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Band Line Up 2015

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OAF

Playing: Friday, 7th August 2015

Stage: Sophie Lancaster Stage

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Two men. One drum kit. One bass guitar. Punk rock with a dash of prog and a hint of wrong. A small man in a tweed suit. A large man in a King Diamond t-shirt. The unmistakable stench of bitterness and shame. The unmistakable sound of horridness and impotent rage. A slap-up dinner at the Raj Pavilion. A calamitous bath-ride down the hill of despair. A ghastly racket to raise the spirits.

And then lower them again.

Welcome, my friends, to the world of the mighty Oaf: the English seaside’s premier exponents of deeply peculiar and obnoxious hardcore pronk. Bereft of ambition and far too old to give a toss, this intermittently dynamic duo have been confusing the merry horse out of audiences across the UK (and not really much further) since 2007. Fronted by chief bellower and five-string wizard Mr. Dom Lawson and just-a-bit-to-the-sided by thing-hitter extraordinaire Mr. James Rayment, Oaf failed to emerge from the Brighton punk rock scene (which has studiously ignored them from day one, which is lovely) when their debut album Botheration assaulted the nation’s indifference back in 2010. Despite garnering numerous highly positive reviews from the likes of Metal Hammer, Kerrang! and Terrorizer (and a handful of misguided and largely illiterate reviews from assorted interweb fanzines) the album sold in meagre quantities and failed miserably to make even the slightest dent in the British hit parade chart list rundown. Fortunately, neither Mr. Lawson or Mr. Rayment are aware of their lack of success and both continue to harbour the ludicrous belief that they are among the UK’s favourite entertainers.

This astonishing level of idiocy and bravado reached an unfortunate peak when Oaf were mistakenly invited to perform at the extremely well-attended and damp Download Festival at Castle Donington in 2011. Although stunned to find that they were not headlining the main stage, our heroes did manage to delight and appal a sizeable tent full of drunken reprobates, further emboldening their own ill-advised feelings of adequacy in the process. Numerous other moderately well-received “gigs”, including appearances at Hammerfest (in 2010 and 2011) and as supporting warm-up chaps for Ginger Wildheart and Graham “Him from Blur” Coxon, have also taken place, although the majority of video footage that can be found online appears to have been doctored by Her Majesty’s Secret Service to make it look as though Oaf are not capable of packing out Wembley Stadium. Or at least that’s what Mr. Lawson claims when he’s had one too many glasses of ginger beer.

And now we arrive, with sweaty brows and mouths agog with panic, at the year known as 2013. The mighty Oaf somehow managed to make another long-playing record and were hell-bent on making it available to the general public, displaying once again a flagrant disregard for taste, decency and the law of diminishing returns. Graced with the pithy title ‘Birth School Oaf Death’, the album was recorded with the help of producing and engineering genius Russ ‘Russ’ Russell at Parlour Studios in Kettering and features 11 brand new original compositions – including current Soundcloud “hits”* (*not hits) ‘Fuck Off Seagull’ and ‘Yes Sir, I Can Tina Turner’ - and a Tin Machine cover. Also, thanks to a sustained campaign of Rohypnol and blackmail, it features guest appearances from Ginger Wildheart, keyboard maestro Per Wiberg (ex-Opeth/Mojobone/Spiritual Beggars), guitar lord John Mitchell (It Bites/Arena/Frost*), turbo-widdle supremo Jase Edwards (Wolfsbane), parping horn-wielder Pete Fraser, Norwegian garage rock queen Sassy Kraimspri and Mr. Lawson’s friend Todd, who was immortalised in early Oaf classic ‘Todd Bernhardt Is A Friend Of Mine’ and recites a lovely poem at the end of the new album’s epic finale, ‘Wash Your Faith In My Think’. ‘Birth School Oaf Death’ is available in digital form – whatever that is – and can be purchased from oafmusic.bandcamp.com… but it is not – and we can’t stress this enough - available on compact disc, due to the ineptitude of everyone involved in the whole tawdry episode.

And now to 2015, wherein our heroes are generally fannying around and attempting to give the impression that a third album is very much in the works. According to Mr. Lawson, the third Oaf album is “mainly written” and “definitely not shit” and will be recorded in the near future, once again with the mighty Russ “Russ Russell” Russell at the so-called controls. New songs include the allegedly crowd-pleasing ‘Scott Walker’s Crisps’, the fast and stupid ‘Suckmaster Burstingfoam’ and the highly questionable ‘Disgusted By Your Genitalia’. The entire enterprise will, of course, be smeared with shame and ignominious sordidness. Mr. Lawson does a title for the new album but is currently unwilling to utter it with confidence or pride.

With a barely perceptible smattering of public appearances planned – or, at the very least, mooted – for 2015 and beyond, the mighty Oaf are clearly determined to continue wasting everyone’s time until someone forces them to stop. In the meantime, why not take pity on a couple of deluded middle-aged fools and join in the carnival of desperation and tuneless squawking? Lower your expectations, folks. The mighty Oaf are coming (again). Not like that. Perish the thought.

"The mighty Oaf are delighted and bewildered to once again be able to perform our awful rubbish to the exquisite Bloodstock hordes. We promise ghastliness, dismay and a faint but unmistakable whiff of abject terror. We also apologise in advance. Pronk horns up!"

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  7. 7 Wanking With a Fistful of Shit
  8. 8 Cheat
  9. 9 Buried Alive
  10. 10 A Euphemism for Tits
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Band Line Up 2015

Ronnie James Dio Stage

  • BELPHEGOR
  • ARMOURED SAINT
  • ENSLAVED
  • OVERKILL
  • TRIVIUM
  • SABATON
  • RAGING SPEEDHORN
  • IHSAHN
  • NUCLEAR ASSAULT
  • XERATH
  • SAVAGE MESSIAH
  • WITHIN TEMPTATION
  • OPETH
  • DEATH DTA
  • 1349
  • KORPIKLAANI
  • NAPALM DEATH
  • DARK ANGEL
  • ORANGE GOBLIN
  • ROB ZOMBIE
  • SEPULTURA
  • AGALLOCH
  • PRO-PAIN
  • CANNIBAL CORPSE
  • ENSIFERUM
  • BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
  • WOLF

Sophie Lancaster Stage

  • REIGN OF FURY
  • RED RUM
  • ​DESECRATION
  • METAPRISM
  • ARNOCORPS
  • HANG THE BASTARD
  • PRITCHARD AND DAINTON
  • NE OBLIVISCARIS
  • DELAIN
  • IAMI
  • CONAN
  • MESSIAHS KISS
  • SILAS
  • FIRE RED EMPRESS
  • OAF
  • BAST
  • RE-ANIMATOR
  • ANIHILATED
  • AGELESS OBLIVION
  • FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE
  • PLANET OF ZEUS
  • ETHEREAL
  • PIST
  • BATTALION
  • JASAD
  • MORDRED
  • GODSIZED
  • BURGERKILL
  • JETBLACK
  • DESTRAGE
  • TRAXIS
  • GODFLESH
  • ONSLAUGHT
  • LAWNMOWER DETH
  • TREPALIUM
  • DEAD LABEL
  • VILLAINY
  • ALUNAH
  • THE IZUNA DROP
  • SAILLE
  • OL DRAKE

Hobgoblin New Blood Stage

  • MUTAGENOCIDE
  • DIATESSARON
  • MORTISHEAD
  • KRYOCELL
  • FORGOTTEN REMAINS
  • PISS VIPER
  • XVII
  • KING LEVIATHAN
  • LOFT
  • BLACKENED RITUAL
  • HEXIS
  • COUNTLESS SKIES
  • WE ARE THE CATALYST
  • AMETHYST
  • FROM EDEN TO EXILE
  • BLOODYARD
  • CODEX ALIMENTARIUS
  • AKARUSIN YAMI
  • SUMER
  • MASTIFF
  • OVEROTH
  • SOULBORN
  • MARTYR DE MONA
  • VICTORIAN WHORE DOGS
  • DEIFIED
  • CHAOS TRIGGER
  • TOMBSTONE CROW
  • SKARTHIA
  • ANIMATOR
  • OBEY
  • INCIPIT
  • BURDEN OF THE NOOSE
  • LEFT FOR RED
  • SPIRYTUS
  • SCARRED
  • TAKEN BY THE TIDE
  • BY ANY MEANS
  • HELLS GAZELLS
  • WRETHCHED TOAD

Jagermeister Stage

  • CITY OF THIEVES
  • THE MIGHTY WRAITH
  • WITCH TRIPPER
  • FOUL BODY AUTOPSY
  • THE PARALLAX METHOD
  • WINTER STORM
  • KNOCK OUT KAINE
  • DIVINE SOLACE
  • CIRCLE SPECTRE
  • PIG IRON
  • MORASS OF MOLASSES
  • HANOWAR
  • HELL PUPPETS
  • ENDEAVOUR
  • BIG FOOT
  • KILLER HURTS
  • BLIND HAZE
  • SNOWBLIND
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