SEPTEMBER 2007

ODi Bags SongPeople / MTV Partnership Unsigned Award!!!

Yes yes peoples!...tis true! We bagged a top 10-spot on the SongPeople Unsigned / MTV partnership comp, which ran earlier this year. The awards were judged by the general public and the final ranking will be awarded by a panel of judges from MTV, Sony BMG and EMI...oooh exciting stuff I say! ODi has also been invited to become an ambassador group for the Songpeople / MTV partnership, hmm, how lovely and regal sounding!

On the album news, well I wish I could say it’s DONE but it’s not! So instead we're almost ready to go back into the studio to work on the second single, double basses and all!...Expect a release date end of January time and a dirty great big launch party and Irish and UK tour to go with it! Phew!...Meanwhile, keep downloading the single ‘Crawl’ from iTunes, your support is highly valued! 

On the gig front, we recently had a very enjoyable night at The Writers Café in Stockton-Upon-Tees. Our host, Trev was in fine form and overwhelmed us with his superfantastic dance moves during ‘A Superman’ which was highly impressive (see photo below of the very man)! Talking about t’internet, do get yourself and friends over to join the ODi Facebook group, to stay ahead of all new developments, last minute gigs, party invites, and promos...

Future UK and Ireland gigs coming up this month include the following:

14^th September         The Owl         Rodley           Leeds (The Grain Division)

15^th + 16^th September (6pm Sat + 3pm Sun) Beatlesfest          Co. Donegal

19^th September         Sandinista     Leeds             (Leeds Acoustic Showcase)

23^rd September         Brudenell Social Club        Leeds (Music Guru 3^rd B’day)

Other exciting news this month includes ODi receiving demo of the fortnight in the current edition of Irish music magazine HOTPRESS. We sent in some demos off the upcoming album to thee music guru Jackie Hayden and luckily enough got picked, whayhay, which means national radio airplay for 2 weeks! Yipeee! For UK residents who can’t yet get their mitts on it yet we are also in the previous week’s edition, in the review section of live gigs (pg 83 Hotpress First Cuts Gig, Wexford Arts Centre, under Martha Wainwright, ahem). Or just check it out on our myspace page (www.myspace.com/odimusic)

where you can also read a review of Crawl from this month’s Sandman magazine!

Well thats just too much darn excitement for me...I'm off to bed…………….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!