Between us, our influences are probably along the lines of Patrik Fitzgerald, Chumbawamba, several Sarah Records bands, Crisis, The Monochrome Set and Carter.
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
Hi, through JUNE AND JULY we are slashing our day time rehearsal prices. Between 10am and 5pm all our rooms are either £6 or £7 per hour including weekends. Making us one of the cheapest in SUSSEX. Plus If you buy 3 hours we will even throw in a 4th totally FREE. YES TOTALLY FREE.
OUR RECORDING RATES ARE STILL JUST AS AFFORDABLE TOO, FULL DAYS FROM £200 ALL IN.
So come and rehearse and record in one of the best equipped music complex's in the South.
This Wednesday 15th July is gonna be a busy one for us! We've got a FREE acoustic show at The Western Front at 9pm. Then, we're doing a full electric show upstairs at The Pav Tav at 10pm.
Would be good if you can come to one, even better if you can come to both! :)
If you send an email to: info@lostaura.co.uk with the heading 'EP', and pop along to the gigs, tell us your email adress and we'll give you a free copy of our EP! Sweet!
For the top-draw early a.m. scavenging; for the warm and horizontal spaces; for the lemon curd; for the thrilling chase through the constantly-transfiguring labyrinth; for the love and the memories - ta muchly. Let's do it again soon, eh?
punks - here are some killer gigs that will probably sell out (quickly) - so mail me (r_vergeldt (a) hotmail .com) for tickets now!
30 May: GOVERNMENT WARNING (usa) + WASTED TIME (usa) + VIOLENT ARREST (ex-Ripcord/Heresy etc.!) + SHITTY LIMITS 16 June: LIMPWRIST (usa) + WHOLE IN THE HEAD + METHODIST CENTRE + SCEPTRES 26 June: LÄRM (nl) + SURRENDER (usa) + WAR ALL THE TIME + more
For one day only, this magical space is open for all to enjoy. With acoustic folk roots swing ska delights, local ales and refreshments, all housed within the spectacular full circle geodome, so it'll be dry come rain or shine. It's only £5 for a truely magical day with a wicked line up in a very special space. It's a totally one off warm up for the Full Circle Stage and Cafe's summer festival season.
Please come early to enjoy as much of it as possible. There's going to be a deliciously wholesome cooked dinner as well as cakes and other refreshments on offer. Kids are very welcome, under 14s get in free.
For one day only, this magical space is open for all to enjoy. With acoustic folk roots swing ska delights, local ales and refreshments, all housed within the spectacular full circle geodome, so it'll be dry come rain or shine. It's only £5 for a truely magical day with a wicked line up in a very special space. It's a totally one off warm up for the Full Circle Stage and Cafe's summer festival season. Playing will be :
Cocos Lovers - Foot stomping folk roots magicians Manouchska - Entrepreneurs of burlesque swing ska Chicken Shed Zeppelin - Local bluecrass heroes King Porter Stomp - Jump up ska hop juggernaut Bunty - Experimental loop based space-pop Lee Westwood - Classical folk guitar legend Fleassy - Poetic didge dulcimer guitar beatbox
Please come early to enjoy as much of it as possible. There's going to be a deliciously wholesome cooked dinner as well as cakes and other refreshments on offer. Kids are very welcome, under 14s get in free.
Hey hey, was wicked to see you guys finally. Hurrah! Paul mentioned something about me coming to yell at people in your back garden sometime... would this be cool? Good luck with the rest of the tour! - Captainy Ranty
Hi Paul/Pogsters- King Blues ( that played in yr garden last year) are now on daytime radio 1 ... I've 3 new recordings up ( as 3piece band- come and cock an ear) and looks like you have a huge tour starting soon. Excellent! See you soon X
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