eMusic is amazing. All the music you could ever want (and tons you never knew you wanted, but absolutely do) at your fingertips for, like, cheap (not quite as cheap as it used to be, but still pretty cheap).

Just when you though that eMusic couldn’t get much better, they go and add THE WINTER OLYMPICS II (featuring Attention All Departments and They Launched a Probe) to their catalogue. Why not go and download it, then say nice things about us online? Cheers!

Click here to download The Winter Olympics II at eMusic

Get excited! The Winter Olympics II has landed at iTunes worldwide. Fire up your machines and start downloading to your iPhones, iPods, iPads and iTapes today:

Click here to buy the new single at iTunes UK.

You can also find us at:

iTunes EU

iTunes Canada

iTunes Australia/N.Z.

iTunes U.S.

iTunes Japan

iTunes Mexico

Just search for ‘Winter Olympics II’ in your local iTunes store.

If you can think of any iTunes we might have missed (surely we haven’t, right?) let us know, and we’ll do our best to add the songs… Enjoy!

Great news for Nokia phone-wielding music fans, you can now get The Winter Olympics’ new single The Winter Olympics II over at the Nokia music store. Whatever next? Downloading songs straight into your ears? Sending us £1.50 and inviting us round to just shout at you? Something like that I’d have thought.

Click here to download The Winter Olympics II at the Nokia shop

Remember, the last major innovation Nokia came up with was ‘Snake II’, and how good was that?

If you could stop playing the game and start downloading the single that would be appreciated…

Cheers

The Winter Olympics’ new record The Winter Olympics II is steadily sneaking its way into shops around the globe. First to go live with the songs is Amazon, who are expecting queues around the block at midnight tonight…

Click here to get The Winter Olympics II from Amazon (UK)

Click here for Amazon in the United States

Click here to get The Winter Olympics II from Amazon in Germany

Click here to find us at Amazon in France

Winningly, in France we’re billed as Indé & Alternatif - everything sounds cooler in French, mais non?

Don’t worry if you don’t live in any of these places. We’re adding more territories and shops all the time, and will be up on iTunes in Canada, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Mexico and more very shortly.

above: The Amazon store is hard to reach by road

We are pleased to announce that The Winter Olympics II is now streaming over at lala.com. Why not go and have a listen? (Note, this is not as good as BUYING THE BLOODY RECORD).

Click here to stream The Winter Olympics II at lala.com

above: Run DMC’s Daryl signs up for the services of the wrong LaLa. The online registration form was “tricky” apparently.

DAZED AND CONFUSED

Martin’s day out with a hot blonde model left him distinctly underwhelmed.

So it’s very nearly here. After four years of painstaking preparation, leg-breaking training and toil The 2010 Winter Olympics kick-off (or is it puck-off?) next week.

Serendipitously, that’s exactly when The Winter Olympics new record The Winter Olympics II explodes into online stores everywhere. Whatever you’re supposed to be doing on the morning of Monday February the eighth, why not spare a minute to slide along to iTunes, eMusic, Amazon or Nokia Music (no me neither) and download yourself Attention All Departments and They Launched a Probe? If one of you could start up one of those ‘download the winter olympics and get them to number one!!!!!!! ;-)’ groups on facebook, that would be cool too. Cheers.

Can’t wait ‘til next week? Us neither, so we’re having a TV party tonight, and giving you your first chance to hear the new songs in these two ‘astonishing’ short films. Enjoy!

THEY LAUNCHED A PROBE

ATTENTION ALL DEPARTMENTS

The deluxe edition actual CD of The Winter Olympics II will be in Rough Trade and other good record stores this Spring, but honestly, who can wait that long?

Thanks, as always, for all your support. We hope you like the new songs as much as we do, and are prepared to forgive us the shonky nature of the videos. Anyone wanting to take the movie directing job off our hands, should get in touch at the usual address (please).

A big, big, love

The Winter Olympics x

We’ve just heard that our bass player Nick Winter Olympics is out of it on morphine. In less good news, he’s waiting in hospital for an op on his busted leg having come off a mountain while skiing. Not good. I’ll pass on your best wishes.

Did I tell you that the Winter Olympics were playing their first rock show in, like, 100,000 years with their friends Deer Park on Tuesday the 23rd of February? I did? Oh.

Well, here’s a flyer I did on the back of the bus for it.

Pretty sweet, no?

Here’s a facebook event thing for the show (click on it and tell us you’re coming):

Click here for the Facebook event

The gig is a bargain four quid in, which should hopefully leave you with a few bob spare to splash on our HOT NEW RANGE of Winter Olympics merch. We have gifts for him, her, home and garden PLUS you should be able to get your hands on a sneaky fans-only pre-release of our astonishing new single The Winter Olympics II (featuring Attention All Departments and They Launched a Probe).

Can’t wait that long to hear it? Well luckily you won’t have to, as it’ll be leaking on to an internet near you on MONDAY FEBRUARY THE EIGHTH. That’s just ten days away! I’ll tell you where you can find it next week.

Until then, stay amazing,

love andrew winter olympics x

Evening everyone, how are you? How have you been? Where have we been?

Well asleep mostly. Ever since we got back from the AMAZING West Country Winter Os show in Exeter this New Year (thanks to everyone who came out, and double-thanks to Ben Emergency, Nat QT and Andy ‘Andy’ Mitchell for playing with us) I’ve been celebrating with a decidedly retro bout of the swine flu (I know, who knew you could still get that?) I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

What I would recommend is saving these two dates in February….

Monday 8 February 2010 - NEW WINTER OLYMPICS SINGLE

That’s right, bang on cue for the opening ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games (putting the punk in punctual, that’s us), we’re releasing our long-awaited double A side single The Winter Olympics II, featuring the songs Attention All Departments and They Launched a Probe. We’re going to try everything we can to make you buy a copy over the next few weeks, and really hope that you love the record as much as we do. Full exciting details next week.

Tuesday 23 February 2010 - THE WINTER OLYMPICS LIVE!

To celebrate the release of the new record, and Team GB’s success in the women’s skeleton and two-man bob at Vancouver 2010 (honestly, that’s worth a quid at the bookies) The Winter Olympics take to the stage in Kilburn, supporting their great mates Deer Park. There will be good friends, cold drinks and more brand new Winter Olympics merch than you ever thought imaginable. It would be great to see you. I’ll send you a flyer.

Anyway, thanks, as always, for all your incredible support and encouragement. We’ve got tonnes of exciting things lined up for 2010, and we’d love to take you along for the ride. The Winter Olympics is a lot less fun without you.

Lots of love
Andrew Winter Olympics x

The Fourth Time I’ve Been in Your House by The Winter Olympics

Fan found audio lifted from the ‘Goo Night’ Buffalo Bar bootleg…

Behold the tough new Winter Olympics logo. Download it to your desktop, tipp-ex it on your textbooks, tattoo it on your hearts. Or arms, if you’re Marty or me. Whatever you do, start getting used to it, the Tim West designed ‘no fake snowflake’ will be turning up on the cover of our new record, and your new shirts, hats, mugs and pens before you know it…