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TV OFF is an electro-pop hybrid featuring a colourful, hyperactive singer called Sara and a deadpan beatsman everyone around here refers to as Markku. At a recent performance the duo were described by one chin-stroker as “like Sophie Ellis-Bexter meets Moby”. The band kicked the crap outta that guy and he still eats through a straw. Luckily, it was all put down to “high spirits”, and The Off was able to return to the studio to start on the debut record. After only a fistful of gigs, the guys were attracting attention on a scale that made them both smile like kids in a sweetstore (or Sara in a shoeshop) and soon they were snapped up for lovely things like being nominated for Best Upcoming Act at the Basso Radio awards, performing at the Diesel Global Party event, opening the new Minna Parikka store (a woman who makes shoes that are so valuable that most people can only afford one of a pair), being featured in snowboarding movies, and playing alongside such Coolness-Personified-In Band-Form as CSS, Crystal Castles and Múm at Flow Festival in Finland. This summer the band will appear at the Madonna after-show events in Scandinavia and the Baltics. Now, that’s bound to be fun, right? Despite real initial interest from record labels, publishers and other folk that fear for their jobs, the band is going ahead with releasing their material on the internet for now and, well, seeing what happens. It is, of course, all part of a bigger plan for world domination as the guys are already confirmed to appear at The Great Escape Festival in UK in May where, between gigs, they plan to spend a lot of time on the beach, or in the arcades on the pier if it is raining. They will also appear at events in Tokyo, Berlin and throughout Scandinavia this Spring while they wait for the rest of the world to join their party. Free tracks can be downloaded at their official website, http://www.tv-off.com. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.