Portraits of Koopa - Joe Murphy, Stuart Cooper and Ollie Cooper photographed Exclusively in Retna Studios London.; On February 13 2008 Pied Piper Records announced that UK band KOOPA will join forces with BLINK 182s Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker to

Portraits of Koopa - Joe Murphy, Stuart Cooper and Ollie Cooper photographed Exclusively in Retna Studios London.; On February 13 2008 Pied Piper Records announced that UK band KOOPA will join forces with BLINK 182�s Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker to produce their debut album. The band recently joined the label�s roster, signing a four-album deal.; Over the past year, KOOPA has made music history by becoming the first ever unsigned band to make it in to the UK Top 40. In total they had three unsigned singles chart in the Top 40, the most recent "The Crash" reaching number 16 in November 2007. They also became the first ever unsigned band to enter the Hit40 UK chart.; As part of the studio team Mark and Travis will be joined by Rick Rubin protege Chris Holmes on the engineers desk.; As well as working with Blink-182 and +44, Chris has worked with many of the music industries top artists and has engineered and mixed some of the biggest records of the last 10 years including the highly acclaimed, Stadium Arcadium, Californication and Blood Sugar Sex Magik by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.; KOOPA will be recording at Mark's own studio in Los Angeles and work on the new album will commence at the start of April.; KOOPA will be playing SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas where on the 15th March they will be showcasing at The Wave.; Fulham, London SW6 - Feb 2008 Job:39686 Ref: EWT - Exclusive World Rights Only (Photo by Edd Westmacott/Avalon/Getty Images)