Pop Will Eat Itself

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Critics Consensus

Based on 8 concert reviews, the critics consensus is that Pop Will Eat Itself is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths.

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On tour

Caldicot Castle, Caldicot, United Kingdom (August 2)

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Artist Info

Genre

experimental

Origin

Stourbridge, Dudley, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom (1986

Bio

Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or the Poppies) are a grebo band formed in Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK with band members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. An early version of the band formed in 1981 under the name From Eden

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Critic Concert Reviews

Backseat Mafia

July 1, 2024

Pop Will Eat Itself / Interrobang? – Chalk Venue, Brighton – 10.05.2024

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The Arts Desk (UK)

May 13, 2024

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Eighties/Nineties indie-tronic dance mavericks take the roof off

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Backseat Mafia

March 2, 2024

Pop Will Eat Itself Brings Four Decades of Alt-Rock Debauchery to Manning Bar – Gadigal/Sydney, 01.03.2024

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Ambient Light (New Zealand)

September 14, 2022

Back into central Auckland on a Wednesday night to what is rapidly becoming my most favoured venue before this year I came to Tuning Fork sparingly, yet in 2022 I have already lost count of how many amazing artists I have seen here.

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Ambient Light (New Zealand)

September 13, 2022

England's finest genre-blenders Pop Will Eat Itself (aka PWEI aka Poppies aka 80's grebos) have returned. The last time I saw them I was still at Uni.

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