Music Tourist Board LIVE MUSIC EVENTS/PROMOTIONS : cyber rock rising stars, up close, affordable high quality ENTERTAINMENT for and by a love of music! (scroll down or more links/info) POP OF THE TOPS = original Music Tourist Board club - a rock'n'roll hangout cum wasted-youth club born in paradise it's "cbgbs of se14" (nme) spirit lives on with a host of new bands, djs, promoters, clubs, ideas, shenanigans...

P.O.L.E. is the Music Tourist Board live music event
tart rockers come and pole dance! Meet, chat, exchange ideas and daydreams as usual...
SOUTH POLE = NEW CROSS INN * NORTH POLE = CAMDEN BARFLY P.O.L.E. CLUB PAGE

005 : Thank you to everybody that partied on and off stage at LIVE IN ROCKLANDS shows at Amersham Arms...
09-MAR THE MODERN + LUXEMBOURG + WILLIAM + DJs SIMON PRICE (Stay Beautiful, Independent, MSP) & Dirty Sounds with compere LENNIE ST LUCE *
13-APR JOHNNY PANIC + CORPORATION:BLEND + THE FRAKE + THE ELETRIC LADY BAND + DJs CUT THROATS (Greenwich Pirate) + DIRTY SOUNDS with compere MIKE NEBRASKA *
11-MAY THE VIOLETS + THE FAIRIES BAND + SHARD + EMPTY VESSELS + UNEMPLOYABLE WELSH SCUM DJs + DIRTY SOUNDS DJs + RICHIE FAIRIE (a.k.a. Rich Pack!)
05-OCT (ARTFUL) THE NEEDLES + VANLUSTBADER + GEAR + CHRIS CHINCHILLA + NITIN LACHHANI + DAVE CRASH CONVENTION + LIVE IN ROCKLANDS on-air/line courtesy of EARWAX RADIO,
and the excellent 6X6 send off for the 6String/Paradise Bar in JUL-005 starring the birth of HATCHAM SOCIAL + NEBRASKA + CHARLIE BROWN + DEVIL IN MISS JONES + THE FRAKE + NEIL GORDON ORR + DJs GAZCLOUD, LENNY LOVE of Dirty Sounds + MUTHAFUNK
ARTFUL (Oct-005) POP OF THE TOPS CLUB returned for one night - astarring DEMETER + THE BRIDGE GANG + NEBRASKA + DIVINA ICON + MICHAELNEBRASKA-N-DEXY with star compere JASPRE BARK + special guest DJs QUEERS OF NOIZE + RICH PACK + host DJs DIRTY SOUNDS at The Albany, Douglas Way, London SE8
New Year's Eve 004 Nicci Minxx took the vibe to Melbourne, Australia - New Year's Eve 005 Unemployabe Welsh Scum took the vibe to Halifax, Canada - three cheers for Planet Water!
Pop Of The Tops was the Music Tourist Board Club Apr-003 to Dec-004. It started a lot of friehships and collaborations...excellent" - bbc london on line / "excellent" - time out / "The Pop Of The Tops club at Rocklands has got it right. A friendly musical community dedicated to putting home-grown talent on the map, with all co-operating on promotions, equipment, clothes, revivews etc is a ruddy good idea. They've been so successful it's been dubbed the New Cross anti-scene. And the atmopshere is palpably different because of it. Sort of like an immensely groovy youth club: trendy postures but resplendent with friendly smiles." - bbc berkshire on line / "£1 beers run out yet?" -pop of the tops crowd...
...travelling circus of regulars, friends, associates & events check out... * The Pop Of The Tops story * - the party reached Melbourne, Australia on New Year's Eve 004 via Nicci Minxx. * Club Enemy launched big time in January at London's Windmill various Music Tourist Board collaborators/Pop Of The Tops regulars and DJs starting events including Damn Pest - website of Music Tourist Board activity, full of news, essaysand articles (including by musicnans) and regular nights attThe Windmill, God Is In The TV (responsible for G-Spot events and an active band forum) * Dirty Sounds & Pyrrha Girls and loads more... start a band / zine / site / club / party / revolution... and have fun doing it!

Pop Of The Tops club - home of Music Tourist Board meetings, dandy pirates, music documentary making, photo sessions, flying fairies, debauchery and some of the hottest new rock bands of the 21st century - the new wave of new cross and beyond... "the kind of autonomous get up and go counterculture not seen since punk" - nme It's not where you're from, it's where youre at. The anti-scene is thanks to the posse that live/come to this Totally Unlondon outpost.... also to the other promoters that joined in the community not competition vibe ta to 2 Xfm & co for the continued plugs/support and to John Kennedy for the Rocklands Special Sept 004. also. to everybody that helped spread the word...

THIS IS POP OF THE TOPS! (background info) * Pictures from the club are at Planet Water *
From Paradise to PEEL STREET in 005
Oct 003 gigs captured for posterity by Digital Sneakers as thirteen short film band profiles and a pre-media attention anti-scene documentary as "ROCKLANDS - LIVE IN NEW CROSS" (more info)

Pop Of The Tops * WHAT GOES ON HERE? The otherworldly rock club * PEOPLE * Friends

LISTINGS Iare at Music Tourist Board forum

POP OF THE TOPS PICTURES PAGE 1 * PICTURES PAGE 2 * PICTURES PAGE 3 *

Plus... new wave of new cross (Jun 004 reviews at Hear! Here!)

+ Alternative Idol project started with Music Tourist Board meetings - Update (Dec 003)

+ Feedback (kind of) from Kinesis, Art Brut, My Red Cell & Corporation:Blend at Hear! Here!

+ Music Tourist Board's pix (which decorated South East Xhibition) and reviews at Joyzine.

09-DEC-004 : - END OF TOUR PARTY - A classic. the vibe has spread so much that there were no end of alternative choices for a night out with our friends when Pop Of The Tops ended. With the amount of clubs, labels, zines, sites, events, forums etc settiing up, the penniless revolution is now in full swing. The last night of the punk proms was held at goldsmiths in New Cross. Legendary sets from Corporation:Blend, M.A.S.S. and Nebraska, chaos and great tunes courtesy of The Fairies and Dirty Sounds/Crash Convention- host, Captain Kev, was the icing on a cake. Thank you very single person that ever came to or supported Pop Of The Tope! You've helped kick off the first definitive music movement of the 21st century.

Sharing the joy launched in Melbourne on New Year's Eve/Day via Rocklands international + Split The Atom. partying with various members of Dandy Warhols, BRMC and The Bluetones joining Mind Trafik's Nicci Minxx (Pop Of The Tops UK) and friends partying to their favourite tunes all night with short films, free champagne, CD give aways, prizes and a fashion show! The Event - STRANGED FRUIT - rocked The Hi Fi Bar with over 700 people turning up! Robert Turnmer of Black Rebel Motocycle Club counted in 005. The penniless revolution vibe continues to spread round the world

Pop Of The Tops events are presented by Music Tourist Board : a bunch of nutters and love pirates including : Rocklands Promotions + Dirty Sounds, Unemployable Welsh Scum, Corporation:Blend, Nebraska, Ceri James, Vamp'n'Diva, Cut Throats , the Pop Of The Tops DJ family, Angular Records & many lovely friends who come to dance or help out with all sorts. They and Pop of The Tops bands are real stars, real close!!!

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