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The Occasion

About Me

The Occasion...
Hello/Bonjour/Hola :)
The Occasion was forged on a cold october evening after a semi-drunken "let's form a band" conversation between four long-term friends at Iain's house.
Since then we have been working on a sound we can call our own, with complete disregard for what's "in" and favourable amongst the "cool" kids.
Music of the quite confusing, slow burning and slightly epic variety is what we do.
Four people playing the music we love is what we are.
We're all very nice and approachable, so say hello :)

Jeffels also dabbles in a wee bit of wee 8-bit! www.myspace.com/laughclapjump

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/11/2007
Band Members: Martyn
Voice/Margerine tub and elastic bands
Jeffels
fringe/moves/washboard
Leo
4 Stringed noise box
Iain
Pots and Pans
Studio recordings & production by Nick G Fall & Lee Simpson
Influences: Lots and lots and lots.
It's not about leona.
Check these out...
myspace.com/polygonscene
myspace.com/defiantkinetics
myspace.com/citizentank
Yes?

Yes.
and maybe this...

YES.
But not the band.
Not, YES the band.
Sounds Like: A delay pedal wrestling in a pit with a broken speaker, whilst The Smiths cower in the background and Paul McCartney goes "uuuuuh" over the top whilst riding a mobile scooter...on fire. But don't take our word for it! come and see us live. :)

Record Label: lol

My Blog

we are starting to...

...practice again after about 5/6 months! (well on Monday we will be)  basically we have all been doing our own thing, whether it is new projects/bands or uni . just wanted to say to actual followers ...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:04:00 GMT

New(fuckin’)castle, pet!

Last night, we ventured up north to the city of Newcastle, unloaded our gear, played some rock music and fucked off again.   If you were annoyed and unfulfilled by that tale of events, read on......
Posted by on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:20:00 GMT

surely...

This is what a REAL band should look like...     1000 friends!   cripes!   x
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:07:00 GMT

current affairs...airs........................chairs.

Howdy! How long it's beeeeen :) What have we been doing? Nowt really. So much nowt that i shall enter the blogosphere and tell you how much nowt we've actually done! Oh boy... Right so not much song ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:05:00 GMT

Gigs/Bands/Promoters/Venues

ello! Right then, we've got some dates on the page for a little mini tour of the north. As we dont have management, this is quite hard, so please, if your'e intrested in putting us...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:01:00 GMT

those who came to the pickwick last night...

sorry, like :) we'd try and explain but ther'es really no point. ohhh ok then.. We're out of practice and decent equipment (that's it, in a nutshell) love! mart x
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 03:51:00 GMT

Miniture update...

Hello there! We finished recording new stuff yesterday, it's sounding schweeet!Now for the arduous task of mixing (basically making us sound better than we actually are) We're pleased to announce that...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:42:00 GMT

oceansize

I have 30 oceansize tickets for vivaz on the 30th april. I would buy them all myself and send 30 Martyns to vivaz because quite frankly, they're awesome.However, i don't have that much money, this is ...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:26:00 GMT

Today (a summary)

Sooo we got the Oceansize support! We're very happy bunnies indeed (why are hares never as happy as bunnies? same thing, innit?) We've been in the studio laying down some drum and guitar parts and it ...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:40:00 GMT

A review of

"The Occasions - Men don’t like taking showersWell I rather do enjoy taking showers to be honest. The vocal is a little quiet in the track.I like the drumming in the verse, fills the emptiness o...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:08:00 GMT