Heralding from the West Midlands, UK, Pop Will Eat Itself are an alternative rock band often attributed with the rise of the grebo music subculture in the late 1980s. Initially performing under the moniker Wild and Wandering, vocalist/guitarist Clint Mansell, drummer-turned-vocalist Graham Crabb, keyboardist Adam Mole and bassist Richard March decided on the name “Pop Will Eat Itself” taken from an NME feature on the group Jamie Wednesday, later known as Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine. By the release of their full-length debut, Box Frenzy, Pop Will Eat Itself - PWEI for short - begun to pioneer the ‘grebo’ sound, gaining significant UK media attention. With their 1989 hip-hop inspired masterpiece, This Is The Day, This Is The Hour, This Is This, their debut album under RCA, quickly followed by 1991’s Cure For Sanity and 1992’s The Looks Or The Lifestyle (which saw the addition of drummer Fuzz Townshend), PWEI saw their influence being felt throughout the UK music scene before being signed to long-time fan Trent Reznor's label, Nothing. After the release of 1994’s Dos Dedos Mis Amigos, PWEI disbanded before briefly reforming in 2005, and making a full return in 2010 featuring new members Davey Bennett (bass) and Mary Byker (vocals, Gaye Bykers On Acid). After the release of 2011’s New Noise Designed by a Sadist and 2015’s Anti-Nasty League, Pop Will Eat Itself have toured extensively across the world, and are releasing brand new material in 2022.