OTA’s first show (organised the day before) on tuesday was mainly just being treated as a practise…haha, and OTA were asked to play last, which means basically the only people who stuck around after the main band played were our few LA friends and the engineer and dude who runs the venue, which was kinda exactly what the band wanted..seeing it was only their second show together and a chance to work out some songs. The show ended up being very fun and thankfully the people we care most about in LA were there and really enjoyed it heaps. Afterwards we went out to a jewish 24 hour restaurant after the show, which was apparently where Guns and Roses used to hang in the 90s. It was a pretty awesomely kitsch place…as is all of LA, which basically 90% of which appears to have been built in the 70s.
Even though there were maybe only half a dozen people at the show, word about how awesome the band were got back to the bloke who runs the music section of the LA times, who emailed me the next morning. Its looking like the actual proper LA show tonight should be really awesome. The myspace page has been recieving quite a few enquiries about it..
Marion of Squaregirls, one of the few there, runs an awesome blog and made a small mention about it:
http://squaregirls.blogspot.com/
On wednesday we cruised down to San Diego, unfortunately we didn’t really get to spend much time in SD as we didn’t have any accom sorted, so had to go back to LA after the show. The SD show was pretty av (as we expected) but the venue loved the band to bits….and really wants them back and offered to organise a big show for them. Again played to a small crowd..but a very appreciative one…this was def the gig that made me realise how amazing this band is live…and got me really excited and energized about the rest of the tour. I was standing close behind a few people watching and as the band finished, heard them say “wow”… haha, a very nice sign!
Now the exciting news!!
PICS: Dublab Live to Air
Yesterday, Over the Atlantic, thanks to Alejandro Cohen (the other half of Niks other project “Psychic Powers”) works at an amazing online streaming radio station Dublab. www.dublab.com hooked the guys up with a live pre-record yesterday to be made available on their website streaming and as a podcast (avail free through itunes also), these podcasts recieve around 200,000 downloads…and the most amazing bands have done them! but….. the really exciting news!! this afternoon Over the Atlantic are getting filmed for a new LA project called “Vision Versions”, its a project where a director takes a band to a unique LA location and films them playing different versions of their songs…man…they have filmed like 4-5 in the series so far…which have been - TV on the Radio, Belle and Sebastian, Health, Why? and Ariel Pink! Man. So ridiculously honoured to be doing this. The project is launched online soon…and its seriously awesome, they showed us some clips. I’ll write a note on this blog when they are online. Ale and John lent all the gear the band are using, a really nice acoustic guitar, a drum machine and casio keyboard…the band were practising last night and its sounding pretty interesting.
PICS Below from”Vision versions” shoot
So yeah. tonights the first “real” show of the tour. Playing with Don Cavalli from France, check out that band on Myspace, they are pretty damn awesome.
We took a short cruise around Beverly Hills the other day…holy crap, haha…what a bunch of rich tossers, we checked out Santa Monica and also Venice Beach….I was really dissapointed to see only one topless muscley dude ot Muscle Beach. Hopefully the next visit can be more like in the movies.