6 March 2020
From Graham Crabb, PWEI:
Two weeks last Sunday, my world fell apart. My beloved partner of 13 years, Kanwal Symone Kaur Salwan, died suddenly and unexpectedly, aged 49. A virus turned to sepsis and in the space of four days, what we thought was flu had taken her life.
For me and our two wonderful children, our love for mummy Symone continues unabated. Writing to her daily, adding words, cards, photos, flowers and artefacts to her living-room shrine, will hopefully get us through. An inspiration not only to us, but Symone was an unstoppable tour de force in the field of dementia; the charity she founded, the forget-me-not cafes she got up and running and the annual run, walk, push event, which we shall make sure continues.
Lucky to have known you. Blessed to have loved and had a family with you. RIP my love. X
As a result of this personal tragedy, all PWEI activity is on hold. Please be patient whilst promoters Shiiine (UK) & Metropolis (Aus) work through the changes and please respect Graham and his children’s privacy at this desperately sad time.
Peace, PWEI.
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25 September 2019
Pioneering genre-blenders POP WILL EAT ITSELF aka PWEI return to play their classic album This Is the Day…This Is the Hour…This Is This! in FULL plus an Encore of Classics – ‘Ich Bin Ein Auslander’, ‘Everything’s Cool’, ‘There is no Love Between Us Anymore’, ‘Their Law’, ‘Dance of the Mad’, ‘Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!’, ‘Bulletproof’ and more.
Pop Will Eat Itself Australian and NZ 2020 Tour Dates
Wednesday 25th March – Perth – Rosemount Hotel
Friday 27th March – Melbourne – Corner Hotel
Saturday 28th March – Sydney – Factory Theatre
Sunday 29th March – Brisbane – The Zoo
Tuesday 31st March – Wellington – San Fran
Wednesday 1st April – Auckland – Tuning Fork
Tickets
Pre-Sale : Friday 27th September, 12pm Local time – Monday September 30th, 12pm Local Time
On Sale : Monday 30th September, 12pm Local Time
Australia
NZ
This Is the Day…This Is the Hour…This Is This! features many of the their best-loved songs – ‘Can U Dig It?’, ‘Def Con One’, ‘Wise Up! Sucker’. When the album arrived in 1989 the band were fully immersed in Dance Culture and thanks to the Producer Flood, who went onto Depeche Mode and U2, state of the art production techniques. The album was hailed as a masterpiece ahead of its time.
Crabb on the album and Flood “he was an inspiration to us, he showed us how to do a lot of things, particularly mic-ing up, putting an amplifier in the studio and sending out samples and drum loops through the amplifier to get a totally different sound, which was all new to us and it was lots of new experiments, which we loved… Flood produced a superglue. He kind of pinned it all together. I suppose, in lesser hands, it could’ve sounded a bit of a patchwork quilt, but I think the end product is good because we had a good producer on board, too”.
Stourbridge’s favourite sons are Graham Crabb & Mary Baker on vocals, Rich March on guitar, Adam Mole on keys, Fuzz Townshend on drums & Davey Bennett on bass. Together they still have the boundless energy that always made a Poppies show so much fun.
Crabb on their live shows “We try to be entertaining. Obviously we want it to sound good, but we’re not trying to present the fact that we’re proficient musicians, ’cause we’re not. People see through that quite easily. Yeah, it’s about entertainment, so if we run about the stage and bump into each other and somebody fluffs a note, it’s all sort of part of the fun.”