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"Believe the hype cos Odd shApEd hEAd are simply f**king amazing" Get Rhythm magazine
If you only see 1 band this year make it Odd shApEd hEAd BBC Newcastle.
Leapfrogging conventional rock sounds and hop-scotching conformity, these unassuming young gentlemen yell Up your pigeon-hole! to an industry obsessed with format and repeated musical templates. In the humble surroundings of a quaint English seaside village, four of the four members of odd shaped head reside in chaotic harmony: Paul (Bass/Vocals), Ricky (Guitar/ Vocals), Rob (Drums) and Andrew (Guitar); from childhood chums to grown up geeky misfits.
The quirky quartet take a plunge with their new single and video ~ the multi coloured ket song ~ due to feature on MTV and stamp their un-erasable mark on 2006. I want a red oneyou can have an orange one well you cant always get what you want! is the Odd shApEd mantra chanted as a dull grey world is assaulted with splatters of bold bright colour.
Their eclectic brand of energetic, rhythmic, funk-punk; jerky bass popping, powerful scatterbrained drumming and stabbing guitars bursting into vibrant melodies draws more fans along to venues already packed with a collage of characters.
Quintessentially British - just like The Beatles are rock, but aren't, Odd Shaped Head are punk, but aren't every half-baked crap band in the world could learn something from these guysthis single will be their road to fame. Excellent!! Lowcut Magazine, Denmark 06
The multi coloured ket song is Odd shApEd hEAds first major single and follows repeated success on the underground UK music scene and a rapid increase in audience sizes, demanding more! In 2005, their debut performances were supporting some of the big names - Maximo Park, Golden Virgins, Vinnie Peculiar. They were voted overwhelmingly No.1 in a Best North East Band poll (inc Futureheads, Maximo Park and Your Codename Is Milo), toured with Danish monsters of mayhem Wild Evil Entertainment Dept, reached Number 1 on internet radio station Sky905s Most Played, released 2 eps..and finally. Saw the year out performing to a fanatical capacity crowd at Newcastle Carling Academy, sending an MP3 bluetooth of their own selfishly grateful Xmas tune I Like Santa to over 400 people in the audience.
Odd shApEd hEAd have an all action sound: punked-up funk with added throbbing melodies and enough chutzpah to carry them on a tidal wave of goodwill which has been raining down on them from all quarters.
Odds on favourites to 'make it' this year!! Crack Magazine, UK, Jan 2006
No-one matches up to these guys at the moment Odd shaped hEAd are THE band of 2006 Mick Hedley, producer, Testin Out
Enter the online world of www.oddshapedhead.com and taste the flavour of their oddness, see video of the week and find out more about their street team the Odd mOb.
Let the odd shaped madness into your world!!
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Member Since: 5/19/2005
Band Website: oddshapedhead.com
Band Members: Paul Bentley - Bass/Vox
Ricky Cohen - Guitar/Vox
Rob Payne - Drums
Andrew Sutton - Geetar
Sounds Like: Download our music here!
Record Label: www.constructionrecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Odd Shaped Head in NME

As well as hearing Bentley on Lamacq you can also see a little snippet about Odd Shaped Head in theis weeks' NME! AND be the first to know about the exciting Halloween news revealed be Paul on Radio 1...
Posted by Odd shApEd hEAd on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:31:00 PST

Odd Shaped Head Interviewed by Steve Lamacq

Open your eyes sleepy head, its the perfect rainy Thursday! Paul is nipping off to BBC studios in Newcastle to speak to Steve Lamacq today to discuss the Newcastle music scene and 'egomatic annie'. It...
Posted by Odd shApEd hEAd on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:29:00 PST

Prepare for Halloween...

Shhh, Oddlings, some sneaky news. Odd Shaped Head are planning something special for Halloween... keep checking the blogs for up to date, exclusive news! thE hEAd x...
Posted by Odd shApEd hEAd on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:02:00 PST

Single release- video online now!

Greetings Oddlings! We here at Odd Shaped Central are greasing the final cogs of our 'Launch Machine' in preparation for September 24th 2007. This is, of course, the date that our new single 'Egomatic...
Posted by Odd shApEd hEAd on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:46:00 PST

www.ismymusic.com

Hi folks, we played in Sunderland last night for the launch of www.ismymusic.com, a new website which allows people to download music to their computers or mobile phones. We would all recommend that y...
Posted by Odd shApEd hEAd on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:41:00 PST

Recordings completed!

All recordings for our forthcoming album have been completed by the wonderful folks at BaseHQ sudios in Newcastle and they sound:proper bowaxerdarzlerbang onthe shizmucklesweet ascannygoodbonbienopret...
Posted by Odd shApEd hEAd on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:06:00 PST

We need your pictures!

Hello folks, we need photos of you gorgeous people wearing your Odd Shaped Head t shirts, or hats or even Odd Shaped Heads. We want to include as many of you in the artwork for our upcoming album so p...
Posted by Odd shApEd hEAd on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:51:00 PST

Utopia Radio Interview!

Hi folks, just a quick one to tell you that the podcast of our interview at Utopia radio is on the web now, so if you missed it check out the link below: http://www.t3rbo.com/video/view.php?video=d7d0...
Posted by Odd shApEd hEAd on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:45:00 PST

UTOPIA RADIO 102.4 fm

Just to let you all know we will be playing some live acoustic tracks this Friday night (22nd Sep) between 7 and 9 pm  on Utopia Radio.  102.4fm Also...  we are at the Carling Academy ...
Posted by Odd shApEd hEAd on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:33:00 PST

Radio play!

Hello folks! Please could we trouble you for two minutes of your time to ask for us to be played on 'At Your Head Like a Brick Radio'. All you need to do is send a message here, requesting to hear on...
Posted by Odd shApEd hEAd on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:53:00 PST