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Cop on the Edge

Pop for the modern world to end to

About Me



Straight out of South London, pausing only to breathe and get out some cash, comes Cop On The Edge.
Jim on lead vocals and vitriol. Steve on guitar and Greek chorus. Anna on boards and technology. James on drums and cricket.

All together we sound a bit like Talking Heads, a bit like New Order, and a bit like Giorgio Moroder but we're on a mission to sound like ourselves more than anyone else thankyouverymuch.

We've been played by Huw Stephens on Radio 1, 6Music, Resonance FM, BBC Radio Oxford and Three Counties, help run a night of joy and dancing in New Cross called South Eats London and played a bunch of gigs in and around London, Oxford and Brighton. We hope for world peace and would like to work with children.

You can also find us here:

Apart from Jim, who just doesn't get it.

My Interests

Music:

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

My Blog

Get Artful!

The Artful Festival has been enriching our already calorific cultural lives in South Eats London for the last month with a number of gigs and happenings. Earwax Radio did a special Artful show last we...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:33:00 GMT

Buzz buzz buzz

Having spent the weekend walking the earth, its quite splendid to return and find that kind people of sound judgement had the urge to say "Cop On The Edge make some ...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:34:00 GMT

Cops on 6music!

Hello, When Tom Robinson spoke unto the nation on 6music on Sunday, he played Summer Games II - which was rather tremendously exciting. Have a listen here, we're just before an interview with the Chap...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:48:00 GMT

Jim Joins Elbow!

Well, sort of... Being one for embracing well-worn stereotypes, I have unleashed a little more Welshness and am joining Elbow on stage next Monday at the Royal Festival Hall as part of a mal...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:42:00 GMT

Cops go top ten!!!

Yep you heard right, TOP TEN!!! Not in yer actual pop charts of course but in Supersweet magazine’s Bands to love in 2008! Out of literally 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:37:00 GMT

For Robin

We were all shocked and saddened last week by the sudden death of Anna's father Robin. For those of us who'd come to know him in the last few years, we found a him a kind, clever and generous man with...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:46:00 GMT

No Cop Action Thursday

Hey hey,For those of you girding your gurns for our gig on Thursday I'm sorry to say that we've had to pull out. Boo, etc.But! We'd still recommend the trip as you will still have Lime-Headed Dog and ...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:30:00 GMT

Look at us here, look at us there

If you're the observant type, you may have noticed we have some new pics up, finally showing us in our full five-piece glory. We have visually expanded on our usual motifs of war, punctuation, mo...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:30:00 GMT

And to all a good night

And that, as the people who are in charge of such things say, is 2007 for us as Cops. We played a special gig on Saturday for Steve and Robin's British wedding party in the company of D...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:22:00 GMT

New Tracks!

New songs are up!I Want Don't Get - BANGFUL!Semi-Engaged - THOUGHTFUL!Spying On Boys - POPFUL!All recorded at Dragon Studios and Jamestown Studios in East London and produced with loving care and spec...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:51:00 GMT