22 Blenheim Gardens Brixton

SW2 5BZ

Tel: 020 8671 0700

 

Doors: 2000h

Price: TBC (not much with flyer - attached)

Last train home: 0027h

 

How to get there:

The nearest tube is Brixton on the Victoria line, turn left out of the station, then:

Walking: It's about 7 minutes walk from the tube, walk up Brixton Hill (the one with the Fridge at the bottom of it) and turn right into Blenheim Gardens (there's a Co-op Funeral Services and a traffic light at the end of the street).

Buses from Brixton: If you don't fancy the exercise there are lots of buses that run up the hill (mostly from the bus stop outside Woolworths and KFC after you come out of the tube station) Blenheim Gardens is the 3rd stop from Brixton and the following buses will transport you in approx 2-3 mins: 45, 59, 109, 118, 159, 250 and 333.

Buses from Croydon: The 109 and 250 stop at the bottom of Blenheim Gardens, just past the George IV pub and directly outside the NISA minimart (if you're going past will you pick us up some scotch eggs?)

 

 

Have a great week.

 

Andrew Winter Olympics x

 

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Incoming flyer for our SATURDAY NIGHT MEGA RAVE at the Garage on November the 28th. It's so obviously going to be our best ever gig. You really ought to come.




I. Can't. Wait.

AWOx

Hi everyone, how are you?

It's Wagstaff here watching the football with some hobnobs, while Martin is off hobnobbing with some footballers (he's at Wembley with his mate Becks, I'm here on the sofa with a Becks or two of my own).

Thanks to the Wilmington Army who came out to see us in Exmouth Market last Friday (and to the bartender and the bartender's friends) we really appreciate the support. If you couldn't make it, or if you liked it so much that you want to do it all over again, your next Winter Olympics show is this time next week - Wednesday the 21st of October at 333 Mother (333 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LE) with support from Beat the City and Le Sherifs plus a massive mid-week mega rave with our great mate Nik YellowBlack until three in the morning afterwards. It's my birthday party too (32, cheers!) so there's really no excuse for not coming out clubbing in the week.

The band are on at about half past nine and it's FREE ENTRY if you sign up to the promoter's mailing list over at www.myspace.com/yellowblackclub and turn up before 9pm. It's four quid if you don't. A poster for our yellow and black attack is below.




See you there then.

Cheers

Andrew Winter Olympics x

If the Devil is six, then God is erm... 3?

Evening everyone,

did I tell you about The Winter Olympics show this Fr iday at The Wilmington Arms? Yes I did, don't lie.

You should come. It's near your work, it's Friday night, we're on nice and early (2030) and something amazing like this might happen:




The Wilmington Arms: Friday 9 October

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Evening everyone, how are you?

It's Wagstaff here, just back from the gym. I try and go when I can (cheers, thanks for noticing) 'cause no one really wants to see The Winter Olympics featuring Meatloaf (except maybe me) but dear sweet lord it's awful down at the LA Shitness.

Several thoughts crossed my mind as the treadmill's hard yards inched past. Some of them are even printable.

one) As greetings go, "have a great work-out" is something of an oxymoron, and puts far too much expectation on your twenty pathetic sweaty minutes of moaning. How about something more realistic like, "Hope you don't die," or, "Glad you've stopped bleeding."

two) You can listen to Kiss FM for as long as you like. The never play any KISS.

three) No matter how much you run you never catch up with that pretty girl two yards in front of you.

four) Which makes a trip on the treadmill a bit like being in The Winter Olympics. You strip yourself down as bare as you dare, stick yourself in a noisy hot room full of attractive young people who think you look ridiculous, get your head down and just run, run, run, run. And sweat, sweat, sweat, sweat, sweat. You don't necessarily go very fast, or get very far, but you know you can never ever quit. When you're a kid you run because you just love it. Now you know you'll die if you stop.

five) LA Fitness doesn't seem to find my 'Satan's Cock' t-shirt quite as fashionable as I do.

six) Indeed, the t-shirts people wear to the gym are terrible. I sort of thought it would be where good merch goes to die. I hoped the La Fatness might be a happy hunting ground for fat guys in threadbare Swervedriver shorts, or a middle-young legal assistant in her ex's Pop Will Eat Itself top, but no, nothing. A smattering of H & M made-up-American-college-town sweats, an ironic Guns 'n' Roses Tee, two hockey club stag-night polo shirts with HILARIOUS nob-based nicknames on the back, and an Al Pacino football top (yick). And no Ned's.

seven) Spotting someone wearing a TWO shirt at the gym would make me (nearly) as happy as that big festival slot we keep not getting offered. I guess we're a little closer to the first of those, at least, after the big merch giveaway at The Windmill last Friday. By my reckoning there should be fifteen more (inconsistently sized) shirts heading for yoga classes and beds in South London this week. The thought of this makes me very happy (and not entirely in a weird way).

eight) If you weren't there for the Windmill gig you missed an AMAZING night. My favourite bit (apart from meeting all of you) was when the power went off halfway through Probe because we were playing and singing so punishingly loudly. Apparently homes within half a mile of the Windmill couldn't make a cup of tea or get telly back until the next morning. Sorry everyone (ha! we're not sorry at all!) For those of you who couldn't make it down, I'll post some video and audio later in the week. If anyone has any photos or anything, send them through to us here at thewinterolympicsband@..googlemail.com. Anything good will win you a prize...

nine) The Winter Olympics return to live action with a STRAIGHT-AFTER-WORK, FRIDAY-NIGHT-DREAM-OF-A-BOOKING show on Friday 9 October at the entirely excellent Wilmington Arms (69 Roseberry Avenue, Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4RL). You should totally come because (a) the night is put on by our great new mates 'Pop Noodle'. (b) there are three other great bands on: Cha-Cha, Ja-Ja Wunderbar and a Child Rasputin (c) we're on at a brilliantly early eight thirty, really near your work and anyone wearing clothes that say 'straight from the office' gets a free drink and some TWO merch - office rock! (d) all of the above. See you there then.

ten) here's a flyer:



Speak to you soon sports fans.

Andrew WO x

The charm offensive to get EOTR to book us for next year starts here. We might have to tone down the rave-Whitesnake elements of the act a bit, but we're keen to please, and great sets from (among others)  Efterklang, The Acorn and The Hold Steady proved that the place is ready to party.

Winningly, we had the great pleasure of saying hi to the Hold Steady at the festival. They very nicely signed all our shit and accepted our apologies for 'Just Another Sunday'. Better yet, it turns out that hard-grafting Winter Olympics' Mr ten percent Jimmy Ketch' is going to be dee-jaying when Franz Nicolay from the band drops in and plays at the Windmill next month. He is VERY excited about this. (James, not Franz, that is). JK will, of course, also be behind the decks when The Winter Olympics play at the Windmill this Friday night. Expect an all night Guns n Roses, Stone Roses, Rage Against the Machine disco. See you there then.

Hmmmm, I seem to have got to the bit where I remind you about the Windmill show a bit too early. Here then is the rest of the week's rock news that I was going to ramble through (with accompanying indie anecdotes) in precis form....

1) Pavement reform. Keyboard Jimmy Mitch talked us into going to one of Pavement's first UK shows (he's always right). Their mad drummer gave us a carrot outside the gig as 'special vege-merch'. I kept it for over five years (dirty, I know, sorry). At Pavement's last ever show, sometimes Winter Olympics bassist John Astbury wore a jumper with a pattern that went 'all-the-way-round'. Good times, good times.

2) Sugababes split. So ex-Sugababe Keisha is 24 years old? I seem to remember being sent to see them  in 2001 or 2002? and writing  that Sugababes were definitely better than Starsailor (8 out of 10, very good). She must have been 16. I now feel 102. Yick.

3) TWO go and see ex-Napalm Death noisenik Justin Broadrick in concert.The  PA didn't like his racket, but we did. Hey, did I ever tell you about the time I got my nose broken at a Napalm Death show in 1842? (true, still gives me trouble). What about the time I had a battered burger with their bassist in Birmingham (true, and that still gives me trouble too). What's that? Be quiet old man? Hrmph.

4) TWO go and see The Lemonheads, they have clearly practiced and aren't rubbish. Hey, did I ever tell you about me, Evan Dando, MC Skat Cat and that big tray of couscous backstage  at Reading festival in 1664? Wait! Come back!

5) TWO play the Windmill in Brixton on Friday night. Please come. Please. There's free merch (shirts and shit, not carrots) for any of you that do come along.

6) Oh come on, it'll be amazing.

7) Night.

AWOx

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