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email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 142 May Oxford’s Music Magazine 2007 PUNTPUNTPUNTPUNTPUNTPUNT 200720072007200720072007 Smilex head this year’s showcase of Oxford’s best new musical talent Full Punt preview inside Smilex photo by Sam Shepherd Candyskins bid farewell to the Zodiac! NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWNEWSS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] singers to submit application forms to perform. Artists must complete an online form at www.thisistruck.com, providing a MySpace link where possible – they will not be accepting demos. All acts must be from Oxfordshire and the Truck committee is particularly keen to hear from younger bands. Truck 10 takes place at Hill Farm, Steventon, over the weekend of the 21st and 22nd July. TICKETS FOR CORNBURY FESTIVAL are THE CANDYSKINS, THE NUBILES, selling faster than in previous years and the OMD play at the New Theatre on Saturday rd DUSTBALL AND THE DAISIES are all set to event again looks like selling out. Headline acts 23 June as part of a national Greatest Hits reform to bid farewell to the Zodiac this month. for the festival, which takes place at Cornbury tour. The original line-up of the band, Paul The Zodiac closes its doors for the last time on Park near Charlbury, are David Gray and Humphreys, Andy McLusky, Malcolm Holmes Thursday 17th May before undergoing a Blondie who are joined by The Waterboys, The and Martin Cooper, reformed last year and £2,000,000 refurbishment, which will see it re- Feeling and The Proclaimers, who returned to recently played a series of dates celebrating open at the end of September as the Oxford the top of the singles charts last month. Tickets 1981’s monumental `Architechture and Academy. The Daisies were the first band ever are available by phone on 0871 472 0420. Morality’ album. Tickets for the synth-pop to headline the Zodiac when it opened in Comprehensive festival information is available pioneers’ Oxford show are on sale now, November 2005, while The Candyskins also online at www.cornburyfestival.com. The line- priced £27.50, from the credit card hotline on headlined the venue in its opening week. The up for the Charlbury Riverside stage, featuring 0870 606 3500. Zodiac’s last night party will feature local bands local acts, is due to be announced soon. Meanwhile, singer-songwriter Damien Rice st across both floors as well as DJs from comes to the New Theatre on Thursday 21 Transformation, Trashy and Smash Disco. THIS YEAR’S COWLEY ROAD CARNIVAL June. Tickets are on sale now, priced £23.50. Other acts confirmed to play include Smilex, takes place on Sunday 1st July, from 12-6pm. Winnebago Deal, The Epstein and The As well as seeing the return of the carnival’s winning the festival’s Emerging Talent Relationships – one of the few Oxford acts who traditional procession, the event, which attracts competition last month. The band were among can claim to have outlasted the Zodiac! up to 20,000 visitors each year, features live 24 acts to be shortlisted from over 2,000 entries Tickets for the last night party, priced £12.50, music and sound systems, plus an array of to perform at the festival which runs over the go on sale at 1pm on Saturday 28th April from theatre, dance, workshops, food and family weekend of 22nd-24th June. Glastonbury is the Zodiac box office and will be available to activities. Organisers are looking for bands and already sold out but you can see The Epstein personal callers only – there will be no internet solo artists to play one of the many stages live in Oxford this month when they play at the tickets available across the carnival. Acts should email their Cellar (Thursday 10th) and the final night at the As reported by Nightshift back in March, the details, website and MySpace links and say Zodiac (Thursday 17th). Academy Music Group plans to turn the why they would like to perform at the carnival downstairs room into a 900-capcity venue with to [email protected]. Anyone wanting THE FAMOUS MONDAY NIGHT BLUES a 436-capacity live music room upstairs, which to contribute ideas to how the carnival should club now has a website. Go to will retain the name the Zodiac. In addition a take shape can post ideas at www.famousmondayblues.co.uk for news on 280-capacity bar venue will be included in the cowleyroadcarnival.blogspot.com, while news upcoming blues nights at the Bullingdon as well downstairs plans. The overall capacity of the about the event will be online at as a history of the long-running dedicated blues venue will be increased from its current 750 to www.cowleyroadcarnival.org, club. 1,150, with plans to increase this in the future. The new-look Oxford Academy will also have SWISS CONCRETE host two whole days of FORMER NUBILES AND FIVE-THIRTY the flexibility to host seated gigs up to 600 live music at the Port Mahon over the weekend frontman Tara Milton makes a rare live capacity downstairs and 250 upstairs. AMG of 30th June / 1st July. The mini-festival appearance at this month’s Beard Museum club bought the Zodiac from owners Nick Moorbath celebrates the club’s first anniversary and night at the Purple Turtle on Sunday 27th May. and Adrian Hicks late last year with the venue features some of the best acts to have played With the Nubiles reforming to play the last in desperate need of rebuilding work. over the past year. Ape Has Killed Ape!, Our night at the Zodiac on the 17th, this is a chance In the absence of the Zodiac, promoters TCT Own Devices, Zuby, Balor Knights, Godwits, to catch Tara’s solo show. Baby Gravy are Music are continuing their gigs over the summer Little Eiffel, Mr Shaodow, Last Days Of Lorca, amongst the other acts playing on the night, at venues in Reading and Aylesbury as well as Foxes! and Sailplanes are among the acts which features free entry to anyone sporting a booking acts for the re-opened Academy in the playing in the evenings, while each day sees an full beard. Check out www.beardmuseum.com Autumn. Check out their ads in Nightshift or afternoon of acoustic music and poetry in the for more news and dates. their website at www.tctmusic.co.uk pub’s back garden, including sets from Ally Craig, Richard Catalogue, Beaver Fuel, Simon AS EVER, DON’T FORGET TO TUNE TICKETS FOR THIS YEAR’S TRUCK Davies and Glenda Huish. Tickets for the event INTO THE DOWNLOAD every Saturday FESTIVAL sold out in a matter of hours when are £8, or £5 for each day, with all profits going evening between 6-7pm on BBC Radio 95.2fm. they went on sale locally on April 9th. Half the to The Red Cross. Check out The dedicated local music show plays the best festival’s tickets were made available to local www.myspace.com/swissconcrete for more new Oxfordshire releases as well as featuring fans that day with the remainder being snapped details. interviews with local and touring acts, an up online two days later. As yet no acts have Oxford gig and club guide and a local demo vote. been confirmed for the tenth Truck Festival, but THE EPSTEIN won a slot on the acoustic The show is available to listen to all week online organisers are looking for Oxfordshire bands and stage at this year’s Glastonbury Festival after at bbc.co.uk/oxford Sponsored RELEASED by Underground’ album, again stands out in any VARIOUS company, his lively, accomplished rhyming up ‘Blunted Presents there with the best UK underground rap. Pneumatic & Sloth’s metallic bass-led ‘The LMFLH Vol 2’ Morning Star’ is a stark, oddly coherent jumble of scratches and samples, while Ill Technicians’ (Blunted) gruff outpourings add a degree of hardcore that For the past four years Blunted have almost most of the rest of this cast lacks. Other single handedly flown the flag for Oxford-based highlights include Riskie Business’ hip hop, steadfast in their belief that this most ‘Introducing…’ echoing Black Dog’s propulsive unlikely of cities can harbour some serious rap style; Chima, Astro Snare & Kid Fury’s soulful talent. The emergence of acts like Zuby seems lament, ‘Yeah’, and Fluke’s ambient drum&bass to bear that belief out and this second skit, ‘Quiet Night’. There’s also a surprise compendium of local hip hop suggests Oxford bonus addition of Highscores Lo-Fi remix of is probably unfairly dismissed by anyone who Youthmovies’ ‘The Naughtiest Girl Is A thinks rap can only work if it crawls out of a Monitor’ sink estate. Of the rest, most suffer really just through being Saying that, ‘LMFLH Vol 2’ (Local Music For pace or rapping style. lost in the crowd and losing a few fillers would Local Heads) does overrun by some distance, Strike a line through the excess baggage make ‘LMFLH…’ the pleasure it deserves to be. its admirable endeavour to give room to as however and there’s more than enough to And let’s face it, unlike Pinikal, En-Reek & many local rappers as possible weighing the justify your time and the five quid this Kryptic, you’re unlikely to hear Jay-Z whole thing down as the latter half of the album compilation will set you back. Zuby’s ‘Start All namecheck Graham Norton any time soon. in particular struggles to find any diversity of Over’, the highlight of last year’s ‘Commercial Victoria Waterfield slivers of latin surf pop.