Emma Kupa Archives - Backseat Mafia

Track: Emma Kupa – ‘Happy Birthday’: loving your nearest and dearest and yourself with a sweet indie-folk tune for Lost Map

NOW THERE’S a good match between two of these isles’ loveliest indie-folk musical forces. Lost Map, the cottage caravan industry label run by Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch from his fastness…

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TRACK: Emma Kupa – ‘Nawlins’: indie-folk for The Big Easy and pop art dancing

YOU know what? She’s just a bit lovely, is Emma Kupa, Sheffield songstress bringing us warm observations across the indie-folk Venn overlap. Twas only a few weeks back she dazzled…

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Exclusive: Emma Kupa records ‘Nothing at All’ live in session for Backseat Mafia

We’ve long been in the thrall of Emma Kupa, through all of her incarnations and all the collaborators she’s worked with over the years. Pretty much the first thing we…

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SEE: the sweetness of Emma Kupa’s ‘Hey Love’

Former singer with Sheffield cult indie heroes Standard Fare, in collaboration with Hefner man Darren Hayman in the Hayman Kupa Band, and in indie fizzbomb purveyors Mammoth Penguins, Emma Kupa…

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SEE: Standard Fare’s Emma Kupa returns with folksy gem ‘Nothing At All’

EMMA KUPA has been something of British indiepop’s best-kept secret this past decade. Starting out in North Derbyshire trio Standard Fare, who released two albums of cracking, bouncy guitar pop,…

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Album Review: Mammoth Penguins – There Is No Fight We Can’t Both Win

Back from a voyage into the world of the concept album with the excellent John Doe, Mammoth Penguins have stepped back into slightly more familiar territory. There’s No Fight We…

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Mammoth Penguins and Friends – John Doe

This is a bit unexpected. Mammoth Penguins’ first album, while with its own style, picked up not a million miles away from where Emma Kupa’s first band, Standard Fare, left…

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Album Review: Mammoth Penguins – Hide and Seek

Cards on the table before we even start this review. I love Emma Kupa. Well, her songwriting at least. It was lucky that her six song mini album Home Cinema…

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See: Mammoth Penguins release video for ‘Propped Up’

If you’ve been a regular reader of Backseat Mafia, you’ll have found Emma Kupa popping up throughout its history, specifically as lead singer of the much lamented (especially by us)…

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