Graham Crabb (born Graham Charles Crabb, 10 October 1964,

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, Warwickshire, England), also known as Crabbi, is an English musician, best known for performing in the industrial/dance rock band

Pop Will Eat Itself Pop Will Eat Itself are an English alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England with members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. Initially known as a grebo act, they changed style to incorpor ...

(PWEI).

Biography

Crabb is a founder member of Pop Will Eat Itself. He, and (

Clint Mansell Clinton Darryl Mansell (; born 7 January 1963) is an English musician, singer, and composer, born in Coventry. He served as the lead singer and multi-instrumentalist of alt-rock band Pop Will Eat Itself before embarking on a career as a film s ...

) were the main songwriters. Drummer until the release of ''Box Frenzy'' in 1987, after which he became vocalist and co-frontman with Mansell. He worked with PWEI until 1995, and then formed Golden Claw Musics.

Golden Claw Musics

Golden Claw Musics was the main musical project of Crabb after he left Pop Will Eat Itself in 1995. In 1993, he remixed Pop Will Eat Itself's "Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies" as a

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called "Part Man Part Machine", prompting him to release more of his ambient material. A

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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

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engineer Marcus Dravs on

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in July 1994. Despite Crabb leaving PWEI to focus on Golden Claw Musics, they have not released any more material to date.

Current projects

After the Golden Claw Musics project, Crabb disappeared from the

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, 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 __NOTOC__ Vileevils was an electronic dance duo, formed when the 2005 reunion of Pop Will Eat Itself (PWEI) failed to become a full-time project. Singer Clint Mansell and guitarist Richard March were too busy with side projects to dedicate themse ...

with

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and Adam Mole. Vile Evils disbanded in February 2010 after releasing four singles on US label dPulse. Crabb has recently remixed KMFDM, Revolting Cocks (2009), and US Grammy winner Kevin Max (2010). Crabb recently put together a new version of Pop Will Eat Itself to celebrate the band's 25th year in 2011. In July 2011, a new line-up of PWEI was announced, featuring Crabb as the only original member. In October 2011, the album ''

New Noise Designed by a Sadist ''New Noise Designed by a Sadist'' is the sixth studio album by English industrial rock band Pop Will Eat Itself, released on 3 October 2011 by Cooking Vinyl. It was the band's first original studio album in over seventeen years, after '' Dos Ded ...

'' was released on Cooking Vinyl, to be followed by a UK tour. In June 2013 it was announced Crabb had joined the industrial collective

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. The group have since released an EP and an album, both with prominent input from Crabb. In late 2014, Crabb began work on a new solo project known as Je Suis Crabbi. The first release under the name was the EP ''crabbi.net/ep1'' in May 2015, available exclusively through the official Pop Will Eat Itself store.

Discography

As ''Golden Claw Musics:''

Album

* ''All Blue Revue'' (1994)

Single

* "Digging the Dancing Weed" (1994)

As ''Je Suis Crabbi:''

EP

* ''crabbi.net/ep1'' (2015)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crabb, Graham 1964 births Living people English drummers British male drummers English male singers English songwriters People from Walsall Musicians from the West Midlands (county) Pop Will Eat Itself members British male songwriters