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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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ONE MAN WAR EP - NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
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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
