Oliver at Cdbaby.com — listen to 5 song tracks here.
1. Hip To Your Trip
2. Rich $ Loaded
3. Anna, Turn It Up
4. Burn My Soul
5. Our Generation
“As a teenager Oliver taught himself guitar and while living in Portugal he began performing in bars along the Algarve. He moved to Toronto and gathered a passionate legion of fans with his band ‘Laughing Sam’s Dice’, playing such legendary clubs as the El Mocambo and The Opera House. At 21 he signed a publishing deal with BMG.
Now, a few short years later and armed with some fifty-plus songs, Oliver performs regularly in Toronto to ever-growing numbers of music lovers that yearn for honest and meaningful music.
Oliver can be seen performing on the hit television show Canadian Idol as one of the top 24 competitors”
Full Bio (meermusic.com) — So Can we still vote?? (That’s some crazy hair Ollie!)
Oliver Pigott. He is all at once a powerful singer, timeless songwriter and magnetic, explosive performer. Standing 6 foot 2 inches with a crop of outrageously wild hair, Oliver´s presence commands your attention. What most people recognize instantly is the kid´s astounding lyrical abilities. As one admirer from Los Angeles explained, “It´s almost as if Oliver has spent his young life on a train and seen the world in all its joy, pain, benevolence, cruelty and social injustice.” The tunes, too, speak of a world-weary soul, resulting in a wonderful melodic mix of blues, country, folk and rock ´n´ roll. After the passing of his father, a blues harmonica player, Oliver picked up the instrument. He was twelve. He began to perform in bars along the Algarve in Portugal. Returning to Toronto, Canada, Oliver gathered a passionate legion of fans with his band ´´Laughing Sam´s Dice´´, playing such legendary clubs as The El Mocambo and The Opera House. In 2002, Oliver signed a deal with BMG Music Publishing. His following grew ever stronger. Now based in London, UK and a ubiquitous presence in clubs across the country, the rest of the world is about to discover what his many admirers already know. In the words of one devoted Pigott concertgoer, “Oliver picks up that guitar and steps up to the microphone like he´s coming home. I´ve seen him so many times because he´s twenty feet tall onstage and I can´t look away.”"
Etobicoke school contributed three Idols this year – Click here to read more.
“Besides being a musician, Sebastian is an actor and a playwright with two of his plays – The New Thing I’m Doing and Admiral Dink and the Seventh Fleet – having been performed as part of DropShip Entertainment’s Upstart Cabaret evenings which have been held at various venues, including the Gladstone Hotel.
And very recently, he achieved another milestone.
“I just sold my first screenplay,” he said, adding that “it’s a modern western set in Ontario.”
“So that’ll be shooting in the spring and I’m going to be playing the lead role too. I’m pretty stoked about that.”
The timing, he said, couldn’t have been better.
“I was so flat broke that my phone got cut off, and so I haven’t got it hooked up again yet. I just picked up my screenplay cheque so I can get my phone hooked up again.”
While the two brothers may be in a friendly competition against each other on Idol, they’re more used to playing with, rather than against, each other.
A band they had as teenagers called Laughing Sam’s Dice, which was named after a Jimi Hendrix song, “used to play the club scene in Toronto,” said Oliver.
“We did the Black Swan on the Danforth, the El Mocambo, we did the Great Hall over on Queen Street, right near Ossington, we did the Opera House.”
Sebastian added that they made a couple of appearances on the old CBC trend-setting youth talk show Jonovision and opened up for acts such as the Headstones.”
Rich and Loaded
An Oliver Pigott Fansite
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Upcoming Shows: (as listed on his MySpace page)
The Gladstone Hotel
Aug 17, 2008
8:00 PM
1214 Queen St. W.
Toronto, Ontario
