OFAC in a BOTTLE... (3 Viewers)

[Break Neck Speed]

When we were on the ferry coming back from the UK last week i got bored and did a message in a bottle. We were about an hour from Dublin. I wrote something like:

"Hello,

My name is Thomas Delaney. I am on the ferry back from the UK where ive been on tour with my band Only Fumes & Corpses. I got bored so i decided to write this note. If you find it please get in touch through our website. myspace.com/onlyfumesandcorpses.

Bye."

We got this message this morning:

Hello OFAC,

My name is Fergus McEwan, I'm a reporter at Isle of Man Newspapers.
I'm writing a light-hearted picture story for the Manx Independent newspaper about a local fisherman who found Tom Delaney's message in a bottle, floating just off the coast.
It would be worth a yarn anyway, but the real kicker is the finder (Peter) is a 68-year-old technophobe who couldn't figure out how to turn a computer on to check this site.
He said he listened to a few seconds of one of your tracks (with some help from his daughter) and decided it 'wasn't his cup of tea'!
He found the bottle 400 metres off the shore of Douglas (the Island's capital - sorry if you knew!) on Sunday, exactly two weeks after rescuing a drowning canoeist at the same spot.


How mad is that!! Im just off the phone with the reporter. Its going to be in fridays paper in the isle of man. Dan has pics of me throwing it in too. When the paper is out il post a link to it or scan it in when we get the article.

 

[Break Neck Speed]

Here is the pic:

 

[therealjohnny]

Deadly )

 

[Big d(A)ddy G]

haha thats fuckin nuts what are the chances

 

[The Schnapper]

Thats the best thing I've heard in a while

 

[Space]

Here is the pic:

You can't post images from your email.

This story put a smile on my face.

 

[Janer]

I have a slightly diff but still an interesting story, I used to write my name on my vinyl incase it was ever taken, eventually I sold an album called New Wave (compilation) to Mero and a couple of years back Isup was in a gaff in Birmingham and lo and behold he seen the same album in the guys collection.

 

[GO]

Ah man that is so cool!I love that type a thing.

 

[GO]

I meant the message in a bottle story.

 

[Break Neck Speed]

This just gets better! This has been picked up by the Ray Darcy show. Im gona be on at 9.13am for a chat about it if any of ye are near a radio.

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[Daniel]

Empty bottle of wine on the way..

 

[Space]

This just gets better! This has been picked up by the Ray Darcy show. Im gona be on at 9.13am for a chat about it if any of ye are near a radio.

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Tomorrow yeah?

 

[Break Neck Speed]

Tomorrow yeah?

Yip!

 

[trev]

This just gets better! This has been picked up by the Ray Darcy show. Im gona be on at 9.13am for a chat about it if any of ye are near a radio.

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ok so you've ruined it all now Tom.

 

[taubstumm]

on a completely unrelated note; when did o.f.a.c. play in qlturkombinat in piensk, poland? you have a sticker on the fridge there.

 

[Break Neck Speed]

ok so you've ruined it all now Tom.

Il ruin you the righ whay!

on a completely unrelated note; when did o.f.a.c. play in qlturkombinat in piensk, poland? you have a sticker on the fridge there.

Played there last summer. 23 July 2007 to be exact.

 

[Alan Remorse]

That's fricking amazing. Is there any way of getting a recording of Ray Darcy? I'll be working.

 

[Daniel]

on a completely unrelated note; when did o.f.a.c. play in qlturkombinat in piensk, poland? you have a sticker on the fridge there.

Here we are playing our first of two sets of the night in Piensk.

On more unrelated notes Only Fumes & Corpses will have a feature and interview in the Connacht/City Tribune this Friday.

 

[Con]

Jaysus, I'm not looking well in that photo. I look in bad need of a dinner and a tan

 

[Con]

and a wash!