multiple requests were made by other board members for the user to upload a ripped copy of the CD. Subsequently, the user complied, eventually sharing the tracks from the EP. However, due to the CD-R
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's age and deterioration, disc rot
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had corrupted and heavily distorted the audio. Many maintained the EP to be a hoax, speculating that the initial 4chan post was a publicity stunt
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, but the band had nonetheless gained a significant cult following
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without their knowledge. Despite generating considerable interest, no information was uncovered regarding the band.
In 2017, ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'' was further popularized when the rip was uploaded to YouTube
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, garnering around two hundred thousand views and sparking renewed interest in the band, ultimately leading to the formation of a dedicated search effort by fans to gather, compile, and discuss new findings. On 19 January 2020, researchers took note of a bar code
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on the EP's cover which directed them to an Oxfam shop in Sherwood, Nottingham
Sherwood ( ) is a large district and ward of the city of Nottingham, England, north of the city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 15,414. It is bordered by Woodthorpe to the northeast, Mapperley to the east, Carrington to the s ...
, leading users to search for musicians in the area named "Owain".
On 21 January 2020, a member of the search team successfully located a Facebook
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profile belonging to Panchiko's lead singer and messaged them, "Hello, you'll probably never read this, but are you the lead singer of Panchiko?" To which Davies replied, "Yeah." Davies, now in his late 30s, had been completely unaware of the EP's circulation online. He immediately contacted Wright, who was in South Korea
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; Wright then contacted Ferreday, who was in Cambridge
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. Neither of them were aware of the band's newfound popularity either. The original drummer John was no longer in contact with the band, and his whereabouts are currently unknown. It is also unclear if he is aware of Panchiko's current status or success.
2020–2022: Reformation, reissues, and touring
Wright, after being contacted by Davies, tasked himself with recovering and remastering Panchiko's past works. During Wright's restoration efforts, Davies was quoted saying the following:
Wright initially struggled to restore the audio because he did not have access to the original masters. However, a friend of Wright's in possession of the original EP reached out, their copy in significantly better condition and without the disc rot. Using this copy, Wright managed to remaster the four tracks found on the ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'' CD. They were subsequently released two weeks later, offering listeners clearer versions for the first time. On 16 February 2020, Panchiko reissued ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'' through Bandcamp
Bandcamp is an American online music distribution platform founded in 2008 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with an office and record store in Oakland, California. Acquired by Epic ...
, expanding it into a full-length compilation album. The reissue also includes tracks from their unreleased EP ''Kicking Cars'' from 2001, as well as the original "rotted" versions of ''D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>Ls four tracks. It became one of the best-selling albums on Bandcamp on the day it was released. The compilation album was released on Spotify
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two months later.
From there, Davies, Wright, and Ferreday worked together to revamp their band. Throughout 2020 and 2021, Panchiko issued more unreleased music recorded between 1997 and 2001, as well as new original music. This music was released to streaming services and sold in a variety of physical formats through Bandcamp, including vinyl
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and cassette
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s. In July 2020, Panchiko released ''Ferric Oxide (Demos 1997–2001)'', which contains 18 previously unreleased demo tracks. In May 2020, they released "R>O>B>O>T>S>R>E>P>R>I>S>E", a rerecording of their song "Laputa". In June 2020, they released "Machine Gun Drum", their first original song since disbanding. In February 2021, the band released ''The Death Of'', which contains "Infinite Pieces", a track they had stumbled upon by accident after discovering a CD with no label. This was the final track the band recorded before disbanding in 2001.[
In November 2020, Panchiko released a collection of remixes of their song "D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L". One of the artists Panchiko collaborated with was Tongg. In the past, Wright had regularly contributed keys and produced for Tongg under the name We Show Up on RadaR. Among other members, Tongg consists of members Rob Harris (who performs vocals, guitar, and keys) and John Schofield (who performs drums and percussion). In late 2021, Panchiko recruited Harris and Schofield as guitarist and drummer, respectively. On 31 August 2021, the band reconvened for their first practice session in 20 years. On 6 December 2021, they performed their first live show since disbanding at the Metronome venue in their hometown of Nottingham, playing in front of a crowd of around 400 attendees.]
On 13 May 2022, they performed their next major gig in Hackney, London
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. Later that year, the band embarked on their first tour, set in the United States
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and including a performance at the South by Southwest
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festival in Texas
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. During their tour, they released a deluxe pressing called ''D>E>L>U>X>E>M>E>T>A>L'', which rose to the number two spot on Bandcamp's alternative
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chart on 20 October 2022.
2023–present: ''Failed at Math(s)'' and ''Ginkgo''
On 13 February 2023, the band announced the release of their debut album '' Failed at Math(s)'', which was released on 5 May of the same year.[ On 7 March 2023, Panchiko released "Failed at Math(s)", the opening track from the album. It is the second original song to be released that was recorded after their reformation. In May 2023, Panchiko embarked on their second full tour in the United States.][ In December 2023, Panchiko announced their third tour across North America.]
On 22 November 2024, the band released a music video for the new track "Ginkgo". This music video coincided with an announcement for their second album, also titled ''Ginkgo
''Ginkgo'' is a genus of non-flowering seed plants, assigned to the gymnosperms. The scientific name is also used as the English common name. The order to which the genus belongs, Ginkgoales, first appeared in the Permian, , and ''Ginkgo'' is n ...
'', which was released on 4 April 2025. A second single, "Shandy in the Graveyard" was released on 3 January 2025. A third single, "Honeycomb", was released on 14 February 2025.
Band members
On many of their releases, the band members are credited with "Panchiko" as a surname, i.e. "Andy Panchiko".
Current members
* Owain Davies – vocals, guitar, sampling, production, lyrics , piano, artwork
* Andrew "Andy" Wright – guitar, keyboard, sampling, sequencing, backing vocals, engineering, production, lyrics , artwork
* Shaun Ferreday – bass, bass programming, effects
* Robert "Rob" Harris – guitar
* John Schofield – drums, percussion
Past members
* John – drums, sequencing
Discography
Albums
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Remix projects
Live releases
Extended plays
Singles
Music videos
Visualizers
Live sessions
Tours
Notes
References
External links
Panchiko on Bandcamp
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1998 establishments in the United Kingdom
British alternative rock groups
English indie rock groups
British shoegaze musical groups
Musical groups established in 1997
Musical groups disestablished in 2001
Musical groups from Nottingham
Musical groups reestablished in 2020