Name: Poppycock + Crowspeak
Start: 2025-03-06T19:00:00+00:00
Location: 552 Hartshill Rd, Stoke-on-Trent

Poppycock was formed in 2012 by Una Baines of The Fall, Blue Orchids and latterly The Fates.
Working from Una’s substantial back-catalogue of songs (both released und unreleased) Poppycock began initially as a floating collective of musicians. Una says: “Our first gig was at the beautiful but dilapidated Hippodrome theatre in Hulme. I had worked with 2 halves of the band separately so the gig was actually the first time we had all played together. A baptism of fire!” Poppycock’s signature sound has been described as ‘Cockypop’ featuring quirky lyrics and seasoned musicianship – Lizard Man for example , was written after a dream Una had about The Fall and is a tribute to Mark E Smith.
Poppycock’s ethos of collectivism and creativity often results in a cross over between art and music . The 1985 Fates Furia album cover was co-created with punk artist Linder Sterling , the Poppycock logo was collaboratively designed by Pascal Le Gras , and the Iggy Pop single cover by Mark E Smith’s sister, Suzanne Smith. Poppycock ahave been signed to German Shepherd Records and have released a double A-sided singlecontaining the tracks Mexico and Cleaning Woman.