The Experimental Pop Band
The Experimental Pop Band is a British music group from Bristol to the singer-songwriter Davey Woodward and went 1995 out of the Brilliant Corners, two years after its dissolution.
Members
The band consists of Davey Woodward (vocals and guitar), Joe Rooney ( synthesizers), Keith Bailey (drums) and Phil Wilmott ( bass), who replaced the late Christopher Galvin of cancer in 1998.
Band History
After her experience at the Brilliant Corners (1984-1993) Davey Woodward and Chris Galvin formed the band in 1995 under the name Southwest Experimental Pop Band as a pure studio project. When they could then gain additional musicians for their first singles, the band soon developed a life of their own and took the first gigs. As the programmatic band name suggests, they play a crossover of various styles ( Trip Hop, Alternative Rock, Britpop, electronica, funk ) and take for themselves claim to have anticipated the iPod inasmuch as no track like another on their albums seems to be and played by several bands.
Their first album Discgrotesque was created in 1997 under the label Swarfinger and appeared in Germany on Bungalow Records. With 40 Greatest Hits 1998 they landed a hit in the indie scene, while they remained effectively deprive a major commercial breakthrough. The formation and release of their second album Homesick (1999 City Slang Records) was overshadowed by Chris Galvin's death on 22 December 1998. With Mark Barber on bass, they toured through Europe and took that produced in 2001 by John Parish third album (The Tracksuit Trilogy ) on. Was published in 2004 after a long break Tarmac and Flames with new bassist Phil Wilmott on Cooking Vinyl Records, also from John Parish produced.
On 8 June 2007, their fifth album Tinsel Stars published by Triumphant Sound Records, from which the single Can You Explain This? was coupled.
Discography
Albums
EPs ( incomplete)
- Woof
- Hard Enough
- Frozen Head