OCS to Play at Pentaport
By Seo Dong-shin
Staff Reporter
British band Ocean Colour Scene is expected to play at the Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival July 27-29.
The band will likely be included in the last-minute announcement of the final line-up for the annual summer festival. While the festival Web site (www.pentaportrock.com) does not yet show the band’s participation, an official at Yellow Nine, in charge of the Pentaport line-up, confirmed that the band agreed to play Saturday, July 28, on the Big Top Stage. Only the flight from Japan, where Ocean Colour Scene will play at Fuji Rock the day before, remains to be arranged because the previous reservation was cancelled due to overbooking.
Ocean Colour Scene, often considered part of the lively Britpop scene that surfaced during the mid-1990s, were once noted by Oasis leader Noel Gallagher as ``the second best band in Britain.’’ But the band maintained a certain distance from popular mainstream musical trends, while scoring numerous hit singles including the 1996 breakthrough ``The Riverboat Song’’ and ``Up on the Downside,’’ the band’s most well-known song in Korea. The band released its new album ``On the Leyline’’ earlier this year.