April 2013
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I PREFER AN EARLY SHOW
The Winter Olympics’ will be putting the ‘Barf’ in Barfly next Friday the 12th of April with an in-hard-and-home-early 7.30PM show in Camden. We will be supporting the critically acclaimed and aptly named (I like tapes, Marty likes Echo and the Bunnymen) Echotape on the night, hence the not-particularly-punk-rock eight quid to get in. If it helps (and we hope it does) T.W.O. will be...
March 2013
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BAD THURSDAY
The Winter Olympics’ ‘gruelling’ Profit and Loss promotional tour is entering its eleventh great year, and yet, unbelievably, the band still haven’t sold out of copies. Hell, we haven’t sold out AT ALL. With this in mind, we are thrilled to announce that next Thursday, BAD THURSDAY, (the day before Good Friday – which is a bank holiday - if you’re lucky you might not have to go to work)...
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February 2013
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On a Plane
At the tail end of 2012 The Winter Olympics released their debut album Profit and Loss through Exeter punk label Freakscene Records. The record: a decidedly DIY attempt to create a classic pop album, didn’t trouble the charts, but made the band a lot of new friends. Rock Sound thought it was “packed with delicious, throbbing, dance punk anthems,” Music Week called it “genuinely exciting… superbly...
January 2013
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THE VERDICT IS IN
Profit and Loss is available now
December 2012
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November 2012
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October 2012
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PROFIT AND LOSS IS OUT NOW!
I never thought I’d live to type this, but The Winter Olympics’ debut album Profit And Loss is out now on Freakscene Records (FREAK 021). You can download it now at iTunes, Amazon and eMusic (later today). The album is also available on CD (with 12 page colour booklet), heavyweight vinyl (with free download card) and slick-looking Oyster card (with wallet) from our brand new Merch...
September 2012
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FREE WAGSTAFF
Bad news everybody. Winter Olympics frontman Andrew Wagstaff has been kidnapped* by a sinister super-fan.
On the morning that the band’s new single Fags and Girls is released, just one week away from the launch of long-awaited LP Profit and Loss, the singer was snatched from his north London paper round and is now believed to be be held hostage somewhere scary in High Barnet. His...
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August 2012
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FAGS AND GIRLS
Fags and Girls is the dangerously addictive new single by The Winter Olympics. Available on 24 September through Freakscene Records and backed with a radio edit of Heavy Metal Ending (All The Bands You Like Are Shit) the single comes with a choice of two covers.
This one by inspirational young British artist Andrea Rostron:
and this one, seemingly drawn by a child:
if you’d like you...
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LOST PROPERTY
Thank you so much to the massed crowds, musicians, DJs, barbecuers and bar staff that made this year’s Great Indoors pretty much the best time we’ve ever had (definitely top ten). Why can’t we live like that forever?
Picking up the pieces of our weekend we’ve found the following items that I’m pretty sure aren’t ours:
1) a pair of glasses
2) a bullet belt
3)...
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GET AHEAD OF THE GAMES - GREAT INDOORS CLASHFINDER
Last few cheap tickets available here
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TICKET SCANDAL
Like many of you, we are deeply concerned about the prospect of empty seats at this Saturday’s ‘Great Indoors’ Ceremony. We have been working hard all week with the members of the extended Winter Olympic family to find more tickets and are delighted to announce that a fresh batch of SCANDALOUSLY-CHEAP£6 passes have been released today at wegottickets. This will be the last lot...
June 2012
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May 2012
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BUY HERE NOW
The enormous new Winter Olympics’ single I Prefer The Early Stuff is in shops today (Monday 28 May) please go and buy it. Your 79p will go a long way to help support a very thirsty band. Click here to buy the single on iTunes. Click here to buy the single at Amazon UK (or here in Japan where it looks even cooler - it’s available everywhere else too). You can also find it at eMusic,...
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TRAILER TRASH
Coincidentally, next Monday also sees the worldwide release of the monumentally moving new motion picture Rock and Roll Retirement Home. Directed by visionary British filmmaker Chris Curtis and and shot in harrowing hi-definition by top Texan artist Ray Lewis, R.A.R.R.H. is a shocking portrait of the teen rock dream crumbled to dust and a haunting meditation on human mortality. It has already been...
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THE EARLY SHOW
Hi everyone, next week is official Winter Olympics week. There will be street parties, a torch relay (bring batteries) and your boss says you can work from home because the tube’s going to be a nightmare. That should give you plenty of time to learn the words to our smash-hit new single I Prefer The Early Stuff which is released by Freakscene Records next Monday 28 May on download through...
April 2012
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SINGLES NIGHT
Hi everyone. How are you? It seems an age since we last spoke. How long does it have to be between gigs before we can call it a comeback? I’m delighted to say that we have news for you. On Monday 28 May your Winter Olympics will be releasing a BRAND NEW SINGLE (our first for our friends at Freakscene Records) called I Prefer The Early Stuff. Released on download and (yes) Oyster Card...
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March 2012
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February 2012
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STO LAT STO LAT
Hey everyone, it’s Aggers’ birthday today. I would not want to be a pint of Guinness and black in the Stoke Newington area. Szczęśliwy dzień urodzenia!
January 2012
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THUNDERBELLY
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WE'RE JOINING THE BLACKOUT
That’ll have them shaking in Congress.
Now, listen to the Scorpions while the internet still lets you.
December 2011
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NEW YEAR'S REVOLUTION
Hi there, hope you had a peaceful and happy Christmas.
I don’t care what you say. New Year is amazing: Bad ideas, good intentions, broken promises and boring, boring ‘best-of’ lists. In short, it’s our time. Which is why, this December the 31st we’ll be celebrating with our last show of the year/first show of 2012 at the brilliant Brixton Windmill. It would be...
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November 2011
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October 2011
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UH-OH EUR IN TROUBLE
More trouble in the Eurozone this morning. Here’s a short film outlining the crisis:
The Feeling European video was written, directed and drawn by the amazing Chris Huneysett (who made the out-of-this-world short for They Launched a Probe too).
If anyone has got any Euros left at the end of this week, why not buy the record?
Get Feeling European from iTunes: Click here
Score it...
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ROTUNDA STRUCK
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THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX ROAD
Hey everyone, this time next week (it’s Saturday afternoon) The Winter Olympics will be putting the sex in Essex Road as part of Oxjam’s Islington Takeover. We will be playing in The Wenlock and Essex which, thankfully, is a pub and not the two mascots from the 2012 Olympics. No one wants to see them get hurt.
We’re on at the excellently just-after-final-score time of 1730 and...
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THREE COUNTIES SHOWS
Is the HEATWAVE over yet? Good, then let’s all put our shirts back on and go and play some shows.
That’s right, this Rocktober your sun-kissed Winter Olympics are pushing for an audacious THREE shows in THREE different counties. Three counties shows then. Here are the details.
FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER - FOLKESTONE BAR BELOW @ THE VIEW w/ The Priscillas
People of Kent! The Winter Olympics...
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August 2011
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COMP ELATION
The Winter Olympics are thrilled and honoured to be kicking off the new Keep Pop Loud Records compilation album: Keep Pop Loud. Until this morning, my favourite ever indie compilation album was the frankly astonishing Indie Top 20: Volume VII - BOOM! Monkey Gone to Heaven BAM! Made of Stone ERM! Man From Delmonte. What. A. Tape. I thought nothing could ever take its place. Then I saw the...
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STAYING IN FOR THE SUMMER
A belated but ENORMOUS thank you must go to all the fantastic acts, DJs, barbecuers, bar-staff, roof dogs and (of course) punters who made last week’s Great Indoors II festival such a special day. Couldn’t make it? (What were you thinking?) It sort of looked a bit like this…
Amazing. Right? I’m just emailing Mr Manik with my idea for a a barn-storming rap-rock Smiths...
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July 2011
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THE GREAT INDOORS II: 13/08/11
THE GREAT INDOORS II – Saturday August 13th 2011
The Winter Olympics are thrilled to announce that they’ll be returning to their spiritual home, The Brixton Windmill, for The Great Indoors II; an all-day extravaganza celebrating the band’s favourite artists and best friends.
Now in its second year, The Great Indoors aims to recreate all the fun of a festival in the comfort of your...
June 2011
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FIELD OF DREAMS
Hi everyone, how are you?
Back from Glastonbury? Well, except that little bit of you that will always be there, yeah? Oh and your keys, which you gave to a giant unicycling badger in exchange for a bite of his ‘magic falafel’ sometime during Coldplay. Yeah I know, I know.
For those of you just about ready to face getting healed in a field again might I recommend a trip to the Silwood...
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