Children Of The Pope

“Children Of The Pope produce a rebellious slice of rock 'n' roll.”
Hard of Hearing
In the grimiest parts of South London, amongst the shady pubs and ballrooms, Children of the Pope would be formed sometime in 2019 by songwriter and scuzzy guitar fiend Juno Valentine and drum virtuoso Guilherme Fells . After a short journey of adjustments to the line up, the band’s alternative rock spirit has resurrected in some form of an old friends gathering, with the recruitment of a couple of scene veterans to join the original members Juno and Fells: Poison Ivy’s lost apprentice Matilda Harding on Keys, keys and vocals, Jasper Eade on bass and Andrew Saunders on lead guitar.
The band has gathered a reputation for their hell bent electrifying garage rock performances and their thanks to sold-out shows alongside the likes of Black Lips, Fat White Family, Insecure Men and a European tour in Jan 2024.
 
Always portraying their love for dirty guitars, manic shouting and surrealist melodies. Their first run of independent singles drew the attention from Totally Wired,Clunk Magazine, Hard of Hearing Mag and Lost and found Magazine.
 
The gang has been beautifully portrayed by South London’s cinematographer Lou Smith in numerous occasions in both live performances and music videos, honourably depicted in Dave Thomson’s book ‘’Woo! Strange Happenings at the Windmill and other tangential Rants’’ and gifted with a headline performance to celebrate their previous release.
 
On May 17th 2024, The group is releasing their new single ‘’Kid’’, on PANACHE records.
A surrealistic bittersweet ballad portraying youthful wonder amongst the melancholy of time. Love and hate and the opposite of the great untold. This is the first single out of the band’s upcoming debut album. Moonface Supreme
 
MANIFESTO!
The thing we realise, is that we enjoy forbidden,
exclusive leisure.
Clothes
Everyone is clothed.
Conformity
Requires no brave
Validation
Within everyones reach
The holy grail of stimulants, lay within
The forbidden
The surreal
The absurd
The ungodly
We live in the jungle.