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ICE STATION ZEBRA

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BAND BIOGRAPHY
False promises of gold paved streets and glittering city careers saw the four members of Ice Station Zebra congregate in Crouch End, North London in 2005.
After vainly auditioning and rejecting several female bass players, reality beckoned for long time friends Steve Watson, James May and Michael Cockings in the form of occasional cohort Neil Green. He wasn’t curvy in the right places and his guitar wasn’t bigger than him, but he could play.
Pitched somewhere between the primal pulse of Neil Young and the shimmering atmospherics of Pink Floyd, Ice Station Zebra perform songs about things they haven't got and stuff they don’t need.
Lyrically they buy, beg, borrow and steal from anything and everything including spiritual philosophy, scientific theory, political persuasions, literary leavens and experiences with disillusionment, dreams, drink and girls (not necessarily in that order).
The Summer of 2006 saw the band win the XFM unsigned bands competition and go on to play the O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park. Alas, an offshoot business in selling bottled sweat didn’t take off.
After an enforced break in 2007, the band recorded and released a debut album, Panopticon, in 2008.
The band is now gigging material from their 2009 One Man War EP and looking forward to recording new material later in the year.

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Member Since: 07/11/2005
Band Members: Steve Watson (Vocals, Guitar) James May (Guitar, Vocals) Neil Green (Bass) Michael Cockings (Drums)myspace hide maroon music menu nav bar !!! End Code to Style Top Ad/Search/Menu !!!myspace Hide New Top Menu Nav Bar END CODE to Hide Google Search and MySpace Logo
Influences: The Band/ Neil Young/ Bob Dylan/ David Bowie/ Pink Floyd/ The Rolling Stones/ The Beatles/ The Who/ Lynyrd Skynyrd/ Nirvana/ REM/ Radiohead/ Kings of Leon/ My Morning Jacket/ Fleet Foxes
Sounds Like: Rock / Country Rock / Americana / Grunge

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EMAIL: [email protected]

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Waves - Tommy Flynn's 28/04/09

One Man War - Buffalo Bar 06/11/08

Binary - Good Ship 12/07/08

Persona Non Grata - Bullet Bar 20/06/08
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ONE MAN WAR EP - NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD

 Click through to the following stores:ItunesNapsterPeople's Music StoreEmusic.comPlay.comJuno
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:07:00 GMT

Virgin Road to V Fan Widget

Hello all, Help us out by giving your vote and send us 'ON THE ROAD TO V'Spare us a few seconds and register to make our day!!Who knows maybe we'll see you there....Than...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:33:00 GMT

ONE MAN WAR EP - LAUNCH PARTY 18/02/09

Hi Everybody, we really hope you can make it down to this gig at Bar Rumba near Piccadilly Circus on Wed 18th Feb.We've just finished recording and mixing an EP of 7 songs and will be "launching" it w...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:06:00 GMT

Check out this event: Buffalo Bar gig, London

Hosted By: ICE STATION ZEBRA When: 06 Nov 2008, 21:00Where Buffalo Bar, Islington, London259 Upper StreetLondon, London and South East|66 N11RUUnited KingdomDescription:ICE STATION ZEBRA Click Here T...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:55:00 GMT

The Comedy, Tuesday 8th April

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Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:32:00 GMT

The Comedy Photos

Thanks to all who attended the gig on a hot and sweaty Tuesday night. We secured a re-booking for the summer with the promoter for a FRIDAY NIGHT (wahay) at either the Buffalo Bar in Islington or Metr...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:55:00 GMT

Surface Unsigned, review and photos - 24th March 2008

First of all thanks to all who attended, after months of hard (but enjoyable) labour on new songs, we appreciate people turning up to hear them.Check out the photos in the photo album. http://viewmore...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:30:00 GMT

New Myspace and F*acebook TIA

With gigs looming I thought we better pull our finger out and look like we’re doing something, hence the new myspace and a F*cebook page for those who love DARPA’s total inforamt...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:39:00 GMT

Back again, new tunes, new name.

Ice Station Zebra are about to start gigging - tons of new tunes: start watching this space again....
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:32:00 GMT

New Tunes On The Way!!!

We're getting there....will post some demos soon
Posted by on Mon, 28 May 2007 09:26:00 GMT