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The Winter Olympics

About Me



The Winter Olympics are a five-man party band from Birmingham, Basingstoke and Botany Bay. Inspired by the DIY dignity of Dischord, the daft funk of DFA and the non-ironic, no-nonsense stadium-slaying standards of Def Leppard, they are not like the other bands.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/11/2005
Band Website: www.thewinterolympicsband.com
Band Members:
Influences: Daft Punk, Dischord and the Def Leppard story. LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin and the hits of the eighties.
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Office Rock Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

PICTURES FROM THE BUNKER

Evening everyone, Wagstaff here with some footage from the office of rock: that's the legendary Luther Grosvenor on guitar about half way through. I have about four more hours of Bruce ...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:40:00 GMT

FLYER FOR 17TH OF JUNE

Hey everyone! Look here! It's a flyer for our Mother show on the 17th of June... Last show before the Winter Os Summer holidays:see you there then!AW
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:13:00 GMT

Rock week

Afternoon everyone. I'm just coming back from rock week, it's been very exciting. Here are some things I know now:1) not going to work is pretty good.2) Unless you count grafting in the studio (did so...
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 10:17:00 GMT

Amp blow ups, ATP partying, singer shows and recording pt 201

Evening rest of the band, friends and ships in the night. How are you?Very well here. We had a lot of fun at the gig in Bristol, thanks for having us Huntspill River; I'm really sorry for expressing m...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Arpadys

Arpadys were amazing at Cargo tonight.More Wah than Pete Wylie.Thanks to DJ History. And Mark. Putting the Fun back in Disco. Part 2.See you at lowlife. Or at Faze Action. In Croatia. See. This: www.d...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:36:00 GMT

unofficial ATP warm up at The Louisiana, Bristol, May 14

Evening CampersHow are you? Good here. We had an excellent rehearsal (and then pasty) in Bristol on Saturday with the Winter Olympics away team - Andy 'Mitch' Mitchell on drums and Neil 'Nigel' Mackay...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:12:00 GMT

Mother at the 333 Old Street

Guten morgan.How are you? Good here thanks. Recording continues: It's a marathon not a sprint and we're still on schedule to beat our previous PB (of 6 years).New potential booking: we've all had some...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:17:00 GMT

Exciting week ahead - supporting Brakes & more

Hello party peeps/rest of band/whoever reads this. I hope everyone all is well and enjoying the sunshine. Thanks so much to all that made it down to The Buffalo Bar last Thursday. Hope it was fun and ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:23:00 GMT

Feeling European with a donk on it

http://www.donkdj.com/remix/6011 This left us speechless.
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:15:00 GMT

FLYER FOR 2 APRIL - BUFFALO BAR

Well, it will surprise very few of you to find that we didn't quite get round to finishing the single yet. We did manage to squeeze out a devastating show at the Windmill though, and since then everyb...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:35:00 GMT