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email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 188 March Oxford’s Music Magazine 2011 FIXERSFIXERS A Poptabulous Pyschedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind interview inside... plus Radiohead, Trophy Wife, Blessing Force, Young Knives, The Rock Of Travolta and much more 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 unlikely to go ahead as normal due to roadworks on Iffley Road. OXFORD CONTEMPORARY MUSIC’S SPRING SEASON celebrates the music and artwork of self-releasing and self-publishing musicians from this month. Editions Of You, which runs at the O3 Gallery STATUS QUO, THE FACES and JAMES BLUNT are the headliners for and Oxford Castle from Saturday this year’s Cornbury Festival. 26th March through to Sunday 24th Featuring original members Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones and Ian YOUNG KNIVES return next April, will feature an exhibition of McLagan, Cornbury will be the recently-reformed Faces’ only UK festival month with their fourth album, exclusive artwork, as well as live appearance of the summer. The band are now fronted by former-Simply entitled ‘Ornaments From The music events every Thursday from Red singer Mick Hucknall. st rd Silver Arcade’. The follow-up to 6-8pm and a zine and artwork fair For the first time Cornbury will run over three days – the 1 -3 July – as 2008’s ‘Superabundance’, recorded in on the 9th April. Full details of well as moving to a new home at The Great Tew Estate, near Charlbury. LA with legendary producer Nick events are online at Other acts announced include Kinks legend Ray Davies, 80s hitmaker Launay, is released on 4th April. www.ocmevents.org. Cyndi Lauper (pictured), folk-rockers The Saw Doctors, rockabilly starlet Tracklisting for ‘Ornaments…’ is Other highlights of the spring Imelda May and possibly the best live band on the planet at the moment, ‘Love My Name’, ‘Woman’, season include improv jazz duo Bellowhead. A supporting cast includes Buffy St. Marie, Eliza Doolittle, ‘Everything Falls Into Place’, Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu at the The Like, Ollie Murs, Sophie Ellis-Bexter and Jon Allen. A special secret ‘Human Again’, ‘Running From A North Wall on Sunday 6th March; guest is planned for the Sunday. Standing Start’, ‘Sister Frideswide’, world-renowned pianist and Having teamed up with 3A Entertainment, Cornbury’s line-up boasts more ‘Vision In Rags’, ‘Go To Ground’, composer Joana MacGregor at the big-name acts than previous years, which will hopefully help the event sell ‘Silver Tongue’, ‘Storm Clouds’ and Jacqueline du Pre Building on Friday out. Tickets are on sale now, priced £160 for an adult weekend pass with ‘Glasshouse’. 11th and local folk harp and fiddle camping. Concessionary prices are available for under-16s with under-12s duo Steph West and Giles Lewin at and over-70s free. Visit www.cornburyfestival.com for more details. THIS YEAR’S OXFORD FOLK Warneford Chapel on Tuesday 22nd. FESTIVAL HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A statement on the OUT TO GRAZE FESTIVAL Club, Midnight Boatman, D Gwalia, THE SKITTLE ALLEY celebrates ten festival website explained, “Despite returns for its fourth year from Helen Pearson and Trev Williams. years of putting on gigs in Abingdon having booked a great roster of Friday 10th-Monday 13th June at the Visit www.gappytooth.com for more this year and the collective are artists for this year a number of Fir Tree Country Park, in details. putting on a free three-day festival factors are making it impossible for Warmington, near Banbury. The over the weekend of August 27th-29th us to hold the festival in 2011. In festival, co-run by local clubs THE O2 ACADEMY launches a new at the Railway Inn in Culham. the current economic climate people Bassmentality, Simple and Slide, local bands showcase night in May They’re looking for any acts who are, understandably, more reluctant features a wide selection of dance and is looking for local acts to play. have played their nights at various to commit their hard-earned cash to music, from reggae and rocksteady Called Upstairs, the monthly night venues around Abingdon over the past buy tickets in advance, whilst also to funk, hip hop and dubstep, and will feature four or five local bands in decade who are interested in playing costs have increased, with the VAT has doubled its capacity to almost the Academy’s upstairs venue. The the festival. Contact them via rise contributing amongst other 2,500 this year after 2010’s sold- launch night is on Saturday 21st May. www.theskittlealley.co.uk . factors. out event. Early-bird tickets are on Acts can email Vicky at “We have made as many economies sale now, priced £50 from [email protected]. A HAWK & A HACKSAW headline as we can but with the increasing www.outtograze.com. a special Pindrop Performance show costs of venue and equipment hire, A launch event for the festival HUCK & THE HANDSOME FEE at the Bullingdon on Friday 22nd insurance and so on it is simply not takes place at the Cellar on have split up. The lachrymose local April. Pindrop have been attracting financially feasible to continue the Saturday 12th March, featuring gothic folk outfit announced their some of the best leftfield acts from festival this year. London’s The Drop and Cornwall’s split on the Nightshift online forum around the world to Oxford in recent “We really hope to be back in the Backbeat Soundsystem. Tickets are last month, stating, “Due to a years, including A Silver Mt. Zion, future and, in the meantime, we wish available, priced £5, from the combination of logistical Acid Mothers Temple and Cocorosie. to express our sincere thanks for website. impracticalities and precocious Joining A Hawk & A Hackaw will be your support during the eight years personalities, Huck and the We Aeronauts, Brickwork Lizards, since we started.” AFTER THE WINTER WARMER Handsome Fee have disbanded. We Moyle, Cat Matador, Message To This year’s Folk Festival was due to was abandoned due to heavy snow in had a great year in Oxford and a Beras and The Braindead Collective. have featured Spiers and Boden, Ade December, organisers Gappy Tooth mind-blowing few weeks in the States The gig runs from 4.30pm; tickets, Edmundson & the Bad Shepherds and Industries have moved to re-book and will always remember those times priced £12 in advance, are on sale Dervish amongst a host of acts from many of the planned acts for a one- with fondness and gratitude. now from wegottickets.com. around the UK and Europe over the day free mini festival at Café Tarifa “Matt, Tommy and I will be weekend of 15th-17th April. Ticket on Cowley Road on Saturday 12th continuing as a (currently nameless) AS EVER, don’t forget to tune into refunds are available from point of March. The day of acoustic live three-piece, while Tamara will be BBC Oxford Introducing every purchase. music, entitled Reheated, runs from fronting her new band Mara with Saturday evening from 6-7pm on News of the Folk Festival’s 1pm through til 11pm and features Tommy and me backing her. Fee 95.2fm. The dedicated local music cancellation follows confirmation sets from Samuel Zasada, material will be divided up and show plays the best Oxford releases as that this year’s Oxford Punt will Huffenpuff, Anton Barbeau, Ally reworked as and when we feel it’s well as featuring interviews and not be happening, due to a lack of Craig, George Chopping, King of right. Thanks to Nightshift and the sessions with local bands. The show is suitable venues in the city centre, Cats, Jess Hall, Matt Winkworth, Oxon scene for almost unanimous available as a podcast or to stream while Cowley Road Carnival is Ross Bennett, Prohibition Smokers support.” online at bbc.co.uk/oxford. a quiet word with FixersFixersFixers “YOU ALWAYS STRIVE TO struggling to promote them. It felt produce the best sound possible, great to be able to play with some conjuring up the best musicianship of our favourite bands, like Kisses, possible. Best Coast and Islet. We did one I think our epiphany was that it’s really enjoyable show near London not the be all and end all of a band’s Bridge, beneath the underground, in fundamentals. It’s detrimental to a disused part of the subway. the etiquette of a band if you have Every twenty minutes a train the best drummer in the world but would go over and drown out all they can barely bring it upon the sound; the current from the themselves to wake up in the lines was causing a persistent hum morning for you.” and buzz from every electrical device plugged in… including all of FIXERS FRONTMAN JACK our amplifiers.” Goldstein is contemplating NME have been particularly Nightshift’s question as to the enthused about the band and possible musical epiphany that led you’ve recorded for Radio 1’s Live to the formation of the band, Lounge; is there a feeling of being purveyors of psychedelic pop par on a bit of a rollercoaster ride at the excellence and currently one of the moment? hottest new pop properties JACK: “It’s amazing having around, having recently signed to national music magazines the legendary Vertigo label and been championing our work as well as championed by everyone from the enthusiasm and support shown NME and The Guardian to Radio by the BBC towards us over the 1’s Jo Whiley and Zane Lowe.