Our history - we brought an acoustic orchestra together in the winter of 2007/2008, we were all from the beautiful wee village of Collieston, which we're sure informed our music and how we played.
Since then we went back to a standard band line up as the Oxbow Lake Band. We've continued to experiment and have been through periods of writing trad tunes, rockier influences and our love of jazz, soul, funk and hip hop.
Genres are for record companies and not us, but if you come to one of our gigs and you'll be exposed to endless influences, styles, tempos and emotions. Our live shows are good time events, upbeat and attract dancers like fire flies to a flame(??)
It's a wee cottage industry we have here; all the artwork, recording and production, promotion, selling etc. is done by the band members and friends, so a big thanks to them all.
The grandest demographic funky band in the north of Scotland. Band members include:
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The orchestra and the band have had a few other friends, who come and go and come again and drink beer and play tunes into the night:-Angus: percussion Annabel: fiddle on Fisherman Sings Dan: bass on some of the Neanderthal Blues EP tracks and Xmas '09 releases Fisherman Sings and Now That You're Gone Henry: djembe on Driven to Dance and in general big thanks to him and the Woodland Roots Orchestra (Paddy sitting in on bass at a few gigs and Gavin always adding that great vibe too) Hux: cello on Neanderthal Blues EP Jess: percussion on some of the tracks on Neaderthal Blues EP and great art work Nick: bass Phil: for his great drumming throughout summer/autmn of '09 Ronnie: for sharing the beer and playing the pipes... |
...and folks like Millenium Child and his crew for the spoken word big styleeeeee |
Thanks to our great photographic contributors:- Darren Coutts;
Greg Forbes www.gregforbesphotography.com;
Duncan Gerrie www.nuttyphotography.co.uk;
Murdo Morrison
contact us by email - also see us on myspace and at village sunsets.
