Born out of Leuven-Belgium’s activist squatting scene in 2004, Cop On Fire have been putting up festive foundations of pumping drums and sub-bass dub supporting their local scene. Local in this case is as global as a good part of Europe as C.O.F. toured between Scotland and Slovakia, though never playing Kortessem. Consisting of 4 people who have a heart for dub, ska, punk and protest-songs alike, C.O.F. uses these influences to recreate feelings from daily life: sticking it to The Man, taking a stand for Mother Earth, opening the bin for bigoted morality and xenophobia of all kinds…Oh, and we don’t like cops. Reclaim The Streets, opening autonomous social centres, Antifascist Action, sustainable living, … action backed up by the flow of drum and bass, a guitar crossing musical boundaries all thrown in a mix of effects and echoes from the underbelly of society – the samples. DIY has been more than a label to the band as we've played just about anywhere, except the mayor's ball or fishy right-wing related pubs. This has meant putting up our own stage to play an activist camp, squatting our own venues, fixing our own van on the road (not seldom with shoelace and gum), fishing the software to edit our samples out of a supermarket's wastebin,... DIY does not trap us within borders of a certain scene, so we gladly play different places as long as our performance doesn't get any capital flowing towards any of the assholes or companies trying to make a miserable life for the less privileged. We don't care about music contests and shit alike, we don't care to mention what bands we've played with, as all that is superficial and irrelevant to what this band is about - even though we liked most bands we've played with a lot. Naming names though, we've been influenced by bands as diverse as Skatalites, Killing joke, Mad professor, Conflict, The Clash, Amebix, Radical dance faction, Immortal technique, … COF released a first cd-ep “Welcome To The Free Zone” march 2008, have changed drummers for the third and so they believe last time and are as of yet working on a split LP/CD with Combat Wombat. The album shared with these Australian hiphop-dub-drum’n’bass activists will be released by the French label Maloka amongst others. More labels and distributors are being spoken to, to give the disc a release beyond subcultural borders. It should be out by july at best-august at worst - 2010. Catch you on the barricades - where we'll probably be soundchecking.
