And why the hell not! Because although it may be a little while till the real Canada day, we’ve signed not one, but two Canadian bands in the last month (with new releases up for pre-order today) -and we want to celebrate! Because with pop-punk upbeat champs Acres of Lions (for fans of Tellison/Get Up Kids), and math-pop gurus Oh No! Yoko (think Tokyo Police Club) both in London town, it seems the right thing to do – especially as we couldn’t find any caribou…
First up, Oh No! Yoko are playing at The Camden Black Heart at 10pm as part of their mammoth 35 date European tour, as well as putting up the pre-order for new 4 track 7″ ‘Sorrow’. It’s brilliant, I promise you – and well worth a purchase… But if you don’t believe me, check out this hot cut Mimi Ashi….
Next up it’s Acres of Lions, on at midnight at Camden Barfly – who release thier new album Collections late November through Fierce Panda and us! Sounding something like a joyous stream of good pop punk feeling and a world of big, handsome balls out fun, the ex-touring members of Against Me and The Set have not only got the album up for sale, but a rather nice best-of sampler EP for free download, and a great video!
And just because we can, we’ve got cheap list available for both shows – and a rather special dual deal in the shop if you want to get into the spirit of things… AWESOME! So drop me us an email – jack@ilovealcopop.co.uk – if you fancy coming down, or buy things in the shop!
And lets drink to ice hockey and all drunkenly agree that it most definitely, without question, IS knucklepuck time!
Totally tempted to put this onto tea-towels… How strong would it be to wash your dishes with Ross My First Tooth’s face!
