Phil Mcminn and Lashings of Festive Gigs, Previews, Reviews and Releases
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[email protected] nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 209 December Oxford’s Music Magazine 2012 All aboard for photo: Jamie Beeden Raving, not drowning, with Oxford’s brightest electro-pop stars plus The Top 25 Oxford songs of the year Introducing Phil McMinn and lashings of festive gigs, previews, reviews and releases. NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 DHP Concerts Presents TUE 27 NOV JUAN ZELADA £8 ADV | 18+ WED 06 FEB NEWS THE JERICHO LEDDRA CHAPMAN Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] TUE 29 NOV £7 ADV | 18+ O2 Academy2 MICHELE STODART THE JERICHO Oxford Online: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net £8 ADV | 18+ THU 14 (AVAILABLE) & FRI 15 FEB (SOLD OUT) SPRING OFFENSIVE were ALCOPOP! RECORDS release a THE JERICHO Friday 22nd named BBC Oxford’s Band Of new compilation album this month. STORNOWAY The Year for 2012 last month. `Alcopopular 5: A Hit Hiker’s Guide February Previous winners of the award To The UK’ is out on December FRI 30 NOV £15 ADV | ALL AGES th OXFORD TOWN HALL include Stornoway, Fixers and Little 10 and features 20 acts, including Fish. The award was announced Oxford’s Cellar Family. In typically THE MILK on the same night the band played inventive style the local label ALL AGES • £10 ADV £10 ADV | ALL AGES THU 21 FEB a sold-out show at East Oxford releases the album as a CD with an O 2 ACADEMY2 OXFORD ALT-TICKETS.CO.UK • 0844 871 8819 Conservative Club on James Street, ordnance survey map of Britain, so the location of the show having JAKE BUGG 'ALL OUR FAVOURITE STORIES' Debut album out now on iTunes & in all good record shops listeners can follow the tracklisting been made known to ticket-holders geographically, from Glasgow to FRI 30 NOV SOLD OUT | ALL AGES the day before. Brighton, via Dublin and Cardiff O 2 ACADEMY OXFORD THE REVIVAL HOUR Spring Offensive’s epic new single, and plenty of other towns and cities `Not Drowning But Waving’, is besides. Other acts featured include FOALS release a new single, `Inhaler’, this month. The single is the £9 ADV | 18+ FRI 22 FEB available on smart 7” vinyl from Summer Camp, The JCQ, Wild first track to be released from their forthcoming third album, `Holy Fire’, THE JERICHO Truck Store on Cowley Road right Mercury Sound, Fear of Men and which is out in February next year. The video for `Inhaler’ went online in DOG IS DEAD now. While you’re raiding your Ram’s Pocket Radio. More info at November with the song finding Foals heading into the harder, heavier £10 | ALL AGES piggy bank you can watch the ace www.ilovealcopop.co.uk. sound promised by Yannis in recent interviews. The band also aired a new SUN 02 DEC video for it at springoffensive. O 2 ACADEMY2 OXFORD song, `My Number’, on Later… with Jools Holland at the end of November. NATALIE DUNCAN co.uk BEARD MUSEUM host two nights Live dates are scheduled through December and also in march but no of music at St Alban’s Church in hometown show has been announced. See the video for `Inhaler’ at tinyurl. £8.50 ADV | 18+ TUE 26 FEB BELLOWHEAD play their east Oxford this month. Entitled com/c2vwe99 THE JERICHO biggest Oxford show to date when Two Nights Before Christmas, LINDI ORTEGA they headline The New Theatre the shows include a one-off set on Wednesday 13th February. The by Trophy Wife on Friday 21st is due to host occasional live bands Winter Warmer at the Wheatsheaf MON 03 DEC £8.50 | 18+ th THE JERICHO folk big band, formed by Oxford December accompanied by a and DJs. on Sunday 16 December. Go to musicians Jon Boden and John string quartet. They’ll be joined facebook.com/Undersmile for more THE OTHER TRIBE Spiers, released their new album on the night by Kill Murray. On WITCHES have posthumously details. £6 ADV | 18+ SUN 17 MAR `Broadside’, last month. Bellowhead the Saturday night, Aylesbury’s made their second album, `Final THE BULLINGDON have previously headlined Truck Mercury-nominated experimental Word’, available free to download on RECORD and CD fairs return to MARTIN HARLEY BAND Festival, but this will be their biggest folk-pop outfit Sweet Billy Pilgrim Bandcamp. Hear it at witchesband. Oxford Town Hall in January. The SOLD OUT show in Oxford itself. Tickets, priced bandcamp.com. long-running collectors fairs have £12.50 ADV | 18+ headline, supported by Phil McMinn THU 06 DEC from £18.50-£23.50, are on sale now and Adam Barnes. been absent in recent months, but THE JERICHO th by phone on 0844 871 3020 or at Looking further ahead, Beard UNDERSMILE have their are back on Saturday 5 January, ULTRASOUND £15 • ALL AGES • ALT-TICKETS.CO.UK & TRUCK STORE www.atgtickets.com/oxford. Museum host a special show `Narwhal’ album released in a from 10am to 3.30pm. Visit www. £8 ADV | 18+ WED 20 MAR by Patrick Wolf at St John the limited-edition cassette format usrfairs.co.uk for more details. THE JERICHO THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS Evangelist church on Iffley Road, this month. 100 copies of the THE TRAVELLING BAND release their second album on 21st the singer performing accompanied cassette will be available through AS EVER, don’t forget to tune into January 2013. `13.0.0.0.0’ is the by piano and string quartet. Tickets Tartarus Records and come with BBC Oxford Introducing every TUE 11 DEC £8 ADV | 18+ an Undersmile sew-on patch for Sunday night between 9-10pm on THE JERICHO follow-up to 2008’s `Animals’ and for all Beard Museum shows are the first to feature new singer Henry on sale from www.wegottickets/ real authentic retro-metal appeal. 95.2fm. The dedicated local music ADMIRAL FALLOW Tremain, who replaced Stuart Smith beardmuseum. The band also release a new 12” show plays the best Oxford releases £9 ADV | 18+ FRI 22 MAR last year. The new album is released vinyl EP in February next year in and demos as well as featuring THE JERICHO on Sargent House; a teaser track, THE WHITE RABBIT officially their acoustic Coma Wall guise, interviews and sessions with local BASTILLE `Left Aligned’, is online now at opens this month. The new pub out on Shama Records. Undersmile acts. The show is available as a in full bulldozing electric mode podcast at bbc.co.uk/oxford. £10 ADV | ALL AGES soundcloud.com/sargent-house/ venue, on the site of the old TUE 29 JAN ttng-left-aligned. play at Gappy Tooth Industries’ Regularly updated local music O 2 ACADEMY OXFORD Gloucester Arms, in Friar’s Entry, news is available online at www. NADEAH musicinoxford.co.uk. The site also CHAD VALLEY AND TROPHY WIFE release a features interactive reviews, a photo £8.50 ADV | 18+ SAT 23 MAR split EP this month on Blessing Force Records. The gallery and gig guide. THE JERICHO EP features each band playing their own material, Nightshift’s online form is open to RUARRI JOSEPH followed by each covering the other’s song. Chad Valley all local music fans and musicians contributes `Tell All Your Friends’, while Trophy Wife 01 FEB £8.50 ADV | 18+ at nightshift.oxfordmusic.net, offer `Like No Other’. THE JERICHO while the new Oxfordshire Music The EP comes out as a 12” white vinyl with screen- JIM LOCKEY & THE SOLEMN SUN Scene quarterly magazine is printed sleeves by Double Suns, limited to 250 copies, O2 ACADEMY OXFORD available as a PDF online at www. £9 ADV | 18+ the first 100 of which come autographed by both acts. oxfordmusicscene.co.uk. THE JERICHO Smart. To order yourself a copy, go to blessingforce. FRIDAY 22ND MARCH Another locally-themed music tumblr.com. £10 • 14+ • ALT-TICKETS.CO.UK • 0844 871 8819 • GIGSINOXFORD.CO.UK podcast is From The Ladder Factory, Meanwhile, Trophy Wife are off on tour supporting which plays music from Oxfordshire Foals for the first half of December, followed by a and Wiltshire – get it at www. support slot to Bombay Bicycle Club at Koko in London fromtheladderfactory.com. W WW.GIGSINOXFORD.CO.UK on the 22nd. www.alt-tickets.co.uk / www.facebook.com/alttickets.co.uk / All shows 18+ unless stated otherwise a quiet word with who will have to quit their courses anointing ‘Echo’ as a single; it was Wild Swim, while never seeming overlap or is it a release for ideas that completely if the time comes to an auspicious moment when it all to fit in with any particular scene wouldn’t fit in with the band? do so. I’m the lucky one because I came together, and there was a or genre, do sound like a growing Jamie: Cubiq is essentially for can pretty much pick it all back up definite sense that we’d strayed into number of bands, from Wild Beasts Carlos and me to explore production, whenever I want.” new and beautiful waters.” to Alt.J, who aren’t afraid to be compositional and live techniques You’re managed by Jon Chapman a bit, for want of a better word, and technology. Over the last WE KIND OF taKE IT FOR now; how did that come about arty, to explore more flamboyant, three or four years, we somehow granted in Oxford that local bands and how has he helped the band exotic sounds; do they feel there’s developed a penchant for techno vocals; Carlos Posada on guitars, will be at university either here in get on, given his experience with a reaction against the sort of grey and the deeper end of house music.