Celeste Potter: Guitar, vocals
Ben Wundersitz: Drums
Steven Huf: Bass
Influences
Yoko Ono
Sonic Youth
Sepultura
Michael Jackson
Kyuss
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pharell Williams
Magic Dirt
The White Stripes
Skunk Anansie
Björk
The Sex Pistols
The Pixies
Chicks on Speed
“Experimental punk-metal that you can dance to” – Christine Cassis, Rolling Stone Magazine
Ouch My Face is a three-piece experimental punk band from Melbourne via rural Australia, who left home to avoid lives spent working in timber mills and butcher shops. Diminutive front-woman Celeste Potter cuts through the pummelling rhythm section like a diamond tipped chainsaw with her trademark banshee-like howls and chaotic lead guitar style.
Penniless, friendless and having nothing better to do, Celeste along with Steven Huf (Bass) and Ben Wundersitz (Drums) locked themselves in a tiny inner city apartment for a year and did nothing but make music. In time they left their dark confines, christened themselves Ouch My Face and poured their ferocious art into the giant bubbling cauldron that is the Melbourne independent music scene.
After a couple of years of lovingly paying their DIY band dues- driving from city to city in an old van, sleeping on floors, sticking up thousands of flyers and playing hundreds of shows, Ouch My Face have earned themselves a distinct reputation as a formidable, raw and viscerally exciting live act. Recently they have stirred and enticed audiences whilst opening for The Bronx, Shonen Knife and Handsome Furs.
In May of 2009, Ouch My Face released their debut EP, a five-track cocktail of rhythm and hostility, through Valve records. Their self-titled EP has received national radio play and glowing reviews from within Australia and internationally.
“The most ferocious voice and talent we've heard jump out of the rock 'n' roll genre in a very very long time.” - from NY music blog, Culture of Me
“A trio of the most normal-looking folk who make the most caustic sounds… glorious sounds, explosive, emancipated sounds that scream abandon, oblivion and climactic revelry.” – Jo Hill, Time Off Magazine
For bookings and inquiries please contact: amy.charleston@gmail.com
To email the band: hiouchmyface@gmail.com
Email us at hiouchmyface@gmail.com if you want us to hook you up with an OMF shirt. Celeste designed them and they are $25 AUD plus postage. We have them in girl's and guy's sizes. You can get an EP this way too xo
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Awesome to see you guys again at Sounds of Spring. Couldn't find you guys after the gig. I guess you left early? What happened to the up coming gig at The Zoo?!
AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME GIG ON FRIDAY NIGHT! OMFG, OMF KICK MAJOR ARSE! Sure, there weren't a lotta people present, but fuck that, Sydney don't know what they missed! I posted some pics I took in my albums.. hope you like! (Understand they didn't turn out as clear as they are on my computer.) PEACE!
hi, thought you guys were great last thursday supporting shonen knife! i was there taking pics for the dwarf music website and have uploaded a few of these on my flickr site. the full set will be on the dwarf shortly. simon
you guys are on the front page of myspace. that is so outragously kewl. i cant beleive it at all. this is just such wonderfull news to my eyes and face and ears. all the best and dont eat the dolmaties.
Meant Yoko Ono....sorry lack of sleep and bad typing! you should definitely come over to the NZ for a gig soon! love the dirty bass sound on junk punk baby! S.S
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you should definitely come over to the NZ for a gig soon! love the dirty bass sound on junk punk baby! S.S
