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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ANIMAL MAGIC
On Friday 17 June (THIS FRIDAY) your Winter Olympics will be spinning the wheels at the Windmill as SPECIAL GUEST DJs for the always-brilliant Backstreets.
Playing live are Vinyl Stitches, Pet Scenes and the, frankly unbelievable, and unrepentantly glam-rock, Orphans. Older (and cooler) readers might recognise the band as the mighty These Animal Men from back-when-I-was-a-boy-and-dinosaurs...
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HAVING FUN ON STAGE WITH THE WINTER OLYMPICS
Kind...
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LEXINGTON OF LOVE
Well, well, well. Last week’s Lexington support with Art Brut has got to go down in the top ten-best-times-we’ve ever had (Art Brut, Top of the Pops!). Please don’t ask me to try and remember the rest of the list (Oh alright, Umeå 2006, Arm Wrestling for Artists II, Reading 1992 erm… some others).
AB were simply sensational - they’re putting on better shows and...
May 2011
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BRUT FORCE
We are beyond excited to announce that we’re going to be supporting the magnificent ART BRUT at the ever-lovely LEXINGTON (96-98 Pentonville Road) in London on Wednesday June the first. ART BRUT will be playing in support of their AMAZING, Frank Black produced, fourth album, ‘Brilliant! Tragic!’ which is released on May 23rd (and might just be their best yet). Your WINTER...
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April 2011
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VISA GOOD
Hi everyone, how are you? Did you manage to get your applications off for Olympics tickets the other night? I hope so. I know how much you love the rhythmic gymnastics, and you’ve been banging on about the archery all year. Seeing as how you’re in an Olympic frame of mind, I thought I’d let you know that we’re opening the application process for three WINTER Olympics...
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Hey everyone, here’s an AMAZING feature on...
“I miss the nineties
I miss Nevermind
I miss Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
I miss...”
– I Miss the Nineties
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I MISS THE NINETIES
I Miss the Nineties by The Winter Olympics
I watched Reality Bites three times last night And it nearly made me cry. Did we ever, honestly, actually act like that? Wouldn’t we have just laughed at the grunge guy? I miss the nineties I miss the Megadrive I miss Eric Cantona I miss the X Files It’s been too long since I last stared into your magic eyes Although I never saw a...
March 2011
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CENSUS THINGS
Have you filled in your census yet? It’s a legal requirement you know. Being fine upstanding citizens, your Winter Olympics duly filled in the form for our TOP SECRET Office Rock HQ.
Number of residents on 27 March 2011: 5 (yes, the band does all live together. It’s just like the Monkees)
Number of visitors stopping over on 27 March: let’s say, more than none, yeah. Oh, alright,...
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SPRING, WHEN YOU'RE WINNING
Hi everyone, we’ve got some brand new friends we’d like you to meet and a big box of tapes to get rid of, so we’re coming round your place to show off both. Well we are if you live in Exeter, Oxford, London or Bristol. People living elsewhere send us an email and we’ll sort something out…
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NEW SINGLE OUT NOW!
The new single by The Winter Olympics: I Miss The Nineties/This Is The Fourth Time I’ve Been In Your House is out now on download, CD and cassette single.
The iTunes shop is fully stocked and I’ve got more singles under my bed than Charlie Sheen. Why not buy one? (The only acceptable answer to this is, “because I am an idiot”.)
CLICK HERE TO BUY THE SINGLE FROM ITUNES
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NEW ADVENTURES IN RADIO
If you’d told me last week that I’d spend Wednesday afternoon talking about tapes on Slovakian radio, well, I just wouldn’t have believed you. But that’s how things panned out when I got a call from the amazing Nika at Radio_FM in Bratislava. We can’t thank the station enough for all the support they’ve showed us in the last few days, hammering I Miss the...
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February 2011
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SINGLE LADIES AND RADIO FREE EUROPE
We already seem to have been banging on about it for longer than the decade it documents, but on Monday 14 March I Miss the Nineties finally sees the light of day. We will remind you about this nearer the time (oh we will remind you about it) but come that Monday morning you will be able to buy ‘Nineties’ and the previously unreleased, and frankly brilliant, This is the Fourth Time...
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I MISS THE NINETIES LAUNCH PARTY
Like a fat man in a wedding photo we just can’t hold it in any longer. I Miss the Nineties, the new single by The Winter Olympics, is coming out on Monday 14 March, and to celebrate we’re throwing a killer FREE party on Wednesday 16 March. That gives you TWO whole days after buying the single on Monday morning to learn all the words… That goes for both band and audience.
This...
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January 2011
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VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STARS
Morning everyone,
Over at the excellent Music Vid Kid site right now, there’s a nice interview with movie maestro Chris Hemming about the ‘Nineties’ video.
Meanwhile, over on the Twittersphere there’s this:
Don’t think there are many of us here who would argue with that…
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HOT CHARITY!
On THURSDAY 27 JANUARY your Winter Olympics will be playing a charity show in support of Women V Cancer at Ginglik in Shepherd’s Bush.
Women V Cancer is a magnificent cause raising funds for Breast Cancer Care, Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, and Ovarian Cancer Action. Ginglik is a ‘rock and roll beat bunker’ housed in an old Edwardian toilet in Shepherd’s Bush.
When The...
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MERCI BEAUCOUP
Our favourite blog today? Why it’s the brilliant Nobody’s Perfect, of course…
Now, my French is nowhere as near as good as it ought to be, but I think that the article says, “Chris Hemming and The Winter Olympics take us on a ‘trip down memory lane’. Surely, though, the singer isn’t old enough to remember the famous ‘I Want to Believe’ poster of Mox Fulder...
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IT'S A COVER UP
There was some excitement this afternoon when we found ourselves on the front of Stash magazine and Shots magazine. Stash and Shots are not the sort of magazines you think they are. Look!
And look again!
Brilliant! Here’s the video they’re talking about…
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December 2010
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WatchI MISS THE NINETIES
So this is the New Year. And it’s 1994, right? Oh.
Here’s a lo-fidelity look at the FINALLY FINISHED video for I Miss The Nineties (out through Office Rock on March 14 on cd, download, cassette, DVD and VHS). Hope you like it (and that it works). I can’t begin to tell you how grateful we are for your support these last twelve months. We promise to do our...
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