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Posted on 8-11-2011 at 11:23 | 7 CommentsNovember Update!
Greetings!
It`s been a while since the last update, but we`ll keep things fairly concise and give you a quick run-down of what`s been happening in Northern Oak-world since last we emailed.
First up, the big news is that The Great Exhibition Tour is now mere weeks away! Two weeks, to be precise- in two weeks time, on the 18th of November, we`ll be hitting up The SNOOTY FOX in Wakefield, and the day after we`ll be crashing the OLD BELL in Derby. And here`s some even better news- the Wakefield gig will be completely FREE! That`s right- you`ll be able to pay absolutely nothing to watch us, Old Corpse Road, Eibon la Furies and the Prophecy tear up the Snooty Fox`s stage.
Then, the weekend after, it`s the hometown show- we`ll be gracing the stage at SHEFFIELD CORPORATION on the 25th of November. Doors are at 7pm, it`ll cost you £4 and the first band will be on shortly after doors open, so get down early! In addition, we can announce that due to some excellent co-ordination with the organisers of Metalsammlung at DQ, you`ll be able to get into Metalsammlung for just £1 if you keep hold of your ticket for the Great Exhibition show at Corp! The gig should be done by 10:30, and then we can all wander over to DQ for the aftershow party. We hope to see plenty of you there!
Following a night of (probably) heavy drinking, we`ll be trekking down to London the day after to perform at The UNICORN in Camden. That gig is free entry as well! And finally, we'll be wrapping up the tour with a trip to The BOROUGH in Sunderland on the 3rd of December. It`s going to be an interesting (and exhausting) couple of weeks!
In other Northern Oak news, some of you may have already noticed, but we`ve posted up a new photoshoot on our Facebook. The pictures are fantastic, and courtesy of the excellent Craig Andrews (http://www.lazyrobot.org.uk) and his glamorous assistant Emma Sheridan, so go and check them out and be amused at our silly facial expressions.
We`re also pleased to announce that we have recently re-stocked our merchandise supplies! We now have plenty of both the Green Flourish T-shirt design and the Black Treeshirt design, so if you were holding off on ordering one because we didn`t have your size in stock... now we do, so go to our Music page to order! We also still have some limited numbers of the Yorkshire Teashirt and the first, classic Northern Oak shirt design in stock, at a discounted price.
Thanks for all your support, and we`ll see you on the road in the upcoming weeks!
Cheers,
Northern Oak
Posted on 19-9-2011 at 15:58 | 5 CommentsPost-Bloodstock and Onwards!
Good afternoon, ladies and gents!
All sorts of exciting things have been happening since our last update, so it's time for us to try and summarise it all in one post...
Bloodstock 2011
Bloodstock was an absolutely amazing experience for us- we performed twice, on the Jagermeister Acoustic Stage and on the New Blood Stage on Sunday, and both sets seemed to go down pretty well. At the time of writing, we're comfortably dominating the 'Best performance polls' on the Bloodstock forum, located here and here, so we're going to take that as evidence (alongside the few very positive reviews that I've read, including a glowing one at TheMixEclectic.com) that the weekend was a great success! Thank you to everyone who came along and checked us out, and to anybody who is now reading this post because they enjoyed one of our sets at Bloodstock- welcome, and thank you!
Coming Up
Following a much-needed break after Bloodstock (as well as my first foreign holiday in about six years!), we've been getting stuck back into things with a vengeance! Currently on Northern Oak's schedule:
-On the 23rd of September, we'll be appearing on the Fox's Den Show on Vixen 101 radio (101.8FM) for a three-hour slot in which we'll be bantering, talking about music and performing a number of acoustic tracks live on air. If you didn't manage to catch our acoustic set at Bloodstock, make sure to tune in at 9pm and hear roughly how it would have sounded, as well as getting to know a bit more about us- we're lovely people, honest!
-Following that, on the 2nd of October, we'll be performing at the mighty Ragefest in Leicester (Facebook event) alongside such stunning bands as Eastern Front, Ancient Ascendant, Old Corpse Road and a hell of a lot more! It looks to be an absolutely excellent day of metal, so get yourself along to that if at all possible! Tickets are £10 in advance and £12 on the door for a full afternoon and evening of high-quality music.
-After that, our next big outing is in November with the Great Exhibition tour! We've added another date to the tour in the first week of December, at the Borough in Sunderland, and are currently working on securing one more date to bring it up to a nice, even six- stay tuned for more details on that. In addition, we can proudly reveal that the tour is now sponsored by Zero Tolerance Magazine, champions of underground UK metal and all-round experts in the field of metal. If we're playing in your city, make sure you come along! If we're not- beg, borrow or steal some form of transport and get yourself along to the nearest gig, I promise it'll be worth it!
That's all for now- thank you all for supporting us, we really appreciate it. Every Facebook comment or positive email is a massive boost- we do this because we love playing music, but it's incredibly heartening to know that you guys like listening to our stuff!
Cheers,
Northern Oak
Posted on 27-7-2011 at 09:29 | 3 CommentsBreaking News: Bloodstock 2011
Good morning, one and all!
We have some rather excellent news to announce here at Northern Oak HQ; we can confirm that we've been offered (and have accepted) a slot on the Jagermeister Acoustic Stage at this year's Bloodstock festival, on Saturday 13th August!
We'll be playing a semi-acoustic set at 7pm, between two of the Main Stage bands, so if you're already at the Main Stage for whoever's playing then- why not wander over to the big Jagermeister sign and check us out as a warm-up for our performance on the New Blood stage on Sunday? We can promise a couple of rare tracks that you won't hear in the 'proper' set on Sunday!
The second piece of excellent news is that 'In These Hills' will be gracing the covermount CD on next month's issue of Terrorizer Magazine! It's part of a Terrorizer New Blood special, highlighting some of the brilliant unsigned bands that'll be performing on the New Blood stage at this years festival, so keep your eyes out for that. The issue hits the newsstands on August 11th, so check it out for yet more reasons why you should be spending a lot of your Bloodstock time at the New Blood stage!
Finally, don't forget that our next gig is at the Pagan Pride festival in Nottingham on Sunday the 7th of August; we're playing alongside Dyonisis, Treebeard and 3 Eyed Fox. The music kicks off at 12pm at the Arboretum Park and will continue until 6pm, and it's free- now, fingers crossed the weather stays good!
Thanks for all your support- the next few months are going to be pretty incredible for Northern Oak, and we couldn't have got here without you chaps and chapesses coming to see us at gigs, recommending us to friends and generally making a fuss about us. Once again, cheers!
Love,
Northern Oak
Posted on 6-7-2011 at 11:28 | 0 CommentsStop the Presses!
With the final day splits for Bloodstock festival revealed today, we can fully confirm that we've been moved to a slot on Sunday the 14th of August; we'll be folking up the sabbath alongside such stalwart protagonists of heavy metal as Sacred Illusion, Talanas, Sanguine, Twilight's Embrace and Candid Iniquity on the New Blood stage, and the big Irish juggernaut that is Primordial on the main stage. Not to mention Napalm Death, Exodus, At the Gates, Morbid Angel and the almighty Motorhead later on in the day.
Now, I am going to cross every single extremity that I possess and pray that, when we find out what our timeslot is, it doesn't clash with Primordial. Anybody fancy ritually sacrificing something to help with that?
We will be issuing another bulletin as soon as we know what time we'll be playing, but for now, if for some bizarre reason you've been holding off on a Bloodstock ticket with the intention of getting a day ticket JUST TO SEE US (I know at least 2 of you!) please feel free to go ahead and book a Sunday ticket.
Disclaimer: If the festival changes which day we're playing on in the subsequent weeks due to some kind of freak accident, Northern Oak accepts no responsibility for any mental anguish you might possibly suffer due to missing our performance.
Thanks again for all your support, and don't forget to check us out at Tamworth this weekend (Saturday 9th July, Bladefest 3) and in Nottingham on August 7th (Pagan Pride Festival) in the run-up to Bloodstock!
Cheers,
Chris
Northern Oak
Posted on 1-7-2011 at 10:27 | 0 CommentsIn These Hills
Posted on 10-6-2011 at 10:04 | 0 CommentsBloodstock Open Air 2011!
Well, now that I've calmed down a little bit...
In case you haven't caught sight of the news yet, Northern Oak are inordinately proud to announce that we will be performing at BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2011! We've been given a slot on the New Blood stage on Saturday, August the 13th, and we're incredibly excited about it. Most of the band have been to Bloodstock as festival-goers for the last couple of years, enjoying great music and hanging out with excellent people. The chance to actually play at the UK's best and most important metal festival is one that doesn't come around very often, and we hope to have a great time both performing and enjoying the other bands!
We'll let you all know as soon as we know exactly what time we'll be playing on Saturday (I have my fingers crossed that we don't clash with either Ihsahn or Wintersun...). If you haven't already got your tickets for Bloodstock, what are you waiting for? Go to the Bloodstock online store now!
Thank you all for your continued support- you're the people who have made this possible for us.
Cheers,
Chris
Posted on 5-6-2011 at 09:57 | 0 CommentsNew Shirts & Gig News!
Good morning everybody!
A couple of things to mention here- first off, we've replenished our merch supplies so we now have a truckload (okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration) of tshirts to sell you all! We restocked on our popular black 'Treeshirt' design, as seen here: Treeshirt
And we also added a new design, which is (fanfare) a dark green shirt, for those of you who feel that your wardrobe is perhaps a little bit too black and that you'd like a change! Click the links for some pictures of that design: Green Shirt 1
Green Shirt 2
Our music page will shortly be updated with all the new shirts and the correct quantities, so if you want to pick up a shirt through the magic of the internet just head to http://music.northernoak.co.uk to purchase one for the low, low price of just £7! (Or it's just £10 if you buy one with a copy of Monuments!)
Anyway, enough merch whoring- in terms of upcoming gigs, in case you haven't already seen, we have unfortunately had to cancel our gig at the Old Angel in Nottingham next week due to unforeseen circumstances. Nevertheless, we will next be treading the boards on July the 9th in Tamworth as the opening act on Bladefest 3, a charity festival in aid of Cancer Research UK. Here's a flyer- It's a good cause and it should be a good day, so get down there if you can!
Beyond that, we have a couple of other gig plans in the pipeline; and of course, in November this year it's time for the Great Exhibition to roll into a town near you and thoroughly Victorianise the place. Facebook events can be found here for Sheffield, Derby, London and Wakefield. We're really looking forward to it!
That's all for now- stay tuned for more news, and thanks again for all your support, we really appreciate it!
Cheers,
Chris
Northern Oak
Posted on 8-11-2011 at 11:23 | 7 CommentsNovember Update!
Greetings!
It`s been a while since the last update, but we`ll keep things fairly concise and give you a quick run-down of what`s been happening in Northern Oak-world since last we emailed.
First up, the big news is that The Great Exhibition Tour is now mere weeks away! Two weeks, to be precise- in two weeks time, on the 18th of November, we`ll be hitting up The SNOOTY FOX in Wakefield, and the day after we`ll be crashing the OLD BELL in Derby. And here`s some even better news- the Wakefield gig will be completely FREE! That`s right- you`ll be able to pay absolutely nothing to watch us, Old Corpse Road, Eibon la Furies and the Prophecy tear up the Snooty Fox`s stage.
Then, the weekend after, it`s the hometown show- we`ll be gracing the stage at SHEFFIELD CORPORATION on the 25th of November. Doors are at 7pm, it`ll cost you £4 and the first band will be on shortly after doors open, so get down early! In addition, we can announce that due to some excellent co-ordination with the organisers of Metalsammlung at DQ, you`ll be able to get into Metalsammlung for just £1 if you keep hold of your ticket for the Great Exhibition show at Corp! The gig should be done by 10:30, and then we can all wander over to DQ for the aftershow party. We hope to see plenty of you there!
Following a night of (probably) heavy drinking, we`ll be trekking down to London the day after to perform at The UNICORN in Camden. That gig is free entry as well! And finally, we'll be wrapping up the tour with a trip to The BOROUGH in Sunderland on the 3rd of December. It`s going to be an interesting (and exhausting) couple of weeks!
In other Northern Oak news, some of you may have already noticed, but we`ve posted up a new photoshoot on our Facebook. The pictures are fantastic, and courtesy of the excellent Craig Andrews (http://www.lazyrobot.org.uk) and his glamorous assistant Emma Sheridan, so go and check them out and be amused at our silly facial expressions.
We`re also pleased to announce that we have recently re-stocked our merchandise supplies! We now have plenty of both the Green Flourish T-shirt design and the Black Treeshirt design, so if you were holding off on ordering one because we didn`t have your size in stock... now we do, so go to our Music page to order! We also still have some limited numbers of the Yorkshire Teashirt and the first, classic Northern Oak shirt design in stock, at a discounted price.
Thanks for all your support, and we`ll see you on the road in the upcoming weeks!
Cheers,
Northern Oak
Posted on 19-9-2011 at 15:58 | 5 CommentsPost-Bloodstock and Onwards!
Good afternoon, ladies and gents!
All sorts of exciting things have been happening since our last update, so it's time for us to try and summarise it all in one post...
Bloodstock 2011
Bloodstock was an absolutely amazing experience for us- we performed twice, on the Jagermeister Acoustic Stage and on the New Blood Stage on Sunday, and both sets seemed to go down pretty well. At the time of writing, we're comfortably dominating the 'Best performance polls' on the Bloodstock forum, located here and here, so we're going to take that as evidence (alongside the few very positive reviews that I've read, including a glowing one at TheMixEclectic.com) that the weekend was a great success! Thank you to everyone who came along and checked us out, and to anybody who is now reading this post because they enjoyed one of our sets at Bloodstock- welcome, and thank you!
Coming Up
Following a much-needed break after Bloodstock (as well as my first foreign holiday in about six years!), we've been getting stuck back into things with a vengeance! Currently on Northern Oak's schedule:
-On the 23rd of September, we'll be appearing on the Fox's Den Show on Vixen 101 radio (101.8FM) for a three-hour slot in which we'll be bantering, talking about music and performing a number of acoustic tracks live on air. If you didn't manage to catch our acoustic set at Bloodstock, make sure to tune in at 9pm and hear roughly how it would have sounded, as well as getting to know a bit more about us- we're lovely people, honest!
-Following that, on the 2nd of October, we'll be performing at the mighty Ragefest in Leicester (Facebook event) alongside such stunning bands as Eastern Front, Ancient Ascendant, Old Corpse Road and a hell of a lot more! It looks to be an absolutely excellent day of metal, so get yourself along to that if at all possible! Tickets are £10 in advance and £12 on the door for a full afternoon and evening of high-quality music.
-After that, our next big outing is in November with the Great Exhibition tour! We've added another date to the tour in the first week of December, at the Borough in Sunderland, and are currently working on securing one more date to bring it up to a nice, even six- stay tuned for more details on that. In addition, we can proudly reveal that the tour is now sponsored by Zero Tolerance Magazine, champions of underground UK metal and all-round experts in the field of metal. If we're playing in your city, make sure you come along! If we're not- beg, borrow or steal some form of transport and get yourself along to the nearest gig, I promise it'll be worth it!
That's all for now- thank you all for supporting us, we really appreciate it. Every Facebook comment or positive email is a massive boost- we do this because we love playing music, but it's incredibly heartening to know that you guys like listening to our stuff!
Cheers,
Northern Oak
Posted on 27-7-2011 at 09:29 | 3 CommentsBreaking News: Bloodstock 2011
Good morning, one and all!
We have some rather excellent news to announce here at Northern Oak HQ; we can confirm that we've been offered (and have accepted) a slot on the Jagermeister Acoustic Stage at this year's Bloodstock festival, on Saturday 13th August!
We'll be playing a semi-acoustic set at 7pm, between two of the Main Stage bands, so if you're already at the Main Stage for whoever's playing then- why not wander over to the big Jagermeister sign and check us out as a warm-up for our performance on the New Blood stage on Sunday? We can promise a couple of rare tracks that you won't hear in the 'proper' set on Sunday!
The second piece of excellent news is that 'In These Hills' will be gracing the covermount CD on next month's issue of Terrorizer Magazine! It's part of a Terrorizer New Blood special, highlighting some of the brilliant unsigned bands that'll be performing on the New Blood stage at this years festival, so keep your eyes out for that. The issue hits the newsstands on August 11th, so check it out for yet more reasons why you should be spending a lot of your Bloodstock time at the New Blood stage!
Finally, don't forget that our next gig is at the Pagan Pride festival in Nottingham on Sunday the 7th of August; we're playing alongside Dyonisis, Treebeard and 3 Eyed Fox. The music kicks off at 12pm at the Arboretum Park and will continue until 6pm, and it's free- now, fingers crossed the weather stays good!
Thanks for all your support- the next few months are going to be pretty incredible for Northern Oak, and we couldn't have got here without you chaps and chapesses coming to see us at gigs, recommending us to friends and generally making a fuss about us. Once again, cheers!
Love,
Northern Oak
Posted on 6-7-2011 at 11:28 | 0 CommentsStop the Presses!
With the final day splits for Bloodstock festival revealed today, we can fully confirm that we've been moved to a slot on Sunday the 14th of August; we'll be folking up the sabbath alongside such stalwart protagonists of heavy metal as Sacred Illusion, Talanas, Sanguine, Twilight's Embrace and Candid Iniquity on the New Blood stage, and the big Irish juggernaut that is Primordial on the main stage. Not to mention Napalm Death, Exodus, At the Gates, Morbid Angel and the almighty Motorhead later on in the day.
Now, I am going to cross every single extremity that I possess and pray that, when we find out what our timeslot is, it doesn't clash with Primordial. Anybody fancy ritually sacrificing something to help with that?
We will be issuing another bulletin as soon as we know what time we'll be playing, but for now, if for some bizarre reason you've been holding off on a Bloodstock ticket with the intention of getting a day ticket JUST TO SEE US (I know at least 2 of you!) please feel free to go ahead and book a Sunday ticket.
Disclaimer: If the festival changes which day we're playing on in the subsequent weeks due to some kind of freak accident, Northern Oak accepts no responsibility for any mental anguish you might possibly suffer due to missing our performance.
Thanks again for all your support, and don't forget to check us out at Tamworth this weekend (Saturday 9th July, Bladefest 3) and in Nottingham on August 7th (Pagan Pride Festival) in the run-up to Bloodstock!
Cheers,
Chris
Northern Oak
Posted on 1-7-2011 at 10:27 | 0 CommentsIn These Hills
Posted on 10-6-2011 at 10:04 | 0 CommentsBloodstock Open Air 2011!
Well, now that I've calmed down a little bit...
In case you haven't caught sight of the news yet, Northern Oak are inordinately proud to announce that we will be performing at BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2011! We've been given a slot on the New Blood stage on Saturday, August the 13th, and we're incredibly excited about it. Most of the band have been to Bloodstock as festival-goers for the last couple of years, enjoying great music and hanging out with excellent people. The chance to actually play at the UK's best and most important metal festival is one that doesn't come around very often, and we hope to have a great time both performing and enjoying the other bands!
We'll let you all know as soon as we know exactly what time we'll be playing on Saturday (I have my fingers crossed that we don't clash with either Ihsahn or Wintersun...). If you haven't already got your tickets for Bloodstock, what are you waiting for? Go to the Bloodstock online store now!
Thank you all for your continued support- you're the people who have made this possible for us.
Cheers,
Chris
Posted on 5-6-2011 at 09:57 | 0 CommentsNew Shirts & Gig News!
Good morning everybody!
A couple of things to mention here- first off, we've replenished our merch supplies so we now have a truckload (okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration) of tshirts to sell you all! We restocked on our popular black 'Treeshirt' design, as seen here: Treeshirt
And we also added a new design, which is (fanfare) a dark green shirt, for those of you who feel that your wardrobe is perhaps a little bit too black and that you'd like a change! Click the links for some pictures of that design: Green Shirt 1
Green Shirt 2
Our music page will shortly be updated with all the new shirts and the correct quantities, so if you want to pick up a shirt through the magic of the internet just head to http://music.northernoak.co.uk to purchase one for the low, low price of just £7! (Or it's just £10 if you buy one with a copy of Monuments!)
Anyway, enough merch whoring- in terms of upcoming gigs, in case you haven't already seen, we have unfortunately had to cancel our gig at the Old Angel in Nottingham next week due to unforeseen circumstances. Nevertheless, we will next be treading the boards on July the 9th in Tamworth as the opening act on Bladefest 3, a charity festival in aid of Cancer Research UK. Here's a flyer- It's a good cause and it should be a good day, so get down there if you can!
Beyond that, we have a couple of other gig plans in the pipeline; and of course, in November this year it's time for the Great Exhibition to roll into a town near you and thoroughly Victorianise the place. Facebook events can be found here for Sheffield, Derby, London and Wakefield. We're really looking forward to it!
That's all for now- stay tuned for more news, and thanks again for all your support, we really appreciate it!
Cheers,
Chris
Northern Oak