About Pop Will Eat Itself
Pop Will Eat Itself are an English alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England with members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. Initially known as a grebo act, they changed style to incorporate sample-driven indie and industrial rock. 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.
An early permutation of the band formed in 1981 under the name From Eden. Members included Clint Mansell, Adam Mole, Chris Fradgley, Malcolm Treece and Miles Hunt . 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 . The name came from a Wasted Youth album under which one E.P. was released before eventually becoming Pop Will Eat Itself in 1986. The new name was taken from a quotation in an NME article on Jamie Wednesday by David Quantick.
In 1986, the band released the "Poppies Say Grrr!" single, which became Single of the Week in the NME and played by Janice Long on BBC Radio 1 and in the Midlands by John Slater on BRMB Radio. The single was sold in a brown paper bag and was made available for sale at Martin Newsagents in Stourbridge 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.
During this time the band was listening to more hip hop as well as music from a new emerging movement of sample-heavy dance records .
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