Popular Workshop

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The Band

Gypsy - vox / guitar / girls
Jake - drums / gurning
Luke - bass / crowd-incitement

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Popular Workshop, or "PopShop" in the indie lingo, have been making friends for two years.

2006 saw them release two limited edition 7 inches, ‘All About Vikki’ and ‘Sean’; the former being proclaimed an “absolute classic” and played to death by John Kennedy at Xfm, and the latter being released on uber-cool indie label TigerTrap Records.

Live, they achieve a unique blend of reckless abandon and absolute precision. They have done nigh-on 200 gigs in under two years, and have shared stages with Guillemots, Blood Red Shoes, Los Campesinos, Twisted Charm, Acoustic Ladyland and many others.

On record they create their own world of art-disco and discordant chaos inspired by, and compared to, a spazzed out Sonic Youth, Elastica, Bloc Party and Shellac (not that these references do them justice). Their latest release, an E.P. on Fake Product Records was a real step up; airplay from Xfm, Steve Lamacq at Radio 1 and Phil Jupitus at 6music, and a growing feeling that this was a band to take notice of, led to them playing The Camden Crawl as part of John Kennedy’s night at the Barfly supporting New Young Pony Club.

PRESS:

Artrocker (On Stutter and Dance): “This is ace. It’s London’s answer to the Leeds Dance To The Radio post-hardcore artrock, but with more vocal melody, instrumental dexterity and energy than most of Yorkshire. This will be a breakthrough for them.”

Play Music Magazine: “For all the noise and self-destructive leaping around at their live shows, their strength is weaving stringent melodies around their wayward structures, to keep them tight and attractive… one of London’s most exciting bands.”

Drowned In Sound: “Pitched somewhere between the stop-start, sparse sound of The Rakes and the highly-strung vocal approach of no-name-era bands like Jarcrew and Kill Kenada, this is music both to dance (jerkily) to in public and study all alone.”

John Kennedy, Xfm: "Catchy and abrasive, it pulses with energy and hooks. The songs get under your skin, immediate yet with enough depth that after the umpteenth play you're still trying to unravel the lyrics." (Demo of the Month in Spill Magazine)

The Stool Pigeon: "Akin to watching a full-scale riot break loose. They’re rambunctious, discordant and utterly addictive viewing"

FrinkMusic.com: "…the sort of unsettling combination of energetic violence and extreme geometry you might expect from two gangs of scalene triangles playing British Bulldog in an eight-dimensional pub car park."

Teletext: "Scratchy, feverish energy and hyperactive Bloc Party vocals for art-disco chaos."

God Is In The TV: "Atmospheric. Moody. Sounds like a classic band in the making."

REPEAT Fanzine: "Controlled feedback, nasty chords and yet – Christ on a bike, a tune! Popular Workshop are the kind of deranged, musically minded psychopaths we love to see releasing records and offending self-righteous muso twats. Brilliant stuff."




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