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Richard "Mr Hair" McLester of Oposium has been composing, recording and producing a new masterpiece, with the initial title of "Song 139".

The song has been described in high esteem as being "brilliant, incredibly powerful and epic", "exciting and intense", and their drummer, David Waller, writes "can't wait to play it live".

Due to the release of the band's debut album Life Under The Sun earlier this year by major distributors HMV, Oposium will be focusing on writing some new material, with "Song 139" and "Everything Is Now" in mind, continuing to define what their answer is to - what is alternative rock music!?

"Song 139", which is currently in its last stages of production, will be performed during Oposium's future concerts for all to enjoy.
The current title is a concept, but Oposium is open to any suggestions. The song may eventually feature on the band's MySpace, www.myspace.com/oposium, as well as may be made into a future music video!
Keep your eyes (and ears) peeled!


Peace Always,
The Oposium Admin Team

Labels: epic, hmv poole, Life Under The Sun, mr hair, music, Myspace, oposium, songwriter

The Oposium web team have just uploaded all of the lyrics from the band's album 'Life Under The Sun' onto the website. Just click on the song titles underneath the album cover on the Oposium homepage, or follow the link >> here



In other news, as well as buying the album directly from the Oposium online store, Life Under The Sun is also available with free delivery from HMV.com

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HMV have assured the Oposium team that the album artwork will be updated within the next 24 hours on their site.

Oposium will also be performing live in HMV Poole in the next couple of weeks to celebrate the release of the album - as soon as the date is confirmed we will bring you the update.

Andrew Walters (who has roadied for Oposium in the past and been heavily involved with the crew) has also been doing good work in Wimborne, organising a local Open Mic Night at the pub he works The Barley Mow. For more information, please visit www.barleymow-pub.co.uk.

Peace always,
The Oposium Admin Team.

Labels: album artwork, album release, hmv poole, hmv.com, Life Under The Sun

Following an excellent review of Life Under The Sun by media organisation Cross Rhythms, Cross Rhythms presenter Greg Sammons will be giving Come Awake and Behind The Rain airplay over the coming weeks.

Giving the album 9/10, Ewan Jones from Cross Rhythms descibes the album as "... raw, gritty, energetic and beautiful. The guitars growl, the piano bursts brightly over the top and the vocals sit well in the mix - clear and big. Comparisons? Imagine the illegitimate genius child that Yes and Muse would produce, then throw in a touch of Mew and Sigur Ros and you know exactly where we're heading... "

The full review can be read at http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Oposium/Life_Under_The_Sun/78078/

Peace always,
The Oposium admin team.

Labels: airplay, Cross Rhythms, Life Under The Sun, mew, muse, review, sigur ros, yes

On Saturday 8th November 2008, Oposium played a small intimate gig at St Peter's Church, Parkstone giving the live world premiere of tracks from Life Under The Sun. "We wanted to run the tracks through with just the bare bones before we go on and tackle our November and January largescale gigs" Richard explains "And it was nice to try some of the tracks in a jazz swing style". Of course, on November 29th Oposium will be back doing their usual anthemic rock act. "I've been itching to just get out and play" says Scott "We're all really excited about the upcoming gigs!".





In other news, Oposium are giving a live interview to Forest FM 92.3's presenter Tony Warren this evening after 8pm. Last week was quite a quiet week for the band as Richard was hospitalised for day with a crazy flu virus and was forced to spend the week off recovering. Dave also spent the week moving house, but that said the band did meet up for rehearsals later in the week and performed this intimate unplugged session.

The Saturday before last also saw the band explode two pianos. We'll get the footage up as soon as possible, but for now here's a taster photo from the what Oposium will remember as one of the wettest days of their lives!



Yours,
OPOSIUM Admin

Labels: acoustic, Life Under The Sun, unplugged