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El Obo

Colour Revolt
Origin Oxford, Mississippi
Genres Indie rock
Alternative rock
Labels Tiny Evil
Interscope Records
Fat Possum
Dualtone Records
Associated acts Fletcher
El Obo
Law School
Greater Pyrenees
Website colourrevolt.net
Members Jesse Coppenbarger
Sean Kirkpatrick
Luke White
Brooks Tipton
Patrick Ryan
Past members Drew Mellon
Patrick Addison
Len Clark
Jimmy Cajoleas

Colour Revolt is an American rock band from Oxford, Mississippi.

Colour Revolt's members first played together while they were high school students at Jackson Academy in Jackson, MS under the name Foxxe, then changing to Fletcher and releasing a full-length album entitled "Friends Don't Speak". They then moved on to become college students at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. They take their current name from Edwin Abbott's mathematical novel, Flatland. The group had intended to record their first EP in Mississippi in August 2005, but Hurricane Katrina interrupted the recording session, and so they recorded it in the house of local label Esperanza Plantation's owner, Chaney Nichols. The self-titled EP came out in December 2005; following this the group toured with Brand New and signed to Interscope Records, who re-released the EP on their subsidiary Tiny Evil in October 2006.

The group has also performed at SXSW and toured with Dinosaur Jr., Black Lips, Okkervil River, Brand New, Menomena, Paper Rival, Explosions in the Sky, Malajube, Anathallo, and Manchester Orchestra. They then signed with Fat Possum Records; their full-length debut, Plunder, Beg and Curse, produced by Clay Jones, was released on April 1, 2008. In 2008, Boston newspaper The Phoenix named them the Best New Band from Mississippi. In 2009, Jesse Coppenbarger released a solo full-length album under the moniker El Obo.


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