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Pog

Electro punk folk shambles.

About Me

Pog was initially just myself playing on a battered acoustic guitar that I had bought from a car boot sale for £10. In September 2000 a curiously contrived petrol crisis led to me having to find a viable alternative to lugging the 7 piece monster that was Anal Beard (who I was singing with at the time) to Plymouth Punx Picnic. So I bundled into a car with The Blue Minkies and played a set of songs I'd written, extra cirricularly as it were, to a clubful of punks who enjoyed the nylon strung troubadourism much more than I expected them to.
CAFE MORNING AFTER & LONDON'S GRAND PARADE, April 2007
After a few months of picking up shows in various places (including being the token boy at a regular night that went by the name of Girlfrenzy, earning myself the title of 'honourary girl' in the process, unexectedly) I recorded and released a 6 track 7" EP called Faces At The Window. It got a Single of the Month award in Record Collector, which stunned me.
PENNYWATCHERS, April 2007
The volume of shows increased, and over the next few months I recorded some more songs, this time for a split CD called Tales From The Saturday Night Launderette with fellow Brightonian bedwetter We Am Janet. These songs were longer, slower and less uplifting. My friend Bela Emerson joined me for a while on cello, which was great.
About a year or so later my (then) girlfriend Annalise Vineer joined Pog on bass, somewhere between the next two albums. We played as a drum machine augmented duo for a while, touring with assorted friends and then dragging a guy called Deacon Brown in to play keyboard.
DATING LOVE, June 2005
Fascinatingly, Pog has gained approximately one member per year, and we slowly swelled to a 5 piece, featuring my sister Kerry on 2nd guitar and Wob on a small stand-up drumkit. This mammoth line-up lasted several months, then dropped back to a 4 piece after Annalise left and Kerry moved onto bass.
LACES, August 2006
Naturally, rooted as we are in anti-capitalist punk polemic, it's our pleasure to direct you to our online shop.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/16/2006
Band Website: pogwash.org
Band Members: Deacon Brown - Keyboard Paul Stapleton - Vocals, guitar, Wob - Drums, Xylophone, vocals Kerry Stapleton - Bass, vocals
Influences: Between us, our influences are probably along the lines of Patrik Fitzgerald, Chumbawamba, several Sarah Records bands, Crisis, The Monochrome Set and Carter.
Sounds Like: Oooh - at a push, maybe Carter. A bit. Or Belle and Sebastian (ie fey out-of-key vocals).
Record Label: Irregular
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Pog CD (at last) and a launch night to go with it

Hoy there,   After several months of procrastinating and banging on about the much-vaunted (by ourselves anyway) end product, I now find myself faced with the prospect of turning 1025 CDs into an...
Posted by Pog on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:20:00 PST

Some new Pog songs up

Hi all, Just a wee snipette to let you know that three tracks, which will form three tenths of the next album (Finding Hope In Unlikely Places) are now up on our Myspace page - the songs in question a...
Posted by Pog on Mon, 14 May 2007 05:05:00 PST

New Pog CD for you to digest in vast quantities

Well in the interim of getting the band Pog CD together (the one with all the songs on that people ask for when buying an album after a show) I decided to crack on with another solo album full of song...
Posted by Pog on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:37:00 PST

Another new song - Gentlemen of The West

Here's another new Pog song for you to immerse yourself in. It was written after young Ali Ismaeel Abbas had his limbs blown off by way of Western intervention. In school assembly once our headmaster ...
Posted by Pog on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:21:00 PST

New Pog song - written and recorded in a day!

You'll notice there's a new song on the page. It's called Halloween and it'll be one of the tracks on one of the two new Pog CDs. I wrote it yesterday at 7am, practiced it through the day and recorded...
Posted by Pog on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:24:00 PST