This popped up in the comments, and deserves a wider audience:
Slightly off-topic but as a website that I know has a history of Ooberman coverage, have you seen that they've put up their new album under The Magic Theatre name up here as a series of HD YouTube videos. Got my copy of the CD yesterday and it's lovely stuff.
Thanks for the tip, anonymous. It's described as the "music you hear as you fall asleep", but that might depend on if you sleep the sleep of the just or your dreams start with the pained howling of the futility of life.
At this point, a quick tip of the hat to WayneClancy1's YouTube stuff, which is a veritable Oobertrove of goodness, before moving on to a 2000 Awards show performance of Bees:
This is not, perhaps, the finest hour. The track is brilliant, but the re-release as a final single for Independiente Records saw a clunking video being churned out. This clunking video, to be precise:
Last weekend, in the comments on the Shonen Knife story, the conversation turned to Ooberman, and if it wasn't about time there was an Ooberman weekend.
Clinging to this as evidence of "public demand", like Cameron getting the results of a focus group, here we go with an Ooberman weekend then.
An honorary Liverpool band (Danny once even did a training course in a converted school in Everton, which is probably more Liverpool than most Liverpool bands manage, although he did wear an admiral's coat for much of the time), and one of the truly great lost bands of recent years. Although - but for the glorious era when Radio One had both Radcliffe and Peel in more-or-less slots where people were awake - they might have been even more lost.
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