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Olli Rose

The city distends like empty words

About Me

Email: [email protected]

Blog: I pluck'd a hollow reed

Modeling profile: here

Download a selection of my music: Olli Music.zip

Photos by shun

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/12/2006
Band Website: smokingpipes.com
Band Members: There are no members; it's only me. Occasionally I have some of my talented friends help me out.I'm always looking for people to make noise with - get in touch!'Yakuza' features Yuki on vocals.
Influences: I just sound like me really, no matter how hard I try. Thought I should Namecheck a couple of my favourate bands though.Acid Mothers Temple, Beastie Boys, Beck, Billie Holiday, Bjork, The Blood Brothers, Boom Boom Satelites, The Boredoms, Captain Beefheart, The Checkers The Coral, Comanechi, Cradle of Filth, Devo, DJ Scotch egg, Dusty Springfield, Electric Eel shock, The Flaming Lips, Frank Zappa, Godspeed you! black emperor, Gorillaz, Guitar Wolf, Hot Chip, Jamie T, King Crimson, Koenjihyakkei, Ladytron, Le Tigre, The Libertines, Love Psychedelico (just for the song 'neverland'), Ludes, Luna Sea, The Mad Capsule Markets, Malice Mizer, Marylin Manson, The Mars Volta, Melt-Banana, Menlo Park, Mikabomb, Miles Davis, The Noisettes, Outkast, Peaches, The Pixies, Polysics, Puccini, Radiohead, Rage against the Machine, The Rapture, The Residents, Rize, Robert Johnson, Sanhedorin, Semifinalists, Shina Ringo, Sigh, Slipknot, Snow White, The Streets, The Strokes, The Smiths, Test Icicles, The Tiger Lillies, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, The Velvet Underground, The White Stripes, Ye Wiles, Yoshida Tatsuya. Oh, and one more influence: I want to thank Les Incompetants for all the good times, and the lessons learned. My last ever gig with them: MyGen Profile Generator
Sounds Like: ' "Microorganisms in a.." sounds like a train hitting a brick wall. in a good way.'
---Alice Wagstaffe---
'Olli Rose is a text-book Only Child, without the benefits of actually being an only child'
---Max John---
'sounds like what would happen if a bulldozer being driven by an ailen watching csi in a film noir style ran over mulder and scully making hot love'
---Richard Farmer---
'WTF IS SHE RETARDED MAN THAT SUKED'
---zabby123456789---
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Blog!

My blog has moved here, 'cos myspace is broken.
Posted by Olli Rose on Wed, 02 May 2007 04:49:00 PST

Music, mortality and.....Xfm. <shudders>

I just turned on Xfm for the first time it what must be getting towards a year now. It can be amusing to, very rarely, listen to Xfm as if the occasions on which you tune in are sparse enough, you nev...
Posted by Olli Rose on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:11:00 PST

New song

So, I finally got a song to the stage where it was ready enough to post up on myspace. I wouldn't call it finished, mind - all the instrumentation is pretty much done though. Yuki came round and ad-li...
Posted by Olli Rose on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:41:00 PST

If you can read Japanese...

then check out my new blog here.  
Posted by Olli Rose on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:40:00 PST

Random Access Memory

I've been silent for a while: due to some poorly thought-out amp experimentation, my computer (which I built by hand around five years ago) gave up the ghost. There were loud, inexplicable noises, and...
Posted by Olli Rose on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:53:00 PST

Wireless Fesitval Wed 21st; The Stokes etc.

Some loser in Hyde Park (Photo - Kyouko) Before this, I had never been to anything that could qualify as a music festival. (Camden Crawl doesn't count, regardless of what anyone says). It's not ...
Posted by Olli Rose on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:25:00 PST

I don't wanna make a habit of this, but...

I've got to plug an album. I have some sympathy with the protest that 'writing about music is like dancing about architecture', and I doubt that anyone wants to read some dribbling musi...
Posted by Olli Rose on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:27:00 PST

Who the fuck wants to gig, anyway?

If you don't play live, you don't exist, obviously. Even with the big groups, the money comes more from tours and merch than it does from cd sales. Which is all very well if you're a big group. But wh...
Posted by Olli Rose on Wed, 17 May 2006 08:28:00 PST

Trash is rubbish

People are quick to talk about reactionism. The idea of kicking against something new and popular simply because it is new and popular. And so people are always getting in trouble for ranting against ...
Posted by Olli Rose on Tue, 16 May 2006 09:19:00 PST

Hello!

If I were to say something like "well, I've finally jumped on the bandwaggon and joined myspace..." I would probably just be jumping on the "well I'm jumping on the bandwaggan" bandwaggan. So I wont. ...
Posted by Olli Rose on Sat, 13 May 2006 05:30:00 PST