Graham Crabb
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Graham Crabb (born Graham Charles Crabb, 10 October 1964, Streetly, West Midlands, England) is a musician, best known for performing in the Grebo rock band, Pop Will Eat Itself (PWEI).
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[edit] Biography
Crabb joined the pre-PWEI band, Wild And Wandering, after Miles Hunt (later of The Wonder Stuff) was asked to leave the band. He would continue drumming until the release of Box Frenzy in 1987. He then worked with PWEI until 1995, and then formed Golden Claw Musics.
[edit] Golden Claw Musics
Golden Claw Musics was the main musical project of Crabb after he left Pop Will Eat Itself in 1995. Crabb had been making music which was leaning more towards the ambient genre and therefore too chilled for a PWEI release for up to five years prior to the split.[citation needed] In 1993, he remixed Pop Will Eat Itself's "Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies" as a B-side called "Part Man Part Machine", prompting him to release more of his ambient material. A remix of Pop Will Eat Itself's song "Cape Connection" was released on the limited 2CD edition of the album, Two Fingers, My Friends!. Crabb released the album All Blue Review, as well as an accompanying single for "Digging the Dancing Weed", with Eno engineer Marcus Dravs on Infectious Records in July 1994 to critical acclaim. It has a distinctly "aquatic" feel to it, with gentle waves crashing and whale noises (among other things) throughout.[citation needed] Despite Crabb leaving PWEI to focus on Golden Claw Musics, they have not released any more material to date.
[edit] Current Projects
After the Golden Claw Musics project, Crabb disappeared from the music industry, although he made appearances on former PWEI members' albums. In 2005, PWEI played a few reformation shows in the UK, which led to formation of Vileevils with Fuzz Townshend and Adam Mole.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Album
- All Blue Review (1994)
[edit] Single
- "Digging the Dancing Weed" (1994)
