Ooosh! Tours
Ooosh! Tours is based in Brighton, South East England. We specialise in splitter van, backline and TM / driver hire for touring bands and productions of all sizes. From an airport pickup to an international headline tour, we can provide you with great quality vehicles, top-spec equipment, and experienced road crew.
Ooosh! Tours operates out of Brighton Electric studios, the South's leading recording and rehearsal complex (and finalist in the 2010 "Studio of the Year" Music Week awards). They are open seven days a week for convenient access to our vans and backline. They have a cafe, free wifi, and a well-stocked shop of musical spares, making it the ideal place to begin your tour.
Our rates are extremely reasonable, and we are experienced in touring, and the needs of those touring, at all levels: from DIY tours and sleeping on floors, to international festival shows.
Please get in touch if you'd like to discuss rates and availability, or have any questions this website can't answer.
News
02/09/10 New gear! We've got some great new backline rental bits in, including a Nord Elctro 2 for hire, plus some superb vintage snares: a 1980s Ludwig Coliseum (8" deep!), another 80s Ludwig Black Beauty, and a Ludwig 1965 8-lug Maple snare, which is just the nicest sounding thing ever.
We're looking forward to a busy Autumn; we're pretty booked up already for the next couple of months, so get your van and/or backline hire requests in asap!
19/06/2010 Wifi on the road! We're currently experimenting with fitting wifi into our splitter vans: looks like we're going to be able to offer this great service in all our vehicles from early July. Get in touch if you'd like more information. We've also added some new gear to our backline selection, including some super Roland keyboards.
By the way, I urge you all to take a look at savethefreebutt.blogspot.com and sign the petition to help keep this brilliant music venue alive and kicking. It's sad that we keep hearing of small independent venues fighting to survive, and a shame that so many people don't realise that this is a potentially huge threat to the creation and enjoyment of live music on a national level. Councils, as voted into power by us, need to redress the balance of power away from one or two spiteful neighbours and into the hands of those who love music and want to enjoy it.
17/02/2010 Chuffed to the back gills to announce our third splitter van is on order and will be here in a few weeks - we're going to start taking bookings for April onwards very shortly. It's going to be really nice inside: large seats, 2xTVs, PS2 etc.
30/11/2009 We're excited to announce that we now have two splitter vans available on a self-drive hire basis. Please see the van hire page for more info, pictures, and prices. Also, yet more backline added, including a sweet vintage Tama Royalstar kit and a great 1979 Silverface Fender Twin reverb amp.
02/07/2009 We've been busy expanding our backline recently and can now offer some fantastic vintage gear to rent: late 70s Ampeg SVT blue-line classic bass amp with matching 8x10 cab; Ampeg 2x15 bass cab from similar era; Ludwig blue vistalite drum kit from mid 70s; Musicman 212HD solid state / valve hybrid amp from the 80s. We've also expanded our Tama drum kit so we can now offer a wide range of sizes of bass drums / toms to accomodate any need. Please take a look at our backline page to check out our ever-expanding list of modern and vintage gear.