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About Me

musically, ute are concerned with pushing the traditional trio format as far as they can. lyrically, ute are concerned with continuing the folk tradition of telling stories old and new. ute have been rapidly gaining a reputation for their live shows, which has seen them sharing the stage with such bands as supergrass, fanfarlo, jeremy warmsley, joquil, maps&atlases, the xcerts, this town needs guns, mimas, broadcast 2000, and the, great eskimo hoax as well as playing main stage at truck festival, the secret garden party and antic banquet festivals. they have also received airtime from steve lamacq on bbc radio 1 and dandelion radio, as well as recording a session for bbc oxford introducing. 'float, not fight. this is the way!' is their first release, recorded over 5 happy days in the summer of 2008 and launched in early 2009 to a sold-out brixton windmill.
we love to play shows more than pretty much anything in the world... if you want us to play for you, drop us a line!
tim and tom j wigging out at the end of our set on the main stage at truck!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/10/2007
Band Members: ollie - guitar & vocals
joe - drums & percussion
michael - bass & vocals

sometimes we are joined live by:
tim wright - clarinet, accordian, drum, knight's helmet
tom jackson - sicko saxophone
dan goodacre - trumpet

Influences: The waltz never quite goes out of fashion;, it is always just around the corner;, every now and then it returns with a bang . . . H.L.Menken, 1919

'a knack for diversity and power....a mix of influences and sounds wrapped up in an accomplished package' //thelineofbestfit.com
'fast becoming one of my favourite bands in oxford'
//BBC OXFORD INTRODUCING
'ferocity, energy and intensity' //BBC OXFORD
'It’s their differentness that attracts me; a musically-adept combination of the familiar and the odd...definitely 'one to watch' //NIGHTSHIFT
or..
'sludgy sub-Hail to the Thief rock dirges and oceans of self-pity...Ryan Adams locked in a seal enclosure.' //oxfordbands.com

Sounds Like: our favourite song at the moment, 'bunker' at truck this year.
float, not fight. this is the way!
(5-track ep, 2008)
£3

ute remix cd
(see ute remixes in top friends)

AA single coming soon!

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

T SHIRT PICTURES & DETAILS

here are a couple of pictures of the new t shirts which we've just got hold of..aren't they b-ute-iful? (sorry)..modelled expertly by our dashing lead singer ollie tsome things to note:* ollie's camer...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2015 06:12:00 GMT

ute discography

float, not fight! this is the way:1. airborne2. stich up3. panic/float4. hook or by crook5. lost voicerecorded at ollie's house in august 2008 by tim wright, fuelled by cake and beer. playing on this ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:39:00 GMT

stuff

a few things i like this week...Slow wave. www.slowwave.com. go away scary news headlines, i want to laugh at peoples weird brains.My dads party tapes from the 80s. Theres over twenty of them in the ...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 02:46:00 GMT

GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS AND SOME IN BETWEEN

i have never been able to work out whether it is better to give good news before bad news or vice versa so i'm just give it to you straight (that's what she said....etc etc)THE BAD NEWSunfortunately...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 03:16:00 GMT

NEW DEMOS UP & BBC OXFORD SESSION

here's joe in the magical bbc studios just before we laid down a session for bbc introducing in oxford (you can listen to it at ...com/uteonbbcoxford)..we had an absolute blast making it..we played ou...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:28:00 GMT

tambourine knees

hello there ute lovers! it's springtime! so we thought we'd send you another message to make it look as though we've been really busy doing stuff when actually we've just been playing xbox live (nothi...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:39:00 GMT

bbc oxford (again!!!!!)

just to say tim and dave from bbc oxford introducing have been SUPER safe to us recently and have been playing us on their show and generally saying really nice things about us which is..well..lovely!...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT

éditions...........&an awesome show:

oh, hi there! i know we've been sort of bombarding you of late but this one couldn't wait.......those lovely folks at truck festival and you me dancing have let us break our silence on an exciting sho...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:43:00 GMT

spring-loaded

hello ute lovers......spring is here! we welcome colour and sunlight back into the world with some news!past:we played a fun show with this town needs guns..they blow me out of the water ever time i s...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:53:00 GMT

---------a li'l update--......))

well hello there ute lovers! its nearly the end of a cold january and were long overdue for an update on whats going on with us..theres been plenty!  onwards&..!so, firstly a real big thank you to...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:43:00 GMT