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The International Pop Overthrow Music Festival was created in December 1997. The name was chosen to pay tribute to Jim Ellison, singer songwriter of Material Issue, a power pop band from Chicago, whose 1991 debut album was entitled International Pop Overthrow. In August 1998, the first International Pop Overthrow festival was held in Los ...
On May 24, 2007, The Diodes (Robinson, Mackay, Catto) played the Cavern Club in Liverpool as part of the International Pop Overthrow Festival. On May 25, 2007, they did an afternoon concert at Lennon's Bar in Liverpool, also as part of the festival.
International Pop Overthrow, Liverpool 2009 – Hailing from Medway, that veritable hotbed of mod garage pop, The Deccas stand out by infusing their mod sounds with a touch of Motown and Mersey. The songs on their debut EP, "The Way Things Were", are a swirling blend of organs, harmonies and energetic vocals that could just as easily be ...
In May 2008, Private Jets made their live debut at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, playing the International Pop Overthrow, as evident from an IPO interview [2] from 2015. An extra show was added. On November 7, 2008, the band played at the International Pop Overthrow in New York City, performing at Kenny's Castaways in Greenwich Village.
A pre-release took place in Liverpool, UK with three live gigs at the famous Cavern Club for the International Pop Overthrow music festival. The first video from the album was for a song titled Spiderman. [13] The second video from the album became the track So Wrong. [14] It was released in August that same year.
The band has also played in the big festivals such as FIB (Benicassim); Serie B ( La Rioja); Primavera Sound (Barcelona), and International Pop Overthrow (Liverpool) and has toured Portugal, Ireland, France, U.S.A. and U.K. In the summer of 2007 the band visited Mitch Easter to record an album slated for release later in the year.
The legacy of Material Issue lives on in the International Pop Overthrow festival that plays in Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago each year. The IPO festival (renamed IPO from Poptopia in the late 90s to honor Material Issue) is the largest showcase of power pop music in the United States and brings in power pop bands from all over the world to showcase what is new in the world of power ...
In 2011, Martin and Tom began performing as part of the folk trio The TimeLarks [25] and appeared at the 2012 International Pop Overthrow festival at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. In 2016, they released two progressive acoustic folk albums, Wheel of Stone and Grain of Light .