email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 196 November Oxford’s Music Magazine 2011 DeadDeadDead JerichosJerichosJerichos Brewing up a storm Inside this issue: Introducing LISTING SHIPS FRANK FISH & THE FINS remembered ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR released TRUCK STORE stays put WINCHELL RIOTS split plus SEVEN PAGES OF LOCAL GIGS photo: Sonny Malhotra 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 STORE is staying put for the foreseeable future. Having reported last month that it was due to up sticks from its Cowley Road home and reopen in Gloucester Green, owners Rapture have had a change of heart. Explaining the decision to stay put, manager Carl Smithson posted the following ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR gets its official release this month. The statement on the shop’s Facebook film, produced and directed by Jon Spira (pictured) tells the story of Oxford’s WINCHELL RIOTS have split up. page: “It’s been something of a music scene from the early-1980s through to 2007 and the closure of the The local indie rock faves issued a rollercoaster few weeks here at Zodiac and features interviews with Ride, Radiohead, Supergrass and Foals statement through the band’s website Truck Store with lots of statements along with members of other Oxford bands and characters who helped create where singer Phil McMinn explained and press going out giving the local scene over the years. Comedian Stewart Lee narrates the story. the decision to fold the band: “After conflicting messages about the future ACPG is released on DVD on November 3rd and will be available exclusively five years playing together, The of the store. So here’s the story through the film website www.acpgthemovie.com and at Truck Store on Winchell Riots are no more. The about what’s gone down… we had a Cowley Road. It will come as a two-DVD set, although anyone who has Winchell Riots started as an deal 99% settled for a store in helped fund the making of the film through Indiegogo will receive a special immediate reaction to myself and Gloucester Green in mid-September, 3-DVD box set. James’s last band, Fell City Girl, and prematurely announced the Additionally ACPG is set to get a special launch screening at the National splitting up. After such a weird move from Cowley Road – but that Film Theatre on Friday 4th November, which will be introduced by Adam situation, we set out with the deal fell through. Bad move! Buxton and is followed by a question and answer session with Ride’s Mark mentality of doing things exactly Another company were set to take Gardener, Gaz Coombes from Supergrass, Colin Greenwood and Ed O’Brien the way we wanted to. This meant over the lease on 101 Cowley Road. from Radiohead and Jon Spira. The NFT screening is already sold out but setting up our own label, with our So we had a closing down sale and a ACPG will be screened at the Phoenix Picturehouse on Walton Street on own choice of producers, our own closing down party and had been Tuesday 15th November, followed by a Q&A with Mark Gardener. artwork, our own money. The running stock low. We’ve now found Four years in the making, and completely financed by Jon himself and upsides to this were immense: out that we are able to stay at 101 donations via the Indigogo site, Anyone Can Play Guitar has been a labour working with such jaw-droppingly Cowley Road for the next couple of of love for Spira, who was interviewed about the film in Nightshift last talented people on the music and months at least and so are pleased to October. On the eve of the movie’s official release, he spoke to us again to art, packing our stuff into the van announce we’re no longer closing reveal the struggle to get it made and keep the entire project independent. and going wherever we wanted, down.” “It’s been an uphill struggle to get the film released. Identifying, negotiating looking out over any one of the Having already hosted a closing and affording music and footage clearances has been an absolute nightmare crowds we played to over the years down party with local bands playing but thanks to my producer Hank Starrs’ hard work and spirit we’ve got and knowing it was us and us only in-store, Truck subsequently held a through it. We’re self-releasing the DVD because, well, we’ve got this far on that got us there, and most Not Closing Down party in the shop, our own, so we’re not prepared to hand over the reigns to a distributor with importantly overseeing our music featuring sets from Little Fish, the current state of the indie film market. It’s been passion, hard work and from inception, to recording, onto Alphabet Backwards and The Cellar naivety that have got us this far and I think those things will serve us well to printing it up on vinyl, and finally Family, among others. actually get it out there. I really hope that Nightshift’s readership get behind sending it out, envelope by Here at Nightshift we’re keen to it and, even if they don’t buy it, if they were to Tweet, Facebook, or just tell envelope, into the world. We have remind everyone that great people who might like it about it they’d be actively helping the project and always been aware that our ‘success’ independent stores like Truck can that’d be a greatly appreciated thing! has been a relative one, but to us we only continue to exist if people use “The general reaction to the film has been really positive. I think people did more than we ever expected to them. The alternative don’t bear have been surprised by it insofar as they were maybe expecting a jolly romp do, and that’s good enough for us. thinking about. through Oxford music history. The film itself, although very Oxford music- We’ve only ever had ourselves to y and occasionally romp-y is a bit more thoughtful than that and as much blame, and that’s a feeling I am TASTE MY EYES will play a final about the realities of the music industry and success and failure as it is about immensely proud of. show this month before going their its subject matter. So, it’s probably a slightly darker film than people might “Being in a band of our size over separate ways. The metalcore have expected but, I think, a slightly better one, too. Critically it’s doing the last few years has been favourites are splitting up as well and we were stunned when the British Film Institute asked to showcase increasingly difficult to sustain - frontman Ben Hollyer wants to it for its first public screening, at the NFT in London. We’ve all just got our financially, logistically, emotionally spend more time with his new baby. fingers crossed at the moment.” and mentally. It is these last two The band will play at Skeletor To find out more about Anyone Can Play Guitar, or to contribute, visit elements that has come to take the Promotions’ gig at the O2 Academy www.acpgthemovie.com heaviest toll on us over the last few on Saturday 26th November, months, and so we have decided to supporting Reading’s fast-rising stop. Sometimes you love each death-thrash crew Malefice. Dedlok, night Yoof! and the newly-opened PHIL SELWAY has added a second other too much, and I guess Risen In Black and Vera Grace Oxfork restaurant on Magdalen night to his fundraising concert at sometimes you just don’t love each complete an excellent metal bill. Road. Joining Trophy Wife on the the Pegasus Theatre this month. other enough - I think that’s a valid Visit www.facebook.com/SkeletorPro night will be Solid Gold Dragons and Radiohead drummer Phil is helping reason to stop.” for more details of Skeletor’s shows. Wild Swim, plus Yoof! DJs spinning raise money as part of the youth Winchell Riots bowed out with a new indie and electro sounds. Oxfork theatre’s 50th anniversary show at the suitably grandiose TROPHY WIFE launch their new will be providing food on the night. celebrations. His original show on Jacqueline du Pre Building on EP, ‘Bruxism’, with a show at the ‘Bruxism’ will be the first release on Thursday 10th November is now sold Saturday 29th October, which, if Old Boot Factory on Saturday 5th the new Blessing Force label, set up out. Tickets for the new show on you’ve picked up this mag in time, November. The night is a by Pet Moon and former- Friday 11th are on sale now from you can still get along to. collaboration between indie club Youthmovies man Andrew Mears. www.pegasustheatre.org, priced £25. NEWNEWSS OXFORD IMPROVISERS fingers crossed for a slightly, erm, celebrate their 10th anniversary with warmer Warmer this time round. Visit Cohesion Festival this month, www.gappytooth.com for more featuring four concerts in town. The details. local improvisers collective have invited internationally-renowned BURIED IN SMOKE host their composer and trumpeter Ishmael Christmas all-dayer on Saturday 10th Wadada Leo Smith to perform at December. The local metal club’s two shows as part of the annual festive festival of fret abuse celebrations. On Thursday 24th features Desert Storm, Beard of November he joins Pat Thomas and Zeuss, Trippy Wicked, Dead Alexander Hawkins at the Newman Existence, Komrad, With, Mother Rooms in St.