Poundland could, I suppose, best be described as Hawkwind at their most witless being fronted by (say) one of the less likeable characters from The League of Gentlemen TV series. If you ever hated The Fall or Captain Beefheart, they embodied everything that drove you to that conclusion. Even if you did like The Fall or Trout Mask Replica, there would be something to take away from their performance to lead you to reappraise your opinion.
EMF on the other hand embodied all the best of The Stooges meets Joy Division in an exhilarating and self deprecating (“We’re the face of Ipswich’s City of Culture bid - it’s us, Jah Warriors, Extreme Noise Terror and Ed Sheeran. We love CoC!”) cavalcade of noisecore, riffage and sonic road movies. “We were expecting a bigger audience” they opened with, “And better looking. But we’ll work with what we’ve got”
The Baths is part of the impressive regeneration of the Ipswich music scene by Brighten the Corners in that they now run four or five venues of various sizes in the town and - trivia buffs - was host to the fourth ever live performance of Stairway to Heaven.

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Antigen Records’ anniversary party at The Baths in the heart of swinging downtown Ipswich featuring Earth Mother f****r and Poundland. One of the best and worst bands I’ve ever seen on a single bill.

I think Andy meant he only saw him once because Andy himself didn’t start attending til 2004… I believe Dennis’ first appearance was 2003.

He definitely played twice . the second time was the best so was probably 2012. There were not many years between the two. The first may have been at short notice.

RIP Dick Parry, 83, saxophonist extraordinaire.

£80 might.

TBF £40 won’t get you much of a slap up meal these days either.

That is rather wonderful.  Nice to see again.  Thank you.

We saw him last year, and he was great.  Plays very big venues in the US.  In the current market place, personally I think that's a below averagely priced ticket.