The Just Joans, The Spook School and The Hector Collectors

Unpop is delighted to prestent The Just Joans with there Edinburgh launch of their new record "Buckfast Bottles In The Rain". The evening will also feature The Spook School and The Hector Collectors!

The Wee Red Bar
7pm to 10pm
Only £4 and includes entry to The Egg.

The Just Joans
If the Just Joans were to be personified, they would a combination of early '60s Tom Courtenay and Stephen Patrick Morrissey, drinking Buckfast on a park bench in Motherwell. Indie pop legends in their own right, having played Popfests around they world (as well as being namechecked in Allo Darlin's "If Loneliness Was Art"), The Just Joans are a fantastic live act. Unfortunately, their live appearances round these parts are rare. Fortunately, we've got them this time for an Edinburgh launch of their new record "Buckfast Bottles In The Rain". It will be awesome.

http://www.facebook.com/The-Just-Joans
http://www.weepop.net/releases.php#POP!050

The Spook School
Kieran from Unpop used to say that Edinburgh didn't have any indie pop bands apart from ballboy. What a misguided fool he is - apparently, there are several, one of whom are the excellent The Spook School. Fresh from their breakthrough appearance on the last Unpop tape (!), these poptastic kids will sweetly rock your world; if you haven't seen them live, now's your chance to redeem yourself.

http://www.facebook.com/thespookschool
http://www.thespookschool.com

The Hector Collectors
It might be almost a decade since The Hector Collectors played Edinburgh supporting Half Man Half Biscuit and they are not to be missed. Expect the finest ramshackle indie pop.

http://www.myspace.com/thehectorcollectors

Thanks to Emma for making the poster for us! You can find more of her work at http://emmaahlqvist.blogspot.co.uk 

Unpop! Indiepop Dance Party # 8!

Unpop is back!

Friday 24th February 2012
The Wee Red Bar
£4, Free mixtapes, badges and cake for early arrivals.
11pm to 3am

http://www.facebook.com/unpopdanceparty

It's been too long, folks. After having a super awesome time bringing Unpop to Indietracks in Derbyshire in July, we had to take a wee break for other somewhat less awesome commitments. However, 2012 sees the return of Unpop to our beloved home town. Since July, Team Unpop have been busy thesis-writing, putting on various gigs, pushing real ale, home-brewing, watching documentaries about pop bands and even saving people's lives (no shit!). But finally, our slumbering indie pop appetites will be sated by playing jangly tunes until the early, bleary hours of Saturday morning...

Being long enough after the 14th to not really count, let's call it a Pseudo-Valentine's hop, dedicated to both pandas (because they're around these days, adorning our posters and whatnot) and groundhogs (cos it's in February).

C86, modern twee, jangle pop and generally heavenly pop hits will be busted out, alongside many other melodic classics.

Wear your heart on sleeve, dress up for a dance and shimmy along with us for the night. As always, cakes, goodies and Unpop's 9th mixtape are there for early-comers, and all for the very reasonable price of £4! The fey will rise again!

The Just Joans, We See Lights and The Occasional flickers

Unpop presents an indiepop dance party at The Forest Cafe

Friday 22nd July 2012

Featuring
The Just Joans (/www.facebook.com/pages/The-Just-Joans/40408923713)
We See Lights (www.facebook.com/weseelights)
The Occasional Flickers (www.facebook.com/occasionalflickers)
& Unpop DJ's

Free entry
B.Y.O.B. (there is a small corkage charge)

Tapes and tapes and tapes and tapes and...

Hello all,

As you know, Unpop puts out a mixtape for each one of its nights, painstakingly "mixed" and with its tracklisting neurotically jumbled about. We've always loved this often unloved format (didn't Jack White give out about cassettes in an interview a few years back? anyhow, Meg's way cooler..), probably because of our formative music purchases being on tape and because we can still remember meticulously making mixtapes that you knew would help the morning walk to school as an angstified teenager far more bearable (this is not to mention the legendary nature of C81* and C86). We're pretty much always psyched to see new tapes being released, and I was really happy to pick up a new tape only compilation by Fierce Panda records called TAPE FEAR in the course of a brief visit to London town earlier this week. It contains some Unpop favourites like the Dum Dum Girls and Tennis and is basically a collection of new/newish American (mainly) lo fi indiepop and indierock with lots of awesome bands that I'd never heard before (Savoir Adore and Weekends to name but two). It's really poppy and fuzzy and suits the tape format down to the ground - get yrself a copy if you can (available from http://www.fiercepanda.co.uk/news.php?story=258, but it's a limited edition-er so be quick or be dead, friends!)

In tape making solidarity(é),
Unpop x

* Gotta give props to this - it has Scritti Politti AND Pere Ubu on it, ffs!

Mayday bank holiday special with Pat Nevin!

The New Year has passed by slowly, and not without its fair share of sunny days, grey days and outbreaks of random snowing or sleet. Fortunately, spring time can be trusted to be here in our temperate climate by about the end of April, which, luckily, is the time the next Unpop is on.

Unpop 7 will bring you all the things you've learned to love about the night - the free mixtapes, cakes, badges, the awesome tunes, the friendly atmosphere - and even more, in the form of special guest DJ PAT NEVIN!!

The capital letters indicate how really excited we are to have Pat spinning indie pop on the night, and this Radio 5 commentator/former footballer/general legend comes with an impressive dj-ing pedigree - he has played at pop discos to great success throughout the land for years, and his djing was considered one of the highlights of ATP's (Belle and Sebastian curated) Bowlie II weekender before Christmas.

So there. No excuse. Come along and celebrate the late-coming of Spring with your friendly neighbourhood dance party.

Expect to hear the likes of Belle and Sebastian, The Smiths, Pavement, Hefner, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Royal We, Of Montreal, The New Pornographers, The Field Mice, Jens Lekman, Betty and the Werewolves, Orange Juice, 'Allo Darlin, The Wave Pictures and other pop classics

The 6th Unpop

Mixtapes, badges, cake and more for the first 50 people!

Guest DJ, Paul Richards from Scared to Dance

...http://www.scaredtodance.co.uk/

After a snowed in winter, punctuated by the brilliance of Bowlie II in December and many seasonal whiskies, Unpop is back to ring in the new year with our customary batch of twee and general heavenly indie pop hits. Our last outing was during the inaugural Edinburgh Popfest and it's safe to say we had an awesome time dj-ing on its opening night. Now we hit the Wee Red for a February 11th pop bonanza.

Influenced by the impending arrival of Valentine's Day, we'll be spinning lots of pro/anti love songs, from the Magnetic Fields and The Smiths, to Hefner and Tallulah Gosh.

Paul from London's Scared to Dance will be a very special guest, playing his own idiosyncratic selection of indiepop, new wave and post-punk. His night and fanzine have been a beacon of light in the London scene for quite a while, and we're really excited to have him here for Unpop.

Wear your heart on sleeve, dress up for a dance and shimmy along with us for the night. Cakes, goodies and Unpop's 6th mixtape await you, all for the very reasonable price of £4!

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.

Brand New Indie Pop Dance Party for Edinburgh, bringing indiekids nourishing jangle pop goodness. Expect to hear from C86 to the latest heavenly pop tunes... bring your heart on sleeve.

Friday 30th October 2009

Wee Red Bar (at Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Place)

11pm to 3am
£4
Exciting free stuff for the first 50 people so get there early.
unpop.edinburgh@googlemail.com

Expect to hear
Felt, Hefner, Orange Juice, Camera Obsura, God Help The Girl, Tullycraft, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Talulah Gosh, A Smile And A Ribbon, Neutral Milk, Bearsuit, Los Camepesinos! Vivian Girls, Smiths, Ballboy, Bobby McGee's and Belle and Sebastian.

What we are about
After plotting over pints of tea during the day and ale fuelled noisy nights, Amy, Adam and Kieran decided to set up an all indie pop night for Edinburgh. It had been too long, and with the memory National Pop league and Indietracks in their minds, UNPOP was born. c86, modern twee, jangle pop and generally heavenly pop hits will be busted out. and many other melodic classics.. bring your heart on sleeve - the fey will rise again!