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About Me

We're a three-piece from Sheffield. We've been playing and writing together for almost a year now, and we've recorded a few demos, as well as our debut E.P. 'i think everything is going to be ok....', some tracks of which you can hear on this page.

We've played a quite few gigs around Sheffield (a couple of live recordings from one of these, at Cafe Moco, can be viewed in our videos section), and we're getting fairly regular offers for future gigs, but we're always looking for more live dates, so if anyone's interested let us know!

We play acoustic, folky, indie type stuff, although our wide range of influences seem to have led us in lots of directions when writing songs.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/27/2006
Band Members: Tom Pollard - Guitar + Vocals,
Emily Lodge - Cello + Vocals,
Sophie Parry-Okeden - Saxophone
Influences: Everything we've ever listened to I hope, but if we're naming names: Radiohead, Bright Eyes, Willy Mason, Bob Dylan, M Ward, Jeff Buckley, The Decemberists, Ray Charles, Blur, Tom Waits, Daniel Johnston, John Coltrane, The White Stripes, Sufjan Stevens, The Doors, Jeffrey Lewis, Bill Hicks, Feist, Nick Drake, Death Cab For Cutie, Beck, Pulp, Manics, Grandaddy, New Amsterdams, Miles Davis, Flaming Lips, Interpol, Billy Bragg, Kings Of Convenience, Robert Johnson, Arcade Fire, Postal Service, Ryan Adams, The Beatles, Ben Folds, Ed Harcourt, David Bowie, Elliot Smith, The Moldy Peaches, Devendra Banhart, Leonard Cohen
Sounds Like: "Acoustic-stringed-jazz-folk-indie-ish. Kind of." Joseph Poole
(BA Hons. English Literature)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Moving To London

Hi all, So our time in Sheffield has come to an end. Thanks to everyone that came to our gigs, we really appreciate it. The Wasted Opportunities will go on though, albeit without our saxophonist Sophi...
Posted by The Wasted Opportunities on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:14:00 PST

6 Months On!

Hi all, Haven't done one of these for a while. So whats happened since the last entry, back in June of last year?! We worked on lots of new stuff over that summer, and recorded our first E.P. in ...
Posted by The Wasted Opportunities on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:49:00 PST

A few loose ends

Hey all, So, Cool as Folk was a lot of fun, and we seemed to go down quite well, not bad for a second gig anyway! There are some pics up now of the gig, and the 'after party'(!) at the Cobden View. We...
Posted by The Wasted Opportunities on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:58:00 PST

Cool as Folk, then back in September

Hi all, We've been kindly offered a slot at the Cool as Folk night at the Fox & Duck on the 15th June. Very exciting! We were going to try and get another gig at the Nottingham, and maybe play at ...
Posted by The Wasted Opportunities on Wed, 24 May 2006 03:00:00 PST

That went well!

Hi all, Well, all things considered, our first gig went pretty well. We had a bit of trouble with the sound at the start, but it settled down and the majority of the set ran smoothly. We seemed to get...
Posted by The Wasted Opportunities on Tue, 16 May 2006 04:44:00 PST

First Gig!

Hi all,We've got a gig, woohoo!Sunday the 14th of May at the Nottingham House, in Broomhill, at around 9.30pm. We're playing for a about 40mins, so its going to be a week of frantic practicing!Hope yo...
Posted by The Wasted Opportunities on Sat, 06 May 2006 02:55:00 PST

Still waiting for demo!

Hi, So we're still waiting for the demo, but Ed says it'll definitely be ready by the weekend, so i'll hopefully pick it up on Sunday, when i get back to Shef, and put it online at the start of n...
Posted by The Wasted Opportunities on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:46:00 PST

Recording Demo

Hi all (or few) Just thought i'd put up some photos of our recording session at Mr Woolleys bedroom studio last week. We recorded three tracks and they should be on the site by the weekend. Here's the...
Posted by The Wasted Opportunities on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:02:00 PST