Po! are one of those indie bands that existed in the early 1990's when my musical head was elsewhere and that I am slowly catching up on (thanks e-bay!) even though their last release was in 1998.
The band were formed in Leicestershire, 1987 and that's it. Apart from the discography on Twee Net there seems to be no other information (or pictures) regarding the band on the net nor do they appear in Great Indie Discography
. If anyone has any information on the band can they please e-mail me so I can update this post!
Northern Wonder is one of the bands 7" singles I have picked up in recent months and was released on Rutland Records in 1994. And good stuff it is too!
Po! - Northern Wonder
Po! - No Flowers
EDIT: In response to my post Chris and Jyrki dropped me a line about the band. Chris supplied me with this link for more details on Po!
Jyrki also wrote with the liner notes from a Po! compilation titled "Past Perfect Tense". They are as follows:
I started the band back in 1987, as a way of expressing a lot of anger and hurt that I was too polite to let out any other way. I thought that PO! was a good name because it meant lots of different things in other languages.
After playing a lot of gigs, we recorded a demo tape, which locally-based fanzine "Samantha" made into a flexi-disc. John Peel played the flexi on his radio programme which resulted in lots of postal enquiries. However, the two other members of the band left at this point, and so in 1989, I decided to release an LP using musicians from another band "The Originals". This album "Little stones" was recorded on borrowed 4-track equipment, and cost £20 to make. I folded and glued all of the 1000 sleeves by hand.
Following a couple of years playing and recording with another band "Ruth´s refrigerator", I managed to presuade Terri Lowe, Paul Knight and Gary Gilchrist to join PO! on guitars, drums and bass respectively. This line-up went on to record several 7" EPs, a radio 1FM session for John Peel, and the second album "Ducks and drakes".
Gary Gilchrist left, just before PO!´s third album "Not marked on the ordnance map" was recorded, so Terri Lowe played both guitar and bass on the album. A 7" single on Elefant Records was aslo released in 1996.
The next album "Horse blanket weather" is due for release on Ruthland Records early 1998.
Thanks to Chris and Jyrki - appreciated.
EDIT2: More on Po!, this time from Lee (thanks!) and is a copy of a response to an e-mail he sent Terri Lowe at Rutland Records.
Congratulations on finding us reclusives. We don't have the software to let you hear samples of Po! tunes. However, all Po! material is still available, but some of it is extremely collectable and this can lead to high prices on e-bay. We hope you will like our stuff.
You can buy any of the material from Rutland Records directly. The sales help the bands to record again, as there is no profit element - all the funds raised are reinvested in the bands and the label. There is a discount if you order two CDs at once - the postage would be cheaper. We have a friend who operates a Pay-Pal account for us should you wish to use that medium. We still have copies of all our CDs available. I recommended Past Perfect Tense? as it represents a reasonable overview of Po!s career. However, Horse Blanket Weather was a significant leap forward in terms of the band's sound. It runs in at half the time of Ducks & Drakes and Not Marked On The Ordnance Map. PPT was constructed by Luis at Elefant Records and is composed of his favourite songs.
Po! fans are a very small and dedicated group of people scattered all over the world. They are fiercely loyal and obsessed with owning all the songs that Ruth wrote. Some of them have been fans for a long time. The taste for Rutland Records is an acquired one, and it can be difficult to withdraw! That's probably why you see so few copies of our output on e-bay or other music auction sites. For those in North America, you can either purchase directly from Rutland, or try Poppolar.com.
The band were formed in Leicestershire, 1987 and that's it. Apart from the discography on Twee Net there seems to be no other information (or pictures) regarding the band on the net nor do they appear in Great Indie Discography
. If anyone has any information on the band can they please e-mail me so I can update this post!Northern Wonder is one of the bands 7" singles I have picked up in recent months and was released on Rutland Records in 1994. And good stuff it is too!
Po! - Northern Wonder
Po! - No Flowers
EDIT: In response to my post Chris and Jyrki dropped me a line about the band. Chris supplied me with this link for more details on Po!
Jyrki also wrote with the liner notes from a Po! compilation titled "Past Perfect Tense". They are as follows:
I started the band back in 1987, as a way of expressing a lot of anger and hurt that I was too polite to let out any other way. I thought that PO! was a good name because it meant lots of different things in other languages.
After playing a lot of gigs, we recorded a demo tape, which locally-based fanzine "Samantha" made into a flexi-disc. John Peel played the flexi on his radio programme which resulted in lots of postal enquiries. However, the two other members of the band left at this point, and so in 1989, I decided to release an LP using musicians from another band "The Originals". This album "Little stones" was recorded on borrowed 4-track equipment, and cost £20 to make. I folded and glued all of the 1000 sleeves by hand.
Following a couple of years playing and recording with another band "Ruth´s refrigerator", I managed to presuade Terri Lowe, Paul Knight and Gary Gilchrist to join PO! on guitars, drums and bass respectively. This line-up went on to record several 7" EPs, a radio 1FM session for John Peel, and the second album "Ducks and drakes".
Gary Gilchrist left, just before PO!´s third album "Not marked on the ordnance map" was recorded, so Terri Lowe played both guitar and bass on the album. A 7" single on Elefant Records was aslo released in 1996.
The next album "Horse blanket weather" is due for release on Ruthland Records early 1998.
Thanks to Chris and Jyrki - appreciated.
EDIT2: More on Po!, this time from Lee (thanks!) and is a copy of a response to an e-mail he sent Terri Lowe at Rutland Records.
Congratulations on finding us reclusives. We don't have the software to let you hear samples of Po! tunes. However, all Po! material is still available, but some of it is extremely collectable and this can lead to high prices on e-bay. We hope you will like our stuff.
You can buy any of the material from Rutland Records directly. The sales help the bands to record again, as there is no profit element - all the funds raised are reinvested in the bands and the label. There is a discount if you order two CDs at once - the postage would be cheaper. We have a friend who operates a Pay-Pal account for us should you wish to use that medium. We still have copies of all our CDs available. I recommended Past Perfect Tense? as it represents a reasonable overview of Po!s career. However, Horse Blanket Weather was a significant leap forward in terms of the band's sound. It runs in at half the time of Ducks & Drakes and Not Marked On The Ordnance Map. PPT was constructed by Luis at Elefant Records and is composed of his favourite songs.
Po! fans are a very small and dedicated group of people scattered all over the world. They are fiercely loyal and obsessed with owning all the songs that Ruth wrote. Some of them have been fans for a long time. The taste for Rutland Records is an acquired one, and it can be difficult to withdraw! That's probably why you see so few copies of our output on e-bay or other music auction sites. For those in North America, you can either purchase directly from Rutland, or try Poppolar.com.
your site is pretty cool, if you could take a look at my blog then that would be pretty cool. i am the lead singer in a band called "the pills" i play guitar and drums as well.
Po sounds great!