SOTW #51:Jaws the Shark

📸 Rob Crawford

Jaws the Shark is the solo project of Olly Bailey. Having spent years on the road working as a Tour Manager with various UK-based artists, 2020 was the year that Olly decided it was time to create a project of his own. Formed during the first UK lockdown, the idea of Jaws The Shark was conceived due to a mixture of frustration and boredom. Everything Olly has produced so far is full of raucous and galvanizing energy. If the goal was to create music that produces multiple smiles a song reflecting on some of the situations he's got into while generating buckets of sweat as the listener loses themselves to his creations he’s succeeded!

“I wrote ‘Reno’ about one of the most memorable nights out I’ve ever had. Myself and my friend Mike Sheils (who also drums on the track) found ourselves in a place called Lake Tahoe in California one time for the evening, although the track is called Reno, it’s actually about the evening we had prior to travelling to Reno the following day. All I will say is that having E-scooters available directly outside of a casino exit is probably not the wisest of places to put them. It was a fun trip, minus the broken phone, chipped teeth and battle wounds from falling off of the scooter! A lesson learned the hard way, but one of my favourite Jaws the Shark songs to date was the result.” - Olly Bailey

Nice Swan Records write, “Escaping London and moving down to the Devon Countryside, the endless creative ideas that Bailey had been storing over the past few years, were afforded the time to be brought to life and to flourish. Rest assured, there are few acts emerging from the capital with the same raw and captivating energy that Bailey has created with Jaws The Shark – a name taken from a line in the television series ‘Peep Show’. Things were taken up a notch, when Bailey recruited the help of long-time friend and drummer Elliot Rawson, of the band ‘YAK’, to add his effortless flair and inventiveness to complete the tracks. Rawson’s presence assisted Bailey in taking his recordings to new heights sonically, whilst also allowing for the two to form a formidable live duo.”

I’m really looking forward to what’s next from Olly.