Experimental Pop Band


Interviews


Interview (2011)

Experimental Pop Band - Interview

Davey Woodward from the Experimental Pop Band speaks to Dixie Ernill about his group's appearance and his own solo set at the Pennyblackmusic Bands' Night in Manchester on November 19th and their forthcoming new album which is due out next year


Live

El Rincon, Bristol, 12/11/2012

Experimental Pop Band - El Rincon, Bristol, 12/11/2012

Dixie Ernill sees the Experimental Pop Band play an excellent set of indie pop in the tiny venue of the El Rincon in their native Bristol


229 Venue, London, 29/3/2012

Experimental Pop Band - 229 Venue, London, 29/3/2012

Jon Rogers is impressed by Bristol group the Experimental Pop Band's understated blend of lyrical pop at a gig to promote their forthcoming album 'Vertigo' at a show at the 229 Venue in London


Brooksbottom Cricket Club, Summerseat, Bury, 21/3/2009

Experimental Pop Band - Brooksbottom Cricket Club, Summerseat, Bury, 21/3/2009

Dixie Ernill at Brooksbottom Cricket Club near Bury sees Davey Woodward, the former frontman with C86 darlings the Brilliant Corners, after supporting himself with a downbeat solo set, fuse together pop, rock and dance with his group the Experimental Pop Band to stunning effect


Summerseat, Bury, 19/5/2006

Experimental Pop Band - Summerseat, Bury, 19/5/2006

Pennyblackmusic writer Dixie Ernill is putting on his own gig in Bury near Manchester with Bristol indiepop group, Experimental Pop Band. More details can be found here


Magnet Club, Berlin, 23/3/2004

Experimental Pop Band - Magnet Club, Berlin, 23/3/2004

Upbeat Bristol quartet the Experimental Pop Band are masterminded by one of Britain’s most undervalued songwriters, Davey Woodward. Long term fan Dixie Ernill watches them play a stunning set in Berlin


Features

Summerseat, Bury, 20/3/2009 (2009)

Experimental Pop Band - Summerseat, Bury, 20/3/2009

Pennyblackmusic writer Dixie Ernill is putting on for the second time his own gig in Bury near Manchester with Bristol indiepop group, Experimental Pop Band. More details for what promises to be a truly great night can be found here


Reviews


Vertigo (2012)
Experimental Pop Band - Vertigo

Stunning first album in five years from undervalued Bristol-based indie pop act, the Experimental Pop Band


Little Things (2012)
Experimental Pop Band - Little Things

Wonderfully downbeat latest single from durable, but overlooked Bristol-based indie pop group the Experimental Pop Band


Tarmac And Flames (2004)
Experimental Pop Band - Tarmac And Flames

Impressive indiepop from former Brilliant Corners' star Davey Woodward's latest group the Experimental Pop Band, which comes closes "to delivering the classic they have only previously hinted at"


Related


Interviews

Davey Woodward
Interview Davey Woodward - Interview

The Brilliant Corners and the Experimental Pop Band's Davey Woodward talks to Dixie Ernill about 'Love and Optimism', his second album under the moniker of Davey Woodward and The Winter Orphans.


Davey Woodward and the WInter Orphans
Interview Davey Woodward and the WInter Orphans - Interview

Brilliant Corners and Experimental Pop band frontman Davey Woodward speaks to John Clarkson about his latest project the Winter Orphans and their forthcoming appearance at our next Manchester Bands Night.


Karen
Interview Karen - Interview

Dixie Emill talks to ex-Brilliant Corners and Experimental Pop Band front man Davey Woodward about his new band Karen and their appearance at our next Bands Night at Gullivers in Manchester


Chesterfields
Interview Chesterfields - Interview

Dixie Ernill speaks to Simon Barber, the front man with 80's indie pop act The Chesterfields, about their reformation after an absence of twenty years and their forthcoming appearance at our next Pennyblackmusic Bands Night at Gullivers in Manchester on February 18th


Brilliant Corners
Interview Brilliant Corners - Interview

80s Bristol-based indiepop band the Brilliant Corners have just had released on CD for the first time two mini-albums and an EP. In what is our second interview with him, singer Davey Woodward, who now fronts the Experimental Pop Band, speaks to Dixie Ernill about his former group


Experimental Pop Band
Interview Eyehatedgod - Interview

Bristol-based musician Davey Woodward was the frontman with C86 group the Brilliant Corners, but since the mid 90's has fronted the Experimental Pop Band. Dixie Ernill chats to him about his long musical career


Live

Karen
Exchange, Bristol, 23/1/2016 Karen - Exchange, Bristol, 23/1/2016

Former Brilliant Corners and the Experimental Pop Band front man Davey Woodward’s songwriting abilities remain undiminished as he re-emerges on the live circuit fronting‘super-group’ Karen at The Exchange in Bristol


Brilliant Corners
The Exchange, Bristol, 2/11/2013 Brilliant Corners - The Exchange, Bristol, 2/11/2013

Dixie Ernill watches massively underrated indie pop group the Brilliant Corners back after an absence of twenty years play an excellent set at The Exchange in Bristol


Davey Woodward
Thunderbolt, Bristol, 7/5/2010 Davey Woodward - Thunderbolt, Bristol, 7/5/2010

At an intimate show at the Thunderbolt in Bristol, Dixie Ernill finds Brilliant Corners and Experimental Pop Band front man Davey Woodward on powerful form at a gig to promote his forthcoming solo album, '6 Miles East of Here 5 Miles North of Nowhere'


Albums

Re : View-Brilliant Corners
Fruit Machine Brilliant Corners - Fruit Machine

In the latest in our 'Re : View' series. in which writers re-examine records from the past, Dixie Ernill looks back nostalgically on Bristol indiepop band the Brilliant Corners' excellent 'Fruit Machine' mini-album


Features

Chesterfields
(With Karen and Charlie Big Time), Gullivers, Manchester, 19/2/2017 Chesterfields - (With Karen and Charlie Big Time), Gullivers, Manchester, 19/2/2017

Dixie Ernill declares our recent Pennyblackmusic Bands Night, which featured performances from the Chesterfields, Karen and Charlie Big Time, the gig of the year


Chesterfields
(With Karen and Charlie Big Time), Gullivers, Manchester, 18/2/2017 Chesterfields - (With Karen and Charlie Big Time), Gullivers, Manchester, 18/2/2017

We profile our next London Pennyblackmusic Bands' night which will take place at Gullivers in Manchester, and will feature sets from The Chesterfields, Karen and Charlie Big Time


Brilliant Corners
Ten Songs That Made Me Love... Brilliant Corners - Ten Songs That Made Me Love...

In our series, in which our writers write about ten songs that made them love a favourite band or artist, Dixie Ernill writes about his favourite songs by recently reformed 80's indie pop act the Brilliant Corners, with additional comments from their front man Davey Woodward


Brilliant Corners
(Gig of a Lifetime) Popfest, Madrid, March 2014 Brilliant Corners - (Gig of a Lifetime) Popfest, Madrid, March 2014

In In our 'Gig of a Lifetime' series, Dixie Ernill writes about seeing reformed 80's indie pop act the Brilliant Corners earlier this year at the Madrid Popfest


Pennyblackmusic Bands Night
Gullivers, Manchester, 19/11/2011

Dixie Ernill looks back on our first Pennyblackmusic Bands' Night in Manchester which saw sets from the Experimental Pop Band, Brilliant Mind, Becca and The Broken Biscuits and Davey Woodward


Pennyblackmusic Bands Night
Profile Miscellaneous - Profile

We profile our next Pennyblackmusic Bands' night which will take place at Gullivers in Manchester on November 19th, and will feature sets from the Experimental Pop Band, Brilliant Mind, Becca and The Broken Biscuits and Davey Woodward


Pitfalls of Putting on a Pop Band
Feature Miscellaneous - Feature

Dixie Ernill recently brought his favourite group the Experimental Pop Band up from Bristol to play his local cricket club which is based in a small village just outside Manchester. He writes about his past and present experiences of putting on gigs


Photography

Chesterfields
Photoscapes Chesterfields - Photoscapes

Marie Hazelwood photographs legendary indie pop outfit The Chesterfields at their first Manchester show in over two decades at our recent Bands Night there at Gullivers


Karen
Photoscapes Karen - Photoscapes

Marie Hazelwood photographs Karen, the new band of Brilliant Corners and Experimental Pop Band front man Davey Woodward, at our recent Pennyblackmusic Bands Night at Gullivers in Manchester