Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or The Poppies, though the latter can refer to a number of other bands) were an English band formed in Stourbridge, with band members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country.
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 (Treece and Hunt famously went on to form The Wonder Stuff). Aft...
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Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or The Poppies, though the latter can refer to a number of other bands) were an English band formed in Stourbridge, with band members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country.
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 (Treece and Hunt famously went on to form The Wonder Stuff). After changing their name to Wild and Wandering (named after a Wasted Youth album) for a while and recruiting Richard March and Graham Crabb (Graham being the only respondent to replace Miles Hunt on drums), they eventually became Pop Will Eat Itself in 1986, taking the name from a quotation in an NME article by David Quantick about band Jamie Wednesday (later to become better known as Carter USM).
In 1986 the band released the "Poppies Say Grrr!" 7" single. The band honed their songwriting skills with a string of catchy two-minute pop songs...
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