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| 6th May 2012 #18: May 2012 w/ Galleries session listen | |
| 8th April 2012 #17: April 2012 w/ Friends In America session listen | |
| 11th March 2012 #16: March 2012 w/ Café Disco session listen | |
| 12th February 2012 #15: February 2012 w/ Mike Nisbet session listen | |
| 15th January 2012 #14: January 2012 w/ Shambles Miller session listen | |
| older The Pop Cop episodes | |
I run a music blog called The Pop Cop which takes a colourful look at the Scottish music scene with daily updated news, features, reviews and interviews. Give me an hour and I'll give you exclusive live sessions, your new favourite song(s) and my sidekick Big D's priceless banter.
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The Pop Cop // 06.05.12 // #18: May 2012 w/ Galleries session
It’s our last show of term 2011/12 (sad face) but we’ve got Galleries playing a full-band session (happy face), so prepare to be swayed by their grandstanding electro-tinged indie-pop sound, which has already ambushed the airwaves of daytime Radio 1.
The Glasgow band are big favourites of The Pop Cop. They were named one of the blog’s hottest 10 tips of 2010 and two of their tunes have also been listed in the best songs of the year - Everything Continued in 2010 and Darkness Coming in 2011.
Check out Galleries via their website, SoundCloud, Facebook, and Twitter.
Posted at 19:32, 2nd May 2012
friends in america in session
The Pop Cop // 08.04.12 // #17: April 2012 w/ Friends In America session
Friends In America: the sound of fireworks being set off in your heart. They're our guests in this month's show and in five years' time we'll still look back on this moment and be filled with pride.
On The Pop Cop blog's Top 10 tips of 2012 post I described the band thus:
"Crisp melodies, an indie-rock entity with genuine variation and originality, four engrossing musicians with distinct personalities including a dapper frontman with astute lyrics you can/want to make out. Their debut EP is due for release in early 2012, but check them out live – they're heartbreakingly magnificent. I've got relatives I don't love half as much as this band."
Topics up for discussion in this show include some behind-the-scenes chat about the newly-formed Scottish Album of the Year Award and hard proof that Orange (the mobile phone company) lie to potential customers.
Check out Friends In America via Facebook, Twitter and this sex-oozing YouTube video.
As a bonus treat, here's a video of them playing Gaffe on this show.
Posted at 12:36, 4th April 2012
café disco in session
The Pop Cop // 11.03.12 // #16: March 2012 w/ Café Disco session
For the first time on The Pop Cop radio show, we've got a full band playing live in session rather than the usual acoustic shenanigans - the honour of providing the first one falls to Café Disco, two boys and two girls from Irvine, Biggar and Glasgow who have been together for just 12 months. In that short time they have honed their craft with incessant gigging and recorded some fantastic indie-rock anthems, such as Terra Nova, which was funded by donations to The Pop Cop blog. Cool, huh?
If that's not enough to make appetites whetted, we've also got a studio guest in the shape of Lloyd Meredith of Peenko fame aka The Friendliest Blogger in Scotland. Good craic and Scottish music scene gossip pretty much guaranteed then.
Check out Café Disco via Facebook and Twitter.
Check out Peenko via his blog, Facebook and Twitter.
Posted at 09:04, 10th March 2012
mike nisbet in session
The Pop Cop // 12.02.12 // #15: February 2012 w/ Mike Nisbet session
This month's session guest is Mike Nisbet, who unfortunately had to cancel his scheduled appearance in January's show due to toothache.
His stunning debut record Vagrant was in The Pop Cop's top 10 albums of 2011 and here's what I wrote about the man from Oban when I put him in my top 10 tips of 2012:
"You can't help but admire Mike Nisbet, quietly going about his business with little fanfare before releasing a remarkable debut album that makes you wonder why more musicians don't spend as much time honing their craft as they do pimping themselves on Facebook. Vagrant is a proper singer-songwriter's record, untouched by fads or trends. It deserves to make this man the biggest word-of-mouth success story from Scotland since Admiral Fallow."
Check out Mike Nisbet's music via Bandcamp, Facebook, Twitter and his website.
Posted at 14:09, 8th February 2012
shambles miller in session
The Pop Cop // 15.01.12 // #14: January 2012 w/ Shambles Miller session
It's 2012, yas!
That means we're going to play some of the hottest new bands and plenty of trusty favourites.
This month's session guest is the heroic Shambles Miller, who stepped in at the last minute after Mike Nisbet had to call off with toothache.
Check out Shambles Miller's music via Facebook, Twitter and his website.
Posted at 11:56, 10th January 2012