Pop Will Eat Itself

How Good Are They LIVE?

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Critic Consensus

Based on 6 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Pop Will Eat Itself is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths.

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Latest Release

Chihuahua - Single (5 October 2022)

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

Has Performed With

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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X-Press Magazine (Australia)

September 15, 2022

Regarded as pioneers for their fusion of samples and loops with live guitars in the early nineties, Pop Will Eat Itself returned to Perth for the first time since 2018 to take those brave enough to venture out on a school night down memory lane and back to halcyon days of indie discos and the like.

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