In 1998, five students studying music at the University of Salford, Manchester began to spend their Friday and Saturday nights boozed up on cheap beer, mellowed out on cheaper weed and jamming to ...

LET’S be honest, if a band calls itself Oceansize they’re hardly likely to be a meek lo-fi two-piece performing fragile acoustic love songs. LET’S be honest, if a band calls itself Oceansize they’re ...

Fans of the late Manchester, UK rock band Oceansize know that they primarily did two things well: they got their prog-metal on; and they painted eerie softer movements that crept into your ...

Everyone Into Position, Oceansize's second full-length, is frustrating. The band stitches together a patchwork of styles-- alternative rock, riff-heavy modern hardcore, ethereal post rock, ...

An immediately striking feature of the Oceansize live experience is theease with which the five boys take to the stage. It’s almost as if thecrowd are absent, so caught up are the quintet in their own ...

Leeds post-rockers Vessels have confirmed that they are to support fellow post-rock noise merchants Oceansize on their UK tour in November and December. Their first album, White Fields And Open ...

Oceansize have announced the release of a new studio album on 6th September, to be called Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up. The band have also announced a full UK tour throughout September and ...

I'm sitting in the basement of a café, ahead of Oceansize's one-off support slot with Scottish contrast-rockers Biffy Clyro, in their hometown of Manchester. It stinks down here. And it's cold. It's ...

In these heady days of guitar pop, where the likes of Hard- Fi and Razorlight are regular entrants into the Top 10 and Paul Weller is on his sixteenth comeback, what room is there is for the 7- minute ...