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Adam Hopper

[ he/him ]

city: Manchester
country: UK
genre: Alternative, Indie
styles: Bedroom, Indie Pop, Alt-Pop, Anti-Folk, Lo-Fi

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Next Release

Remember to Have Fun on May 09, 2025
via Bingo Records

on hashbrandnew.com since April 25, 2023

credits: Meg

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Bingo Records

My Friend Al

out on March 12, 2025

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Reviews and Comments

“like a breath of fresh air…Hopper’s words feel organic and genuine. Their simplicity is cathartically unpretentious” The Line of Best Fit

“so sweet it feels like it could clear away the clouds on a rainy day.” Far Out Magazine

“What a great sound!” John Kennedy, Radio X

“as lovably English and eccentric as it is genuinely catchy” The Indie Scene

“exceedingly charming… puts the Manchester-based Adam Hopper and the Wimps on the map of Britain’s own fine jangle rock landscape.” Hard of Hearing

“So likeable and positive that you can’t help but smile” - Clunk

Marking the news of long-awaited debut EP Remember To Have Fun - due 9th May - and a series of tour dates this spring (including an intimate hometown show at Manchester’s Castle Hotel) Adam Hopper & The Wimps share cruising, 60’s garage-inspired cut ‘My Friend Al’

Released via Sheffield tastemaking label Bingo Records (Responsible for early releases from The Bug Club and Melyn Melin), Adam Hopper’s whimsically nostalgic brand of anti-folk-tinged indie has, across the last 12 months, accumulated a wealth of backers, among them The Line of Best Fit, Far Out, Rough Trade, Blogotheque, Hard of Hearing, The Indie Scene and John Kennedy (Radio X).

Having sold out their debut headline show at Low Four studios last year, to bolster a plethora of support slots for the likes of Chris Cohen, Ethan P. Flynn, Jesca Hoop and The Golden Dregs, new single ‘My Friend Al’ (Al, as in ‘Alex’, not Artificial Intelligence), represents the quintet’s most buzzing and strident cut to date.

Wheeling out guitar jangles and harmonica blasts, as if right from the grooves of the seminal Nuggets-compilation, and folding it into Hopper’s endlessly affable and cosy northern charm, ‘My Friend Al’ introduces the key themes explored across Remember To Have Fun, namely, the recovery of childhood innocence, and a veneration of the benign, yet invaluable interactions that shape our everyday lives. Offering more on the single, Adam says:

“From the years 2007 - 2010 my friends and I spent every single Saturday meeting at the Blockbuster Videos in Great Driffield on the corner of George Street and Middle Street South at 11am/12pm. We would spend a while looking at the computer games, then go to Cooplands bakery for 4 sausage rolls. After this, we would go back to mine and play Halo 3 for at least 5 hours. My Friend Al is a dedication to that time and my friend Alex.”

[blue moon press]