C4K headline Café de Paris…
Whether you believe that the known universe represents an elegant yet unconscious work of cosmic origami unfolding ever outwards in multitudinous dimensions from some hypothetical Big Bang, or was cobbled together over a long weekend by The Great Beardy Sky-Man, no-one can deny that every now and then a freaky coincidence of events crops up that quite simply blows all previous ideas into a cocked hat.
For instance Coppers for Karma, having now moved into their new place and got pretty much organized (ie we’ve found the bottle opener and enough sort-of-matching shoes to pass for respectable adults in public), are thinking that a party is quite obviously the order of the day. Well bless my soul, what should we have coming up the next free weekend??? Only a blooming headline slot at London’s swanky Café de Paris!!!
So here’s the plan… Y’all join us at…
Café de Paris
3-4 Coventry Street
W1D 6BL
03/07/2009
For about 9ish (fiver cover, or free entry before 7:30!!!); we’ll bombard all and sundry with an electric display of loud-ass musical whimsy, have a glass with you in the VIP area, then all pile back to our Shoreditch headquarters for a yard of ale and a jolly good knees-up.
What, I ask you, could be finer?
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C4K 24/06/2009
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*Coppers for Karma might draw on you. It’s ok, we’re artists*
Coppers for Karma at The Rhythm Factory!!!
Bless my boots, it’s all change in the Coppers camp…
As of this week C4K are moving out of their glorified jizz-smelling ashtray of a flat in Golders Green to the fresh pastures of trendy Shoreditch - spiritual home of the obscure bottled beer, discarded baggie and asymmetrical haircut.
And as if through some divine intervention on the part of the God of Eyeliner and Skinny Jeans, we have a gig there, on the very night we move in - 18/06!
The Rhythm Factory is a seriously, seriously awesome venue, and frequently showcases such high-profile wasters as Pete Doherty, and that other guy, whatsisname… then afterwards it’s just a short stroll to our new digs, where we’d love y’all to join us for a toast to the new hovel and a dull chat about high ceilings and council tax and whatnot.
Be there, or be properly out of the loop.
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C4K 12/06/2009
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*Coppers for Karma are going to put not only the “hore” but also, in time, the “itch”, in Shoreditch*
Launch night! Freeness! Music! Costumes! Dancing!
Launch night! Freeness! Music! Costumes! Dancing!
Free stuff!!! Is there any expression more stirring to the human spirit?
Lately one might be forgiven for assuming that cash-free plunder is the exclusive preserve of MPs and creepy east African pirates. By oh no, my sweet gamboling lambkins… Coppers for Karma are once again swinging to the rescue out of stage left, sacks-a-bulging with gratis goodness for all!!!
“Lost in La Mancha” is a new night brought to you by those on-the-pulse hotties at Broken Toy Music, and my word what a time we have in store!
Free entry!
Cheap drinks!
Wacky Hat competition (ie – act like a twat for free booze)!
Fashion swap (exchange quality items with the other impossibly trendy attendees)!
RIDICULOUSLY good lineup, including that perennially groovesome cove David Goo!!
The party’s at Zenith Bar in Islington, a recently done up joint in the up and coming backwaters of Angel.
This Friday, 8pm start (we’re on at 9ish), get your details by clicking on the magical blue word-string below!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=100335902736&ref=mf
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C4K 09/06/2009
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*Coppers for Karma just swallowed a Hubba Bubba in the excitement*
Coppers for Karma got back!
It’s been said before that one can easily have too much of a good thing. I guess when it comes to chinese food, dundee cake, gin and orange or, hell, even a nice fat toke of crack this rule holds as constant as the beeps before the lunchtime news on Radio 4. But believe me when I say, my chickens, I’ve found the exception that proves the rule… and it RULES!
This Thursday (28/05) those garrulous geysers of groove Coppers for Karma are again back at Tommy Flynns, their favourite faux-Irish haunt right in the heart of jolly ol’ Camden, plying their rhythmic wares at the MusicNews.com showcase. The bands are great, the beer cheap and the toilets fascinatingly graffiti’d.
Tommy Flynns
55 Camden High Street
NW1 7JH
9:30 stage time, doors open at 8:00
Fiver on the door, the sun would’ve only just gone in... in short, it’s gonna be lovely.
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C4K 27/05/2009
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*Coppers for Karma don’t really do crack, mum*
Coppers for Karma at 12 Bar!!!
This Thursday a’coming round the bend (07/05/2009) strap up your dancing heels, you naughty little thing, and come make boisterous vowel sounds at those high-tempo ocelots of rock Coppers for Karma!!!
Not just any gig my friends, oh no, the 12 Bar is a highly renowned joint just off the Charing Cross Road that has played host to many of the great and good of the London scene in recent years.
Also… Due to a heartrending but necessary modification to our lineup, superstar substitute Sebastian Cheek, known to some of you as the chiseled skinsman of our brother band Strangely Famous, will be occupying the drum stool and unleashing a fiery tempest of awesome stickwork on the unsuspecting hoi polloi. Expect meatiness.
So that’s…
12 Bar Club
22 Denmark Street
WC2H 8NG
9pm start
£7 Entry or £6 in advance from www.myspace.com/zarathustras
The promoter has threatened to gouge out our eyes and make them into a smoothie if you don’t come… So, y’know, see you there!!!
C4K 05/05/2009
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*Coppers for Karma cannot accept responsibility for innocence lost or damaged on our watch*
Coppers for Karma whip up a Storm!
Drop everything! Those raffish wraiths of riff-based rumbustiousness Coppers for Karma have a last minute gig!
Forget the sodding Champions League, and pray to God the snooker is on iPlayer, ‘cos this Wednesday (29/04) you really should have a liberal spray of Lynx, pull on your best nearly-clean shirt and join us at the stylish (and not at all chavvy)…
Storm
28a Leicester Square
WC2H 7LE
Stage Time – 9:20pm
…where we’ll be groovin’ and jivin’ and funkin’ the place into a frothing midweek frenzy. The promoter and venue are all shiny and new to us, so come give us a hand breaking their C4K virginity the only way we know how – mob handed, drunk, and with our sleeves rolled up.
Fiver on the door, love it.
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C4K 28/04/2009
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*Coppers for Karma alliterate because we care*
Coppers for Karma Promo Launch Party and Video Scr
Bring on the dancing girls… Coppers for Karma’s promo launch night is here at last!
Join us at übercool hotspot 93 Feet East (Monday the 20th April), where C4K and a raft of quite extraordinarily special guests will be forcing involuntary hip swivels and spontaneous twirls in their trademark groovesome fashion. Even better, you can catch the premiere of the new video to our track Talk to Frank (courtesy of Happy Aperture Productions) and grab a copy of our promo CD (merci beaucoup, Gingerbread Recordings) to blast out of your car stereo or whatnot this summer to show what a finger-on-the-pulse cool cat you are.
Also on the bill;
Rowland O’Connor
Annalie www.myspace.com/annaliewilson
The Beyonders http://www.myspace.com/beyonders
David Goo www.myspace.com/davidgoo
Buy tickets here http://www.wegottickets.com/event/47638 for a mere £6, or if you’re feeling flash it’s £8 on the door
Night starts at 7:30pm, and trust us - it’s going to be outrageously f***ing brilliant.
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C4K 14/04/2009
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*Coppers for Karma is the new black*
Coppers for Karma video shoot!
Roll up roll up, hear-ye hear-ye, those scatological scamps of ska Coppers for Karma are only making a bloomin’ video!!!
That’s right, in association with the awesome (and hypnotically leggy) Happy Aperture productions, our lilting li’l ditty Talk to Frank is getting the full visual treatment… AND WE NEED YOU TO HELP!
If you fancy getting dolled up and prancing around tipsily on camera with us then the shoot is next Saturday (11/04/2009) and Sunday (12/04/2009) and will involve costumes, dancing, overacting and much theatrical merriment. AND/OR tomorrow (04/04) we need help making props and stuff at our house; think papier-mâché, glitter and accidentally gluing your ass to our couch.
It’ll be like art class at school, only with pubes and a p*** up afterwards.
If you want to get involved in any way then mail us back with a “hell yeah!”, or call Len (producer) on 07972 435 183. It will be FUN, be sure of that chickens…
C4K 03/04/2009
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*Coppers for Karma think you’re a natural*
Coppers for Karma's heaving chest of wonders...
As I write the G20 summit is just kicking off in London’s docklands. Phew, I think to myself, at last all the problems of the world will be sorted out in a civilized manner over a chai latte and party bag of Mini Cheddars. Moreover I have it on very good authority that our esteemed leaders are rushing through today’s agenda double-quick so at the end of the day they can all pile into Obama’s badass limo (Brown alone allowed to call “shotgun”, as protocol dictates), where the Commander in Chief will spark up a well earned J and crank the speakers up to 11 for COPPERS FOR KARMA’S SHINY NEW PROMO CD!
And you can join them! Navigate your browser thingumybob to www.coppersforkarma.com, or www.myspace.com/coppersforkarma to feast your delicate ears on our latest musical offspring.
To get your hands on a hard copy, clear your diary for the 20th of April and come join us at the achingly cool 93 Feet East on Brick Lane, where we’ll be having a jolly good knees-up and a celebratory gig, featuring some ultra cool special guests...
Can’t wait that long? Tomorrow night (2/4) we’re at The World’s End, Finsbury Park (details on the website). It’s free, and awesome, and attractive loose-moralled members of the opposite sex hang out there all the time.
Hope you dig the sounds…
C4K 01/04/2009
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*Coppers for Karma are probably being monitored by the FBI now*
Whipping Piccadilly
“Saturday night, dance, I like the way you move” sang Whigfield. And y’know, she was really on to something.
If you were planning to slump in front of Alan f***ing Carr and The National Lottery draw tomorrow night, picking mushrooms out of your pizza and trying to think up clever Facebook statuses, may we kindly suggest you put some goddamn clothes on, have a spray of something fragrant and go to....
BAR RUMBA
36 Shaftesbury Av
W1D 7ED
...for about 10 o’clock, where Coppers for Karma will be shouting, plucking strings and hitting stuff in their inimitably agreeable fashion. It’s also a club night, so there’ll be DJs, and DJs are cool (I read that in a magazine).
Saturday comes but once a week...
C4K 27/03/2009
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*Coppers for Karma – admit it, you would*
Can you smell it? Can you see it? Can you feel it?
Ah, the warm moist earth is sinuously churning out a colourful array of shy buds on the cusp of readiness, the fuse is alight for the trees’ annual slow-motion firework display of fresh virgin green and blossom, and every branch and bush is bustling into life with a busy symphony of birdsong more layered and strident by the day. Spring!
What’s more, the sun’s out, summer’s around the corner, and the average quantity of naughty flesh on display is multiplying at a most gratifying rate. Huzzah and hurrah!
If you’re as excited as I am then you should pull on your best dancing trousers and get downtown to Bar 229 this Thursday (26/03) to celebrate the changing season and Coppers for Karma’s biggest show of the year so far! Though you mightn’t have heard of it, 229 has quite the reputation for being a banging night spot, and the NME affiliated big-shot cigar-chomping promoter has promised to make big things of us if we make a real splash here.
And for that, my gorgeous gamboling greenhorns, we need you!!!
229 Great Portland Street
W1W 5PN
(Pretty much opposite the tube station)
We’re on at 9:45, and it’s a £6 on the door IF YOU EMAIL US BACK, or if we fancy you, otherwise £8 (turn up before 8:45pm to take advantage of this, and indeed us if the mood takes you).
Thursday’s the new Friday, and all that…
C4K 23/03/2009
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*Coppers for Karma - your official soundtrack to boozy afternoons in the park since 2007*
Coppers for Karma vs. Michael Jackson
“This is it! This is it!”
Ah, Jacko, back in London to freak us all out in time for summer. Three cheers for his messed up face.
And don’t get us wrong. We bow to no-one in our appreciation of the hoary old quinquagenarian’s peerless pop prowess, however those among you who’ve innocently logged on to Ticketmaster or whatever this morning can’t help but have fallen off your chair at the eye-popping expense of it all.
“50 quid minimum!” you doubtless exclaimed, spitting cocoa all over your nice laptop. “A smooth criminal indeed! There must be a better way…”
Well Coppers for Karma politely invite you to chill the f*** out dude, as we’ve got the solution…
This coming Wednesday (17/03/2009) mosey yourself along to the inordinately trendy Café 1001 on Brick Lane, where we’ll be rocking the socks off everyone TOTALLY FOR FREE!!! In your face, Prince of Pop. We promise all your favourite tunes, in a cool location, with a highly respectable burger van outside and no queue for the toilets.
1 Dray Walk,
91 Brick Lane,
London E1
9pm start
See you there my sugary sweetlings.
C4K 11/03/2009
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*Coppers for Karma didn’t make one paedophile joke. Go us.*
Coppers for Karma are Proud to present...
Coolness is a notoriously slippery concept. Things we rate as the pinnacle of awesome in camp C4K (hurried business types tripping up in the street, sewage fights, wine for breakfast) might, somehow, seem dull, lame or outright revolting to others. There’s surely no such thing as “absolute” cool… is there?
Well yes, actually – Proud Camden is the coolest place in the world. There I said it.
Located in a converted Victorian horse hospital (see?), cinematically lit and generously decked out with fresh canvases from a raft of exciting new artists, this bar has it all.
And, like some kind of prurient middle aged sleazebag on the make, Coppers for Karma offer you FREE ENTRY for one night only (10/3)!!!
Turn up at 9, nod respectfully to the doorman and step inside for a hot slice of upbeat party groove courtesy of your favourite bandwagon-hopping threesome.
Proud Camden
Stable Market (opposite Esso, pretty much)
Chalk Farm Road
NW1 8AH
9:30 stage time.
See you there, among the cool people.
C4K 05/03/2009
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*Coppers for Karma had to look up “prurient” too, don’t feel bad*
Can we kick it? That would be a yes, then…
Exciting times in the Coppers camp, my groovy readership, exciting times… not only were we blessed with an amazing reception to our recent Balcony TV appearance (link shamelessly reposted here… ta-daaa!!!... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vU3HfKBaZE), but our debut album “A Word From our Sponsors” is now fully recorded!!! Just a few more days of geeky knob-twiddling in the studio by Snoop, Dre and all of our other homies before we can crack on with the release schedule, unleashing a steady flow of singles to tantalise the salivating public - much as a lapdancer exposes herself, slowly and carefully calculating the right moment to drag her helpless punter into the back room for the full wallet-draining monty.
Difference is we’re significantly cheaper, and marginally less diease ridden.
In the meantime, why not show the world what an amazingly cool cat you are by popping out to Monkey Chews (2 Queens Crescent, Chalk Farm, NW5 4EP) this Wednesday (4/3) where we’ll be making our usual uplifting combination of sounds and interpretive dance from half 8 or so. Also on the bill are Mean Poppa Lean, brightly coloured purveyors of “The funk, the whole funk and nothing but the funk” – one of our favourite bands in London.
You will have a good time, it really is that simple.
C4K 27/02/2009
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*Coppers for Karma can’t afford an actual lapdancer*
Coppers for Karma on Balcony TV!!!
Check us out! For once we’re not trying to cajole you into missing this week’s Hollyoaks, or part with your last hard-earned fiver, or drag you all the way out to some random-ass dive in the forgotten backwaters of Islington, only for you to wind up later on that evening passed out in our hallway in a puddle of Polish lager and shame. No, my friends; today, just a link…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vU3HfKBaZE
This is us last week playing a slot for the dentally enticing hip happenin’ honeys at BalconyTV.com. It went pretty ok, and here’s where you come in… the more hits it gets, the better we’re perceived to be by the people who run it, and other assorted passing trendies with chequebooks. So why not click on it and, as you’re there anyway, savour a live performance of a tune from our… *gasp*… forthcoming album…
That’s right! Details to follow, but we’re actually nearly there my peeps!!!
Don’t touch that dial. Y’know, figuratively speaking…
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C4K 16/02/2009
*Coppers for Karma got the hot presenter girl to say a rude word. Tee hee.*
Coppers for Karma massacre St. Valentine!!!
Oh! For me?!? A teddy bear, holding a heart? You really shouldn’t have…
Valentine’s day is once more upon us, stinking the city out like a WAG endorsed perfume. How’s about we all agree to just get the five minutes of cheap chavvy wine-fuelled sex out of the way (setting Sky+ to record Coronation Street for later while we’re slurping up our microwave Bolognese, natch) so that we can all rush along without delay to…
Enterprise Bar, 2 Haverstock Hill, NW3 2BL
…where all weekend for just £6 (flyer attached) you’ll find a veritable fiesta of cool bands and an array of folk who’d rather spend their money on something sensible like booze rather than petrol station flowers and chocolate f***ing body paint.
We’re on at 9:10pm on the Sunday (15th), so once you’ve flushed away the amusing banana flavoured johnny, crunched on the last of the Love Hearts and said a whole bunch of stuff you don’t really mean, pull your trousers up quick sharp, dash to the tube (nearest – Chalk Farm) and we’ll see you there!
C4K 09/02/2009
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*Coppers for Karma weely weeeeeeely wuv you*
Teeth-chattering greetings – and a free entry gig!
Brrrr, my word, strike me down and golly, isn’t there a nip in the air of late? As if the horrifying slow-motion car crash on the nightly news that portents the very unraveling of our civilization wasn’t bone-chilling enough, now the gods deign to unleash on our soft southern bonces a biting gale straight from the jealous heart of icy Siberia. When will it end I ask you, when?
Although, and it must be said, isn’t the snow pretty? Glass half full, and all that my loves, glass half full…
And if London’s creaking infrastructure can manage to withstand a couple more inches of fluffy water, you should hop on a bus (sit at the back, always your best bet in a crash, I imagine) this Friday night (6/2) and press the bell somewhere roundabout Zenith Bar at 125 Packington Street, N1 7EA, for therein at the highly fashionable hour of 10pm Coppers for Karma will be stomping their snow-covered boots out on the metaphorical hearth rug of your musical erogenous zones with 45 minutes or so of loud and live chooooons!!!
It’s quite near Angel, dontchaknow and FREE TO GET IN! So you may as well come down, it’s warm and cozy and the barmaid looks a bit like the hot Eastern European chick in the new Bond film. You know the one.
C4K 03/02/2009
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*Coppers for Karma might offer you a snowcone; if so, politely decline*
Coppers for Karma say happy new year!!!
Gor' blimey, here we all are in 2009, and there's not a flying car or flame-haired triple-breasted alien temptress in sight. Anyone else feel really let down by science fiction? I seem to remember a few years ago some bright spark brought out a video phone, but it sucked, and that was that for bold futurism; now all we have to look forward to is climate change, war with China and the next series of I'm A Celebrity. In spite of this, and the inevitable ho-hum return to the daily grind, I do fondly hope you all had a fabulous festive period, replete with fine foods good people and high times. As I write, chez Coppers is knee deep in beer cans, ash and sweet wrappers, and our (unruly at the best of times) brain chemistry is stubbornly refusing to reset to "normal" no matter how much sugary tea and Tesco's vitamin C we try to force down.
So it's all I can do in my psychologically disjointed state to entice you into getting this year off to a flying start by joining your friendly neighbourhood pasty wraiths of funk Coppers for Karma for an evening of incomparably awesome beats and whatnot at the awesome Water Rats (328 Gray's Inn Rd London, WC1X 8BZ). We're headlining, would you believe it, and the place is guaranteed to be ram packed with leather jacketed trendies and lithe students wearing too much eye-liner – the perfect way, in short, to shake off those wintry woes and get downright groovy for just six of your hard earned pounds - that's if you email your name to guestlist@westway.tv (£8 otherwise, *gasp*), that is.
Roll up at about 10ish, we'll be at the bar trying to blag free stuff.
We love you,
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C4K 02/01/2009
*Coppers for Karma just want a cuddle, promise…*
Fun sexy people required for shameless PR stunt!!!
Ahoy there!
Recently signed London band Coppers for Karma are bringing their feel-good brand of foul-mouthed upbeat party groove to the fantastic Madam Jojo’s in Soho on Wednesday 24th of September, and we really really REALLY need your help!
Yes, I know - it’s a Wednesday. Which sucks. But it needn’t! We have to get a bunch of people through the door or the promoter, who’s taking a massive chance on us, will break off our spindly little indie-boy legs and beat us to death with them. In front of our mums.
So here’s the address… Madam Jojo’s 8-10 Brewer Street, W1F OSE. The Strokes, The Killers, Andrew WK, Franz Ferdinand and any number of other top-notch acts have played there, plus they “do” strippers, so I gather from the website. OoooOOOOoooh……
It’s going to be a good night whatever happens. And even if you can’t make it yourself, please spread the word to absolutely everyone you know using this newfangled Facebook doohickey.
It’s a fiver, it starts at 8, and let me assure you that YOU WILL HAVE A FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC NIGHT!
C4K 28/08/2008
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*Coppers for Karma are a bit like a high-maintenance girlfriend, only without the sex*
www.coppersforkarma.com
