Roadside Poppies

Pop Weasel Presents: The Great Lunar Leap! Roadside Poppies, Ampel and Moon Types

2012-01-25T22:49:22Z

We've arranged a gig with Stockholm guitar popsters Moon Types and our Copenhagen friends Ampel. It should be a superb night of jangly guitar indie pop fun. We'll be playing at Metronomen Godthåbsvej 33, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark. From 20:00 to 00:00

Hope to see you there!

2011 Indietracks Festival Guide for Android phones

2011-07-17T16:13:23Z

I've been working on an Indietracks Festival Guide for this years festival. The inspiration has been Andrew Bulhak's iphone app from last year but the two apps are probably fairly different due to underlying differences between the Apple IOS and the Google Android programming models. Try it out here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=uk.co.matloob.indietracks

I'm going to use this entry to try and keep track of bugs and post any useful hints and tips I find. The app should hopefully be up on the Marketplace in a couple of days time.

The 5th of May 2011: The Felt Tips, Le Man Avec Les lunettes & Roadside Poppies

2011-04-01T12:45:13Z

We've organised our first gig in Copenhagen, and are hoping to make it a regular occurrence. We'll be treating you to some jangle-pop tunes from us, the perfect pop of Le Man Avec Les Lunettes and finishing off the evening with the lyrical and musical mastery of the Felt Tips. All at Huset on Magstreade, Copenhagen, on Thursday the 5th of May.

Doors open at 20:00, bands on at 21:00 and 50kr for entry. Look forward to seeing you there!

The Banana Hold-Up DJs will playing until 02:00

The Pop Weasel will not be stopped!

new recordings for 2011

2011-02-07T12:42:44Z

We've been working on some new recordings that we're hoping to release sometime in March 2011. So far we're planning an EP with the following songs.

Sunshine and rain
I'd run into oncoming traffic for Clare Grogan
Sprint
If you can't have him have me
Miracles aren't what they used to be
Old Folks

We've been playing some of these songs for a while, but we're freshly recorded and mixed them to a much higher standard than before.

The next part of the plan is to write some new material and aim for an album later in the year.

the rest of the 2010

2011-02-02T15:10:10Z

We had a break after the Popfest and only played two more gigs before the end of the year.

The first was a gig at the amazing house at Gula Villan in Haningene, Stockholm. The gig had all the makings of an epic gig, Mads missed his flight and managing to catch a later one and making to the venue just in the nick of time. Nick himself had bravely volunteered to play bass for the first time. So we were late and under a little pressure for this gig. Unfortunately as we were so late we were a bit worse for wear by the time we hit the stage. Not one of our finest moments but we had some fun nonetheless. We were very sad to say goodbye to our jangly guitarist Mads who no longer had time to play in two bands. You can still see him on stage however, playing bass with Sock Puppets!

The second gig was an impromptu appearance at Pop Days in Berlin where the organisers asked Morten and I to try out acoustic versions of a song or two. As we were there with Kaspar from Ampel we played two poppies songs and a couple of Ampel numbers.

Since then we've been practising regularly and are looking forward to some gigs in 2011

A surprise at Studenterhuset!

2010-05-06T07:51:06Z

It's been a while since the last update but the gig at Studenterhuset definitely deserves an entry of its own.

We played here with Sock Puppets on the 8th of April for Copenhagen Student Radio. It was a lot of fun. Sock Puppets sounded great, Elise came in and sang with us as our main girl vocalist and everything went as well as it ever does. We sounded good from where I was standing and the backing 4-track worked, which is the most that can ever be expected of it or us .

The gig was going well and people seemed to be enjoying themselves when just before the final song, miracles aren't what they used to be, someone came up to the stage and asked if he could play the drums the sock puppets had used. We've only played with a human drummer once - and that was at Kaninkanon in Copenhagen when Mikkel came up and accompanied us on Miracles aren't what they used to be. Weird coincidence. Anyway Claus played really well and we invited him to join the band there and then. We only had a week to get ready for the Copenhagen popfest, but dear reader, nothing ventured...

Roadside Poppies in Copenhagen on the 23rd of Jan 2010

2010-01-15T11:47:35Z

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!

Gig in Nottingham 16/1/10

2010-01-11T20:02:32Z

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.

.

DJ-ing at Banana Hold Up on Christmas day

2009-12-22T14:28:26Z

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

A new Roadside Poppies EP!

2009-12-16T10:24:30Z

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.

New song (from the archive)

2009-09-08T06:07:43Z

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

Favourite Roadside Poppies gig?

2009-08-10T12:17:41Z

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 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

Welcome to the new Roadside Poppies website

2009-08-06T13:52:10Z

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

Copenhagen and Cambridge Roadside Poppies

2008-05-08T13:37:30Z

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.

Photos and gig in Oxford

2007-10-07T13:33:04Z

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