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).
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.
Faces
At The Window 7" EP - £2
6 tracks
Living Together, Our Basement Bedsit, Faces At The Window, Compulsory
Euthanasia, Fuck You Mister, Filth
Tales
From The Saturday Night Launderette CD - £2
(split with We Am Janet)
9 Pog tracks
Perfect Couple, Boring Boy, The Shoppers Theme, Deathbed, Ellie, 4pm Alarm,
Queenspark, The Shoppers Theme (Slight Return), Saturday Night Launderette
Sob
Stories From The One Stop Slipper Shop CD - £5.50
11 tracks
Your Song, Pennywatchers, Also Ran, What Trevor Said, Armchair Interlude,
Wrote A Song About It, You Still Cling To The Same Dreams, 4 Wheeled Greenhouse,
Clothing Department Sales Assistant, Thursday Morning Half Past Nine,
Time Of Our Lives
The
Dog End Man And The Pigeon Lady CD - £5.50
10 tracks
All Thrown Together, Compulsory Euthanasia, The Dog End Man, Arcade Jingle,
When I Look At You, Song Vs Song, Happy Birthday Positron, This Town,
If You Can't Be With The One You Love...
Bothering
The Bunshop Despite The Injunction CD-£5.50
10 tracks
Boomerangs At The Bully, Waiting List, Dating Love, Trauma Tourist, How
Have We Changed (And For Why?), I'm New Here, (I'll Be Your) B Side, Go
Vegan (You Cow Sucking Pervert), It's Never Too Late To Be Good, The Bigot
And The Virus, Today,Nowhere
Dark
Side Of The Room CD - £8.00
(Split with Patrik Fitzgerald)
12 Pog tracks
The Same Routine, This Town, The Dog End Man, The Mermaid, All Your Friends,
Perfect Couple, The Brave Soldier's Wife, Watching War Through The Window,
I'm Walking Away, Laces, Pennywatchers, In Heaven
The
Midweek Birthday Club CD - £5.50
10 tracks
Halloween, Only Human, Songbird, Faces At The Window, The Midweek Birthday
Club Theme, Gentlemen Of The West, Innocence Slowly Fades, We'll Manage,
To Our Grandchildren The Cavemen, The Party's Over
Finding
Hope In Unlikely Places CD - £5.50
10 tracks
Laces, Because It's Football, London's Grand Parade, Cafe (The Morning
After), In Heaven, Phone In Well, I'm Walking Away, Is This Love?, Winter
Warmer, Sometimes
ROCK BRIGHTON presents FEEDBACK XII
Friday 1st August
The Brighton Coalition (Formerly The Beach), Kings Rd Arches
Doors open at 7:00pm
Age 16+ Show : Bring I.D.
A Night of METAL!!!
Once again this time round Feedback is trying something New! We're going for a more in your face approach with a full line-up of Brighton's finest Metal bands.
ROCK BRIGHTON presents FEEDBACK XII
Friday 1st August
The Brighton Coalition (Formerly The Beach), Kings Rd Arches
Doors open at 7:00pm
A Night of METAL!!!
Once again this time round Feedback is trying something New! We're going for a more in your face approach with a full line-up of Brighton's finest Metal bands.
We never told you how much we enjoyed your garden party. How many Very Nice People can you fit in one garden? Thanks. Hope to see you on Wednesday at the Komedia.
Many many apologies to Pog and Pog-fans for not allowing enough time for you to play at Blakers Park on Saturday. all I can say is I'll make sure the organisation is better on another occasion. We did enjoy Wob and thanks for introducing us to L.Morgan - can't find her Myspace - can you point us in the right direction please. Abi/Ian
hey guys, just to let you know, the place in london on the 13th is called the cottage - couple of the same people that lived at the villa but new place :) really enjoyed you lot at goshstock on saturday by the way!
ROCK BRIGHTON presents FEEDBACK XI
Friday 30th May at The Coalition
(Formerly The Beach), Kings Rd Arches
Doors open at 7:00pm - 10:30pm
Entry £3 NUS / £4 Others
A Night of Acoustic, Lounge, Chillout Soul
07:00 BAR OPENS www. myspace. com/brightonunplugged
07:30 MATT MITCHELL www. myspace. com/mattmitchellmusic 08:30 SEEKER www. myspace. com/seekeronline
09:30 KIINA www. myspace. com/kiinamusic
TOTALLY UNSIGNED FREE DOWNLOADS AND MORE!!
Join as a listener or a band and help the unsigned scene!!
TOTALLY UNSIGNED IS ALSO A WEEKLY EVENT HELD AT THE BRIGHTON COALITION (formerly The beach Club) Kings Road Arches
Every Wednesday
