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OFM - A New Start

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BenL sings & plays guitar, BenB plays guitar and helps with singing, ChrisD plays bass guitar and Big Dave just hits drums.
"Brash & beautiful lo-fi alternarock songstrels with not a little quirk and melody.Four best friends create stunning melodies with a refreshingly bullshit free attitude"
NME Magazine
"Great Album. 11 very interesting tracks"
Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music
"Anthemic Indie"
Sandman Magazine
"Beautifully intertwined Malkmus-esque twiddles and nonsensical non-chordial fiddlings underlay song after song rich in quality and high in drama. Both guitarists do battle with the senses, safe in the knowledge their back line will hold it all together with the sort of effortless drumming and no-nonsense bass playing that makes it all look so easy......Lyrically, they tread a brilliant, harrowing road packed with loss, shame and unrequited love; bitter defeat, hope, and occasional moments of pure happiness which conspire to hold everything together - believe there is light at the end of the tunnel
Leeds Music Scene:
"Too tight for a Lo-Fi band, too cool for a rock band they sit somewhere in between, with musical influences that are hard to pin down. If Pavement and Nirvana had a brawl, but then made up and decided to learn how to play their instruments, then you would be near to the OFM sound.
Leeds Music Scene:
"Pavement with the feel of early XTCs rhythm section..that is to say there's some darn good powerful yet deft drumming and some nice rousing choruses with wirey guitar bits"
Bugbear Promotions (Dublin Castle/Hope and Anchor)
"Grandaddy meets Pavement… Which is what happens when Grandaddy spends too long in Wetherspoons, but that aside we also detect the likes of Guided by Voices , The Olivia Tremor Control Dinosaur Jr perhaps… Goodly…"
Bugbear Promotions (Dublin Castle/Hope and Anchor)
SANDMAN MAGAZINE:
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Member Since: 1/17/2005
Band Website: planetofm.com
Band Members: BenL sings & plays guitar
BenB plays guitar and helps with singing
ChrisD plays bass guitar
Big Dave just hits drums

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Influences: Music we enjoy in some particular order:Guided by Voices, Pavement, Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, The Pixies, The Smiths, Sufjan Stevens, Broken Social Scene, The Beach Boys, The Cure, Grandaddy, SM & Jicks, Weezer, Sebadoh, Built to Spill, Johhny Cash, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Magnetic Fields, Joy Division, Flaming Lips, Nirvana, Arcade Fire, Iron & Wine, therapy?, Elvis Presley, Dinosaur Jr, Ambulance Ltd, Sammy, Ben Folds Five, Olivia Tremor Control, Super Furry Animals, Blur, Sonic Youth, The Fall, The Shins, Neutral Milk hotel, The Fontanelles, Tapes n Tapes, Belle & Sebastien, Explosions in the Sky, Preston School of Industry and anything that moves or bemuses us
Sounds Like: a rush of blood to the groin - enjoy our homemade video
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First blog post for some reason, we're just about to set off on the tour to promote our debut album and where else to start but our beloved Leopard? Should be a great show with some great bands (PYLON...
Posted by ofm on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:05:00 PST