Biography from Last.fm
There are multiple bands with the name Oaf:
1. A stoner/doom band from Melbourne.
2. A two-piece punk rock band from Brighton, UK featuring Metal Hammer scribe Dom Lawson.
3. A hardcore punk band from Vancouver B.C. Read more on Last.fm
Obviously, we previewed the three headliners – they’re the ones that sell the tickets, after all – but there are some awesome bands on the undercard as well. There’s always moaning that there’s no metal at Download Festival. These people obviously haven’t or are unable to read the line-up. That means that they probably won’t read about these 12 metal bands either but here’s some metal anyway. Stick it up your arse!
Say what you like about Oaf’s unique approach to song-titling (‘Wanking With A Fistful Of Shit’, anyone?), but they most definitely gave Hammerfest 2011 – and our reviewer, Amit Sharma – something they weren’t getting from anywhere else.
Oaf
Botheration
Surreal Estate Records
21 June 2010
by Tom Dare
‘Tiny when erect’. ‘I’m retarded’. ‘Giant ballbag’. ‘A euphemism for tits’. These are not the nicknames for the writers at Thrash Hits (well, not this week anyway) but song titles from the debut record from Oaf. If that does not get you interested, what will get your attention is the music. No matter how diverse your tastes, you have not heard the like of Botheration before.