Just a quick update to let you know that we’ll be playing a bunch of festivals and some club dates in Europe over the next 10 days. If you are in the area, come give us a high five!

Jul 22, 2010 – Italia Wave Love Festival, Livorno, Toscana, IT
Jul 24, 2010 – Splendour Fest, Nottingham, GB
Jul 25, 2010 – Manchester Academy 3, Manchester, GB
Jul 27, 2010 – Fleece, Bristol, GB
Jul 28, 2010 – Electric Ballroom, London, GB
Jul 30, 2010 – Y Not Festival, Matlock, Derbyshire, GB
Jul 31, 2010 – Kendal Calling Festival, Penrith, Northwest, GB

In case you missed it….

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We are super excited to share our new video for ‘End Love’ with you and hope you love watching it as much as we loved making it. In the continuing spirit of the brave, new OK Go world, you can watch it above, or on our YouTube page, or embed it to your hearts desire…AND for the first time in the history of our videos, you can now download it absolutely FREE. We are actually so stoked about this last part that we’ve put together a Facebook Contest to encourage such behavior.

The contest is simple: download our video, upload it to your Facebook page, and get your friends to comment on it. The upload with the most comments in two weeks wins. Want to participate?

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO AND FOR A CHANCE TO WIN AN iPAD

PS – You will soon be able to buy the HD version of the video on iTunes…

We are pleased to announce some fantastic new goodies available TODAY in our Merch Store. These items will ship the in the first two weeks of July.

The two new items are:

1. Limited Edition Spring 2010 US Tour Fan Photo Poster

If you were at any of our shows this tour, you might remember Damian taking a photo of the crowd from the stage. You might have seen them appear on our Facebook page, and you might have even tagged yourself or your friends. We have now created a poster that includes 34 of these fan photos, as well as a live shot of the guys from stage. Behold yourselves!

2. Limited Edition Spring 2010 US Tour USB Drive

All tour long we sold USB drives at the end of each show that included the audio recording of that night’s concert, our latest album, and the three videos from the album. We are now pleased to announce a special, limited edition USB drive that includes both an electric set and an acoustic set from our tour, both in specially mastered, higher quality 320kbps mp3 format.
The complete contents of the drive are as follows:

• Our May 7th Electric Set from the beautiful sounding House of Blues in Boston, MA
• Our May 24th Acoustic Set from Ex’pression College in Emeryville, CA
• Our album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
• The first three videos from our latest album
• An exclusive tour photo gallery with shots of the boys backstage, on the bus, and everywhere in between…
• An exclusive thank-you video from the band

We will be premiering our brand new video for End Love TODAY at 9am Pacific | 12pm Eastern. Are you as excited as we are? (note: IMPOSSIBLE!)

(Stop clicking…it’s just a screenshot. Come back in a few hours.)

We are very excited about Bonnaroo this weekend. If you are at the festival, we invite you to come hang out with us at one or all of the below:

Friday, June 11th
3:00pm – Public Interview at the SPIN Tent. Ask us questions, tell us things, bring us gifts. Up to you…
5:45pm – Live Performance (THIS HERE’S THE ROCK N ROLL PART) at the “Other Tent”. Kindly, DO NOT MISS.

Saturday, June 12th
1:20pm – World premiere of the BRAND NEW VIDEO for our song End Love. You muddy, hungover, lucky ducks will be the first people on the planet to see it. At the Lunar Stage. Yes.

Enjoy it here until YouTube takes down this unofficial rip. If you know of an official version of the video, tell us about it ini the comments!

It’s a big week full of fun and surprises here at OK Go Headquarters. First up, the boys are performing on Late Night with Jay Leno tonight, June 9th. Regardless of where you stand on the Leno / Conan debate, we hope you’ll tune in for the last ten minutes anyway, as you will be in for a bit of a surprise…

Second, Bonnaroo! OK Go is playing Bonnaroo Friday night at The Other Tent. If you are out in the lovely, lovely mud, come say hi and dance with us! Also, stick around for Saturday as there’s going to be some more fun then as well…

Lastly, OK Go was featured on NASA’s blog last week. That’s not an event per se, but we think it’s awesome. Here’s hoping we have some reason to be on there again in the future. Maybe for that first OK Go show on the moon, for example.

You know what’s amazing about this post? That for the first time ever, we can embed our own videos for the marching band version of This Too Shall Pass and WTF? on our own website. And you can now embed them anywhere and everywhere on the internet too! Go forth, interfriends, and embed your wee hearts out.

Happy Friday…

Embed Code for This Too Shall Pass (marching band version)

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Embed Code for WTF?

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