XOVA – featured June 5th 2013 as Winners of
Ultimate Musicians on BEAT 100
XOVA – made No 1 position in May/June 2013 on the
IndieCharts.com website
XOVA - featured
on NBC TV in USA on the Jimmy Lloyd Singer Songrwiters showcase.
XOVA won a place at the massive ISLE of WIGHT Festival
2013 as one of the best of 2700 unsigned bands in the UK who entered
XOVA’s new soon to be released album is the finest
British POP reggae album since UB40 released Signing off – Mike Davies [
Brumbeat ]
But who are XOVA….
When
the first thrilling wave of racially diverse roots-reggae and ska bands burst
out of the Midlands in the late 1970s and revolutionised Britain’s musical and
cultural landscape, the country was facing economic depression, massive social
unrest, a lack of faith in the political system and, come 1982, an overseas
crisis and a pointless war in The Falklands.
It
seems that little has changed in the interim. .
From
Birmingham, numbering six in their ranks, XOVA are multi-racial,
multi-generational masters of a vibrant and muscular rocking-roots sound that
harks back to the sound and vision of the past, fired up by social and
political unrest issues as well as affairs of the heart. But they are also the
sound of 2013, fusing their Pop/rock-reggae base with the breadth of the modern
world - ska, Indie, dubstep, blues, Motown and folk, infused with protest and
pain, but also hope.
2013
see’s them appearing on TV in the USA, as NBC TV NEW YORK flew in to film them
in December 2012 for filming early 2013, and more UK support slots with The Spin Doctors, The Beat and The Selector
confirmed in between there own dates, .
They
have also just completed filming a movie based on the infamous NO11 Bus route
and the many musical influences that have inspired the band along the route.
The film features cameos from the likes of
UB40, THE BEAT, WONDERSTUFF, FUZZBOX, MUSICAL YOUTH and many more, this
will be released early in 2013 and accompanied by 11 webisodes on the bands
website
The
last release THE SOHO RD SESSIONS ,came out on Itunes Late 2012 and has the
lead track of 9 LIVES which is accompanied by a quality video directed by Alex
Kyrou [ Tim Burton asst ] this has helped get the band NATIONAL UK RADIO on BBC 2 [ Alex Lester ] and BBC6 [ Tom Robinson ]
where Tom commented ‘This Is one of the tightest bands I have heard in a very
Long time‘.
Regional
Radio’s such as BBC WM INTRODUCING
announced them as ‘BEING ON THE CUSP OF
BREAKING THRU‘ in 2013 ‘Q RADIO’, SCRATCH
Radio, and many others now coming on board to support, including some great
press from the likes of ECHOES MUSIC MAGAZINE
[
UKs Essential Black music monthly } who rave about the band .
.
The
New single “Little Lion” was
released in June on iTunes, in Aid of “Crohns & Colitis UK Charity” as the
song was written about Wayne’s { lead vox] sister who suffers from the disease,
this will be the officially endorsed single by the charity this year and Wayne
and his sister feature in a special video for the campaign, with Wayne singing
and talking about this tragic disease.
Debut
album “Synchronise Your Leader’s” is due out soon on their own label
Stratosphere Music Ltd.
You can also hear XOVA on UNIR1 LATINO RADIO! Just added to our great playlist!
FOLLOW XOVA:
http://www.xovalive.com (Band website)
