Small Biography
Odiliapeel was:
Eric - Guitars, vocals
Jeroen - Drums
Marco - Bass, vocals
Odiliapeel from Holland was a noisrockband. The three members combined noise, dissonants, samples and melody into songs full of suspense and dynamics. The band was formed in August 1994. Since then the band has been compared (ofcourse) with many other bands. One of the more serious critics called Odiliapeel's sound in 1997 a mix between Sonic Youth and the Smashing Pumpkins. Although Eric loves Sonic Youth, he thinks this comparison is a bit too easy. "Although i understand the comparison - people often think of the 'big' names first - I do not agree with it. Our sound fits better in the (American) underground. I do not like to compare, but if i do, i would say we sound somewhere in between Diskothiq, Sonic Youth, Unwound, Eric's trip and June of 44 or so..." This comparison is not that bad, but with all these comparisons we should not forget that Odiliapeel had it's own sound.
Odiliapeel started in 1994 after Eric and Jeroen met in a disgusting bar in a sad dutch village. Soon Marco joined the band that originally was named Molly Coddle. This has been turned into Str�c later. This name remained till the band splitted for the first time in November 1995. Eric, Jeroen and Marco played in different bands/projects untill a 'groupreunion' in februari 1997, when Marco proposed to play one very last gig. That happened, but since then the band became a band again. The 'last gig' also caused the name Odiliapeel. Originally Odiliapeel is a cottage in the south of Holland. The 'pigpest' started there one week before the 'last gig' and that was the reason to play live as 'Odiliapeel'. Just for fun, but the band remained and so did the beautiful name...In April 1998 Odiliapeel released the 3-song cassette 'primer' and in August 1999 the
mini-cd Cute (demo) with 5 songs was released. Samples are available on this website! Since then the band played on stages all over the Netherlands. In November 2000 the band has decided to stop. Singer-guiterplayer Eric is dedicating all his energy to his acoustic soloproject Crystal Maze lo-fi. In the future there will be a new band! More about this later.
E-mail: Odiliapeel
Contact Eric online on ICQ: 72774557
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