RECORDING 241009

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DEAR DIARY (Oct Part 2)

BB writes..

Been driving, been thinking. Over the last few weeks i've been driving here, there, A to B, sometimes C, mainly to The Co-Op bean buying. I've been getting ideas for the artwork that MIGHT be on the 7" single we MIGHT have out early next year. I'm well excited about this! I'd like us to record Royal Mail workers whistling and singing for our song 'Back From England'. Might go record them all together or individually walking down house driveways, i'm not sure yet? When i saw them all on the news striking i thought PERFECT! Great timing, it's meant to be. We recently just bought a digital recorder thingy so there's no excuse not to do this. Another idea for the song is to record around Southmead in Bristol. The place was seen on 'Panorama' last week. Some terrible terrible people have been saying some nasty things, i'd like to drive past in a car (with the doors locked) and ask them a question. We might go see Gareth's team Southampton play Bristol Rovers soon, if we do we'll record there too. He also wants us to record in Clevedon to capture the sound of waves. I'm gonna push him in the sea! tee hee! We've also been talking to our French friend Francois about playing a fun instrument on the track. Lyrics seem to come easy when on the move, but im a safe driver so i repeat them in my head til i STOP!!

INBOX (You Swine!)

Email received today from an OLO fan..

ARRRGH
I’ve had the Wasabi song in my head all day
You swine!

Mr Atkins

Health Protection Agency
4th Floor South Plaza
Bristol

THE GOOD LIFE

Read about BB's new life outside Bristol HERE.

VIC REEVES DREW ON SW's HEAD!

HALO

Trying on outfits.

OLO RADIO - BB38 - HOMECOMING - 20/10/09

You gotta pay your dues before you pay the rent.

Get it HERE.

OLO RADIO - G52 - BOYWONDER - IS IT ANY WONDER? - 20/10/09

Our next guest mix comes from BOYWONDER!

Myspace

'Is It Any Wonder?' is the name of this EXCLUSIVE mix given to OLO Radio. Enjoy!

Get it HERE.

MEET HEINZ JUNKINS

Meet..Heinz Junkins!

In this short news report we find out what happened after he left Bristol to move back home to Hertfordshire.

Now living in Buntingford with his Mother, he's followed in her footsteps and is now also running a successful jewellery business using objects found in rubbish bins.

DEAR DIARY (Oct Part 1)

A bit of a round-up of recent ramblings squashed together..

Dear Diary,

SUMMER ENDED.

'Back From England' lyrics..a snippet - "let's all queue for the view, see who swamp thing's gonna screw, lord henry hoover suck it up, then u go screw it up!". http://beanburner.tumblr.com/post/167256258/the-fall-big-new-prinz & http://beanburner.tumblr.com/post/167258989/dick-dale-mexico . "hi i'm Woody Guthrie, this is insect killing to the max". i feel like Sigourney Weaver at the end of Aliens. "back to life, back to reality!" we have been asked to do a remix and a track for a comic book soundtrack..yes! http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090828-bse-olympus-1-4.html . we'll be playing at Oxjam festival (Bristol) in Oct. We dont like to mention our charity work normally of course. SODA POP! YISO themes.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_the_Brave_(1986_film) . http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=8761411&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=6924727339&aid=-1&id=679545580&oid=6924727339 .
someone poisoned SEAWEED!! If i ever find them im going crack an egg on their head! its a damn shame! 'The Elastic Waste Band' first demo done. sounding good. sounds like we're in a swamp at the start. TOXIC! oh boy! this comic book song is really taking shape. "strike back and forth" . Hey! we are playing at the Oxjam Takeover on 25th Oct at StartThusBus at 3.30pm. "anything, anything with Dustin in it!" .

Regards,

OLO Worms

YISO NO.3 - BITTY McLEAN

That song title WON'T stick..that's a promise.

YISO NO.2 - THE EGO HAS LANDED

OXJAM FESTIVAL INFO / POSTERS

Official poster (click to enlarge)..
OLO Worms are playing at Bristol's OXJAM FESTIVAL '09!
(probably our last gig of 2009)

SUNDAY 25th OCT
START THE BUS, BRISTOL
3.30PM

More details about the festival, the line up & tickets can be found HERE
Our band profile on the Oxjam site is HERE

Below is the OLO poster i made (click to enlarge)..

LIVE VIDEO (In Blackburn)

HERE is a video of us playing 'Sphinx' & 'Are You Girl?' in Blackburn (during 'B-Team Tour' back in August) that's hosted on the Saatchi Gallery website for some reason!? Remember this was the first gig of the tour which explains why we're a bit rusty. Check out the close ups! ha! There are also videos of Rozi Plain & The Pictish Trail (featuring 3/4 OLO Worms) on the site.

OLO TV TITLES ('09 Part 3)

RECORDING 101009

CLICK HERE to see the rest of this set of photos over at OLOEXTRA.

RECORDING 031009

CLICK HERE to see the rest of this set of photos over at OLEXTRA.

BB BIRTHDAY

CLICK HERE to see the rest of this set of photos over at OLOEXTRA.

INVADA INVASION

CLICK HERE to read BB's little report about the event.

CLICK HERE to see the rest of this set of photos over at OLOEXTRA.

SPEILL BERG'S FIRST FILM

Via the Speill Berg blog..

"HEY!! I'VE STARTED FILMING FOR THE SPEILL BERG ALBUM!! I'M MAKING MUSIC USING SOUNDS FILMED ON MY LITTLE DIGITAL CAMERA. I'M MOVING BACK TO HERTFORDSHIRE WHERE I'LL BE WORKING ON IT. WHO KNOWS WHAT IT'LL END UP SOUNDING LIKE. I HOPE IT'LL BE DONE BY EARLY 2010. STAY TUNED MOVIE FREEEAKS!"

TOUR PROFIT RECEIVED

SLOW CLUB DRIVE-BY

JUST MARRIED

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DUMB AND DUMBERER

BRISTOL FESTIVAL 09

CLICK HERE to read BB's little Bristol Festival write up.

SICK BOY PLANNING ESCAPE FROM GIG

IN WALES IN JAPANESE

BB can be spotted 'Where's Wally' style on THIS Japanese website (about half way down).

PUKE! (Both Ends)

In case you did'nt hear at the time (hey! maybe you're still queued up outside waiting to get in?) we had to pull out of the 'Naked Lunch' gig @ The Cube back in September, almost this very day last month. The reason? The boy (above) was sick, violently sick!! So there. nah, sorry if you wanted to go or you did go or like i say you're still in the queue reading this on your iphone. We're playing again very soon (details to come later).

THE B-TEAM TOUR - THE REPORT & ROUND-UP

BB writes..

Nearly 3 weeks ago we'd just finished our first proper tour. I was lying on the sofa feeling sorry for myself while eating junk and catching up on Big Brother while everyone else went back to their jobs. It was only a small tour but..boy did it drag! Of course not! It wizzed by! We had a lorra lorra laughs! Pictish & Rozi (& her band) were such great fun to hang out with. We'd love to do another tour. Let's do another tour! It'll happen again soon i'm sure. Like with most things we seem to do, it takes a few weeks to recover and blog the photos, videos, etc. I'd love to go into great detail about the tour but i won't because it'll bore me and it'll no doubt bore you. Plus i don't think it's a good thing telling everyone everything!..i can't believe i just said that. It's really hard remembering everything as well. I enjoyed doing the tour diary on Twitter..thats the way forward! short simple facts, instant bubbles of guff, snapshots of what's happening at that very point, rather than this, which is basically me dragging out an excuse as to why there's no proper tour diary (see below for a link to my tour tweets). I think the best thing for any OLO fan (if there are any out there!?) to do would be to have a look at the holiday snaps and the 4 videos that are linked below. Deal!? OK.

THE GIGS..

WEDNESDAY - 26th August 2009
PICTISH TRAIL + ROZI PLAIN + OLO WORMS
41 King Street, BLACKBURN

THURSDAY - 27th August 2009
PICTISH TRAIL + ROZI PLAIN + OLO WORMS
Beltane Bar, BUXTON

FRIDAY - 28th August 2009
PICTISH TRAIL + ROZI PLAIN + OLO WORMS
The Croft, BRISTOL

SATURDAY - 29th August 2009
PICTISH TRAIL + ROZI PLAIN + OLO WORMS
De La Warr Pavillion, BEXHILL ON SEA

SATURDAY - 29th August 2009
PICTISH TRAIL + ROZI PLAIN + OLO WORMS
Sanctuary Café, BRIGHTON

SUNDAY - 30th August 2009
FENCE SUNDAY SOCIAL with PICTISH TRAIL + ROZI PLAIN + OLO WORMS + other guests!
Strongrooms, Shoreditch, LONDON

THE SETLIST..

Sphinx

Are You Girl?

Back From England

The Elastic Waste Band

The Barber Shop

Curves

Neutral Zones

Guess Who Garden

THE LINKS..

THE VIDEOS - PARTS 1, 2, 3, 4

(we'll post up more videos of Rozi & Pictish at a later date)

THE PHOTOS - SET 1 / SET 2 / SET 3

THE TOUR DIARY - BB's TWEETS

OTHER

- A video of 'Winter Home Disco' dancing at Bexhill.

- Pictish Trail's blog

MERCHANDISE

We did manage to dupe some people into buying our tat. We'll open the OLO shop up soon and show you some of our goods.

Here's a few more tour things for you..

THE TOUR ANTHEMS..

obviously not all out of choice. These songs are a mixture of Radio 1 choices, OLO Radio DJ set choices, demo cd's & completely random songs/moments..

Yi Hoodies!!
Vera Lynn - We'll meet again (which i sang on stage at Bexhill)

Just Jack - The Day I Died (errgh! worse song of the year?)
The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
Neil Young - Harvest Moon

Joker - Digidesign

2000F & J Kamata - You Don't Know What Love Is

The Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun

Black Eyed Peas - I Got A Feeling (erggh! monday.tuesday.wednesday..)

T'Pau - China In Your Hands

Bon Iver - Skinny Love

Laurie Anderson - Sharky's Day

The xx - Basic Space

The Very Best - Julia

Paul Simon - I Know

Wild Beasts - All The King's Men

Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It

The Who - Love Reign O'er Me (which i sung on stage in London)

Kate Bush - Barbooshka (which i murdered)

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (which i nailed)

Beck - Beercan

Beach Boys - Deirdre

Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer

Sly & The Family Stone - Spaced Cowboy

Big Cherry - Come On Bonzo

Paul Parish - English Sparrow

The Zombies - Friends Of Ours

New York Dolls - Personality Crisis

Below are some tour memories from the other OLO's. Most of this is boring fact for us to look back on in a few years time. This won't mean anything to anyone else. OLO Worms = self indulgent goons.

THAT'S MY WIFE IN THERE!!
9 people + kit in one van?
Laughing fridge
samosas 2 (with extra grease)
Rozi saying f**k at bexhill in front of children
dressing gown breakfast
Pictish in the closet (like R Kelly)
James dancing with a deckchair
THIS ONE'S FOR MY DAD! (Dappy N Dubz)
Millie dancing to neutral zones
room 101
the 'barrier' between Gareth and Matt
Racist hotel (alright 'cock')
piano in the lounge
spa water
soundman on his 1st day
arm wrestling
Mark and James 'jamming'
waking up the night porter
dressing gowns/lampshades
THIS HOTEL SMELLS OF GHOSTS!
hand-made buxton posters
the military schedule from Gareth (euughh)
soundcheck panic in bristol/paul Ramone the soundguy
HI i'm Woody Guthrie!
mushy peas
old couple during lugging at bexhill
sun, seagulls, wind
not being able to see our LED's
Rob's cape blowing in the wind
Pictish's jokes bombing - 'tough crowd'
deckchairs
kids/olds
about 5 kids pleading with their mum to let them have a t-shirt - she wouldn't relent.
potential soundguy?
winter home disco/sunset/4 way harmony/francois trumpet/dancing - JOY.
shove off
weird sandwiches
brighton hell
sweaty set-up
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'look of death'
lucky dip rider
praying that the marker was permanent
prince on the itrip
hellish last hour into london
yelping with francois
adem bobbing his head
James doing sphinx properly (huge internal sigh of relief)
watching Rozi + Hector + Rob screeching to the barbershop
James' anti racist speech
Jonny's extended comedy set
Rozi playing a blinder + added percussion
James' Kate Bush/Kraftwerk 'turn'
sweet home alabama
HUGE RELIEF + JOY + KEBAB
Laurence llewellyn Bowens top 10 classical movie themes
free pint of milk
tired and happy
curry + partridge

IS THAT WET ENOUGH FOR YOU!!?

B-TEAM TOUR...DONE!

THE B-TEAM TOUR - VIDEOS

'NAKED LUNCH' GIG POSTER

Below is the poster for tomorrow's gig..


CLICK HERE to see a video advert someone has made.
CLICK HERE to see all the event info on the Cube Cinema website.

THE B-TEAM TOUR - PHOTOS

We have a ton of photos from our little tour. Check them all out on OLOEXTRA via the links below..

THE B-TEAM TOUR PHOTOS >

SET 1

SET 2

SET 3

GREEN MAN FESTIVAL '09 - THE REPORT

BB writes (on behalf of the others):

I Had myself a wonderful time at this year's Green Man Festival as you may have seen from my photos (over 3 weeks ago now - why am i always soo late with these reports?). Probably the most perfect festival i've ever been to in terms of music, weather, friends, atmosphere, & fun. I had myself some testing times due to the things i did to my body but i just about got over them to carry on. The toilets were pretty damn good!

My musical highlights were..

Grizzly Bear

Gang Gang Dance

Animal Collective

Bon Iver

The Three Craws / Pictish Trail / Rozi Plain

The Aliens

Pivot

British Sea Power

The Phantom Band

Beach House

I missed quite a bit. Friends + sun + booze = fun & confusion.

Us OLO Worms were given free tickets in exchange for playing some music inbetween the Fence acts. DEAL! Although no one told us we'd actually be ON the stage! At the front of the stage! With a whole tent watching the 3 of us (SW had to pull out) awkwardly standing there watching The Three Craws set up their gear while queuing up the next track. It may not have looked it but we loved it!

Below are the tracks that made up our DJ set (maybe not in the right order)..

(BB's mini mix..
Clouddead - No.5 (1)
Flight Of The Navigator Theme
KLF - Dream Time In Lake Jackson
Kraftwerk - Uranium
Boards Of Canada - The Color Of The Fire
Aidan Moffat - International Valentine
James Holden - Lumpette)

Paul Simon - Me And Julio Down By The School Yard
Animal Collective - Who Could Win A Rabbit
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Big Cherry - Come In Bonzo

(DF's mini mix - tracklist unknown)

Van Dyke Parks - Sweet Trinidad
T.Rex - Jewel
Ronnetes - Be My Baby
The Zombies - Friends Of Mine
The Kinks - Who'll Be The Next In Line
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Poodle Rockin'
Can - Spoon
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (Remix)
Black Beauty Theme

Queen - I Want To Break Free
King Biscuit Time - I Walk The Earth
Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day

(the rest can't be recalled)

Due to it being a few weeks ago i won't write any more as i can't remember much stuff now.

Here are the links to the photos and video..

VIDEO / PHOTOS > SET 1 - SET 2 - SET 3 - OTHER PHOTOS