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Oxygen Thief
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Oxygen Thief - One Man Acoustic Loudness



Bristol,
United Kingdom

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Member Since18/11/2004
Band Websitewww.oxygenthiefmusic.com
Band MembersBarry Dolan - guitars, vocals, and everything in between
Influences

I like rock;

Alkaline Trio,
Biffy Clyro,
Brand New,
Carrie,
Cursive,
Feeder,
Glassjaw,
Johnny Foreigner,
Green Day,
Left Side Brain,
Less Than Jake,
Little Hell,
Machine Head,
Manic Street Preachers,
My Vitriol,
Nine Inch Nails,
Placebo,
Queen,
Radiohead,
Serafin,
Thrice,
Therapy?,
The Wildhearts.
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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
10 Jul 2009 20:00
The Millars Arms w/ Ben Marwood Lincoln
11 Jul 2009 20:00
Jam Café w/ Ben Marwood Nottingham
12 Jul 2009 20:00
Mentholmans - w/ Ben Marwood Sheffield
13 Jul 2009 9:00
!@* split album released. Buy it. Everywhere
18 Jul 2009 20:00
Leaf Lounge - 2000 Trees Festival 14.25 - 14.55 Nr Cheltenham, Midlands
13 Aug 2009 20:00
Oakford Social Club - !@* tour with Ben Marwood & Jim Lockey Reading, London and South East
14 Aug 2009 20:00
Corn Exchange - tour with Ben Marwood & Jim Lockey Devizes
15 Aug 2009 20:00
Mothers Ruin - !@* tour w/ Ben Marwood & more (see details) ***Free entry*** TBC
16 Aug 2009 20:00
Slak - !@* tour w/ Ben Marwood & Jim Lockey Cheltenham
17 Aug 2009 20:00
The Starving Rascal - !@* tour w/ Ben Marwood & Jim Lockey Stourbridge
18 Aug 2009 20:00
Island Bar - !@* tour w/ Ben Marwood & Jim Lockey Birmingham
19 Aug 2009 20:00
City Screen Basement Bar - !@* tour w/ Ben Marwood & Jim Lockey York, Northeast
20 Aug 2009 20:00
Trillians - !@* tour w/ Ben Marwood & Jim Lockey ***FREE ENTRY*** Newcastle
21 Aug 2009 20:00
The Parish - !@* tour w/ Ben Marwood & Jim Lockey Huddersfield
22 Aug 2009 20:00
Homestead - !@* tour w/ Ben Marwood & Jim Lockey Southampton
23 Aug 2009 20:00
Drift Bar - !@* tour w/ Ben Marwood & Jim Lockey Portsmouth, South
26 Sep 2009 20:00
ADDISTOCK Wednesbury, Midlands

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   About Oxygen Thief

email/msn me: oxygenthiefmusic@hotmail.com

Preorder the new split album now :
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Hello there, I'm Oxygen Thief (not my birth name, obviously), I live in Bristol, I play solo acoustic music which has been double blind tested and verified as (probably) the loudest acoustic solo chap ever.

Having spectacularly failed to keep previous bands going, I quit relying on other people a few of years ago, and started to beat the living crap out of my guitar, singing loudly, and generally bringing the rock as much as humanly possible...and then a little bit more.

The last couple of years were pretty ace, with a few tours around the UK, a show in New York, and gigs supporting Frank Turner, Dave House, and Frank Turner (again), Malcolm Middleton, Manchester Orchestra, Chris T-T, Johnny Foreigner, and appearances at 2000 Trees and Dot To Dot festivals leading up to the smashing of the "100 ever gigs" barrier.............oh and some very nice people wrote some very nice things about both my recorded and live output. "One of the UKs best acoustic acts" cried Punktastic. "Really good, really positive, energetic committed DIY acoustic emotion and bite" exclaimed Org Magazine. "A huge amount of potential" the lovely folks at Rock Sound wrote.

Oh, and someone posted this 26 second video to Youtube entitled "Oxygen Thief is Crap"...... can't please em all I suppose:

Not that bad IMO.

Anyway, I'm going to stop typing now and implore you to listen to songs, buy a cd / t-shirt / badge if you like them, and come to a gig sometime and have a chat......all this touring on your own is awesome, but it's nice to have a natter you know?

Here's some more reviews that I'm posting here to show off a bit........they're all on the positive side, which is nice.

From SuitYourselfMagazine.co.uk (review of Johnny Foreigner support, May 2009)

"First up is local chap Oxygen Thief aka Barry Dolan who describes himself as ‘one man acoustic loudness’. Oxygen Thief hits the strings of his acoustic so hard if that guitar was a child it would be placed into care. A very good performance but just one criticism – it was a bit short! I would have liked to have heard more as would the majority of the crowd."

From the same gig by Live-Music-Scene.co.uk:

First up, was Oxygen Thief, or Barry Dolan to reveal the man behind the hair, an acoustic act unlike anything you’ve seen before. He takes the traditional image of how people imagine acoustic sounds, and rips it to shreds with his blend of acoustic rock. Barry is a one-man band who will perform anywhere, and to anyone, and a busy Loui was the perfect place for him to sing until his hearts content.
With just one man and his guitar, you’d expect each song to sound pretty much the same, but not with Barry, each song is different from the next where he’s a fan of his guitar effects. With songs like ‘Fight Slash Flight’ and ‘Camera Shy’, which for the record I found stuck in my head, Barry shows real passion in his music.
This is one man who has real commitment for his music while he’s stomping around on stage and confusing people when he pauses mid-song. If you didn’t know better, you’d swear there was more than one person up on the stage.

"Feed A Cold, Starve A Fever"
3.5/5 - Punktastic.com
I don't need to write too much here because the music does the talking.
Barry Dolan is not only an all-round good egg, but a good singer/songwriter too. There's an honesty and passion in his writing and delivery that give a depth of feeling to his music missing from more famous artists. And while sometimes there's the odd bum note or slight cliche, there's a homemade DIY charm that carries it through. There's only 3 songs on this release but every one is solid and worthy of a listen.
Oxygen Thief may be far more fashionable, but as a band Oxygen Thief is one of the UK's best solo acoustic acts.

"We're In The Best Of Hands" mini album

The Organ - DEMO OF THE WEEK OXYGEN THIEF - We’re in The Best Of Hands - Sometimes something just turns up and in a totally unexpected unanticipated understated way just really impresses. Something that makes everything feel good, that makes life and trawling through demos and dealing with bands and promoters and everything else just a little bit more worthwhile and inviting than it seemed to be yesterday. This fine six track demo just turned up and politely waited in the pile with all the others, took a day or two to reach the top, we know nothing of Bristol’s Oxygen Thief, so it just had to wait there with the other (yeah, we admit it, if something we’ve been anticipating or excited about turns up it gets to jump the queue, everything else waits in line). Oxygen thief wages solo acoustic warfare, something that, following the demise of his previous band, he clearly has to do. He says he sings loud and plays his guitar to within an inch of its life, I de believe him as well, there’s so much energy in here with the passion. Now it would be very lazy of us to throw in names like Frank Turner or Get Cape, does give you a vague idea of where we’re at through. You need to take a little time with Oxygen Thief, you need to let his energy and his craft seep in, this is subtle (and subtle is not overrated) and he’s not going to grab you by the collar and demand you attention from the off, let his intentions shine through though, after a couple of plays you’ll know it was right to do so. This CD has been occupying days of my listening time (while the pile waiting over there waiting grows bigger). Just really good, really positive, energetic committed DIY acoustic emotion and bite and just six fine songs. Thank you Oxygen Thief. He knows how to make things better, a simple formula to break the pattern...

Punktastic.com 3.5/5
We're In The Best Of Hands, Oxygen Thief Barry Dolan is Oxygen Thief, a one-man acoustic project. Recorded DIY, this is a six-track EP which shows you don't need to have your guitars plugged in to have power and grab attention. While the production is a little rough around the edges, Barry's voice really does the talking - he's loud and aggressive and passionate and when your voice is the only other instrument after a guitar, it's certainly a very good thing. While each of the six tracks is solid, my only complaint would be the hooks perhaps are bot as strong as they could - and maybe should - be. 'Words From red card' is arguably the best song here, a really strong vocal performance which showcases an artist on the verge of good things. Solo acts are ten-a-penny but good ones are hard to find. Oxygen Thief is very much a good one.

7/10 review from WhisperinAndHollerin.com

"Oxygen Thief (myspace.com/oxygenthief) is the current solo project of 24 year-old Bristol resident Barry Dolan. “We’re In The Best Of Hands” is his new, self-released mini-album.
Dolan describes his music as “acoustic warfare” with the aim being to “sing LOUD” and play his guitar to “within an inch of its life”. This is an accurate description, as Dolan plays with a vigour verging on the brutal, but without forgetting the importance of writing good songs.
And there are definitely some very good songs here. The first track “Ours” is the ideal way to be introduced to Dolan’s work, with carefully used drumbeats supplementing the energetic guitars and vocals.
Track 2, “Owing” has an urgent, choppy riff running through it. The sound could be described as “acoustic hardcore/punk”. Indeed, if you want a phrase which categorises the album as a whole, that would be it...
“It’s Good But It’s Not Right” demonstrates that these songs not only have substance, but are accessible too.
Final track “FightSlashFlight” has a slightly Eastern tinge to it, and chorus enhanced by female backing vocals. It manages to be quite reminiscent of the fist in the air “gang chant” choruses that punk/hardcore songs often have.
The singer-songwriter has enjoyed somewhat of a renaissance in recent times, and while Dolan fits into this general classification, his music is a LONG way from the trite nonsense of your Blunts, Morrisons and Faulkners. What we have here is music, which nods more towards the inventive, meaningful and passionate work of a Frank Turner, Chris T-T or Malcolm Middleton.
It's acoustic Jim, but not as we know it...
Well worth investigating.
by Paul Found.

"Biting Lemons Before Sunrise" ep
click to read 4* review at Punktastic.com


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1 Jul 2009 11:10

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28 Jun 2009 17:38

happy birthday, dude
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28 Jun 2009 11:03

cheers for friday if you want to come back later in the year yell cheers!!
laura janine





27 Jun 2009 18:14

i really enjoyed your set at the rising sun :) xxx
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25 Jun 2009 18:46

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24 Jun 2009 18:52


There are more. They're on Ben's forum. Did you know Ben had a forum? He keeps it quiet. Anyway, I thought it best not to post these on Flickr.
SPECIAL K





24 Jun 2009 18:03

haha it was hellish. we were sat in front of the unhappiest baby ever. happy it's over :)
how's it going anyway? heading to glasgow soon? go oooooooooooon!
laura janine





23 Jun 2009 18:25

yes hopefully xxxx
laura janine





23 Jun 2009 17:09

You're welcome :)
you are playing at the rising sun friday right?
xxxx
Jedethan





18 Jun 2009 18:58

CHeerz for the add! Dig the rock!
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16 Jun 2009 09:39

ILLICIT EVE "These chicks from Adelaide know how to rock and how to rock hard" + MORPH + ROAD TO RECOVERY @ THE FLEECE, TUES 16 JUNE

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16 Jun 2009 09:14



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14 Jun 2009 18:24

you were played on the session to night bbc berkshire about 25 minutes in
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14 Jun 2009 16:38

Hi Mr. Thief,

I played 'Camerashy' as part of my podcast Quack Spout:

http://quackspout.blogspot.com/

Hope that's okay. All the best!

Owain
Merrick





12 Jun 2009 19:05

Barry,
If you are back from London....

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12 Jun 2009 00:08

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8 Jun 2009 21:33

Hi there
Thanks for the Friendship,
Rock On.
Chewy(B/H)
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5 Jun 2009 14:03

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30 May 2009 19:17

Ah the flyer works nicely here, bar the width

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27 May 2009 10:34

hi, just spreading the word about my new song 'Penny Pinching'.
Swing by and have a listen if you have the time!
Chris.
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25 May 2009 20:02

things are freaking sweet. off to see future of the left tomorrow, i've finished the press release, the stock AND artwork are back and currently being sorted out for shrinkwrapping as we speak and sweet jesus, i cannot wait to get them out of the door.

also this weekend has been hot, and spent mostly in my pants. but without wii.
Gerry Trimble (Now Booking Gigs)





24 May 2009 22:26

Erm, The running horse is quite a nice intimate venue and could be easy to pack out if the promo is done right.

There's a place called Seven, I'm not sure what it's like now because it's come under new manegement, more then likely the same as it was. Pretty decent.

The old angel, although I'd say that's more a band venue. You'd go down a treat with your style of riffage


I wouldn't bother with the social personally, theres a 10:PM cerfew and the bouncers are utter CUNTS. Saying that, It's a fairly nice size.

....Shit, I can't think of anymore, I'll have a look about for you if you like

Gerry
"Big Riff, Big Melody"





24 May 2009 12:59

Whilst I'm thinking about it, can you send me a link to artwork for "Feed A Cold Starve A Fever" / "We're In The Best Of Hands"??


I'm trying to sort out my iTunes and have noticed I don't have pretty pictures to accompany the ear-splitting acousticyness...

"Big Riff, Big Melody"





24 May 2009 12:44

We are all good my man... gotta gig at Le Purple Turtle ce soir which should be fun...



I was very much thinking of making an appearance at Lexapallooza... where is it being held though??

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