email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 183 October Oxford’s Music Magazine 2010 LITTLELITTLE FISHFISH On The Road To Rock Glory interview inside NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWNEWSS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] Online: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net roles in music. Tickets for the festival are on sale now, priced £15 (£12 for under- 18s) from Scribbler in Oxford, the Academy box office, Guitar Gallery in Summertown and online from wegottickets.com. Visit www.thisistruck.com for more details. WIRE will headline Audioscope’s tenth anniversary celebrations in November. The legendary punk and post-punk innovators will play at ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR is the Jericho Tavern on Wednesday 10th November, one of three set to get its Oxford premier in Audioscope shows next month which will raise money for homeless November. The film, which charity Shelter. documents the story of Oxford’s Since 2001 Audioscope has showcased some of the world’s leading music scene from 1977 up to the underground and leftfield pioneers, including Four-Tet and krautrock closure of the Zodiac in 2007, legends Damo Suzuki, Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius. Over the features exclusive interviews with past ten years the festival has raised over £20,000 for Shelter and WILLY MASON has been added Radiohead, Supergrass, Ride and become an essential part of Oxford’s musical calendar. to the line-up of this month’s OX4 Foals as well as pivotal figures in As well as the Wire gig, Audioscope present a special tenth anniversary th Festival on Saturday 9 October. the scene’s evolution over the past show at the Jericho on Saturday 6thNovember, featuring some of the The folk troubadour joins the likes few decades. organisers’ favourite acts from previous years. Dieter Moebius will of Everything Everything, Someone Anyone Can Play Guitar was headline and is joined by Billy Mahonie, That Fucking Tank, Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin, Abe produced and directed by local Magnetophone, Rothko, Nought, The Rock Of Travolta and Vigoda and local stars Winchell screenwriter Jon Spira, who is Sunnyvale Noise Sub-Element. Riots. The second annual OX4, interviewed in this issue (see page On Saturday 20th another full day of music features Sennen, Epic45, organised by Truck, features a full 8). Fans wanting to help contribute Felix, Winchell Riots, The Half Rabbits, Mugstar, Elysian Quartet’s day of live music and workshops to the film’s funding and receive a Laura Moody, Kontakte and Phantom Theory. across venues along Cowley Road. free, exclusive DVD cut can visit Both Saturday shows run from 2pm through til midnight. Tickets will Other bands confirmed include www.acplgthemovie.com to learn be on sale from wegottickets.com soon. For more details, visit Crocodiles, Chad Valley, John more about donations. www.audioscope.co.uk. Spiers, Mr Shaodow, Dog Is Dead, While the film’s official premier is Fixers, Dead Jerichos and Hreda. due to be held at a local venue in An after-show party at The Regal November, there will be a special THIS YEAR’S WINTER town. In a change from the normal features Scratch Perverts and ‘secret’ screening at the Ultimate WARMER takes place over the format this year’s Warmer will be Toddla T. Picture Palace on Saturday 9th weekend of the 17th-19th set over two venues, Café Tarifa As well as the bands the day also October, as part of Truck’s OX4 December. The event, organised on Cowley Road and the includes films, art and workshops, festival. Anyone wanting to see the by Gappy Tooth Industries, Wheatsheaf. Café Tarifa will host including OX4 Tuniversity which film then must register interest features a characteristically acoustic and mellower acts will host various musicians and beforehand by emailing eclectic mix of new and unsigned between midday and 7pm on industry players talking about their [email protected]. acts, both local and from out of Saturday and Sunday, with KATE GARRETT is remembered with a special concert this month that will raise money towards the Oxford Young Women’s Music Project, which she founded. Kate, who passed away last year after battling with cancer, was a much-loved and influential figure on the local music scene for many years, playing guitar and keyboards for The Mystics before enjoying a solo career and running the Young Women’s Music Project, helping local girls learn to sing, play instruments and write music. The tribute show, entitled King Of The Birds, after Kate’s final EP, takes place at the North Wall Arts Centre in Summertown on Tuesday 5th October and features a headline set from award-winning folk star Chris Wood. He is joined by Duotone – the band formed by Kate’s husband Barney Morse- Brown, pictured here with Kate – Jon Fletcher, Helen Garrett, Claud and Will Gibson, Jane Griffiths and Colin Fletcher, Matt Sage, Zoe Bicat, Rachel Hughes, Uneek, Abbie Lathe and Sammy Hurden with Trio Hysteria, Nick Gibson and Lisa Fitzgibbon. Tickets for the show are £15 (£12 concessions), on sale now through www.ocmevents.com. the Wheatsheaf hosting the event year, a follow-up to their acclaimed on the evenings of Friday and debut, ‘Last Of The Saturday from 8pm. Acts Charanguistas’. The band have also confirmed so far include D Gwalia, been booked to record a session for Samuel Zasada, Matt Winkworth, Bob Harris’ BBC Radio 2 show The Yarns, Anton Barbeau, George this month. Tickets for the Jericho Chopping, Poppy Perezz, show are on sale now from Alamakota, Helen Pearson and wegottickets.com. Deer Chicago. Visit www.gappytooth.com for more UTE have signed to local label details. Alcopop!, home to Johnny Foreigner amongst others. The deal WOOD FESTIVAL is one of 23 caps a great year for the Oxford UK and European festivals three-piece, following on from recognised in the inaugural Greener appearances at this year’s Oxford Festival Awards this year. The Punt and Radio 1’s Big Weekend event, held each year at Brazier’s and being crowned BBC Oxford Park near Wallingford, joins the Introducing’s Band of the Year. Ute likes of Glastonbury, Sonisphere will release a new EP on Alcopop! and the Isle of Wight festivals in at the beginning of December. the list of events recognised for good environmental practice, A SILENT FILM re-release their including travel policies, CO2 debut album, ‘The City That emissions, waste and recycling Sleeps’, this month, with two new policies, water use, noise pollution tracks. The band recently scored a and environmental impact. number 1 single in Portugal with Organised by Truck, this year’s ‘You Will Leave A Mark’, as well Truck featured sets from Frank as enjoying extensive radio play in Turner, Martin Simpson, The the States. The new tracks on the Unthanks and Danny & The album, released on Xtra Mile Champions of the World. Each Records, are ‘Driven By Their stage at Wood is powered by solar Beating Hearts’ and ‘Firefly In My or cycle power and used cooking Window’. Visit fat. www.myspace.com/asilentfilm for MR SHAODOW AND ZUBY have teamed up for a national tour that more news and tour dates. brings them to The Bullingdon on Sunday 10th October as well as an HANNEYFEST will celebrate all-ages show at the Sweatbox in Wantage on Friday 15th October. raising over £2,600 for Help The ANDREW MEARS unveils his Both rappers are graduates from Oxford University and became big Heroes and Hanney Youth Football new band, Pet Moon, at the favourites on the local live scene during their time in Oxford with both th Club with a one-day mini-festival Bullingdon on Sunday 24 October. performing at the Oxford Punt. The pair recently collaborated on a this month. Hanney Mini Fest The former-Youthmovies frontman track, ‘Actin’ Up’. While Mr Shaodow has been travelling around the takes place at the Black Horse in is set to support Foals on their UK selling his mixtapes, Zuby has just released his third album, ‘How I nd East Hanney on Saturday 2 upcoming UK dates at the end of Feel’. Support for both gigs comes from Scarz and DJ Semo. Visit October. The event, which runs the month but will play a special www.zubymusic.com for more details. from 4pm through til 2am will headline show at the Pindrop feature a variety of local acts. Performances night. Support comes Entry is free with donations to from Braindead Collective and features a church choir, is THE CORNERSTONE ARTS Sobell House Hospice welcomed. Blessed Force DJs. Visit ‘Boatswain’s Cry’, ‘Fleet River’, CENTRE in Didcot hosts a record, www.myspace.com/apetmoon to ‘Chalon Valley House Band’, ‘The CD and DVD fair this month. The hear Andrew’s new songs. House on Ash Tree Lane’ and fair runs from 11-4 on Sunday 10th ‘Alpe d’Huez’. The local folk-rock October, with another fair due to THE EVENINGS are making their outfit fly out to play at the Iceland be held on Sunday 6th November. entire back catalogue available for Airwaves Festival in Reykjavik on The next record fair at Oxford free online this month. The band, 13th October. Town Hall also takes place on centred around multi- Sunday 10th October. instrumentalist Mark Wilden but D GWALIA had made his recent who have features some 60 debut album, ‘In Puget Sound’ A REMINDER THAT SS20 on different musicians over the years, available to listen to in its entirety Cowley Road now stock local CDs performed a one-off show at the online at dgwalia.bandcamp.com.