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The Alternative Escape – Alcopop & Big Scary Monsters Download

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Dear Brighton – you coming out Friday babez? (Till 6am)

May the 17th be with you or something. This one is GOING> TO> BE> HUGGGGGE. There will be jager-bombs a-plenty, befuddled bouncers struggling to cope with a bunch of crowd-surfing champs (you) and a line up that isn’t too bad either :-)  

Here’s a free download compilation to listen to them too if you like?: https://soundcloud.com/alcopop/sets/cheer-up-bradley-alcopop-vs

Entry is free, and you don’t even need a wristband. Traditionally we get pretty busy pretty early on though – so get there early…

Here’s the poster (by the lovely Tom Instone) times and things… And here’s the facebook page if you’re a facebook kinda type.

1.00 – Jurassic PoP
1.30 – Bermuda Ern
2.15 – Katie Malco
3.00 – Doctrines
3.45 – Axes
4.30 – Attika State
5.15 – Bear Cavalry
6.00 – Delta Sleep
6.45 – Gunning for Tamar
7.30 – Gnarwolves
8.15 – My First Tooth
9.00 – Freeze The Atlantic
9.45 – Stagecoach
10.30 – Crash of Rhinos
11.15 – Tellison
12.15 – Fight Like Apes
1.15 – Johnny Foreigner
2.15 – The Social Club
03.00 – Her Parents
03.45 – Oxygen Thief

With DJs Ally McCrae, @1pAlbumClub and Nathan T. Pyle till 6am – yup…. 6AM!

Alcopop! sign HER PARENTS

Welcome to the family Her Parents! After recording, releasing and touring their Pitchfork endorsed debut album in a month-long flurry last August – Her Parents, London’s most visceral punk quartet, have shacked up with us to release another rad record in May. They’re bloody great, sound like a big noisy party in the ears, and want you to join the party! Therefore they’re making their debut, hand-sprayed limited to 50 2 track CD single available for just 1p. Winner. You have to pay postage, but not if you buy anything else…. :-) Get it from the shop, just up there^^^^^

Meanwhile, see what Pitchfork have to say about this one, take a look at the video below and download it for free from Soundcloud if you’re not the type who fancies physical release. YEAH.

Cats in Hats in my Soundcloud timeline… And Stagecoach new hitz!

So far, so rad right…

So with a new Rory Brattwell produced album on the way in May, and a first single fresh in the inbox, it seemed like a nice idea to see in the good year 2013 to show off the brand new Stagecoach track ‘Threequel’ – and send it to some of our favourite bloggers around. Buuuut – y’know free downloads are fine and all, but another link to another free download does not necessarily a forward thinking music scribe excite! So we thought it would be much more fun to add some extra rad elements (cats) (hats) and (more Alcopop! Bands) – to create 49 different 5 track compilations, personalised and all featuring a different cat.

And believe me, there are some AWESOME cats….

So we’ve gone out to each of the 49 sites who were part of the ‘blog sound of 2013’ and done just that – creating 49 different compilations (all numbered) with 49 different fluffy faces showing them off. They’re all free to download should you care to, and while the hardcore amongst you will have most of the songs, the cats will fill you full of delight we promise!

So far several of the swiftest kittens have appeared on the likes of Mudkiss, Sweeping the Nation and Love Music; Love Life  (they only went out yesterday evening!) but keep an eye out for more cats in hats and music stuffs xx

And as for that new Stagecoach song, listen to it here via compilation number 42 (for The Blue Walrus)!