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04/07/2024

The next Jopy Music single, Graveyard Romance, drops on July 16th. Here's a little teaser. You can pre-save here https://lnk.to/graveyardromance

01/07/2024

Lots of fun at Bristol Sounds. Playing tunes, and watching The Stanford Family Band and Welly. CSS and The Breeders were so much fun.

21/06/2024

Amazing line up at this Crosstown Concerts event in Bristol in just over a week. The Stanford Family Band will be playing and Goo alumni Welly also on the bill. We get to play some tunes between bands which is a proper honour. We can't wait to see The Breeders as well!

09/06/2024

And Jopy Music heading to Reading on September 27th. There's going to be lots of news about Jopy dates all around the country in September. Details coming soon.

READING - we are back with you on 27 September for the wonderful Club Velocity with the amazing Barbican Estate and Apples and Apples. Can’t wait for this 💜💕 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz6NBiYpVlo&pp=ygURSm9weSBoZWFkIGh1bnRlcnM%3D

09/06/2024

Jopy Music heading to Guildford on 14th June

NEXT FRIDAY (14th June) at The Star Inn Guildford - Expect pop melodies with big riffs plus industrial and trance synths from Brighton's WREX plus Jopy Music, a dynamic three piece underpinned by a punk spirit. Think early PJ Harvey if Polly had been brought up on the road with The Cramps, and Emerson - UK effortlessly melodic, with iconic surf rock hooks and tales of a forlorn thirst for a better world. Doors 8pm and tickets a bargain at £6.50 Adv, everything you need to know is here https://www.jasta11gigs.co.uk/wrex

07/06/2024

Excellent sets from Owners Club The Stanford Family Band and Jopy Music in London last night. You can catch Owners Club and Jopy as part of the HIDDEN HERD line-up on June 12th at The Hope & Ruin. The Stanford Family Band headline The Green Door Store on 21st June.

02/06/2024

Earlier this year we released this album in aid of Music Venue Trust. It features a load of great bands recorded live in Brighton venues. All exclusive tracks. All profits to support grassroots music venues.

https://goorecords.bandcamp.com/album/alive-by-the-seaside-various-artists

10 track album

30/05/2024

"I hope to give weirdos like me an escape and put a smile on our faces, even if only for a few minutes"

Brighton-based bombshell Jopy Music is one to watch if her latest single ‘Head Hunter’s Pub and Grub’ is anything to go by. Written, performed, mixed and produced entirely by Jopy herself, the track is nothing short of an alternative q***r masterpiece – think Rocky Horror gone cannibal-punk. The story it tells is dark, chaotic fun for your inner sociopath, yet the exhilarating joy of found family shines through with every beat (side note, a dark comedy series based on this song needs to happen!)

📸 Emma Austin
✍️ Kirsten Rowland
https://loudwomen.org/2024/05/29/we-never-thought-wed-find-peace-of-mind-in-a-cannibal-pub-enter-jopy-with-new-single-head-hunters-pub-and-grub/

27/05/2024

Brighton-based trio Jopy are playing our upcoming show at The Hope & Ruin on Wednesday 12th June alongside THE DSM IV, Owners Club and The Ringards 🔥

Led by Jo Parnell, Jopy are a dynamic three-piece underpinned by a punk spirit and adorned with the most intriguing of lyrics. There is something reminiscent of early PJ Harvey about the trio, but if Polly had been brought up on the road with The Cramps. Growing up in Guildford but now based in Brighton, Jo Parnell was thinking about music for as long as she can remember. As a trans woman growing up in a town without much of a q***r culture, Jopy was acutely aware of the estranged, outsider status pinned upon her. Making the decision to use her music as a conduit to revel in this perceived ‘deviance’ and find subversive pleasure within it, the results are a glittering treasure trove of unhinged characters, oddball stories, razor-sharp songwriting and infectiously sleazy punk-pop. Already championed by BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Music Introducing and featured on Apple Music editorial playlists after three hook-packed self-produced singles, ‘Headshot’, ‘Ka Ka Killer’ and ‘Head Hunters Pub and Grub’, Jopy's much-anticipated debut EP will be released on 12” vinyl via brilliant Brighton-based tastemakers Goo Records (Owners Club, The Stanford Family Band and past releases from Welly and Canned Pineapple) later in 2024.

Don’t miss out, get tickets on DICE ➡️ https://linktr.ee/hiddenherd
RSVP on Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/events/3602485686629836

27/05/2024

Hop to 1 hour and 12 minutes of Amy Lame's BBC Radio 6 Music show to hear Jopy Music getting a spin!

Amy Lamé provides the perfect soundtrack to Sunday mornings.

21/05/2024

We're delighted to present our first single for Jopy Music that is released today! Head Hunters Pub and Grub is the first taster of an EP we'll be releasing in September and it is an absolute banger.

Listen on all the streaming services: https://lnk.to/HeadHuntersPubAndGrub

You can also watch the excellent video that was directed by Harvey Payne.

https://youtu.be/Kz6NBiYpVlo?si=wCe9MSAIfidJmAKy

Written and Produced by Jo Parnell.Directed by Harvey Payne.(C) 2024 Goo Records.

16/05/2024

The Great Escape festival is here. As usual there are hundreds of bands playing free and unoffical gigs over the next three days. Jopy Music Owners Club and The Stanford Family Band are playing several times, and all for free! Keep an eye on their socials for all the details!

Our all-dayer is tomorrow at HOTEL PELIROCCO and those three are part of an excellent 8 band bill. Come on down!

14/05/2024

WE HAVE IMPORTANT NEW MUSIC NEWS. In one week, we release the debut single on Goo from Jopy Music. 'Headhunters Pub And Grub' is unveiled into the world on Tuesday 21st May. We can't wait for you to hear it, so here's a little peek. Here's the pre-save link https://lnk.to/HeadHuntersPubAndGrub . Love Goo x

12/05/2024

It's going to be busy next weekend with our bands playing at a handful of the unoffical events over Great Escape weekend.

We have a load of great bands playing all day at HOTEL PELIROCCO on Friday 17th.

Jopy Music plays Slackscape on the Friday for Slack City. On the Saturday they play again alongside The Stanford Family Band and Owners Club for Smithereen.

10/05/2024

Just one week until we hit HOTEL PELIROCCO and you can see Oral Habit, Quaking Aspens, The Roebucks , everyday saints, Jopy Music, Owners Club, MY FAT PONY and The Stanford Family Band FOR FREE!

06/05/2024

Lots of great off programme music events happening over the Great Escape. No wristband needed. Get down to this one early to see Jopy Music and hang around for loads of other great bands.

Slack City Radio returns with Slackscape 2024 over the festival weekend in Brighton this May. A completely FREE show for you lucky lucky people to escape to over the TGE weekend.

Join us for a LIVE broadcast and a whole host of the buzziest acts in town. Here’s our Slackscape 2024 lineup…

Hutch
Holiday Ghosts
Cordelia Gartside
Hollow Hand
Nina Kohout
Vanzon
Baby Gem
Jopy

It’s going to be legendary, it’s going to be sticky.

Friday 17th May // 3-11pm
Address: 123 Lewes Rd, Brighton, BN2 3QB

Poster design by Pippa Toole

27/04/2024

We can't wait to see you at The Hope & Ruin later for LollapaGOOza 2. There are only a very few tickets left, so if you want to be sure of getting in then head to Seetickets sharpish. https://www.seetickets.com/event/lollapagooza-2/the-hope-and-ruin-brighton/2903276

26/04/2024

LollapaGOOza 2 Preview: Band #12 - ATTICOMATIC

AtticOmatic are a five-piece from Brighton who describe themselves as creating a striking, unique blend of jazz, post-punk, and electronica - a sound that is both fresh and exhilarating. Their live set consists of keyboards, synths, bass, guitar, drums, percussion, and vocals. These instruments come together “in complete unison, as if each one of them is a cog in a futuristic machine, all knowing where each other will be in their musical cycle" - Sussex Music Mag.

We have been following their career with much interest since being sent their demos a year or so ago. Their live sets are a spellbinding melting pot of disparate rhythms and soulful grooves, topped off by the commanding and beautiful vocals of Lorcan and Kam respectively. We were lucky enough to get a live version of their song 'Men With Money' for our live compilation album 'Alive By The Seaside' and them playing it is likely to be a highlight of the whole day. They are the final band of LollapaGOOza 2 and we couldn't think of a more suitable outfit to take the stage at 11pm and to round off the evening's proceedings.

Get yourself a ticket if you don't want to miss what will be a special performance at The Hope & Ruin in Brighton on Saturday. There are just a few left now on See Tickets - https://www.seetickets.com/event/lollapagooza-2/the-hope-and-ruin-brighton/2903276

26/04/2024

We were lucky enough to be on Guy Lloyd's Radio Blah Blah show on Slack City yesterday. The Stanford Family Band Jopy Music and Sairie all played excellent sets. You can listen here:

This month's Radio Blah Blah had three amazing live performances, two of them on the Goo Records Label, The Stanford Family Band and Jopy, as well as SAIRIE. Goo Records have a showcase on Saturday April 27th of many of the bands they've supported in the city at the Hope and Ruin. We also had music....

25/04/2024

LollapaGOOza 2 Preview: Band #11 - OWNERS CLUB

Owners Club call themselves a "pub rock five piece" - but they are so much more than that. There's a through line in their taut, visceral sound going from British greats like Roxy Music and Dr Feelgood before taking a detour off to NYC and nodding towards The Strokes and The Walkmen. The Dorking-based outfit are an absolutely ferocious live proposition, led by mesmerising frontman Mike Thorpe and his songs that range from singing about the long discontinued Double Diamond beer to vampires, the occult and an England that feels like a distant memory.

We were thrilled to sign them to Goo last year, and released their debut Owners Club EP on 7 inch in October - then celebrated with a rapturous London release show alongside buddies and .fat.pony. This year has seen them supporting such buzz acts as Geese and Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, and release their latest single on Goo, the brilliantly crunchy 'Come Dine With Me'. We truly believe this is a great British guitar band whose time will inevitably come. They are that good.

Come and experience them for yourself at our Brighton all-dayer on Saturday at The Hope & Ruin . A few tickets are still left, you know - snap em up from See Tickets https://www.seetickets.com/event/lollapagooza-2/the-hope-and-ruin-brighton/2903276

25/04/2024

There's still a handful of the £5 low income tickets left for LollapaGOOza 2

LOLLAPAGOOZA 2 at Hope & Ruin, Brighton and Hove on 27th Apr 2024. Buy tickets in just 2-clicks with our super-fast checkout

24/04/2024

LollapaGOOza 2 Preview: Band #10 - THE STANFORD FAMILY BAND

The Stanford Family Band are a four piece that we signed to Goo last September. And what a lovely journey we've been on with them over the last 8 months, culminating in the release of your gorgeous debut 12 inch EP earlier in April 'For Your Listening Pleasure'.

Described by Louder Than War as "whimsical and wonderful, romantic and vintage", SFB wear their influences unashamedly throughout their beautifully crafted, harmony enriched songs. This is a sunlit fusion of "vintage pop with garage rock sensibilities" (Earmilk) - The Beach Boys and The Modern Lovers can be heard all over their sound, but the individuality of Elliot Stanford's voice and their talent for a unique hook or melody give them a distinct vibe that is uniquely their own. We couldn't love them any more than we do.

Charming and adorable live, SFB are likely to be one of the highlights of the show. So come and experience their stunning tunes at our all-dayer this Saturday down at The Hope & Ruin in Brighton. As they're playing upstairs, you'll need a ticket - bag one on See Tickets. https://www.seetickets.com/event/lollapagooza-2/the-hope-and-ruin-brighton/2903276

23/04/2024

LollapaGOOza 2 Preview: Band #9 - JOPY

Jopy Music are the most recent signings to Goo Records and we are just a little bit excited about them. Led by Jo Parnell, they are a dynamic three piece underpinned by a punk spirit and adorned with the most intriguing of lyrics - for us, there is something of early PJ Harvey about this lot, but if Polly had been brought up on the road with The Cramps.

Growing up in the small town of Guildford - but now based in Brighton - Jo has been thinking about music for as long as she can remember. As a trans woman growing up in a town without much of a q***r culture, Jopy was acutely aware of the estranged, outsider status pinned upon her. Making the decision to use her music as a conduit to revel in this perceived ‘deviance’ and find subversive pleasure within it, the results are a glittering treasure-trove of unhinged characters, oddball stories, razor-sharp songwriting and infectiously sleazy punk-pop: “..there’s a certain empowerment you can find in boring people finding your existence offensive…”

We strongly advise that this is a band you do not want to miss this Saturday. They're at our all-dayer at The Hope & Ruin in Brighton, and you should probably bag a ticket soon from See Tickets - https://www.seetickets.com/event/lollapagooza-2/the-hope-and-ruin-brighton/2903276

22/04/2024

LollapaGOOza 2 Preview: Band #8 - MY FAT PONY

MY FAT PONY are a South-East London based four piece that take influence from the likes of Guided By Voices, Neutral Milk Hotel and The Go! Team, weaving together melodic guitar, bouncing trumpet, intricate bass, and relentless drums. There is a constant sense of fun and imagination running through My Fat Pony’s songs; a reflection of the sense of creativity and artistry each member inhabits, with an art-school DIY culture still being a key part of the band’s spirit. From screen-printing their own merch, to self-directing and filming music videos, creativity and above all fun is the most important thing for this group of friends.

We asked them to support Owners Club at their EP release show in London last year, and have become big fans ever since. There is an infectious energy that pours out of them and it is in a live setting that their wonky pop songs make most sense. Felix Knox is also a brilliant guitarist, bashing out intriguing shapes and melodies, all the while chucking himself around like a loon. We're so pleased they're returning to Brighton to join the Goo fun.

Catch MFP at our all-dayer on Saturday 27th April at The Hope & Ruin in Brighton. Bag your tickets from See Tickets https://www.seetickets.com/event/lollapagooza-2/the-hope-and-ruin-brighton/2903276

22/04/2024

Last week we had a fun time on Slack City as the guests on Let Me Put This On.

You can listen again here:

Backing Vocals (feat. Tony & Dorian of Goo Records)- The Brighton scene has a friend in Goo Records and we’re delighted to call them the same, for this week at least! They have some of Brighton's finest in their ranks - The Stanford Family Band, Owners Club, Welly, Jopy and Canned Pineapple - the ...