email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 167 June Oxford’s Music Magazine 2009 Oxford’s sonic architects talk indie purity, baptisms of fire and landscape gardening - 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 TRUCK FESTIVAL continues to www.otravidaoxford.co.uk for full add more attractions to this year’s details. event. On the same day, COMMOTION London’s Nonclassical club night 09 takes place in the West will be hosting their own session Oxfordshire village of Kingham. bringing artists from the avant Headlining are Abba tribute band garde of contemporary music, Abba Mania, plus Beverly Craven. including the Elysian Quartet, Other acts performing include John Matthias and Nick Ryan, Little Fish, The Epstein, Inlight, DIVE DIVE play at the Bullingdon on Wednesday 1st July - the Joby Burgess and John Kameel David Gibb, Shaker Heights, Jay band’s first headline show for two years. The local post-hardcore Farah. Alice and The Original Rabbit Foot favourites have spent most of the past two years touring and Also added to the weekend is Spasm Band. The event is in aid of recording as part of Frank Turner’s band. They are currently in the Vieux Farka Touré, son of Mali children’s cancer charity CLIC studio with the folk-punk troubadour in Norfolk before they finish music legend Ali; Vieux comes to Sargent; tickets, priced £15 for work on their own third album, due for release later this year or early Truck as the festival pledges adults and £8 for students, are on in 2010. Tickets for the Bullingdon show are on sale now from another three years’ support to sale now. Visit wegottickets.com. the Mali Development Group, an www.commotionfestival.co.uk AIDS prevention programme they for full details. have helped for the past five ABINGDON & WITNEY DON’T FORGET, AS EVER, TO years. SEXTODECIMO, who returned COLLEGE is inviting applications TUNE INTO BBC OXFORD Meanwhile former-Ride frontman to live action last month at the for this year’s BTEC and A-level INTRODUCING every Saturday Mark Gardener and post- Wheatsheaf after an extended courses in media and music night between 6-7pm on BBC hardcore heroes Dive Dive join hiatus, release a limited edition live technology, which cover all aspects Radio Oxford 95.2fm. The Sunday’s Oxford bill, alongside mini-album this month. The stoner- of working with music and in the dedicated local music show plays headliners Supergrass and The rock band, widely accepted to be music industry. For details call the the best local releases as well as Candyskins, while house and the most extreme act in recent local college on 01993 208001, or email featuring interviews with local and breaks club Fresh Out The Box history, release ‘Quadra-Spazzed [email protected], or touring bands, demo reviews, a host their own session. In a box. On A Life-Glug’ as a limited run of visit www.gotocollege.co.uk. local gig guide and other special This year’s Truck Festival takes 100. The album was recorded live features. The show is available to place over the weekend of 25-26th at the Zodiac in February 2004. OXFORD’S MUSIC IN MIND listen to all week online at July at Hill Farm in Steventon. Visit www.myspace.com/ release a ‘virtual gig’ compilation bbc.co.uk/oxford. As previously announced, Ash sextodecimo for more details. CD this month, featuring recordings The Introducing Upload tool now headline Saturday night on the by Little Fish, Alphabet Backwards, allows local bands to directly main stage, along with krautrock UTE are set to play at this month’s Bethany Weimers, The Dacoits, upload their songs onto the legend Damo Suzuki. Glastonbury Festival. The local nu- Alice Doyne, Failing To Focus, programme’s website. Remaining weekend tickets are on folk trio join fellow local stars James Dey, Vanessa Lewis, The sale, priced £70, from Stornoway over the weekend of Follys and Trev Williams. The PLEASE NOTE: the Nightshift wegottickets.com as well as other 25th-28th June. album costs £5 (cheques payable to office will be closed from Saturday outlets around Oxfordshire. Visit Zoe Williams) direct from PO Box 23rd May through to Tuesday 2nd www.thisistruck.com for more SOL SAMBA celebrates its 10th 2894, Faringdon, SN7 8WT, with all June. Please email all gig listings or details. birthday this month with a special proceeds going to local mental news to night of Brazilian and world samba health charity MIND. [email protected]. TWO MORE MINI-FESTIVALS music and dance. The event takes to add to your summer calendar place at the O2 Academy on Friday this month. Otra Vida takes place 26th June. Tickets, priced from £6 in South Park on Saturday 6th to £10, are on sale now from the June, from midday through to Academy box office. 7pm and features three stages of live music, all in aid of Peruvian OXFORD IMPROVISERS have orphanage charity Aldea Yanapay, relocated to the Folly Bridge Inn on as well as Helen & Douglas House Abingdon Road following the Hospice. Acts performing include closure of the Port Mahon last Foreign Beggars, The Molotovs, December. The collective host a Raggasaurus, Raphael Y Lola and night on the second Tuesday of Count Skylarkin’ plus many more. each month, starting on June 9th The event also includes with performances by Chris Brown storytelling, poetry, art and a kids (guitar) and Jill Elliot (violin), plus area. Tickets for the event are on Bruno Guastala (cello) and Chris sale now, priced £10 (£5 Stubbs (percussion), as well as an concessions) or £15 including a electric quartet of regulars Miles special after-show party, from Doubleday, Pat Thomas, Malcolm wegottickets.com. Visit Atkins and Pete McPhail. a quiet word with international jetsetters AS THE RECENT OXFORD PUNT Fi McFall by Brown. It’s a very creative place to proved, fresh faces can make the live. I guess you could quite happily freshest sounds. But equally, as call us the Morecambe and Wise of International Jetsetters prove, the rock. I often wake in the early experienced hands of master afternoon to find Bert making tea in craftsmen can fashion music that is Bonamy Norman the kitchen dressed in an old dressing both magnificent and timeless. gown and sock suspenders.” ALTHOUGH CONCEIVED AS A UP UNTIL THE JETSETTERS band just two years ago, the formed Mark had been working solo individual members of International for some years. What prompted him Jetsetters have histories in local to form a new band? music going back 20 years – singer MARK: “International Jetsetters and guitarist Mark Crozer and bassist came about out of necessity when I Bert Audubert having played in was offered a gig at The Zodiac, but various bands together over the only if I had a band. So I said I did, years, while drummer Loz Colbert which was when I asked Bert. Having was part of Oxford legends Ride – been playing with Loz in Jim Reid’s the band that really put Oxford on band, he was the natural choice for the musical map. drummer. I really didn’t have any More recently Mark and Loz played vision at all. It was initially just a together in Jesus and Mary Chain one-off gig. Bert and I had already singer Jim Reid’s band before the been writing and recording for a while Mary Chain themselves reformed and had never really thought about and the pair were taken on as part of LAST YEAR THE BAND bands since the late 80s. My first actually doing anything live until their live band. Working together released their debut mini-album, proper Oxford band was Dead But then.” like this was the spur for Mark and ‘Heart Is Black’, on the American Dreaming. We played at The Jericho It must have been strange for Mark Loz, along with Bert, to get record label Planting Seeds. The six- in the good old days. I left the UK to and Loz to end up playing with The International Jetsetters together, song CD captures the band’s bullish live in Canada in 1993 and spent ten Jesus And Mary Chain, who were initially as a three-piece, before majesty well – from Loz’s trademark years out there where I released two musical heroes to them in their teens. Mark’s brother Paul joined them. drum attack to the hypnotic chiming solo albums. I remember sending in a LOZ: “Absolutely. It is strange, but guitar blizzard to Mark and Fi’s dual demo of three solo songs to strangely natural to spend time and THE FINAL PIECE OF THE vocals. It’s music steeped in the Nightshift back in about 1999 and play music with them. I think Mark jigsaw was recruiting singer Fi classic 60s rock of The Beatles and you slated one song for being `solid and I mainly got the gig from being McFall. Fi was a friend of the band, Stones, but with its heart full the busker rock’, which I’ve never the band for Jim’s solo stuff.” but when Mark overheard her singing honey-dipped noise of bands as forgotten! Ha ha. So I’m glad I MARK: “For me it’s still something one day he recommended her to The diverse but uniquely positioned as My finally won you over.” I can’t quite believe. I was very aware Jesus and Mary Chain, who needed a Bloody Valentine, The Chameleons, PAUL: “Mark and I first played of them in the 80s and liked female vocalist to perform ‘Just Pale Saints, Magoo, Puressence and together in a band called Jubilee back `Darklands’ a lot.