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[email protected] @NightshiftMag NightshiftMag nightshiftmag.co.uk Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 255 October Oxford’s Music Magazine 2016 “One of the best things music can do B is surprise me, and how could anyone predict an Ivor Cutler U song?” G PRENTICE Sweet songs and nasty noises with Oxford’s oddball pop trio. Also inside this issue: Introducing TWISTED STATE OF MIND KLUB KakofanneY turns 25 RIP `Dr Didg’ UNDERSMILE announce split plus All your Oxford music news, previews, reviews, and eight pages of local gigs for October 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: nightshiftmag.co.uk moment we don’t have the time and energy necessary to move the band forward.” The band, formed by singer- OXJAM CELEBRATES ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY guitarists Hel Sterne and Taz with a full day of live music across ten stages in east Oxford on Saturday Corona-Brown, along with bass 15th October. player Ollie Corona-Brown and The Oxford Oxjam Takeover runs from midday to midnight, featuring over drummer Tom McKibbin in 2009, 50 live acts and DJ sets. Participating venues are East Oxford Community were renowned for being one of the Centre (both rooms); Fusion Arts; The Library; The James Street Tavern; The most extreme bands ever to come Ultimate Picture Palace; Joe Perks; The Star; Truck Store, and Annie Sloan’s out of Oxford. Their early gigs upstairs gallery. regularly saw them clearing venues Among the acts performing are: Lowws; Death of Hi-Fi (pictured); Half of all but the hardiest of gig goers, Decent; Kancho; Masiro; The Beckoning Fair Ones; Kid Kin; After The but as their reputation grew and the Thought; Tiger Mendoza & David Griffiths; Hummingbird; Slate Hearts; band began touring further afield, Homeplanetearth; Be Good; Atlanta Swim; The Great Western Tears; Little including tours across Europe, Red, Ghosts in the Photographs; Moogieman & the Masochists; Egrets; Esme notably supporting Dylan Carson, Neale; Holy Moments; Luke Allmond; Overdog; Green Hands; Cosmosis, they attracted a huge following and Sshh! The Deaf Have Aids vs Manacles of Acid; Esther Joy Lane; UNMAN; earned regular rave reviews for their Balkan Wanderers; Dan Rawle; Cherokii; Roberto y Amigos; The Factory original formed of sludgy, tectonic Lights; Crime; Amoral Compass; The Deadbeat Apostles; Ute (acoustic); UNDERSMILE have announced doom-metal that was described in Rose Segal; The Outside; a Young Women’s Music Project takeover; The they have split up. The band put one Nightshift feature as “a spectral Dreaming Spires; Austin Lucas; Jess Hall; No Dice Grandma; The Fusion up a statement on their Facebook moan from the cellar of a haunted Project; Storyteller, and Progressively Less Elephant DJs. th page on the 16 September that dolls house.” Oxjam Oxford, this year sponsored by local construction company Basil said, “We’ve decided, as friends, Undersmile released two studio Wyatt & Sons, is part of a n annual nationwide web of events raising money that Undersmile has come to an albums, `Narwhal’ in 2012, and for Oxfam’s anti-poverty work around the world. All-venue tickets, priced end as of today. We’re all hugely `Anhedonia’ in 2015, as well as just £8 (+bf), are on sale now from Wegottickets.com, or on the day. proud of what we’ve achieved with various EPs and split releases. Wristband exchange will be at East Oxford Community Centre from 11am. the band. We’ve been honoured `Anhedonia’ was hailed as “a doom Regularly updated news will be on the Oxjam Oxford Facebook page. and humbled by the support we’ve masterpiece” on its release. On Friday 7th October Sofar Sounds host their own Oxjam benefit at a secret received from fans of the band and Taz and Ollie continue to play venue that will be made known to ticket holders the day before the show. the international doom community together in their band Drore, but Visit their Facebook page to find out more. as a whole in the seven years that for now, Oxford’s venues are going Abingdon hosts an Oxjam takeover on Saturday 29th October at The we’ve been together. With so many to be quieter, safer, and far less Unicorn Theatre. Kanadia, Coldredlight, All Is Worth and Sophronie will be things going on in our lives at the exciting places. performing. Tickets from the theatre and Remade Guitars. source. All during the show he would emit these GRAHAM WIGGINS 1962-2016 huge blasts of fire during the performance. The Tributes have been paid to Graham Wiggins, aka temperature in the room became unbearably hot Dr Didg, who has died at the age of 53. Graham’s and it was a minor miracle that the whole place passing was announced by his bandmates on didn’t burn to the ground. Huge balls of fire Facebook on September 8th, with a statement that rising from the stage at random intervals during read, “It’s with a heavy heart and sadness that we the show it; wasn’t really pyrotechnics it was just announce the unexpected passing of our dear friend pyro in its purest form. I helped him purchase a and amazing musician Graham Wiggins (a.k.a. “Dr portable DAT machine and microphone to take to Didg”) on September 7th . We have no details at Australia and asked him for some ambiences if he this time other than he passed in his sleep. This is got the chance. He came back three months later quite a shock to us. We’ve had nothing but amazing with a two hour tape just for me as a thank you. times and learned a lot through our travels with Full of natural ambiences, rainstorms, thunder Graham. He was one of the most well-informed earning him the nickname Dr Didg, and his skills etc. I was knocked out at his generosity. He was a and classiest people you could know.” earned him a slot playing with The Grateful Dead, great musician to work with.” Born in New York, Graham earned a doctorate as well as becoming a staple of the UK festival Graham’s friend and former manager Jon in physics from Oxford University and made scene. Bell added, “Whilst everyone knew what a his name as a pioneering didgeridoo player on Among those to pay tribute were local musicians phenomenal didg player he was, skills honed the local scene – and far beyond – through the and mastering engineer Tim Turan, who said, “I by his living with a tribe of Aborigines in the 1980s and 90s before moving back to the States first met Graham when he came to my house in Northern Territories for three months, few in 2000. Having formed the band Outback with 1989 to record the track `Dingo Go’ with Martin realise what a wonderfully gifted and classically guitarist Martin Cradick in 1988, fusing traditional Cradick, which got released on their first CD. I trained pianist he was too. I’m lucky to have Australian aboriginal music with modern sounds, went on to record many performances of Outback, a tape of Graham playing an extraordinary he later led Dr Didg, releasing some 15 albums but one particular show they asked me to video. beautiful version of The Grateful Dead’s classic and touring around the world. He invented a It was at the Jericho Tavern in 1991. Graham `Dark Star’ on piano. I shall miss him and his keyed didgeridoo while studying for his doctorate, brought with him a huge gas tank and an ignition dry wit.” THE FUSION PROJECT influences in really interesting and will become only the second non- moving ways, but I don’t think classical group to perform at the they’re coming at it from the same historic Sheldonian Theatre when place we are. We try and expose they play the Christopher Wren- people to the Indian classical world NEWS through the medium of western designed concert hall on Friday playing it but the camera didn’t show October 21st. songwriting and English lyrics. I my fingers. Other than that one song, The Oxford ensemble’s fusion of guess, within the music, the western I am really excited about playing Indian classical music, pop, rock stuff acts as a point of familiarity with Joe and Mike again; so many and blues has seen them playing that people can hook on to. of my favourite moments in my 20s alongside Ustad Rahat Fateh “The music community in Oxford were with those guys.” Ali Khan and The Raghu Dixit has been so important in nurturing Ahead of their full reunion, Ollie Project, but the Sheldonian show us. From the very beginning we’ve and Mike play an acoustic Ute set at will be their biggest headline gig had nothing but support and love this year’s Oxjam Oxford takeover to date, organised by Tigmus – the from both the University and the on Saturday 15th October. BLACK SKIES BURN promotions collective featuring Oli town. Yes, there was an Asian Steadman from Stornoway – who community that was always going release a split EP next month and NIKKI LOY releases her third became the first non-classical act to to be a little more receptive to are set to tour with Napalm Death album, `Pivotal’, on the 14th October. play the hall back in 2009 what we did but what really took in 2017. The local singer-songwriter plays The nine-strong ensemble formed us by surprise was how the music Asian music. We all met through beautiful Indian classical dances The local grindcore crew release a hometown show at SAE in when singer and guitarist Rushil seemed to be enjoyed regardless of the Oxford Indian Classical Arts done to some of the tracks, which is a `Brian Blessed Are The Sick’ with Littlemore on Thursday 20th October, KLUB KAKOFANNEY celebrates a quarter of a century of st where people come from and the Society, for example.