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About Me

What the world needs now is a bit of good old fashioned pop....Look out for Graingerboy's forthcoming collection of little ditties Pop Music Crisis Meeting. The album, a culmination of a years work, was co-produced with Julian Simmons (Brinkman, A Girl Called Eddy, Guillemots) in East London's Din Studio. What can only be described as a 'PTA '(Pop Traffic Accident), the album incorporates just about every record Graingerboy has ever listened to and longs for an age when 'Pop' wasn't just a dirty word.Pop Music Crisis Meeting features contributions from Georgia Lashbrook (The Research), Anthony Reynolds (Jack, Jaques), Jack Pollitt (Barefoot) and Simon Phipps (Bandini) and was given a final polish by Mike Marsh (Bjork, Lamb, Kylie) at The Exchange in London.Along with the live favourite single 'Flying Solo', PMCM includes a new version of the sound track to Rafael Bonachela's "Introducing..." comission.


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Member Since: 15/10/2006
Band Website: www.graingerboy.com
Band Members: simon grainger (Vox, Keys, Samples, Programming) with various friends...georgia, belle, julian, joe, jack, matt, alyson, emma and martyn all adding various elements of pop genius. currently gigging with georgia, rick, bryn, zoe, micia, eddie, matt......bringing pop music back to life.
Influences: new order, depeche mode, stars, stina nordenstam, kate bush, plaid, aphex twin, black dog, warp, st etienne, primal scream, dubstar, kirsty maccoll, kylie, the smiths, peter gabriel, lamb, ben christophers, steve reich, soul II soul, prince, tricky, massive attack,the beloved, brian eno, phoenix, bjork, sia, the shamen, prefab sprout, black box recorder, david sylvian, tori amos, prince, madonna, sub pop, pet shop boys, ani difranco, to roccoco rot, steve reich, one dove, laura veirs, the notwist, magnetic fields, kirsty maccoll, suzanne vega, mew, fleetwood mac, tricky, the orb, KLF, my bloody valentine, ben and jason, bananarama, kylie, orbital , sabres of paradise.
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Record Label: Pop Crisis Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Happy New Year to you all ............

Where did it go ??????? 2008 of course. I'm still trying to work out if I actually lived through it. Anyway, hope you had a great xmas and have some exciting things planned for 2009. I've got a few ch...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:35:00 GMT

Do you know where it all started.....??????????

Graingerboy...A BiographyAfter a brief fling with the music of Bucks Fizz and The Kids from Fame in his formative years, graingerboy's musical journey really begins with the discovery (and later obses...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:54:00 GMT

Album Review...Album Review...Album Review..

So let's do this for the people who have one opportunity to enter their burning home before it crashes to the ground. Family? Photos? Pets? No. They make a mad Backdraftesque dash to their record coll...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:17:00 GMT

Update...Update...Update...Updte

Summer holidays end and graingerboy is rested and ready to get back to some serious work...well a bit of work anyway....Pop Crisis Recordings is currently getting some of the lovely musicians from the...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:22:00 GMT

thankyou, thankyou, thankyou...

what a night and what a bunch of talented buggers. great dancers, fantastic musicians, beautiful crowd and visually stunning. to all involved...thankyou a ton. to those who made the effort to sup...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:44:00 GMT

Nightmare

I'm in gorgeous Sweden at the mo doing some work stuff. I really should be rehearsing for the gig though cos I keep having recurring nightmare about it. Can't really go into too much detail here....
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:19:00 GMT

Last Chance...

It's your last chance to download Last Xmas Eve 12" Version. There will be a couple of new tracks on here from the pop music crisis album in the next few days. Oh and the album is very nearly sol...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:43:00 GMT

Gig Announcement

Pop Crisis Recordings in association with Horizon Arts are pleased to anounce graingerboy's debut northen live performance at wakefield arts centre on 27th april 2007.  Doors ...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:16:00 GMT

A Great Review...

I absolutely love this review. Rubbish NME take note of the excellent journalism here. PS. Bring back the wit and tongue-in-cheek sarcasm of the Smash Hits journalism. Not the up their own arses NME j...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:43:00 GMT

Last Xmas-Eve (12" Mix)...Exclusive Download

You can download the 12" Mix of Last Xmas Eve here for a limited time. This alternative mix is a sylvianesque slice of moody electronica which takes an unexpected twist at the 4 minute mark. This...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:30:00 GMT