What Hands Are For- 3a/?
anonymous
September 10 2013, 21:21:51 UTC
It took a few more sessions with David and his friends for Nick's joining them to mess around and play music with them to become a regular thing. It went from something he'd do maybe once a month when he was free to something that he made time for every weekend come rain or shine.
David even had a semi-permanent makeshift bed hidden under his own to pull out for Nick when he came each weekend. By the time they had all finally graduated, they were making plans for getting gigs to get themselves noticed.
They didn't have any serious commitments or future goals, though, until one night they played a small gig at a local pub in London and came back to the flat they had all decided to share to get stupidly drunk.
In the morning they had all woken up with the idea fresh on their minds of them agreeing to name their band the Reincarnated Olives. But by the time they were all fit to talk to one another, even Boris was muttering something about, "I don't know, chaps, Reincarnated Olives doesn't really sound like a band name..." and the name had been his big idea the night before.
That was how, after a little more talking, laughing, and some paracetamol later, the four of them decided to call themselves 'Dave and the Olives'. David was given the name space in the band name because it was he who had brought the four of them together and started them on their journey to becoming whatever it was they were trying to become.
It was a stroke of luck that they met their agent after a gig at a house party for a bunch of university students. He just happened to be a friend of someone invited to the party and gave them his number.
Within a few months of hiring William Hague as their agent, they were already getting larger venues and being asked to perform one or two original songs in addition to the quirky cover songs that they had become known for.
It felt like their big break.
Unfortunately, it wasn't. They still had a long ways to go and it took nearly two more years before 'Dave and the Olives' got any recognition. When they did, it was as a supporting act for the Smiths on their UK tour.
The tour went well enough for Dave and the Olives. They were a bit disappointed that they weren't treated better, but they knew they had to work hard to get to the top. The tides started changing when one night they had caught the eye of a record executive and a bunch of the reporters and journalists who were originally there to try and talk to members of the Smiths.
That was when the so-called feud began between the Smiths and Dave and the Olives. It wasn't really a feud so much as a vague feeling of bitterness between the two groups.
Dave and the Olives went their own way, writing their first album and starting to make television appearances.
During their first tour as the headlining group, things started to fall into place. Andrew Feldman went out and got some tattoos, piercings, and even started to do up his hair in spikes and became the quiet bad boy of the group. David got a lot of attention from the women and became the flirtatious womaniser. Boris was the funny one- mostly because people never thought he was being serious even when he was. And Nick, well Nick was the cute good boy of the group that everyone loved.
David even had a semi-permanent makeshift bed hidden under his own to pull out for Nick when he came each weekend. By the time they had all finally graduated, they were making plans for getting gigs to get themselves noticed.
They didn't have any serious commitments or future goals, though, until one night they played a small gig at a local pub in London and came back to the flat they had all decided to share to get stupidly drunk.
In the morning they had all woken up with the idea fresh on their minds of them agreeing to name their band the Reincarnated Olives. But by the time they were all fit to talk to one another, even Boris was muttering something about, "I don't know, chaps, Reincarnated Olives doesn't really sound like a band name..." and the name had been his big idea the night before.
That was how, after a little more talking, laughing, and some paracetamol later, the four of them decided to call themselves 'Dave and the Olives'. David was given the name space in the band name because it was he who had brought the four of them together and started them on their journey to becoming whatever it was they were trying to become.
It was a stroke of luck that they met their agent after a gig at a house party for a bunch of university students. He just happened to be a friend of someone invited to the party and gave them his number.
Within a few months of hiring William Hague as their agent, they were already getting larger venues and being asked to perform one or two original songs in addition to the quirky cover songs that they had become known for.
It felt like their big break.
Unfortunately, it wasn't. They still had a long ways to go and it took nearly two more years before 'Dave and the Olives' got any recognition. When they did, it was as a supporting act for the Smiths on their UK tour.
The tour went well enough for Dave and the Olives. They were a bit disappointed that they weren't treated better, but they knew they had to work hard to get to the top. The tides started changing when one night they had caught the eye of a record executive and a bunch of the reporters and journalists who were originally there to try and talk to members of the Smiths.
That was when the so-called feud began between the Smiths and Dave and the Olives. It wasn't really a feud so much as a vague feeling of bitterness between the two groups.
Dave and the Olives went their own way, writing their first album and starting to make television appearances.
During their first tour as the headlining group, things started to fall into place. Andrew Feldman went out and got some tattoos, piercings, and even started to do up his hair in spikes and became the quiet bad boy of the group. David got a lot of attention from the women and became the flirtatious womaniser. Boris was the funny one- mostly because people never thought he was being serious even when he was. And Nick, well Nick was the cute good boy of the group that everyone loved.
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