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for good karma this xmas, do some charity albums!

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doing our bit for charity wuth 2 songs on charity albums and now a gig for local school project. karma points going up Nov. 28, 2009

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xmas charity compilations - check out fudge CD for mongol rally and kilau tune can now be dowloaded for free as they sold out!

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afc lossiemouth fest this summer (well done all) neo blues live from on player

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for good karma this xmas, do some charity albums!

the fisherman sings and now that you're gone have been given over for 2 different charity albums in aberdeen . details will be put on our sites as soon as they're ready to buy! cheers andy

November 18, 2009

the oxbow lake added 2 songs

play 02 now that you're gone
play 01 the fisherman sings

November 18, 2009

doing our bit for charity with 2 new songs

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via myspace

hi folks please enjoy this page! thanks for all your emails, photos, friendship etc..

we're about to take some time off to write and record our album "away from the mainstream" but will still be playing a few gigs over the winter.

wizard was great and thanks to all the bands who played with us on friday. it was a real treat being able to pick the bands!!!

and to the mc's (mc and dt) for what turned out to be funky jam. see video below.

our ep neanderthal blues is out and available for free download here or click the banner link below to take you to our nessmp3 site to download (if you don't have a myspace account). we've hand made a small amount of cdr's (with great art work) which were available at our launch gig; with the rest being sent out as promotional material. We're getting a load printed for upcoming gigs

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we did a radio session in Aberdeen for original 106 fm Sunday showcase show, on Sunday 11th January to promote the release of the extended player "neanderthal blues".

Just paste the podcast link below into your explorer to listen (we're on straight away)

http://www.originalfm.com/sunday-showcase-640406

our history - the orchestra came together in the winter of 2007/2008, we're all from the beautiful wee village of collieston, which has, we're sure, informed our music and how we play. first local gigs in spring of 2008. it felt so good! - we then went on to play some storming summer festivals and gigs further afield.

our live shows are genre defying and have become good time events, upbeat and attract dancers like fire flies to a flame(??)

we play a lot of (far too many) traditional and acoustic instruments, but don't assume anything from that!

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.

this ep has been self released as a taster before the album "away from the main stream", which we hope will be issued in 09??

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xmas charity compilations - check out fudge CD for mongol rally and kilau tune can now be dowloaded for free as they sold out!

the fudge charity compilation is out. can be bought from the moorings bar aberdeen or one up etc when they get them out. we put on "the fisherman sings" and their is lots of other good sh1t. check out fudge promoters on myspace or ours for poster etc.

we put a song 'now that you're gone' to the kilau xmas charity compilation. now its sold out we've put it up for free download!!

see www.myspace.com/oxbowlake reverb nation player (our websites being… Continue

Posted on December 19, 2009 at 6:31pm —

afc lossiemouth fest this summer (well done all) neo blues live from on player

morning campers hi de hi

bobby from joe cassidy sat in with us and the band arrived 2 mins before we were hurtled onto the acoustic stage as we'd missed out on our electric slot and wow it was funky!

husky voice or no husky voice. what a week. this and the woodland tent at bella would be my highlights just for the good spirit and crowd and odd surroundings.

thanks to jeremy for sound and recording etc and maria for their hospitality

cheers

andy

Posted on December 4, 2009 at 12:35pm —

your chance to help mix our new tune fisherman sings

raw version going up on site

nothing better than hearing it through as many mediums as poss so we can get a feel

but i have issues with fiddle and organ bass/bass guitar conflicting

and my vocal has no reverb on or anything

see what you think

comments on a postcard

cheers

adny

Posted on October 11, 2009 at 10:03am —

ruby ruby mag covers village sunsets (and wizard) and the oxbow lake orchestra ep

check out by going to ruby ruby on myspace and they'll email you a copy

review of our ep by ruby ruby. we like their view

Posted on September 18, 2009 at 6:14pm —

video of mc's with us at wizard

thanks to 'shaky hand' perron for the vid. and to the mc's - mc and dt. hope to work with them again soon.

really enjoyed wizard regardless of the flu, weather, stress chaos etc and i'm sure that's me smiling (not me just looking glaikit)

finally figured out how to edit out my dancing!

and yes rapping was the only choice (honest) after i'd fecked me voice with flu.

cheers

andy

Posted on September 11, 2009 at 1:41pm —

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At 11:18am on September 17, 2009, Sketchy said…: Hi Andy.

Alls well this end fella. Still on the comedown from Wizard etc...heres to more fests in future!!!

Hows things your end? Hope your gigging hard? Hope to see ya again in the near future.

Best wishes

Sketchy

At 2:32pm on September 15, 2009, THERESA MAITLAND said…: Arggg I did not know how to open message you sent back- delated it - wheww neandathal or what !!! you sound excellent anyway LOL

At 11:05pm on September 14, 2009, THERESA MAITLAND said…: Love the your music guys - tunes are amazingly - especially the rythm of gilles...

At 1:41pm on September 10, 2009, Maryann Frew said…: Hi,
Hope the gig went well in Skye. Hope to catch up some time.

At 10:57am on August 23, 2009, Saucy Marys Lodge said…: Hey, normally Saturday gigs start around 9.30 and end around 12.15 so would be your call how you want to play it !!
Usually bands will do either 2 or 3 sets and we provide beer in the interim !!

See you soon .

At 11:47pm on April 25, 2009, Maria Hall said…: Too many gig offers sounds good to me.. and the Oirish song title would surely be 'Oim tick, Oim tick, Oim tick!' .. or maybe that's the sound of the uncertain time bomb? Maybe getting a little too surreal. lol :))

At 3:44pm on April 24, 2009, Maria Hall said…: Doh!!! I'm thick, I'm thick, I'm thick!!! You already said it's on the tues before so that's the 4th Aug. Sorry!! :(

At 3:40pm on April 24, 2009, Maria Hall said…: Well, Rob's got hardly any comp Festival tickets this year, so he's trying to keep the amount of artists on the Fringe list to a minimum.
My band'll be happy to play and I think The Linsey Dolan Band may want to make a little tour of the Fringe. She's great and a nice lady too. :)
I'm telling people who are playing at The Highland Gathering to contact yourself, Mick and Rob if they're available for more Fringe events in the run up to the 6th.
What date's the Fringe event at Drummonds? I'll let people know.
Peace,
Maria :)

At 12:21am on April 16, 2009, Maria Hall said…: That's cool if you're able to do the Gathering. Are you running a Festival Fringe event this year as well? If you are, I'm hoping to coordinate as many of the Gathering/Fringe events as possible into a mini tour for AFC/Fringe performers. It'd probably kick off in Paisley a week before as Mick's running a 'Gathering/Fringe' event there and then if you wanted to do the same at Collieston and we got a few more Fringe spots around Inverness and Ross-shire then we finish at my 'Highland Gathering' the day before the Festival starts. That makes it more worthwhile, particularly for the people flying in from abroad.
Well let me know your thoughts on all this and meanwhile I'll stick you on my list of possibles tbc.
Hope to see you soon,
Maria :)