There are many cracks – things break – guitar strings, drumsticks, amplifiers, hearts and tempers, and so Adi, Damian, Michael and Nicholas have nowhere to hide – no option but to be honest. This is how they write their songs – by sitting close together until an idea sneaks in through a crack in the wall. They rehearse in a drafty old tobacco factory near the River Clyde where they sit close together to keep warm. Some might say that they’ve worked up a storm – others might say that Scottish weather is too turbulent to notice. They are Adi, Damian, Michael and Nicholas. The only downside is that the lockdown situation prevented any thoughts of the band coming together for a live show or two to highlight the fact there was a new release all these years later. Maybe someone will pick it up and give it a physical release…. It’s available for just £5 from bandcamp as well as via all sorts of other download streaming services. They may release more music in the future, though not necessarily as Popup. The members of Popup remain friends and still muck around making music, sometimes with each other. Time passed, children were born etc.Īt a friend’s wedding in 2017, the four members of Popup found themselves chatting, and the idea of putting the second album out came up. It was mastered by Sam Smith at Green Door studio in Glasgow.Īround 2011, Popup stopped playing shows and the album had not been released. They just preferred those versions to the ones from the studio. A couple of tracks were recorded in Popup’s old rehearsal studio, either by themselves or by their dear friend Mark Amery-Behr. The songs were written and recorded shortly after the release of A Time and a Place in 2008, and a number of them featured heavily in Popup’s live sets around that time.įor the most part, it was recorded and mixed by Gal (Paul Gallagher) at his studios at 4th Street and then at the Glenwood Studio.

I mentioned last time out that the band’s twitter account had been inactive since December 2012 which would indicate they have broken up.īut 2020 was a strange year for many reasons, not least this, on Facebook last April. Not afraid whatsoever to sing in a local accent, they were also a great act in the live setting. As I mentioned, they had been really active from about 2006-2008 when the debut album appeared, of which this was one of many highlights:. I wrote previously about PopUp, just the once, and it was back in May 2014.

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