This page contains pictures, press material and further info for those interested in PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. There is some important info for interviewers below as well.

We have been asked several times for photos. The photos below can be used at own preference as long as they are unaltered.

PPOT (clockwise from top): Søren Trautner Madsen, Theo Engell-Nielsen, Martin Koch, Jesper Holm Olsen, André Tischer Poulsen, and Uffe Friis Lichtenberg. Press photo (499KB). Photo: Ditte Valente

PPOT (left to right): Jesper Holm Olsen, Søren Trautner Madsen, Theo Engell-Nielsen, Martin Koch, André Tischer Poulsen, and Uffe Friis Lichtenberg. Press photo (513KB). Photo: Ditte Valente

PPOT (left to right): Theo Engell-Nielsen, André Tischer Poulsen, Martin Koch, Jesper Holm Olsen, Søren Trautner Madsen, and Uffe Friis Lichtenberg. Press photo (343KB). Photo: Theo Engell-Nielsen

PPOT: Theo Engell-Nielsen, Søren Trautner Madsen, Uffe Friis Lichtenberg, Martin Koch, Jesper Holm Olsen, and André Tischer Poulsen (kneeling). Press photo (70KB). Photo: Malene Dissing

We have made a poster that, if you want to, you can print out and hang in your locker, in your room, in your office, in most places actually.

(~450 KB)

loadingreadyrun.bmp (750K)

(right click on image, and choose "Save Picture As...")

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Here are a couple of points...

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE (always written in upper case, never Press Play On Tape) comes from the Commodore 64 when loading programs into the computer's memory. If PRESS PLAY ON TAPE ruins typography or other guidelines, PPOT for short can be used, not PPoT, Ppot, PPot, Pot or other similar variations, please. It is a little bit important to us that you write it the right way...

• Why "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE"? On the Commodore 64, the user would write "LOAD" to initiate the program loading sequence. Then the Commodore 64 would respond "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE".
• Why "LOADING READY RUN" (first album's title)? The user should then press the PLAY button on the casette player that would start sending data to the computer. Usually the computer would print "LOADING" and then "READY" when done loading. The user would the write "RUN" to start the program.
• Why "RUN/STOP RESTORE" (second album's title)? The Commodore 64 had two buttons which used together could stop the computer and reset some of its settings. One button was called "RUN/STOP", the other one "RESTORE".
• Why rock music? When we heard the music we usually heard it as ordinary music with its ordinary sounds which the composer tried to mimic. We did not hear it as techno music or as the bleeps and bip-bip-bips our parents heard it. So trying to recreate what we believed was rock music is pretty straightforward.
• Why does the second album's cover look like it does? It is a tribute to the Commoore 64 magazine ZZAP!64 that was the magazine at the time. It is pure luck that there is a wovel/consonant resemblance between ZZAP and PPOT.

• Review by Andrew Fisher, freelance Commodore writer
• Geek Culture (in Danish) has a in-depth review.
• PC Dome (in English) [local copy].
• Review at Remix64
• Review by Lala posted on the c64rmx-mailinglist.
• Review found at Alive HQ.

• Review Lemon64, [local copy].
• PC Dome (in English), [local copy].
• Review by Lala at Remix64.
  Also posted on the c64rmx-mailinglist, [local copy].

• Metalzone (in Danish). [local copy].
• Geiger has a CRC2005 review (in Danish) / English version.
• KafCaféen 2001
at Geekculture.dk.
• The Gathering 2004
at c64rmx by Lala.
• Copenhagen Retro Concert 2005 at Geiger by Ras Bolding. [local copy, in English].
• Feedback from some of the people attending and performing at CRC 2005. From C64hq.

• Berlingske Tidende, October, 2007.
• 
  From TV2 Lorry (in Danish)
• Interview (another one) at Remix64, [local copy].
• Interview at Remix64, [local copy].

• Prank commercial for the fabulous PRESS PLAY ON TAPE cover-band, PRESS PLAY AND RECORD ON TAPE.
• BIT3 live rehersal videos by Kenz:
  

  

• We were interviewed by DIKUtal, May 2009 (in Danish).
• After playing at the Roskilde Festival, June 29th 2008, we were interviewed (In Danish).
• Theo was interviewed by CNN, December 2007 for their online story about the 25 years with C64.

  "I'm a member of PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, a Commodore 64 band. We play the themes from the C64 games and have played in Denmark, Norway, Britain, Germany and have planned concerts in Spain and perhaps Croatia. The band has six members, all graduated in computer science from the University of Copenhagen. Today we are all employed within the computer games industry and have been working on games like Hitman and Kane & Lynch. We met at the university and found out that we all shared the passion for the Commodore 64's tunes and decided to form a band, not knowing that we hit a dry spot in the music scene playing 8-bit rock. We have made two CDs which have received a lot of interest as the music from the Commodore 64 is loved by a lot of people who 25 years ago spent many hours in front of their C64 playing games listening to the catchy tunes. We are currently working on a third (double) album."

• PPOT was on national TV, on the channel TV2, in the programme called TVLorry.

• PPOT interviewed in the August 2005 issue of Colonne Sonore.
• PPOT playing at BIT2004 in London was mentioned in Super PLAY October issues in England, Sweden and Denmark.
• An interview at The Gathering 2004 resulted in this article at Polarboing (In Norwegian).
• RUN/STOP RESTORE was mentioned the Danish computer magazine Komputer May 2004
• RUN/STOP RESTORE was reviewed in Swedish computer magazine SuperPlay. Unfortunatly they didn't like the singing on the CD
• PPOT was interviews for Wired Magazine in the summer of 2003, but we don't know whether they ever wrote a story about us
• PPOT was featured in the Italian magazine "Giochi Computer" number 79 (2003)
• PPOT was featued in the Swedish magazine Super Play number 7/2003 which had a lot of articles about computer game music including the SID music scene
• PPOT was mentioned as "the funniest event" for The Gathering 2003 in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet
• PPOT is mentioned on this Italian website. Anyone who can give a translation?
• PPOT and the rest of the C64 remixers are featured in the special christmas 2002 RETRO edition of the British magazine "The Edge".
• The Danish radio programme Kronometer had a 20 min. interview with Theo and his C64. Produced in May 2002 by Nanna Westh.
• Dagbladet (Norwegian news paper) mentions PPOT and Theo, April 3rd 2002.
• Politiken (Danish news paper) put the article online April 2nd 2002.
• Politiken (Danish news paper) had a one page article about PPOT, in the "Fredag"-section, ??th March 2002.
• M! (Danish hip magazine with babes) mentions LOADING READY RUN, March 2002 issue.
• PC Player (Danish computer game mag) has a four page article on PPOT in the March 2002 issue.
• Mention of "Loading Ready Run" on February 23rd, 2002 in the printed version of Ekstrabladet.
• Boomtown, December 29th, 2002, jpg
• Computerworld article about The Party 2001, January 2nd, 2002., jpg
• Harddisken, the danish radio show, mar 15th, 2001, jpg