This Week at OIW – Official Secrets Act!

Big show this Thursday folks! Official Secrets Act are in town and they’re coming to join our MASSIVE-sized party at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, complete with super visuals, mega DJ sets, and two other awesome acts we’ve handpicked for the night, Magic & Fur and The Good Natured. We’ve already featured those guys, so here’s a word on our headliners for the evening, Official Secrets Act.

Official Secrets Act at Hoxton Feb 11th

OSA have been holed up in deepest, darkest Wales putting down their follow up to last years acclaimed debut, Understanding Electricity. You’re likely to get an exclusive glimpse of the new material at the Hoxton show on Feb 11th which is pretty darn exciting!

Here’s The Fly doing a good job of describing the guys, “Official Secrets Act bring nearly-forgotten pop alchemists Magoo to mind – they share not only a vocalist with a tremulous higher register, but an innate sense of placement and experimentation, too. For both bands, music is more about stretching the existing limitations of pop music than it is about creating a new genre entirely, and OSA’s debut fierily hits its targets” Thanks Fly! Couldn’t have put it better ; )

Now here’s OSA’s track “So Tomorrow” to get your ears around. Go to Hypemachine here to check out some of the great Bloodsport remixes and their “The Girl From The BBC” track too.

Official Secrets Act – So Tomorrow
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Lawrence Diamond, the band’s bassist, has also written an ode to Oh, Inverted World, which is jolly nice of him indeed:

An Ode To Oh Inverted World

“Oh Inverted World,
If you were a girl
We could travel around the world

In the cafe’s of Paris
our love would embarrass
the old men and their girls

On the streets of Berlin
all dripping with sin
we’d drink to our past and our future

We’d head to the States
the great western lakes
with the stars and the snow and the churches

But the truth is so clear
you’re not really here
so we must just turn up, sing, and depart

But if you give us a chance
we may leave a scar
of dancing and love and romance”

What a verbose young chap!

This all sound good? Well advance tickets for Thursday are just a fiver (£6 on the night) from ticketweb. The Facebook event is HERE for more deets on the night or just get clicking the flyer below…

She’s Good Natured

On the 11th of February we’re going to be back at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen for the second Oh! Inverted World spectacular at the east-london venue. I say “we’re going to be back”, the last time we had a show there I was suffering from the worst food poisoning of my life so missed the inaugural event, which was obviously beyond lame. Remind me to avoid anything that might contain tuna before the show as this time I really don’t want to miss out.

One of the reasons this show is going to be super good is because of a young lady called Sarah McIntosh, aka The Good Natured. She’s 18-years old and has been tipped everywhere from The Guardian, to NME to the kings of pop purveyors, Popjustice. The real people love her too, as shown by several of our friends who upon hearing that we have The Good Natured playing for us have immediately started babbling along the lines of “ZOMG SHE’S AMAZING, LIKE, RIDICULOUSLY GREAT! NO REALLY!”

So what we’re telling you is we’re incredibly excited about this girl and so you should too! She’s also very kindly given us a beautiful track to give to you people. ‘Sleep In Dust’ is hauntingly touching and instantly compelling. Enjoy and make sure you come down on February 11th, all the details are HERE.

The Good Natured – Sleep In Dust
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