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Posted on 26-3-2012 at 13:22 | 4 CommentsSpring Newsletter
Happy Monday, everyone!
Things have been a little quiet in the Northern Oak camp recently, for which we apologise- we've been hard at work on writing new material and getting those new songs ironed out for live consumption. At the current count, we have three new tracks which haven't previously been recorded, two of which we've been playing live; Only Our Names Will Remain and Gaia. Factoring in all of the other material we've got to work on, we'll have the next album written in no time!
If you're in Sheffield on April 29th (and why would you be anywhere else?) we'll be performing at West Street Live alongside our friends Divine Solace, Dyscaphia and new Sheffield metallers Xerxes who will be performing their first gig. It's free entry, doors are at 7pm, and you should head along because (barring some kind of localised apocalypse) we should be debuting our newest song, all 8 or so minutes of it!
We'll be doing more updates over the coming weeks as we have things to announce and share with you all, so keep your eyes peeled for more news- and try and enjoy the rest of Monday!
Thanks for all your support,
Chris
Northern Oak
Posted on 30-1-2012 at 13:49 | 1944 Comments2012: Gigs and News Update!
Good afternoon, all!
First off, apologies for our relative silence over the holiday season and the month of January- we all took a bit of a break at the start of the year (mostly fending off January blues!) and then got stuck into working on new material so that when we start gigging again we've got the bulk of the songs for our next release finished and honed to perfection. That aside, it's probably time for us to announce our next slew of live dates!
February is mostly clear (at the moment), but on February 25th we'll be in Hull for the Valkyrian Birthday Bash, co-headlining with Hull's own Infernal Creation. The rest of the line-up can be found at the event page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/events/136903079732510/). It should be a big ol' party to celebrate the site's first anniversary, so get on down if you're in Hull or the surrounding area!
After that, our next gig is at the Racehorse in Northampton alongside Divine Solace and Tear of Eden; check out the event page here for more info on that.
Our next confirmed show is then on the 15th of June, at the Stereo in York, for the 'Yorkshire Brawl'. We don't have any more details on that as of yet, but stay tuned for more info! We've got a number of other shows in the pipeline as well to fill in some of the gaps, so we'll keep you all updated as and when those get confirmed.
Gig news aside: as some of you may have gathered from our Twitter feed, we've been working pretty solidly on new material in the last few practices. Our two newest songs are sounding excellent so far, and we're really happy with them; the first, 'Gaia', was penned by Mr. Bassman Rich Allan and sounds both groovy and frenziedly heavy in equal measure, while the second is a sprawling 8-minute opus written by yours truly, which is coming together very nicely indeed. And we've still got plenty of other finished songs waiting to be worked on!
Our current goal is to put together enough new material for a new release this year, most likely an EP- we're really happy with these new songs, and we want to show them off at their best-sounding. We have a number of other exciting plans in the works as well, but we're keeping those quite hush-hush until they're all planned out- so keep your eyes peeled!
That's all for now- thanks for all of your support, and we hope you'll join us in making 2012 about as successful as/more successful than 2011!
Cheers,
Chris
Northern Oak
Posted on 26-3-2012 at 13:22 | 4 CommentsSpring Newsletter
Happy Monday, everyone!
Things have been a little quiet in the Northern Oak camp recently, for which we apologise- we've been hard at work on writing new material and getting those new songs ironed out for live consumption. At the current count, we have three new tracks which haven't previously been recorded, two of which we've been playing live; Only Our Names Will Remain and Gaia. Factoring in all of the other material we've got to work on, we'll have the next album written in no time!
If you're in Sheffield on April 29th (and why would you be anywhere else?) we'll be performing at West Street Live alongside our friends Divine Solace, Dyscaphia and new Sheffield metallers Xerxes who will be performing their first gig. It's free entry, doors are at 7pm, and you should head along because (barring some kind of localised apocalypse) we should be debuting our newest song, all 8 or so minutes of it!
We'll be doing more updates over the coming weeks as we have things to announce and share with you all, so keep your eyes peeled for more news- and try and enjoy the rest of Monday!
Thanks for all your support,
Chris
Northern Oak
Posted on 30-1-2012 at 13:49 | 1944 Comments2012: Gigs and News Update!
Good afternoon, all!
First off, apologies for our relative silence over the holiday season and the month of January- we all took a bit of a break at the start of the year (mostly fending off January blues!) and then got stuck into working on new material so that when we start gigging again we've got the bulk of the songs for our next release finished and honed to perfection. That aside, it's probably time for us to announce our next slew of live dates!
February is mostly clear (at the moment), but on February 25th we'll be in Hull for the Valkyrian Birthday Bash, co-headlining with Hull's own Infernal Creation. The rest of the line-up can be found at the event page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/events/136903079732510/). It should be a big ol' party to celebrate the site's first anniversary, so get on down if you're in Hull or the surrounding area!
After that, our next gig is at the Racehorse in Northampton alongside Divine Solace and Tear of Eden; check out the event page here for more info on that.
Our next confirmed show is then on the 15th of June, at the Stereo in York, for the 'Yorkshire Brawl'. We don't have any more details on that as of yet, but stay tuned for more info! We've got a number of other shows in the pipeline as well to fill in some of the gaps, so we'll keep you all updated as and when those get confirmed.
Gig news aside: as some of you may have gathered from our Twitter feed, we've been working pretty solidly on new material in the last few practices. Our two newest songs are sounding excellent so far, and we're really happy with them; the first, 'Gaia', was penned by Mr. Bassman Rich Allan and sounds both groovy and frenziedly heavy in equal measure, while the second is a sprawling 8-minute opus written by yours truly, which is coming together very nicely indeed. And we've still got plenty of other finished songs waiting to be worked on!
Our current goal is to put together enough new material for a new release this year, most likely an EP- we're really happy with these new songs, and we want to show them off at their best-sounding. We have a number of other exciting plans in the works as well, but we're keeping those quite hush-hush until they're all planned out- so keep your eyes peeled!
That's all for now- thanks for all of your support, and we hope you'll join us in making 2012 about as successful as/more successful than 2011!
Cheers,
Chris
Northern Oak