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Out And About |
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Many thanks to Sam Vangeen of Reading 107FM for a most enjoyable interview on 12th October, the OTR boys enjoyed your
hospitality, and the tea...And a few cheeky beers are definitely on the cards! Sam, we'll see you at the bar very soon.
Meanwhile, our favourite photographer, Ian Manson, has been at work again...check out the latest live photos from Poptoys
at www.m-reading.co.uk
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More OTR on the airwaves |
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Tune in on Wednesday 12th October to Reading 107FM for a live interview and tracks from the album with Sam Wangeen
www.reading107fm.com
And thanks to Planet Claire/Radio Aligre 93.1FM in France for playlisting OTR...merci beaucoup....
www.aligrefm.org or
www.planet-claire.org for more info...
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OTR Art Rock Shock! |
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A big "thank you!" to Art Rocker magazine who printed a very lovely review of "Seen From Space" you can see it by
clicking here
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Mudbath At Moth... But OTR Brings The Sun Out |
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This year's MOTH festival was once again a blinder, with OTR opening the main stage and blasting away the clouds,
at least for a little while! Let loose from the usual confines of "being indoors", the boys let rip with a choice set
of tunes from the album, before heading off to the beer tent quick-smart for a few cheeky ones. Later on that evening
they also stepped in on the second stage to stand in for a band that we were quite looking forward to, seeing as it's
fronted by ex-Candyskins front man Nick Cope, but instead we got two sets from OTR for the price of one, and it was gooood.
For live pics from both stages go to photos
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Fopp Photos |
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Photos of the Fopp in-store appearance have surfaced, courtesy of two very fine
local photographers. Check the photos out here.
Many thanks to Alex Flahive, who donated some of his shots from the day to
us... to see more of Alex's work, go to www.alexf.net
- if you like the shots, it's a "look but don't touch" thing, copyright applies, so if you want to use
Alex's pics elsewhere, contact him direct!
Thanks again to Ian Manson of m-reading.co.uk, who has taken many great
photos of the boys now - click
here to see more.
The crowd shots that aren't nearly so good?...well, they are a point & click
effort from Radar Control!
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Release Of The Month... |
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OTR are Release of The Month in Sid Abuse's latest monthly report on the
goings-on round these parts, in the fab webzine
SHOOT FROM THE LIP,
which is run by the lovely Becky from We Start Fires...
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Come And Get It! |
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"seen from space" is now in the shops people... you can get it from
Amazon in the UK
and on Amazon in the U.S. on import...
Tower Records...
HMV... Woolies (fancy an album with yer pick 'n' mix???).... MVC
Look, need we go on, it's available EVERYWHERE now!
Locally... pop in and see Rich at the Music Box, 13 Market Place, Wallingford, Oxon; the people at The Record House,12 High Street, Thame, Oxon;
or Fopp on West Street Reading, as we have spoken to all these great people about taking stocks of the album. And thanks to all of them.
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SICH AMÜSIEREN IN DEUTSCHLAND! |
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News has reached us that a Berlin taxi driver by the name of Walter Friese has got his hands on a
copy of "seen from space" and is blasting it out of the car windows everywhere between Tempelhof airport and
the Brandenburg Gate - "Dankeschön" to you too, Walter, keep it fresh for us out there on the streets of
Berlin, we hope the punters like it as much as you do...Jahwol!
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In-Store at Fopp - thanks |
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Thanks to everyone who showed up to the in-store gig on July 17th for the album launch - especially Matt from
Access All Areas, and Chris Earl for being out there on the street, tempting in the punters with a promise of
"36 MINUTES OF POWER POP-SOUL PUNCHING GUITAR SEX!" And thanks to Ewan from Fopp for arranging it with Head
Office - he hopes to make it a regular thing, and if the crowds are anything like you lot, they may do it
nationwide across the chain. Could be the start of something beautiful....
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Stop Press!... |
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OFFTHERADAR to play Fopp in Reading - check out the BBC Berkshire preview
here. Come down and join in the fun! It all kicks off at 13:00.
Josaka review here.
OffTheRadar have had tracks from the album played on The Download on BBC Radio Oxford... listen to a download of the show,
broadcast on 26th June, at www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/music
OFFTHERADAR's downloadable single is now on-line
here.
Tracks: V838Mono and For What It's Worth. Price £1.50.
OTR's 'Right On It' from the album has been played on MOC VESTICA on 94.9FM
Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro. Many thanks (or should we say 'HVALA!') to
Slobodan in Belgrade for doing the business!...hvala lijepo
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Ja Baby... |
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They said "NEE" to that European constitution malarkey, but they are saying "JA!" to OTR!
Seen From Space is CD of the week on
The Overflow, broadcasting from Harlingen,
Holland, on 1602AM, and via the Overflow Music Network on Sky Digital Channel 913 every weekend. "Pure energy...
This is power-pop at it's very best! 12 great songs to jump about to. Remove all ornaments & PLAY LOUD!" Ja, indeed.
Bedankt!
OTR have a full page interview in the June edition of
Blah Blah magazine - click
here to see it...
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Out And About... |
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Thanks also to James for hosting OTR at the 10th anniversary party of the Cowboy Mod Emporium in Oxford - lots of wine
flowing freely, and loud sounds for all the passers-by on Walton Street! - and in James' own words - "last saturday,
OFFTHERADAR played in the emporium, wow, what a cool gig. I opened for them, nice, but when they kicked in, BOOM!!!
amazing, had people both sides of the street, all just getting off on the vibe. they finished at 11, but everybody just
hung out till 12.30? Just so cool. A beach was all that was needed." ... more details about the Emporium at
www.cowboymod.com
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On The Air... |
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OTR have been played on PopScene, OK Radio Bremen (Germany) on Jalal's show every Friday - 18:00hrs to 19:00hrs CET
(that's 4pm to 5pm to you lot in the UK, and lunch time-ish to everyone on EST the other side of the pond). You can
listen live via streaming download, request tracks, or talk to Jalal live during the show on MSN Messenger. click
here
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SPREAD THE WORD... |
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OTR have had a great time invading the local airwaves with two shows in one week - an interview
on Wolfie's Guano Sessions, then a 'dressing down' from LINDA THE SCHOOLMISTRESS...both
on Blast 1386am.
Yet more photos of the album launch party have come to light, this time courtesy of Ian Manson of
www.m-reading.co.uk
- have a butchers!
Read the OTR interview (it's all voodoo, you know) with
BBC Berkshire
Big thanks to Gian Maria and the Martini Bros for the airplay in Treviso, Italy!
More gigs coming up through May & June....check Dates for
details.
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WE HAVE LIFT OFF... |
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The "Seen from Space" album launch party went off with a bang, with the venue packed to bursting,
and the champagne and tequila flowing nicely. Thanks to everyone who came down to party with the
boys - go to Photos for pics of OTR and some very 'dazed and
confused' guests!
Meanwhile, word about the album is spreading fast, with reviews and airplay coming through already
- go to Reviews & Press for the latest. Listen out for live sets
from the boys on Reading's Blast1386am over the next couple of weeks, and word is coming through
of airplay in Italy. And, for the latest on upcoming shows, go to Dates.
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Mission Control |
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Here at Radar Control things are hotting up for take-off, with the album launch party coming up soon on
29th April - be sure to turn up in time for the free bubbly! Kicks off at 7.30pm at the Rising Sun Arts
Centre in Reading.
The boys are out and about already on a round of gigs, interviews and radio sessions to promote "Seen
from Space". See Dates for details of the gigs coming up for the rest of April and May. And keep your
eyes peeled for more news, reviews and interviews through May and June.
The first airing of the album has been on The Derelict Sessions on 107.3FM in Reading - the best
guerilla radio show to hit the airwaves in a long, long time! The show on 30th March featured some of
the tracks from the album, plus a chat with the boys that did get quite surreal at times (favourite fish,
anyone?!) Thanks to DJs Frankie Fernandez and Furious D for inviting the boys on to the show; for more
info about the Derelict Sessions go to
www.derelictsessions.com
Meanwhile, the album is now available to pre-order from the Velocity Recordings web shop - www.vrmerchandise.co.uk
- the official release date isn't for another few weeks in the shops but if
you order from the website now, you'll get your copy delivered to your door a week or so before the shops
get their hands on it. How easy is that?
Velocity label-mates Aluminum Babe hosted their album launch party at the Water Rats Theatre in London,
which also featured storming live sets from OTR, 100 Bullets Back & Bidgie Reef with No Gas. It turned
into a bit of a lost weekend, with an after-show party at the 12 Bar Club, where the Hot Silk Pockets
were playing to a packed crowd, and a dawn taxi ride back to Reading, before the Velocity Hardcore
disappeared to another pub with Tim Radar and were still missing in action by Sunday night...
And finally...Radar Control and Velocity Recordings sent a forward party to New York City in March to
prepare for the next mission in September...watch this space.
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Seen From Space |
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The album is in the bag, and is out on Velocity Recordings at the end of April - the launch party
will be hosted by Club Velocity at the Rising Sun Arts Centre in Reading on Friday April 29th, so
get yourselves down there for some cheeky beers with the boys and another night of "pure punching
power guitar pop sex!!!" (Sid Abuse).
Support comes from The Race
and Turncoat.
The Velocity boys already have a preview page with some OTR photos up on their website -
go to www.velocityrecordings.com
for all the latest.
Before that, the boys are back at the Kings Cross Water Rats in London on Saturday April 2nd,
supporting Aluminum Babe at their album launch party, which is free, yes FREE! to get in.
With The Souls and Bidgie Reef & the Gas also on the bill, you better get there early,
first come first served. It's going to be class!
And, for a review and photos (courtesy of the lovely Linda of the BBC) from the boys' recent gig at
Colorz, Reading, go to
Reviews.
See you at the bar!
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Rounding off 2004 in Style! |
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2004 closed with the usual round of parties and drinking, with a class gig or two thrown in for
good measure. The Oxfordshire posse celebrated Panda's birthday in style upstairs at a suave drinking
establishment on New Oxford Street called "The Old Crown". The boys played an explosive set at the
Pop! Bar in Soho and then supported The Souls at the Club Velocity Christmas party in the Water Rats
Theatre, King's Cross.
We do like partying in London... we just wish we could remember more about it afterwards...
2005 promises to be pretty sweet too. The boys are due to finish mixing their debut album, due out on
Velocity Recordings in March. Blast 1386am has already previewed a couple of tracks (cheers, Wolfie!)
Rumour has it that the album will also be released in the U.S. later on in the year, with the boys
playing a few more choice dates in NYC and beyond. A PR promo night for Velocity Recordings may also
be on the cards - so if you are up for watching some of the best underground UK bands in the heart of
downtown New York while mingling with some of the "beautiful people", watch this space! Come on, the
flights are so cheap you've got no excuse. We'll see you there.
In the meantime, for pics of the partying and general mayhem that finished off 2004,
click here.
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Mixed Up? |
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So, a day after the single was mixed it was blasting out of the PA at Acme Underground in NYC!
Yes, the boys are back in the studio mixing songs from the TPot studio sessions recorded earlier
in the year. There are fifteen tracks recorded live over five days at TPot in Path of Condi, Scotland.
It's rumoured that ten tracks will be chosen for an album to be released early in the new year.
Two songs, "V838Mono and "2A", are currently being passed around on white label and will probably be
the single.
Listen out for a sneaky preview on Blast FM - we'll keep you posted!
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Gigs |
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Wondering how to keep warm now those winter evenings are drawing in? Well, why not get
yourself down to an OTR gig in your area? You can find the boys in Reading at Colorz (formerly bar Oz)
with The SNaGs on 4th November and in London at
PoP on Soho Street 22nd November.
News also just in: the boys will be opening for
The Souls on 11th December in London, at The Water Rats, Kings Cross.
For the latest on OFFTHERADAR gigs head for the dates page.
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Music On The Hill |
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The 10th (and sadly, maybe the final) MOTH was as excellent as ever,
with the boys playing to a capacity crowd in the Cabaret Tent, and getting
to see some of their favourite bands debut at MOTH, including
Yumi Yumi
and
The Souls.
Everyone had a great time, the weather was perfect, and quite a few of the OTR crew
stayed up with the boys in the VIP tent to drink champagne through the night,
followed by a hangover-busting fry-up the next morning.
Click here for photos
(Photos courtesy of Emzie, Access All Areas)
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ABYF#4 |
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You can now buy the awesome 'Abuse Your Friends #4' compilation by credit card from Velocity
Recordings' new website - and there's a live recording of the boys' Club Velocity show on 28th May
for sale as well. Go to www.vrmerchandise.co.uk
and flash your cash!
OTR's next gigs will be in the Autumn, as the boys take some time off to mix the album, chill out,
have a few beers (as usual!) and enjoy the rest of the summer. In the meantime, they'll be propping
up the bar at Club Fandango at the Dublin Castle on August 17th for The Souls' single launch party.
See you there!
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