March 2014

March 2014

Contents:

Editorial



October 2013

October 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our 10 October 2013 showcase

10-12 October
Norwich Sound & Vision 2013

DOE

Horse Party

The Mondegreens

Our next full gig –
Friday 13 December 2013

our 13th birthday and Christmas party

Drugstore

She Makes War

BUOYS



June 2013

June 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 7th June 2013

Loom

Die You Now

Darwin & the Dinosaur



April 2013

April 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 26th April 2013

violet violet

Cthru27

Arrows of Love

The Nightingales


Recommended:

April 2013 @ NAC



January 2013

January 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Wednesday 23rd January 2013

The Joy Formidable

WE//ARE//ANIMAL


Recommended:

January 2013 @ NAC

21 January 2013, Blood Red Shoes @ NAC



December 2012

December 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 14th December 2012

Cold In Berlin

Tortoise Family Connections

There's Someone In The Pond


Recommended:

December 2012 @ NAC



October 2012

September 2012

June 2012

June 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 22nd June 2012

Yeti Lane

collider

The Thinking Men


Reccommended:

Norwich Arts Centre selected June 2012 highlights




May 2012

April 2012

April 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 13th April 2012

Drugstore

Fiel Garvie

Port Isla




February 2012

February 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 24th February 2012

Electricity in our Homes

Octagon Court

Invisible Cities




December 2011

December 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 16th December 2011

Magoo

We Can't Dance

Khan

Tim Clare

John Osborne



October 2011

October 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 7th October 2011

The Victorian English Gentlemans Club

Olympians

The Shadow Project



September 2011

September 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 16th September 2011

Sarabeth Tucek

Alloy Ark

Rory McVicar


Reccomended:

BBC Music Video Festival

Norwich Sound & Vision convention



June 2011

June 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 17th June 2011

Underground Railroad

Fever Fever

The Day The Robots Came




April 2011

April 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 8th April 2011

Talons

Deers

Embarrassing Machines




February 2011

February 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 25th February 2011

Blue on Blue

C.O.L.L

Typewriter Radio




December 2010

October 2010

September 2010

August 2010

August 2010

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Sunday 1st August 2010
Waterloo Park Walkabout Our compere

Black Vox

Blue on Blue

Glory Glory

Hellhound Oconnor and the Winkles

KunK

Olympians

These Ghosts



June 2010

Olympians
Champion musicians all, l-r: Dan, Chris, Ben and Ed.

Olympians play wombatwombat's Peel Day celebrations on Friday 07 October 2011 @ NAC

What have you been up to since January's release of To Our Wives And Sweethearts EP?

I think a more fitting question is 'What HAVEN'T we been doing', to which the answer is 'doing enough gigs, practicing enough or writing enough new songs'. Fortunately we did pop into the studio with D Pye to record our forthcoming single, otherwise the last six months would have been a massive waste of time. Since we did that we got all excited about being a band again and did lots more things.

Please tell us a bit about your new material…

Since recording the EP, which was last July [2010] admittedly, the stuff we've been writing has taken a bit more of a song-based bent, as instead of jamming and then trying to bend what we did into songs, we're starting with songs, taken them into a room then systematically ruined them by trying to out-do each other instrumentally and vocally. Our new single Wake Up Old started as a gentle song, basically written to ourselves, encouraging ourselves to stop being lazy and do something tremendous before we are decrepit and useless. Then once we got into the studio it all got a bit out of hand, and we covered it in layers and layers of instruments and vocals shouting 'bum' a lot. I hope other people find that as uplifting as we do.

[Wake Up Old is released on Monday 24 October through Barely Regal Records, which is run by Isaac and Matt from the rather wonderful Among Brothers. There is a video to accompany the single AND lots of remixes that will be made available in the run-up to the release: keep your eyes peeled and ears to the ground! And then take your money out of your pockets and give it to Olympians, Ed].

How excited are you about playing Huw Stephens' SWN Festival

EXCITED AS FUCK! Only been to Cardiff once, and it was raining, and drank some homemade cider out a paint tin, so this time is going to be great because we'll all probably remember what happened and not wake on a stranger's floor covered in piss.

…and who else are you looking forward to seeing there?

It's really ace, cos we're playing on a stage with Among Brothers from Cardiff, with whom we recently played a birthday party, and are ACE, and Theo who is a loop-based guitar and drum titan who we've put on in Norwich in the past and is AMAZING. Those two alone makes a treat of a festival for us. Other than that, Three Trapped Tigers is the most exciting, although we're not sure which day they're on.

Which Norwich bands are you championing for success?

None of them. They're all pricks. (Come to our gig please.)

Actually. Death of Death of Death of Discotheque, Transept, and Maersk, because they're all remixing our new single, and that is a sure sign that are 'champions' and will 'success'. A band called The Soft are too, but they're from Bury St Edmunds, which is quite a long drive from 'the big time'. Deers are good too, and Cakes and Ale will soon play every beer festival in the world at the same time and that will be a 'champion success' in itself. I [Dan] really like James Elliot Taylor's songs and the massive harmonies his band do with him. That's a recipe for 'success' in our book too.

Social media snapshot

Which social media do you use and how do you rate them in terms of the best way to promote your band, with 1 being the best?

Ranking*

Social media

URL

Anything to add?

1

Bandcamp and/or Soundcloud

http://olympians.bandcamp.com and http://soundcloud.com/olympians

Bandcamp is essential, soundcloud is great but full of techno goons

2

Twitter

http://twitter.com/onwardolympians

Essential tool for promoting your band to left-wing middle class people

3

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/onwardolympians

Totally great. Vimeo is better but YouTube is better for attracting irreverent comments from Russians.

4

Band and/or label's website

http://onwardolympians.com

Websites are totally good

5

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/onwardolympians

Sadly essential

6

Anything else

Anything is better than myspace

7

Myspace

No

An object example of how to make every single band in the world hate you.

* 1 = best

What happens in team Olympians?

Dan writes some songs, and plays them on a guitar. He gets together with Chris and Ben, put more instruments like bass and keyboard and more guitar and singing on them, then, when they're 'cooking', Ed jets down from Londres with his drumsticks, we get into a room for 10 hours and dip the whole thing in hulking riffs.


Guitar face; keyboard face; drums face; bass face.