email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 176 March Oxford’s Music Magazine 2010 BBC Oxford Introducing celebrates five years on air with a tribute to a local masterpiece - interview with presenters Tim Bearder and Dave Gilyeat inside plus Oxford music news, reviews and seven pages of local gigs 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 ALL-VENUE PASSES FOR THIS May. Acts already confirmed YEAR’S OXFORD PUNT have include Tunng, Fionn Reagan, gone on sale. 100 laminated passes, Martin Simpson, Danny & The priced at £7 (plus booking fee) are Champions of the World, Peggy available online at oxfordmusic.net Sue, Nick Cope and Dusty and the or from The Scribbler in Oxford city Dreaming Spires. Wood, now in its centre and The Music Box on third year, features solar and cycle- Cowley Road. This year’s Punt powered stages, a cinema and disco MEW are the first headline act to be confirmed for this year’s Truck takes place on Wednesday 12th as well as other renewable energy Festival. This will be the band’s only UK festival appearance this May, showcasing 19 of the best projects. The festival features a summer. The Danish rockers’ show at the Zodiac in 2005 was one of new acts in Oxfordshire across five wide rage of workshops and family the most incredible gigs Nightshift has witnessed in recent years. Mew city centre venues on one night. activities as well as organic food and released their fifth album, ‘No More Stories’, late last year and recently With Thirst Lodge planning to turn beer. Tickets for the event are on supported Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction around Europe. into a lapdancing club, CoCo Royal sale now, priced £70, from the Tickets for Truck are already selling fast. The festival takes place over has become the latest venue to be Scribbler and Inner Bookshop in the weekend of 23rd-25th July at Hill farm in Steventon. Adult weekend included on the Punt circuit, along Oxford as well as various outlets tickets are £80; tickets for 13-17 year olds are £60 with under 13s with Malmaison, The Purple Turtle, around the county and online. Visit going free. Tickets, including a limited number of Supertrucker tickets The Wheatsheaf and The Cellar. www.thisistruck.com for more which allow entry to both Truck and Wood festivals for £120, are on Bands wanting to take part in the details. sale from The Scribbler in Oxford, Oxford Guitar Gallery in Punt have until 12th March to Summertown, The Music Box on Cowley Road, Rapture in Witney and submit demos. Send Myspace links, OUT GRAZE FESTIVAL returns Local Roots in Abingdon as well as online at Ticketweb, See Tickets and clearly marked Punt, to for its third year in June. The three- other outlets. Visit www.thisistruck.com for more ticket details and [email protected], or send day dance festival runs from 11th- festival news. CDs, again clearly marked Punt, to 13th June at an as yet undisclosed Nightshift, PO Box 312, Kidlington, location in Oxfordshire. The festival OX5 1ZU. The line-up for the is co-promoted by local dance clubs place at the Cellar on Saturday 27th year. The pair recently supported event will be announced on the Bassmentality, Slide and Simple and March, featuring Cheap Thrills Hole in London, following on from Nightshift online forum on March features a mix of dance tents playing signing Rico Tubbs, plus Simple DJ tours with Placebo, Eagles of Death 15th. house, dubstep, reggae, funk and Emily Watson, Angus Cowan, Metal and Alice In Chains. more and was shortlisted for best Mush and Melodize. FRANK TURNER is among the dance event at last year’s UK OXFORDBANDS.COM has latest acts to be added to the bill for Festival Awards. Tickets are on sale LITTLE FISH release their debut become Oxfordbands.co.uk after this year’s Wood Festival. The eco- now, priced £40, from album in May. ‘Baffled & Beat’ is experiencing problems with their friendly festival takes place at Wegottickets.com, with profits released on Linda Perry’s Custard internet provider. The site features Braziers Park, near Wallingford, going to the Oxford Wheels Project. Records. Jules and Nez recorded the regularly updated interactive over the weekend of the 21st-23rd A launch gig for the festival takes album with Linda in the States last reviews of local gigs and releases. YOUTHMOVIES HAVE SPLIT. Jonquil. Their hard work and DIY year. will be all around us. We’ve never The band will bow out with a final ethic found them regularly touring Youthmovies singer Andrew Mears been that comfortable on big, gig at the O2 Academy on the UK, often with other Oxford spoke to Nightshift about the split. detached stages but obviously as Saturday 27th March. bands supporting, as well as “We are miles apart and it’s time the band went on and the shows Originally called Youthmovie releasing their own , and other acts’, for something new. For me that’s got bigger it was something that Soundtrack Strategies, the band are albums on their Try Harder label. my new project Pet Moon and the was a necessary evil. We’re trying rightly considered to be one of the Their first CD was a Nightshift book I’m writing, Songs Without to get back to what was fun and most innovative and influential Demo Of The Month and they Restraint. Sam is playing with essential about the early shows. bands to have come out of Oxford, twice graced the cover of the Jonquil and solo stuff under the Asked about Youthmovies’ very their diverse, genre-defying style magazine. The band have been on name Solid Gold Dragons; Al has significant legacy on local music, inspiring the likes of Foals and indefinite hiatus over the past just started a band with ex-members Andrew said, “I think for the most of Murder of Rosa Luxembourg and part bands do what they do under House of Brothers; Graeme is doing their own steam. I guess if some amphetamine-tribal-shit for anything we’re just another in a clubbers with a conscience, and line of bands that have shown that Ham’s in Liverpool making his first you can do what the fuck you million, building microchips that want and people will like it, that turn white noise into birdsong. they’re not stupid, that the music “The best things about the past industry as it’s understood, and few years have been all the travel, being musically industrious aren’t working with people like Adam mutually exclusive.” Gnade, Ant Theaker, Foals and Long-time collaborator Adam Jonquil, and basically getting paid to Gnade supports Youthmovies, be antagonistic vagrants. with various guest appearances “For the final show we’re playing promised. Tickets for the show downstairs at the Academy, on the are on sale now at floor, in the round, so the crowd wegottickets.com. Stornoway photo: Johnny Moto WITTSTOCK returns over the Blues show are online at May bank holiday weekend (28th- www.famousmondayblues.co.uk. 31st). The annual festival takes place at the Railway Inn in Culham, near FAT LIL’S IN WITNEY hosts a Abingdon. Acts confirmed so far battle of the bands competition in include The Original Rabbit Foot April and are looking for local acts Spasm Band, Vicars of Twiddly, to participate. Heats will take place Moiety, Small Machine, The Black on Sundays throughout April with Hats, Laima Bite, Baby Gravy, the final on May 7th. The prize for Quadrophobe, The Roundheels and the winners includes a recorded gig Barry & The Beachcombers. at Fat Lil’s, a place on the main Although the festival is free, stage at this summer’s Cornbury donations to Cancer Research UK Festival and equipment from PMT and the Oxford Young Women’s in Oxford. Runners-up will get a Band Project are welcomed. Visit slot on the main stage at Charlbury www.myspace.com/wittstockrock Riverside Festival. Acts have until for more details. 14th March to enter. Email [email protected]. THE HALF RABBITS release their The venue, meanwhile, holds its STORNOWAY, THE CANDYSKINS AND RICHARD WALTERS debut album on Monday 19th April. second blues festival this month. were amongst a host of local acts who played a special in-store gig to The local new-wave inspired Running from 26th-31st March Fat mark the closing of Videosyncratic last month. The independent video rockers will launch ‘From The Lil’s plays host to rising young and DVD rental shops, on Cowley Road and in Summertown, were Horizon To The Map’ with a gig at blues guitarist Krissy Matthews, forced to close due to spiralling losses due to changes in the rental the O2 Academy on Saturday 17th London’s bluesy r’n’b act Big market and the costs of running a retail outlet in Oxford. As well as April. Support on an excellent local Mama’s House and Australian renting videos and DVDs Videosyncratic sold tickets for local gigs and bill comes from The Rock Of bluesman Rob Tognoni as well as its festivals and was the only store in the city to stock a wide range of Travolta, The Dead Jerichos and regular monthly blues jam. Oxford bands’ CDs. Rapture, in Witney, now remains the county’s only Night Portraits. Tickets for the independent CD retailer. show are on sale now, priced £6 in LADYFEST returns to Oxford in Richard Walters arranged the impromptu gig in the Cowley Road advance, at wegottickets.com.