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Music

by The Oxbow Lake Band
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upcoming gigs

2024

Saturday 4th May 19:00 - MacMoray Festival, Elgin

Saturday 6th July - Bandstand, Nairn

26th July - Belladrum Tartan Heart festival (20:00 to 21:00 Icehouse stage. 22:00 Burke n Hare)

27th July - Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival (22:00 Burke n Hare)

Sunday 28th July - post Bella Sunday session Takeover @ The Bandstand, Nairn 18:00

Saturday 14th Dec - OXMAS party at Bandstand, Nairn


Receiving UK and European national Radio play, has been much appreciated, notably (being big UK radio fans) by our favourite shows on BBC Radio 2, 4, 6 & Scotland (with a special note to the radio presenters who went out of their way to make such kind comments about our records and also music magazine's, fanzines etc)

Reviews of our new EP Hypocrisy & Hope:-

  • "Give thanks!" Craig Charles (bbc6music radio funk and soul show)

  • "Absolutely irresistible!" francesco adinolfi - beat connection rai radio 1 Italy

  • "Stormin" BBC Radio Scotland Jazz House

  • "Cool Grooves" Shindig Magazine

  • "Stormin! A British horn driven soul delivered with passion, class and the authenticity of Stax" Heavy Soul Mag

Reviews of our EP Boy Angus:-

  • "Very very good indeed" Paul Jones BBC radio 2

  • "A banger! And it's great!" Craig Charles (bbc6music radio funk and soul show)

  • “Love that energy. If you’re not awake yet, well this will do it!” Ravi Sagoo BBC Radio Scotland

  • "Funky bunch of chaps, we like that" Stephen Duffy (the jazz house bbc radio Scotland)

  • "Dexy's with a touch of the Style Council" Huffington Post

  • "Brilliant" jim gellatly amazing radio

  • "Time for some early morning soul" Tom morton (BBC radio Scotland )

  • "Fecking great...as if Booker T and The MG’s were a pub band" sussed magazine

  • "Storming diamond of an EP" scootering magazine

  • "Nice!" Heavy soul mag.

  • "very nice indeed" Wayne Hemingway (Designer & Vintage Festival Head)

  • "throw everything but the kitchen sink into this fiery floorshaker" mark raison - monkey picks

the band

 

Based in the north of Scotland. A 7 piece bombardment of good time funkiness. Heavy in horns and Hammond organ

Releasing eclectic sounds on vinyl through record label Village Sunsets Records. If you want to shoe horn us into a genre then try "rhythm n beat"

Vocals, Guitars / Andy Oxbow

Organ Grinder, blues harp n Vocals /Daryl Short

Trombone, Vocals / Kenny Shand

Bass / Marcin

Drums / Kev Martin

Percussion / Neil Smith

Sax / James Younie

 

live at belladrum festival 2017

Black Isle Brewery Tent Grassroots stage (thanks to Cat for Phone Vid)

What’d I say and Louie Louie (covers) Belladrum 2018 Burke n Hare party zone!! Thanks to the conga dancers!

Thanks to Cat for vid (again!), who likes to video us when we’re playing Ray Charles !!?? Ha

 

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