Live: PWEI - Preaching to the Converted - Page 4

**Ghostsuit** · 25th January 2005, 6:37pm

It's Saturday night and I've just driven over three hundred miles to Birmingham to see a band that split up over eight years ago. Have I lost the plot? Is this really worth the trek? Were they really as good as I remember? And even if they were, will they be even remotely as good now? Will I ruin the memory of those last gigs I went to see? It's time to find out.

It's with these memory and worries that I make my way into the Carling Academy in Birmingham to see Pop Will Eat Itself... who? It seems a generation has already grown up without PWEI; god, I feel old! So for those of you who don't know who PWEI are... well... er, you know what; I really haven't a clue how to describe them. "They're very much like scruffy pigs to look at.... they're very, very ugly indeed." You smiled, yes? Thats what PWEI are - they are a band that makes you smile. You can't help it. Their music never sits still; with its samples, pop, rhythm and rhyme you'll be pogoing along to...

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Moonflower · 29th January 2005, 5:52pm

what a handome bunch we are

the rigging one didnt come out well thats my story anyway

poprock · 29th January 2005, 5:57pm

Heh. Amazin'. The only one that's in focus is the one where we were all drunk.
Except Forbes of course, who was sober as a judge.

Moonflower · 29th January 2005, 6:06pm

Ha ha ha what do you mean i was drunk taking all of them!!!!!!!!

poprock · 29th January 2005, 6:12pm

Fair point.

pANDAS Radio · 29th January 2005, 6:46pm

Quick hide the cigarettes in case Claire's mum sees.

I have discovered that the PWEI Product lighters are refillable!! Result!

Largest of Als · 29th January 2005, 6:50pm

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Originally Posted by Evil_wolf_girl

OOOOOohhhh, tall girl with pink hair in the background...........

Al

poprock · 29th January 2005, 7:18pm

Incredibly, Forbes didn't seem to notice her. His powers are waning.

Largest of Als · 29th January 2005, 7:19pm

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Originally Posted by poprock

Incredibly, Forbes didn't seem to notice her. His powers are waning.

Too tall for him, not a "pocket person".

And as far as his powers, I think you made a typo and missed a "k" out?

Al

**Ghostsuit** · 29th January 2005, 10:15pm

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Originally Posted by poprock

Incredibly, Forbes didn't seem to notice her. His powers are waning.

I noticed her the second I walked into that room but height was the cancelling factor on that one. Damn my pink hair thing!

Moonflower · 30th January 2005, 9:24am

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Originally Posted by always_drunk

Quick hide the cigarettes in case Claire's mum sees.

I have discovered that the PWEI Product lighters are refillable!! Result!

ha ha ha but i notice you were rebeling and showing yours

poprock · 31st January 2005, 9:58am

Nice review over here by the now-legendary Mark Reed.

**Ghostsuit** · 31st January 2005, 10:26am

Really nice review that.

poprock · 31st January 2005, 10:28am

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Originally Posted by Mark Reed

… It’s music that dates : but the date is*still 2012.

So true, and precisely what endeared the Poppies to me in the first place, all those years ago.

"It's not the speakers you blew,
but the way that you blew it -
PWEI always knew it!"

poprock · 3rd February 2005, 9:40pm

"Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me..."

Hell yeah - my CDs of the Saturday gig turned up today.
Kick To Kill comes out sounding glorious, and Not Now James... is exactly the genre-fucking behemoth it always sounded like live. Amazing stuff.

"The question is... Can you still pogo?"

**Ghostsuit** · 3rd February 2005, 11:01pm

* Ghostsuit pogos!

Fuck'en right we can!