I'm in/am a band called Omelette. (depending on who's around)
Done some home recording cassette only releases back in the late nineties.
People seemed to like them.
Were asked to contribute to the seminal For Your Machine compilation CD. We did.
Julius Geezer put out Omelette's first release. HAPPINESS a three song vinyl only release.
There's a review below from losingtoday.com. Got loadsa positive reviews like this one.
We were asked to contribute to the unique Rockets Are Heavy CD. We did.
Then we put out our debut album called Off By Heart. Critically acclaimed would be the best way to describe it. People loved it, but no-one bought it.
Messed about with Edwin James for a bit with our project Sprites In The Border. The best of that collaboration was included in the Recommended Viewing CD (you can hear it here too).
Long story short.
Expect a new Omelette album, hopefully this year.
Why do I do this?
I dont know, but when you read a review like the one below that was written a few years ago, something tells you to keep going.
Perhaps I should call the new record "A Slow Burner".
xxx Ian
Omelette ‘Happiness’ (Julius Geezer). And just where do these spanking debuts all come from is anyone’s guess but another to add to the list this time from Ireland’s Omelette. First thing I’d say about this brooding three-tracker is that it’s a grower. A trio of tracks that belie the width and depth of this young bands song writing skills. The lead track ‘Happiness’ not quite the most apt of titles is what can only be described as a bit of a slow burner. A fragile sounding vocal creeks atop an almost quietly stagnant melody thread that bursts gloriously into flaring feedback fits at every available opportunity and harnessing the same kind of slo-core dynamics as tripped by Timonium and the much missed Codeine. ‘The girl with the sun in her hair’ sounds as though it was literally torn from writers heart such is it’s pained presentation while ‘Scissorhands’ sits up as a curious track. Barely starting before it’s finished, yet in it’s bright albeit brief life time it conjures a distant feel of Syd Barret, it’s seemingly half thought and oddly dislocated happy but sad demure could easily fit on ‘Barrett’. A debut for those who like their music a little more passive albeit precious.
