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Oxygen Thief

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General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Rock

    Location Bristol, Southwest, Un

    Profile Views: 82599

    Last Login: 11/25/2011

    Member Since 11/18/2004

    Website www.oxygenthiefmusic.com

    Record Label Broken Tail Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    A guitar, a voice, and some effects pedals that make "du-du-du-du-durr-bwop-bwop-bwop-bwop" noises. Gradually getting fed up of relying on two or three other people being organised/dedicated enough to turn up to rehearsals, soundchecks, and gigs on time, Bristol's Barry Dolan decided to start playing solo under the name Oxygen Thief in 2006. Eschewing the traditional gentle folk leanings of the "singer/songwriter" acoustic crowd, he carried on playing with the same level of passion , intensity, and volume as most people would with a full backing band behind them - adapting his guitar technique over time to encorporate the absent rhythm instruments with bass heavy riffs and a rhythm-heavy strumming style that generally looks like he's beating the living crap out of whichever guitar is unlucky enough to be chosen for that evening's gig. Vocally aggressive, but with a keen ear for a rousing melody and a tempting hook, his mix of bite, brevity and beards has won him support slots with the likes of Frank Turner, Johnny Foreigner, Chris T-T, and Tubelord to name but a few, alongside a regular slot at Cheltenham's award-winning 2000 Trees Festival. Following up 2009's split ep with Xtra Mile's Ben Marwood, and fellow Frank Turner tour support Jim Lockey, his debut full length album 'Destroy It Yourself' is due for release on Monday 9th May, with an extensive UK and Ireland tour to support it.

  • Members

    Barry Dolan - guitars, vocals, effects pedals, hair.

  • Influences

    Alkaline Trio, Biffy Clyro, Brand New, Carrie, Cursive, 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, Silverchair, Thrice, Therapy?, The Wildhearts

  • Sounds Like

    Comments I've overheard: ,"Billy Bragg crossed with Megadeth", "An acoustic Meshuggah", "Frank Turner, but angrier"*, *is that even possible?

Solo, acoustic, loud

Oxygen Thief is solo acoustic loud stuff - big tunes, big riffs, a few stomps on a few effects pedals, and then off to the bar for some whisky and a chat.

I play lots of gigs, I record songs, I make beanies and t-shirts which you can buy if you like.

Listen to Destroy It Yourself on Spotify

or go to

www.oxygenthiefmusic.com
www.twitter.com/oxygenthiefyeah
www.facebook.com/oxygenthief666

Also, if you'd like to get in touch about then please email me via oxygenthiefmusic [at] hotmail [dot] com

Thanks.

OT

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