Snowpony were a British

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initially formed in 1996 by Katharine Gifford and

Debbie Googe Deborah Ann Googe (born 24 October 1962) is an English musician, best known as bassist for the band My Bloody Valentine. She has also worked with Snowpony, Primal Scream and Thurston Moore. My Bloody Valentine Googe was born in Yeovil, Somerset ...

History

Gifford, who at the time was in

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, 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 whom they knew from his days in

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. 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

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, and recorded their debut album ''The Slow Motion World of Snowpony'',. with

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in Chicago. Corradi left shortly after the album's release and he was replaced by Kevin Bass. Ex-

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and ex-

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member Debbie Smith joined on guitar before the band went on tour. While the band recorded the follow-up ''Sea Shanties for Spaceships'', they got into a two-year legal dispute with Radioactive, as they wanted to be released from their contract. The band eventually put out the recording themselves under the "Dead Pan Alley" moniker on 11 September 2001. Their last release ''A Fistful of Seahorses'' is a six-song EP was put out as an internet download in 2003, and the band split up the following year.

Discography

Albums

* ''The Slow Motion World of Snowpony'' (Aug. 25, 1998, Radioactive) * ''Sea Shanties for Spaceships'' (2001, Dead Pan Alley)

Singles and extended plays

* "Easy Way Down" (1996, See No Evil) #192 UK * "The Little Girls Understand" (1996, Rough Trade) * "Chocolate in the Sun" (1997, See No Evil) * "John Brown" (1998, Radioactive) #197 UK * ''A Fistful of Seahorses'' (EP) (2003)

References

External links

* {{Authority control Rock music supergroups Musical groups established in 1996 Musical groups disestablished in 2004 Stereolab