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News 3/17/08-"Going to Chile" I am pleased to announce I am serving a two-year mission for my church, in Rancagua, Chile. I leave tomorrow, and would like to thank everyone who has ever expressed sincere interest in my music, has bought a CD whether it be off this website, off itunes, in a local store or at a show. Thank you to everyone who supported my gigging efforts; who went to any of my shows, even if you had to drive far away to get to it. Thank you to anyone who told their family and friends about my music; and most of all, thank you to anyone who has gotten something special out of my songs. --------------------------------------------------------- 8/22/07-"Ollerton.....on PBS?" That's right brothers and sisters, I'm driving up to San Francisco tommorow to sign a release-form since PBS will be filming me this saturday. The program is about teenage entrepreneurs. And no, I am not a teenage entrepreneur, Martina Butler is, because of her widely-popular internet show Emo Girl Talk, which is the fist teenage podcast to ever recieve corporate sponsorship. Pretty cool huh?! Anyways, I'm being featured on her show this saturday, and it is going to be filmed. You can check out the show at http://emogirltalkwp.podshow.com. Even though I am neither Emo or a Girl, I enjoy listening to it, and Martina is a sweetheart, and there is always some good indie music to listen to so I'd give it a listen. I will show up on TV in January when it airs. I have no idea for how long though. It could be 5 seconds or it could be 5 minutes. Either one sounds pretty fantastic to me! Anyways. Once the show airs, I'll make sure it's taped so I can upload it and show all you boys and girls! ---------------------------------------------------------- 7/02/07-"Still Haven't Eaten Golden Grams I'm still on the computer....It's nearly 2AM now. Freaking website problems that I had to fix. Ok. NOW I'll go eat some Golden Grams. ---------------------------------------------------------- 7/02/07-"Phew!" It's been a while since I've updated this....Months actually. Good news though! As you probably can see, I've completely redone my site. And my myspace. New features EVERYWHERE! You can hear clips of all my songs now, and my album can now be bought on cdbaby.com! And it will be on iTunes very soon. I've been told around a month. Maybe sooner, maybe later. Well, it's nearly 1AM. I'm tired from re-decorating my myspace and touching-up the website. That's all I've been doing the past 5 hours. And for those in the bay area, I'm playing a show in Pacifica on the 14th at the Boys and Girls Club, and on the 25th I'll be playing in SF on Haight, at The Red Victorian. The SF show I will have a keyboardist backing my up, it's that exciting? And I think I'll have someone tape that show. Anyways, I'm hungry. I'm going to go eat some Golden Grams. Delicious. Toodles. <3Russell ---------------------------------------------------------- 4/28/07-"Aw man" Aw man, I said I was going to update this every friday...and it is now saturday. I already blew it! Anyways, I'm in the process of booking a few shows. Booking shows can be a pain in the butt. But that's ok. I'm also started work on planing a street team. I'll give you more info on that soon. Oh, and it turnes out the "buy it now" button to buy my cd was broken for a while, it should be working again though. Mike Parvizi and I are going to be featured on the popular podcast "Emo Girl Talk." We're going to San Francisco to record the session on Wed, and it will air that Sunday. I was in the Half Moon Bay Review on Wed too. Go to my myspace to read the article! <3Russell ---------------------------------------------------------- 4/20/07-"Don't have much to say" I know I just wrote yesterday. And now look at me, I'm writing again TODAY. I went from having a 4 1/2 month gap between the 1st and 2nd news update, and now look at me, writing 2 updates within 2 days! Woah! Anyways, I actually don't have much to say at the moment, I just decided today that I want to write here every Friday. I think that's a good idea. And I just wanted to start out on the right foot. <3Russell ---------------------------------------------------------- 4/19/07-"Woah" Woah. It's been 4 months since I last wrote here. I'm telling you, if procrastination were a physical disease I would be dead by now. So much has happened, let me fill you in on the exciting adventures of Ollerton: 1. I'm finally updating this page, and the website in general 2. Just got some promo pictures taken that look GREAT 3. I am in the process of booking some shows around the bay area 4. Will be on the widely popular "Emo Girl Talk" Podcast to perform an acoustic set with Mike Parvizi 5. Today a local newspaper is coming to my house to talk to me about my album and take a few pictures 6. Been getting lots of wonderful feedback on the album. People describe it as calm and melancholy. I've never thought of my music that way before for some reason 7. Album release show went absolutely fantastic; the venue was packed with my wonderful fans. 8. Have my cd on sale online and in local stores in Half Moon Bay 9. All of this means, if you haven't already noticed, MY ALBUM IS OUT! It's been out for over 3 weeks! Hooray! You should get it! I'm selling it for only $9.50. Free shipping. You can even get a shirt AND cd for $19.50 free shipping. That's only 2 dollars more than a shirt on it's own! I'm sorry for ranting but that is a pretty unusually good deal. I've gotten a new guitar too. It's a Johnson JG-620-CN. I got it for super cheap new. That's an important subject I think. People don't get that you don't have to spend hundreds or even thousands on a Martin guitar to get a great sound. I was just in my friend’s studio yesterday and compared my guitar to her Martin, and I honestly liked the tone of mine better, along with the look and action. It sounded thicker and warmer. Not to say the Martin sounded bad or anything, no not at all. Anyways. I'm doing very well, thank you. Excellent actually. A little shaken up by some horrific and unearthly experiences not related to music that I had yesterday, but that’s one of the reasons I'm doing so great. Let me say something, listen up closely my dears, as I've said in the albums little booklet, in the midst of the tiny winy little letters, "Life is about people we love and people we will love." I think I said that in the album. I can't really remember, I wrote an absolute obscene amount. If it's not in there it really should be. No matter, I am %99 sure it is. Look at me I'm ranting again. As I was saying, Life truly is about Love. About People. About People we Love. Whether it be people we love now, or people we WILL love in the future, whether it be a wife or husband, son or daughter, friend or brother or sister, that's what life is all about. That hit me unusually hard yesterday. I beg and plead with you to please, let the unimportant things that cloud your vision and spirit everyday disintegrate and sag into a charred pile of nonexistence. Care about what matters, not what Ezekiel Beckerman or Hermione Chatterbox at school thinks of your face or skirt or musical tastes, or about your religion or ethnicity or financial situation. Don't care that your father cancelled your cellular telephone's ability to send unlimited text messages a day, and don't care that nobody thinks you're "cool," what are we in second grade? Care about personal integrity, personal purity, personal spirituality, and most of all personal relationships with those you desperately love. Care about getting a good education so you can get a job you like. Care about being safe. Don't let a terribly unsafe situation jar your remembrance on how important keeping safe is and how precious and fragile and vibrant and important life on this green earth is. <3Russell ---------------------------------------------------------- 12/25/06 "Merry Christmas!" So I've decided to finally write stuff in this "News" section. It looks pretty tacky when it says "COMING SOON!" for months. Anyways, Merry Christmas to you. If you're Jewish, Happy Hanukah (did I spell that right? I think so)If you are neither Christian or Jewish and you celebrate Kwanza, Happy Kwanza. If you don't celebrate anything....that's kinda sad. I'm sorry, but it really is. Everyone needs something to celebrate. Even if you don't believe in Jesus, Christmas can still be a wonderful time to give/recieve and be with family and friends. Same goes for any other holiday you celebrate, you know? Oh, and I got a 12 string guitar! It's amazing. Anyways. News. Ok so I sent out my cd to be mastered a few weeks ago. I plan on getting it back within the next few weeks. It's kinda taking foreever. Figures I guess. I'm used to long, anxiety-striken days. After it comes back, I'm going to hastily get it replicated. This takes at least 2 weeks.I'm not going to give a release date untill I have a better idea when I can get it out. Proabibly early Febuary. Either way I plan on doing shows soon. I'm going to try and get a few show in-town (Half Moon Bay) and plan on doing open mics in all sorts of cafes in San Fransisco. That's a good way to start out I think. Me and Mike Parvizi have decided we want to play a few shows together too. Check him out. He's good. It's nice to find such talent so close, there truly arent too many musicians I find that are truly "great" around the bay area. I will also have an album release show. I'm also selling shirts now. I need to buy more smalls. Everyone wants smalls. Oh, and I have a sore throat. Not fun. I'll post more goodies later. Have a lovely evening. <3Russell </body> </html> <!-- text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE --><!-- Counter/Statistics data collection code --><script language="JavaScript" src="http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/smb/js/hosting/cp/js_source/whv2_001.js"></script><script language="javascript">geovisit();</script><noscript><img src="http://visit.webhosting.yahoo.com/visit.gif?us1268395201" alt="setstats" border="0" width="1" height="1"></noscript>