TV OFF - THE BAND
TV OFF is an electro-pop hybrid featuring a colourful, hyperactive singer called Sara and a deadpan beatsman everyone around here refers to as Markku.
At a recent performance the duo were described by one chin-stroker as “like Sophie Ellis-Bexter meets Mobyâ€. The band kicked the crap outta that guy and he still eats through a straw. Luckily, it was all put down to “high spiritsâ€, and The Off was able to return to the studio to start on the debut record.
After only a fistful of gigs, the guys were attracting attention on a scale that made them both smile like kids in a sweetstore (or Sara in a shoeshop) and soon they were snapped up for lovely things like being nominated for Best Upcoming Act at the Basso Radio awards, performing at the Diesel Global Party event, opening the new Minna Parikka store (a woman who makes shoes that are so valuable that most people can only afford one of a pair), being featured in snowboarding movies, and playing alongside such Coolness-Personified-In Band-Form as CSS, Crystal Castles and Múm at Flow Festival in Finland.
Despite real initial interest from record labels, publishers and other folk that fear for their jobs, the band is going ahead with releasing their material on the internet for now and, well, seeing what happens. It is, of course, all part of a bigger plan for world domination as the guys are already confirmed to appear at The Great Escape Festival in UK in May where, between gigs, they plan to spend a lot of time on the beach, or in the arcades on the pier if it is raining. They will also appear at events in Tokyo, Berlin and throughout Scandinavia this Spring while they wait for the rest of the world to join their party.
PAST PERFORMANCES
13.06.2009 Be2gether festival, Lithuania
12.06.2009 Dirty Deal Cafe, Latvia
29.05.2009 LIQUIDROOM, TOKYO
16.05.2009 THE GREAT ESCAPE UK, Komedia Bar
15.05.2009 THE GREAT ESCAPE UK, Latest Music Bar
24.04.2009 Turku
18.04.2009 Helsinki, Semifinal (w/ Formal Disco Riot)
17.04.2009 Oulu, 45 Special
02.04.2009 Helsinki, Kuudes Linja
27.02.2009 Helsinki, Botta (Hehku)
05.02.2009 Helsinki, Redrum (MISF*TS w/ JOAKIM (Tigersushi, FRA))
23.01.2009 Helsinki, Shotgun the snowboard movie premiere
12.12.2008 Turku, Dynamo (w/ Villa Nah)
15.11.2008 Helsinki, Korjaamo (w/ MILLIONERS)
1.11.2008 Turku, Klubi (Sheikki Sheikki <3 HTDJ)
31.10.2008 Korjaamo, Scrapbook Project premiere party
24.10.2008 MUSIIKKI & MEDIA / LOST IN MUSIC, Tampere
11.10.2008 DIESEL XXX 30th anniversary, Helsinki
04.10.2008 Helsinki, Semifinal (club Kissalaakso)
24.9.2008 Helsinki, Minna Parikka Boutique opening
16.08.2008 Flow Festival (w/ Cut Copy, CSS, The Roots etc)
26.07.2008 Helsinki, Liberte (w/ KA SO RE)
18.06.2008 Helsinki, Kuudes Linja (w/ KA SO RE)
07.06.2008 BASSO FESTIVAL (Sinebrychoff park main stage)
16.05.2008 Turku, Klubi (Club Thessalonik w/ JESSE)
14.05.2008 Helsinki, Kuudes Linja (Planet Ash w/ ULRICH SCHNAUSS (UK))
11.04.2008 Helsinki, Mbar w/ Dasaev (RUS)
01.04.2008 Helsinki, Kuudes Linja (w/ The Je Ne Sais Quoi (SWE))
01.03.2008 Helsinki, Railway station / Jääpuisto
16.02.2008 Helsinki, Semifinal (w/ Le Corps Mince De Francoise)
03.01.2008 Helsinki, Redrum (club MISF*TS w/ Dj Erkko & Makelove)
05.12.2007 Helsinki, Mbar (mbar 6 years birthday)
CONTACT
Management: Clockwork Music Management
Contact: [email protected]
Booking: Live Nation (Scandinavia & The Baltics)
Contact: [email protected]
All Band enquiries to: [email protected]
Blog: http://www.tv-off.com/
Graphic design: Emil Bertell.