Paul Groovy & The Pop Art Experience

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Member Since: 04/06/2006
Band Website: www.criminalrecordz.com
Band Members: Paul Groovy(vocals,guitar,harmonica) Stephen Clarke(Guitars,backing vocals) Steve Herlihy(Bass 84-87,96-97) Joanne Irwin (Drums 84-88) Jim Mortimer(bass 87-87) Ali Coward (drums 88)
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Influences: "Influences suck-just an easy way to hang a label on a band"ooh they sound just like....." ....4 different people....4 different tastes.....the only thing they have in common was that they were INSPIRED by PUNK ROCK to form a band and just DO IT! "(Great Bananna Hoax fanzine 1985)
Sounds Like: "Shambling through a cheap PA like a cross between Swell Maps and the Moving Sidewalks"(Adventures in Bereznik fanzine 86)......................................................... ........................................................"A genuine contender-late 60's influenced wail of feedback t(h)rash and cotton-wool drums"(The Legend- NME 3/86).................................................. .......... "The best psychedelic thrash I've heard all week"(Kris Needs- Melody Maker 4/87)....................................................... ................................................ .................. "Supreme Team Pop Art,with guitars that gun you down like the Colt45 that dealt with Andy"(Sounds 4/87)....................................................... ............ ................. "The most dangerous thing to come out of Portsmouth since Micky Quinn.A great thrash of a record that would have graced 77 as much as 87"(Andy Strickland -Record Mirror 5/87)....................................................... ............. .................... "Warped and ravaged,pulled like playdough into a popadelic shambles"(Push -Melody Maker7/87).................................................. .................................. ................"Witty,wily and sometimes wicked popadelic purists"(Push -Melody Maker 9/87)....................................................... ..............................................."Fuzzy pyschedelic knife-slashings"(Shaun Phillips- Sounds 11/87)
Record Label: Bite Back! (85-8)Criminalrecordz(now).
Type of Label: Indie