RECORDING 131109

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RECORDING 081109

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DAY TRIP TO THE BEACH

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DEAR DIARY (Nov Part 5)

BB writes..

Chin shaved, teeth brushed, sock over mic, lyric sheet in hand, Mum in town...home alone rapping!! ELVIS LIVES! Just as i was about to do my 'Back From England' vocals a crow outside my window butted in and advised me put a hat on, it worked! By way of thanks we'll keep him on the recording. I got nervous, what other MCs get butterfly tummys?!?? Whiskey and lemonade calmed me. I think i did ok. Brain pounding stress with these new songs..we all seem to be confusing each other. I wanna be in Bristol with the other 3 sorting this mess.

DEAR DIARY (Nov Part 4)

Dear Diary,

BIG day of recording! Got to the studio room early and proceeded to waste a few hours recording wet limp drums (it's all good now). Our French friend Francois & his friend Amaury turned up and saved the day! Francois played trumpet, Amaury played drums. Together they sprinkled their magic over 'Back From England' and now it's spicy!! You gotta love the French!

Regards,

OLO Worms

DEAR DIARY (Nov Part 3)

Dear Diary,

Went to the seaside (Clevedon), It was gloomy but we had fun. We ate crumpets on the pier, threw rocks, saw dead dog on beach, ate chips and dead dog pies, wet our socks, and recorded all the sounds there. We could'nt get in to the Royal Mail so the next stop on the FUN bus was Southmead! We drove around looking for trouble with our recorder out the car window. In Sommerfield i got hit in the balls with a shopping basket by G.Love for doing a bad U2 joke. The big man (G.Jones) cooked us all a chilli and we all sat down and watched possibly the best X-Factor ever! "Who's seen Gummo Simon! Gummo isn't a film Simon! Silly song Simon, silly song!" Louis Walsh is soo funny! I'm hoping tomorrow's theme is 'the songs from Gummo'. Jedward were of course out of this world! What will they do this week? Exciting! Even one of me fave Dave Lynch films 'Mullholland Drive' got a mention! Ha! how weird's that? We watched it with subtitles which gives the X-Factor another level of enjoyment. Slept on the sofa while others went out to old men pubs.

Regards,

OLO Worms

DEAR DIARY (Nov Part 2)

Dear Diary,

We got Google Wave. We surfed it. We WIPED OUT!! Arrrrrrggghhhhh!!! 'Back From England' is all about balance. We're all trying to stay on the same board while the sharks nip at our toes. We're nearly home and dry (on the warm sandy beach). Will be finished next week as will 'The Elastic Waste Band' which has been cut from 8mins to 5mins. Its the LOW FAT edit. The creamy full fat version will be on the album. Just sent some info on the new songs to a man who is gonna pop it in a magazine. We might have a new den to hang out in soon.

Regards,

OLO Worms

DEAR DIARY (Nov Part 1)

BB writes..

Watched quite alot of the OLO demo videos we film when messing about. I forgot a few weeks ago i had made up a new 'song' called 'ANTS AGAIN'. There's no other lyrics. It's more a question.."Ants again!!??". It's got HIT written all over it. Had a good idea about the recorded version of the OLO song 'The Barber Shop'. I wanna get aload of guests for a sexy whispered intro. I have people in mind. It's gonna be like one of the skits off De La Soul's '3 Feet High And Rising' except less cool (although they were geeky at the time too).

OLO RADIO - BB39 - CRYTANIC - 03/11/09

Tragic face melt. More enjoyable than a blank face.

Get it HERE.

X-FACTOR (With Subtitles)

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HALLOWEEN WITH 'THE DATE'

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COCKSURE WORM

THE OXJAM FESTIVAL GIG

SUNDAY 25th October 2009
Oxjam Music Festival
Start The Bus, BRISTOL

BB Writes:

Yes! This turned out to be a pretty good gig. We kept the same set as the 'B-Team' tour as we are terrified of change. No of course not! No really..we wanted to do all new songs with no practice while doing impressions of all the other bands without even knowing them. The other bands we saw completely cleared the dancefloor leaving us the job of dragging the peasants back to worship us. It worked! Well they were there, maybe not worshipping us but at least showing some signs that they were enjoying it. I enjoyed it! I liked being down on the ground. Gave my Dad's ICI boiler suit another airing this time with added halo. After the gig we went and saw our mate (ha!) Jimmy Yorko aka James Yorkston. I got bullied into going up and singing with him for 'Tortoise Regrets Hare'.."fox takes...ahhh wahtever!" was my last line. My excuse is the usual, b-b-booze. We don't have any planned gigs now til 2010 (although there maybe a Gorlkeepers/Women Running Backwards thang around Christmas). Let's just get these god damn songs recorded!!

THE SETLIST..

Sphinx
Are You Girl?
Back From England
The Elastic Waste Band
The Barber Shop
Curves
Neutral Zones

HEY! We got a good review on a Crackerjack website. See it HERE. It sounded like this..

"Later that afternoon, that same venue saw the best act of the day - Olo Worms, the name as unique as the act itself. Their awa-inspiring experimental tunes which defy all labels had the whole venue enthralled.
With so much going on on such a small stage, it's never a dull moment. Olo Worms are what happens when you add gaffer tape, deep voiced robots with hilarious lyrics and Doves-esque vocals to an epic Brakes track. Utterly compelling."

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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.

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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!

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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

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RECORDING 031009

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BB BIRTHDAY

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INVADA INVASION

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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

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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
azzzuuzzzuurr azzzzzuuuzzzuuurrr azzzuu zuuu zzuuu zuu zuuu zuuuuuuur waasssaaabbbiii
'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