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[email protected] @NightshiftMag NightshiftMag nightshiftmag.co.uk Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 288 July Oxford’s Music Magazine 2019 photo: Hazel Rattigan Julia Meijer “I have a terrible sense of direction, so I’m always a bit lost” Travel, oceans and chips with the dream-pop siren Also in this issue: AMELIA FLETCHER - the Oxford legend returns Introducing SHAVEN PRIMATES ODDBALL, YOUNG KNIVES & CANDY SAYS reviewed TRUCK & CORNBURY previewed plus All your Oxford music news, previews and reviews, and five pages of local gigs for July. NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] Online: nightshiftmag.co.uk funds to make the venture happen. The academy, which provides tuition and gig opportunities for young people and people with physical and learning disabilities, CONAN, INGESTED AND TROYEN headline Rabidfest in Oxford. has been running out of the The three-day festival of metal and heavy rock runs over the weekend Witney Music Rooms since it was of the 16th-18th August at The Bullingdon and The Wheatsheaf. turfed out of its Rock Barn home Friday’s show at The Wheatsheaf is a free event with Troyen joined by to make way for new flats last Fahran, Imminent Annihilation and The Crushing. September. From here the festival moves to the Bully with Saturday’s headliners The new centre is situated right Conan joined by Red Method; Confessions of a Traitor; VIG; Outright next door to its current home on Resistance; Hell’s Gazelles; ASCARIS; Damaged Reich; My Diablo; the site of the recently vacated Dirty Casuals and Villainous. CAMERON AG returns to action Wychwood Brewery distribution Ingested top the bill on Sunday, alongside Desert Storm; Papa Shango; this month with an album due in site, a 6,530 square foot barn just Bast; Dog Tired; Gutlocker; Democratus; The Five Hundred; Broken the autumn. The singer released a off the town green. Empire; Bloodshot, and King Bolete. new single, ‘One By One’, at the Jon Berry, chairman of the 7Cs Entry to both Saturday and Sunday’s shows is £15, with weekend end of June on This Is It Records, charity which runs the project passes available for £26. All profits from the festival go to the Oxford his first release since 2016’s said: “Our aim is to create a vivid Soup Kitchen. Tickets are on sale from Seetickets.com. For more ‘Homeward Bound’ EP. Another whole-community space which details visit www.rabidfest.co.uk single, ‘Headlights’, is due to be serves the creative needs of West released on the 2nd August, with Oxfordshire in partnership with the split. “It just wasn’t really fun one-off show as part of theDown a third, as yet untitled, set for many existing charities, businesses anymore,” singer and guitarist At The Abbey festival in Reading release in September before the and venues who service our Luke Allmond told Nightshift; “I later this year. The one-day event, full album, also titled ‘One By thriving arts movement.” think everyone in the band was on held in the grounds of the restored One’, set for release on the 1st The charity is looking to raise different wavelengths about how 12th Century abbey, takes place on November. The album and singles £18,000 to move into the barn. seriously we wanted to take it.” Saturday 7th September. Vienna were recorded in Bristol and New Further funds will be raised to Alongside Daisy, BBC Introducing Ditto officially called it a day after York with Doug Schadt, who has develop the space into a fully in Oxford picked Death of the their farewell show at Ritual Union previously worked with Emmy the functioning arts centre, in a phased Maiden; Theo; Lake Acacia; last year but the duo – Nigel Firth Great. Announcing the new record, approach. To learn more and to KLOÉ; Max Blansjaar; Jen and Hattie Taylor – are back in Cameron said: “It’s a song about donate to this very worthy cause, Berkovich; Brixtons; Keeva and action on a line-up that includes not letting things get the better of visit www.7csfoundation.com. Mairéad to fly the Oxford flag at headliners BC Camplight as well you. Sometimes that’s easier said the festival over the weekend of as Kathryn Joseph, The Wave than done.” DAISY will play their final gig the 26th-28th July. Nightshift chose Pictures and Tom Williams. Fellow together at Truck Festival this Candy Says and The Dollymops, Oxford stars The August List are MUZOAKADEMY is set to find month. The local emo faves were who both appear on the main Truck also on the bill. Tickets, priced a new permanent home as part of a picked by BBC Introducing in stage. £27.50 for adults and £15 for brand new community arts centre Oxford to play Truck but used the under-18s are on sale now from for Witney and is searching for news to announce their imminent VIENNA DITTO reform for a www.heavypop.co.uk. WONDERLAND, EARINADE AND PREMIUM LEISURE are among the acts confirmed for this month’sRiverside Festival. They join already announced headliners Kanadia over the weekend of the 20th-21st July at Mill Field in Charlbury. Other acts announced include The Knights of Mentis; Brickwork Lizards; Two Tone All Ska’s; The Shapes; Quartermelon; The Deadbeat Apostles and Outer Blue, while the festival’s second stage, hosted by Rapture and Truck Store, features sets from The Great Western Tears; Ciphers; Peerless Pirates; Ghosts in the Photographs; The Cooling Pearls; Knobblehead and Junk Whale, among others, with All Will Be Well Records set for a stage take-over on the Sunday afternoon. One of the biggest free music events in the area, Riverside has been running for 24 years but urgently needs to raise £5,000 to cover losses sustained last year when bad weather affected attendance across the two days. While the event is run by local volunteers, production costs, which are normally covered by bar and merchandise sales, were not met and the future of the festival, at least as a free event, is in doubt. A Gofundme page has been set up. Details of how to contribute are at riversidefestival.charlbury.com. AMELIA FLETCHER has been talking to Nightshift ahead of her band Catenary Wires’ gig at The Bullingdon – the Oxford music legend’s first local show in almost a decade, and her first with Catenary Wires, the band she formed with long-time partner Rob Pursey. Amelia’s place in the pantheon of Oxford music stars is assured for her part fronting 80s indie pioneers Talulah Gosh and Heavenly, alongside Rob. Talulah Gosh were one of the first ever breakout acts from the local scene and became an inspiration for subsequent generations of indie bands, while Amelia is considered an icon of the riot grrl movement. Catenary Wires support British Sea Power at a lot of emphasis on bands being well practised Now in her 50s and with children who The Bullingdon on Friday 12th July for Divine and quite rock, so maybe that played a role. I think themselves are starting to go to gigs, Amelia Schism, having just released their second album, women can sometimes be a bit intimidated unless quotes Girl Ray, Keel Her and Pip Blom as ‘Til the Morning’ on Tapete Records, and Amelia, there is a bit more of an amateurish DIY culture.” bands she’s particularly fond of, along with who now lives in Kent, is looking forward to Jetstream Pony, who have gigged regularly with coming back to the city that made her musical Back to the present and The Catenary Wires Catenary Wires. Gigging being something that name. finds Amelia and Rob exploring a softer, more has until very recently been harder with such a “We’ve not been back for ages but we’re really introspective sounds compared to previous acts, young family. looking forward to it. I have no idea how much including Marine Research and Tender Trap. The “For a long time, it has been tricky to tour of a fanbase we have retained here, but we’re band also finds Amelia sharing vocal duties with too much, as we were not only looking after certainly hoping some of our old friends will Rob for the first time. kids but also caring for my mother, who come along to the show; it will be good to see “I think it is definitely a bit softer and needed increasing help. She passed away last them. introspective. In the end it gets a bit embarrassing September, which was obviously very sad, “I’m still friends with a lot of people from the to keep on jumping around and hollering like a but does mean that we are now a bit free-er. Oxford scene on Facebook, so I know roughly teenager. Although I did keep it up for a long time! The kids are in their mid-teens now too, which what everyone’s up to. It’s amazing how many of Also as we’ve got older the things we want to means it is a bit easier to abandon them! So we us are still doing music, in one form or another. write songs about have changed. We used to write are doing a proper tour for this album. We have “In terms of the Oxford scene these days, I have punky pop songs about things like struggling to a full band as well with bass player Andy Lewis, to admit to being a bit out of touch.