email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 132 July Oxford’s Music Magazine 2006 TRUCKTRUCK 20062006 Oxford’sOxford’s BigBig GunsGuns comecome outout forfor thethe summer!summer! TheThe YoungYoung KnivesKnives -- FellFell CityCity GirlGirl -- WinnebagoWinnebago DealDeal -- YouthYouth MovieMovie SoundtrackSoundtrack StrategiesStrategies -- TheThe FamilyFamily MachineMachine -- AA SilentSilent FilmFilm && many,many, manymany moremore NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWNEWSS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] HELLO EVERYONE, Summer is traditionally a quiet time for live music and this year the World Cup has meant there’s an even greater impact on local gigs, but this month still looks like being an excellent month for music with no less than three local festivals taking place over different weekends. Truck is, of course, the highlight of Oxfordshire’s musical calendar. Now a proper grown-up festival with tickets selling out months ago, Truck continues to provide the most varied and comprehensive showcase of local and international music you’ll find. Our extensive festival preview in this issue touches on just a fraction of the great stuff you’ll be able to hear over the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd. The arrival of Cornbury Festival is a real boost to the county’s summer season. Set in some of the most picturesque countryside in the UK, the second Cornbury Festival boasts an impressive line-up of big names, from Robert Plant and The Pretenders, to Texas and Robyn Hitchcock, as well as some excellent lesser names, and with Truck, the Oxford Folk Festival and Charlbury Riverside Festival organisers also involved, it’s hoped that this year’s event will really put Cornbury on the musical map. There’s good news on the Cowley Road Carnival front too. Only a month ago it looked like the one-day festival would feature no music at all, due to financial restraints, but an injection of cash from the local BMW car plant means there will be three live music stages and four sound systems to accompany the free street party. So there you go, even if November (pictured) were the winners of the you don’t fancy the idea of standing in a hot, sweaty venue over the next few weeks, there’s more inaugral Oxford Bands 5-a-side World Cup than enough scope for catching some great live music in the open air. Enjoy the summer while it last month. The indie rockers beat glam-pop lasts. types Nation 2-0 in the final to clinch the Ronan Munro (Editor) coveted trophy in a competition that featured 24 local bands lining up against each other at Oxford University’s sports ground. The YOUTH MOVIE SOUNDTRACK tournament was organised by STRATEGIES head off on a national tour in Oxfordbands.com in aid of Audioscope, support to ¡Forward Russia! this month and which raises money for homeless charity have been confirmed to play on the Carling Shelter. Stage at the Reading and Leeds Festivals at the end of August. The band, who are set to release Arch Stanton. The party and gig takes place on their third album at the end of the year on a converted steam boat and takes in a cruise Fierce Panda Records, kick off the tour with a down the Thames from Oxford to Abingdon and low-key headline show at the Port Mahon on back. The next event takes place on Sunday 6th Thursday 6th July, where they will be August with Borderville, Brickwork Lizards, supported by I Was A Cub Scout and Divine Jamie Hyatt and Captain Pyrates the live Coils. The tour then takes them around the UK entertainment on offer. The boat leaves Salters with a London date at Highbury Garage on Steamers at Folly Bridge at 3pm prompt. Tuesday 18th, before they return to Oxfordshire Tickets are on sale, priced £10 from at Truck Festival on Sunday 23rd. They will wegottickets.com. WINNEBAGO DEAL release their new album, play at Reading Festival on Saturday 26th ‘Flight Of The Raven’, on Fierce Panda on July August and then at Leeds on Sunday 27th. THE HUMAN LEAGUE play the New Theatre 10th. The new album, which was recorded with Youth Movies have recorded a new track, ‘’The on Tuesday 5th December. Tickets are on sale producer jack Endino in Seattle earlier this Naughtiest Girl Is A Monitor’, for inclusion on now on 0870 606 3500. Motorhead play at the summer, features 15 songs, including a the Truck compilation album and are set to same venue on Sunday 12th November. ‘mystery cover version’. Fans can listen to the record a split single with Jonquil on their own band’s new single, ‘Spider Bite’, online at the Try Harder label in early September. Check out NIGHTSHIFT CONTRIBUTORS Russell band’s website – www.winnebagodeal.co.uk. www.ymss.org for full tour dates and release Barker, Richard Catherall and Matt Bayliss are The site also includes the Deal’s planned tour details. starting a new live music night at the Port dates. A UK tour kicks off on 8th July in Alton Mahon, starting in August under the name in Hampshire, while the band appear at Truck THE FAMILY MACHINE release a new EP Swiss Concrete. The first gig takes place on Festival on Saturday 22nd. Local rising hardcore later this month. The band release `Flowers By Sunday 20th August and features The Sailplanes, stars Degüello will be the tour support. The The Roadside’ on Monday 31st July on Beard Foxes! and Stornoway. Any bands interested in two Bens have also been on tour with Nick Museum Records. You can hear tracks from the playing future gigs should email Russell at Oliveri’s Mondo Generator in the States as well EP at www.myspace.com/thefamilymachine. [email protected] or visit as recording a new Mondo album at Dave www.myspace.com/swissconcrete. Grohl’s 606 studio in Los Angeles. BIG SPEAKERS have split up. The local rap troupe who have helped invigorate the Oxford AS EVER, don’t forget to tune into The THE EXETER HALL in Cowley is due to hip hop scene over the past few years have Download every Saturday night at 6pm on undergo a major refurbishment starting on 10th called it a day as each of the eight-strong crew BBC Radio Oxford 95.2fm. The weekly show, July. At present, landlady and promoter Al pursue separate projects. hosted by Tim Bearder, broadcasts an hour of doesn’t know whether the work will mean live Oxford music and features interviews with local music has to stop for the duration. The last THE FIRST SUNDAY STEAMER of the and touring bands as well as featuring a local gig scheduled gig at the Ex is Sunday 9th, but Al summer takes place on Sunday 2nd July and and clubbing guide and a demo review section. suggests punters and bands check the venue’s features sets by The Half Rabbits and The The show is also available to listen to online for website - www.theX.co.uk for details. Epstein, plus Morrison Steam Fayre, Bishi and a week after broadcast at bbc.co.uk/oxford. TRUCK 2006 Futureheads Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd July Hill Farm, Steventon mark very different sides of the preceded by Buck 65, Chicks on British rock cannon, the former Speed and the fantastic, brain- veteran sloggers who’ve suffered searing 65Daysofstatic, a band the corporate record label mire to who are becoming almost a fixture emerge as feisty as they were in of Truck these days. their early days, while the latter are fast-rising scrappers with a frenetic Nightshift’s favourite stage is style of new wave pop that comes always the Trailerpark Tent. Here’s as close to capturing the verve of where you’ll find a real mixed bag bands like The Birthday Party and of warped talent and pop thrills. The Pop Group as any band we Vic 20’s set here three years ago can think of in recent years. remains our personal Truck Haunting new wave popstrels highlight of all time, but that may Good Books are a decent bet for be pushed close by the appearance surprise star showing of the of Canada’s The Organ on Sunday weekend; Amsterdam’s Persil will night. A sultry blend of early be an interesting prospect up on Blondie, The Shop Assistants and the big stage, their squelchy, Patti Smith, they’re undiluted pop highly-infectious brand of disco- brilliance and you will love them. fied synth-pop rarely seen outside Ramshackle electro-pop trio The of darkened club venues, while Research join them on Sunday Seth Lakeman’s more homely night along with summery psych- brand of English folk and acoustic pop dreamers Sunny Day Sets pop will surely benefit from a still, Fire. On the Saturday the warm Sunday evening as Truckers Trailerpark is dominated by local wind themselves down from the acts although Good Shoes’ post- weekend’s excesses. punk flurry is well worth catching. Of course so many of the real As far as local stars go, Truck treats at Truck each year are found couldn’t have picked a stronger away from the main arena with the Oxfordshire line-up. The cream of AND SO, FOR THE SECOND this year’s headliners, Truck promoters often bagging acts who the local crop is all here: The year running, tickets for Truck organisers were stung by an might fall below the radar of the big Young Knives, fresh from a UK Festival sold out well in advance, embargo on even announcing their festivals.