Why hello!

Merry Christmas you lovely lot! Hope this finds you well, anyway - how've you been? Over your little troubles now? We didn't tell anyone. Ahem.

Another fun year for us lot: we played our first Pride Parade, our first club and of course Clarence Park Music Festival which we've been dying to play almost since OP was formed back in the mid-90s. Cap'n B now has Judith The Keytar to keep him occupied while the grown ups talk; Dr Rock's digital mission-control is giving NASA sleepless nights of envy; Madame Bernard is blowing and singing as always (but not at the same time, that'd hurt); Grynn's wielding the axe of rock-blues across the log of disco and The Man In Black still does whatever it is he does back there in the shadows - who's this Cthulhu bloke anyway, can he play the drums?

We're also aware we haven't released much recently but we've got plans to start recording pretty imminently for releases during 2012. If you've come to some of our gigs during 2011 you'll have had a taster already - hope you like it!

Finally, we thought you might like to come to our annual Christmas gig!

It's this weekend 10th December 2011 at The Hop, Wakefield (a new venue for the Xmas do, and we get a proper sound engineer!). We're joined by two other acts Ultraxine and Poet & The Loops, all of whom are lovely lovely people (there's a short bio below of each band). Doors around 7:30pm, we hit the stage around 10pm, and owing to a drunken eBay-in-the-pub incident involving Cap'n B and The Man In Black there's free Santa hats while stocks last.

Facebook link HERE - go see!

Oh did we mention the gig's free-in as well? Howzat for a Christmas do! We know how to spoil you.

Have a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

Dr Rock, Bernard, Cap'n B, Grynn & MiB
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