20/09/24
Growing up in the small town of Guildford - but now based in Brighton - Jopy aka Jo Parnell (pronounced “Joe-Pee”) - has been thinking about music for as long as she can remember. As a trans woman growing up in a town without much resembling queer culture, Jopy was acutely aware of the estranged, outsider status pinned upon her, using her music as a conduit to revel in this perceived ‘deviance’ and find subversive pleasure within it. Joined in her three piece band by childhood friends ‘Clown Baby’ (Bass) and Louis Relf (Drums), the results are a glittering treasure-trove of unhinged characters, oddball stories and razor-sharp songwriting:“..there’s a certain empowerment you can find in boring people finding your existence offensive...”
