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Thursday, September 11, 2008

"hey stu! whats going on!?"

not a whole lot,broski!

i cant believe i have been home almost 3 weeks...jebus!
soooooo....

the liberation transmission tour is over and im both stoked and gutted....
we have played some of the most memorable shows of our career in the last 2 years since the record came out,it has been a total fucking howdy doody..
the arena shows were awesome,download was amazing,the warm up shows are always amazing,V fest was amazing,AMAZING!we totally missed lee on the 2nd show of V but he had some family worries, but everything turned out ok and thats the main thing.

its weird doing shows without someone,like missing an arm or something....luckily it was mikes birthday that day so birthday boy got all the guitar love!
riffmeister plus!

playing japan is always awesome,got to watch prodigy and they were top class,i was a wee bit drunk so i got my freaky deaky on,it was fucking stellar!
jamie knows all the moves man!

got to hang in japan with KIGH who are fun dudes and always stylin'....met up with the beat union who wanted a bit of mischeif and got it....got to laugh at the dudes from trivium,who take things waaay too seriously,bless em.....got on more broken down buses than is funny,took more flights than supes, and then in paris i got to see rage against the machine.which was nice!

i wont list all the bands we have hung with and friends i have made over the last couple of years but its been good fucking times,lemme tell you.

anyways...

so right now we are currently waiting to go into the studio,we are aiming to start oct1 st and bash out the songs quick stylee,we would have started the day we finished touring but studios and producers have these bizzare things called schedules.....
what the fuck is that!?
all the songs are written,we are gonna spend a week fine tuning and then we are gonna bash it out,we want to get this record out as quick as humanly possible while keeping the glorious standard that which we are known for!!(insert insult here)
its gonna be amazing,ian has some awesome shit on this record,you guys are gonna be super double stoked.... the rest of us will be backing him up like motherfuckers!
tally ho

....thats all the info we gots right now!

we already recorded a bunch of stuff with funky john feldmann last year but felt we maybe rushed into the studio too quick.(it was about 10 months after lib tran came out)
right now who knows which songs will make the record?......well actually,the BEST fucking songs will make the record!

anywhooo..

since i got home i have been building a small bedrrom studio(small) in my house,
(my daughter stole my studio room,how selfish!!!haha)
me and my buddy justin have been mixing an EP that mike, ian and myself produced for our good friends "the new 1920".
its fucking storming even if i do say so myself!it was recorded in a garage in the quickest possible time to keep it full of flavour.the guys did a blinding job.
zaaaaang!
we are mastering monday so it should be on the interlog the next fucking day!

$$$SHAMELESS PROMOTION$$$.......(but fuck it,its for our fellow welshmen,we gots to stick together!)
here goes...

check http://www.myspace.com/thenew1920 for new tunes coming soon...just get on there and show em the love,tell em i sent you!
like i said awesome guys,awesome tunes....awesome!


just mixed a b side for attack attack which may or may not be on their new single,
good news is their single is free so go to http://www.myspace.com/attackattackband to check shit out.
album is out soon!
im told you can get a free single download from http://vista.streamguys.com/jspiewak/aa_test.wma.
share the wealth...

also go check out our buddies FFAFs new shit,romesh their producer(who is turning into wales premier studio wizard!), sent me some new songs and obviously its fucking pretty rad shit!
i dont need to post links for this do i?you guys already got em im sure!
......pretty gutted gareth left FFAF,it was always good times seeing him at festivals and watching him rock out,but i know he is onto new things,so i wish him the best.


ok
im spent.......

im going to disneyland with cada!

Taken from a myspace bulletin from MIH on Friday, it seems like there may be some new ones on their way soon:


OMG
Its pretty safe to say that if you put a quid or 2 away a day...you'll have something fancy to spend it on in a few.


x

Apparently one of the songs to be featured on the New Guitar Hero game, will be Rooftops. This is according to wikipedia, and referenced by the September issue of the Official Xbox magazine. Any more info we will let you all know asap

xxx

Thanks to various people from megalolz for finding these video's

V festival 2008 performance
NME interview Ian
Jamie and Lee interview
Signing Tent/Jamie and Lee
New song "These streets of nowhere"

enjoy xxx

The boys have been playing lots of gigs lately, and we have lots of fab photo’s up in our brand new gallery that we have been busy working on

click here for op4am gallery

The gallery has over 4,000 pictures, scans etc for you to enjoy.

Black Velvet magazine has some fantastic pictures from last nights gig that you can see by clicking the link below, so be sure to check these beauties out

Black Velvet Magazine

xxx

You can now download an op4am.com toolbar which will work in FireFox and internet explorer for free from the link below. Our toolbar has built in RSS feeds that will tell you when the boys update any of their blogs, or if we update our myspace.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE OP4AM TOOLBAR

 

Next Wednesday the shortlist is announced, so untill then we need you all to vote vote and vote again.

We need you crazy fools, to help get those last few votes in. we need you to wear your fingers to the bone, cheat, lie, blackmail everyone and get those votes in

http://www.kerrangawards.com/kerrangawards/categories.shtml

We think everyone should in particular aim for Best British Band, and help them get the triple this year!!! come on we can do it...

xxxx

op4am has an Angel called lucy and she has brought you all these lovely gifts to share..

Rocksound scan of Ian

Rocksound Download Review

YouTube - Rock Am Ring Interview Part 1

YouTube - Rock Am Ring Interview Part 2
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YouTube - Rock Am Ring Interview Part 3

Megaupload Part One.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YFRBT372
Megaupload Part Two
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HDGYNSQS

Megaupload Part Three

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YM1160PJ

enjoy and Thankies to Lucy xxx

Thanks to scott B for finding this

Punktastic interview

xxx

The boys posted a bulletin a few day’s ago

As you all know the Kerrang! Awards are coming up soon, and like anyone else we’d love to grab a K! this year.

Show your support by voting for us:

BEST BRITISH BAND - http://www. kerrangawards. com/kerrangawards/vote-bestbritishband. shtml

AND ALSO FOR BEST LIVE BAND!! - http://www. kerrangawards. com/kerrangawards/vote-liveband. shtml

We’ve just signed up for this funky text messaging service called SwarmTribes which connects music fans (that’s you) directly with the members of their favourite bands (that’s us).

Believe it or not its totally free so it wont cost you anything to use except for the measly cost of a standard text message if you decide to reply back to us - which we hope you will. And don’t worry you don’t get anything downloaded on your mobile phone either and we totally promise we won’t pass on your details to anyone else.

To join our Tribe so that you will have an instant hotline to all the news about us and to let us hear what you think about our music and gigs simply click the link below

http://www. SwarmTribes. com/Public/getswarming. aspx?sname=lostproph

Alternatively you can just text JOIN lostproph to 07781482909

Also if you sign-up fast we promise you will be one of the first to hear about some new ideas we have for rewarding our best fans and helping them to help us.

Keep on rocking!

We still arent really sure what the Swarmtribe is about, but it does look like it is free, unless you choose to reply on your phone to things. The Admin has posted this on the Swarm message board

Hey Guys, just to let you know LP r due to go live very very soon with tribes. Hope u can be patient with us in the interim!

By Live, i mean the band start engaging with the tribe...how soon ? I will post more start of next week. Thanks

We have a discussion going on a thread here on megalolz.com because we are all intrigued and confused, but it looks like ot will be fun, so come along and join the tribe xxx

WE have some audio downloads for you of Burn Burn and Last train Home, from this years Download festival.

Unfortunately because of messed up links, you will have to go to our site to get them, or alternatively Megalolz.com will have them up very soon in their audio section

Click here for Downloads

Enjoy

xxx

It's that time of year again.
Here's the link

http://www.kerrangawards.com/kerrangawards/categories.shtml

The categories are
Best British Newcomer
Best International Newcomer
Best Live Band
Best Single
Best Album
Best British Band
Best International Band

The short lists will be published on 23rd July
Happy voting!

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Thought we would share this video with you all that one of the op4am girls, Gemma, recorded from the Astoria gig the other night. It was after everyone had chanted the usual chants of “Godzilla, Godzilla”.

Enjoy x

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyy0wjZD7eE

Sorry for the delay this week, but a big thankyou to Lucy from megalolz for getting this scanned. Enjoy xxx

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...scan0004-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...scan0005-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...scan0006-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...scan0007-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...scan0008-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...scan0009-1.jpg

Thank you to falling Angel from the megalolz forum for finding this gem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP8Cki-n0_E

 After last nights very successful Cardiff Interactive thread over on megalolz.com, we will be doing an Astoria interactive thread, with all the action from tonights show live as it happens. So come and join in on the action, and find out what op4am gets up to tonight xxx