Snowpony

Infobox musical artist

Name = Snowpony


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Origin = London, England
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Years_active = 1996–?
Label = Radioactive Records, Rough Trade Records, See No Evil, Dead Pan Alley
Associated_acts = Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, Moonshake, Curve, Echobelly, Rollerskate Skinny, Quickspace
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Past_members = Katharine Gifford - Vocals, Sampler
Debbie Googe - Bass, Vocals
Debbie Smith - Guitar
Kevin Bass - Drums
Max Corradi - Drums (1996-1998)

Snowpony is a British indie rock supergroup initially formed in 1996 by Katharine Gifford and Debbie Googe.

History

Gifford, who at the time was in Moonshake, 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 cite web | url= http://www.creation-records.com/mbv/index.html | title= Debbie Googe Interview on Creation Records Website] .

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 cite web | url= http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/snowpony | title= Snowpony profile at Rateyourmusic.com] .

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 cite web | url= http://www.creation-records.com/mbv/index.html | title= Debbie Googe Interview on Creation Records Website] . The band eventually put out the recording themselves under the "Dead Pan Alley" moniker on September 11, 2001 cite web | url= http://www.answers.com/topic/sea-shanties-for-spaceships | title= Sea Shanties for Spaceships entry at Answers.com] .

Their last release "A Fistful of Seahorses" is a six-song EP was put out as an internet download in 2003 cite web | url= http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/snowpony | title= Snowpony profile at Rateyourmusic.com] .

Discography

* "The Slow Motion World of Snowpony" (1998)
* "Sea Shanties for Spaceships" (2001)

ingles 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)

References

External links

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* [http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/snowpony Snowpony at rateyourmusic.com]