Ott

NEWS

Just confirmed I’ll be playing at Tree Of Life festival in Turkey, 28th June – 3rd July 2012.

Info here: - http://www.electreelife.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Tree.Of.Life.Festival

Work on new studio progresses…

Stop press: Toilet seats have left the building.

New studio time…

Next job is to turn this into a studio. Waiting for the owner to remove five tons of metalworking machinery and 35 boxes of toilet seats. I’ll be keeping a build diary for anyone interested in either studios or CNC lathes. Or toilet seats.

Glade Festival 2011 is going to be an absolute belter…

Glade Festival tickets are selling fast – get in quick and don’t miss out on this one.

www.gladefestival.com

Tour Update

live at Kinetic Playground 3/19/2011 Chicago IL

From the road…

Ott and Phutureprimitive – powered by Starbucks and Wholefoods Market [no formal endorsement]

It has been a blur of hotels, airports, rental cars, taxis and, every 24 hours or so, an explosion of noise and colour which shakes us out of our hypnosis. It is hard to pick out any highlights, the gigs have all been so brilliant but notable moments were being asked to join The String Cheese Incident on stage at the 1^st Bank Center to jam with them on a song and having to explain to them that I’d need eight hours to prepare something on my laptop, being served up a cylinder of oxygen at the gig in Breckenridge because we were finding their air, at 10,500 feet, a little thin for our tastes, and turning up at The Loft in Minneapolis to find a wall of dual 18” subwoofers forming the stage and doing a gig so loud it nearly liquidised my kidneys.

We’ve been surviving on double espressos and $40 salads from ‘Wholepaycheck’ and travelling vast distances in rental cars in total silence, save for the occasional caffeine-fuelled rant about polystyrene packaging and internet conspiracy nuts. On the way to Madison, WI, from St Louis we discovered a mutual love for Depeche Mode and after Rain had taken his daily smoochy phone call to his girlfriend I rummaged for my iPod and bust out the ‘Depeche Mode Singles – 81`>85’ album. We sang our hearts out like a couple of teenage girls.

Sorry if that has shattered illusions for anybody – we’ll make amends this week by dripping LSD into our eyeballs and listening to Stockhausen for the drive to Memphis.