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jen
Olive
this is my shack
where i recorded
'Warm Robot'
WELCOME....
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Hi Everyone...
So, this is the new site... easier to get around I think, but if you still want the crazy.. I got your crazy on the back page -
because let's face it, I can't live with out it :)
Anyway... there are lots of cool things happening:
Tour dates are lining up.
And brace yourselves...
We have a release date! No, it's true!
March 29, 2010... write it down and tell your friends :)
I've got a few vidoes in the works... and some other exciting things that I'm not exactly at liberty to say right now... but trust me, it's good...
So... look around a bit... and hey...send me a note if ya like... it's always nice to hear from people...
See ya soon... and thanks for coming by :)
xojen
inside the shack
recording 'here i go'
my notes for
'robot boy'
last days in L.A.
the cd that started it all...ha!
albuquerque or bust :)
doing setlist 4 girly rock show
news...
Feb 3, 2010
Ape Loves Haiti AlbumDate: 02/02/10
We folks at APE were moved, as i'm sure you all were, by the recent terrible events in Haiti. APE artist Jen Olive suggested that we organise something to help, so we are. We have put together a download album called APE LOVES HAITI, and all money from it will go to the DEC {disasters emergency committee} appeal.
All of our artists have contributed a track,with some real exclusives in there,including...
Milk and Honey Band,'LOVE' a track from a forthcoming project. Jen Olive 'FRANSCRAMS',a number from her forthcoming album Warm Robot. An exclusive Monstrance cut. A never before released live version of 'KING STRUT' from Peter Blegvad with Michael Penn's band. A very hot off the press number by The Clubmen,'GIVE ME YOUR WATER' from their debut album coming later this year.Irelands finest Pugwash with 'SONG FOR YOU' from the soon come expanded release of their Eleven Modern Antiquities album....and more.
The whole album will cost you only £5.00, but we are looking into how we can accept more money if you feel the human urge to donate more to this very worthy cause. Stay tuned as we hope to have it all ready for you, with full tracklisting, in about a week.
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This is the new site... I couldn't transfer the news over for some reason... well the reason is I couldn't figure out how to do it... haha...so I figured I'd just do a little timeline type of thing to catch it all up to date.
so...
January, 2010
Artwork is completed..Warm Robot is going to print.
Tour is being coordinated for the Spring and an offocial release date is set for March 29, 2010! YAY!!!!
June-October, 2009
Progress was halted when I fell ill with ulcers and heartbreak and things of the like..... :(
To see pictures of the holes in my stomach click here . Jeez...I'm kidding...that would just be gross.
June, 2009
The mastering is done
April, 2009
Andy finishes mixing the mixing
February, 2009
I sign on the dotted line... and sell my soul to Andy Partridge... haha :)
December, 2008
I have finished the final recording for the record!
March, 2008
Studio is a bust... I buy a computer and decide to do it myself... oh jeez.
August, 2007
I have officially moved to New Mexico...what the hell?
July, 2007
I get an email from Andy telling me he likes my songs... and how about a chat?
June, 2007
On the suggestion of a friend, I send a cd to Andy Partridge
This is whne I first learned how to play... early twenties... and that guitar back there is the same one I still play and also the one on the record :)
my ever changing moods... :)
snooze... (about me)
So...it goes like this:
I was born in Southern California , but I was raised pretty much everywhere from New York to L.A. My mom and dad were both musicians, nomadic by nature ... and both were certifiable... which is obviously genetic.
I loved music but refused lessons... I taught myself piano around age 4... clarinet at 8.... but the discovery of guitar around 19 was the major breakthrough.... I had learned classical pieces on piano but didn't really write songs. With the guitar tho, I started writing immediately. In fact, I only ever learned one cover song all the way through... and that was "Precious" by the Pretenders... I just had to say.... 'but not me baby, I'm too precious..Fuck Off!"
I played in a few bands in the beginning.... but by 25, I had definitely settled into a solo thing.
I played a lot of shows in a lot of places under a lot of different names, none of which I will reveal to you....hahah...I was very into the idea of anonymous music and things like that... I can't ruin it now :) However, I did sell a load of cassettes and cd's under all of these names... so maybe the past will come to haunt me someday.. ha!
On the advice of a friend, I sent a cd to one Mr.Andy Partridge in June of 2007... he called me up in July and the rest they say... is history... did I just say that? How clowny!
But that's the long and short of it all....
The record is set for release in March of 2010... and so begins the next chapter in the illustrious life of the woman (that would be me) now called, Jen Olive.
<--- home is where the heart is :)
airplane shoes... (tour 2010)
April 8, 2010 8:30 pm Swindon
The Vic
88 Victoria Road
Swindon, Wiltshire
SN1 3BD
01793 535713
www.thevicswindon.com
April 12, 2010 Time : TBA Leeds
The Gaslight Club
Oporto
33 Call Lane
Leeds LS1 7BT
United Kingdom
Show on Map
Tel: 0113 243 4008
Web: oportobar.co.uk/
www.myspace.com/gaslightcluboporto
April 15, 2010 8:00pm London
eARmusic _ Monkey Chews
2 Queen's Crescent
London, NW5 4EP, United Kingdom
020 7267 6406
www.monkeychews.com
http://tinyurl.com/earmusictickets
clues...
blues/muse/booze/emus...
enter
down
the
rabbit
hole...
