westpier's Concert Archive

Started gigging in 1980, aged 13, and kept a list until 1987. Wish I'd kept it going. The vast majority of my gigs have been in Brighton, London or Mid-Sussex. Rarely been to gigs elsewhere.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom     Joined September 2024    

westpier has 7 Pop Will Eat Itself concerts.

Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or the Poppies) are a grebo band formed in Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK with band members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country.

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Date Concert Venue Location
May 27, 1995
USSU/Essential Music Festival Indie Alldayer 1995
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine / The Charlatans / Teenage Fanclub / Pop Will Eat Itself / Lightning Seeds / Gene / Dodgy / Skunk Anansie / Reef
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Stanmer Park Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Aug 23, 1991
Reading Festival 1991 Friday
The Honeythieves / Babes in Toyland / Silverfish / The Belltower / Chapterhouse / Dinosaur Junior / Mark Hirst / Iggy Pop / Sonic Youth / pop will eat itself / Nirvana
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Little John's Farm Reading, England, United Kingdom
Aug 23, 1991 –
Aug 25, 1991
Reading Festival 1991
Blur / Iggy Pop / De La Soul / James / Pavement / Dinosaur Jr. / Gang Starr / The Sisters of Mercy / Nirvana / Teenage Fanclub / Mercury Rev / Edwyn Collins / The Fall / Sonic Youth / Railroad Earth / Revolver / Nitzer Ebb / Swervedriver / Babes in Toyland / Ned's Atomic Dustbin / Pop Will Eat Itself / Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine / Rain / The Godfathers / Chapterhouse / Captain Sensible / American Music Club / Catherine Wheel / The Blue Aeroplanes / Flowered Up / Ratcat / The Real People / Kingmaker / Burn / Senseless Things / The Fatima Mansions / New Fast Automatic Daffodils / The Candyskins / Thousand Yard Stare / Thin White Rope / The Family Cat / The Pooh Sticks / The Dylans / 530 / Milltown Brothers / Townes Van Zandt / Power of Dreams / Katell Keineg / The Hollow Men / The Fat Lady Sings / kitchens of distinction / Silverfish / 22 Pistepirkko / Into Paradise / Belltower / The Popinjays / Cropdusters / Dr Phibes And The House Of Wax Equations / Sweetmouth / Toasted Heretic / Welfare Heroine / Screaming Target / The Rocking Birds / Guy Clarke / The Honey Thieves / The Southernaires / The Late Road Lunatics / Love's Young Nightmare / Well Loaded / Big Truth Band Show all bands
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Reading Festival 1991 Reading, England, United Kingdom
Jun 19, 1987 –
Jun 21, 1987
Glastonbury Festival 1987
michelle shocked / Communards / Gaye Bykers On Acid / Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians / World Party / The Chesterfields / Andy Shepherd Quartet / Trouble Funk / Felt / Ben E. King / The Men They Couldn't Hang / Rodney Allen / The Proclaimers / Tommy Chase Quartet / Richard Thompson Band / Taj Mahal / Courtney Pine / The Blue Aeroplanes / Oysterband / Paul Brady / The Weather Prophets / Brilliant Corners / The Jazz Defektors / Misty In Roots / Phranc / Elvis Costello & the Attractions / Van Morrison / New Order / Elvis Costello / Los Lobos / Billy Bragg / Julian Cope / The Robert Cray Band / The Triffids / The Woodentops / Hüsker Dü / Stump / Jenny Eclair / The Frank Chickens / That Petrol Emotion / The Chills / The Wedding Present / The Real Sounds of Africa / Doctor & The Medics / Head / pop will eat itself / The Mighty Lemon Drops Show all bands
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Worthy Farm Pilton, England, United Kingdom
Feb 25, 1987
Pop Will Eat Itself / The Wild Things
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The Richmond Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Nov 05, 1986
Shop Assistants / My Bloody Valentine / pop will eat itself / Jesse Garon And The Desperadoes / The Dragsters
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Electric Ballroom Camden London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 02, 1986
The Bodines / pop will eat itself / Whirl
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Sallis Benney Theatre, Art College Brighton, England, United Kingdom

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Some Photos From These Concerts


USSU/Essential Music Festival Indie Alldayer 1995 on May 27, 1995 [738-small]

USSU/Essential Music Festival Indie Alldayer 1995
May 27, 1995
 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
  Uploaded by Andy Goymer

Reading Festival 1991 Friday on Aug 23, 1991 [813-small]

Reading Festival 1991 Friday
Aug 23, 1991
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
  Uploaded by Biscuitman

Reading Festival 1991 on Aug 23, 1991 [946-small]

Reading Festival 1991
Aug 23 - 25, 1991
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
  Uploaded by zimtrim

Glastonbury Festival 1987 on Jun 19, 1987 [209-small]

Glastonbury Festival 1987
Jun 19 - 21, 1987
 Pilton, England, United Kingdom
  Uploaded by westpier

Pop Will Eat Itself / The Wild Things on Feb 25, 1987 [075-small]

Pop Will Eat Itself / The Wild Things
Feb 25, 1987
 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
  Uploaded by westpier

The Bodines / pop will eat itself / Whirl on Oct 2, 1986 [062-small]

The Bodines / pop will eat itself / Whirl
Oct 2, 1986
 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
  Uploaded by westpier

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May 19, 2022

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