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The Ocean Band

About Me


The Ocean Band are a Singapore-based band who, having exhausted every covers playing club in the country and their own collective patience, have moved on to playing and recording their own music.
Since their formation in 2003, they have been the house band at The Crazy Elephant (Singapore's leading blues bar), visited Holland and France for a mini-tour and opened for American band Hoobastank in '04. In November '05, they represented Singapore in the finals of the World Battle Of The Bands (www.worldbattleofthebands.com) in Hong Kong. 2006 saw them on the main stage of the Sembawang Festival back in Singapore and, shortly afterwards, in the Esplanade Concert Hall (making it their fifth gig within the Esplanade).
Their debut album 'BARCODES' has received positive reviews in the press and the band are currently working on their second full length record.
The band's music is the result of such diverse influences as Pearl Jam, Jeff Buckley, Police, Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who, The Beatles, Tori Amos, The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Manfred Mann's Earth Band et al. The Ocean Band has always been at its best on stage and have played several hundred gigs in Singapore and overseas, to uniformly excellent response.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/18/2005
Band Members: Yaniv Chen - vocals and guitars
Angshu Chatterjee - guitars
Uwe Vogel - keyboards
Dave D'aranjo - bass guitar
Sammy Arvis - drums and vocals
Influences: Pearl Jam, The Who, Jeff Buckley, Police, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Tori Amos, The Rolling Stones, Manfred Mann, the whole lot.
Sounds Like: Something that would arise out of a combination of Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley and Police held together with a large amount of beer.
Record Label: Interrobang Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

COUCH DICTATORS - A long-awaited update!

Hey all, You may have noticed that the Ocean Band MySpace Page just had a much needed facelift. It is a sign... an oasis in the desert of 'production hell'.... it means that after months of hard work...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:43:00 GMT

NEW SONGS!

Aha!So we have four all new songs added to our MySpace page. The mixes aren't fully cooked yet, but it ought to give all ye punters an idea of what's coming on the second album.Take care,Angshu.
Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:18:00 GMT

New Songs on theoceanband.com

Hello, all...The mp3s page on theoceanband.com has been revamped with new songs and a Flash applet which lets users play songs directly off the site without having to download them first.We're plannin...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:00:00 GMT

TheOceanBand.com

Aha. Finally we've got around to updating our own website after freaking AGES. Do check us out at www.theoceanband.comCheers,Angshu.
Posted by on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:49:00 GMT

The Ocean Band on MySpace...

It just so happens that The Ocean Band is one of those old-timey groups who've had their own site (without any of those .cjb.net type suffixes) for pretty much as long as they've been around. The horr...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:33:00 GMT