Phasefest stuff...

This took a while to get to, but it's for a legit reason - I had to go back to school and do bulletin boards and that sort of stuffs..and it totally monopolized every ounce of energy I had. Anyways, let's talk about PhaseFest! It was an exciting event all around. Everyone was extremely gracious and kind to us. I'd like to personally thank the following totally awesome people for helping me carry drum crap: members of Pariah Piranha, goddess bless you for making load-in so frickin' mind-blowingly fast and painless it's unbelievable, other assorted OGO's, Claire, and Em for making moving stuff up and down the steps, through a totally packed crowd, and out the door again, completely painless. Yay tiny drums and lots of help!

Back to the fest itself. Loads of very different performances and people. Very cool. The band is thoroughly enjoying their goody bag courtesy of Riot Grrrl, Ink. Also - thanks for being such a sweet organizer and host, Mara Levi! God-dess & She get added to the official list of performers Tawni will not sing after...(and it's a short list..haha..so that means a lot!)

You may also notice these totally frickin' beautiful pictures taken by Alex Hickcox..who is never gonna stop getting invitations from me to come take pictures of us..ever again..seriously these photos are amazing (and I hear there's more that have yet to be organized/posted online...so keep checking back here for them).

And speaking of Alex's first official band invitation, it was to our Fantabulous CD release party last night at Fletcher's. It was such a nice turn-out...we really cannot express enough gratitude to everyone for all their support from the start of this band back in 2004 up through today...thanks for bearing with us as we traded up in membership and got our acts officially together. It was worth it...we hope you think so too! Pics from that show will be forthcoming (right Alex? ;) ) And now...we've got some super hot tickets for you. Mark your calendars...we haven't been back to the Recher since the time we only actually had 2 original songs...and we are very excited to return. The show's on Thursday, September 13. 7pm Doors. $7. All-ages. We've got tix in advance. We're playing along with Bearded Sword, Maddison (we saw your tagging of the merch table at Fletcher's last night), and Armed Elephant. Come out and rock out along with us for this one!

Guess who...

..got selected to endorse Daisy Rock Girl Guitars!?! Duh, it's us. We're really excited about this one. We should be appearing in their list of artists very very soon! Yay!

Metro Weekly Cover

Ah...so there's our dear drummer (me) on the cover of the current Metro Weekly along with Alex Voegele (with guitar), and K. Love the Infinite..both of whom were totally awesome to talk to during and after this shoot. The cover is in honor of PhaseFest, which goes down this weekend. Here's the cover story from this edition. We're very excited about the whole thing...and think it's going to be loads of fun. There's a diverse collection of music all three nights (it starts tonight, btw), and some other...shall we say very interesting demonstrations..which you can just go read about for yourself.

They also did a phone interview, and we have our own little interview section about OGO. I guess cell phones make it hard to hear the interviewee...b/c it should be that we sound something like The Donna's instead of The Madonna's...although what if there was a band composed of just various stages of Madonna...early "punk" Madonna with lace gloves, Blond Ambition Madonna, cut mommy Madonna...that would be sort of totally awesome (note to self: next band=The Madonna's). Anyway...don't worry, OGO hasn't changed membership (again)....this second picture is just from the inside pages of the feature story about PhaseFest in general (although it would be totally beautiful to have some sort of hip-hop stylings placed over one of our songs a-la-these guys over Blue Sky Traffic (as I mentioned in a posting about Hagerstown)).

Gay Life Interview

Full text of the Gay Life interview just got online here. I like that!...thanks Rahne!..."turning local music scene on its ear"..indeed, indeed! There's more press to tell you about tomorrow...but I'm gonna wait to post it until it's live online.

Some press stuff!

We're the music interview in the current edition of Baltimore Gay Life...now if they'd only update the one online...I could point to it (if not, I will transcribe here at a later point in time)...in any event, go pick one up in person if you want a looksie right now.

Also in the August 2007 edition of Music Monthly under the Dear Readers section by Susie Mudd. Squint real hard at the list of handwritten-looking text and you can see us on line seven from the top of the list. They don't put full text online...it says:

"I recently turned onto this cool five women group called Odd Girl Out. They kick some major ass. The group includes Tawni on lead vocals, Bethany Petr does drums and sings, as do Eva Blackmer, Kristen Brzowsky on guitar, and Selena Benally also on guitar and vocals. They have just released their debut CD, Hurry Up and Wait which is available now.

They have won Battle of the Band contests. They have blown people away with their power pop punk music. Having been influenced by many great women rockers. Together they have created some cool stuff. Listen for their debut CD…it will rock you, too. They have gigged at all the major clubs in the region, and you can see them in Baltimore, Virginia, and they recently played in Toronto…"