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[email protected] nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 203 June Oxford’s Music Magazine 2012 GAZ COOMBES Going it alone Also inside this issue: Win WILDERNESS & TRUCK FESTIVAL TICKETS! Introducing MOTHER CORONA plus All your local music news, reviews and gig guide. NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] Online: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net OXFORK also hosts a weekend of live music, entertainment, food, workshops and talks at Grove House and the Rotunda in Iffley th th over 4 -5 August. Entitled Locally DRY THE RIVER are set to headline Gathering, a new one-day live Sourced, the event promises to music festival along the Cowley Road on Saturday 20th October. source all its performers, food and The London-based folk-rock band were included in the BBC Sound of stallholders from within five miles 2012 longlist and have been compared to Fleet Foxes and Mumford & of the venue. Tickets are on sale Sons. Their debut album, `Shallow’, was released on Sony in March. now, priced £10, from Wegottickets. Joining them on the Gathering line-up, which is being organised by com. Visit www.facebook.com/ DHP Concerts, who promoted last year’s Ley Lines event, will be Spec- oxfork for more details. tor, Bastille and Nina Nesbitt, with more acts due to be announced early in June. DREAMING SPIRES launch Final details of venues involved in the event have not been announced their debut album, `Brothers In but it will centre around the O2 Academy. Tickets, priced £15, are on th Brooklyn’, on Saturday 9 June, sale now from the Academy box office and Truck Store. with an instore set at Truck Store Visit www.gatheringfestival.co.uk for news updates. on Cowley Road. The band, formed SPRING OFFENSIVE play their by brothers Joe and Robin Bennett, biggest headline show to date play at1pm. Later the same day, Farmhouse near Iffley Lock as part every Sunday night at 9pm on this month when they perform at Liverpool’s Stealing Sheep play an of a mini festival in aid of the Mike 95.2fm. The dedicated local St Barnabas Church in Jericho. instore ahead of their show at the Woodin Trust. music show plays Oxford releases The band, renowned for playing Cellar that evening. Lanterns On and demos as well as featuring at unusual venues, headline the The Lake also return to town for an NIGHTSHIFT interviews and live sessions. The church on Thursday 14th June, instore set on Saturday 23rd June. PHOTOGRAPHER JOHNNY show is available to download as a with support from Count Drachma Check set times for these and other MOTO has an exhibition of his gig podcast at bbc.co.uk/oxford. - the Zulu roots band formed instores at www.truckmusicstore. photos up in the newly-refurbished Regularly updates local music by Stornoway’s Oli and Rob co.uk. Jericho Tavern now. Along with news is available online at www. Steadman - and Liverpool’s All In other local release news THE Tavern manager Owen, Johnny, musicinoxford.co.uk. The site We Are. CELLAR FAMILY release their who has been photographing local also features interactive reviews, Tickets for the show – Spring new mini-album, `Jumbo’, this gigs for over 20 years, has picked interviews and a photo gallery. Offensive’s only non-festival gig month, while MR FOGG releases 32 of his favourite shots, including Nightshift’s online forum also of the summer, and organised in his latest album, `Eleven’ on 4th vintage pictures of The Candyskins, features breaking local news as well conjunction with Oxfork – are June. Reviews to come in July’s which are available to view at as the chance to chat to other Oxford on sale now, priced £6 from Nightshift. Tavern gigs, or during the day by musicians and gig-goers, advertise Wegottickets.com, including a free MOIETY launch their new album, appointment with the pub. for bandmates or simply have a exclusive acoustic EP, recorded `The Waves’, with an instore set at good old row about something live at a house party gig earlier this Truck Store on Saturday 16th June. AS EVER, don’t forget to tune and nothing. Visit nightshift. year. The following day they play at Isis into BBC Oxford Introducing oxfordmusic.net. ALCOPOP! and BIG SCARY MONSTERS are offering a free six-song download to celebrate their joint takeover of the Barn Stage at Truck Festival on Saturday 21st July. The local labels have made tracks available by Gunning For Tamar (pictured), Tellison, Johnny Foreigner, My First Tooth and Crash Of Rhinos. You can get it here: tinyurl.com/popvsbsm. In other Truck Festival news, The Old Grinding Young, ToLiesel, Jess Hall, Robots With Souls, Pixel Fix and Kill Murray are the latest local acts to be added to the bill. Truck Festival takes place at Hill Farm in Steventon on 20th-21st July. Visit www. truckfestival.com for full line-up and ticket details. DEAD JERICHOS have split. The band, formed in Drayton, twice featured on the front cover of Nightshift and earned themselves a sizeable fanbase with their constant gigging, including a riotous set at last year’s Truck Festival. Announcing the split on Nightshift’s online forum, singer Craig Evans, said, “From having Ellie Goulding in our dressing room and meeting the guys from Simple Minds, to having extra security and police at our Truck set last year because of all our nutter fans, we’ve sadly decided to call it a day. We’d like to thanks everybody who joined us in our whirlwind of fun! Big thanks to Paul Carrea, Seb Reynold, Marc West, Ronan Munro and everybody else for your help over the last few years, and especially all you people that sang along and had fun! Good night and God bless.” The trio will bow out with one final show – at Truck Festival in July. Dead Jerichos are also behind this year’s D-FEST, the now annual Drayton-based mini-festival that serves as a comedown party for Truck. This year’s event takes place again takes place at the Red Lion in Drayton on Saturday 28th July, with Kill Murray, The Dreaming Spires, The Long Insiders, Alphabet Backwards, Lost Dogs and The Graceful Slicks among the bands playing over two stages. WIN TICKETS What it’s also got is some bloody available at £260. great music. Acts already cornfirmed And guess what? Thanks to our chums at include RODRIGO Y GABRIELA, Wilderness, we’ve got two pairs of adult WILCO, SPIRITUALIZED, weekend tickets to give away. Free. To you. SHARON JONES & THE DAP Our dear readers. Oh yes we do. KINGS, LIANNE LA HAVAS, GRANT LEE BUFFALO, GIANT All you need to do to win a pair is answer GIANT SAND, CRYSTAL this simple question: FIGHTERS, FIELD MUSIC, WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE LONDON FOLK GUILD, SPIRITUALIZED’S LATEST ALBUM? CLOUD CONTROL and many, many more. Answers on a postcard please (sorry, no email entries) to WILDERNESS COMPETITION, Aside from the music there’s a Nightshift, PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Only in its second year in Oxfordshire, feast – literally – of food, debate, stargazing Please include your address and daytime WILDERNESS Festival is already an and myriad outdoor pursuits, from horse riding telephone number. Deadline for entries is the award-winner, scooping the prize for best to foraging, with the likes of THE ROYAL 25th June. The editor’s decision is to pig out at new festival at the UK Festival Awards, and OBSERVATORY, YOTAM OTTOLENGHI, Yotam Ottolenghi’s banquet til he’s almost sick. this year’s event looks certain to build on that THE IDLER ACADEMY, SCHOOL OF initial success. LIFE, THE LAKESIDE SPA and more involved. There are banquets and Wilderness, which is jointly curated by late-night parties and theatre and talks LOVEBOX and SECRET GARDEN and... just blummin loads of stuff, right? Party, takes place over the weekend of the 10th-12th AUGUST at CORNBUry Tickets for this year’s Wilderness PARK, near Charlbury, asserting itself as “A are on sale now through the festival celebration of the arts and outdoors in the website: www.wildernessfestival.com wilds of England,” although Cornbury Park as well as Truck Store on Cowley Road is a bit less wild than Exmoor, or Peckham, if and Rapture in Witney. Adult weekend we’re honest. In fact, it’s quite lovely and has tickets are priced from £119, with a deer park and a lake and all sorts. You’ll like young persons’ tickets £54 and under- it, go along and see for yourself. 10s going free. Family tickets are Gaza quiet word with Coombes band into a million-selling indie Gaz plays his debut solo show masterpiece. He and Gaz have at the Rotunda last year. remained firm friends ever since, but what was it like to work with him again in the studio? “Yeah, it was great. He really kept me up and moving, kept my photo: Johnny Moto confidence up. It’s easy to get too inside a project when it’s your baby, so he was good at reminding me what was great, what needed pushing further etc. He played on a few tracks and we also did a bit of writing together on a few tracks as well. His energy and enthusiasm is infectious.” Having MOVED away FROM Oxford at the height of Supergrass’s success, Gaz moved back to his native Wheatley in 2006 after the death of his mother, moving back into his childhood home.