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!