Unpop's first birthday and popfest spectaculaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!!

Mixtapes, badges, cake and more for the first 100 people!

After our autumnal dance-a-thon, Unpop is back and ready for action as part of the inaugural Edinburgh Popfest. Taking its cue from similar celebrations of indie pop worldwide, it'll be running from the 22nd to the 24th of October at venues around Auld Reekie. Edinburgh popfest boasts some of the best exponents of the genre, like Bearsuit, Darren Hayman of Hefner fame, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names and Edinburgh's own Ballboy. Unpop will be part of the Friday night event will be creating our unique indiepop dance party after sets from Ballboy and Withered Hand.

This will also be Unpop's 1st Birthday so no expense will be spared to ensure that this is a spectacular evening.

Only £4.00 and free if you have a popfest ticket.

In case you hadn't heard, Unpop plays the best of classic indie pop, from C86 luminaries like The Wedding Present and The Pooh Sticks, through some of the greats of '90s music like Belle and Sebastian and Hefner, and onto modern jangley bands like The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and Strawberry Fair.

As usual, we'll be providing a cavalcade of additional benefits to awesome dancing tunes: badges with nifty animals on them, our 5th Unpop mixtape, cakes and assorted sweets... so really, you can't help but love it!

Love,
Team Unpop
x

www.edinburghpopfest.co.uk

P.S Hit us up on the facebook event page! 

4th Unpop, Friday the 24th September!

Hello indiepop kids!

Team unpop have spent the summer on holiday from the Wee Red Bar but are very excited to announce our imminent return there planned for Friday 24th September!

Yes, we have spent the long, not-so-hot months of summer riding steam trains at Indietracks, paddling in the sea at Cramond, picnicking in the Meadows, camping 'neath the starry skies, singing Magnetic Fields songs around the campfire and generally engaging in all manner of twee summery fun. But now, as the nights draw in, the trees start to turn and town starts to fill up with wide-eyed, tiny freshers once more, our minds turn to indiepop dance parties, disco lights and making the mixtape to end all mixtapes.

The autumn has lots of indiepop fun in store, with Popfest just around the corner in October. Make sure you don't miss the start of all the fun; come and dance the night away with us at unpop. Aside from the best selection of indiepop records in town, there'll be the usual free cake, badges and mixtapes for the first fifty people through the door. So, send us your requests, put on your dancing shoes, come over and say hello. We've really missed you!

Love from,

team unpop
x 

 

Confirm at the Facebook event 

The 3rd Unpop!

 Indie Pop Dance Party!!!

Friday 21st May 2010

Wee Red Bar
Edinburgh College of Art,
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

11pm to 3am
£4.00

It will be the start of the summer, school will nearly be out, the holidays will be just around the corner and we think this unpop should be the only way to kick off your awesome summer of indiepop!

Aside from all the usual ace music, dancing and fun times that are always involved in unpop, we will also be launching a wee unpop zine to serve as your guide through the long sunny days ahead.

The first 50 people will get a copy of the zine, a summer fun time mixtape, cakes and badges. There will be lollipops for all. Hurrah!

C86, modern twee, jangle pop and generally heavenly pop hits will be busted out, alongside many other melodic classics. Wear your heart on your sleeve and shoes you can shimmy in. The fey will rise again!

Expect to hear the likes of:
Felt, Hefner, Orange Juice, Deerhoof, Camera Obscura, Jens Lekman, God Help The Girl, Tullycraft, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Pavement, Talulah Gosh, The Aislers Set, A Smile And A Ribbon, The Magnetic Fields, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Pastels, Bearsuit, Los Campesinos!, Eux Autres, Vivian Girls, Bis, The Smiths, Ballboy, Helen Love, The Wedding Present, The Bobby McGees, The Clean, The Hidden Cameras, Belle and Sebastian and many, many more.

DJ set at The School gig

Unpop will be playing a guest DJ set as part of the Indie Pop club on after this gig.

Pictures from the 2nd Unpop

Set List for the 2nd Unpop

23.00 Kieran
Jonathan Richman - Ice Cream Man
Hefner - Good Fruit
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Feelies - Fa Ce La
Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
Woman - Black Rice
Yo La Tengo - Blitzkrieg Bop
Internet Forever - Break Bones
Ballboy - Essential Wear For Future Trips To Space
Beat Happening - Drive Car Girl
The Ramones - The KKK took my baby away

23.30 Adam
Khaya - Music is for pussys
Wave Pictures - Aroeplanes over Brasestae
Au Revoir Simone - Dark Halls
Smiths - Handsome Devil
Hidden Cameras - Death of a tune
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Oh Paul
Concretes - On The Radio
Yo La Tengo - Should have known better

00.00 Amy
Betty and The Werewolves - David Cassidy
Eux Autres - Other Girls
Fiery Furnaces - Tropical Iceland
Hollows - Mary Goes To Law School
The Aislers Set - The Red Door
Hidden Cameras - In The Na
Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
Smiths - Ask
Pastels - Nothing To Be Done
Magnetic Fields - Luckiest Guy
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday
Helen Love - Does Your Heart Go Boom
Kenickie - Come Out 2nite
Bis - Kandy Pop
Field Mice - Sensitive
Los Campesinos - International Tweexcore Underground
Camera Obscura - French Navy
Belle and Sebastian - Judy and the dream of horses

0.50 Kieran
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
New Pornographers - Letter from an occupant
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
Orange Juice - Blue Boy
Jay Retard - It's So Easy
Pavemant - Cut Your Hair
Vaselines - Son of a gun
Animal Collective - My Girls
The Clean - Beatnik
Primal Scream - Velocity Girl

1.30 Adam
Hidden Cameras - Lollypop
Architecture In Helsinki - Wishbone

1.40 Amy
Hefner - The Day That Thatcher Dies
The Blow - Parentheses
Elastica - Stutter
Sultans Of Ping - Where's me jumper?
The Fall - Sparta F.C.
Sleeper - Sale of the century

2.00 Kieran
Felt - Sunlight bathed the golden glow
Belle And Sebastian - Step Into My Office Baby
The Pastels - Nothing To Be Done
Royal We - Wicked Game
Mountain Goats - See america right
Moldy Peaches - Who's got the crack
Pavement - Conduit for sale

2.30 Adam
Islands - Rough Gem
Orange Juice - Felicity
Ladybug Transistor - Hanging on the line
Silver Jews - Animal Shapes
Jeffrey Lewis - Broken Heart
Bearsuit - Itsuko Got Married
New Order - Temptation
Belle and Sebastian - Boy With The Arab Strap

We had so much fun at the first Unpop, we're doing it all over again!

Indie Pop Dance Party!!!

Friday 12th February 2010

Wee Red Bar
Edinburgh College of Art,
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

11pm to 3am
£4.00

C86, modern twee, jangle pop and generally heavenly pop hits will be busted out, alongside many other melodic classics. Wear your heart on your sleeve and shoes you can shimmy in.

Even more exciting free twee gifts for the first 50 people to arrive, so get there early!

Those of you who came along will hopefully recall with misty-eyed fondness all the ace indiepop dancing, enormous quantities of cake, biscuits shaped like woodland creatures, free mixtapes and general joy involved in the very first Unpop.

As such, Unpop the Second will bring you more of the same, only bigger and better this time around, with a bit of luck. Also, given its proximity to the 14th, this Unpop may have something of a Valentine's Day/ Anti-Valentine's theme to it.


Expect to hear the likes of:
Felt, Hefner, Orange Juice, Deerhoof, Camera Obscura, Jens Lekman, God Help The Girl, Tullycraft, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Pavement, Talulah Gosh, The Aislers Set, A Smile And A Ribbon, The Magnetic Fields, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Pastels, Bearsuit, Los Campesinos!, Eux Autres, Vivian Girls, Bis, The Smiths, Ballboy, Helen Love, The Wedding Present, The Bobby McGees, The Clean, The Hidden Cameras, Belle and Sebastian and many, many more.