Eight arms to hold you

The Octopus Project is Josh Lambert, his wife Yvonne Lambert (nee Lazarte), and Toto Miranda. Like The Sword and The Black they hail from Austin - thus there gig opening for ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead on April 14. They were joined by Eric Bogle of Bring Back The Guns on second guitar (though considering the amount of instrument-switching there was, "on guitar" may be the wrong phrase). They use a drum machine when Toto wasn't behind the kit. Theremin, mini-marimba and keyboards were added to the mix. Pretty active on stage, considering they were shunted to the front by TOD's gear.

The band prepares to socket to the audience.



Yvonne, woman of the future, controls the entrancing space sounds of the futuristic 1930s.



Josh rocks out on bass.



Toto. Started out on drums (that's him in picture No. 1), then moved about, as did everyone.



Eric the B.



Here's another picture of Yvonne on a wee xylophone. Had to get the boots in ...



And here's another of Josh and Yvonne.



Oh those crazy kids. They have a good website where you can check out sounds, images, etc.