Olly The Octopus

Bio:

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 call it what you will...

OK so you might have heard of me before...how come?

Well, I got on national News at 10 back in November 08 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 09 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 09 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:





I released an alternative christmas single in December 09 too. All profits go to this marvelous charity and all the great humanitarian work they are doing in Gaza

Medical Aid For Palestinians

it's out on iTunes now or you can order it here and bypass iTunes's cut







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 Cafe Babel, Subba Cultcha, Future London Underground and eARmusic fanzines as well as my Blog:

http://ollytheoctopus.blogspot.com

and Twitter

http://twitter.com/ollytheoctopus Year of The Tiger?

Nonsense, 2010 is the Year of the Octopus..



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Member Since:

November 17, 2006

Members:

'The Manliest Man in Folk' - forfolkssake.wordpress.com

“… single handedly reviving what has been lost under the modern march of the talent-absent acoustic folk moguls who believe that a monotonous beat with a few selected words can be ‘genius’” - DJ Yeo (MUD radio)

'An avowed 'anti-hippy',and burgeoning cult figure around London...With most bands these days seemingly more interested in their perfectly coiffured locks (Don't want to get on my high horse about this - I would if I had any locks to coiffure) than the state of the nation, it's about time someone started giving a monkeys - bravo Olly the Octopus.' - www.spoonfed.co.uk

Brilliant' - gigjunkie.net

'Everybody’s favourite mischevious sea dweller' - thebluewalrus.com

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:

Poor Old Gordon Brown:

CVeitch and I bicker on Ratansi and Ridley show

Everything is OK Octopus Attack: Join my new cult: 'Everything is Alright'

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
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Olly on Channel 4 News 5/3/09
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Fred Goodwin's Pension

Goodbye Bush, Hello Osama

Olly the Octopus Vs. Boris Johnson

Bit of Fun with my disciples

Invasion of the Church of Scientology

The Scientologist

London's New Mare
Scottish Football

The Gangsters Picnic

Camden's Burning... An Ode To The Hawley Arms

Billy Badd
Internet Love Song
The Last Taboo

Record Label:

Unsigned