OK peeps what's up with you?
So we've just come off the back of a lot of NSW gigs; so thanks to everyone who has been coming along to support us. Things got messy during the Octagon Fund-Raiser, and for all who came along to support we all appreciated it.
Got a pretty sweet (almost) full page spread in the Newcastle Herald regarding our lovely band. Anyone who read it should give us a yell and tell us what you thought. Also I've been seeing a lot of people taking photos recently at gigs. Get those bad boys online! Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or right here is fine by us.
So Rottenest fast approaches (this weekend) and I must say we're all very excited. Playing with the likes of The Living End and Gyroscope is going to be pretty darn nuts. The boys told me that the show is on in like the afternoon too. Dangerous. Trapped on the island. With a rider. That JD will probably organise. Heavy.
We are going to be putting on one hell of a show, so to everyone that's coming along to the gig we look forward to seeing you there. AND to those who really really enjoy the show and are WA locals, we're currently in the process of setting up some other dates there in March - so stay tuned and we'll get you some sweet dates and stuff.
We've been pushing some new songs, and I can now announce that we're heading back into the studio in January to begin the recording of three of them!
Everyone is very excited for it, let me tell you, and they'll be a lot more dancy-come-energetic songs this time around - good energy - so if your looking for a slow burner these songs won't be it.
First single (and possibly a clip to go with it) will be out probably February. When I know more so will you.
Other than that it's just another day in the office for the boys. Wez is suffering from a cold, but smoked a pack of ciggies on Saturday so I believe he's on the mend. Lewis is probably working on his VW beatle about now (new hubcaps) and Bailey managed to loose his wallet like twice in 24 hours. He's dangerous with things that are a pain in the arse to loose.
And I am listening to Queens of the Stone Age, talking to you lovely people.
We'll tell you how the weekend goes,
Love, The Owls
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
We Won!
First things first. We'd just like to say thanks so much for all the love and support we've received over the last month or so regarding the JD set. Your votes got us through the competition and we WON! They're shipping us out to WA for a show on Rottnest Island with rock and roll heavy-hitters The Living End and Alt-punk-rock aficionados Gyroscope.
It's going to be a super-sized event for us and we're just lucky that do many of you lovely people got behind the competition. It all just seems a little dreamy at the moment,especially after lucking out with Fat as Butter this year too.
OK so I guess you're wondering what's been happening. Well we've been writing quite a lot of new stuff and if you get a chance to catch us soon I think you'd be into it. Fast-paced and quite swampy too. We're going to have you kids dancing mark my words.
We have a gig this Saturday if you're in Newcastle too. I'd love to see you there if your local, its a charity gig at the Lass O Gowrie hotel -and over a dozen bands are playing too. It's going to be a big one and where better to enjoy this warm weather than the Lass (anyone who's familiar with the place's beer garden would agree with me).
And what else has been happening? Well we just came back from a show up North at The Gallery in Green Point, Forster. Intimate atmosphere, lovely people and all-in-all a great night. A big shout out to Norm and the gang - lovely people.
There has also been talk of The Owls playing a little festival in the near future. But that, my friends, will have to wait until our next post.
Love, The Owls
It's going to be a super-sized event for us and we're just lucky that do many of you lovely people got behind the competition. It all just seems a little dreamy at the moment,especially after lucking out with Fat as Butter this year too.
OK so I guess you're wondering what's been happening. Well we've been writing quite a lot of new stuff and if you get a chance to catch us soon I think you'd be into it. Fast-paced and quite swampy too. We're going to have you kids dancing mark my words.
We have a gig this Saturday if you're in Newcastle too. I'd love to see you there if your local, its a charity gig at the Lass O Gowrie hotel -and over a dozen bands are playing too. It's going to be a big one and where better to enjoy this warm weather than the Lass (anyone who's familiar with the place's beer garden would agree with me).
And what else has been happening? Well we just came back from a show up North at The Gallery in Green Point, Forster. Intimate atmosphere, lovely people and all-in-all a great night. A big shout out to Norm and the gang - lovely people.
There has also been talk of The Owls playing a little festival in the near future. But that, my friends, will have to wait until our next post.
Love, The Owls
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Time is on our side
Hello again my feathered friends,
Today marks the second week of the JD Set competition. As many of you would know, by logging on to www.thejdset.com.au you can vote for our lovely band, and if all goes well we'll be getting a gig with The Living End at Rottnest Island in WA!
Time is running out (contrary to the name of this particular post) so keep voting! Every day is a new vote too and we really need your help to bring this puppy home and get our little Novacastrian outfit onto the National platform.
As for weekly events, we've been toiling on some new tunes which are looking pretty spiffy. Nice driving intensity breaking through these ones so we're really looking forward to getting them out there. Speaking of which, if any of you lovely people are out in Newcastle on Saturday, we'll be playing at the Great Northern Hotel with out-of-towners BUNT.
We'd love to see you there in support. Next week we'll be hitting the road again. But I'll get you some moredetails on that as the week progresses.
Get voting!
Love, The Owls
Today marks the second week of the JD Set competition. As many of you would know, by logging on to www.thejdset.com.au you can vote for our lovely band, and if all goes well we'll be getting a gig with The Living End at Rottnest Island in WA!
Time is running out (contrary to the name of this particular post) so keep voting! Every day is a new vote too and we really need your help to bring this puppy home and get our little Novacastrian outfit onto the National platform.
As for weekly events, we've been toiling on some new tunes which are looking pretty spiffy. Nice driving intensity breaking through these ones so we're really looking forward to getting them out there. Speaking of which, if any of you lovely people are out in Newcastle on Saturday, we'll be playing at the Great Northern Hotel with out-of-towners BUNT.
We'd love to see you there in support. Next week we'll be hitting the road again. But I'll get you some moredetails on that as the week progresses.
Get voting!
Love, The Owls
Sunday, October 17, 2010
So. Darn. Busy.
Hello again my friendly little feathered friends,
What an incredible week of Owls news. First things first; we have been toiling away in preparations for the upcoming Fat As Butter festival in Newcastle. The vibe is looking to be pretty fabulous at this point, and we'd still really like to see as many friendly faces as possible at the gig, which will start about midday.
Again if you have cameras (or even better a video camera) get some footage and send some copies through to us. Who knows, you might be the winner of the t-shirt/EP combo!
Secondly, we have been nominated in the JD set. This competition exists to support upcoming artists and bands with the grand prize of a gig on Rottenest Island in WA with old-school rock and rollers The Living End. The comp goes for two weeks starting today, so we're encouraging as many people as possible to get on board and support our attempts at kicking some butt in a competitive sense.
The voting is easy as pie. Just head to the JD set website ( www.thejdset.com.au ), register and cast your virtual ballot! Simple!
We'd really like your support on this people, so anyone who's been enjoying the tunes get behind us. There's even a lucky ticket combo offered by JD to come and see the gig.
In local news, we've got a gig this Wednesday at the Cambridge Hotel for the Shake-Up. If you are heading out, or are a Uni student revelling in the cheap drinks that are an atypical mid-week event, then come along and hum a few bars.
There has also been talk about a possible single release soon, you'll know more when we do.
Until next week,
Love The Owls
What an incredible week of Owls news. First things first; we have been toiling away in preparations for the upcoming Fat As Butter festival in Newcastle. The vibe is looking to be pretty fabulous at this point, and we'd still really like to see as many friendly faces as possible at the gig, which will start about midday.
Again if you have cameras (or even better a video camera) get some footage and send some copies through to us. Who knows, you might be the winner of the t-shirt/EP combo!
Secondly, we have been nominated in the JD set. This competition exists to support upcoming artists and bands with the grand prize of a gig on Rottenest Island in WA with old-school rock and rollers The Living End. The comp goes for two weeks starting today, so we're encouraging as many people as possible to get on board and support our attempts at kicking some butt in a competitive sense.
The voting is easy as pie. Just head to the JD set website ( www.thejdset.com.au ), register and cast your virtual ballot! Simple!
We'd really like your support on this people, so anyone who's been enjoying the tunes get behind us. There's even a lucky ticket combo offered by JD to come and see the gig.
In local news, we've got a gig this Wednesday at the Cambridge Hotel for the Shake-Up. If you are heading out, or are a Uni student revelling in the cheap drinks that are an atypical mid-week event, then come along and hum a few bars.
There has also been talk about a possible single release soon, you'll know more when we do.
Until next week,
Love The Owls
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Well here we go my feathered friends
Hello and welcome to the Nest!
Today marks the first of our weekly correspondence with you wonderful girls and boys who would like to keep up to speed with all things Owls orientated.
It's been a rather wonderful time for our little four-piece band; relentlessly touring the east coast of Oz, pushing our debut EP and, most recently, getting some rad kudos from Triple J - being offered a spot on Newcastle's Fat as Butter line-up and getting another artist spotlight on the Unearthed website.
The boys and myself have just wrapped up a most excellent weekend of performances too. We played with an excellent array of acts on Friday at the Cambridge Hotel, most notably a sick band called The Novocains. Some really high-energy stuff.
To all the peeps who made it to the gig we'd like to say thanks. It's always good to see local support for any travelling bands, and it only benefits you wonderful people, cause at the end of the day we'd like to see Newy prosper in a musical sense, and that's only going to happen if we all get behind the scene.
Saturday marked a pretty fun night in Sydney too. We had a mini-bus moving the kiddies down to Sydney for Sosueme at the Gaelic Theatre for a big list of names, including grunge-country-rockabilly animals Doc Holiday takes the shotgun and DJ Alison Wonderland. Great venue and good vibes were found by all. Those kids are rowdy!
We hope to keep up transport for anyone who is keen to come along to our gigs, so if you are interested give us a yell via this website, Facebook or MySpace and we'll do our best to make sure you're on the road trip.
Fat as Butter was a complete surprise, and we are really excited for the prospect of playing with the likes of Wolfmother, Tame Impala, Children Collide and Ice Cube. Yeahhh Yeahh. We hope too get as many people along to the show as humanly possible, and if you've already got a ticket come on down early to catch us - we aim to please and you'll get some rad entertainment for your troubles.
Additionally, we'd love anyone who is around and has a camera at the festival to get snapping! Send us your fav shots and the best couple are going to get used on our website and multimedia pages - and will get a free t-shirt and EP. Score!. We look forward to seeing some celluloid festival ambiance.The film kind.
We've been writing a fair bit of new material too, and the next couple of show will see us showcasing it so if you like what you've been hearing we look forward to getting your thoughts. For those who can't get tix to FAB we'll be playing the Great Northern Hotel in Newcastle on the 30th of October if you'd like to catch a free gig.
Stay tuned for gig shenanigans, dates and news on the band. Now that we've got all the formalities out of the way we hope to keep you lovely people in the know so keep tuning in to the blog. And our apologies for how long it's taken to get this bad boy rolling.
See you next week,
Love, The Owls.
Today marks the first of our weekly correspondence with you wonderful girls and boys who would like to keep up to speed with all things Owls orientated.
It's been a rather wonderful time for our little four-piece band; relentlessly touring the east coast of Oz, pushing our debut EP and, most recently, getting some rad kudos from Triple J - being offered a spot on Newcastle's Fat as Butter line-up and getting another artist spotlight on the Unearthed website.
The boys and myself have just wrapped up a most excellent weekend of performances too. We played with an excellent array of acts on Friday at the Cambridge Hotel, most notably a sick band called The Novocains. Some really high-energy stuff.
To all the peeps who made it to the gig we'd like to say thanks. It's always good to see local support for any travelling bands, and it only benefits you wonderful people, cause at the end of the day we'd like to see Newy prosper in a musical sense, and that's only going to happen if we all get behind the scene.
Saturday marked a pretty fun night in Sydney too. We had a mini-bus moving the kiddies down to Sydney for Sosueme at the Gaelic Theatre for a big list of names, including grunge-country-rockabilly animals Doc Holiday takes the shotgun and DJ Alison Wonderland. Great venue and good vibes were found by all. Those kids are rowdy!
We hope to keep up transport for anyone who is keen to come along to our gigs, so if you are interested give us a yell via this website, Facebook or MySpace and we'll do our best to make sure you're on the road trip.
Fat as Butter was a complete surprise, and we are really excited for the prospect of playing with the likes of Wolfmother, Tame Impala, Children Collide and Ice Cube. Yeahhh Yeahh. We hope too get as many people along to the show as humanly possible, and if you've already got a ticket come on down early to catch us - we aim to please and you'll get some rad entertainment for your troubles.
Additionally, we'd love anyone who is around and has a camera at the festival to get snapping! Send us your fav shots and the best couple are going to get used on our website and multimedia pages - and will get a free t-shirt and EP. Score!. We look forward to seeing some celluloid festival ambiance.The film kind.
We've been writing a fair bit of new material too, and the next couple of show will see us showcasing it so if you like what you've been hearing we look forward to getting your thoughts. For those who can't get tix to FAB we'll be playing the Great Northern Hotel in Newcastle on the 30th of October if you'd like to catch a free gig.
Stay tuned for gig shenanigans, dates and news on the band. Now that we've got all the formalities out of the way we hope to keep you lovely people in the know so keep tuning in to the blog. And our apologies for how long it's taken to get this bad boy rolling.
See you next week,
Love, The Owls.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Welcome.
Hello and Welcome to The Owls Blog. We are currently under construction as you can see, but will be up and running shortly filling you in on all things Owl's related. Stay tuned!
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