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oliver oat

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About Me


oliver was born 20 years ago on the 13th floor of a suburban building. the first years of his life his parents moved to the east and later the west of the (flat, flat) country. singing every night by the piano with his mother and sister and singing in church every sunday, he developed an interest for music early in his life. the piano, the most important object of the house, soon became his weapon of choice. when he turned six, his parents decided he should take lessons at the local school of music. he wrote his first symphony at seven. beside his piano lessons he took swedish folk violin lessons at the age of fifteen and played in numerous groups.
since 2002, oliver started writing songs for solo projects. 'the alchemist' being his first alter-ego, soon changing in 'marinus' and finally 'oliver oat'. after six years of writing, recording and deleting songs, 'new romantics ep' is the first production finally to make it. the long rumbling vulcano has finally started to explode.
the roots of olivers music seem to lie very deep in music his parents used to play, like tom waits, neil young, philip glass and eric satie as well as new things he stumbles upon every day.
oliver writes and records his songs alone, at home in edinburgh and amsterdam, and gets a lot of help from his friends. live, oliver will be supported by a band of talented young men. keep your eyes open for the first dates, soon to be announced.
thank you for listening to oliver oat

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/16/2006
Band Website: oliveroat.com
Band Members:oliver oat vocals, piano, zither, beats, soprano ukulele, baritone ukulele, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, organ, synthesizer, percussion, accordion, melodica, bass guitar, toys
oliver's evil alter-ego vocals, percussion, organ

live band:

floyd organ, drums, guitar
arno drums, accordion, ukulele
stefan guitar, piano, backing vocals
jan bass guitar, toys, electronics
guy toys, money, percussion
Influences: amongst a lot of other things, oliver gets inspiration from the following great people:devendra banhart, beck, ludwig von beethoven, björk, ferdinand bordewijk, david bowie, tim burton, kate bush, nick cave, nick drake, the dresden dolls, eels, willem elsschot, philip glass, joy division, james joyce, kaizers orchestra, krang, lucebert, hayao miyazaki, múm, neutral milk hotel, okkervil river, will oldham, pino plaza, a silver mt. zion, spinvis, robert louis stevenson, the subhuman, herman van veen, tom waits, andrew lloyd webber, kurt weill, oscar wilde, patrick wolf, virginia woolf, xiu xiu, frank zappa and zita swoon
Sounds Like: you can now download the new romantics ep for free here from www.elitemusic.nl!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

urban drama and a gift

i've fallen in love with this city. it's so close to the world, in some way, i've never been so aware of where i was. what my place was. the city is like a theater, with the elements as its lead playe...
Posted by oliver oat on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:45:00 PST

aye and ohhh

edinburgh must be the most beautiful city i've ever seen. it's really different when you've stopped acting like a tourist and really start living there, though. it's like the poky moist alleys of the ...
Posted by oliver oat on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:33:00 PST

carrot necklace

i ate it all again, so it's not that special. maybe i'll make another one someday. i ate a lot of tangerines, too. it's a challenge to make the peels as long as possible.the tangerines remind me of de...
Posted by oliver oat on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:30:00 PST

clarity time

yes, time for a little clarity.with a new computer but worthless backups, i will have to start recording all over again. that is just the way it is, and i found peace with it. since all the recordings...
Posted by oliver oat on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:03:00 PST

fall is coming

dear friends,my creativity is horribly disfigured by hardware problems concerning my macbook. since i sold all my other options to finance the mac, and since the backup, which contains all of my work,...
Posted by oliver oat on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:10:00 PST

loud cheering and happy faces

things are getting started! we've been selected by the jury of metropolis experience to go to the last round af the band competition. the grand prize: to play at the metropolis festival the 1st of jul...
Posted by oliver oat on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:08:00 PST

a big thank you to you all

dear listeners and friends,thank you for being my friend (x 200) and thank you for listening to my music (x 1000)! thank you for all the nice comments on new romantics ep and thank you for keeping me...
Posted by oliver oat on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:30:00 PST

new romantics out now

the new romantics ep is out now. you can download the songs and artwork here and here.
Posted by oliver oat on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:36:00 PST

new romantics ep

dear visitors and friends,as some of you may already know, there will be a release even before the first album. this release, that will prevend me from throwing away even more material before the albu...
Posted by oliver oat on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:09:00 PST

the album, the songs, the wind, the city

dear friends and supporters,as you can see, i am working hard recording old and new songs for the forthcoming album. this album, with the working title 'the new romantics', is due somewhere in late, r...
Posted by oliver oat on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:14:00 PST