Welcome to the Blog and News of Alternative Rock Band OPOSIUM

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

If you missed last weeks interview on Tim Heywood's show, you can listen again to the interview on our website.

>> Click here to listen again...



Enjoy!

The Oposium Admin Team

Labels: hope fm, interview, oposium, radio interview, tim heywood

The first weekend in September has been mad. I was woken up by a text from Andrew our roadie that said "Did ALL that really happen on Saturday, or was it just a bad dream?"... No really it did. OPOSIUM had been invited to play at a wedding function in Shapwick which sounded inoquous enough... except I had the idea of taking a real piano along with us to play beside the river for the champagne reception. Unfortunately it hammered it with rain all afternoon so us taking the piano proved useless, but the gig inside the marquee went amazing and everybody really enjoyed our light renditions of swung up tracks from Life Under The Sun; as well as a LOT of impromtu jamming! In fact, we'd never played jazz together before, and guest saxophonist Henry Dobson hadn't even met Professor Stix and Mr Brain. Actually this was Professor Stix's first live gig with OPOSIUM - although it felt like he'd been part of the band for a lot longer ! We've only had one rehersal with him ... and that was just a jam!

So the gig was great! After heading back from the pub though, a little over zealous Doctor One managed to get the piano caught off the back of the truck ... Not many people claim to have seen an upright piano somersault down a road - Doctor One and Andrew are now in that select bunch! So now we're left with this piano that we have no idea what to do with. Any suggestions?????

... We did think about getting the army to blow it up on Salisbury plain ... ...

You can see part one of our trip to Shapwick and the getting of the piano into the truck if you login on this website! We'll upload part II later in the week.

Til then, last week's episode can be seen below! H'enjoy !!!

Peace, Richard

www.oposium.com

Labels: black piano, champagne, curse, episode 3, jazz, oposium, shapwick, wedding

Launched 2 weeks ago, OPOSIUM TV is designed to give you an insight into the strange and crazy world of OPOSIUM. We've always taken a camera along to everything we've done, and after watching the footage back we realised that most of it is hilarious. Every 10 days, OPOSIUM TV will be bringing you a couple of minutes footage from behind the scenes with the band, impromptu jam sessions and recording in the studio. We'd like to say that we've scripted the whole thing, but that would be a total lie... No we really are just that stupid! ;)

Just like E4 +1, you can get the episode in advance by logging in to our site, otherwise you'll have to wait 10 days ... We've linked in Episode 1 below, but login to watch Episode 2!



Enjoy!

Richard

OPOSIUM
www.oposium.com
www.myspace.com/oposium

Labels: camera, episode one, mr brain, oposium, recording, session, stupid, tv, video

OPOSIUM have launched their official blog, from which you will be able to stay up to date with all the craziness that seems to unfold wherever the band goes. We'll be bringing you the all the emotions, the laughs and the tears of Mr Hair, Mr Brain and Doctor One as they journey with their forthcoming album release Life Under The Sun over the coming months.

To begin with, OPOSIUM would like to welcome on board David Waller (otherwise becoming known as Professor Stix; yes he is that cool) to take over as drummer. With his dad having sessioned for Mark Ronson, we couldn't really have turned him down! The band had a great two hour session with Dave on Friday evening and were surprised when Dave seemed unperturbed by the OPOSIUM sense of humor. To be honest, they seemed a little taken aback by that. . .

In other news this week, Mr Brain is taking a well deserved weeks break in Spain. Yes, even Brain's need their rest... Doctor One is starting his own fashion statement by wearing his fender coil-leads as a 'man-scarf'. We will endeavor to bring you pictures of course, while in the meantime Mr Hair has been left back at the studio to get on with finalising everything for the album release.

So this will prove to be a relatively calm week for the OPOSIUM crew as they ready themselves for the coming run up to Christmas - looking forward to it!

Peace,

Richard

OPOSIUM
http://www.oposium.com/
http://www.myspace.com/oposium

Labels: christmas, journey, mark ronson, new drummer, official blog launch, oposium