with eight limbs he is perfectly capable on his own
Influences
Pre-order my Charity Christmas single now and bypass
iTunes' cut. £1.50, all profits to MAP (medical aid for Palestines). Single
includes A Call To Arms for Hippies, acoustic track "What is Money Anyway?"
and bonus Bronze Medallists' ringtone. After purchase, an MP3 will be
emailed to you on Monday 14th December in time to fill your digital xmas
stocking!
Sounds Like
The video for my charity Christmas single A Call to Arms for Hippies
HaHa! Thanks to this lovely person who has started a campaign to release my megaphone! Hostage Negotiations. Demanding the Release of my Megaphone!
At Last: Jackass for Guardian Readers
They're Going to Get You live at the US Embassy, London
Olly interviewed for channel 4 news at the G20 .. Olly on Channel 4 News 5/3/09 .. Fred Goodwin's Pension
It'll be out on iTunes on the 14th December 2009 but you can pre order it here and now and bypass iTunes's cut
How rude of me not to in troduce myself first... sorry lets try that again...
Hello everyone: I am Olly The Octopus
Super Super; the über-hip magazine recently asked 'Is protesting cool?'
Am I a protest singer? Well I've sung at a few protests...
I'm definitely no-hippie, I prefer to think of it as satire, but I do like to sing about things in a clear and undiluted way...It's not exactly 'son et luminaire spectaculeur' but you'd be amazed how doing this can silence a noisy room. It's quite simple really.
OK so you might have heard of me before...how come?
Well, I got on national News at 10 back in November when I hijacked Boris Johnson’s first mayoral assembly in Bromley, singing my song ‘London’s New Mare’ to a mortified, booing audience of Boris fans before being bundled out by the police. I was on the Channel 4 news and CNN in March singing my song 'Fred Goodwin's Pension' outside the RBS building in Bishopsgate, London, too. City AM, the financial districts' free morning newspaper picked up on this song when I posted it on youtube:
Channel 4 asked me to come down and do an interview at the g20 protests on April 1st for their noon show (SORT IT OUT!!! -watch the video on the left there and you'll see what I mean), and while I was there I played a gig with the legend Billy Bragg as well as Get Cape Wear Cape and Kate Nash which NME featured in their 8th April issue:
My first stunt was in the UK headquarters of the Church of Scientology, which I infiltrated to sing my song ‘The Scientologist’, before again being bundled out, this time by irate Scientologist zealots. That one was for John Sweeny.
Ironically this stunt got me a wee bit of a cult status, and the Anti-Scientology protest mob; ‘Anonymous’ have adopted the song as their theme tune, blasting it out at protests around the world. Thanks guys!
My Youtube ‘Video Nasty’s’ series has blossomed into a minor YouTube phenomenon too, rivalling for sheer popularity ‘my cat fell behind the sofa’ and ‘my camcorder footage of Lindsay Lohan on the red carpet at a premiere’ and you can see my musings cropping up in columns for Subba Cultcha, Future London Underground and eARmusic fanzines as well as my Blog:
Also- Mildly amusing that your page has Scientology as one of it's sponsored links.... (I understand how the SLs are trawled but allow me my ammusement, I insist).
Totally getting it now... lol - Purely contextual dude... Hope you're wearing a willy-warmer at the very last. Thanks for sparing us your Octo-tackle too!
If you do not know already there has been an
excited "Ringmaster" running through the lengths and breadths of
North London in the hunt for a brand new experience; to venture into the
Bohemian undergrowth that is Camden town. This my good fellow friends,
bountiful ladies and Damsels of sorts, is…
Featuring a variety of real and imaginary circus performers and actors
- and a transformed Dingwalls - the Camden Circus is nothing less than the road
that leads to the palace of wisdom. With bands (Molotov Jukebox and
Vincent & The Bomb Neutron) + a selection of London’s finest alternative DJs
from 12am till 4am - this is not just a night out, it is an investment in
future memories.
Not scheduled to return for another 100
years, this is, as our heads might say, ONCE IN A LIFETIME. Tickets only £8
(adv) £10 (otd)
Octopus guy! Thanks for coming by my page...! I enjoyed your comment, even though it was a bit hard reading it, glass eye and all... If you have facebook, help save me from having an embarrassing empty fan page on facebook by clicking on the link...
Buenos Dias Olly, I like your stuff, music does need CPR. I'm still trying to work out the thingyology I'll tell you when i do. remember everything is ok
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