Oxtoby http://oxtobymusic.com Independent music :: St. Albans, U.K. (via Liverpool) :: Science by day, Music by night Thu, 17 May 2012 11:37:12 +0000 en hourly 1 Threshold Festival Preview http://oxtobymusic.com/2012/01/threshold-festival-preview/ http://oxtobymusic.com/2012/01/threshold-festival-preview/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:16:17 +0000 oxtoby http://oxtobymusic.com/?p=731

This just in from Indie Music News: a preview of the Threshold Festival next month:
http://indiemusicnews.info/threshold2012/

I get a mention as being featured on the Liverpool Acoustic stage (Facebook link), which has ten acoustic acts performing between 2pm and 7pm.

Check out the Facebook event page for more info on this year’s Threshold Festival. You can get your Saturday festival ticket here: http://tiny.cc/threshold12tickets (Oxtoby is performing for 20 minutes on Saturday 11 Feb at 3:30pm 3:20pm in Elevator Bar).

Help me write my setlist by requesting a cover song or original song. Either vote in the poll, request via Twitter, or comment on my note on Facebook.

Cheers!

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Good news everyone!

Oxtoby has been confirmed a slot for Threshold Festival in February 2012. This is currently Europe’s biggest indoor music festival. Expect to hear originals from the back catalogue, alongside songs from the upcoming new album due in early 2012.

Oxtoby’s 20-minute set will start at 3:30 3:20 p.m. on Saturday 11 February in Elevator Bar and Cafe.  This will be part of the Liverpool Acoustic Afternoon (Facebook event page here), which runs from 2pm – 7pm.

Get your £13 Saturday festival tickets from the Skiddle website: http://tiny.cc/threshold12tickets

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I love Pearl Jam. So, as my contribution to their 20th Anniversary celebration, I recorded covers of 20 Pearl Jam songs. The videos are available on YouTube (see below). I started this in May & completed it on September 20, 2011.

Here are the songs I recorded (album in parentheses), with the YouTube playlist beneath:
1. Rearviewmirror (Vs.)
2. Soon forget (Binaural)
3. Better Man (Vitalogy)
4. State of Love and Trust (“Singles” soundtrack)
5. Immortality (Vitalogy) – live from my hotel room in Chicago
6. Black (Ten)
7. Daughter (Vs.)
8. Small Town (Vs.)
9. Indifference (Vs.)
10. Do The Evolution (Yield)
11. Untitled / M.F.C. (Yield) – in the back of a car
12. Even Flow (Ten) – live in Liverpool
13. Yellow Ledbetter (Jeremy single)
14. Force of Nature (Backspacer)
15. I Am Mine (Riot Act)
16. Light Years (Binaural)
17. Present Tense (No Code)
18. I Got Id (Merkin Ball)
19. Marker In The Sand (Pearl Jam)
20. The End (Backspacer)

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