Jaws The Shark (real name Olly Bailey), today releases his long-awaited debut album, Wasteland. Listen here. The 10-track body of work was written entirely by Olly himself, and produced by previous collaborator, George Perks, at VADA Recording Studios. Performed by Olly, he is also joined by bassist Brendan O’Boyle, and Dinosaur Pile-Up’s Michael Sheils on drums.
The album focus track is the rather apt Summer Puddle. Olly explains, “I wanted to write a song that is best served being heard within the twilight hour of the summer months. A small, but beautiful moment in time wherwe can sit back, reflect and truly live within the moment. An anthemic chorus that I could imagine being sung back to me, as light escapes the day and the cooling darkness descends. It’s bittersweet – To most of us living in the UK, those few summer months are some of the happiest moments we have within a year, but it’s often plagued by the unpredictableness of English weather and our love/hate relationship with it.”
Olly clarifies, “Wasteland is an album that I’d been wanting to write for some time now, and one that I’m really proud of personally.Some of the tracks that I write wouldn’t necessarily be put into the Jaws The Shark category when you look back at what I’ve released previously, but I wanted this album to show off some of my versatility that I like to explore when writing songs.”
Jaws The Shark will embark on a UK/EU headline tour in September. Tickets here. Kicking things off at Kazimer Stockroom in Liverpool on 13th September, the tour will then span cities including Manchester, Leeds, St. Albans, Paris, Chalon-Sur-Saône, London, where the Devon-born artist will headline The Grace on 25th September, and then Portsmouth before wrapping things up in Southampton, at Heartbreakers on 27th September. Tickets are on sale now here. Following two packed out shows in Brighton for The Great Escape in May, Jaws supported Indoor Pets at The Garage in London shortly afterwards.
2022 saw Olly release his debut EP, Another Day In Paradise, via Nice Swan Records (named ‘one of the best labels in the land’ by Clash Magazine). Shortly after this, he caught the attention of SO Records (home to Placebo, Enter Shikari, Deaf Havana and more), and released his self-titled EP with them. The 4-track release included a collaboration with Dinosaur Pile-Up titled Destroy The World, which has racked up 355k+ streams on Spotify alone. This was then up followed by EP, Cream, which features the title track which garnered support and received radio plays from the likes of BBC Radio 1 presenters, Jack Saunders, Alyx Holcombe and Nels Hylton.
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