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Oliver Sim
Oliver Sim is an English singer and bass guitarist. He is a member of the xx and released a solo album, Hideous Bastard, in 2022, which peaked at No. 58 on the UK Albums Chart.
Sim met Romy Madley Croft at nursery school in London when they were 3. Sim grew up living in a Fulham council flat with his mother, 5 minutes away from Madley Croft. They attended the same primary school and then met Jamie Smith (Jamie xx) when they were 11, at the induction day for Elliott School, the secondary school they all attended. The future bandmates all studied GCSE Music together. Sim received his first bass guitar on his 14th birthday. Romy and Sim formed the band in 2005, with Jamie xx and Baria Qureshi joining in 2006.
The band released their debut album xx in 2009, their second album Coexist in 2012, and their third album I See You in 2017.
Sim's first solo album draws on queer and horror imagery, as well as a range of pop-culture references, as "he grapples with identity, shame and expectations of masculinity." Sim has described growing up identifying with characters in horror films, the monsters who come back to wreak revenge, as well as the "scream queens" and "final girls", such as Sissy Spacek Carrie, Sigourney Weaver in Alien, Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as they represent both femininity and anger. The album was produced by Jamie xx.
Sim describes the album's single Fruit as being the first song he has written using the male gendered pronoun, which he never did with the xx, as a significant marker of him being more open about being gay. He described the use of gender non-specific pronouns in the xx, as coming both from an agreement with Romy to make the lyrics universal, but also from a place of insecurity about his sexuality. He describes the song as a love letter to himself as a child/teenager struggling with his sexuality.
The song Hideous was the first time Sim spoke openly about his HIV status. The song features Jimmy Somerville.
Sim has said that his music is influenced by John Grant, Bronski Beat's Jimmy Somerville, who he became friends with during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A short film, Hideous, was created to accompany the album. In the film, "Sim plays an artist who, after coming out on live television and performing the undeniably celebratory Fruit with sensual self-possession, transforms into a clawed, horned and green-skinned monster to exact violence on the production crew that mocks him." Directed by Yann Gonzales, Hideous was first premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival before being released exclusively on Mubi.
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Oliver Sim
Oliver Sim is an English singer and bass guitarist. He is a member of the xx and released a solo album, Hideous Bastard, in 2022, which peaked at No. 58 on the UK Albums Chart.
Sim met Romy Madley Croft at nursery school in London when they were 3. Sim grew up living in a Fulham council flat with his mother, 5 minutes away from Madley Croft. They attended the same primary school and then met Jamie Smith (Jamie xx) when they were 11, at the induction day for Elliott School, the secondary school they all attended. The future bandmates all studied GCSE Music together. Sim received his first bass guitar on his 14th birthday. Romy and Sim formed the band in 2005, with Jamie xx and Baria Qureshi joining in 2006.
The band released their debut album xx in 2009, their second album Coexist in 2012, and their third album I See You in 2017.
Sim's first solo album draws on queer and horror imagery, as well as a range of pop-culture references, as "he grapples with identity, shame and expectations of masculinity." Sim has described growing up identifying with characters in horror films, the monsters who come back to wreak revenge, as well as the "scream queens" and "final girls", such as Sissy Spacek Carrie, Sigourney Weaver in Alien, Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as they represent both femininity and anger. The album was produced by Jamie xx.
Sim describes the album's single Fruit as being the first song he has written using the male gendered pronoun, which he never did with the xx, as a significant marker of him being more open about being gay. He described the use of gender non-specific pronouns in the xx, as coming both from an agreement with Romy to make the lyrics universal, but also from a place of insecurity about his sexuality. He describes the song as a love letter to himself as a child/teenager struggling with his sexuality.
The song Hideous was the first time Sim spoke openly about his HIV status. The song features Jimmy Somerville.
Sim has said that his music is influenced by John Grant, Bronski Beat's Jimmy Somerville, who he became friends with during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A short film, Hideous, was created to accompany the album. In the film, "Sim plays an artist who, after coming out on live television and performing the undeniably celebratory Fruit with sensual self-possession, transforms into a clawed, horned and green-skinned monster to exact violence on the production crew that mocks him." Directed by Yann Gonzales, Hideous was first premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival before being released exclusively on Mubi.