Snowpony
Encyclopedia
Snowpony are a British indie rock
supergroup
initially formed in 1996 by Katharine Gifford and Debbie Googe
.
, gave Googe a tape of songs she had been working on before Moonshake went on a US tour. Googe, who then had recently left My Bloody Valentine, decided to add bass lines to the recordings. After the tour, Gifford listened to what Googe did with the songs, and they decided they wanted to play them live. Gifford and Googe then enlisted drummer Max Corradi who they knew from his days in Rollerskate Skinny
.
Snowpony released Easy Way Down and Chocolate in the Sun on their own See No Evil label, and Rough Trade
had put out The Little Girls Understand as a 7" on their Singles Club. The group then signed to Radioactive Records
, and recorded their debut album The Slow Motion World of Snowpony with John McEntire
in Chicago.
Corradi left shortly after the album's release and he was replaced by Kevin Bass. Ex-Curve
and ex-Echobelly
member Debbie Smith
joined on guitar before the band went on tour.
While the band recorded the follow-up Sea Shanties for Spaceships, they had gotten into a two-year legal dispute with Radioactive since they wanted to be released from their contract. The band eventually put out the recording themselves under the "Dead Pan Alley" moniker on September 11, 2001.
Their last release A Fistful of Seahorses is a six-song EP was put out as an internet download in 2003.
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
supergroup
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....
initially formed in 1996 by Katharine Gifford and Debbie Googe
Debbie Googe
Debbie Googe is the bassist for the rock band My Bloody Valentine.-My Bloody Valentine:Before joining My Bloody Valentine, she lived in Yeovil, Somerset and played for a band called Bikini Mutants, who gigged with The Mob...
.
History
Gifford, who at the time was in MoonshakeMoonshake
Moonshake was a UK-based experimental rock/post-rock band existing between 1991 and 1997. The only consistent member was singer/sampler player/occasional guitarist David Callahan, who initially co-led the project with Margaret Fiedler...
, gave Googe a tape of songs she had been working on before Moonshake went on a US tour. Googe, who then had recently left My Bloody Valentine, decided to add bass lines to the recordings. After the tour, Gifford listened to what Googe did with the songs, and they decided they wanted to play them live. Gifford and Googe then enlisted drummer Max Corradi who they knew from his days in Rollerskate Skinny
Rollerskate Skinny
Rollerskate Skinny were an Irish band that enjoyed their greatest success during the 1990s.-History:Ken Griffin, Ger Griffin and Steve Murray had been in The Hippyshakes in the 1980s. Later the band became "Shake" and was characterized by a strawberry logo...
.
Snowpony released Easy Way Down and Chocolate in the Sun on their own See No Evil label, and Rough Trade
Rough Trade Records
Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
had put out The Little Girls Understand as a 7" on their Singles Club. The group then signed to Radioactive Records
Radioactive Records
Radioactive Records was an American record label. It was formed as a joint venture between talent manager Gary Kurfirst and MCA Records, and it is now out of business....
, and recorded their debut album The Slow Motion World of Snowpony with John McEntire
John McEntire
John McEntire is an American recording engineer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known for being in Tortoise and The Sea and Cake, as well as being a highly in-demand producer and engineer....
in Chicago.
Corradi left shortly after the album's release and he was replaced by Kevin Bass. Ex-Curve
Curve (band)
Curve was an English music group formed in 1990 chiefly around the collaboration of singer/songwriter Toni Halliday and bassist/guitarist/programmer Dean Garcia.-History:...
and ex-Echobelly
Echobelly
Echobelly were a Britpop band, debuting in 1994 with their album Everyone's Got One. They were often compared to Blondie and were influenced by Morrissey, who himself was a fan of the group....
member Debbie Smith
Debbie Smith (musician)
Debbie Smith is a British guitar and bass player who has been in several bands from the 1990s to the present, including Curve, Echobelly, Nightnurse, Snowpony, Bows, The Nuns , and SPC ECO .Smith was interviewed for the book Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock by...
joined on guitar before the band went on tour.
While the band recorded the follow-up Sea Shanties for Spaceships, they had gotten into a two-year legal dispute with Radioactive since they wanted to be released from their contract. The band eventually put out the recording themselves under the "Dead Pan Alley" moniker on September 11, 2001.
Their last release A Fistful of Seahorses is a six-song EP was put out as an internet download in 2003.
Discography
- The Slow Motion World of Snowpony (1998)
- Sea Shanties for Spaceships (2001)
Singles and EPs
- Easy Way Down (1996)
- The Little Girls Understand (1996)
- Chocolate in the Sun (1997)
- John Brown (1998)
- Bad Sister (1998)
- A Fistful of Seahorses (2003)