Biography
The Beginning

An early versiin of a b& formed inside 1981 under the title From either Eden; members involved Clint Mansell, Adam Mole, Chris Fradgley, Malcolm Treece & Miles Hunt (Treece and Hunt went on to form The Wonder Stuff). Fallowing changing their title to Untamed & Vagabondage awhile & recruiting Richard March & Graham Crabb (Graham existence a lone respondant to replenish a 'piss unfortunate' Miles Hunt around drums), it finally became Pop May Eat Itself inside 1986, ingesting the title from either a quote in an NME article just about band Jamie Wednesday (late to get better called Carter USM). popular eating itself suggested that wholly popular music continues to recycle ideas & that at long last, a hone pop song would exist as written that contains the right of people ideas.

the band honed their songwriting skills by having a string of catchy 2-microscopic popular songs freed in EP's each when Untamed & Vagabondage & Pop May Eat Itself. Sustaining a support of DJ John Peel, these EPs saw a select few airplay & enjoyed some popularity among college student. Fallowing a band despised it got acomplished completely it can using their healthy, it witnessed newly influences inside Hip Hop acts such as a Beastie Boys, Run DMC and Public Enemy. Graham shortly dropped the drum sticks for the mic & was replaced by a drum machine known as 'Dr. Nightmare.' Their style continued to have by owning classics like 'No Love Between America Anymore' & a anthemic 'Def Con A single.' Following, PWEI were signed to major label RCA and they achieved top Forty hits sustaining 'May U Burrow It?' & 'Caring Higher! Sucker' off a album This Is the Day... This Is the Hour... This Is This!

The RCA Years

RCA's big studio budget allowed a band's talent to really shine across, & it freed Threesome successful albums thereon label. A 1st 2 (...This is This! & Curative for Saneness) were recorded by using a help of legendary producer Flood, known for his operate using Nine Inch Nails, U2 and many more popular 90s groups. Therapeutic for Saneness was mayhap PWEI's virtually all experimental album, by having the supplementary electronic healthy than former efforts. RCA, meanwhile, was other concerned chart profits and then wanted a band to cut a lenthy instrumentals from either their songs.

In 1992's A Looks or even A Lifestyle, the b& recruited a survive drummer to complement their standard array of loops & pre-programmed drums and brought back a bit of survive guitars. A record was their virtually all commercial & polished act up to now, & was arguably a Poppies' high point, featuring top Xx hits prefer 'Karmadrome' & 'Bulletproof.' A individual 'Become a Girl! Defeat a Baddies!' registered when a band's large hit around January 1993. By this point, RCA got already grown sick PWEI's stuborness & dropped a babies prior to a individual was potentially freed (ironically plenty the song peaked at Nina from carolina in the UK singles chart). Because of this, a band became a 1st ever to perform in Top of the Pops without being on the record label. A British National Party had recently caused an uproar around Tower Hamlets by winning the council seat, & it scanned conceivable that a UK would look at a revival around far best politics. Inside response to this, A Looks or even a Lifestyle introduced a when yet unpretentious political angle, as a album inlay utilized the "red arrow" emblem of the Anti Nazi League and offered the organisation's location.

The Industrial Influence

Experiencing dropped from either RCa turned intent on exist when a blessing for a Poppies, as a label agreed to write off the massive debts that the band got accumalated around studio fees reciprocally for PWEi's back catalogue. Fallowing a minor bidding war, a Poppies decided to sign to Infectious Records, a label recently began by friend Korda Marshell (world health organization experienced signed the babies to RCA in the foremost place however experienced since left the label) that offered the children the artistic freedom it mandatory.

PWEI universally suffered somewhat from either their pig-headedly "cartoon like" image, despite producing thoughtful & typically amazingly dark tracks (e.g. "Wake Up! Time To Die!", "88 Seconds", & "Mother"). Per period of 1994's Dos Dedos Mis Amigos the b& got toned down its tawdry public persona & veered bump off around a freshly and other industrial based direction using a help of long period fan Trent Reznor. Numerous fans were upset that a 'Is everybody happy?!' pogoing Poppies were never to return & put murder per newly counsel, however a band obtained fresh popularity when signing by having Reznors 'Nothing Records' in the America & touring sustaining Nine Inch Nails, too when with their songs utilized on the Playstation bet on 'Loaded'.

PWEI's raid a political was potentially supplementary expressed using a release of the individual "Ich Bin Ein Auslander." a collaboration sustaining Asian class action Fun-Da-Fundamental frequency, a song was vituperative attack on the far correct & the apathy that seemed to greet its revivification. a different versiin of this song late appeared when the opening track on 'Dos Dedos Mis Amigos' album.

A resulting month a band freed a Dos Dedos remix album '2 Fingers The Friends' which featured remixes by The Orb, Apollo 440, Renegade Soundwave and many thomas more. It was all about this period that Graham Crabb left a b& and it recruited 'A Buzzard' of Yeah! God (who had recorded 'wild guitar' on previous albums but was never a full time member) and Clint took over full vocal duties. the b& continued down the industrial route & were however recording and itinerant until 1996, possibly recording a collaberation by using Orbital. Regrettably, a b& took a break prior to finishing production of their next album sustaining Trent Reznor, & spell non officially splitting, failed to complete the act citing tedium and musical differences. 1 track from either this time period was freed, the handle of Gary Numan's 'Friends,' and will bring a few indication of the band's counsel at a period.

The Designers Republic

An interesting footer is a astounding total of T-shirts endorsing the band that own been produced (apparently sustaining their permission). Of more or less Hundred designs available, a better known is probably of these which subverts a familiar "PEPSI" cola logotype by replacing a legend "PEPSI" sustaining "PWEI" & a sentence "Sample It, Loop It, Fuck It, Eat It" encircling a project. More T-Shirts feature a outre (typically space-themed) cartoon characters that pop up now and then on the band's album nontextual matter, from either a spherical headed alien by owning toy ray gun called 'Craig' (thought to become fallowing a elastic manager 'Craig Jennings'), to a jagged toothed, sinister robotic head (complete by owning futurist earphone) that appears to keep around get the "official" logotype for completely "PWEI Product". At one stage in the 1990's, it was, even apocryphally, found that PWEI experienced sold extra T-Shirts than actual records.

About a lot art & coporate identity for the band's record cover & marketing was designed per at present tremendously successful Sheffield depending The Designers Republic. These are considered that great deal of what would get a project company's metatextual & self-referencing motifs were number a single carved retired on a sleeve of PWEI records, pertinent in which, unless one experienced a good understanding of the Designers Republic at the instance, it was hard to decipher which were PWEI icons & logotype & which belonged Designers Republic.

The Future

Crabb left within 1995 to concentrate in his Ambient side project Golden Claw Musics. When a rest of the b& split inside 1996, March and Townsend went in to form Big Beat band Bentley Rhythm Ace. Townsend as well freed ii solo albums & Mansell has written the total of acclaimed film scores, including Pi_(film).

A b& reformed to play their number one gigs inside Octad years, around Nottingham, Birmingham and London inside January 2005. Several thought this would never happen, when a b& h& apparently misused all the tapes and disks of samples and backing tracks it required to perform survive. Once this page was late detected around the friends garden shed, it decided to reform. There are til now there are no plans for farther gigs, however a band use reportedly been back in the studio working in recently lesson.

Members

Pop May Eat Itself was composed of the resulting creative person: Clint Mansell: Vocals/Guitars Graham Crabb: Vocals/Keyboards (left in 1995) Adam Mole: Keyboards/Guitars Richard March: Guitars/Bass Robert "Fuzz" Townsend: Drums

Discography

2000 Weak Ales From either Page EP (1986) A Poppies Say Grrr EP (1986) Poppiecock EP (1986) Sweetly Sweetly Pie Lone (1987) Love Missile F1-11 Individual (1987) Beaver Patrol Lone (1987) Last Pack Craze LP (1987) No Love Between United states of america Any longer Only (1988) Currently for the Feast! LP (1988) May U Burrow It? Individual (1989) Caring Higher! Sucker Only (1989) This Is the Day... This Is the Hour... This Is This! LP (1989) Super Metallic Sound pollution EP (1989) Fey Per Hand Of Cicciolina Only (1990) Therapeutic for Sanity LP (1990) (expanded reprint around 1991) Dance Of The Mad Individual (1990) Ten Y & Zee Single (1991) 92F Only (1991) KarmadroPine tree state/Eat Pine tree state Digest Pine tree state Love Pine tree state Wipe out Me Lone (1992) Bulletproof! Individual (1992) A Looks or even a Lifestyle LP (1992) Acquire a Girl! Wipe out a Baddies! Only (1993) ''Weird's Bar & Grill LP (Survive) (1993) R.S.V.P/Familus Horribilus Lone (1993) Xvi Different Flavours of Hell LP (Better of) (1993) Ich Bin Ein Auslander Individual (1994) Merger EP (1994) All about's Cool Individual (1994) Dos Dedos Mis Amigos LP(1994) Both Fingers The Friends LP (1995) Caring Higher Suckers (BMG better of) (1996) Radio Ace Sessions 1986 - 1987 (1997)

Singles

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="1"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |-

| US Modern Rock |- | 1988 | "Def. Con. One" | #30 | This Is the Day... This Is the Hour... This Is This! |- | 1991 | "X Y & Zee" | #11 | Curative for Sanity'' |}