Biography
Population Four come from a town called preston (preston has earned that
lower case p) in the Northwest of the United Kingdom. The band formed
from the remains of the bands Home Made Memory and Mirrored Emotion.
Daff, Cooko and Si started writing tunes in late 2007. Ceres joined soon
after and when their original singer met a ruinous end wrestling a
Kodak bear in the Rockies of Canada on a camping trip gone badly wrong,
Rick was asked to join the band to take over vocal duties partly because
they needed a new singer and partly because they needed a fat guy so
they could appeal to minorities.
All five members, and yes we are aware of the inconsistency of the name,
had been active participants in the music scene of preston and its
satellite towns for sometime and so we had come to know one another
through our different exploits over the years.
Work on our first record entitled “Liberate” started soon after. Several
months of arguing, re-recording guitars over and over and frayed
tempers later, it was finished and we were ready to unleash it on the
public. So we had an album launch party. Some people even came and
bought a copy of the CD. Shortly after this we replaced our guitarist
Daff with a sexier robot version of himself, no one has noticed, but we
have always had trouble getting his hair quite right.
After a few gigs in preston and winning the local battle of the bands,
much to the frustration of several far more established and angry acts,
Population Four decided to record some new songs, they're quite good and
are currently available on an E.P we call 2009. because we finished it
early 2009, clever eh? We're currently in the process of trying to take
our music to other towns around the United Kingdom.
We're quite proud that if you put our name into Google most of the
results are about us. It's a small achievement but it's nice one. Maybe
it's our ticket to immortality. We're not the prettiest band in the
world, which is a bit of a problem in the current musical climate, nor
are we the most Indy of bands, which is another clear problem but we
don't mind too much.
We do what we know and what we know is Rock music, not Pop Punk, Metal,
Grindcore, Scremo or some other sub genre, Rock is a perfectly adequate
adjective to describe Population Four. If you need something more
specific someone once said we were a Ska Band In a review, but they were
wrong.
So there you have it. A brief history of Population Four, it's not
particularly robust, for instance it might have been nice for you to
hear about the time Ceres killed a man just by looking at him, or how Si
won the golden envelope for best postman of the millennium and the
story about the time Cooko single handedly saved earth from alien
invasion using only bourbons is frankly astonishing. But we will have to
save those particular stories for some other time.
Reviews
Rock Sound Magazine
"It's always refreshing to hear a no bullshit
straight-up, big slab of rock, and that's exactly what Population Four
Deliver. 9/10"
This Town Will Drag You Down Video
