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Chris Olley
12+ albums
singer-songwriterrockexperimentalalternativesix by seven
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Chris Olley is a musician from Nottingham, U.K./ Germany and the primary member of experimental groups including Six By Seven, Twelve, Fuck Me USA.... Taken from www.chrisolley.co.uk: After one final show at Glastonbury and a farewell 2 hour set in Nottingham last year I finally left six.byseven, probably because for the first time I could look at the band not as a failure but as a success, that’s what gave me the strength to finally let go. When you believe in something so strongly it becomes hard to let it go, persistence can turn into stubbornness and you lose track of reality. I still believe I did the right thing in keeping it going and I still want six.byseven to be a success but I was probably the only one left who felt like that. Maybe being in a band that Peel asked to do five sessions was not such a failure after all. What next? I’ve got no band and who the hell am I going to convince to start another mad journey on the rock n roll road of doom? Everyone’s got older and the world is full of bands that we influenced and are doing it better or at least achieving success in their own way. I certainly couldn’t join any band, I was already playing with Julian Cope’s band and it did nothing for me, my love of music is self-expression, not playing someone else’s stuff all night. I had been working as a producer for some years now and to quote Neil Young I had to at last go about making a solo album, "just to see if I could make one." I had to try something different, a
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albums
A Streetcar Named Disaster
Kilk Records Sampler 2011 Summer
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Journey Through the Past
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Kilk Records Label Sampler Winter 2011
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen By Proxy
East of Edale
The Blackest Soul
A Dog Is For Christmas
The Blackest Soul EP
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Something Right Something Real
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The Grapes Of Hyman Roth
Who's afraid of Virginia Wade