O&O's new single 'Tears In The Rain' out May 25th

London-based Americana/folk duo O&O, one of the highlights among C2C Festival's homegrown acts earlier this year, have confirmed the May 25th 2018 release of their latest single 'Tears In The Rain' along with a run of UK festival appearances throughout the summer including Black Deer, Buckle & Boots, and Cambridge Folk Festival.

In their own words:  “We wrote this song after being away from each other for a few weeks while visiting our respective home countries. ‘Tears In The Rain’ started as a song about missing someone you love but developed into a darker theme about being in a state of denial after being left in a relationship. The evening we returned to London, Obadiah was noodling on an acoustic guitar and started playing the intro, which instantly conjured a melancholic mood and reminded us of Leonard Cohen. As we put the song together, we drew on influences from 70s Country and Rock bands like America and The Eagles.” Catch the duo live at the following dates, with more to follow later in the summer:

Live Dates

Sunday 20 May 2018 - Wood Festival, Oxfordshire
Saturday 23 June 2018 - Buckle & Boots Festival, Manchester (Whitebottom Farm, Etherow Country Park, Compstall, Stockport SK6 5HZ) £33.25 (£30.00 Ticket + £3.25 Fees) Tickets

Sunday 24 June 2018 - Black Deer Festival, Kent (Eridge Park, Kent) www.blackdeerfestival.com

Weds 18 July 2018 - Sofar Sounds, Liverpool Website
Sunday 5 August 2018 - Cambridge Folk Festival 

Sunday 19 August 2018 - Sunday Sessions Jags at 119, Portsmouth (119 Elm Grove, PO5 1LH) 20:00-21:00 FREE hosted by Southsea Bandstand Facebook Event

ABOUT O&O:
O&O are comprised of Colorado-native, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Obadiah Jones, and Israeli vocalist, Orian Peled. “The shared dream of a career in music led us both halfway across the world to the classrooms of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), where we met for the first time.” While performing together in various projects during their three-year course, O&O established their deep connection as a songwriting partnership and were awarded the unique opportunity of a one-on-one songwriting session with Sir Paul. 

“Upon graduating and with student visa expiration dates looming, we knew there would be no country where we could both live and work together,” Obadiah recalls. Determined to overcome the bureaucracy, they found an unlikely solution – to live and perform on cruise ships. A six-month stint in the Caribbean ultimately led them on a two-year journey, performing for thousands, honing their distinct sound and learning their craft, while touring far reaching parts of the world, from Alaska to the Greek Isles.

This long and winding road led the truly international act to their current home, London, where they hope to become a mainstay in the fast-growing Country and Americana music scene in the UK. Although relatively new to the London scene, O&O have already made their presence felt on the local live music circuit over the last twelve months, with support slots for artists incuding Australian Music Award nominees, the Germein Sisters, and a number of club and festival appearances. Their live show features the duo's distinctive, close-harmony sound with an Americana flare - Fleetwood Mac meets The Civil Wars.

Their self-released debut single ‘Traveling’ - with the “perfect harmonies” praised by sites such as The Daily Country and Building Our Own Nashville, showed all the signs of early success, with support across the British music scene, while proceeds from the single and donations raised during a series of pop-up concerts in collaboration with Busk In London and Network Rail went towards raising awareness of national charity Youth Music and its music-making projects for children and young people experiencing challenging circumstances. More recently, the duo were one of the highlights of this year’s Country to Country festival at the O2 Arena, with W21 Music describing their “lovely harmonies”; and one of a handful of acts chosen to record an exclusive Under The Apple Tree acoustic session at the event, aired in a special edition of the show on Chris Country Radio.

Following the release of previous single 'Some Days' in January, O&O’s new track ‘Tears In The Rain' comes out May 25th 2018, and the duo are set to appear at a number of major UK festivals throughout the summer.

Related BLOG POST (Jan 2018): C2C2018 bound O&O return with new track ‘Some Days’ out now

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C2C2018 bound O&O return with new track ‘Some Days’ out now

O&O RETURN WITH NEW TRACK ‘SOME DAYS’ - OUT JAN 26th

The emerging duo’s Americana-tinged single is set to build on the success of their debut

LONDON, UK – (Jan 12th 2018)

London based, American-Israeli duo O&O’s debut single ‘Traveling’ (UK iTunes) was one of the highlights of the UK’s homegrown country/Americana scene in 2017, with support across the media, from inclusion on Chris Country’s new music list (Chris Country Radio) to the ‘Best of August’ playlist by Richer Unsigned. 

Having grown their fanbase further through a summer of live appearances and online videos, racking up thousands of followers and over 100,000 views on their YouTube channel in the process, the duo returned on January 26th 2018 with their brand new single ‘Some Days’.

** NEWS UPDATE ** O&O will be appearing at Country To Country Festival 2018!

So far announced O&O will play the Busking Stage on Saturday March 10th 2018

Can you spot O&O? So excited to announce we are playing C2C Country to Country at The O2 in London this March! #C2C2018

For more details SEE BLOG:

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Inspired to write the song during a month-long stay in Nashville - where they performed at multiple venues including the legendary Bluebird Cafe - Orian and Obadiah returned to England to record the single in Liverpool, the city where they originally met.

 In their own words: 

“Being a couple, as well as musical partners, of course inspires many love songs, and in this case, a song about the more challenging moments in a relationship. ’Some Days’ was recorded over three, intense days and the lyrics were being tweaked right up until we recorded the vocals.”

ABOUT O&O:

Origin: USA & Israel | Location: London | Genre: Americana/Country

O&O are comprised of Colorado-native, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Obadiah Jones, and Israeli vocalist, Orian Peled. “The shared dream of a career in music led us both halfway across the world to the classrooms of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), where we met for the first time.” While performing together in various projects during their three-year course, O&O established their deep connection as a songwriting partnership and were awarded the unique opportunity of a one-on-one songwriting session with Sir Paul himself: "Writing with Paul McCartney was an amazing experience. During the session, he started to harmonise on one of our songs, and hearing our three voices together was completely surreal - we could barely comprehend that we were actually singing with Paul McCartney!"

“Upon graduating and with student visa expiration dates looming, we knew there would be no country where we could both live and work together,” Obadiah recalls. Determined to overcome the bureaucracy, they found an unlikely solution – to live and perform on cruise ships. A six-month stint in the Caribbean ultimately led them on a two-year journey, performing for thousands, honing their distinct sound and learning their craft, while touring far reaching parts of the world, from Alaska to the Greek Isles.

This long and winding road led the truly international act to their current home, London, where they hope to become a mainstay in the fast-growing Country and Americana music scene in the UK. Although relatively new to the London scene, O&O have already made their presence felt on the local live music circuit over the last twelve months, with support slots for artists including Australian Music Award nominees, the Germein Sisters, and a number of club and festival appearances. Their live show features the duo's distinctive, close-harmony sound with an Americana flare - Fleetwood Mac meets The Civil Wars.

Their self-released debut single ‘Traveling’ - with the “perfect harmonies” praised by sites such as The Daily Country and Building Our Own Nashville (Introducing Country Music duo O&O), showed all the signs of early success, with support across the British music scene, while proceeds from the single and donations raised during a series of pop-up concerts in collaboration with Busk In London and Network Rail went towards raising awareness of national charity Youth Music and its music-making projects for children and young people experiencing challenging circumstances.

Follow up single ‘Some Days’ was released to  stream/download on 26th January 2018. 

Request the single on your favourite country show/station.

Recently played: Ridge Radio's Simply Country with Bob Angel! 

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