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

CLICK HERE TO BUY THE SINGLE FROM AMAZON

Want an actual physical copy of the songs? Maybe on hand-numbered, limited edition CD, or perhaps embarrassingly-attractive cassette single (with free download card) and full-colour art by exciting young British artist Lottie White?

CLICK HERE TO BUY THE CD OR TAPE FROM THE CHURCH OF MERCH

Not keen on buying things off the internet? Come down to The Wheelbarrow in Camden on Wednesday 16 March for our ABSOLUTELY FREE launch party and give us cash. Actually, you should come to the party anyway. Here’s a Facebook page with all the details, we’ve got an amazing line-up featuring us, Alphabet Backwards, Gold Future Joy Machine DJs, top secret special guests, reasonably priced drinks and a pie bar. All for NO MONEY AT ALL (so you can afford to buy our new record, right).

 

This last week people have been saying all sorts of amazing things about the single. Shout4Music magazine claimed:

Let’s get it out there right at the start – this should be the song of the summer… If you’re an ageing indie kid then this is possibly the song of your life. 9/10

While Room Thirteen magazine went with the slightly-more-concise:

Both tracks are brilliant

and gave it a ten. Still not convinced? Check out this interview we did with Kenneth John Porteous of the ever-excellent Loud Horizon magazine, which features this quote:

Martin has always maintained that his ultimate musical goal is for the band to appear on Top of the Pops. There’s only one of those a year now, so it looks like we’re going to have to come up with a Christmas Number one. That can’t be hard, right?

or the preposterously good video for I Miss the Nineties directed by Chris Hemming and produced by Russ Mclean of Passion Pictures that’s been causing certain sections of the blogosphere to scream:

Warning - he looks like he sort of hipster you’d want to kick in the plums.

Yeah, cheers.

Anyway, just to re-cap. The new record is OUT NOW. Six months of hard graft, six minutes of glory, £1.58. Bargain.

Thanks for all your support. If you have any trouble with the downloads, Church of Merch, or have any other customer service questions/song requests for Wednesday night, do drop us a line at band@thewinterolympicsband.com.

Cheers!

The Winter Olympics x

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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 (I Have Been in Your House) from iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, The Church of Merch and (very possibly) some proper actual high street shops as well.

The single is available on download, limited hand numbered cd and (oh yes) cassingle. All three formats come with beautiful full-colour artwork by the fabulous Lottie White.

The cassette also comes with a free download card, in case you were wondering how you were going to play a tape on your computer. Look how beautiful they are:

 

Some people have managed to hear the record already and have been saying nice things about it. 

Over at LoudHorizon magazine they’re shouting:

The great victory here for The Winter Olympics is that they prove they can do menacing rock without eschewing the epic choruses… 9/10

Meanwhile at the appropriately titled Rhythm and Booze there’s this:

The Winter Olympics blend and fuck up a plethora of influences and genres to create one of the most infectious sounds known to man… 9/10

Good news too from the world of websites with Tuna based puns in their names. Over at Tuna the Day we were ‘Catch of the Day’ thanks to our tasty sounding cocktail of:

A touch of LCD Soundsytem mixed with a dash of Blur

While at the ever-magnificent The Devil Has the Best Tuna there was this:

With their nostalgic tribute to the last decade of the twentieth century ‘I Miss The Nineties’ London based hard pop squad The Winter Olympics have put in their bid to be Gritpop’s Pulp to Brother’s Oasis

Thank you all for your kind words. We’ll turn those into pints for you if you can make it down to our COMPLETELY FREE party for the Nineties single launch, on Wednesday 16 March at The Wheelbarrow in Camden. And that goes for all of you who haven’t finished your review writing homework yet, too…

Now, those reviews would be easily the best thing to happen to us most weeks. But then, most weeks we don’t get playlisted on Slovakian national radio. I’ll leave you tonight with a big ahojte to our great new friends over at Radio FM Slovakia. Seriously, check out how good the music they play is. Once we’ve got this gig out of the way we’re moving.

Lubim ta

The Winter Olympics x

SEEN YOUR VIDEO

Up by public demand (well, we got a couple of emails about it) the full Director’s cut of I Miss The Nineties featuring The Winter Olympics and Winona Ryder is now available on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQG5KIUYVRk. The record’s out on March 14th. Tell a friend!

[Flash 10 is required to watch video]

I 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 best to pay you back in 2011.

COMPETITION!

How many 1990s things can you spot in the video? Send us your list here. The person with the longest list on March the 14th (when the record comes out, remember?) wins free entry into every single Winter Olympics show for a year.

We appreciate that, at present, that doesn’t sound like much of a prize, but hell, who knows? If we get booked for Glastonbury, you’re going to be in the money, and we’re going to seriously regret our soppy blogging at two o’clock in the morning on New Year’s Day.

Happy New Year, everyone.

love you loads

The Winter Olympics x 

Stills from the soon-come Winter Olympics’ video ‘I Miss the Nineties’ filmed one excellent weekend in September.

When I was a boy (and dinosaurs walked the Earth) a big rock and roll film crew coming to town and shooting an exciting music video would be pretty much the most amazing thing that could possibly happen. I’m sure that countless early-doors John Cusack movies and episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 were carved out of just such an unlikely event.

It’s unlikelier still that all the cool key grips, bearded best boys and foxy foley artists would be trying to make a film out of our little band, which is what makes everyone’s incredible hard work, good humour (and incredible cheapness) on our behalf so astonishing. Thank you very much Chris, Russ, Ray, Darren, Matt, Melanie, Max, Aggers and Kev the dog walker. 

See you all on Friday night at the Enterprise in Camden maybe? (Except Kev, you’re looking after the dog).