Artist: OOOD

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Reported by Tara / Submitted 10-09-08 01:09.44. Complete interview on: http://www.harderfaster.net/?sid=c39804d01...featureid=11980

 

After 15 years making music together you could be forgiven for assuming that any band would be content to continue touring their old classics like the Stones or worse, following the Guns & Roses path and taking 10 years to produce anything new of value. Not OOOD. These psy trance pioneers are about to release their new album and have some of their biggest gigs yet to come over the next few months. This weekend they're playing a rare live set at Waveform Festival, then in the days leading up the album launch Rama's at Broken @ the Where?house on Friday 19 September and Colin's playing a DJ set at Roots & BNE presents... TRINITY @ Jacks on Saturday 20 September. It was definitely time HarderFaster hunted them down to the outer limits of the universe where we spoke in deep tongues...

 

 

 

OOOD is short for ‘Out Of Our Depth’. How did you come up with the name? Do you OD often?

 

Colin came up with the name at a Pagan party in 1994, when OOOD had only written a couple of tracks together. 14 years on and we’re still out of our depth, but swimming strongly! As for ODing — do we look like the sort of people who take drugs?

 

 

When did you first meet and start making music together? Please tell us a bit about each of your backgrounds and what inspired you to start treading water as a group.

 

Colin, Nigel and Steve all met each other in Oxford in October 1994, and the group was formed after it became obvious that the music we wrote together was much better than the music we wrote individually or in pairs. Steve and Colin both had experience working in studios and as guitarist and keyboard player respectively, and Nigel was an analog electronics genius and experienced psychedelic synth botherer who had supported Hawkwind at Stonehenge in the ’80s; when we all met Colin had already had his first release on Phantasm so the combination of all our skills was far more than the sum of its parts.

 

When we formed the band, Steve had already known Ramsay for a while, and Ryo joined the gang in 1995 when he moved to Oxford to start his degree, and both of them would hang out in the studio while we wrote. As DJs and musicians they gradually got more involved in the writing process, so it was natural for them to join the band properly when the time came. For a while all five of us performed together as OOOD but Nigel’s involvement got less when we moved the studio to Bristol in 2000. Treading water though? Nah… always moving forward!

 

 

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