Oh Sevenine (pronounced oh seven-een) has its origins in a couple of Essex-based bands that never quite got off the ground: First of all, Lunacy Booth, which brought together Matt (who was playing guitar) and former Oh Sevenine member Ben (bass). After Lunacy Booth disintegrated, Matt and Ben continued to jam together, with Ben switching to his first instrument, guitar.
A prolific song-writing period followed which saw the collaboration begin to take the shape of what was soon to become Oh Sevenine. Armed with a whole load of new songs, Matt and Ben approached Ben's then flatmate Nat to play bass and the original line-up was complete.
The original principle of the band was essentially a low-fi approach, meaning Oh Sevenine's songs should be playable, and enjoyable, even if performed acoustically and without effects in someone's living room.
A year of song-writing, jamming and occasional low-key gigging followed, but just as things seemed to be heading in a productive direction, inevitably the wheels came off and disagreements saw Oh Sevenine disband.
Just as the collapse of Lunacy Booth bore fruit, so too did this temporary disbandment. While Ben returned to his punk roots with his old band Cruiser, Matt and Nat continued to jam and in early 2004 recruited Mike to play guitar. Mike had been a singer and guitarist with Happy Assassins, together with Nat and Oom guitarist Alex (see Friends list), and the modern line-up of Oh Sevenine was born.
No sooner had Mike been drafted in than he headed off to New Zealand travelling for the summer. Armed with a tape of demos, he used that time to familiarise himself with the new songs and write his own parts. Meanwhile, back in the UK, Nat and Matt continued to jam and write a number of basslines etc to accompany Matt's new material. On Mike's return, the first proper rehearsal showed the band they were onto something, with everything slotting into place perfectly.
Working hard to polish up a strong set list, and with Mike's songwriting skills also on board Oh Sevenine soon took the decision to invite jet-setting former Happy Assassins and Cruiser drum wizard John on board. Oh Sevenine had never before had a drummer involved, and with John more used to metal and punk bands, it was an interesting proposition. John joined in September 2005 and regular rehearsals saw him quickly get to grips with the set.
Unfortunately John's studies took him away to India for the first half of 2006, before Oh Sevenine were able to record new demos to include drum tracks - while in India, John developed a circus skills charity concept with a friend which subsequently became a plan which secured funding on his return to the UK, and thus the drumming dream was shelved in favour of a very worthy cause.
Oh Sevenine have therefore returned to their acoustic roots and are getting out there - 2007 is set to be the year of the live show!
The four tracks here are acoustic numbers recorded on a faily basic Cubase set-up in Matt's bedroom. Sound engineers we are not, but please have a listen, enjoy, and let us know what you think!
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This is just a thank you for being our friend. Just letting you know we have our first single out on 25th Feburary and that we need your help to get into the UK Downloads or the iTunes charts.
I've put the poster below, click on it to read our blog!
hehe it mr frost..ur a legendary math teacher but i must say i loved sittin next to scott and if i dont get to sit with him next year i wont be a happy person !!! u rock
sir i cant believe u split me and amelia up :( :( and how come ive been in every det apart from your fun guitar one! so not fair :( ledge maths teacher though :)
i cannot believe u made me sit there and listen to tht noise :@ haha altho was a fun det :D tom said u r gud at guitar but guitar bores me i lik being difficult
Not sure if you’ve heard but Im offering four FREE downloads from the up-coming UNITED STATES OF AUSCHWITZ project. These free downloads are my way of sayin thank you just for checking out the animal.
Ive been denied air-play due to the content of my lyrics so the success of the UNITED STATES OF AUSCHWITZ project depends on the support of individuals like yourself. The next four tracks, “UNITED STATES OF AUSCHWITZ CHAPTER.002,” will be released July 4th. Good looks and stay focused.
MINIMALHOSPITAL for this London event next friday 11th of May has put together two artist from M_NUS (Richie Hawtins label) to play a live set plus all our residents very well known in the European scene.
Upstairs room hosted by ACMESOUNDZ: DUB STEP, NEW SCHOOL BREAKS and DOWNTEMPO with two producers upcoming from the london's best dub step and break beat lables RAG & BONE and VYNIL TOUCH.
There will be a concession list for myspace friends which will allow you to get in for £10 up untill 1:30 am.
Send me an E-mailon (on myspace)with the names whithin Thursday 10th of may.
JOIN THE MASTERS OF MINIMAL, NOW IT'S THE TIME TO GET HOSPITILISED.
MINIMALHOSPITAL NEXT SHOW WILL BE At SPACE (Ibiza) THE 1ST OF JULY.
well i ad 2 delete my old space which was sad :( bt whoo cares
plz plz plz plz plz cn we nt do an more work on simulatanous equations? they are TOO boring !!! no offence if u lyk them bt u wud- thts y ur a maths teacher !
(its true !!!)
and if i play one more game of countdown i think ill lose the plot !!!! ( altho im alreadi quite mental :D in a good way though XD )
well i wot more cn i say???
u r a wicked maths teacher (wen ur nt angry :S) and i hope tht next week we will do somethink tht has NUTTHINK to do with algebra- (or how about nothing to do with maths?) lmao
nywayz bi !!!!
Catch the Stubbs about in Hertford Town on Saturday for free stuff, there may even be a few sneaky acoustic gigs thrown in, so make sure you are about! ;)
Got another good one for you Monday...£1 TICKETS !(or £3 OTD!)...
THIS MONDAY (30th April)
Mr.frost.
well i cant be bothered to listen to your bad,
but ibet they are good.
WIKID MATHS LESSON TODAY!!
hahaha.
was fun.
can we play frostys cool tunes tommorrow?
and can we not do the maths test?! comment back and let me know.
love.x
Frostie...like the new songs.
Thanks for playing with us tonight was a real success, im now going to go and do some Sigma Arithmatic followed by a spot of quadratics.
Well, it's that time of year in't it. Just when you think summer is coming it snows outside! Nevertheless the gigs keep on coming, I just want to recommend a gig this saturday well worth going to (if you can!).
OHMYGOLLYGOSHITSMRFROST! That like almost rhymes, almost! Howit going? Nice mellow tunes =) You need to get some band photography going on and snazz up your profile guys! Doooo itttt.... xxxx
i'm gonna make it my mission to make you dudes famous.. ROCK ON!! (with acoustic guitars of course.. we'll have none of that distortion pedal nonsense ;)
