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Oxbow is expression in its purest form; they bring it in and spew it outthey are the great leveler. Unrepentant fury tempered with unparalleled musicianship. There has never been a band with will to form like this and within that will; there can only be one. Anybody who’s been in the midst of an Oxbow performance knows the fear. If you embrace it you will be rewarded, if you deny it you better get your ass out of the room. – Scott Kelly/Neurosis
The malls whisper. The halls whisper. The phone rings. And you are mocked and shamed while walls shiver down like wet sand and it is noticed like you are noticed, which is to say: not at all. And through all of their glass, steel and formless cold you move like it moves, along and alone, and you sleep while standing and you stand while waiting for buses and cars and in clubs at bars.
And then there is change. Crystalline change.
And between spaces and for spaces of the full measure of IT ALL what was big becomes small and what’s small becomes animal grand until it’s you, and handfuls of you, running into the always firing sun: a love that spells its name along the frame of everything that’s broken. For good. For ever. And so it goes that OXBOW’S THE NARCOTIC STORY, co-produced by Grammy-winning producer-mixer JOE CHICCARELLI FRANK ZAPPA, AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, THE SHINS, THE RACONTEURS is the sixth chambered installment of a suicide that plays itself out on the hustings of a substanced and principled addiction to failure while the band plays on.
From their previous time and tutelage with the estimable STEVE ALBINI, seven records, multiple tours of Europe, Asia, and the United States, a documentary film MUSIC FOR ADULTS, TV appearances ViVA TV and collaborations with a raft of luminaries of stage and screen – MARIANNE FAITHFULL, LYDIA LUNCH, JARBOE, KLAUS FLOURIDE, RICHARD KERN-OXBOW and their penchant for plumb lines of catastrophe direct THE NARCOTIC STORY, the first in a triptych to later include both a film and a soundtrack of successful and beautiful ruin.
PAST stage performances have included outings with CASPAR & PETER BROTZMANN, THE MELVINS, JESU, BIG BUSINESS, JESUS LIZARD, THE BOREDOMS, KING DIAMOND, ORANJ SYMPHONETTE, GENGHIS TRON, YAKUZA, NEUROSIS, ZENI GEVA, SHELLAC, BORIS, THE RUINS, THE UNSANE, CONVERGE, DEERHOOF, SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, ZU, ARAB ON RADAR, SIX FINGERED SATELLITE, PELICAN, and more.
OXBOW and OXBOW’s acoustic duo LOVE’S HOLIDAY is touring Europe with ISIS from May 24th to June 22, 2007. With additional outings July 2nd in London and July 15th in Birmingham, England for the Supersonic Festival. U.S shows will be announced subsequent to their return.
OXBOW’s vocalist EUGENE ROBINSON’s book Fight: Or, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking Harper Collins is scheduled for a fall release and will also be followed by a spoken word tour.
Stream the new album www.hydrahead.org/hh/oxbow_site/here.
OXBOW (full band)
Mon 4th June ’07 France Montpellier @ Le Rockstore
Tue 5th June ’07 Italy Milan Transilvania Live Club
Wed 6th June ’07 Italy Rome @ Circolo Degli Artisti
Thu 7th June ’07 Italy Bologna @ Estragon
Fri 8th June ’07 Switzerland Dudingen @ Kilbi Festival
Sun 10th June ’07 France Paris @ La Locomotive
Mon 11th June ’07 Netherlands Amsterdam @ Paradiso
Tue 12th June ’07 Germany Koln @ Stollwerck
Wed 13th June ’07 Germany Berlin @ Postbahnhof
Thu 14th June ’07 Greece Athens @ Oxygono
Mon 2nd July ’07 UK London @ Koko
LOVE’S HOLIDAY (OXBOW’S ACOUSTIC DUO)
Thu 24th May ’07 Sco Glasgow @ Oran Mor
Sat 26th May ’07 UK Sheffield @ Corporation
Sun 27th May ’07 UK Bristol @ Bierkeller
Mon 28th May ’07 UK Birmingham @ Barfly
Tue 29th May ’07 UK Brighton @ Concorde 2
Wed 30th May ’07 France Tourcoing @ Le Grand Mix
Thu 31st May ’07 Belgium Brussels @ Ancienne Belgique
Sun 17th June ’07 Slovenia Ljubljana @ Cvetlicarna Mediapark
Tue 19th June ’07 Poland Wroclaw @ Firlej
Wed 20th June ’07 Poland Warsaw @ Progresja
Fri 22nd June ’07 Czech Republic Prague @ Palace Akropolis
Sat 14th, July UK Birmingham/Supersonic Festival
Mon 16th, July UK London, Plan B