THE OCEAN IN NEW TOUR BLOG VIDEO: “THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE ARE COMPLETELY CRAZY!”

Oh, how I love The Ocean! Like a sex-starved inmate who’s gone without for so long he forgets what it even feels like, sometimes I go long periods with no Ocean in my life only to be reminded of what I’ve been missing by the very scent. Just yesterday the fine lads and lasses at metal radio mainstay WSOU jocked an Ocean song of newer ilk while I was driving around in the ’88 Vincemobile; at first I was all “this is pretty sweet” as I bobbed along, and only halfway through did I have the eureka moment in which I realized what I was listening to. Listening to The Ocean is always great, but doing so on the radio of all places just feels extra badass in these metal-unfriendly radio times.

So: The Ocean are currently on an extended tour of the Russian Federation states (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine), and they’ve released a video tour blog chronicling the madness. This edition covers the first leg of the tour, from St Petersburg to Yekaterinburg, and the band promises that they’ll document their trip to Siberia next (wow!). Watch:

The end of the video gives us a little nugget of info regarding The Ocean’s forthcoming live DVD: it’ll be called Collective Oblivion, will contain THREE DVDs, and will be released “this fall.” Get excitebike!

After the jump, a full video of “She Was the Universe” live in Moscow:

-VN