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Sky News Blooper - Mr C*nt Oswaldtheband 503 views hahah so funny - sorry for poor video quality but i filmed on my phone and uploaded. Listen carefully when the guy starts talking... Tom x ps dont let the kids hear it ;-)
Home - acoustic version by Tom (Oswald) Oswaldtheband 575 views Support Oswald's Pledge Campaign at pledgemusic.com/projects/oswald Help the band tour and raise money for charity. Hope you are all doing well! Im in the process of r...
Million Pieces Oswald Pledge Music Teaser Oswaldtheband 250 views An exclusive new track for our Pledge Music Campaign... For more info on how to get involved, see the full video, launch our tour and raise money for a very special litt...
Human Clone - Oswald Pledge Campaign - Launch our tour and raise money for a little girl Oswaldtheband 445 views pledgemusic.com/projects/oswald Get involved. Get rare stuff. Get us on tour and at the same time help raise money for 1 year baby Eilidh suffering from Spinal Muscualr ...
armchair whores instruction video Oswaldtheband 117 views online at last - enjoy and have fun! For everyone involved in this if you have any probs facebook me. Tom x
HMRHMC? limited edition cd's have arrived! Oswaldtheband 23 views yup they are here at last - you can order them on www.oswaldtheband.com
Tom's Video Blog - Feb2nd 2011 Oswaldtheband 79 views Just an update... long overdue!!!
Listen to the new Oswald Album for FREE for 7 days Oswaldtheband 249 views Listen to "How Much Rug, How Much Carpet?" FREE for 7 days on www.oswaldtheband.com, enjoy, Tom x
How Much Rug, How Much Carpet? - The New Oswald Album - Pre-Order now! Oswaldtheband 337 views Pre-order "HOW MUCH RUG, HOW MUCH CARPET?" at www.oswaldtheband.com for £7.99 + P&P for EU and ROW (Free postage to UK) We need help.... Tom x Our new album, "How Much Ru...
UK student protest police London. Suck this Cameron Clegg. Riots For Free Education! No Student Fees Oswaldtheband 1,793 views Britain's seeing its biggest protest yet against the deep cuts the country faces to tackle its massive debts. Right now, tens of thousands of students are protesting agains...

About Oswald - UK Alternative Band

Oswald, indie-rock band from UK
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From the heart of the Scottish 'new' town of Cumbernauld hails what could be one of the UK's most disenfranchised and socially outspokenbands. Cumbernauld, recently voted the worst place to live in UK, twice winning the prestigious Carbuncle Award, is a town with its own Eco system, mentality, religious divides, gang violence and poverty. The overspill of Glasgow, the town takes the city's heart & bile.

It's no wonder then that 'How Much Rug? How Much Carpet?' reflects singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Tom McCreery's unashamedly blunt view on society, life, and all that goes with being British today. Oswald are all about today's society, life and people.

Oswald's songs are from the gut, all about the hopes, dreams and dogged determination of people trying to get into a better situation or out of a worse one. With a soul that is ablaze, Tom McCreey's compelling voice propels their songs with a curious mix of innocence and fire and sings with so much anguish and passion that you can feel the aching sadness at work here, a mad urgency to escape, to takeoff, to transform things.

'How Much Rug, How Much Carpet' is a life-affirming album encapsulating the band's reflection on aspects of urban culture - the good, the bad and the surreal accompanied by infectious hooks that are impossible to get out of your head. It makes you feel numb and disillusioned about your life but at the same time gives you the hope and conviction to stand tall and climb out of the trench and go over the top and take on the worst that society and life can throw at you.

Every song starts with almost evangelic hope to have it crushed with desperate words and then some ripped, well constructed awkwardness. 'How Much Rug? How Much Carpet?' strives to wake not just the writers but the audience from the ensuing and suffocating apathy that surrounds our daily lives, media, prophets, leaders and equally importantly British and Western 'popular' music. An honest album with no pretense that wraps you in your own inadequacies at crucial times but leaves you with a feeling of solidarity and hope. Solidly written and packed with emotion, hope and dire sarcasm, you should definitely turn off the TV and give this a listen.

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