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.
