I don't know about influences, but bands we get compared to are Violent Femmes, Belle and Sebastian, Carter USM and the Housemartins. Essentially a head-on collision of the Crass ethic and the Sarah Records ethic.
Sounds Like
Violent Femmes playing Belle and Sebastian songs. Apparently.
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.
KING PORTER STOMP with TIN ROOTS @ THE BRUNSWICK, SAT DEC 12TH.
We're very happy indeed to have been invited back to play a Christmas show at the Brunswick. We're gonna be joined by our festival friends and wicked roots reggae groovers, Tin Roots, so expect a whole lotta skanking and stomping around with the odd mince pie chucked in.
We'll be fresh from our South West mini tour and it'll be the last chance to catch us play before we go into hibernation to record our new album at the beginning of the new year...we may even give you a sneaky taster of what's in store...it's gonna be fat and funky for sure. We're planning knocking 2009 on the head with a bang so please come down and experience us burning off all the calories we've got and lifting the roof in a proper stomping party stylee.
It's hopefully gonna be rammed so please get your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment, and they're cheaper!
We don't normally do this but one of our favourite acts are coming to town tommorrow and we just want to let you know what not to miss.
Smerins Anti-Social Club will be playing at Hector's House this Saturday night 7th Nov!
Check out their new video here
Cheers for that guys, hope all's well in your world. The next time you can catch King Porter Stomp in Brighton is Sat Dec 12th when we'll be playing at the Brunswick with the fantastic Tin Roots.
It's the end of our 23 date UK festival tour tommorow and there's nothing better to do in a 500 mile radius than to get down to middle farm to celebrate the apple harvest. Drink vast quantities of local cider, hang out with the farm creatures and listen to the best bands in the south east! It's £7.50 per day and well worth it!
LINE - UP.... SATURDAY 12pm The Magic number... 1pm Boys in the wood... 2pm The Resonators... 3pm Django Spears... 4pm King Porter Stomp... SUNDAY 12pm Peanut Albinos... 1pm The Curst Sons... 2pm The Anteaters... 3pm Shofar Allstars... 4pm Kalakuta Millionaires...
Here's a promo vid from last year's bash with a rather tasty soundtrack.
We're live at the Latest Music Bar, Brighton this Wednesday 23rd September. We will be supporting the great Band of Skulls! Doors open at 8pm and it's £5 entry. For advance tickets visit http://www.wegottickets.com/event/58914
If you would like to collect a FREE copy of The Waiting EP that evening please send us an email with a subject heading of FREE EP to info@lostaura.co.uk.
Good gig last night! I'd like to point out, however, that your comment about me vomiting in the same place in your house three times was somewhat inaccurate. If the place in question was your toilet, then the number of times I have splattered my guts upon your smooth porcelian is far more than thrice.
We're back at The Pavillion Tavern in Brighton on Friday 11th Sept. It's gonna be a great way to start your weekend. Its in the centre of town, only £1 to get in and drinks are cheap as!
If you would like to collect a FREE copy of The Waiting EP that evening please send us an email with a subject heading of FREE EP to info@lostaura.co.uk.
To help you keep recording during these times of economic crisis and price rises we would like to offer all our myspace friends a 40% discount on all bookings for band recordings from the 24th August to the end of September 2009. This means an hourly rate of just £25.
The heart of our recording studios is a Pro tools HD 2 system (x2) with C24 control surfaces together with an Allen and Heath 32:8:2 analogue desk for analogue mixing. We provide a mixture of classic, analogue audio equipment and cutting-edge digital technology.
Hi, through out JULY AND AUGUST 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.
CRUELTY FREE FAYRE...SAT AUG 22nd 10-4 at St. Andrew's Church Hall, Church Rd, Hove. Stalls still available (£20 a table. animal welfare,rescue groups,etc..) Helpers needed for setting up, serving customers,... Or just come along to enjoy vegan food, tombola, face painting, etc!
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!
