nightshift @oxfordmusic.net nightshift .oxfordmusic.net Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 204 July Oxford’s Music Magazine 2012 GunningGunning ForFor TamarTamar Sonic fi repower, wristwatches and keeping it indie - interview inside 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 CHARLBURY RIVERSIDE the club’s website, saying, he wanted FESTIVAL will take place over the to move closer to Oxford city centre. fi nal weekend of July after the original July’s line-up features Jim Suhler event in June was postponed due to & Monkeybeat on the 2nd, Bayou the risk of fl ooding. Brothers on the 9th, The Larry Miller The annual two-day free festival, Band on the 16th and Marcus Bonfanti FIXERS have released their debut album `We’ll Be The Moon’ on indie featuring a host of acts from across on the 23rd. label Dolphin Love after parting company with Mercury Records on the eve Oxfordshire, was due to take place on THE BULLINGDON will be of its intended release date. the 16th-17th June but days of heavy continuing to showcase the best blues The band had cancelled all dates on their UK tour, apart from their Oxford rain made the area alongside the sounds on a Monday however, with show at the O2 Academy, ahead of the announcement that they had left Evenlode river unsafe and further rain local blues-rock stalwart Tony Jezzard Mercury, prompting speculation about their future, but speaking to Nightshift threatened to fl ood the area. from Reservoir Cats, Bully landlord at the start of June, singer Jack Goldstein said, “The album is coming out The organisers moved quickly to Arron and gig regular Penny Lee on the 18th on Dolphin Love. We had a rocky journey with Mercury and it’s rearrange the event, which will now planning regular shows at the venue’s only a good thing that it has come to an end; we need all of our friends and take place on Saturday 28th and new Haven club night. The fi rst of supporters to go out and smother themselves all over our album. That said, Sunday 29th July, featuring pretty these is an appearance from rising UK it’s gonna blow the fucking people downtown! It’s take no prisoners time; much all of the original acts. Rockers singer and guitarist Chantel McGregor we are skipping on the second album and going straight to the tempestuous Smilex top Saturday’s main stage on Monday 9th July. As well as touring third. I want the next record to sound like Maggotron Crushing Crew meets bill and are joined by Black Hats, acts, the Haven Club is looking for Fleetwood Mac’s `Tusk’. Watch this space. Exciting times for real.” The DB Band, Deer Chicago, Secret local blues acts. Acts interested in Since its release, `We’ll Be The Moon’ has picked up rave reviews in The Rivals, Graceful Slicks and Tamara playing should contact Arron at the Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, and Q, as well as album of the & The Martyrs, while the second Bully on 01865 244516. week in The Sunday Times. Get your copy from Truck Store on Cowley Road stage is headed by Undersmile, along and keep it local. with Hot Hooves, Von Braun, The TRUCK STORE hosts a weekend Hawkhurst and Listing Ships. of live music as a warm-up to this Sunday’s main stage is headlined by month’s Truck Festival over the singer and performance artist known discount and a free hour’s rehearsal Alphabet Backwards, with support weekend of the 7th-8th July. Michelle for her experimental music and for bands booking a four-hour slot. from with The Epstein, Brickwork Stodart of the Magic Numbers, performance works, including setting Call Tom on 0788 256 9425 or email Lizards, The Mighty Redox, The Gunning For Tamar, Jess Hall the words of William Shakespeare [email protected]. Dirty Royals, The Infl atables and and Very Nice Harry are the acts to music, as well as working with Byronics, while the second stage confi rmed so far. There will be a Malcolm Middleton and Radiohead. AUDIOSCOPE and PINDROP features Superloose, Count Drachma, licensed bar for the weekend. Truck Nothing Is Set In Stone is part of are organising a local bands, venues Richard Walters and Flights of Helios. Festival takes place on the 20th-21st Secrets: Hidden London, a series of and promoters six-a-side football Visit www.riversidefestival. July at Hill Farm in Steventon – see cross-cultural events taking place in tournament this month to celebrate charlbury.com for line-up news and main preview in this issue. Visit www. little-known spaces across London. the end of the Euro 2012 tournament. hopefully a decent weather forecast. truckmusicstore.co.uk for more Visit www.ocmevents.org. The tournament, with the chance news of the instore weekender. to be crowned footie champions THE FAMOUS MONDAY BLUES TAD STUDIOS have opened a of the Oxford music scene, takes has moved to The Jericho Tavern as OXFORD CONTEMPORARY new rehearsal room at their studios place at Iffl ey Road Sport pitches of last month. The weekly local blues MUSIC makes its fi rst foray near Kidlington. The room includes on Saturday 7th July. Entry is club, which has been running for 28 outside of Oxford this month with Fender, Marshall and Ashdown £20 per team, with at least three years, originally at the Red Lion in an interactive sculpture and sound amplifi cation, Mapex drums, a 1kw members of each team having to Gloucester Green and then Jongleurs, exhibition by artists Mira Calix PA system and Shure mics. TAD be members of a local band, venue, before moving to the Bullingdon ten called Nothing Is Set In Stone, set offer a special `Introduce A Friend’ promoters or record label. Contact years ago, will continue to showcase in Fairlop Waters, a country park and deal, whereby any local bands who [email protected] to British, European and American blues nature reserve in the London borough introduce another band to the studio get involved. All profi ts will go to acts each Monday. Promoter Philip of Redbridge. can earn themselves a free session. homeless charities Shelter and The Guy Davis explained the move on Calix is an award-winning composer, They also offer student daytime Gatehouse. RADIOHEAD have paid tribute to their drum technician Scott Johnson, who was killed when the roof of the stage collapsed ahead of the band’s fi nal north American tour date in Toronto on 15th June. Writing on the Radiohead website, drummer Phil Selway said, “We have all been shattered by the loss of Scott Johnson, our friend and colleague. He was a lovely man, always positive, supportive and funny; a highly skilled and valued member of our great road crew. We will miss him very much. Our thoughts and love are with Scott’s family and all those close to him.” Three other crew members were injured in the incident, including the band’s long- serving guitar technician Duncan Swift, from Oxford. Despite the tragic loss of life, it was only the fact that the band’s full soundcheck was running late that prevented potentially greater tragedy. Nightshift sends its sympathies to Scott’s family and friends and to all of the Radiohead touring party, and wishes a full and speedy recovery to everyone hurt in the incident. SONIC RISING have a new track, SUPERNORMAL FESTIVAL `High Tide’, released as part of the returns to Oxfordshire next month. `Summer Solstice’ compilation for The three-day experimental music American radio show Trip Under and arts festival takes place in the This House this month. You can fi nd picturesque surroundings of eco- it here: tripinsidethishouse.blogspot. community Braziers Park, near com. The local psych-rockers Wallingford, over the weekend of released their debut single, `Solar 10th-12th August. Eyes’ in May as part of National The artist-curated festival features Record Store Day. They play the a host of leftfi eld music treats, Wheatsheaf on Saturday 28th July including Seefeel (pictured), The as part of Gappy Tooth Industries’ Telescopes, DJ Scotch Bonnet, monthly club night. Ramesses, James Blackshaw, Bilge Pump, Joeyfat, Mary Hampton AS EVER, don’t forget to tune into Cotillion, One Vague Signal, BBC Oxford Introducing every Kogumaza, Hey Colossus, Trojan Sunday night at 9pm on 95.2fm. The Horse, Vents, Woolf, Stig Noise, dedicated local music show plays the Cosmic Dead and Oxford’s own SPECTOR (pictured), Jake Bugg, Bastille, Peace, Nina Nesbitt and Lewis best Oxford releases and demos as Undersmile. Watson are the latest acts to be confi rmed for Gathering this autumn. well as featuring interviews and live As well as the live music there are London-based folk-rockers Dry The River have already been announced sessions with local bands. The show experimental pop parties, a retro- as headliners for the one-day live music event, which takes place along the is available to download as a podcast futuristic disco, music-themed Cowley Road on Saturday 20th October. Venues confi rmed for Gathering at bbc.co.uk/oxford. cinema, art installations and myriad include The O2 Academy, The Bullingdon, East Oxford Community Centre, Regularly updated local music unusual goings-on. The Port Mahon and Cowley Road Methodist Church. news is available online at www. Tickets for the non-profi t weekend Tickets for the event are on sale now, priced £15, from wegottickets.com. musicinoxford.co.uk. The site are £65, on sale now from Visit www.gatheringfestival.co.uk for more acts to be announced, including also features interactive reviews, www.supernormalfestival.co.uk.