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 will be the folk putting the stoned in Folkestone when we support the pristine Priscillas at Bar Below this Friday night. If you’ve never seen them, The Priscillas are a guaranteed-great-time kick ass rock and roll band. All sixties garage punk greatness, seventies glam-o-rama riffing and really, really excellent hair. They are, at once, much cooler and much hotter than us. We’re impossibly excited that they’ve invited us to the seaside.
Tickets are a recession-ridiculing three quid on the door. You should totally come. This one is definitely going to be fun.
Click here for a Facebook event page with all the details you’ll need
SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER - OXJAM ISLINGTON TAKEOVER w/ Tony Christie
People of London! The Winter Olympics will be jamming against famine (I know, I know, it felt bad when I typed it) at the Oxfam Islington Takeover on Saturday 22 October.
Oxjam is Oxfam’s month-long music festival. It runs all through October with hundreds of events around the UK, all organised by volunteers who know and love their local music scene, all raising money to save lives around the world.
The Islington takeover takes place across seven venues on Upper Street and promises over seventy AMAZING acts including us and disgraced British sprint champion swinging Sheffield singing sensation Tony Christie all for one six pound wristband. (Nine pounds on the day).
Click here to support the cause and buy a six-pounds early bird ticket
Click here for the Oxjam Islington Facebook page
Hate live music but want to give to charity anyway? Click here to donate to Oxfam
ps. I’m going to be having my birthday party at Oxjam Islington, so do remember that charity begins at home and bring some cake or something…
NOVEMBER 4 - BIRMINGHAM THE OLD WHARF w/ Bombers
People of The West Midlands! The Winter Olympics will be putting the ham in Birmingham when we make an enormously emotional rock return to the home of metal for the first time THIS CENTURY. Blood, sweat, tears and a late-night trip to Mr Egg (you f*cking what, Mr Egg has shut? where am I going to ‘Eat Like a King for £1.50’ now?) are all on the cards as we drop in on our great motor city mates Bombers at their 88MPH club night.
88mph was, of course, the speed Michael J Fox had to drive to go back in time in Back to the Future. You guys can experience pretty much the same thing by paying £3 and watching a grown man bawl his way through ‘I Miss the Nineties’ in the place he used to call home. This, I suspect, is going to be one to tell the grandkids about (provided that you don’t do anything daft when you travel back to the past and your grand kids still happen).
See you there then.
Lots of love
Andrew Winter Olympics x
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 rock events in the coming weeks. Just like the 2012 games we promise blood, sweat, tears and a stirring anthem or two. Unlike the 2012 games, you won’t need to mortgage your Nan or get a brand new VISA card to get a glimpse of the action. Oh and there DEFINITELY won’t be any rubbish-looking merch mascots leeching you for even more money. No way. Here are the all important details:
FRIDAY 29 APRIL - THE CELLAR, OXFORD (8pm - 11pm)
No invitation for the Royal Wedding? Come to this Royal Rumble instead. We’re celebrating the release of the amazing new Alphabet Backwards EP with an epic underground evening-do in the home of Morse and Swervedriver. Proper royalty those two. Admission is £5 and we’re on early.
THE OXFORD CELLAR
Frewin Court (Behind Lush)
Oxford, OX1 3HZ
click here for a map
Tell us you’re coming on Facebook
TUESDAY 3 MAY - THE SOCIAL, LONDON (7pm - Midnight)
Do you remember when we played the Panda Power night at at the Social last year? Of course you do, There was hot music, attractive young people and tasty cakes. It was beyond amazing. Which is why next Tuesday, NEXT TUESDAY! we’re going back as part of the City Showcase festival to relive the magic. There are hundreds of hot young bands on with us, but don’t let that put you off, there will also be free muffins. Admission is £2 before 8pm, or all night with a City Showcase wristband (subject to venue capacity). Come down early and bring a friend.
THE SOCIAL
5 Little Portland St
London, W1W 7JD
Tel; 020 7836 4992
Click here for a map
Tell us you’re coming on Facebook
FRIDAY 20 MAY - THE HATCHET, BRISTOL (8pm - 2am)
I’M NOT YELLING! is Bristol’s newest and best above-a-pub punk rock party night. A not-for-profit DIY disco p*ss-up at Bristol’s oldest inn. OF COURSE we’re going to be there. Playing alongside us will be our great mates, the fantastic the fantastic the fantastic Falling Stacks, while DJs spinning Dischord, SST, Matador, Rough Trade, Sub Pop et al will see us through to the early hours. I can’t begin to tell you what a great time this is going to be. Admission is a recession rubbishing £3.
THE HATCHET
27 Frogmore St
Bristol, BS1 5NA
Tel: 0117 929 4118
Click here for a map
Click here to tell us you’re coming on Facebook
And that’s about that for one week. Thanks as ever for all your support, we couldn’t do this without you (well we could, but it would be nowhere near as much fun).
Speak to you soon, and don’t forget to visit The Church of Merch to buy lots of stuff!
Love
Telephant and Penge x
(The Winter Olympics’ fun new mascots. You know, for kids)
What?
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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…
The Winter Olympics are a dance punk indie rock and roll band from London, England. They are not remotely like the other bands.
