Pop Will Eat Itself to play Wolverhampton show tomorrow
Stourbridge alt-rockers Pop Will Eat Itself have enjoyed a joyous renaissance in recent years – and will be back tomorrow to headline Wolverhampton’s Slade Rooms.
It’s part of a whistle-stop festive tour of the UK and comes in advance of a spring tour with Pop Will Eat Itself and The Wonder Stuff’s Miles Hunt, who will DJ.
The show also follows the release of a Pop Will Eat Itself four-CD box set, Def Comms 86-18, which features PWEI tracks from 1986 to 2018 and sleeve notes from Adam Mole.
The box set includes unreleased material and a new track demo Eyes Wide Open.
Emerging from Stourbridge in the mid-1980s, Pop Will Eat Itself quickly progressed from two minute, punk-inspired indie hits to sample-heavy hip hop, house, techno and industrial rock.
Along the way, the band scored countless hit singles and albums, toured the world and became a much-loved mainstay of the UK music scene during the late 1980s and 1990s.
Having reached the end of the line in 1996, the band reformed in 2011, so far releasing two new albums and continuing to record and perform live to an international fanbase, including recent trips to the USA and Australia.
The box set brings together material from across PWEI’s entire career for the first time, compiled with vocalist Graham Crabb and including unreleased material supplied exclusively for this release.
It contains material from all eight of the band’s albums, plus the ‘lost’ 1996 album, as well as unheard alternate versions and a recently recorded demo.
Fans can look forward to reliving the highs of: Poppiecock, Sweet Sweet Pie, Love Missile F1-11, Beaver Patrol, Def Con One, Can You Dig It?, Wise Up! Sucker, Dance Of The Mad and more.
