Snowpony

Condensed Version

Initially a three-piece, now a four piece. Four singles, two LPs, another on the way, some tours, some art events, some theme music. Still doing stuff.

Long version

We started out as a three piece - the line-up being Deb Googe, Kath Gifford and Max Corradi. We played gigs (mainly Upstairs At The Garage), and even had a few fancy supports with charming American bands. We released a couple of singles on See No Evil records - 'Easy Way Down' and 'Chocolate In The Sun'. It was a bit of a shock hearing Easy Way Down in a club for the first time, as I initially thought some one must have ripped off our sounds....and I couldn't believe that it was almost identical. No, I wasn't drunk. Other highlights around this time, included recording a concept 7" single for Rough Trade Records called 'The Little Girls Understand'. Fortunately my dad never listens to the lyrics and was completely unperturbed by the whole thing. Also I never told him of the record's existence. A track from this record, 'Who's Going To Be Your Daddy When I'm Gone?' was used as the theme music for 'St. Pelagria' by Jewels (Justin now), which was shown at the Transgender Film Festival.

Finally we got our chance to sup with a long spoon, and like any self-respecting wannabe indie legends, we leapt at it. The result was our first LP, 'The Slow-Motion World Of Snowpony' recorded at Soma Studios in Chicago with John McEntire and released on Radioactive Records. Shortly after, having performed at the Raymond Revue bar with The Dragon Ladies, Max left the band to become a Buddist. Drummerless, the first person Deb and I thought of was Kevin Bass (of Moonshake fame), who happily (for us, that is) joined the band. We had a few interesting jaunts around the US (one of the perks of having a US label) and began experimenting with a four person line-up, initially with Ian on co-vocals and triggering samples. Apparently he used to do a strange hand-surfing motion on stage, but I never noticed. Peter McNaught performed as a singer with us at Glastonbury and ULU and most of my friends couldn't really hear him. Realising that we were also in desperate need of a guitar player, Debbie Smith joined the band on a permanent basis.We recorded three songs with Moving Shadow maestro, Rob Playford in August 1999, and then parted company with Radioactive Records so that we could get on with recording our second LP 'Sea-Shanties For Spaceships', which was eventually recorded in De Bassment and Studio Kinda Cloudy by someone who wishes to remain anonymous and the cabin boy. On 16th July 2001 'Sea-Shanties For Spaceships' was released into the wild on Dead Pan Alley records (which is us as well). The first edition included Rob Playford's versions of three songs, but that's gone now.

Towards the end of 2003 we recorded six tracks for inclusion on the next album 'A Fistful of Seahorses', one day we'll record another six tracks and then we'll have a whole album to release. In the meantime you can download those tracks (and others) via: emusic.com

Please bear in mind that this biography is entirely subjective and I won't be held accountable.

Katharine