OPIE DEINO

We’ve been pretty quiet lately but we have lots of fun stuff in the pipelines… acoustic videos, new songs and a new EP! Excited times at the Deino HQ. In the meantime, have you checked out this lovely video Sian did with Filmmakers Zane Hadi and Cleo Carmen Howard last summer? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBFh0iPBx8

Been working on a song for my beautiful friend India Hope Shaw Western for some time now and I can never quite word it right. She’s such an inspiration… hopefully this will be the final draft. I need to make this song fucking good.

Give yourself a break my dear
Cut yourself some slack
The more you give to the world my friend
The less you’ll get back

You said ‘I’m scared it’s all gone,
that I’ve got nothing to show’
You’ve got the whole world in your hands
But you’re trying to find
India

You see the world in technicolour
You see the world in blue
They say it’s easier in black and white
But I’d rather be with you

You said ‘I don’t know when or where,
I’ll run forever and I’ll never get there’
You’ve got the whole world in your hands
But you’re trying to find

Some little treasure amongst the wreck
Something to Salvage for risking your neck
Look up, keep your face to the sun
And you’ll never see the shadow
You’ll only see
India

Cut yourself some slack my dear,
Give yourself a break
If you don’t give yourself over
It’ll just take and take and take
There’s some that won’t notice
They won’t understand
What it’s like to be hijacked
And forced to crash land..

You’re more than they will ever be
You’ve got more than you will ever see
I’ve got all the hope in the world with
You beside me….

Some little Treasure amongst the wreck
Something to salvage for risking your neck
Look up, keep your face to sun
Or you’ll never see how far you’ve come
India


Lots of Love,
Sian

So we have a gig supporting Hearts & Souls at Cockpit on Saturday! Get in touch with one of us and we’ll sort you out with a ticket or alternatively get down to Jumbo or Crash.. soon, it’s selling out! We’re really excited.
Love
Opie Deino x

It’s a little disgusting that the last time I posted something on here was November. Terrible! Currently in the process of a page-pimp-out.. it’s not looking all that at the moment but it’s getting there! Just thought I’d leave a little post to say that until now Tumblr has only know Opie Deino as a solo project.. because for some time it was just that; and for some time after that I’d sort of let the let the page ‘go’ and moaned for a bit. The internet eviquelent of me with hairy legs, bad breath and greasy hair, whinging (I promise I’m never that). Anyway! Expect more posts and updates from Opie Deino THE BAND, although granted, most of them will still be little ol’ me rambling on!
Still all things here - videos, gigs, updates - will concern our awesome 4 piece rad-ness.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd watch out, ‘cause we’re pretty good and it’s all very exciting :)
Peace & Love,
Sian

I am sleepy. I still haven’t written a new song. I am still really frustrated about it and horrendously uninspired. I am hereby inviting someone to piss me off in a manner that wouldn’t sound odd in the context of a song.

In the meantime, I will follow this post with a video I made last week. Some lovely boy I know filmed it when we had a fun day exploring in the woods :) I wrote the song earlier this year about when a person or a situation turns you into something you’re not proud of or don’t recognize. Enjoy :)

3. One of my favourite songs ever. Holocene - Bon Iver

I think the best way to get around obsessively worrying about something is to completely ignore yourself. That’s what I’m trying to do in general at the moment. I sort of had a realization that if you don’t worry about something, even if it’s worth worrying about, then in the worst case scenario you’ll be able to deal with things a million times better because you’re coping mechanisms aren’t shrouded in all the the insane things that anxiety makes you think, feel and do. If I was worried someone had shot my dog, worrying wouldn’t make her any more or less likely to be dead or me any more or less sad when she had been. Obviously to some extent worry is out of your control but where possible, if you can learn not to indulge, then you escape the debilitation that worry brings with it. And look like a laid back cool motherfucker.
Anyway, this writers block bullshit is something like that. So I am trying a new thing where I force myself to write lyrics when my weird clogged up brain is telling me I don’t want to and trying my hardest to find the things in my life that I feel like I have something to say about. That’s probably a large part of it to be honest; there probably isn’t a lot going on or there isn’t a lot going on that’s pissing me off (I’m not so good at happy songs. Bitter songs in major keys seem to be my forte..)
Anyway, I think things are slowly shifting, I feel like I’m trying to get a herd moving or something. Being unafraid to write utter shit helps too, you know how they say you need shit to fertilize the soil and let the flowers grow?

Here’s some cheeky little lyrics I’ve been scrawling down this morning anyway. Maybe this week i’ll finally squeeze a song out. It’ll most likely be shit, but it’s a start :) It’s going to be about trying not to let old fears or past situations determine your future.

A couple of months spent collecting bones,
I’m soft clay but I wish I was made of stone,
I’m on the road again running away,
From the fear that I’ve nothing good left to say,
If you open the drawer and remove the same tools,
You start wearing me down again and breaking the rules,
Maybe I’ll be stronger or more defined
Or so worn down there’s nothing left behind.

I fell asleep tonight beneath different hands,
Rogue waves carving shards of land,
I threw a pebble to a big dark lake
And the pretty little ripples made the whole world shake,
I’m a canvas. I’m a book of words,
Lay down before you, a painting, a verse,
Pretend for tonight that I’m freshly laid snow
I’d rather risk it than never know.

day 2. here’s a song I love : Settle Down - No Doubt x

I’m not sure that many people actually pay attention to my tumblr so it seems like a good place to do some cathartic ranting, some untangling of brains and guts and weird thoughts and feelings. I’ve had some kind of major writers block just lately which is driving me mental and I thought I might just use this as a space to do a little musing and writing, even if it is just typing away some long ramble-y thoughts. I feel like I’ve fallen out with writing songs, drawing pictures and writing things which is making me very sad as these are the things that make me feel like me. It always happens when I have too much free time.. it’s sort of like thinking ‘I have the whole summer to hang out with my best friend!’ and a week into it I’m crawling the walls wondering why I ever liked her in the first place. I am starting to freak out and worry that I’ve stopped liking music, which this evening I realised it insane because a. I couldn’t possibly get this worked up about not liking something that I… didn’t like?! and b. I know, even if I’m not feeling it right now, that music is my favourite thing in the world. It just sort of feels like there is a massive brick wall between me and my enjoying it. There seems to be some hilarious irony in the fact that I dream of writing songs for people who worry and obsess and get their mind in silly scary anxious ruts as often as I do yet those silly scary anxious ruts still have the ability to stop me … writing songs.
So I’m going to write on here, and document my attempt to unclog my mind. I’ve still not really worked out if I want anyone to read it.

day 1. here’s a song I love: Laughing With - Regina Spektor x

So a week on and I’m asking myself why I’ve neglected to write anything on here about the awesome weekend that was Slam Dunk Festival weekend. My first festival ever and I got to start with pretty much my favourite UK festival ever, the 14 year old in me was buzzing (the one who got so super-excited about the first ever Slam Dunk with Fall Out Boy headlining.. wahhh) Probably the sweatiest couple of gigs I’ve ever played in my life due to freakishly uncharacteristically hot british weather and playing cosy acoustic stages but definitely worth it to share a stage with kids from Transit, Valencia, Deaf Havana.. don’t mean to sound name-dropping-y, I was just like a geeky little kid at christmas about it! Spent a bit of time hanging out in the AAA areas feeling like I shouldn’t be there and trying to spark up conversation with big tattooed american types. Not really sure what else to say, there was lots of fun and no sleep had, all with awesome company, I got the bestest friends :) Hope any of you who went bloody looooved it. Whey-oh \m/

Right so, it’s the time we’ve all been waiting for… FACING UP by OPIE DEINO is now officially released!
Head to opiedeino.bandcamp.com for your free download, opiedeino.bigcartel.com for a pre-order of a hard copy and all the tracks are up for listening on facebook, soundcloud, the rest…

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