Poppy's new TV variety show lands this week and it's every bit as bizarre as you would hope
· louderBy Stef Lach
( Metal Hammer )
published 12 October 2024
Improbably Poppy is a twisted Sesame Street with creepy vibes, dark humour & threats of violence. It's brilliantly bonkers
Genre-splicing innovator Poppy is the star of a new variety show launching on streaming service VEEPS this week.
Six episodes of Improbably Poppy are available now now on VEEPS, with the first episode streaming for free.
The show is envisioned, produced and performed by the sometimes flagrant, often peculiar Poppy, and features a rotating door of unsuspecting “expert” guests – one of the first of whom is apparently a "victim of the 2004 Dave Matthews Band poop bus disaster." Yes, you read that right.
The episodes include a performance from host Poppy, alongside sometimes unsettling, sometimes plain weird, interactions with a cast of puppets and unsuspecting members of the public.
Poppy herself describes it as “a show where we’ll learn, listen, live, laugh, love and probably, a few of us will die."
Poppy writes, directs and stars, with Garrett Nicholson as co-director. Executive Producers included Poppy, Benji Madden, and Joel Madden.
The show's promoters add: "It promises to bend your mind in ways that only Poppy can, exploring subjects like Free Will, Hygiene and Taking Risks through comedic segments, musical performances, guest interviews that border on brutal, and sass-filled commentary by a cast of puppets. An air of transcendence only further stirs the swirl of ambiguity — is Poppy real? Is she a NPC? Do the puppets really die? Those that tune in will be the first to know. Or will they?"
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In what is a big month for Poppy, she is also the cover star of the new issue of Metal Hammer magazine.
As chameleonic, genre-splicing innovator Poppy prepares to release her sixth album, Negative Spaces, we go inside her mysterious world as she makes her first ever appearance on the cover of Metal Hammer.
Her upcoming new album Negative Spaces features ex-Bring Me The Horizon man Jordan Fish on production and sees her songs swing from the “saccharine” to the “heaviest” she’s ever done.
She adds: “I get bored rather quickly, so I have to cater to my own attention span. I think there’s always going to be resistance from other sides when a big movement happens, but somebody has to be there to do it first and push all those people out of the way. The ones that are like the ‘squeaky wheels’.”
Improbably Poppy | Official Teaser | Veeps - YouTube
Stef wrote close to 5,000 stories during his time as assistant online news editor and later as online news editor between 2014-2016. An accomplished reporter and journalist, Stef has written extensively for a number of UK newspapers and also played bass with UK rock favourites Logan. His favourite bands are Pixies and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Stef left the world of rock'n'roll news behind when he moved to his beloved Canada in 2016, but he started on his next 5000 stories in 2022.
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