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

Posted on April 15, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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!

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Alcopop sign The Social Club for 3EPs and Attika State October Tour!!

Posted on September 22, 2011 by | 2 Comments

There’s nothing like a beautiful punk rock accident. So when Lew from seminal UK pop punk heroes Captain Everything fell into Tom Mitchener’s (Spy Catcher, Haunts) studio only to find himself having recorded a smash hit song – the fact that he soon found himself in a band with members of Fireapple Red, The Remnants and Wartgore Hellsnicker seemed something rather too good to waste. They wrote some killer tunes, took to the road again and the kids still cared, so they continued…

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Social Club!

Teaming up with us and oh aren’t we delighted :-) they’ll be bringing 3 concept releases, based around the key areas of the club; drinking, dancing and the fine art of melodically delivered conversation, the Social Club are the new home of sophistication, fun and noisy pop songs with a punk rock edge. All are welcome…

Mixing classic elements of Weezer, Elvis Costello and The Hold Steady – and performing with the energy and enthusiasm which belies the 1000+ shows under their collective belts… It’s already been a busy year for the Watford foursome, playing The Great Escape, The Macmillan Big Mix, The 100 Club with Graham Coxon, Tunbridge Wells with The Bluetones and Merthyr Rocks in the last few months. But don’t listen to me – check the video out below!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twJejE29HoM]

The band will meanwhile be stretching their legs around the country with other Alcopoppers The Attika State. Catch them both here…

15th- the croft, Bristol

16th- the white lion, Watford

17th- edge of the wedge, Portsmouth

18th- the labour club, Northampton

19th- the fighting cocks, Kingston

20th- the avondale, Southampton

24th- old blue last, London

Yeah!

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Malco, Emery and Mallia release threEPeople – YEAH!

Posted on August 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

We’re not trying to get you to spend ALLLLLL your money. Honest! But the gods of late August/early September have let it be known that they prefer a primarily Alcopop diet – and a damn fizzy one at that. See, not only are we mere days away from announcing another Johnny foreigner release (srsly im lrning lex spk too) – but we have perhaps one of our lovliest offerings in some time… Out today!

To sum up the story behind it (in a nutshell), our lovely new lady Katie Malco was keen to get out and see the sites during a summer tour of gardens, small festivals and such – so we hooked her up with two of our most beautiful boys in Warren Attika State and Matt Emery Stagecoach – booked a few shows and sent them packing. So far they’ve met ferrets in Capel, battled football hooligans with melody in Kingston – even partying in Bristol with spaghetti a-plenty.

To celebrate such endeavours, all 3 of them got together, recorded some lovely lo-fi songs with the help of Warren’s cat (seriously, you can hear her on the end of Warren’s Frank Turner esque belter 6 shots) – commited them to CD and digital locations – whilst all 3 artists and I (with Lady PoP) hand painted 25 sleeves each for putting them in. All individual, you’ve got owls, flags, kittens and even a picture of Warren looking very much like a sugarpuff monster. Voila! The threEPeople (clever name huh, yeah.. Thanks Elliott Morris)

You don’t know what you’re going to get – but you do know it’ll be bloody lovely! Available now from the PoP Shop for just 3 sheets, you can’t lose… You really can’t! Special Matt Emery related prize to anyone who snares the owl cover art (below).

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FREE 7 Track Alcopop compilation on 7 Digital!

Posted on March 14, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Good old 7 Digital! Handsome folk galore there no doubt, and they’re really excelling themselves this week with their free download and competition… Cos they’ve got all Alcopop! – and decided to give away our latest compilation (made specially for them) called ‘We’re Always Looking for Something to Hold On to. We’re With Our Friends, They’re the Best Thing We Can Find!’ (10 indie cool points if you get that reference) – and it’s all free to you, and your pals – and your grandfather if he should so desire it.

The tracklisting goes a little something like this… Actually, I lie. It goes exactly like this. Crack on over here to pick it up.

Headbangers Ball by Stagecoach
Who Needs Comment Boxes When You’ve Got Knives by Johnny Foreigner
Silent Spring by My First Tooth
As Dew In Aprille by Screaming Maldini
Sounds of the Stereo by The Attika State
The Whole Truth by Jumping Ships
Bunker by Ute


Plus – for all you coolest kids who already have everything this compilation delivers, there’s a pretty rad competition too where you can win a whole load of PoP stuff. Get involved if you fancy a bumper load of post coming through courtesy of those 7 Digital lot.

Yes!

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