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…

Introducing Magic & Fur!

So who in the hell are this Magic & Fur band playing the next Oh! Inverted World show!? Well, dear friends, our cleverly designed Q&A will quench your massive thirst for answers to the questions such as, how they got their name, do they like mangos or melons? and do they actually make a good cup of tea?

Magic & Fur - not fans of mangos OR melons?!

As an intro though we’d like to mention that they are actually incredible and we’re amazingly excited to have them on the bill for our mega-show at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen on Feb 11th. They will also be playing with the awesome Official Secrets Act and another hot tip for ’10, The Good Natured. Amazing. Oh, and there will be wild visuals, incredible DJ’s and the usual crazy scenes we’ve come to expect from an OIW shindig. Yeah, you kids just don’t know when to go home, haha! You can come along for just a fiver if you get in there quick and book your tickets in advance from HERE too.

So following those self-indulgent words from our sponsors, on with the show!

– How did you come up with the name Magic & Fur? Everybody loves Magic, Most love Fur and “Captain Pancake and the Wet Dreams” didn’t sit too well with the rest of the band.

– What kinda antics can the super-cool crowd at OIW expect from Magic and Fur? Toe-tappin, bone-snappin, whip-crackin and flap-jackin!

– Obviously your forthcoming gig at Oh, Inverted World will be the best experience of your life, but as this hasn’t happened yet, what’s been the best gig you’ve played? We’ve not done too many, But the last one at Hoxton bar and Kitchen for the Kilimanjaro night was a goodun, until all our animal masks got nicked by a band that looked like Sigue Sigue Sputnik, which is a shame because I always really liked Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Oh well.

– How did you come to make music together? Met in a room, had a little think, decided it was working.

– What other artists have you been digging recently? Liking “Here we go Magic” “The Go-Betweens” “Castanets” “Captain Pancake and the…Oh god.

– Mangos or melons? Neither, they both taste a bit wrong to me.

– Would you rather be attacked by a shark or a bear? Do i have to die? If i had to die it would be a Shark but if I survived definitely a Bear.

– Do you make a good cup of tea? Milky, lots of sugar, Comfort tea for me… is that good?

Yes guys, that’s good, we’re milky fans ourselves. So there’s Magic & Fur, and now you can cosy up with your comforting tea, watch the video for their last single “Christine”, and then hit play below and listen to their brilliant track “Us”…

Magic & Fur – Us
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If you want to hear more from the guys and get yourselves a free track then head on over to their myspace here… www.myspace.com/magicandfur and we’ll hopefully see you for the show on Feb 11th, more details on this on the Facebook event HERE.