Dr Hoppo’s Urban Rooftops, featuring Lauren Mullarkey.
'Dr Hoppo's Urban Rooftops' is a grass roots musical project from Manchester musician Steve Hopkins - a seed to be nurtured into a flourishing orchestra playing jazz, latin, soul, funk, rock, dance music, with music guaranteed to lift your spirits. Our first gigs were in 2019. The core of Dr Hoppo’s Urban Rooftops consists of Dr Hoppo himself, with up-and-coming songstress Lauren Mullarkey + four world-wise warriors from the Manchester music scene (below).
Steve (Dr Hoppo) Hopkins (band leader and pianist)
The unsung keyboard player and producer behind legendary producer Martin Hannett. Together, as the Invisible Girls, we made three albums for John Cooper Clarke, co-writing classics such as Beasley St, Chickentown, I Married a Monster from Outer Space and “I Wanna Be Yours”, made famous by the Arctic Monkeys hit cover.
We produced an album “True Love Stories” for EMI with Jilted John.
We produced an album “Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls”
Steve also worked with Happy Mondays, Morrissey, Nico, Ed Banger, the Jazz Defektors, Richard Darbyshire (Living in a Box), Distant Cousins, the Bernhardts (I hear you calling). His discography is here: http://www.lumifont.co.uk/music2026.php
Lauren Mullarkey (main vocalist)
A fantastic vocalist who deserves to become widely known, daughter of Barbara Yates, who was the lead vocalist of seventies folk-rock bands Saraband and Slipstream.
Dave Howells (guitar and lead vocals on some of our songs)
Tin Tin, long-running jazz fusion outfit, featuring Johnny Sax
Rob Murray (bass)
Early days of The Jazz Defektors
Snuff (drums)
Has played with: Distant Cousins, Sons of Arqa featuring Prince Far I, Screaming Lord Sutch, The Lonesome and Penniless Cowboys, Motivation (project of Steve Garvey of the Buzzcocks)
Myke Wilson (drums)
Has played with: 52nd Street, Swing Out Sister, Texas, Dust Junkys, Secret Night Gang, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Jazz Defektors