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‘A GENUINE AURA OF DANGER AND COOL’ Better get your tent looked out – the first acts for this year’s festivals have been announced and Nightshift magazine’s The Punt, the it’s looking like another great year for the local music lover. Truck’s eco, family friendly, folky, unmissable, yearly, multi-venue offshoot Wood Festival returns to Braziers Park in South Oxfordshire over the weekend of showcase for new Oxford bands 17–19 May. In addition to the usual extensive programme of workshops and outdoor activities, returns on Wednesday 8 May. Mary Epworth headlines on Friday, while Danny & the Champions of the World, Flights of Venues for this year are Purple Helios, Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou and Dreaming Spires will also be appearing. Tickets from Turtle, The Cellar, The Wheatsheaf, www.woodfestival.com or in person from Truck Store. The Dukes Cut and the newly FEEL IT LIVE Wychwood is at Cheltenham Racecourse on 31 May–2 June this year. It’s the usual mix of opened White Rabbit. The night current and classic favourites – The Beat are to headline Friday, Kate Nash and the Human is the best way to keep up with plus guests League on Saturday and Ukulele Orchestra for Sunday… so far. Lineup and ticket info from new bands in the city – always a wychwoodfestival.com. fresh lineup as acts aren’t MONDAY 18 MARCH Cornbury celebrates its 10th year allowed to play more than once. this year, the third at its new location Visit nightshift.oxfordmusic.net 02 ACADEMY OXFORD at Great Tew. It’s over the weekend of for lineup announcements and 0844 477 2000 5–7 July. Of this year’s lineup, which ticket details. The deadline for hadn’t been announced at the time of artist submissions is 10 March. GIGSANDTOURS.COM | 0844 811 0051 going to press ‘It really is our finest This year’s Oxford Jazz Festival line-up ever” says organiser Hugh has been called off until next STRANGLERS.NET Phillimore “I have the legends, the rock year. A statement on the festival stars, the popstars – old and new – website reads “Met with several creating a ‘must-see’ line-up for every unforeseeable obstructions while generation.” Visit cornburyfestival.com deep into planning a festival for ticket and lineup info. which was to be bigger and Truck , in its 2nd year under new more exciting than in previous management, have scooped The years, the decision was made to Horrors (pictured) as their headliner for hold off until 2014, when the Saturday – they’ve also announced Festival can be done right.” Ash, , Dan Le Sac and THE HORRORS Foals’ new Holy Fire Scroobious Pip, Rollo Tamassi, Dry the reached number one in the charts River, Toy, Tall Ships and Gunning for in midweek recently but was Tamar in what already looks like a strong lineup. Truck happens on Friday 19 and Saturday pipped for the top spot by the ;\LZKH`YK(WYPS 20 July. Visit truckfestival.com for more info. Les Mise rables soundtrack. The Folk Weekend Oxford returns for a 3 day bonanza on 19 –21 April. Headliner is festival album ended up at number two, 6(JHKLT`6_MVYK patron and local artist Jackie Oates, a member of the Imagined Village alongside Eliza Carthy, their highest chart postion to date. They have been confirmed    who will be performing ‘Lullabies’ at the Old Fire Station on the Saturday. Magpie Lane have the opening concert on the Friday and Radio 2 Young Folk Award finalists Tyde perform on for the main stage at Reading Saturday, while Melrose Quartet headline Sunday. The imaginative programme includes ceilidhs, Festival this year and their track workshops, morris dancing, concerts from morning til night and there’s a new village fete on ‘Inhaler’ has been nominated for Gloucester Green. Venues include Old Fire Station, Newman Rooms, the Ashmolean, the Far Best Single at the NME Awards. From the Madding Crowd, Oxford Castle and the Big Bang restaurant. Day or weekend tickets They have also been nominated for available now from www.folkweekendoxford.co.uk Best Live Act. Read our review in the Local Releases section. Back & to the Left, publishers :\UKH`Z[(WYPS of Oxfordshire Music Scene , are Local new music promoter/producer OCM are looking for up and coming Oxfordshire artists starting a new bi-monthly local with their own material for this year’s OCM Open and OCM Youth Open. The Youth Open will take sports magazine. Off The Ball 6(JHKLT`6_MVYK place at Pegasus Theatre on Saturday 22 June. Last year’s youth lineup included The Reaper, will be launched in April 2013 – ;PJRL[Z‰HK]HUJL‹[PJRL[^LIJV\R‹ ‹PHTRSVV[JVT   The Method and Fine Union. The ‘adult’ Open, also at Pegasus, will be on Friday 21 June. they are currently seeking sports- Artists interested in appearing should send demos, links, or MP3s to [email protected] by 5L^HSI\T  V\[UV^ loving writers and photographers Tuesday 30 April. Last year’s winner was Duotone and previous years have seen the likes of to cover local sporting events. Listing Ships, Jess Hall, Seabuckthorn and Flights of Helios appear. Email [email protected]

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4 / OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 DESIGNED BY NINETEENPOINT: WWW.NINETEENPOINT.COM PREVIEW FEATURES exhibition at truck store “honestly, if any band who reads this article leo bowder previews local illustrator wants to know how not to make an album, jon mackay’s exhibition come and see us!” – olly wills A local rock artist, poster, to know Ben from the Cribs as they have the Daughter had a very flyer and T-shirt designer; Cornershop and after a same manager. This also specific brief of ‘Germanic n a darkened North Jon MacKay’s worked for few conversations I made gave me a good developing Landscapes’ which makes IOxford bar, the red the Vaccines, the Cribs, them a poster for their gig CV so bands such as Bloc it a bit more challenging, recording light on the Rough Trade Records, I Am at Wychwood Festival. He Party were more willing to but really enjoyable. It’s the Zoom H4n™ was flashing, Kloot, Amy MacDonald now works in PR for work with me. I started with interesting work but not but on screen the numbers and Daughter amongst Rough Trade Records and local bands but then I learnt everything I do comes off. weren’t moving. I had just many others. He also does gave me a few contacts, actually I can be cheeky I pitched for the recent put in a new 16 gig sound private commissions, is a one of them being Howler. with this. You can find Muse tour for t-shirts and card. It made no sense. part time teacher and a rock I came up with some ideas anybody’s email address. posters. Sadly I didn’t get epstein Olly Wills, from stalwart photographer. Wow. How for them off my own back Actually, that sounds kind it, but it was great to have Oxford combo The did he get into that life? which they liked and went of stalker-ish!” he chuckles. the chance to submit for it’s been a stone roses-esque Epstein, seemed to grasp Jon: “I got started on to do really well with Possibly a little, but you them. Hopefully things will four long years since the that something was amiss. making posters for bands them. They spent some have to try. How do you get keep developing on from (Again, for OMS had had a as I used to do the artwork time on tour with the the ideas for your images? here.” Indeed. epstein unleashed their debut similar technical for the Wychwood festival Vaccines who got to see my Jon: “I listen to the band’s album last of the charanguistas . malfunction – running out (in Cheltenham). As an work, so I did a submission music and try to pick out Check out his collection 2013 sees the oxford alt/folk/ of ammo – after their extra for their for them and they chose possible overall themes as part of ArtWeeks on triumphant performance at merchandising I made a one of my designs. Things coming across or I may 4–12 May at Truck Store country rockers unveil its follow- St John’s before screen printed poster each snowballed from there listen to specific lyrics on Cowley Road. Website up murmurations – what took so Christmas). With a raising year. Through my really; I got more work within the album. The is www.jonmackay.co.uk of the eyebrows, a sip of photography contacts I got with the Vaccines and then work that I’ve just done for long? leo bowder finds out… lager and an easy smile, 6 / OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 DESIGNED BY NINETEENPOINT: WWW.NINETEENPOINT.COM SEE BACK ISSUES AT WWW.OXFORDMUSICSCENE.CO.UK OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 / 7 FEATURES FEATURES he swiftly drew his be… good microphones BlackBerry™ and started when recording, good recording his answer to my drummer – from the very question. start – and when “For the majority of recording, focus on getting Epstein songs, it’ll start something done, like an EP with myself getting a if you’re starting out, or an melody and chord album. But have a product structure in place in a for people. We played for a singer/song writer kind of couple of years without way – which is where I having anything to give come from. Then I’ll give people, it was ridiculous! it to Jon [Berry, On top of that, email atmospheric guitarist lists – whenever you play, extraordinaire] and he’ll collect emails.” start to get the guitar lines, Olly keeps what he has which are an essential part by giving it away in hosting of the songs, and we’ll edit a circle. “In it a bit and take it to Seb November we did a night [Reynolds, keyboards and at the Port Mahon, myself genius sound effects) and and Dava from Swindlestock the rest of the guys.” Ah and Ags Connolly, a local yes, The Rest. There’s country singer. We’re going been a fair few personnel to have a night like that in changes over the years, we March and continue every note. The Epstein seem to couple of months. The have got through an almost idea is we try and make it Spinal Tap-esque amount as intimate as possible. We of drummers… talk about the song – how “Yeah! Absolutely, but it was written, what the no-one exploded… On this inspiration was like behind album, Murmurations , it’s it. On from there, we predominately Jon and discuss all that stuff about myself who’d have an recording – what’s the best influence on the songs. On way of approaching trying the next album we’ll be to get the music out there…” working more with Seb in And with that, the the writing.” We talk about official interview is over. the current musical album has been the polar that – we’d been doing a [just] take it into a studio Thankfully, then, the process of beginning to Finally I ask Olly about But, as always in this game, climate. “Everyone knows opposite of how you lot of touring in Europe. and start mixing.’ sound of the new album book a very busy summer the band’s place in the the best stuff happens after the state of the music should record an album. We recorded in recording Easy for you to say, Olly. will be similar to previous “We’ll be out and about in local musical landscape, the little red light goes out. industry now, HMV is You start in one place, you studios in Germany, in The Epstein’s was the first offerings, but with less the UK and in Europe and what elder statesman Olly talks about his life, his struggling, fewer people end up in another, you run Amsterdam, and for the gig I ever reviewed, back in banjo, apparently. And [where they are perennially type advice he might give interest in American are buying music. With this out of money, you lose a most part we recorded in Autumn 2008 upstairs at Bob Dylan remains “a popular] from when the to aspiring tunesmiths. literature, of their fans – deal [with label PIAS, as in couple of members, you London, in Truck, at the Crown House Pool constant source of album comes out; late “We’ve been busy for ‘Whisperin’ Bob Harris Play it Again Sam] they start again… Honestly, if home. The amazing thing Club. I noted then that inspiration [with Him] you March, early April. about five or six years – and Huw Stephens – and release this, see how it any band who reads this about technology is you they managed to sound can’t really go wrong [for We’re releasing ‘I Held bands always take a while more about the ever goes, and get first dibs on article wants to know how can do a lot on the hoof. both classic and ‘now’. evidence just listen to You Once’ in Europe to get going, but we changing face of the the next album, which not to make an album, The essential thing you There’s is a rich and Dylan’s ‘Tombstone Blues’ [it has already come out certainly feel part of the Industry and Oxford’s we’re already six or seven come and see us! Although need for recording DIY is soulful mixture of folk, and the Epstein’s ‘Black here as an EP]. There’s local scene. It’s a really music scene; a place vastly songs into. This album was we’re happy with the end a decent microphone. If blues, country, bluegrass, Dog’ back to back.] Him ‘Calling Out Your Name’ great town for music. It’s enriched by their presence. recorded in five or six result, it’s been very you have that and a decent Americana and indie that and Leonard Cohen.” and ‘Morning News’ going on seven days a week, The Epstein abides, different places; in fact the stressful. There’s been all program on your also manages to transcend And in regards to life on which are both big tunes. every week of the year. My pilgrims – catch ‘em out on nature of recording this sorts of factors that led to computer, then you can the sum of its parts. The Road, they are in the We think…” pearls of wisdom would the trail real soon. 8 / OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 DESIGNED BY NINETEENPOINT: WWW.NINETEENPOINT.COM SEE BACK ISSUES AT WWW.OXFORDMUSICSCENE.CO.UK OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 / 9 FEATURES Live music what’s in your record collection? 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with vinyl. When I started LG: Early on, I was mad I love it when music captures Thurs 7TH MARCH buying music, CDs were keen on 50s and 60s music. Where do you buy stuff? a moment of history. just taking over from I remember going to DG: Being the hermit I am AS ELEPHANTS ARE + BLACK cassettes, and my geek Woolworths in Witney and I prefer everything to be Current favourite gene has always been spending my first ever posted to my door, so it’s travelling song? SANDS + COASTAL CITIES + OMEGA expended on non-music pocket money on mostly online. But DG: ‘Skyfall’ by Adele. stuff. So it’s CDs, not least Rock‘n’Roll is Here to Stay – answering this question It makes my Honda Civic because whenever I buy an A Compilation of 40 Hits . has shamed me into feel like an Aston Martin.

CHARLIE MP3 I manage to mislay it I listened to it on repeat action – I shall start LG: I move slowly, so (THE BEST OF WYCOMBE BANDS, FREE FOR BNU STUDENTS, £5 PUBLIC, DOORS 8PM) somehow. for about a year and still supporting my local record ‘Silver Soul’ by Beach LG: A mixture. I buy CDs remember every lyric. shop more, promise. House. Sat 9TH MARCH less, and vinyl more these LG: Charity shops, Truck UNISEX PRESENTS days. I think searching for …and the most recent? Store and iTunes. Where do you find out vinyl appeals to my inner DG: Bish Bosch by Scott about new music? Favourite album or JAKWOB + GUESTS (FREE FOR BNU STUDENTS, £7 ADV TICKETS, DOORS 10PM, 18+) “treasure hunter”. Walker. I’ve listened to it DG: I’m so tied up in local about 100 times and it still song ever? music I often find the rest What was the first record hasn’t grown on me. I like DG: The Beatles win passes me by if I don’t pay Mon 21ST MARCH you bought? to listen to it in the car to both of these: The attention to late night radio DG: Guns N’ Roses Use wind myself up. White Album, and or what my friends are PAMA INTERNATIONAL + GUESTS Your Illusion II . I was rather LG: I’ve just bought the ‘Strawberry Fields saying. (FREE FOR ALL, DOORS 8PM 18+) pleased to find it was a lot new Yo La Tengo album. Forever’. Liz can’t stand LG: Pitchfork, Line of Best better than Use Your Illusion I haven’t listened yet, but The Beatles though. Fit and other such forums, I, which my mate had. I I’m a fan so I’m sure I’ll LG: The version of ‘Pale (Continues over) Tues 7TH MAY THE COMPUTERS + GUESTS (FREE FOR BUCKS STUDENTS, £6 ADV GENERAL PUBLIC, 18+)

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Cerys Mathews and Giles download and charity fireworks in the sky / anything by her big sister. M Peterson make things easy. track they’ve released Sparkling like dragonflies.” haphazardly in the LG: Radiohead – What would be / was What do you think is the years since. ‘Paranoid Android’: the first dance at your best Oxford record – oldie LG: The Velvet “When I am king you will wedding (and the last and new? Underground. be first against the wall, record?) DG: I Should Coco by with your opinion which is DG: ‘Bish Bosch’ by is an out and Favourite cover version? of no consequence at all”. Scott Walker. out masterpiece. And I’m DG: A version of David It’s what I mutter under my LG: No comment – I really enjoying the new Bowie’s ‘Modern Love’ by breath when Dave disagrees don’t want to scare my Stornoway album. The Last Town Chorus. with something I say! boyfriend off. LG: Radiohead ‘Fake It’s sort of a gentle and tu Plastic Trees’ and Salvation wistful version with a Favourite current pop ne in to bbc oxford introducin Bill ‘The Grifter’. country-style slide guitar. It songs? g for all the latest on oxford music made me reassess the song DG: Practically anything every sunday, 9– 1 What’s your favourite 0 pm on and its lyrics. Katy Perry does makes me 95.2fm or online at Oxford band at the LG: Kurt Vile’s cover of happy. bbc.co.uk/oxford moment? ‘Downbound Train’ by LG: ‘Losing You’ by DG: Wild Swim. Bruce Springsteen. LG: Beta Blocker & The Body Clock. Who is your favourite ? Best gig you’ve ever been DG: Nigel Godrich GENERAL ROOTS to in Oxford? (Radiohead) probably, DG: Little Fish at The almost any project he turns Punt in 2008, Stornoway his hand to is interesting. general roots at the Sheldonian in 2009, Apart from that Travis the cellar, london Fixers at Equitruck in album. 2011, or every single time LG: Sam Phillips. He was In the slightly cramped stock room and before their debut Cellar better], and it’s the same live – if you go to the O2 area and pay gig in Oxford, OMS gets down with General Roots’ lead vocalist £50 a ticket, £5 a pint an you’re sitting a mile away from the I’ve seen The Original doing in the 50s what Field Marshall Fred and guitarist Joe Price, ‘comin’ straight from arena… We want you to be next to the sound system and you can Rabbit Foot Spasm Band. Introducing does now, Norf London town’ as they put it. GR have the twin vocalist smell each other, and feel the vibe innit… I’m not saying I’m into The BBC Introducing giving a platform to people approach of many classic mixed heritage British roots conscious smelling people (laughs)”. Naturally. So what’s next? stage at Truck in 2010 was who wouldn’t otherwise be groups from the Specials, and the Beat, through to the Streets, G.R: “We’ve got a few festivals this year – Boom Town, Secret pretty legendary too. able to get their music Laid Blak and Gentleman’s Dub Club who they have played with. Garden Party, we’re gonna launch an attack on Glastonbury. We’re LG: My first, and best ever, heard. Plus he made Elvis Field Marshall Fred (‘my face is white but my heart is dread’) and thinking of doing a single next and then an album after that. For gig was Radiohead in sound awesome, and no his, possibly Jamaican, sidekick the Minister (don’t call him now we’re promoting the new EP (‘The First Attack’, number three South Park. It was the eve one could tell how. sinister; I did and he wouldn’t let me forget it throughout the in the iTunes reggae chart – hard copies on demand from of my 14th Birthday and show…) lead from the front, bouncing off each other, providing www.generalroots.com). We’re always gigging, we did 55 gigs last the vocal vibes. The sound is familiar, yet fresh – a lively mashup year. We’ve got a red GR mobile and she’s a fragile little thing but my Dad took me. Favourite lyric? of dub, reggae, and dancehall with touches of rock, soul and she gets us from A to B. She trundles on…” DG: I think one of the drum’n’bass. They had a fairly hectic schedule last year, playing And with that they’re out of the cramped Cellar store-room and Which artist do you own most romantic lines I’ve everything from the Outlook festival in Croatia, a DJ set on a boat onto the stage. OMS takes its place, next to the speakers, gets a everything of? ever heard is in with Channel One, to the Boom Town festival. healthy noseful of the crowd and skanks out to the best live DG: Probably Radiohead, ‘Presidential Suite’ by the GR: “It sounds ridiculous but we love everything to be as rootical sounds norf of the Thames. The first attack is underway, right from the wonderful Super Furry Animals: D.I.Y as possible. Not clean. If you can stick to analogue stuff [it’s people – so you best be signing up for the General Roots army. (LB) 12 / OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 DESIGNED BY NINETEENPOINT: WWW.NINETEENPOINT.COM SEE BACK ISSUES AT WWW.OXFORDMUSICSCENE.CO.UK OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 / 13 REVIEWS REVIEWS live n n a M a c i s s e J

gappy tooth industries the wheatsheaf, oxford Gappy Tooth Industries have been promoting fresh musical talent Ableton-controlled midi device is never a visual feast for in Oxford for over ten years now, and this month’s line-up was as an audience! eclectic as you could hope for. Last Night’s Victory offered a melting pot of ideas – Dropping us gently into the evening were French pop-rock duo Pendulum-inspired synth and vocal melodies? Check. Dubstep Ya Ok Yeah, mixing punk attitudes with electro drum samples and wob wob squelches? Sum 41/skater rock guitar bits? Check and PJ-Harvey-esque vocals. Their 20 minute set flew by rather too check. My main problem was that this approach produced an quickly, and they proved a real treat for those who turned up early. identity crisis more than a cohesive vision. THE ORIGINAL RABBIT FOOT SPASM BAND A decent crowd had assembled for After The Thought, who The venue is quite rightly packed out for Flights of Helios, who are performed a real mixture of electronic sounds ranging from nothing short of spectacular. Their unique vision of cosmic folk and F#?k Buttons – style layered drones, early Orbital-ish poppy shoegaze made for a captivating and cohesive set, aided by the techno trance, and minimal ambient-dub movements. As fact that they seemed completely focused on their art (be it free-form the original rabbit foot spasm band a one-man band, he controlled the multiple layers of noise drumming, droning guitar layers or electronic swathes of sound). cider launch, the big bang restaurant, oxford really well, and the tracks utilizing live guitar and multi- The projections of solar flares, orbiting moons and eclipsing planets pedal trickery proved to be the highlights. However, no are the perfect backdrop and, almost, manage to make you forget Formerly of Walton Street in Jericho and now at a shiny new home ‘Cornish Riviera Express’ from their 2011 album Year of the matter how good the sounds he produced, twiddling buttons on an you’re in a sweaty rock pub on a cold and wet winter’s evening. (AF) in Oxford Castle, The Big Bang is an independent sausage Rabbit . New tracks lifted from forthcoming album Badger Parade restaurant that Oxford should be proud of, admirably striving to are road-tested and sit well with existing live favourites like serve “food sourced from within 20 miles”. There are local drinks ‘Pirates!’ and ‘Shanghai Fanny’. jd mcpherson aplenty too; with Compass Brewery (Carterton) and of course the The band look like they are having great fun and play for the bullingdon, oxford Cotswold Cider Company (Coleshill) who have brewed up The well over 90 minutes – dancing at the tables becomes Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band Cider for this evening’s launch. compulsory, and an appreciative crowd cheer on as staff Touring Europe and playing only five UK dates, the Oklahoma born time in Oxford as ‘awesome’) – as we were taken through raw The restaurant is full, tickets completely sold out – and attempt to continue serving food and drinks. As a homegrown rocker, based in Chicago with Hi Style Records, is in high demand, blues, funky gospel, country hoe down and Stax-like pop tunes support act Swindlestock are setting up. We manage to grab a Oxford collective, the ORFSB really know how to get the and he did not disappoint the 300 slicked back fans squeezed from a soulful world of humour and style. table in the corner and are soon tucking into our delicious Oxford party started, their unique take on jazz and Head Rabbit in tonight. Amongst the country boys and north side girls in the audience Sausages, mash and veg – we cheekily found that the best way Stuart Macbeth’s gravelly croonings are almost impossible If you are a fan of experimental, new age progressive sounds, then (yes, that is the official fan club for JD) were our favourite, local, to beat the ever growing queue at the bar was to get table to resist. There are a few puzzled looks between the band as in the words of my dear friend Mick “head” Ginger you should “jog on busking, rockabilly family Josie & the Outlaw who declared the service! The rather tasty and potent cider begins to flow and new tracks are rolled out (we’re told that some of them haven’t sunshine, this is not for you.” If, however, you have heard the infectious show “inspirational”… and we wholeheartedly agree. Swindlestock’s own brand of mellow country blues sweetly even heard some of the material let alone rehearsed it) but it’s single ‘North Side Gal’, you are probably still singing it in your shower They may lack the beauty and polish of Imelda Mae or the serenades us throughout a half hour set which goes down just as part and parcel of their punky spirit that they can shrug, wing it, and tapping parts of your body to it at every given opportunity. balls-out, ripping-off-the-roof aggression of the Jim Jones Revue, well as the sausages do. and carry on. Although JD was suffering from a cold, he soldiered through a but you’ll be hard pushed to find a band who are more down with The bar and dancefloor is buzzing by the time all seven Even with a makeshift venue and a load of unfamiliar material, set that’s not short on energy – able assistance, vocally, came the true spirit of rock n roll and rhythm and blues than the members of The ORFSB assemble and they get stuck straight into the Rabbits still bring the house down. (AF) from bass player/producer Jimmy Sutton (who described his first JD McPherson Band are. (JS) 14 / OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 DESIGNED BY NINETEENPOINT: WWW.NINETEENPOINT.COM SEE BACK ISSUES AT WWW.OXFORDMUSICSCENE.CO.UK OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 / 15 REVIEWS REVIEWS live r e d w o B o e L s h p a r g o t o h p l l A

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stornoway town hall, oxford Oxford’s love affair with local legends Stornoway seems Then, upon a darkened stage, violin player Suzie sets the mood Road’, ’Fuel Up’, and a glorious ‘Zorbing’ which gets them dancing ‘Watching Birds’ complete with its new, Johnny Cash-style fairly solid, so it seems right they play here on Valentine’s Day. as Stornoway wander casually on, beer bottles in hand – (perhaps it is right they don’t do ‘Unfaithful’, given what day it is). middle eight. Opening up the show amid the grandeur of the Town Hall are relaxed formality being an inherent part of their charm – to open And then they are up to the balcony for a spine-tingling, Tonight is the front end of a tour which takes them everywhere local moody maestros Spring Offensive. Theirs is a Big Sound with new single ‘Knock Me on the Head’. Their set is an assured unplugged, rendition of ‘Ones We Hurt the Most’. They return from Liverpool to Leamington Spa and on the strength of this and none of the intricate subtleties of the arrangements combination of old and new. From new long player Tales from to the stage – via Jon’s Phantom of the Opera moment at the performance, we can’t help but think that the rest of the are lost in the cavernous hall. Their songs are perhaps not Terra Firma : ‘The Bigger Picture’, ‘(A Belated) Invite to Eternity’, Town Hall’s grand, built in, organ, and Rob’s elongated drum country have some very special nights coming up. Mumford and as romantic as the occasion might demand. “Are there any an atmospheric ‘Farewell Appalachia’ and Brian gets the stage solo – for the bouncing ’I Saw You Blink’, the New Orleans Sons may be picking up the Grammy awards, Fun. and Bombay couples here tonight?” frontman Lucas asks, to a rousing to himself for a stunning ‘November Song’. It’s just his crystalline jazz-influenced ‘The Great Procrastinator’ (a song which the Bicycle Club hogging the airwaves, but Stornoway keep quietly cheer. “Well done…” is the caustic response. Singleton voice, one of his wall of acoustic guitars and a hushed hall. cynic in us thinks may be a good song for the end of a improving at their craft, so they ought to keep looking over their solidarity, brother. From their debut Beachcomber’s Windowsill , there’s ‘Cold Harbour Muppets movie) to end with a humungous, rousing, shoulders. (LB/SG) 16 / OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 DESIGNED BY NINETEENPOINT: WWW.NINETEENPOINT.COM SEE BACK ISSUES AT WWW.OXFORDMUSICSCENE.CO.UK OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 / 17 BUSINESS FEATURES D s l u a n

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for a number of years but acoustics keeps me on my C been working as Neume toes. Also, you can capture Audio for three years. a more energetic sound Professional multi-track Recording Studio when a band performs in a What’s your favourite bit with large Live Room (45 Sq. Mtrs) familiar space. From £125 per day of equipment you’ve got? 3 Rehearsal Rooms, all backline, P.A., Tim: Not exactly rare or How do costs compare? Tuned piano inc. From £10 per hour unique but I have a Well, I don’t have the matched pair of Rode overheads a studio would SUSY HAINES 07823 770079 NT5 pencil condensers have which means I can be that have a great sound more flexible on price. and are really versatile. Any favourite local bands? What else do you use Gunning for Tamar are that’s crucial for mobile doing good things. All recording? round lovely chaps as well. Probably my interface. I use a MOTU 896. It’s Any particular moments of portable but has some nice creativity / inspiration that pre-amps on all the inputs. have happened when you were recording someone? What’s the best track / Working in different spaces album / gig that you’ve means you can play recorded? for web-based creative mountains in France. It’s around and use the space It’s hard to say. I enjoy commons label Records an amazing space in really to create different sounds. working on pretty much On Ribs. England Without peaceful surroundings. I was recording Spring anything. However some Rain by Talk Less, Say Offensive in a big old projects are easier to listen More, was named net-label Mobile vs. studio, what’s house and we placed some to than others! release of the year in 2012. best in terms of getting microphones in different a performance/best rooms to try and capture Has any of the music that What’s the most unusual ambience? the sound of the house a SMKNG you’ve recorded been place you’ve recorded? I don’t think that one bit more. Doesn’t always VIDEO PRODUCTION released? I recorded The Old method is better than the work though. I’ve worked on tracks that Grinding Young before the other – they both have LIVE FOOTAGE have been released on band sadly split up. We their merits. I prefer to website: MUSIC VIDEOS www.neumea compilations from went to a barn in Wheatley work on location for a few udio.com DOCUMENTARIES Alcopop! and Big Scary that was built to house reasons. The main reason telephone: Monsters. I also work with giant pieces of wood from is that I don’t have one 07919 400527 www.smkng.co.uk · [email protected] a few artists on the roster trees that grow on space that I always record 18 / OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / MARCH 2013 DESIGNED BY NINETEENPOINT: WWW.NINETEENPOINT.COM REVIEWS REVIEWS local releases Selected releases available at

foals stornoway holy fire (transgressive) tales from terra firma () I’d heard a lot about this record before I actually heard any of Listening to Tales from Terra Firma feels like meeting an old it and had done my best to avoid the two singles so I could friend from years ago and noticing both what’s changed and hear the record as a whole. However, the near blanket use of what’s stayed the same. Like any such occasion, it’s a ‘My Number’ on the BBC’s coverage of the rugby and its fascinating and emotional experience. subsequent airing at various Oxford nightspots meant that We’re clearly dealing with the same band here. Brian was an impossible task. I wasn’t a big fan of 2010’s Total Life Briggs’s sweetly soft lyrics tell of poetic inspiration received Forever – preferring instead the more angular and Battles- whilst traversing the tarmac (‘as I was following the road back influenced pop of 2008’s Antidotes . It’s fair to say my interest to our house/deeper than blue was the dusk through the trees); in Foals has waned somewhat since then – I missed the happiness and reflection remain neighbours as lively, optimistic unpredictability of tracks like ‘Tron’ and so was hoping that numbers like ‘The Bigger Picture’ sit alongside deeply affecting Holy Fire was a return to old ways. meditations such as ‘(A Belated) Invite To Eternity’. But as you It turns out it’s not at all – it’s a continuation of the look into the eyes of this former acquaintance and hear of the direction taken on TLF – but, to their credit, a much more tales they have to tell, changes begin surfacing. refined take on it all. There’s no Killers-lite (‘This Orient’) and ‘You Take Me As I Am’, for example, doesn’t open the record (sadly) nothing quite as emotionally profound as ‘Spanish quite as arrestingly as ‘Zorbing’ did but makes the latter, Sahara’, although there are a couple of curveballs and mis-steps. even with its trumpet solo, sound restrained compared to For the most part, it’s a bloody good album. The snippets of Lead single ‘Inhaler’, however, with a lead riff recalling Tom the cascade of instrumental backing that’s whipped up here. the penultimate track with all the devastating force of a ‘My Number’ that I hadn’t managed to avoid pointed towards Morello at his most Audioslave, simply doesn’t fit on the This immediately suggests that where they were once painful truth learnt at a high price. It’s all testament to something like Eno-era Talking Heads – and the full song record. Whereas on TLF ‘Spanish Sahara’ was the elephant in eager to please and, perhaps, nervous, the band are now the sense that Stornoway have grown into observers who doesn’t disappoint. It’s a track constructed from the bottom the room, its atmospherics helped it melt into the general self-assured and keen to experiment. ‘Farewell Appalachia’ have found that ‘higher ground’ and achieved a vantage point up, with real drive coming from Jack Bevan’s ever-impressive mood of the record. Here, ‘Inhaler’ sits on its own at the front follows and, with its tremulous mandolins and echoic from which they can deliver records of a depth and range drumming. As if to enforce this, the record opens with an intro of end of the album and sticks out like a sore thumb. Similarly backdrop, sounds older; as the lyrics travel through carpets that wasn’t obviously apparent from Beachcomber’s . The sorts – ‘Prelude’, which seems like a lost cut from the classic Eno/ ‘Providence’ strikes out on its own, structured similarly to TLF of leaves, past rushing rivers, Briggs sings that ‘I’m walking exuberance has softened slightly; the sadness, too, doesn’t Byrne loops and samples record My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts . opener ‘Blue Blood’ – with an emphasis on a mantra-like vocal on a path to higher ground’, and the impression is strong feel quite as indulgent. Joy and heartbreak no longer fill the The middle of the album is where it all comes together – line but without any of the emotional resonance. that a level of experience is present here that wasn’t entirety of the frame as they once might have done. But that’s ‘Milk and Black Spiders’ makes more use of clever loops and If ‘Inhaler’ was a poor choice to start with, at least they got the discernible before. the point. Stornoway have grown older: they’ve seen more of interesting percussion, with Yannis’ intriguing caterwauls just end right. ‘Moon’ is an exceptional closer with guitar harmonics And so it continues. A seasoned, jazzy clarinet opens the what the world dishes out and have recorded their findings on stopping short of distorting. The overriding mood of this woven into synth flashes and the reverb of Yannis’ voice. The jaunty ‘Great Procrastinator’, as the powerful and moving a record that’s rich in experience, emotion and the fun to be middle section is reminiscent of the moodier older material – space between notes is the most important thing – and it displays refrains of ‘The Ones We Hurt The Most’ lie waiting on had despite it all. (RM) think ‘Olympic Airways’ and ‘Electric Bloom’, but with a whole a restraint that hasn’t been apparent in any of Foals’ previous lot more funk. ‘Late Night’ is given life by a bass groove around work – there’s always been the temptation to build tension and which a splendid guitar line coils until it breaks into a explode, but here they drift out with a whisper. It’s a strong restrained but euphoric climax. album – and should see their star rise even further. (UL) co-pilgrim to be washed away by the palliative wave of the dream-like a fairer sea (battle wordlwide) chorus. There remain touches of the sombre sort here, for sure; dallas don’t features a nice call-and- From darkness does, indeed, come light as Co-pilgrim return ‘Roslindale’ swaggers with response chorus from singers with an immaculate album, imbued with a radiance and threatening aplomb, brandishing retrace this place Niall and Jen) and ‘Screaming at levity that may surprise listeners familiar with debut LP, Pucker twanging guitars as it the Sea’, but the EP is incredibly Up Buttercup . At times gentle, then rousing, it’s deliciously auditions for the next Tarantino Dallas Don’t are a canny bunch whose two existing demos focused and cohesive. The band listenable throughout and feels like Mike Gale has flung back soundtrack, while ‘Now You’re have helped make a good impression for the band locally – have also managed to write one the thick curtain from the studio window, letting the sunlight Here’ is a beautiful love song that’s both melancholy ‘Retrace This Place’ is a confident progression; the overall of the most feel-good songs ever illuminate the production. It’s a scarcely believable surprise and sweetly affectionate. Even these darker points feel gilt- songwriting and craftsmanship is stronger and tighter. Of written about witches being to hear numbers like ‘Sialo’, with its Beach Boys-esque edged, though, and contribute subtleties of shade to what is course, you can still hear the ol’ Idlewild and Mclusky influences killed (‘The Witches Stone’) layering of harmonies and swirls of sea-breeze or ‘I’m Going to a welcome return by the Pilgrim and an excellent second creeping in on tracks like the rolicking ‘Solution’ (which which has to be some kind of achievement. Excellent EP. (TM) the Country’, in which the gloom threatens to pour forth, only album. (RM)

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gunning for tamar Tamar have always had an incredible knack for making camera lucida ep (alcopop!) complicated ideas sound simple by infusing them with melody From the opening chiming piano notes of ‘Camera Lucida’, it's and ‘Camera Lucida’ is a crystal clear that Gunning for Tamar mean business. Firstly, veritable bag of tricks; changing this is their best-sounding recording by a country mile… and time signatures and huge that’s certainly saying something – when the chunky guitars emotive choruses. On their last kick in on opening track ‘Yogging’ it will actually take you by EP Gunning for Tamar time surprise how heavy they sound, and in every other sense you travelled; this EP is a snapshot of a band on better form than can hear the care that has gone into craft this EP. Gunning for ever before, with absolutely everything going for them. (TM)

the scholars sort of a way. Look… there’s nothing wrong with the song love the thunder particularly – it’s got decent momentum, the production is NICE The Scholars have been knocking around Oxford for a good few (kudos to the band for recording years now, and they’ve slimmed down to a three-piece for their the whole thing live, too…), and latest single ‘Love the Thunder’, which is available for free it’s hard to fault The Scholars’ download from the band’s Bandcamp. The track’s title has more ambition. It’s just that once you in common with an Xbox shooter than an anthem, remove the all-too-clear skimming but it does give a sense of the stadium-sized bombast that they’re from Interpol and The National, and then get past the un-nimble, aiming for as it skulks along in a hollow, black-shirted, art-rock formulaic lyrics, there’s not a whole lot left to pick at. (DP)

grudle bay that the lyrics are kind of throw - away, it works wonderfully, the running chorus of voices merely providing melody and counter-rhythm to I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Abingdon electronic duo the driving kick-drum and generic Grudle Bay, having thoroughly enjoyed their early material disco bassline at the heart of the whilst loathing moments on their more recent releases. Much song. It’s not often that you can to my delight, ‘Running’ is exactly the kind of airy, carefree, call a track ‘mindless’ and mean white-boy funk that my frontal lobe seems to crave, combining it as a compliment but this is as it does all the most joyous elements of 80s new wave, Daft truly the kind of song you can get lost inside of if you just allow Punk and Air into an intoxicating five minute chunk. Even the fact its glacial elegance to wash over you. (TM)

international jetsetters which really just sounds like a daytime TV theme tune. Things california ep gradually pick up as the EP goes LITTLE COMETS on as ‘Painter’ injects a bit of PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS International Jetsetters are a bit of a below-the-radar Oxford gazey psych into proceedings ‘supergroup’, featuring, as they do, members of Ride and The (complete with 60s handclaps), SUNDAY 14th APRIL Jesus and Mary Chain. Their California EP carries definite but it’s the last half of the record echoes of this indie ancestry (but, perhaps, with a slightly where things really get going. O2 ACADEMY OXFORD sunnier disposition), offering up four tracks of power-pop ‘Not About You’ loads up on fuzzy BOX OFFICE: 0844 477 2000 which wouldn’t have been out of place somewhere in the early- energy and revels in its ooh-la-la backing, and EP closer ‘Get BUY ONLINE: WWW.TICKETWEB.CO.UK mid 90s. It’s a pretty mixed bag overall, and it’s actually the the Call’ crackles and builds nicely to a shimmering three- WWW.LITTLECOMETS.COM opener and title track which is the least effective, as singer Fi guitar climax. You can download it on an ‘honesty box’ AN ACADEMY EVENTS PRESENTATION BY ARRANGMENT WITH ITB McFall moans about the drab English summer over a song arrangement from their Bandcamp site. Decent. (DP)

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