Poppy And Friends - Fishes EP (2009)
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1. Fishes
2. A Boy Called Fin
3. Tuesday
4. Purple Girl
5. Thinkin And Wundrin
Poppy Pitt, who performs as Poppy and Friends, has been writing stories and poetry since she could hold a pen, but it was when she started to learn the guitar that the stories and poetry began to turn into songs. Poppy grew up in the west country and when she was brave enough she played her songs to her friends and occasionally in the Hat and Feather Pub in Bath. However it was when she moved to London to start her textiles course at Goldsmiths that things really got going.
Poppy suddenly had a wealth of interesting and confusing encounters to write about as well as a plethora of musicians and venues to play with and at. She used to play regularly at the Ivy House in Nunhead, South East London, testing out her tunes to a friendly but discerning audience, if they went down well there Poppy knew they were good. She was then taken under the wing of the Anti-Folk scene in London, having met the Bobbie McGees in the Goldsmiths? Student Union one night, she was duly introduced to the gang as well as any visiting American bands that some how fitted into this weird and wonderful genre. This is where Poppy met fellow west-country lass and Goldsmiths? student Erica Parrett, whose charming textile illustrations caught Poppy?s eye at college and have led to new commissions now being used to perfectly bring the lyrics to life through the artwork for the first two EP?s.
Poppy started playing on the Anti-Folk scene in London and Brighton where there was a variety of folk and not-quite-so folk acts which she felt allowed her to be quite free in her songs, sometimes writing things that were more like a short poem than a song. Anything seemed to go. Poppy also got to know a different set of musicians who were very much entrenched in real Folk music, and played regularly at the Small World Festival on the same stage as Martha Tilston and the like. As her Degree drew to a close in 2006 Poppy headed back to Bristol to get herself on the financial straight and narrow, where she has played regularly on the local music scene supporting the likes of Dufus, Lucy and the Caterpillar, playing at Lady Fest and in and around the alternative music venues of Stokes Croft.
