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This is an open message to The 405!

It’s come to our attention that certain young rapscallions at a website called The 405 have rather been trash talking about the good boys at Alcopop.

You see, after cordially inviting them to a DJ battle at our Xmas party (featuring Tellison, Stagecoach, My First Tooth and Aspen Sails), we thought we’d let them showcase their rather pitiful disc-spinning skills as we drop bomb after bomb, ensuring Team PoP take the victory with good grace and panache… But they’ve been getting a little bit ballsy!

“Not only that but The 405 will be going head to head with Alcopop on the decks. We love Alcopop but enough is enough. We’ve heard all the ‘oooo we’re better than you at arcade basketball’ trash talk we can take. It’s on!” they said in a recent post.. And good god chaps, let me tell you… You’re in for a whopping!!!

Yes Kev and I have been dusting down our Scorpions vinyl, pulling the Coolio singles from the loft – and you aint gonna’ believe your ears!

So, it is with fists clenched, and knotted brow that I would like to issue this open ‘come and get me’ picture which adequately sums it all up…. :-)

An open message to the 405

See you at the battlefield boys! ;-)

Tickets available over here!

Fearne Cotton got style baby – spotted sporting This City bag

Fearne Cotton’s a dreamboat! Definitely the kind of girl we’d invite to the Alcopop staff Christmas party (so long as she got the first round in) and no doubt the kind who’d be up for a damn fine evening out, maybe taking in a sweaty gig followed by a kebab/fried chicken in the rain, before stumbling to some dodgy offy where we’d purchase insanely expensive cans of Tusker Kenyan lager. Would there be a fleeting/awkward kiss? Yeah probably, but I’m sure we could move beyond that.

So basically, what I’m saying is that she’d always be welcome at the Alcopop HQ – even more so now after having been snapped wearing a This City Tote bag, presumably containing a copy of the very limited third single ‘We Move’, available at all good record shops, especially this one, about now!

Awesome.

Fearne Cotton

This City full page features in NME and Kerrang

Wow – this week has been a bloody good one for us, and the music-press buying public alike, as lovable tattooed Brighton rockers This City have had a big ‘ol full-page spread in not one – but two of the nations top rags. Discussing everything from ‘the band food game’ to how they met, they really are bloody great articles – and prove (if proof was needed) just why all at Alcopop HQ love them quite as much as we do.

The single ‘We Move’ (a fucking tour de force of a tune) can be pre-ordered now on very limited edition 7” vinyl (ltd to 500) – and is released on the 22nd September. Check out the MySpace, or order from the shop.

Meanwhile – here’s that tasty press…

Hot zombie chicks, gore and geeks star in This City’s We Move video

Fresh from wiping the tears of mirth away from my face after witnessing Mike from Hassle Records live up-to-the-minute battle with Apple on Twitter, which ended with his reasonable request for “Steve Jobs’ address and access to MURDER WEAPONS” I’m preparing myself for a massive night of Alcopop work, without any Mac in sight.

Indeed, I think that in protest I shall be adopting nothing but a pen and paer from now on, which may make the blog harder to write – but fear not, as from now on I’ll be sticking updates on the notice board outside Buckingham Palace.

Apple be warned – you’re making powerful enemies…

Meanwhile, the new This City video for ‘We Move’ is being playlisted across all the coolest music telvision shows around.. And, I promise you, kicks ass.. You want hot chick zombies, geeks, lesbian kisses blood, a clean-up bill that would boggle the mind of the chancellor of the exchequor and a punchy rock anthem…

Then observe…

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