Operator Please – Just a song About Ping Pong

Release date: August 20th 2007

Format: Single
Genre: Indie-rock
Our Rating: 3/5

Wowser …if this track doesn’t overtake your senses then you must be mute, dumb and blind. Ok probably quite harsh, but this single contains all the elements to make an OAP shake off their zimmer frame. Take heed! Too much can resort to dizziness and a head spinner for the light-headed…quite like surviving a few bouts with tattoo Tyson. However, the perfect get-up-and –go track.

Priya, MyVillage

Press release
Australian pop punk teens Operator Please are set to take the UK by storm by releasing their debut single on Brille Records on 20th August 2007.

Hailing from Australia’s Gold Coast, Operator Please have taken giddy excitement to new levels, making music that makes your feet move, your heart pound, and your head spin. What more do you need? Its pure pop.  ‘Just A Song About Ping Pong’ is a glorious rush that strikes a light on the dance floor.

The adventure began with Amandah (vocals), Sarah (keyboards), Ashley (bass) Tim (drums), and Taylor (violin), fed up of watching the cool kids conducting a popularity contest, joining forces to take part in the Elanora High School’s annual Battle Of The Bands. In that moment Operator Please were formed, with the band promptly running away with the main prize of a box of donuts!

Several months, and a whirlwind tour of Australia later, a handful of the limited 7" landed on the desks of radio movers and shakers here in the UK, and ‘Just A Song About Ping Pong’ was immediately made ‘Record Of The Week’ on BBC 6Music, and subsequently won Fresh Meat on Zane Lowe’s show on Radio 1.

Now that same song is set to be their first full single release and provide the band with their debut top 40 hit.

Operator Please have set off at a blistering pace, and every moment is completely vital. Just make sure you’re there and try to keep up.

Operator Please will be back in the UK for Reading/Leeds Festival at the end of August. Look out for other dates to be announced very soon around that time.

Check out the Kissy Sellout White Stallion Extended Remix, from one of dance music’s rising stars.

Praise so far –

‘Spanking the ass of rock heritage Operator Please hurl a huge firecracker into the shallow pool of rockness and come out covered in sparkling, multi-coloured hundreds and thousands. Fuck rock and let Operator Please re-write the book’ - NME

‘Operator Please’s shouty disco punk made Camden Crawl explode with amazement last month’ – NME

‘Giddy teen-pop from Australia’s Gold Coast’ – NME

‘After winning their high school battle of the bands, Operator Please decided world domination would be the next obvious step’ – The Guardian

‘Imagine being stuck in a lift with a plugged-in B52s, Bow Wow Wow, Haysi Fantazyzee and Yeah Yeah Yeahs: crashy, trashy, thrashy and gloriously good fun’ – The Sunday Times

‘OP’s first visit to the UK … affirmed their bright future’ – Music Week

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