Orange Crush - The '80s Dance Party Band
Windsor, Connecticut, United States | SELF
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"If you're looking to relive your favorite decade or just have a good time rocking out to a talented and energetic band, hit up ocrush.com and find out when and where you can check out the best Retro '80s Show around." - Saint Micheals College '05 - Saint Micheal's College
"If you're looking to relive your favorite decade or just have a good time rocking out to a talented and energetic band, hit up ocrush.com and find out when and where you can check out the best Retro '80s Show around." - Saint Micheals College '05 - Saint Micheal's College
"Orange Crush is in tune with what the Middlebury students want to hear, and frontman Scott Lawson makes this apparent by creating a sense of presence and responsiveness unrivaled by most campus bands. Many students feel as though he is representing the audience and he does this with an air of affability. At the beginning of every song, you can hear the audience cheering as they recognize the intro to a favorite hit."- Middlebury Campus.com '05 - Middlebury Campus.com
"Orange Crush is in tune with what the Middlebury students want to hear, and frontman Scott Lawson makes this apparent by creating a sense of presence and responsiveness unrivaled by most campus bands. Many students feel as though he is representing the audience and he does this with an air of affability. At the beginning of every song, you can hear the audience cheering as they recognize the intro to a favorite hit."- Middlebury Campus.com '05 - Middlebury Campus.com
“By the end [of the show] everyone was singing along and the audience really enjoyed it.” - University of Maine, Machias
“By the end [of the show] everyone was singing along and the audience really enjoyed it.” - University of Maine, Machias
"So, I found myself more than once watching the room and the expressions on the people's faces as you guys played away to the songs we all knew by heart. It made me so happy to know that everyone was having a good time and that most of it was because of your band. You all did such a fantastic job in engaging the crowd and giving them what they wanted. I hope you'll consider University of Maine again sometime soon.” - University of Maine
"So, I found myself more than once watching the room and the expressions on the people's faces as you guys played away to the songs we all knew by heart. It made me so happy to know that everyone was having a good time and that most of it was because of your band. You all did such a fantastic job in engaging the crowd and giving them what they wanted. I hope you'll consider University of Maine again sometime soon.” - University of Maine
Discography
Orange Crush - the '80s cover band, has an all original side project entitled "Ocrush - '80s All Over". Our CD is available at all of our shows and online at itunes and CD Baby
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Bio
For 18 Years Orange Crush has been winning over the hearts of hundreds of thousands of fans from all over the country. Recently inducted into the Grand Band Slam Hall Of Fame for Best Cover Band (as voted perennially by the readers of the Valley Advocate) "O.C." performs at clubs, on campuses and for public & private events throughout the year.
Guitarist Jeremy Simonich easily glides from one style to the next, while Bassist Rich Yirga keeps the bottom end locked down. Drummer Tom Kielbania JR supplies energy and non-stop flow, and Lead Vocalist Scott Lawson has become the heart and soul of the group with his strong stage presence.
Formed in Chicopee, Massachusetts in 1996, Orange Crush initially started performing as an REM tribute band (taking that bands song "Orange Crush" as their identifying moniker). With the arrival of a new Millennium, the band had started reshaping it's set list to focus on dance-heavy smash hits from various '80s recording artists.
Playing shows at local clubs had resulted in a strong following, and as the band won their first (of what would later be many) Best Cover Band awards, they often found themselves taking to the road to tour colleges. The band has toured the majority of the Central and Southern United States, has opened for such acts as Reel Big Fish, Guster, Young Love, KRS1, OK Go! and continues to add to it's ever-growing fan base.
Today, O.C. plays clubs, colleges, conventions, corporate events, town green/park and rec. concerts, weddings and private parties - all of which makes them the perfect band for any occasion for people of any age.
Once witnessed... you might even forget what decade you are living in!
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