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The Otters

REALLY FUCKING AWESOME

About Me

Intense and dramatic no wave punk rock from Welwyn Garden City, featuring Mark Astronaut of semi legendary anarcho punk outfit The Astronauts. People love Otters- they're cute, cuddly and friendly, but The Otters are the antithesis of our cute furry friend. The Otters live gigs are unmissable; a fusion of chaos, violence, dancing, sing-a-long songs, noise, fluffy hair, furious drumming, thumping basslines, shredding guitar riffs, singing, screaming, and raw power. Juxtaposing dark tales of modern day suburbia with real, honest music that refuses to be pigeonholed, The Otters continue to leap from strength to strength, supporting the likes of up and comers such as The Holloways, The Chalets, Stuffy & The Fuses, as well as earlier bands such as P.A.I.N and Clayson & The Argonauts. Dubbed as the ‘anti Orson’ and ‘everything that’s right about music’, The Otters don’t exist to be cool, to get laid, to get drunk, to be famous or to conform to order; The Otters exist to challenge all that. Join in or fuck off.
“The Otters – a weird and surreal bunch of nutters, the singer Mark Astronaut now in his early fifties and writing stronger and deeper material all the time, performs from down stage right leaving the centre stage for Joe bass, Dom guitar and Dennis drums, 3 great musicians who are still teenagers, and are much prettier than Mark! Their performances always pull you into their world with some short catchy tunes in amongst the longer more epic songs that chop and change direction and enthrall the crowd at the same time, very entertaining and totally memorable”. Bob Marden - Club 85
"The Otters are out of their musical trees, anarchic, unpredictable, experimental and downright obtuse. We can only take our hats off to 'em." - FUSE Magazine
"It's noisy, uncompromising and a real reason to get excited about the future of the music industry. The Otters are the anti-thesis to everything around at the moment - the corporate bollocks of the emo rock / punk pop filling Kerrang each week. If more bands got into music because it excited them rather than thinking about sales and celebrity bullshit then the world would be a better place. Thank f**k for The Otters!!!"
Alex McCann, Designer Magazine
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PROMOTERS, VENUES- NEW EP AVAILBLE JUST EMAIL US WITH AN ADDRESS AND WE'LL SEND ONE OUT!
BUY "KIDNAPPED BY SPACEMEN" ONLINE!!!
'Whispers From The Offing: A Tribute To Kevin Coyne
Featuring "Are We Dreaming?" by The Otters
Buy it HERE
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/25/2005
Band Website: the-otters.com
Band Members: Mark Astronaut - Vocals

Dominic Perez-Silva - Guitar/Backing Vocals

Joe Davin - Bass/Backing Vocals

Dennis White - Drums
Influences: *ROCK POWER

*THINGS THAT GO HORRIBLY WRONG

*THINGS THAT GO RAWWWWRRRR

*ANIMAL PORN

Sounds Like: The sound of Chris Rea being hacked to pieces with a rusty saw.
Record Label: A really big one.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

ATHENS PHOTOS...

http://picasaweb.google.com/gigsnaps/TheAstronautsLiveAtAnCl ub Thankyou to whoever took these photos, they're amazing! Joe x...
Posted by The Otters on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:48:00 PST

Otters reviewed in OFF MINOR blog

A review of us at Boat-Ting - 5/3/07 The Otters + Mark AstronautThis was billed as 'The Otters', tho after looking around it appears to be The Otters (Dom Perez-Silva (guitar), Joe Davin (bass), Denn...
Posted by The Otters on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:44:00 PST

Fuse Magazine review...

"Off it's head, that's what this is. Only in England ...The Otters are out of their musical trees, anarchic, unpredictable, experimental and downright obtuse. We can only take our hatsoff to 'em. This...
Posted by The Otters on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:37:00 PST

BBC Ouch! Podcast link

CLICK! Thankyou. x
Posted by The Otters on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:32:00 PST

An interview with Joe...about The Otters...and Joe

http://www.spankmedia.co.uk/subbacultcha/new/article.php?id= 2637 You might find it amusing...have a look....
Posted by The Otters on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:57:00 PST

Kidnapped By Spacemen.

You can listen to our (fairly) new single 'Kidnapped By Spacemen' HERE... We would've put it on myspace but its a bit long at 18 minutes... Let us know what you think!   The Otters x...
Posted by The Otters on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:50:00 PST

Last night in Manchester

OH YEAH. For anyone that didn't know, The Otters played at Manchester's In The City last night at Bedlam, and boyo was it good. Met lots of nice people who took photos of us, interviewed us, want to p...
Posted by The Otters on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:02:00 PST