Jopy

Jopy are a Brighton based three-piece led by songwriter Jo Parnell, and released the Planet Zombie EP on Goo on 20th September 2024 (available on Bandcamp and in selected independent record shops) . Featuring six tracks including recent singles Head Hunters Pub & Grub and Graveyard Romance, the EP showcases the band's B52s/Cramps influenced glam punk sound chocker with incendiary punk riffs and frantically infectious choruses. Full of macabre joy, the EP sees Parnell celebrate her trans identity through fantastical camp-horror fictions via Marc Bolan-esque vocals rolled into one blood-curdlingly gleeful package. 

Tracing these songs' deeply personal origins, Parnell says: “I want to write songs that people can relate to and feel seen by without having to relive the more difficult aspects of their journeys. This is why I chose to convey my experiences in the form of fun, campy horror stories.” 

Finding early press backing from So Young, DIY, NME, Record Collector, LOUD WOMEN, God Is In The TV and The Most Radicalist - as well as airplay on BBC Radio 6Music (Amy Lamé, Deb Grant) and Radio X (John Kennedy), Jopy have just completed their first UK tour ahead of a slot at Brighton’s Mutations2024 festival this November. They are already booked for Wanderlust Festival 2025 in the UK.

 “A celebration of queerness and found family through the phantasmagorical and peculiar… Haunting and punchy.” So Young Magazine

“… stirs up an endlessly peppy, surf-punk party… With capering, infectious rhythms certain to sweep you willingly into the ghoulish mosh pit” DIY