Pop Will Eat Itself live in concert.
ON TOUR

Pop Will Eat Itself

10
critic concert reviews
experimental

How good are they LIVE?

Live Rating  

84
%
Based on 
10
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
83
%
Based on 
5
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critics Consensus

Based on 10 concert reviews, the critics consensus is that Pop Will Eat Itself is rated as an excellent live performer, with memorable shows that are worth seeing. Pop Will Eat Itself is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers.

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On tour

O2 Academy 2 Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (May 15); Victoria Hall, Settle, United Kingdom (May 19); Catton Park, Walton-on-Trent, United Kingdom (May 20)

Artist Info

Genre
experimental
Origin
Stourbridge, Dudley, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom (1986
Bio
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. An early version of the band formed in 1981 under the name From Eden
Has Performed With
Artist Website

Critic Concert Reviews

The Arts Desk (UK)

October 25, 2025
100
%
PWEI hit home turf and blow the place up

Backseat Mafia

July 1, 2024
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Pop Will Eat Itself / Interrobang? – Chalk Venue, Brighton – 10.05.2024

The Arts Desk (UK)

May 13, 2024
100
%
Eighties/Nineties indie-tronic dance mavericks take the roof off

Backseat Mafia

March 2, 2024
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Pop Will Eat Itself Brings Four Decades of Alt-Rock Debauchery to Manning Bar – Gadigal/Sydney, 01.03.2024

Ambient Light (New Zealand)

September 14, 2022
%
Back into central Auckland on a Wednesday night to what is rapidly becoming my most favoured venue before this year I came to Tuning Fork sparingly, yet in 2022 I have already lost count of how many amazing artists I have seen here.

Ambient Light (New Zealand)

September 13, 2022
%
England's finest genre-blenders Pop Will Eat Itself (aka PWEI aka Poppies aka 80's grebos) have returned. The last time I saw them I was still at Uni.

God Is In The TV Zine (UK)

November 24, 2025
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Pop Will Eat Itself – Live Rooms, Chester, 22/11/2025

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Latest Release

Delete Everything (Ltd edn Pink Vinyl) (10 October 2025)