Ollie - EP/Acoustic Videos NEW UPLOADS

by **ollie44** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:21 pm

Well, I know I'm probably irrelevant roud here right now seeing as how my lack of posting in the last 6 months makes me irrelevant but I know there's a few old souls who might be interested in this!

So, over the years I've done a few recordings. My first CD had 5 original songs on it. The second 7 originals and a cover of These Words by la Bedingfield. The third was more of a covers affair with Your Song and Get By With A Little Help From My Friends along with a remake of an original and a new song written in the hour leading up to the recording! So there's your potted history to my recording history. And now this new one. No originals. I haven't actually written a song in a good year now which is quite depressing and I'm getting started on that in the New Year!

Anyway, a few weeks back I sang at my Uni's Christmas Ball (supporting B*Witched, who I got to meet and who are so cool by the way!) and these are my 4 favourite songs from the night.

Please bear in mind that they have been recorded on my friends computer, little to no editing/mixing and most of them done in one take because my parents were coming to pick me up! So yeah, I'm not entirely happy with everything about them but it would take me ages to get them perfect.

1. White Christmas
2. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

by **SholasBoy** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:45 pm

Oh Ollie, I'm sure you don't even need me to say I love your versions of these songs...it's so good to hear some new material from you

Though you do realise there's only 2 tracks there and not 4?

Oh and I'm still waiting on "Dock Of The Bay" :evil:

by **ryan_9048** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:55 pm

very clean voice, very nice!

by **ollie44** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:01 pm

SholasBoy wrote:Oh Ollie, I'm sure you don't even need me to say I love your versions of these songs...it's so good to hear some new material from you Though you do realise there's only 2 tracks there and not 4?

Oh and I'm still waiting on "Dock Of The Bay"

Yeah, there's still 2 more to come (1 of which I'm very pleased with) although neither is Dock of the Bay but I'm pretty sure the recordings will be coming thick and fast now so it's definitely one for the future!

by **ollie44** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:00 am

Don't all rush in at once! :lol:

I figured seeing as I won't be on until after Christmas now then I might as well post the other two songs.

3. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
4. Ain't No Sunshine

Seasons greetings all!

by **Grybop** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:15 am

Really beautiful covers, Ollie! There is one I didn't like so much though, 'Will You Still...'. Sounds very different but failed to grab me. I hope that's not the one you're very pleased with.

Ain't No Sunshine on the other hand gave me goosebumps - amazing, amazing!

by **Virgostar** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:40 am

Have listened to Ain't No Sunshine (excellent) and now White Christmas....not a bad one there either. Dude, you're brilliant, not much more needs to be added here.

by **ollie44** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:05 am

Yeah, Ain't No Sunshine is the one I'm most pleased with. It did take an age to record though just because we had to record the vocals and guitar separately (which might explain why it sounds a bit out of sync at points) and the whole silent bit for the 'I knows' caused a few problems plus I was having a bit of a strop but it kind of worked out. The rest of it was done on the first take. I find it quite hard to listen to the recordings because there's so much I want to correct (e.g. the last verse of Sorry) but in the end, like I said, it would take days to get these 4 up to the point where I'd be happy so no point worrying about it.

The Will You Still... is a cover of a cover. Amy Winehouse did it for the 2nd Bridget Jones and I just loved it. I guess it's not to everyone's tastes!

The thing is though, I'm fed up of doing covers. Most songs are suited to an artists range and style which almost always isn't the same as mine so it will never work out exactly how I want it to. So yeah, definitely much more original stuff next year though. New Years Resolution!

Thanks for the support though!

by **Skelofect** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:13 am

Oh My God, you met B*Witched. :lol:

I'll download your songs and give you some words tomorrow...I'm just off to bed so sorry or I'd do it now. Night.

by **Grybop** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 1:41 am

You do sound out of sync a couple of times on Ain't No Sunshine. I worked a little on the file, but there's not much that can be done as it is. Will upload the result one of these days.

by **ollie44** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:08 am

BUMP

Mainly cos David lies! :cry:

by **Grybop** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:27 am

And here's that slightly toyed with version I was talking about, which ended up sounding a little muffled, but it's one more link to the song anyway, so there.

by **Skelofect** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:46 am

Sorry Ollie. I haven't been on my own PC this week...the links have expired now.

I missed my chance. :cry:

by **ollie44** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:36 am

Not entirely Davidoff! You can now catch Ain't No Sunshine on my Myspaz page which is conveniently linked in my sig and here are the other 3 (although White Christmas seems a little out of place now!)

1. Sorry Seems To Be THe Hardest Word
2. White Christmas
3. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

There, now that's good times!

by **John** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:54 am

Fantastic, as always.

I bloody love your voice. I swear on my grandma's grave I'd give you a record deal on the spot if I was working at a label, you deserve to be huge.

by **ollie44** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:39 pm

Oooh, I have videos! I did an acoustic set last Sunday and I have a few videos which I'm in the process of uploading to YouTube. This one's especially for Shane!

Sittin on the Dock of the Bay

by **ollie44** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:00 am

Another:

Crazy

by **SholasBoy** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:58 pm

ollie44 wrote:Oooh, I have videos! I did an acoustic set last Sunday and I have a few videos which I'm in the process of uploading to YouTube. This one's especially for Shane!

Sittin on the Dock of the Bay

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Well it was definitely worth the wait!! I love how you always kinda change the songs slightly and make them your own, nice one Ollie 8-)

by **ollie44** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:43 am

Do you know I performed that one especially for you? Glad you liked!

by **SholasBoy** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:32 pm

I've never had a performance dedicated to me before

by **Tiger** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:16 pm

I feel so proud :lol:

The rendition of "Crazy" is amazing Ollie - very soulful and cool! Love it

by **ollie44** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:18 pm

If anyone's interested, I uploaded this vid of me performing Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word at an Awards ceremony a couple of weeks back. I think it's better than my recorded version but make up your own mind if you so wish! I might upload a few more today, dependant on whether I can get over some of the mistakes I make in some of them...

EDIT: Here's the link:

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

I'm such a twat! :lol:

by **king_oxymoron** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:37 pm

Great stuff Ollie, you did a different note for the word 'sad' each time which threw me a bit but meant it wasn't a copycat performance! I particularly tend to love the start of your songs where you stick to the melodies but do really subtle little changes and ad libs, it's a talent. I hope they clapped you because it's not shown on the clip, noisy buggers! Great stuff mate!

by **Tiger** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:22 pm

I really like the arrangement, Ollie. Sounds like what Will Young would which is good! Nice performance.

by **MistyBisty** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:44 am

Ollie, you are a very talented young man... you'd go down well with the pixie audience, no doubt you'd top the Weeeeeed On Pot chart!

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Ollie - EP/Acoustic Videos NEW UPLOADS