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Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man

Field	Value
name	Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man.
alias	Ox Eagle Lion Man, OELM
background	group_or_band
origin	London, England, UK
genre	Alternative rock
Progressive rock
Folk rock
years_active	2006–2010
label	Transgressive Records
associated_acts	Les Incompetents, Lightspeed Champion, These New Puritans, O. Children, Spector
website	http://www.myspace.com/oxeaglelionman
current_members	Frederick 'Blood-Royale' Macpherson
Thomas 'Günnzs' Howson
Eduard Quarmby
past_members	Tobi O'Kandi

Progressive rock Folk rock Thomas 'Günnzs' Howson Eduard Quarmby

Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man. (sometimes written as Ox Eagle Lion Man) was a British band, comprising elements of prog rock, folk and post punk.

History

The band formed in December 2006, a month after the break-up of Les Incompétents. After demos were recorded, O'Kandi left to be replaced by Eduard Quarmby. Transgressive Records issued their debut single, "Motherhood/Fatherhood", (produced by Gordon Raphael) and subsequent EPs.

They played with Four Tet, Bono Must Die, The Polyphonic Spree, These New Puritans, Emmy The Great and toured with Lightspeed Champion and The Scare.

Rather than recording an album, the band planned a sequence of EPs, or "Opera"; "The Lay of the Land, the Turn of the Tide" being Opus 1 and "Obscured By a Setting Sun" being Opus 2, which was released in November 2008.

The name of the band is suggestive of both Hebrew and Greek scriptural references—at Ezekiel 1:10 and Revelation 4:7, respectively—of the cardinal attributes of God personified and displayed by His four attending creatures. These creatures were described as having the faces of an ox, an eagle, a lion, and a man—singularly or collectively on each one's head—representing a perfect balance of power, wisdom, justice, and love.

Macpherson left the band to form Spector with former Les Incompétents bandmate Chris Burman.

MTV2 UK

Frederick Macpherson was briefly a presenter/reporter for MTV2 UK.

Discography

"Fatherhood/Motherhood" Double A Side, Transgressive Records, November 2007
"Opus 1: The Lay of the Land; The Turn of the Tide" EP, Transgressive Records, June 2008
"Opus 2: Obscured by a Setting Sun" EP, Transgressive Records, November 2008

Videography

"Motherhood" - Directed by George Fafalios
"Fatherhood" - Directed by Blake Claridge
"The Drowned & The Saved" - Directed by Jamie Jones

References

Gourlay, Dom. (19 December 2006). "DiScover: Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man". Drowned in Sound.
Lester, Paul. (4 September 2009). "New Band of the Day: O.Children (No 621)". The Guardian.
(26 August 2008). "In The Studio With Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man". NME.
(10 June 2008). "Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man Opus 1 Launch Party". Facebook.
Costa, Maddy. (21 November 2008). "Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man: Opus 2: Obscured by a Setting Sun". The Guardian.
Stanton, Katie. (28 September 2011). "Slow Club / Spector / Tom Williams and the Boat". PoppedCulture.

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