25-08-2008 | have spermkake
thanks to the akkerpop crowd and crew! we surely had a splendid time last saturday. check out peter uytdehage's pictures of our set right there. next up: the king of the kaloot kitesurf finals and bbq party! martijn is away on vacation then, but all on black's kees haverkampf will fill in on drums so god help us all. my guess is that we will fail miserably and will end up naked and covered in feces in a matter of minutes. be there to witness this already legendary event. and, we've just entered the top 10 in the watt rotterdam list! thanks so much for voting, if you haven't done it already then please do so now! super mega ultra thanks.
19-08-2008 | vote for pedro
go to watt's website or myspace and vote otis! thank you! and, this saturday we're playing at akkerpop with a whole bunch of other bands so feel free to drop by. the admission is zero and the beer is cheap.
02-08-2008 | cast the first stone
we have just completed a mixdown of one of the songs from the upcoming album. the thing is called "cast the first stone" and you might have heard it already because it has been in our live set for some time now. download it by right-clicking-and-saving-as right here or listen to it on our myspace and / or hyves accounts.
11-07-2008 | she had nothing on but the radio
to all the people in breda, etten-leur, oosterhout and surrounding areas: tune in to 107.3 fm in the ether and 92.9 fm via cable tonight to hear us and a very special guest talk shit on the radio. to the rest of planet earth: click right thurr. we're on between eight-thirty and ten. click here for heksenketel pics...
18-06-2008 | It's like Titanic with bears
overmorgen spelen we in de heksenketel dus beter ben je erbij.
03-06-2008 | the drunken boat
the first sessions at 195 are in the pocket. the next few months we will return frequently to do more damage and come out with the thing we shall call "the drunken boat". check out the studioreport here to see trained professionals showing you how it's done. also added some older videos to the video section, check 'em out.
27-05-2008 | i follow the moskva down to gorky park
listening to the wind of change.
18-05-2008 | I totally want to cut off your skin and wear it to my birthday
next saturday we're playing at the vera together with the shock so it's surely gonna be a night to remember. check out the awesome poster here. and make sure to go see the unborn play with cursed in amsterdam tomorrow.
16-05-2008 | 3voor12 gefeliciteerd
vpro's 3voor12 has been around for exactly 10 years now. to celebrate this the breda department invited us a few months ago to play this show which was aired on 3voor12 tv yesterday! if you missed this precious moment in rock history you can check out the livestream right there. fast forward to 2h28m to see otis.
25-04-2008 | new cd in the works
we are currently writing and rehearsing lots of new stuff. recording will start in less than a month at patrick delabie's lair so expect a new record sometime near the end of the year. working title: "kim holland's next top models". as you can see we did our first real photoshoot so we can safely say we finally sold out. thanks to peter uytdehage for taking the pic, check out a huge version in the photo section. more to see: there's finally a decent video section on this site, with a.o. the podium bloos show! older films coming soon as we get to it.
06-04-2008 | dolfijnenkenker
the tour is postponed to sometime later this year, don't even start. see you later europe. check out pictures and videos from the shows we did the last couple of weeks: first we got 3voor12 breda photos, next month this show plus an interview by willem jongeneelen will be aired on national television! more info coming soon. then there's pics from the other show in breda and the party back home. lots of filmed footage from this last show can be found here. thanks to hans wilders for filming this, his footage from the other show will be up here soon. massive respect to everyone involved, we had great times all the way. so what's next? this friday we will talk the talk live on kink fm so you'd better tune in. peace out.
12-03-2008 | 3voor12! local shows!
before our little voyage into europe we got some nice things going on close to home this month. next week we got a gig in gilze on saturday, and the rest of the pinksterweekend we're spreading the disease in breda: on sunday we got podium bloos and the day after that we're playing live on 3voor12 in café vulling. but first, this coming sunday we're doing the moshmeeting in roosendaal together with born from pain and a lot more. the party starts at 14:00 and we will close down het verkadehuis at 21:00 sharp. be! there!
09-03-2008 | kink fm! france! spain!
one month from now (april 11) we're gonna pay the kink fm studio in hilversum a little visit so make sure you’ve got your radio tuned in. the week after that we’re gonna do some shows in france and spain with our spanish friends from two dead cats! check out the shows section right now, more info and more shows coming up. and, the photos from the show in deurne are here.
11-02-2008 | naakt
shitload of new pics added.
24-01-2008 | punk is verzet
because ivo has died of aids earlier today, july knives and circus bon voyage will be replaced by human demise tonight. eindhoven gek.
19-01-2008 | these carrots are not gonna ejaculate themselves
long time no update. oh well. been busy. feast your eyes on the photos linda stulic took in tilburg and breda while we were rocking the place. damn fine! and there's more where that came from: her photos of the 013 show are coming up soon. next thursday you must come on over to eindhoven to see us share the stage with the hunger (nicocore), july knives (rap music) and circus bon voyage (loud noises). i truly hope cbv won't live up to their reputation as spoiled divas like they did in breda a while back (they cancelled the show on the spot due to the fact that the venue didn't take their catering rider seriously) so we can all relive the magic like i myself witnessed at the show these urban legends gave in bergen op zoom last summer. we'll see. more news: we're about to make a video for a remixed version of "spotting wolverines" which will be featured in the motion picture deal and on its soundtrack. the people of inner circle film are in charge of this project, and we are psyched beyond belief to be a part of this. thanks john!
29-11-2007 | Nobody fucks with the Jesus
tomorrow night we will be playing at 013's kleine zaal at 20:00 sharp! after our set you can feast your eyes at the mighty coliseum and harmful featuring billy gould.
08-11-2007 | is this thing on?
stadsradio breda invited us in their studio again so you can hear us talk shit on the air this friday between 20:00 and 22:00 on 107.3 fm (ether) or 92.9 fm (cable) if you live in the breda area. the rest of planet earth can listen to it online. more on otis in breda: we got pictures from the show at the boulevard a week or so ago here, and we're doing the kink fm thing at the mezz on friday 16th. b there or b square.
17-10-2007 | jot
a last minute show in breda has been added! next week we'll be playing at the boulevard together with the real danger and antillectual and more. and, coliseum has been added to the bill on november 30th in 013, en wij zijn officieel de oudste mensen ooit met een hyves account.
03-10-2007 | still d.r.e.
it's been a while since the last update. the past couple of months we've been busy travelling europe, renovating houses, working on the unborn's debut 10" vinyl and partying almost too much. upcoming otis stuff: we're gonna make a video for a remixed version of spotting wolverines, and next year we got a european tour coming up so please contact us if you can help! thanks. also check out the shitload of raving reviews the album has received so far. and, everybody come see us next month when we'll be playing at the mezz on kink fm's dutch delight party and when we're supporting harmful at 013 right? we got lots of new songs ready for y'all, bearing titles such as "two headed giant" and "not impressed by your gaping wound" to name a few. peace.
30-07-2007 | meldy peaches
added a video archive to the site where you can see a surprise performance by the meldy peaches during the last part of our set in eindhoven last friday. it was wild. us and the girls got some crazy stuff lined up for y'all so keep an eye out for that. more news as we get to it. to everyone trying to get in touch: i (mario) will be gone for a couple of weeks so e-mail barry or martijn instead. see ya.
01-07-2007 | bla
our new album is harvesting lots of good reviews, check 'em out in the press section. also check out the nifty mp3 player i added to the music section, now you can listen to the entire album online! to all you peeps living in the eindhoven area: come check us out on the 21st at the rambler and the 27th at area 51. eindhoven de gekste.
18-06-2007 | donde está la cerveza
as promised the pictures from our trip to spain and back.
15-06-2007 | My erection has nothing to do with you
our very first shows abroad turned out great! we had an amazing weekend down south, thanks to yohan and celine in tours, l'anthem syndicate in bordeaux and two dead cats from girona. they gave us cool shows, places to sleep and nice afterparties. thanks y'all! i'll put the pictures online soon. expect lots of male nudity. another good thing was last friday, when we partied hard in tilburg with the vatican analog clique, anaphylactic shock, rush 'n attack and the lovely meldy peaches. the day after we rocked the boho in bergen op zoom together with july knives and the amazing circus bon voyage. surely a name to look out for. and, click here to read the first review of our new cd! woehoe!
24-05-2007 | new cd and new shirt available now
thanks to everyone who came down to our release show! we got photos from that night and from the day after (in groningen) online here. yes it's true: the cd is out! we've also picked up new t-shirts at bandmerchandise today. thanks for the great service guys! for those of you interested in the new items send e-mail but you'll have to wait until next week for an answer because we're leaving for france and spain tomorrow morning! bob miller himself will be driving so it's gonna be a wild ride because he crazy.
03-05-2007 | I'm a get get get get you drunk get you love drunk off my hump
our cd is now in the hands of the good people from tapes rotterdam so we finally have a release date: the thing is gonna be unleashed upon us by black death on may 19th and we're gonna have a party in de oude danserije in roosendaal with our good friends from daily fire, gomer pyle and the missing coins. that night only we're having a discount so we can hook you up with a copy for only five euros. how nice of us. the day after we're invited to play in groningen at nico's birthday party together with rush 'n attack and a lot more so i think that weekend is as cool as it can possibly get. but first: next saturday, our last show before the album, and the first show with onno in west-brabant. hope to see you there. and oh yeah, check out the pics from our show in haarlem.
13-04-2007 | viva la france!
we're planning a weekend in france at the end of may! we're looking for shows on friday 25-5 and sunday 27-5. anyone who can help us out: let us know! merci beaucoup. check out nra's blog for more about this, in french. thanks gwynn!
10-04-2007 | death to false metal
last saturday vincent himself handed us the master so the new album is almost there! check out a brand new mp3 called dead air right there or on our myspace page. i have posted the album's tracklist hiero. 40 minutes of true black metal!
02-04-2007 | michel bedankt!
check out the pictures from michel's farewell show!
26-03-2007 | that's the way I like it baby I don't wanna live forever
the place to be this saturday is the internationaal (the bar formerly known as wally's place) in roosendaal rock city, where you can witness michel's very last show with otis. other bands playing are tenement kids, all on black and restless youth. more news: we are proud to welcome the new guy aboard! at first onno only wanted to help us out doing some shows here and there but he somehow found time to rock with us 24-7 just like he did in these pictures. check us out soon! the latest on the album: we hope it's out next month and i have just finished the artwork! check out the front cover!
20-02-2007 | here come the pigs
check it out! we got a brand new website as of now! there's also a new mp3 on it which can be found here or on our myspace. yes, it's true, the work at 195 is finally done. we have been recording shit for months but all 13 songs have been mixed last week by none other than vincent koreman and patrick delabie. vince is gonna master the thing soon and the artwork is almost ready so expect this piece of rock history being shoved down your throat within months. if you happen to have a record label or lots of money: call us! and come see us with onno tonight in zwolle!
13-02-2007 | blue steel
added photos from the shows in sint oedenrode and groningen. marvel at some short mpg clips from the vera show right here: clip one clip two clip three.
31-01-2007 | michel onno tonny john noortje
due to an extremely busy personal life michel has decided to part ways with otis to focus on his family. we deeply regret his departure but good luck and happiness to them, and thanks a hell of a lot for everything so far. michel's final otis shows will be on 17-2 in leiden and 31-3 in roosendaal. some good news: we're not out of the running because of this so don't stop booking us! michel's temporarily replacement goes by the name of onno and his first shows with us are on 10-2 in sint oedenrode and 20-2 in zwolle. thanks for helping us out dude! we're now looking for a highly motivated bass player (m/v) from the west-brabant area who is willing to sacrifice a lot of free time to rock and party. contact us if you got what it takes. more good news: we did an incredible covershoot for the upcoming album! we would like to thank tonny for shooting amazing pictures, and john and noortje for posing their asses off in the freezing cold. check out a sneak preview right here!
12-01-2007 | I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell
good times in eindhoven last saturday! lots of (old) friends in the house. the nra were great again and so was restless youth. what's next? well, we've got a couple of shows together with callisto from finland and our friends from daily fire. and yesterday we finished recording the forthcoming album, we're gonna mix and master the thing next month. i hope i'll also have the artwork ready by then so we can probably maybe hopefully make our very nice show at wally's the release party. so, check back soon for some new mp3's, and photos from the upcoming but already legendary covershoot...
17-12-2006 | straight bourbon redneeeeecks!
last friday was amazing! tenement kids were pretty cool and nra played one of the best shows i've seen so far this year. next: january 6th at dynamo in eindhoven together with the aforementioned bands plus restless youth. it doesn't get any better than that folks, so see you then. prettig uiteinde.
05-12-2006 | on the edge of a dutch canal
crawling back up after the unfortunate events last month: as you can see otis and patrick delabie are currently working really hard at studio 195 to record our debut full length. these sessions will be interrupted on the 12th to get busy on radio mortale and on the 15th to play this years final otis show at 013 together with the almighty tenement kids and the even almightier nra.
06-11-2006 | fire
yesterday most of michel's house was destroyed by fire so we cancelled all upcoming activities. thank god michel and his family are unharmed, we wish them the best of luck to recover from this tragedy.
03-11-2006 | ooh pip pip cancelled
Due to sustained injuries THE OOH PIP PIP OOH PIP PIP YEAH have cancelled all upcoming shows. That will show you not to attempt a human pyramid while being very drunk in a small dressing room. tomorrow at the vera in groningen they will be replaced by the cocaine driven stoner rock monster gomer pyle. more news about replacements next week, when we will be playing in rotterdam, tilburg and klazienaveen with god knows who...
27-10-2006 | yada yada yada
had fun and hangovers in october so far and we're wrapping up this month tomorrow in nieuw-vossemeer together with the good people from lennard and gomer pyle to name a few. to promote this event some newspaper interviewed us so check it out. more good stuff: november will bring us 4 shows with the ooh pip pip ooh pip pip yeah and following that is recording our first album! psyched already. 195 here we come!
09-10-2006 | if you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball
friday the pitt in roosendaal will close down after being the coolest metaldisco in town since i was old enough to drink. already a legendary evening, so come on over to collect memoribilia because the next day the building will be levelled... the week after that we'll be playing at the king of the kaloot fest on the beach of borssele, right next to the chain reactor. for only €15 unlimited quantities of alcohol will be yours! party time denk.
23-09-2006 | fuck the police
the show at the bar en boos tonight just got cancelled because all crime in leiden and surrounding areas was solved so the police had time to do this... more news: new t-shirts. see you in tilburg tomorrow.
11-09-2006 | diversity is an old wooden ship
back from vacations all over the continent which means otis is ready to rock again. we got new music, new shows, and in a short while: new releases. first up is a compilation cd for the ragwear clothing company which will feature the absolute cream of the dutch crop like all on black, omission, tenement kids, and malkovich. thanks ivo! besides that we're also on the vatican analog compilation and at the end of november we're out to record a full-length album. make sure to see us live this month to hear a bunch of new songs! we're playing at a cool show in leiden, at the zuid bij zuidwest festival, and at the very first hospital beds (ex-stockholm syndrome, ex-envy the west) show in breda. and that's just september, we got more shows booked for the rest of the year. never enough though, so book us right now!
03-08-2006 | other bands play manowar kill
tomorrow we'll probably have the time of our lives playing with the ooh pip pip ooh pip pip yeah, gastric female reflex, crank sturgeon and filthy turd. it's a free show so please drop by at the little devil bar in tilburg to bang your fucking head or to get feces thrown at you. hasta mañana! and, we've booked studio 195 again, this time to record a full-length album. working title: good cop bad mood. check back soon for more news. and for the meaning of life.
05-07-2006 | you couldn't protect a cup of warm piss
check out the pictures from most of the shows we did last month! we had some killer times thanks to joep, the guys in daily fire, the b sharps, all on black, and nico swaf. if you happen to have photos from the shows in roosendaal and amsterdam (thanks bart!) please e-mail them and earn everlasting gratitude. next friday you can hear us getting interviewed and we're spinning some of our favourite records on stadsradio breda, so if you live somewhere in the breda area then tune in to 107.3 fm (ether) and 92.9 fm (cable) on friday from eight until ten o' clock. the day after you must represent at the boulevard around nine because we will be performing there together with engine of doom. peace out.
20-06-2006 | p.a.r.t.y.
we'll be playing four shows next weekend with a.o. daily fire, the b sharps and all on black in the cities of roosendaal, alphen aan de rijn, hoorn and amsterdam. the kick-off is next friday around nine in rockendale. check various flyers concerning these events here, here, here and here. and did i mention the split 10" with daily fire is finally out? hell, we've even got t-shirts; check the merch section! i guess we forgot to tell you all this because of all the excitement around michel and stephanie's little girl kris, who's doing great by the way. that's it for now! we're expecting you up front this weekend so don't you forget to bring the mosh.
04-06-2006 | kris!
yesterday michel and stephanie became the proud parents of a baby girl named kris! she was born seven weeks early but she and her parents are doing just fine. gefeliciteerd!
24-05-2006 | ex-gladiator
just got back from studio 195 where we recorded a song called ex-gladiator for an upcoming compilation cd which should be out after the summer. we had some time left so we recorded another song in no time and it turned out pretty good. check out the pictures from these sessions here.
04-05-2006 | natural born firemen
starting next month we'll be playing all over holland together with our friends from the b sharps, daily fire, all on black and engine of doom so if you miss out on it all you probably suck. or, you probably don't live in holland. check out the shows section to find out where the parties are at! and check out the pictures from our show in hardenberg last month! also, in a few weeks we'll be returning to our beloved studio 195 to record a song for a compilation. more news on that, as well as the brand new 10" records, a.s.a.p.
27-03-2006 | photos
check out pictures from the shows in tilburg and ossendrecht in the photo section.
24-03-2006 | bob hope that i might one night stand a chance
tomorrow there's a free show featuring yours truly at the dennenheuvel squat located in the woods near ossendrecht, and next week we will be representing and rockin' out at the unity rally in hardenberg. check out the flyers here and here. more shows coming up, as well as 10 inches of fucking vinyl.
22-01-2006 | 5 terrorists going southeast on bakalakadaka street
our stage debut was a blast! i think we played an okay first set, and it was a great party indeed. thanks to the folks from kill caress and the little devil bar. look at the pictures! what's next? we'll be supporting rye coalition on their only headlining dutch show apart from the foo fighters tour! 013's where the party's at, february 1st. tilburg baby. also, check us out at hxcmp3.com/otis for no reason whatsoever.
26-12-2005 | myspace
check out myspace.com/spottingwolverines. th@nkz 4 tha addd!
05-12-2005 | recording!
we hope to have a split release with the fuckers from daily fire out somewhere around spring 2006, when we will be playing our very first shows. stay tuned for that! in the meantime, here are some shots of us recording our part of the deal at studio 195 with patrick delabie. you can check out one of the songs at the mp3 section.
13-10-2005 | online as fuck
welcome to the brand new (or very first) otis website. there's nothing to say yet except that we've finally got the line-up for this new band complete, and this site is still under construction. but, here we are....
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