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[email protected] nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 225 April Oxford’s Music Magazine 2014 GLASS ANIMALS OXFORD DUPLICATION CENTRE Fame, fortune and [email protected] Office: 01865 457000 Mobile: 07917 775477 Supporting Oxfordshire Bands with fragility with Oxford’s Affordable Professional CD Duplication FANTASTIC BAND RATES living ornaments ON ALL SERVICES Professional Thermal Printed CDs Also in this issue: Full Colour/Black & White Introducing AGS CONNOLLY Silver or White Discs Design Work Support Digital Printing plus Packaging Options Fulfilment Local festival and music news; releases; Recommended by Matchbox Recordings Ltd, Poplar Jake, Undersmile, Desert Storm, Turan Audio Ltd, Nick Cope, Prospeckt, Paul Jeffries, Alvin live reviews and four pages of Oxford gigs Roy, Pete The Temp, Evolution, Coozes, Blue Moon and many more... 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 THE LINE-UP FOR THIS YEAR’S OXFORD PUNT has been announced. The annual showcase of up and coming local bands takes place on Wednesday 14th May and features 20 acts across five venues in Oxford city centre. The full Punt line-up is: The Purple Turtle: Hot Hooves; Girlpower; Beta Blocker & the Body Clock; Komrad. The Cellar: Trophy Cabinet; The Neon Violets; Flights of Helios; SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR, JOOLS HOLLAND AND 10cc are among Swindlestock. the acts now announced for this year’s Cornbury Festival. They join 80s The Wheatsheaf: The Cooling Pearls; Balloon Ascents; Art Theefe; Huck & hitmakers Simple Minds, soul legend Georgie Fame and Nina Nesbitt, who the Xander Band. were exclusively announced in last month’s Nightshift. Cornbury takes Turl Street Kitchen: Jordan O’Shea; Hannah Bruce; Rawz; Julia Meijer. place over the weekend of the 4th-6th July at Great Tew Country Park. The White Rabbit: Salvation Bill; Lee Riley; Kid Kin; Vienna Ditto. Jools Holland’s Rhym&Blues Orchestra will headline the Friday night The Punt kicks off at 7pm at the Purple Turtle with Hot Hooves and finishes where he’ll be joined by guests singers Marc Almond and former Spice at the White Rabbit at midnight with Vienna Ditto. The bill takes in an Girl Mel C. Simple Minds top the Saturday night bill, with Sunday’s eclectic range of sounds, from indie, metal, hardcore punk; folk, psychedelia, headliner still to be announced. Americana; electronica, rock, hip hop and blues. Somewhere amid all that is Among the weekend’s other highlights is Southside Johnny, featuring a rock opera. Gary US Bonds, with an enviable reputation for their live performances. A limited number (100) all-venue Punt passes are on sale now, priced £8, Suzanne Vega; Arrested Development; Lissie; Kid Creole & the Coconuts; online at oxfordmusic.net, or from the Truck Store on Cowley Road. Entry Sam Bailey; Hudson Taylor; Scouting For Girls and The Feeling are among to individual gigs is a bargain £5, although Turl Street Kitchen and The White a host of acts also confirmed, though don’t let those last two put you off. Rabbit are both free. More acts are set to be added, including the Charlbury Riverside stage. Check out the Oxford Punt 2014 page on Facebook for updated news. As well as the live music, Cornbury hosts its usual array of comedy, including Al Murray; Miles Jupp and Jeremy Hardy, plus workshops, kids activities, the Disco Shed and more. ALCOPOP! AND BIG SCARY Tickets for Truck are on sale, priced Festival organiser Hugh Phillimore, said, “I’m really pleased with the MONSTERS team up to host The £74 for adult camping tickets, from diversity of the line-up; I’m really looking forward to Kacey Musgraves Rio Barnival at this year’s Truck Truck Store or from and Southside Johnny but I’m also very excited about Georgie Fame with a Festival. The two local independent truckfestival.com. big band: his 70th birthday gig at Cheltenham Jazz Festival was one of my record labels will host a full day of 2013 highlights – and I went to 81 ‘must-see’ gigs last year!” music in the festival’s legendary FATBOY SLIM, JAMIE Tickets for Cornbury are on sale from www.cornburyfestival.com. barn on the Saturday as part of CULLUM and KELIS headline this Truck’s Carnival theme this year. year’s Big Feastival. The music and Andrew WK tops the barn bill, and food festival, hosted by Jamie Oliver burst. There are few better ways to second Yard Fest in July. The one- is joined by Gnarwolves; Johnny and Blur bassist Alex James, and go. Visit www.jamieoliver.com/ day festival at the Courtyard Youth Foreigner; Lonely the Brave; Sam held at James’s farm near Kingham thebigfeastival for more line-up and Arts Centre in Bicester, takes place Duckworth; Kevin Devine; Tangle in west Oxfordshire, takes place ticket details. on Friday 11th July. The organisers Hair; Radstewart; Woahnows and over the weekend of the 29th-31st are looking for young local bands Brawlers. August. Joining the headline acts HMV OXFORD looks set to stay to join the bill. Acts interested Truck takes place over the 18th-19th over the weekend will be local heroes open at least until the end of June. can email Jeremy Leggett at July at Hill Far in Steventon. As Stornoway, as well as Jack Savoretti, A post on the store’s Twitter stated [email protected]. The all- announced last month, this year’s Kittie, Norman J, The Cuban the store was staying put for the ages event, organised by teenagers event is headlined by White Lies and Brothers and tribute bands Bjorn next few months and restocking who attend the centre, will raise The Cribs, with Peace; Stornoway; Again and Fleetwood Bac. As well while management looked for an money for children’s charity The Los Campesinos!; Kids in Glass as the live music there will be the alternative site in the city centre. Make A Wish Foundation. Tickets, Houses; Swim Deep; Cerebral Ballzy usual array of food demonstrations priced £10, are on sale now from and Eliza and the Bear among the and markets. Last year Nightshift ate BLITZ KIDS, HYPE THEORY wegottickets.com. More info at other acts playing. so much artisan cheese we nearly and Attention Thieves play the www.bicestercourtyard.org.uk SWEET BABOO, ALESSI’S ARK AND JACKIE OATES are the headline acts at next month’s WOOD Festival. The award-winning environmentally-friendly festival takes place over the weekend of the 16th-18th May at Braziers Park. This year’s event has been declared The Year of the Badger as WOOD aims to focus on one particular British wild animal each year. Various badger-themed events will be taking place over the weekend and badger masks are recommended. Other acts now confirmed for the weekend include Oliver Wilde; The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band; O’Hooley & Tido; Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou; The Dreaming Spires; Co-pilgrim; Rachael Dadd; Jordan O’Shea; Art Theefe; Nick Cope; Count Drachma and Jali Fily Cissokho. Beyond the music there will be WOOD’s traditional mix of workshops, activities and talks, plus organic food and drink, the renowned compost toilets and a general feeling of getting back to nature. Tickets are on sale now, priced £75, from Truck Store on Cowley Road, and online from www.woodfestival.com. the Pegasus, BBC Introducing and Oxford City panel of judges, including performers Michael Council. The OCM show will take place on an Ball and Rosie Ash, director Rachel Kavanagh, outside stage at Gloucester Green on Sunday 15th choreographer Stephen Mear, Theatre Royal June as part of the Lord Mayor’s Celebration, Stratford East artistic director Kerry Michael and with the Youth Open taking place at the Pegasus playwright Samuel Adamson. on Saturday 14th. Previous acts to feature include Duotone, Seabuckthorn, Laurence Colbert, Jess THE OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC CHARITY Hall and Lee Riley. Visit www.ocmevents.org for FOOTBALL WORLD CUP makes a return on full details. the 5th July. The competition, organised jointly by PinDrop and Audioscope, aims to raise LAI V E PA T TRH E C IE L LL A R STEAMROLLER play a special show at the money for homeless charities Shelter and The TIN ANGEL PRESENTS GNOD, ESBEN & THE WITCH AND Cellar on Sunday 13th April to celebrate the 40th Gatehouse. The competition will take place from THE IRREPRESSIBLES + OPAL ONYX JOANNA GRUESOME are among a host of acts anniversary of being the first band to ever play at 12-4pm at the Oxford City FC 3G pitches, Court THURS 3RD confirmed for this year’s Supernormal Festival. the venue – then called The Corn Dolly. The local Place Farm. Bands are invited to enter teams by The artist-curated, decidedly leftfield music and blues-rock veterans, who reformed back in 2010, emailing [email protected] with a SKYLARKIN’ SOUND SYSTEM PRESENTS art festival returns to Braziers Park over the were big local favourites back in the 1970s. Visit list of names. Entry is £5 per person for six-a-side MIGHTY LEAP + MR BENN th th FRI 4TH weekend of the 8 -10 August. Last year’s event, www.steamroller.moonfruit.com for more news teams. Teams must have a minimum of five past featuring the likes of Hookworms, Evil Blizzard, and gigs from the band. or present local musicians/promoters/journalists DHP PRESENTS Comanechi and Mugstar, was Nightshift’s musical etc. Teams can be composites of various bands/ RHODES highlight of the year. THAMESFEST returns over the weekend of the promoters etc and entry will be at the discretion of SUN 6TH Other acts so far confirmed include Death 18th-20th July, offering three days of free live blues the organisers.