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Pop Fosters

About Me

MySpace Layouts Pop Fosters are Richie Day and Sara Askew. We are a guitar and drums duo from Wakefield. We formed in July 2007 and played our first gig in early August of that year, since then we have gigged regularly including one in Tampa, Florida in March 2008 and a mini-tour of Scotland in Nov 2008.

Pop Fosters @ Subculture, Leeds (7/8/07)

"Far more engaging are lo-fi, boy on guitar, girl on drums duo from Wakefield, Pop Fosters. Unassuming at first, coming onto the stage with little fanfare, their short, punchy garage numbers quickly become hard to ignore. Playing more material in a single set than most bands manage in three, Pop Fosters absolutely blast through their songs, infusing their performance with a healthy interplay, ramshackle charm and exactly the right kind of nervous energy. Whilst their fuzzy, garage rock sound owes an obvious debt to the White Stripes, Pop Fosters manage to evoke Jack and Meg without ever crossing the line into rip-offery. Their music even seems more exploratory in some ways, demonstrating a range of influences - who'd have thought a garage band would choose to cover Pavement? - whilst venturing into punky, Pixies-esque, and, at times, grungy territory. The energy and enthusiasm from the pair is striking. Pop Fosters transcend their numbers to create a compelling, attention-grabbing sound. Closing their set with a cracking cover of The Sonics' 'Psycho' they prove themselves to be a band to watch out for."

Tom Richardson (No-Title Magazine Sept 2007)
Pop Fosters - Self Health..."A healthy slice of punk here. Fast, furious and fun. It does what it needs to, comes in, kicks butt and goes away again." - Scubadog, Yorkshire Music Collective

Pop Fosters - Breakin' Up (Live @ Cardigan Arms, Leeds Jan '09)

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/06/2007
Band Website: http://www.youtube.com/user/popfosters
Band Members: Sara Askew (Drums, backing vocals), Richie Day (Guitar, lead vocals)
Influences: The Smiths, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, Clash, Dinosaur Jr, The Sonics, Pavement, JOHN PEEL, The Fall, The Ramones, The Stooges, The New York Dolls, The Cure, The Pixies, The Hives, The Strokes, The Libertines, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, (Old) Kings Of Leon, The White Stripes, The Very, Schwervon!, The Undertones, Interpol, Morrissey, Jay Reatard, The Replacements, Half Man, Half Biscuit
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Who needs one - release it yourself!
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Salford gig review

"Next up was Pop Fosters and yes its true I do have a crush on their drummer Sara, there I've said it! I love their stuff even though they're not from Salford, their songs are short snappy and in your...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT

Band a day!

Hey,We are reviewed on this website today:http://www.anewbandaday.com/They say some very nice things about us (Thanks Joe)Also, we are featured in the new issue of free Leeds Magazine Paper Cut so che...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:31:00 GMT

Live clips...

"Breakin' Up" from Cardigan Arms in Leeds (22/1/09)... Cheers to Elliot from Ditch Divers for posting the clip. x"Band With No Fans/Everydays The Same" live at Carpe Diem last year... ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:48:00 GMT

We are featured on a new compilation...

EXTRACTS FROM THE ETHER VOL. 1 - CD compilation featuring 17 undiscovered artists from the depths of cyberspace. Limited Edition of 200 handfinished and individually numbered digipaks. Get 'em while y...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:46:00 GMT

Scotland

Hey everyone, we are now back from our two date mini-tour of scotland! Everything went really well - cheers to rasef and the despondents for an ace time! Below is us performing "Firing Line" at B...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:34:00 GMT

Carpe Diem live review in Hyde Park Heat magazine...

Live review from Hyde Park Heat Magazine. Sept 24th - FreeBooter @ Carpe Diem, Leeds. The next act were really something different - The Pop Fosters from Wakefield - A boy/girl drums/guitar 2 piece. ...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:32:00 GMT

Fungalpunk album review

POP FOSTERS - YOUR MUSIC IS SHIT - SORT IT OUT With a self-effacing title and a sound from an industrial container this garage/punk leakage soils the very speakers from which it oozes with its delight...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:16:00 GMT

Electric Roulette album review

Review - Pop Fosters 'Your Music Is Shit - Sort It Out' It's not unusual that a band should get in touch with a long flowery biography and a reams and reams of inaccurate likenesses ("somewhere betw...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:40:00 GMT

Call Of The Wyld Album Review

This is a review of our new album "Your Music Is Shit - Sort It Out" from Call Of The Wyld's blog http://callofthewyld.blogspot.com. I first came across Wakefield's Pop Fosters via one of those '...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:04:00 GMT

YOUTUBE GIG VIDEOS

Hey, check out videos from our gig at cardi arms in leeds last Friday (9/5/08) http://www.youtube.com/user/popfosters  
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:13:00 GMT