email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 186 January Oxford’s Music Magazine 2011 Oxford’s pop-punk heroes return stronger than ever! NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 January Every Monday THE FAMOUS MONDAY NIGHT BLUES The best in UK, European and US blues. 8-12. 10th RESERVOIR CATS (UK) 17th THE MIGHTY REDOX (UK) 24th STEAMROLLER (UK) 31st THE CLARE FREE BAND (UK) Coming up in February 7th BAYOU BROTHERS (USA) 14th THE ADAM BOMB BAND (USA) Every Tuesday THE OXFORD JAZZ CLUB Free live jazz plus DJs playing r’n’b, funk and soul until 2am 11th ALVIN ROY & REEDS UNLIMITED 18th THE HOWARD PEACOCK QUINTET 25th THE HUGH TURNER BAND Thursdays 6th KOMRAD / ANNERO 13th AGE OF MISRULE + MOTHER CORONA + TUESDAY NIGHT PROJECT 20th GIVE IT SOME ‘STIC (acoustic night) 27th SKELETOR presents THE CRUSHING / MALTA TONKIN / SIX BULLET CHAMBER / WAYS ACROSS Every Friday FUNKY FRIDAY Funk, soul, boogie and R&B. 10.30pm-2.30am; £2. Early Friday shows 7th THE CELLAR FAMILY / COCAINE COWBOYS / GENERALS & MAJORS / DAISY & THE UNSTEADIES 14th ALAN BROWN 21st THE INSULT 28th KILL CITY SAINTS Includes entry to FUNKY FRIDAY afterwards Saturdays 8th DANCE NIGHT 15th SWITCH 60 – Northern soul & Motown 22nd DUB POLITICS – dubstep – 10-3am 29th MAMA ROSIN Join us on Facebook: Backroom @ The Bully £22,000 for Shelter in its ten years. CAFÉ TARIFA on Cowley Road A special extra Audioscope gig launches a new weekly acoustic takes place at the Cellar on and semi-acoustic music night this NEWNEWSS Saturday 15th January, featuring a month. Bare Your Bones, every Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU night of leftfield electronica from Tuesday evening, will feature local Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] Mo’Wax’s Andrea Parker and and out-of-town acts. Acts wanting Planet Mu’s Shitmat, plus Leeds’ to play can email Online: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net P45 and Oxford’s own Coloureds. [email protected] or Tickets are on sale now from drop demos in to the venue at, 56- wegottickets.com. Visit 60 Cowley Road. OXFORDSHIRE could the Winter Warmer at the www.audioscope.co.uk for more potentially play host to two major Wheatsheaf in December, but details. PRISM, the pioneering Oxford acid outdoor festivals over the same frontman Gus Rogers told Meanwhile, Braindead house club returns to its old home weekend next summer as Nightshift that, “It seemed better Collective have teamed up with upstairs at the O2 Academy (The Cornbury Festival moves to a to end it rather than try and replace Scottish drone-rock fave Rob St. Oxford Venue and Zodiac as it was new location, while Cornbury Park them,” and has promised to return John to record a seven-minute then) for a 20th anniversary reunion itself has signed a deal to host a with a new band soon. improvised single to be sold online celebration on Friday 25th festival organised by HMV’s live in aid of Shelter. The tracks was February. The club’s original DJs, music arm. TRUCK have a whole slew of fun recorded in St. Michael’s Church in Keiran, Marty P and Osprey will After suffering severe financial activities planned in the coming Cornmarket. Fans can pay what be back on the decks. Tickets are problems over its seven year run at months. First up, tickets for this they want for the music, which is on sale via the Academy website Cornbury Park, where it became a year’s Wood Festival go on general available at and box office. established as one of the UK’s sale on 28th January. Limited to just braindeadcollective.bandcamp.com. premier family-friendly festivals, 800 adult tickets, these are AS EVER, don’t forget to tune into Cornbury organiser Hugh expected to go in even faster than SUPERGRASS bassist Mick BBC Oxford Introducing every Phillimore has teamed up with 3A last year’s sold out festival. Quinn returns to action this month, Saturday evening between 6-7pm Entertainment, who work with acts Anyone who attended last year having teamed up with old friend on 95.2fm. The dedicated local like Eric Clapton, Kylie Minogue will be contacted about exclusive Sir Bald Diddley in a new band, music show plays the best new and Paul Weller, to take the event – pre-sale tickets from the 14th Beat Seeking Missiles. The new Oxford releases and demos as well which will still hold the name The January; those who bought tickets band, who play a mix of garage as interviews and sessions with Cornbury Festival – to a new home through a local outlet can email rock, surf and punk, also features local acts. The show is available to at The Great Tew Estate, five miles [email protected] to be added former members of Thee listen to online all week or down the road. This year’s festival to the mailing list. Headcoats. Their debut gig is at the download as a podcast at st rd will run over three days from 1 -3 After the success of their Cellar on Friday 21st January as bbc.co.uk/oxford July. Due to the ongoing licensing workshops and shows at the Old part of Skylarkin’s monthly Big process, no tickets are yet on sale Bookbinders on Green Street, east Ten Inch club night. but visit Oxford, Truck are planning a series www.cornburyfestival.com for of special shows there in February, news as it becomes available. including a Blessing Force gig and a Dr SHOTOVER: Dad Rock Army Lord and Lady Rotherwick, who Heavenly Records showcase, Yes, yes, I was in the British Army, and it never did ME any harm. Not even own the Cornbury Estate, featuring Sea of Bees, Trevor Moss the LSD-25 testing at Porton Down in the 1950s. Hallelujah Jesus, no-sir-ee meanwhile, have struck a deal with & Hannah-Lou and James Bob, no harm done at ALL, thank the Lord and all his brightly-coloured HMV’s live music division for a Walbourne. angels... though I am told that every now and again I do take on the new festival, provisionally on the Most exciting though is that Truck characteristics of a Southern Pentecostalist preacher for no good reason. same weekend. have teamed up with Rapture in HAL-AY-LOO-YAH! [Dr Shotover testifies and waves both hands in the air Witney – Oxfordshire’s sole for five minutes, then sits back down at the East Indies Club bar]... Sorry about that. The Devil of it is, I keep spilling my drink when that happens... surviving independent record store Would you mind doing the honours, old boy...? Very decent of you, yes, – to open a CD and record shop on mine’s a pint of Tennessee Sippin’ Whiskey... ah thank yew kahndly, sir... Cowley Road, on the site of the old Meanwhile, there is something a little unsettling, isn’t there, about all those Videosyncratic shop, which closed apparently wholesome Americans who used to infest the pop charts, such last year. After the success of the as the Beach Boys, the Carpenters and the Osmonds. One, they have too guerilla record store as part of OX4 many of those teeth which look as though they have been flown in from a last year, the new shop will open brand-new piano factory. Two, there is inevitably child abuse, eating on 10th February. They will be disorder, religious mania and drug addiction in the background, and stocking a wide range of they end up starving themselves Oxfordshire music, so all local acts to death with their feet in a bucket are encouraged to get in touch – of sand, while their personal guru email Drew at attempts to spoon-feed them [email protected]. peanut butter laced with Triptafen. Much better to be British, with NOVEMBER’S AUDIOSCOPE British teeth, and a healthy British DIAL F FOR FRANKENSTEIN gig raised over £2,000 for homeless appetite for pies and the sort of dodgy 70s drugs which can only have decided to split. The band, charity Shelter. The annual mini- be enjoyed at crap British free who have become firm favourites festival has been running for ten festivals in the drizzle and/or on the local live scene over the past years and this time around featured while sitting in a shed on one’s couple of years, and featured on a sold-out show from post-punk parents’ allotment. Or indeed in the the cover of Nightshift back in legends Wire at ther Jericho Tavern. Hydraulic Hallucination Chamber at August, decided to call it a day due A special 10th anniversary show at Porton Down. Woo-HOOO – thank to drummer Michael Thompson’s the Tavern featured sets from yew, JESUS! Ah SEE the angels, touring commitments with Fixers Dieter Moebius and Billy ah SEE them! Angelic Upstart: Dr Shotover Next month: EVERY DAY CAN as well as guitarist Chris Berger Mahonie, while Anticon’s SJ Esau emerges from the Hydraulic BE CHRISTMAS DAY (just send Hallucination Chamber at Porton being away at university. Dial F headed the bill at the third show. twenty dollars)! Down bowed out with a headline set at Audioscope has now raised a quiet word with YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD better and more cohesive, I think. It band down, and Dive Dive have also means you can fuck up a bit certainly experienced their downs and it becomes part of the texture of over the years. That they are back the song. Perfection, which you end this month with their third album up striving towards when you’re and more enthused than ever is listening to any instrument just on testament to their tenacious its own, can be a bit lifeless.” character, but also to the Jamie: “I love the imperfections on irrepressible nature of their music.