By the wonders of all-the-rage social networking site Facebook, Worldview's Oliver has recently been socialising with some longlost pals from his schooldays. Among the topics of catch-up conversation were the exploits of fellow ex-school and bandmate Guy Berryman. Apparently he's now knocking about in some stadium rock outfit called Coldplay.
But it seems Guy hasn't forgotten where it all began, playing in teen band Time Out with Oliver and some other pals. The group gets a mention in his Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Berryman), and this is Guy reminiscing about those heady early days: "It was guitar and keyboards...we played terrible, terrible stuff. The best musician in the group was really into Genesis. We would agonise for hours trying to work out horrible prog rock stuff with ridiculous solos. We never got anywhere near it - we'd muck about and make a noise." That "best musician", here outing himself as a Genesis fan for the sake of fame-by-association, was Oliver Shaw himself. It's a funny old world...
Speaking of, er, stadium rock, Oliver Shaw will be treading the boards in London, at Hoxton's Troy Bar on August 15th, performing an acoustic set. And he has two dates lined up later in the year at Oxford's student-friendly Purple Turtle, one an acoustic set and the other likely to be a very dance-y outing for his full Worldview.
Source: http://worldview.vox.com
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