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Welcome to The Official Oxygen MySpace page. Here is the story of the band who became popular in Hallingdal, Norway, in the year 1996 to 1999
Oxygen was first formed in 1996 by Kjetil Moslåtten and Torleif Klepp, who would soon join up with the guitar buddy Terje Skår on bass, Espen Hermansen on keyboards, drummer Eirik Skår, and vocalist Espen Mortensen. They did some gigs together and quickly obtained the mark as a "flinkis"(technical good) band. Things were going well but Espen Mortensen and Eirik SKår would soon be replaced with drummer Geir Steen and Torleif Klepp, who played guitar, on vocals (kind of a similar appreciation as Genesis - where Collins replaced Gabriel).
The new line-up where called Oxygen Required (a title picked out of a frase from the tv-show "Cracker"). The band played several gigs and was now a hot topic in local newspapers and similar. They did festivals and local arrangements. Terje Skår, who were a guitarist from the original, left the band with the replacement of Jostein Fingarsen on bass. The success carried on with countless gigs, a demo, radio and a tour to another county. Oxygen Required was now only known as Oxygen. The story of this band could have been longer...but after the contribution on a cd release Høgt og lågt" Oxygen split. The members were musically going in different directions. The band members has done some "reunions" on various events but never with the complete band .. who knows .. maybe one day!?Oxygen - 1996 to 1999
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