Ooberman : Beeny Bean
Prising open the glam-pop vault they’ve been squatting on ever since ‘Shorley Wall’ cartwheeled across the charts in 1999, Ooberman have decided, rightly, that a few weeks after the Coral album is as fine a time as any to re-launch their...
Dolphin Blue
And so seasons change, moods swing, and Ooberman remain as irritating as a child star tap dancing on your forehead. This is, after all, a song about escaping modern life's cruel realities by becoming a dolphin; a song that features the lines...
Sheffield Leadmill
"With friends like us you'll never be alone," announces Danny Popplewell exultantly at the end of 'Physics Disco' . Read that sentence correctly and it almost sounds like a threat. For while their nearest stylistic peers, Belle &...
Shorley Wall
Ooberman Shorley Wall (Independiente) The track which got the Liverpool-based Blurmates noticed makes a well-deserved comeback. 'Shorley Wall' starts with a pleading, hopeless answerphone message before exploding into a...
Guildford University Of Surrey
Recently, a lady who collects Tupperware was asked on television how she had enough space in her house for all the plastic dishery. "They all fit into each other," deadpanned the lady. And she had a point. In a not dissimilar vein, one could...
The Magic Treehouse
Take a good rest now for our journey will be an arduous one. The debut album by Liverpool-based Ooberman is an expedition to a Palitoy world beyond the land of twee. A land of pastel-shaded splendour where the customary journalistic weapons of...
Ooberman : Million suns
Not to be confused with either Private Doberman out of Sgt Bilko or the, like, totally ace French cops'n'robber-on-drugggzzzz movie of the same name or, indeed, with the jolly Teutonic folk song 'Deutschland Oober Alles'. Or the Nazi concept of...
Leeds Duchess Of York
It seems like, ooh, nearly four years since Britpop hit its high-water mark, in that mad indian summer when two of 'our' bands competed for the number one spot. But it might as well be a decade. Oasis are treading tried and trusted waters,...
Ooberman : Blossoms falling
Ooberman's curious clamber to the pinnacle of pop's Mount Parnassus renders most of the competition irrelevant this week. Don't worry if you weren't one of the 10,000 who bought their 'Shorley Wall' EP, because this is infinitely...
London Brixton Academy
The gangstas are shitting themselves. They hide in the bar, mobile phones switched off, dodgy drug deals suspended until nearer the Happy Mondays' stage time. They neck their Mitsubishis, too freaked out to go in there... into the big empty...
