Member Since: 19/10/2005
Band Members: Anna (Keyboards/Vocals/More Drums)
Jim (Vocals/Bass)
James (Drums)
Steve (Guitar/Bass/Vocals)
Influences: New Order, Talking Heads, Can, Giorgio Moroder, The Smiths, The Fall, Trash, 80s straight-to-video movies, office jobs and the idea of Britain.
Sounds Like: "These boys (and girl) are coming straight at you with a heady breeze of, well, whatever they want it seems...they appear to drift seamlessly between old school new wave and electro-pop madness, all punctuated with some good old falsetto action." Supersweet
"Mainstream media-mediochre inflicting narcolepsy on you? Switch to Cop On The Edge FM. Pop for the modern world to end to." Artful - Pirates 2009
"Summer Games II clatters to life, whistles and chatters winningly, daftly, and possibly illegally...Spying On Boys is a jolt of shy teenage lust, appropriately fey and naive, and I Want Don't Get buzzes with youthful exuberance." A New Band a Day
"Cop On The Edge are poppy, acerbic, witty and as English as Dixon of Dock Green." The Devil Has The Best Tuna
"The four songs on offer here are marvellous. They blend the likes of Talking Heads into every second of sound but the result is something which belongs to them alone. The lyrics are disjointed and amusing. My favourite track is probably 'I Want Don't Get' which contains the brilliant lines, "I want to blend into the background by wearing a suit made completely of buildings". It's a funny and smart release." Sounds XP Demo Review
"Cop On The Edge create a gulf between themselves and their peers with their infectious character and gutsy attempt at simply being themselves. And it works extraordinarily well...a one-inch-punch of strange pop escapism.." The Mag
"They’re from New Cross, South London, they have their very own pointy bouncy wrong pop angles and infectious old school new wave that we instantly liked and so will you children of the bio-metric age...four instantly infections songs and point staccato new wave analogue anachronisms and Devo shapes, if Devo were to be very English...fine home made new wave pop full of uplifting character and infectious synth lines" Organ Magazine (Demo of the Week)
"Now this is blinding stuff that sounds as though its arrived straight from pop's late 70's cold war...'I want don't get' sounds not unlike a killer cross firing white funk union between the Higsons, Pere Ubu and early career Talking Heads with Joy Division making up the numbers and adding the finitely detailed schizoid regimental pop glazes and that's before we even begun to mention the absolutely drop dead gorgeous chorus hook that this babe weighs in with." Losing Today
"The most punctual band I know." Spoon, The Rhythm Factory
Type of Label: Major