Roadside Poppies

So we've got our first gig of the year in Nottingham tomorrow but I'm pleased to announce our 2nd gig, just one week later in Copenhagen. It's at Huset near Magstreade doors open at 21:00 and tickets are a mere 30kr. The other bands playing are Ampel and Sock Puppets so this one is set to be lots of fun and great value at 10kr per band!

Hi again, and happy new year. We're starting the year with a couple of gigs and who knows, we may even keep the momentum up and release lots more songs and play lots more gigs this year :)

We're going to be playing at the Speak Easy pub in Nottingham with the brilliant Red Shoe Diaries and the superb pop of Horowitz. More details: lastfm , facebook, anorak and myspace. We're really looking forward to playing our first gig of 2010 and having lots of fun. Many thanks to Ian for organising it all.

Our girly vocals for this gig will be provided by the ever-helpful Elise. We've been learning one of Martin's latest songs "If you can't have him have me" and I'm looking forward to some quality ba-ba-ba-ing.

We're playing a gig in Copenhagen the week after on the 23rd (which is also my birthday) more details soon.


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I'm going to be converting digital bits to analogue vibrations at the second ever Banana Hold Up at Jolene Bar in Copenhagen, I'll be assisted in the task by poppies helper Elise. Im not sure when we'll be playing but it should be a fun evening of winter indiepop. I'll try and find some snow related songs for the night :)






Banana Hold Up on Facebook

Banana Hold Up on Myspace

Finally, we have a new release! You can find it on bandcamp here:

http://roadsidepoppies.bandcamp.com/

It is completely free, and typically features nothing that we've been working on for the last two years. All songs were written and recorded in the last week in France. Look for details of gigs in January soon.

As the first in a semi-regular (i.e. when we can be arsed) series, I thought I'd post a new song from the vast archive of demos we've accumulated over the past few years whilst trying to finish our second EP/album/career spanning boxset.This one dates from our rpm challenge this year, during which I was finishing reading "The Penguin History of the World". Not the history of penguins mind you- maybe that's another song.

barbarians.mp3

We've got a google calendar for Roadside Poppies gigs and I've setup a new page listing our past (and future) gigs: roadside-poppies-gigs.

We've played 20 gigs so far, and they've all been exciting and entertaining in different ways. What was your favourite?

• 30/11/2006 Churchill College MCR was our first gig. We played an "acoustic" set without a backing track
• 13/12/2006 A dining room in a house on birdwood road was our 2nd gig :)
• 13/7/2007 at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus music evening (Hinxton)
• 21/7/2007 at the Windmill in Brixton as part of a HDIF live night. We were on at 20:00.
• 7/8/2007 at the Loft, Chesterton Road, Cambridge - with The Besties from Brooklyn!!!!
• 1/9/2007 at Octopus ride at the Globe Ale House, Hills road, Cambridge
• 15/9/2007 at KaninKanon V with Des Agtige, A smile and a ribbon, Le man avec les lunettes, Soda fountain rag and tiergarten</a> Copenhagen, Denmark
• 22/9/2007 at On our honeymoon stars and bars, Gothenburg, Sweden with the Faintest ideas
• 24/9/2007 at Portland Arms with Bunnygrunt, Sunny intervals and Karmadillo Cambridge.
• 7/10//2007 Swiss Concrete night at Port Mahon, Oxford.
• 29/11/2007 Last FM gig  at the Bloomsbury bowling lanes London
• 27/6/2008 at the the Junction, Cambridge
  
• 25/7/2008 Gig to friends and settler's players at Churchill College, Cambridge.
  
• 26/7/3008 at Indietracks! We're really excited about playing at this wonderful indie pop festival at a steam train museum.
• 6/9/2008 at the Norrebro festivcal in Norrebro parken, Copenhagen
• 4/10/2008 Atlas detector party, CERN, Switzerland.
  
• 13/2/2009 Studenterhuset, Copenhagen
• 6/6/2009 at Club King Kong, Stockholm
  
• 22/7/2009 Cornerhouse, Newmarket road, Cambridge
• 27/7/2009 Fuel, Manchester

Hello,
I've turned the website into a blog in the hope that we'll update it more often than the last site. It had been over a year since my last update!
cheers
Matloob

Oh dear, I've been very bad at posting updates. I do have a good excuse though, I've moved to Copenhagen.
We're now a band with members in Copenhagen and Cambridge. We've written new songs and are busy practicing so we can play somes shows again very soon. We'll be playing at the amazing indietracks festival in derbyshire and at the end of june in cambridge (tba).

Photos of the Copenhagen Poppies here.

Our next gig is at Swiss concrete night at the Port Mahon in Oxford on the 7th of October. Tickets for a mere 3 pounds.

We've had an amazing couple of weeks since the last update. We've played our three best gigs! KaninKanon V went brilliantly and we loved playing at On our honeymoon in Gothenburg and the homecoming gig with Bunnygrunt, Sunny Intervals and Karmadillo at the portland arms was tremendous. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen. Photos on flickr and check out our Poppies blog

It's almost midnight and we have to leave cambridge at 4:30am tomorrow morning. We're leaving for our first international gigs!

We're going to play in Copenhagen on saturday and Gothenburg on the saturday after.

We'd love to meet up with indiepop folk anywhere along the way so email us if you live want to hang out with the poppies!

We return to a  big homecoming gig on the 24th with Bunngrunt, Karmadillo and Sunny Intervals at the Portland Arms