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“Playing with Paul McCartney was incredible. His crew let us have a go on some of his instruments. Don’t tell him!”

Oxford’s hottest stars on partying, global success and anonymity - interview inside. Also in this issue: Introducing LUCY LEAVE COMON PEOPLE returns in 2017 SUPERNORMAL reviewed plus All your Oxfordshire music news, reviews and previews. Plus six pages of local gigs. 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

THE MUSIC BOX has reopened in Wallingford, ten years after it closed down. The record store returns to the same site it occupied previously, in the town’s market square. After COMMON PEOPLE will return to Oxford in 2017. The two-day festival, an experimental temporary opening organised by the team behind Bestival, enjoyed a successful inaugural year at another site in the town, which is in South Park in May, drawing over 15,000 music fans each day to see the now a bar, owner Richard Strange likes of Duran Duran (pictured), Primal Scream, Craig David and Public RICHARD WALTERS releases his recognised a renewed demand for Enemy, as well as a host of local bands and DJs. Next year’s event will run fourth solo album in October. The vinyl. Go and pay them a visit; over the weekend of the 27th-28th May, with discount early bird tickets now local singer-songwriter, now based support local businesses and meet on sale, priced £22.50 for each day, or £45 for VIP tickets. in London, releases `A.M’ on the 14th nice people. October. Following a series of dates Talking about this year’s event, organiser Rob da Bank said, “Oxford was incredible. The sunshine, the crowd, the stunning city back drop, the music, around the UK supporting Stornoway OXJAM are still keen to hear from the food – wow! We have to thank the people of Oxford for making our Richard returns to Oxford for a show local acts wanting to play their debut in the city one of the best weekends of the year and we can’t wait to at The Library on the 26th October. Oxford takeover on Saturday 15th be back. Funded by fans on Kickstarter `A.M’ October. The local leg of the annual “Common People made a huge impact on the local economy, generating features eleven new songs and was nationwide network of gigs in aid an estimated £1 million through our policy of booking local bands and DJs, recorded in Laugarne in Wales – once of Oxfam runs all day at various using local food and drink suppliers, partnering with local businesses and home to Dylan Thomas. As well as venues on or near Cowley Road, attracting 25% of the audience from outside of Oxford. That’s something his own album, Richard has recently including East Oxford Community we are very proud of.” been writing and recording with Centre; Fusion Arts; The Library; Line-up announcements aren’t expected until later in the year but follow all Newton Faulkner and poet Simon James Street Tavern and Joe Perks. the news on the event at Facebook.com/commonpeopleox, on Twitter (@ Armitage. Find out more at www. Last year’s event saw sets from The commonpeopleOX) and Instagram (@commonpeopleOX). richardwaltersmusic.co.uk. Balkan Wanderers, Death of Hi-Fi, Duotone and Little Brother Eli, HUDSON SCOTT, Esther Joy among others. Acts interested should Dominik, who made Chopper and aim of raising funds and awareness Lane, ODC Drumline and DJ sets email oxjamoxfordproduction@ Killing Them Softly. for the homeless charity Crisis. from members of Foals and Friendly gmail.com. Admission is £6. Fires are all part of the We Are As part of the build-up to Oxjam FAMOUS BANANA PICTURES Your Friends daytime party at the Daisy Rodgers Music host their are looking for local bands to CHEROKEE have been forced to Bullingdon on Sunday 4th September annual Oxjam In The Round gig at work with on music videos. The change their name due to a clash in memory of Michael Barry. Worcester College Chapel on Friday independent company, set up by local with another act of the same name. Musician and promoter Michael died 29th September, featuring sets from singer and film maker Laima Bite, The grunge-blues duo are henceforth in March, aged 35, having made his The Epstein; Brickwork Lizards and have recently worked with Anton known as Cherokii. Go and see them name in local electro-pop band 100 Little Brother Eli. Barbeau, Jon Ouin from Stornoway – they’re bloody great. Bullets Back and as part of the team The Oxjam team have also organised and The Shaker Heights among that ran Abort, Retry, Fail? in the a multi-venue local art exhibition others. Laima is offering special THE ROYAL BLENHEIM starts early noughties, putting on some of across several venues in east Oxford rates for local acts and promising a weekly open mic session from this the first Foals gigs. The party, which with the Chester Arms; Fusion videos that in her words “offer a month. The pub, on St Ebbes, hosts runs from 2-7pm, will raise money Arts; The Star; Silvie; Truck Store visual interpretation of the music, its open session every Monday from for the Brain Tumour Charity – and Quarter Horse all hosting the usually abstract and stylised. Using 8pm. All performers and listeners Michael Barry Fund. exhibition. All the works are from my knowledge of film theory, I welcome – just turn up and introduce over 20 local artists and will be will endeavour to create something yourselves to management team THE FIFTH DONNINGTON available to buy during a live auction personal, not just something pretty Mike and Jane. COMMUNITY MUSIC on Sunday 2nd October at the Chester to look at. I also have a good FESTIVAL takes place on Arms. All proceeds will go to Oxfam. understanding of how to capture then AS EVER, don’t forget to tune into Saturday 1st October at Donnington keep the attention of an audience, BBC Oxford Introducing every Community Centre. The free festival THE PHOENIX which is extremely important when Saturday night between 8-9pm on runs from 2pm through til 10 at the PICTUREHOUSE will screen the people tend to zone out pretty quickly 95.2fm. The dedicated local music venue in Townsend Square, with Nick Cave film One More Time these days. That’s why I tend to go a show plays the best Oxford releases sets from Beard of Destiny; Daisy With Feeling for one night only on bit old school. I like to make things and demos as well as featuring Delvanaz; The Jesters; Johnny Thursday 8th September. The film odd but stylish.” Find out more at interviews and sessions with local Hinks; Mark Atherton & Friends; will be shown as part of a nationwide famousbananapictures.com. acts. The show is available to stream Matt Sewell; Moon Leopard; Oxford series of screenings the night before or download as a podcast at Ukuleles; Phil & Sue; Richard the release of Cave’s new album KANADIA headline the Oxford bbc.co.uk/oxford. Brotherton; Ruby; STEM; The String `Skeleton Tree’ the following day and leg of the Musicians Against Project, and Superloose. The event will provide the first opportunity to Homelessness month of gigs OXFORD GIGBOT provides a is in aid of Donnington Doorstep hear the album, written and recorded on Saturday 1st October at The regular local gig listing update on and Donnington Youth Group; entry in the wake of the tragic death of Wheatsheaf. They will be joined Twitter (@oxgigbot), bringing is free but donations are welcome, Cave’s son last year, following the by Coldredlight; Slate Hearts, and you new gigs as soon as they go and there will be food and t-shirts singer and his band as they write Sleeper’s Dome, formed by members live. They also provide a free on sale with proceeds going to the and record the record. Once More of Aureate Act. The campaign was weekly listings email. Just contact community groups. With Feeling is directed by Andrew launched by Alan McGee with the [email protected] to join. A Quiet Word With sales dropped even more than they are lots. We’ve been lucky enough to be a different story about a going. Last album we tried to play did when pirating was at its peak. to play in almost all of the big different character; some are 100% everything perfectly and flawlessly, People were buying radios and not American cities, and we always try autobiographical. I won’t say which as this time we kept a lot of the flaws records, but now artists are paid for to explore when we’re there. they’re I like the mystery, but yep… there’s a in exchange for a bit of rawness radio airplay, as are labels, and radio all very different from each other in fair amount in `Life Itself’. It’s about and `vibe’. Playing live also made has been turned into a great way for amazing ways. Portland, Austin and a slightly odd person who spends a us much more comfortable with the GLASS ANIMALS artists to make money and promote Kansas City were standouts. LA and lot of time alone at home doing weird idea of making music. `ZABA’ was their music. The system balanced New York are growing on me big things, becoming less sociable and the first album we’d ever recorded; out. For the most part. This will time. Vilnius, Budapest, and all the growing older and odder; I feel like we’ve never been in bands before this happen with streaming, but changes Australian cities are pretty freaking that quite often when spending time one. We found ourselves in the music need to be made. Read `Dissecting great crowds and fun people. And, in the studio. I start to feel like a bit industry where we knew no one and the Digital Dollar’; it’s a paper that well, most importantly: Oxford!” of a weirdo when I go back out into could hardly play our instruments, and outlines what should happen very the world. It takes me quite a while to we’d never been on stages before. We well.” Ah yes, Oxford. For all readjust to speaking to other humans were a bit shy making that album… Then again, you sold half a million the global fun and games and again.” a bit uncertain that what we were copies of `ZABA’; can you really success, still the place Glass Animals The new album feels funkier, less doing was right. This time we’d had start to dream now that with the call home. So much so that back woozy than the first; what do you a bit more experience, and realised new album you can make it into the in May when the new record was think has changed in the songwriting it doesn’t matter what other people musical A League? announced, the band debuted a lot of process? How much, if at all, have think; it matters that we feel we’ve “I’m not sure what the musical the new live set with a secret show at your influences changed since writing made something interesting, cool and A-league is, but hopefully we can the Bullingdon, a road test in front of `ZABA’? Your hip hop influences new, and that we enjoy doing it. make more records and keep touring family, friends and select guests (and seem to have come even more to the “As for writing on the road: it’s too and expanding our live show. We a request not to be reviewed as many fore. noisy and busy on the road to get have lots of ideas musically, and of the songs were being played live “The songwriting process was anything substantial done. Sometimes artistically and hopefully this album I’ll make beats in the back of the bus will allow us to realise some of them. when everyone has gone to bed but “There’s a fair amount of me in `Life Itself’. aside from that there’s too much other If the A-List isn’t stuff going on.” something on Glass Animals’ minds It’s about a slightly odd person who spends a You said before that songs came to quite yet, there was a tangible sense lot of time alone doing weird things, growing you in the moments between sleeping of excitement when `Life Itself’, the and waking; is that still the case? first track to be released from the older and odder; I feel like that quite often “It still happens, but I was very lucky band’s second album, `How To Be this time around and had so many A Human Being’, was announced, when spending time in the studio. It takes me ideas all the time; it was hard to get with an Annie Mac Hottest Record quite a while to readjust to speaking to other them down quickly enough. When in the World endorsement and plenty we came off tour I went straight to a of airplay on Radio 1 and 6Music in humans again.” studio on my own and managed to get the UK. Does Dave feel like Glass down all the demos for the record in Animals are a proper known quantity for the first time). almost entirely opposite to the last just under two weeks. I didn’t really now, and with `How To Be A Human “The Bullingdon was great fun. record. Last time the production get any sleep this time!” Being’ out this month, how excited is I love those little shows. It was a and beats came first. This time, the he about the release? chance for us to warm up and test out lyrics and vocal melodies came first, With `How To Be A Human “Ha! I don’t know if we’re a some new kit amongst friends.” then chords, then I put the beats and Being’ released this month, and the ‘known’ band now; that’s for other You’ve got a headline show at the production around that. Instead of inevitable round of touring and all “I don’t ever want to get the band, without a live gig under holidays. “I’m not sure where we’re most people to decide. But I am very O2 in October; other than getting to fitting lyrics and melodies to sounds the attendant duties that go with it set recognised! I want to go to Londis their belt, won Nightshift’s Demo Last time we talked the band had streamed. Probably Los Angeles or excited for the release, and a bit sleep in your own bed afterwards, I was fitting the sounds to the lyrics to kick off again, it could be some in my pants and for no one to give a of the Month (“a welcome breath of just got back from SXSW in Austin, New York or another big American nervous. We’ve come a long way what is special about playing Oxford, and ideas. time yet before Dave Bayley gets to fuck.” fresh air”). Little more was heard of Texas, playing with Gruff Rhys and city. Crowds have been very kind since album one. There’s some pretty particularly the size of venue you’ll “As for influences, I actively tried catch up on sleep. After something of them until a couple of years later they Warpaint and had been supporting St everywhere; I couldn’t choose one bold stuff on the record, musically be playing this time round? not to listen to, or think about, any a whirlwind couple of years, the ride Dave Bayley, Oxford’s started to become a name to drop Vincent on tour. Things, it’s fair to place that had the best reception, and lyrically. There’s a much broader “There’s always something very other music while making this one. – and the party – is only going to get most unlikely and most unassuming on the London music scene, spread say, have moved on some since then. but we had one moment last week range of sounds, and a much broader special about playing in Oxford. We I just tried to create the sounds that higher, faster, crazier. Glass Animals world-famous rock star revels in by word of mouth when their online “That was a long time ago!” says in Nebraska where the soundsystem range of emotions. A spoken word grew up here; we discovered music popped into my head using synths, are a band riding Willy Wonka’s the anonymity that continues to be music was picked up by significant Dave. “Since then we’ve only been broke down, and the entire crowd of track, some heavy dancey stuff, some here; we’ve seen all of our favourite guitars, drums… whatever was lying great glass elevator with its gear a major part of his life in the city he movers and shakers. One of whom doing headlines and festivals. But we 2,000 people kept singing the entire songs that make me tear up. I’m bands pass through The Cellar, The around. I guess I just naturally veer stuck on `Up’. How high it goes now calls home. was producer Paul Epworth, whose get to choose our own supports now song word for word for about five excited to see what people think. Jericho Tavern, The Wheatsheaf, The towards hip hop.” is anyone’s guess, but it isn’t coming frighteningly extensive production which is great, so we get to play with minutes. It was incredible. What’s your personal favourite O2, so it’s always wicked to be on `Pork Soda’ (a dark, trippy slice of back down any time soon. When Nightshift last credits features Adele, Florence and a lot of our favourite new artists, “Kansas City is always very fun track on the new album? those same stages as our heroes.” hip hop with choice lines “Maybe And, having experienced so much featured Glass Animals on the front the Machine, CeeLo Green, Bruno and artists we’ve collaborated with. though: we seem to always have “‘Agnes’, the final track.” I’m just fucking dumb / Maybe since the release of `ZABA’, what cover – back in April 2014 – the Mars and Bloc Party, among a host On festival stages we’ve gotten to particularly wild shows there. We Going back to the new you’re just fucking scum”) is a bit single piece of advice would Dave owner of a burger bar in Jericho talked of other global names. Glass Animals play with some of our heroes… Paul ended up crashing someone’s house A quote from Dave in album and lead track `Life Itself’ potty-mouthed isn’t it? Are you give to a new Oxford band starting in enthusiastically avuncular tones signed to his Wolf Tone label and McCartney was incredible. His crew party and doing a show using the the press release for `Life Itself’ looks set to become a genuine going full gangsta? out and hoping to achieve what he’s about “his” lad who grew up down released debut album `ZABA’ in were so kind and took us through all hosts’ guitars and drums and bass, suggested Glass Animals had been anthem for the band – an instantly “Yes!” done? the street and was a regular customer. 2014, a hazy, often spectral mix of his equipment and let us have a just for fun. That was wicked.” having quite a party around the world recognisable radio staple that oozes Do you think playing live so much “Take your time and don’t rush Two hundred million Spotify streams, of hip hop, r’n’b, electro-pop and go on some of his instruments. Don’t Equally, as so many artists have over the last couple of years (“we’ve irresistible funky vibes – vibes that has made the band open up its sound things. If the music is good you’ll get half a million album sales and several psychedelia. Very quickly things went tell him.” found out in the modern musical age been in a different city every night; hide a dark lyrical heart, a story more? Were you writing while on the there.” world tours later, chances are if singer, utterly bonkers for the band and they all those streams don’t add up to a making friends, hearing crazy stories, “about a guy who was born a bit road much? Coming from a man whose music songwriter and multi-instrumentalist found themselves jetting between the By any standards 200 huge amount of money; how difficult getting in crazy trouble”); would that strange and struggles to become part “I think playing live so much made has always done most of the talking Dave visited said burger bar few States and Australia, playing major million Spotify streams is is it to make a living as a band at be accurate, and where’s been their of society. Because of that he spends us appreciate the little mistakes, and for him, it’s sage advice. How to be others would recognise him. And yet, league festival slots and racking up extraordinary. It shows just what a this kind of level, and does Dave personal favourite place to party, more time alone in his own head, the soul, and the energy that a guitar/ a human being? Glass Animals are Glass Animals are by some distance the online plays and record sales at a genuinely world-beating concern think the rise and rise of streaming meet people and just have fun with getting stranger, and it becomes an synth/vocal/drum line can have when going to have to get used to how the most successful band to come dizzying rate. Glass Animals, who not so long ago has slanted everything even further the band? awful cycle of doom”. it’s not necessarily `perfect’, but when to be rock stars – maybe even get out of Oxford since Foals, with a were playing gigs at East Oxford against artists than it was before? “We’ve been busy! Some of that Is there an element of autobiography it captures a vibe or an atmosphere. mobbed once in a while. trajectory that could easily see them Dave formed Glass Community Centre and The Jericho “I think streaming is a great solution involved a bit of a party, yes. The in the character Dave is singing “A lot of the recordings on this overtake their near neighbours. Animals with school friends Drew Tavern, are. Given they can now to what used to be a huge problem. shows often turn into parties too. We about? record were done quite quickly, in `How To Be A Human Being’ is MacFarlane, Edmund Irwin-Singer headline theatres in the States and There are issues with it, sure, but started playing bigger, faster versions “I’d say there’s a certain amount an attempt to capture that energy out now on Wolf Tone. The band It all started off and Joe Seaward while the four were elsewhere, we wonder where the those issues will get ironed out over of the album and reworking it on of autobiography in all of the songs that exists when an idea is fresh, and play the O2 Academy on Friday 21st innocuously enough. Back in 2010 back in Oxford during university heartland of their fanbase is. time. When radio first arrived, record stage. Favourite places… ah, there on this record. Each song is meant you still have that little magic buzz October. Sponsored by monochrome feel of the late-70s underground, with their stark, minimalist arrangements and CLUB SODA a languid dynamic that borders on outright contempt at times. And they have a simplicity `Breathe Relief’ about them like so many of those bands who (All Will Be Well) prized ideas and a sense of adventure above If they’d chopped six seconds from its length, RELEASED `Breathe Relief’ would be a three-minute pop anything resembling virtuosity. So when singer GLASS ANIMALS DRORE Alice Ream repeats the line “I got drunk, I had a song, which is something I imagine Club Soda good time” in a girlish, sing-song voice it takes would be happy about. Through a combo of soft `How To Be A Human `Tape One’ on the guise of a gothic nursery rhyme. This ode pulsing synth lines, slightly (knowingly?) old- of the pleasure of being alone comes infused with school drum machine rhythms, wispy vocals (Self released) and crisp-as-you-like guitar’n’bass melodic Being’ Drore’s debut EP starts with the sound of a toilet the spirit of bands like Young Marble Giants, lines, it’s a short and sweet dalliance around (Wolf Tone) being flushed. And then flushed again. This is The Raincoats and The Delta 5 – a golden age of 1980s synth-pop and indie-pop. It comes across Talking to Nightshift when their debut album before we get to songs with titles like `Skin Job’, musical liberation for everyone but particularly as accidentally a little dour, which somewhat `ZABA’ was released in 2014, Glass Animals `Hippy Crack’ and `Fukbags’, none of which, it’s female musicians. roughens its edges, but the track is so glossy frontman Dave Bayley claimed that ideas fair to say, are going to earn the band a place on When Jonny Mundey takes over lead vocal in production and feel that it’s an overriding for songs came to him in moments between next year’s BBC Sound Of shortlist. Drore, you duties on `Hotel Europa’ things turn just a few compulsion to throw around concepts of ‘summer sleeping and waking, and that seemed highly see, are a band fuelled by rage, but seemingly shades darker, even as he issues a sombre clarion pop tunes’ and ‘airy festival crowd-pleasers’. plausible given the woozy nature of the music, even more so by disgust. It seeps from their every KONE call for more love in the world faced with our Maybe the whole thing is some contrived joke spectral vocals and the strange imagery in his pore in a way we’ve not heard from any local inevitable mortality (“I greet you with a smile, `Sketches of Kone’ – Club Soda may be four stocky, middle-aged lyrics, with those peanut butter vibes. band since the demise of The Cellar Family a few because life is short”), the song’s fidgety spangle metallers for all I know – but ‘Breathe Relief’ at With the band’s rapid rise and seemingly non- years back. (Self released) reminiscent of so many early-80s 4AD bands, but least feels like the work of heartfelt and starry- stop global touring in the interim, coupled Drore’s pedigree is impeccable – two parts While the term post-punk has been overused to in particular Modern English. eyed youngsters. It may not be the ‘perfect with a fair bit of partying along the way, it’s no Undersmile, one part Crippled Black Phoenix the point of meaningless by bands who don’t As their lyrics suggest, Kone are never going pop’ that bands such as theirs dream of, but it’s surprise to hear follow-up album `How To Be obliqueness and gangsta rap beef. and one part Girl Power – and that melting pot is know what they’re talking about, Kone are to be the life and soul of the party – more like a pleasing diversion from the daily horror and A Human Being’ sound more like music made Just as the momentum is building to a peak exactly what you hope for from the band. There possibly the one local band who most sound like the loner sat at the bottom of the stairs with a misery of modern life. Perhaps. in the hours when bed would have been the and you begin to imagine videos filmed around are strong radioactive traces of Undersmile’s the music that came out of those incredible years bottle in their hand. In their case, though, you’ll Simon Minter sensible option but everyone was having too swimming pools filled with nubile young malevolent doom in the deep, dark wells of after punk shook up the pop bottle, sprayed it all ultimately have more fun getting to know them good a time. creatures, the band drop everything several downtuned noise here, but while Taz Corona- over the room and snarled “you can do this too.” than any of the brasher guests. Lead track `Life Itself’ in particular, which notches, with `Mama’s Gun’ closer to their Brown’s voice is recognisable, she regularly For starters, Kone reflect the almost Dale Kattack kicks off the album is a big, warm breeze of first album’s soft-focus fuzz. But straight away dispenses with the haunting, spectral moans and jammed-out good vibes, west African rhythms they’re back with the bubbly `Cane Shuga’, sighs of her other band in favour of a rasping and a heftier funk kick conjuring an image of while `The Other Side of Paradise’ perhaps drawl and near-hysterical vocal onslaught that FOCI’S LEFT TANNERS POOL Radiohead and Tame Impala keeping the party unsurprisingly given its title, wanders woozily might sometimes recall the terrifying soul- going with Mbongwana Star and The Weeknd in into Coolio territory. Album closer `Agnes’ excavating intensity of Babes In Toyland’s Kat `Something Free’ `Out of Line’ someone’s basement when the beer and bongs might carry the air of someone taking a few Bjelland, but mostly sounds like the demon (Self released) (Self released) have been freely passed around. minutes out to consider how late and how Abaddon vomiting furballs while simultaneously Lo-fi improvised minimalism can go many Reading a recent interview Tanners Pool Even the relatively more laidback `Youth’ retains funky they want tonight to get, but the sense of screaming bloody murder about stepping on a ways, but frequently we find it going in the conducted, they repeatedly describe their that effervescent fizz about it, Bayley’s love of optimism you get from it, and the line “let’s go piece of Lego. With four songs each clocking bin, since far too often it seems to be about music as “punchy”, which is appropriate, since hip hop ever more to the fore with the loose but back to the beginning” suggests they’re not done in around the six minute mark, `Tape One’ could indulging in the worst kinds of whimsy. barely two minutes into this debut EP we feel precise production and sharp beats stepping out yet. Succinct and focussed, yet chilled enough be an endurance test but, like riding a surfboard The highly prolific Foci’s Left – the work of compelled to pummel them to within an inch of the haze and fog of `ZABA’ while keeping to let the grooves flow freely, `How To Be A across a lava flow, it’s never less than a thrilling electronics/piano dabbler Mick Buckingham of their lives for inflicting this grimly efficient, the mood nocturnal. `Season 2 Episode 3’ is all Human Being’ is a genuine step up for Glass trip, culminating in EP highlight `Fukbags’, whose Bandcamp boasts close to 70 releases and steadfastly soulless dirge on us. Four tracks wowsy pop and crackle with almost a gospel Animals from their debut – a genre-straddling which lurches from hollowed-out gothic lament demos – has produced some intriguing moments of limp, lightweight funky rock that seems edge while `Pork Soda’ is some way off what statement of intent from a band at the heart of into a blizzard of shrapnel and hate, concluding over the last couple of years, although brevity barely capable of punching its way out of the you might expect from Glass Animals up to now: their own party and with no intention of heading with a hiss and whine and sizzle that could be all has never been his strong point, and this latest proverbial wet paper bag, never mind kick- solid beats and full-on r’n’b vocals that lyrically to bed any time soon. their amps melting, and a reverbed “Thank you album, twelve tracks spread across seventy-five starting a wild rock and roll shindig. Sorry, sound halfway between Thom Yorke-style Dale Kattack very much”. Yeah, your soul tasted just great. minutes, would test the patience of a saint, even but this is so bereft of life, energy, attitude… 31HOURS Drore’s music is dark and dense enough to be if that saint was St Fidget of Moog. punch, you wonder how the band managed `Rockpools’ abstract concept, they’d be the passage of time: virtually impenetrable at times, which merely Performed mostly on a Korg Triton, it’s a to invigorate themselves enough to record slow but unstoppable. Can you see where this is accentuates the joy you get from cranking the random scrawl of piano plonking, fractured it. If the rumbling soft rock is unremarkable (Self released) going? Indica Blues are slow. And unstoppable. volume ever higher, everything tumbling together beats, sub aquatic rave squelch, occasional and workaday, singer Matt Ashdale’s strained Having won Demo of the Month back in For them the riff is everything; it is taller than as if dragged in by a gravitational force, before disembodied vocal samples and the most vocals suggest a casual shrug dying slowly in February, we were a bit taken aback by what a the highest mountain, broader than the distance being repelled by so many abrasive edges. Our cursory excursions into drum&bass, jazz and a darkened corner to universal indifference. mess 31Hours were live when we went to check between here and the moon and as deep, dark and next door neighbours moved out last week, and contemporary classical. Occasionally, as on In the punchy classic rock stakes, this is to them out. Thankfully this debut EP redresses brooding as the Mariana Trench. It was born the we wonder if it’s because they knew we were the second, fifteen-minute, track (none of Led Zeppelin what Napoleon Dynamite is to the balance for the most part – a reminder of the glowering lovechild of Tony Iommi but outgrew going to be playing this a lot in the near future. them have titles), things fit together, albeit Mohammed Ali. hazy, fluid electro-pop and r’n’b fidgeting we’d its father and wandered into the hills to ingest Sue Foreman haphazardly, and he creates an uncomfortable, Dale Kattack fallen for on first hearing, rather than the out of hallucinogenic fungi and sing songs of great shifting, stuttering ambience, and when his tune bloke shouting too loudly over a Foals cast- sorry. And Vikings. There’s a Viking longboat ideas cohere he can carry you along, but the off that we encountered at The Wheatsheaf. on the cover of this EP. Of course there bloody longer this goes on the more infuriating it all With their tika-taka beats, starlit keyboards, well is. There could have been a picture of an gets, like a kid with no prior engagement with languid guitar and synth shimmers and lost-in- enormous boulder on the cover but reduced to musical instruments let loose in PMT and told the-dark vocals, 31Hours risk coming over as the size of a CD sleeve it would have looked to recreate their favourite Stockhausen piece. something of an Oxford composite –Radiohead, puny and small, no more than a pebble. Indica Doubtless a scholar of International Art English, Foals and Glass Animals influences come at you Blues are not puny, nor are they small. They as identified by Alix Rule and David Levine, from myriad directions – but that’s to underplay are huge. And slow. And unstoppable. And if could, given enough acid and a big enough the undeniable charm of `Royal Box’ and EP INDICA BLUES behemoth riffs, rolling, oceanic grooves and thesaurus, describe all this, doubtless using centrepiece `Windowsill’, which meanders lazily sky-searching incantations that make you think words like liminal, binary and Dadaristical for almost eight minutes like moonlight reflected `Ruins On the Shore’ dark, happy thoughts of Black Sabbath, Kyuss, (yeah, that last one isn’t in the thesaurus, we just on a river at night. (Self released) Electric Wizard and The Melvins are where your made it up, so what), but there’s only so much The band still seem unwilling to get a groove on If Indica Blues were a vehicle, they’d be an particular bag is, then join this trip. This road randomness we can take before we’re forced to or pick up a bit of pace, but there’s much to be oil tanker: slow but unstoppable. If they were goes on forever; why would you ever want it to reach for `ABBA Gold’ and remind ourselves said for slowing down time, staring into space a sportsperson they’d be footballer Adebayo stop. that a decent tune is not a crime. and contemplating the prettiness in small things. Akinfenwa: slow but unstoppable. If they were an Dale Kattack Dale Kattack Sue Foreman

helped run, this afternoon features a mix of live two bands from Barcelona – slick, super-fast music – from former Youthmovies trumpeter- hardcore fighters Anarguia Vertical, whose turned-singer Hudson Scott, inspired by Bowie sub-minute blasts pay due homage to the likes and Arthur Russell, and fellow Youthmovies of Wretched, Negative Approach and Teen alumni ODC Drumline – plus DJ sets from Idles, while neighbours Ultra similarly hark Foals – who played some of their first shows back to prime early-80s American hardcore. at ARF? – and Friendly Fires. All proceeds Local sludge/doom/d-beat monsters Drore do GIG GUIDE will go to the Brain Tumour Charity – Michael a fair approximation of a jet liner full of angst Barry Fund. and rage plummeting to earth and exploding THURSDAY 1st hop and rockabilly to exotic effect. They’re BROKEN BRASS ENSEMBLE: O2 in a giant fireball, and they’re joined by new SLOW DOWN MOLASSES + FLIGHTS joined by heavy rock, thrash and metalcore Academy – Fresh from playing Secret Garden Oxford/London punk/black metal types The Thursday 8th OF HELIOS + THE BECKONING FAIR SEPTEMBER newcomers Force of Mortality, and funky pop Party, the Dutch brass band mix traditional Swell. ONES: The Cellar – Expansive, almost INDICA BLUES + GRUB + BEAVER trio Tanners Pool. New Orleans brass with hip hop, funk and soul. THE MIGHTY REDOX: The Wheatsheaf – PETE ROCK & orchestral folk, alt.country and post-rock dream FUEL: The Wheatsheaf – Super heavyweight SPARKY’S SPONTANEOUS SHOWCASE SEA & AIR + 31HOURS + KHAMSINA: Swamp blues, funk, ska and psychedelia from pop from Canada’s Slow Down, Molasses, at stoner rock from Indica Blues at tonight’s & SPOTLIGHT JAM: The James Street Ark-T, Cowley – After their star turn at the ever-gigging local veterans in the Sheaf’s CL SMOOTH: tonight’s Divine Schism show, the collective Moshka gig, the band launching their new EP, Tavern – Sparky’s monthly bands and jam last year’s Oxjam German duo Sea and Air downstairs bar. inspired by Black Sabbath, Kyuss and Electric night this month features sets from Richard return to town, their highly eclectic mix of GET LIT: The Cellar O2 Academy over in the UK to promote third album `100% After recent visits to town for a whole Wizard. Support from psych-noise people Grub Brotherton, Beard of Destiny and Porker Band. startling piano-led torch-pop, crazed jazz- IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC Sunshine’, tonight warming up for their slew of golden age hip hop greats – Public and scuzzy indie-punks Beaver Fuel. punk, meandering philosophical chatter, subtle SHOWCASE: Jericho Tavern – New bands imminent showing at End of the Road festival. Enemy, Jurassic 5, KRS-1 – a chance to TEN STRINGS AND A GOATSKIN: St rd humour, sparse Radiohead-like electro-pop showcase. Top drawer local support from ambient electro- SATURDAY 3 catch two of that era’s more unsung heroes Nicholas Church, Baulking – Inventive, and soft-soap harmony pop is a welcome treat. CATWEAZLE CLUB: East Oxford prog space explorers Flights of Helios, and NEVERLND + GLASS + LUCY LEAVE: in the form of New York’s Pete Rock and energetic folk music from Prince Edward Local support from rising local electro-indie Community Centre fractious noise merchants The Beckoning Fair The Bullingdon – Eclectic blend of indie, CL Smooth, whose tribute to fallen friends Island in Canada from Ten Strings and a spanglers 31Hours, plugging their new EP, and SPARKY’S FLYING CIRCUS: The Half Ones. electronica, dub, bluesy rocking and pure pop `They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)’ has Goatskin, the trio drawing on Scottish, French- piano-led power balladeer Khamsina. Moon GET LIT: The Cellar – US and UK from the local stars as they play their last gig attained cult classic status over the years, Canadian, Acadian and Irish traditions on new BEARD OF DESTINY + MOON LEOPARD ACOUSTIC THURSDAY: Jude the Obscure underground hip hop sounds. for a while after a series of monthly releases, while debut album `Mecca & the Soul album `Auprès du Poêle’. + MARK BOSLEY & PETE LOCK + SAM BLUES JAM: The Catherine Wheel, university commitments taking the members Brother’ is considered a minor masterpiece MICHELE STODART: Fat Lil’s, Witney POPE: Donnington Community Centre Sandford away from town for the next few months. of early-90s hip hop. Rock’s love of old jazz nd – The Magic Numbers singer goes out solo (6pm) – Free live unplugged music from blues Friday 2 Quirky noise-pop trio Lucy Leave and London and soul samples and jazzy beats played out for her second album `Pieces’, taking a more duo Beard of Destiny; psychedelic folksters th duo Glass support. FRIDAY 9 well against Smooth’s philosophical raps, solemn, introspective path to her band’s Moon Leopard and Moiety chaps Bosley and SERATONES: HOLY MOMENTS + KANCHO! + BOSSAPHONIK with CAMO CLAVE: The drawing them close to the style of A Tribe psychedelic pop, her acoustic tales of regret Lock. TANNERS POOL + THE OUTSIDE + LEE Cellar – Dancefloor Latin, Afrobeat, global Called Quest and Gang Starr, while they and heartache inspired by Patsy Cline, Joni The Bullingdon RILEY & MACERENA + THE LAND grooves, Balkan beats and nu-jazz club night, collaborated with Public Enemy and Run Just as sometimes we want to slouch on the Mitchell and Tracy Thorn. th GIRLS: O2 Academy – It’s All About the MONDAY 5 with a live set from new electro-tropical DMC along the way. At some point they fell sofa with a slab of cake and watch Harry CATWEAZLE CLUB: East Oxford Music showcase, with highly promising new THE OUTSIDE TRACK: Nettlebed Folk septet Camo Clave, bringing salsa, rumba, out badly and dissed each other publically Potter films, Nightshift sometimes feels the Community Centre – Oxford’s longest punk and post-punk trio Holy Moments, joined Club – Scottish, Irish and Canadian folk-dance reggae and cumbia rhythms into the realms of while pursuing solo careers, but, in keeping need to forget about musical progress and running open mic night continues to showcase by sheet-metal hardcore ragers Kancho!, funk- from the award-winning outfit. electronic dance music via dub. with their intelligent, philosophical approach indulge in some proper old time rock and singers, musicians, poets, storytellers, popsters Tanners Pool, twinkly indie crew The OPEN MIC SESSION: The Royal Blenheim UPRISING with EVAROSE + KONE + to music and life, musical and personal roll – the dirtier the better. Seratones fulfil performance artists and more every week. Outside and more. – New weekly open mic night at the Blenheim WOLFS + KID KIN: O2 Academy – Alt. differences were eventually forgotten that need with raw, greasy riffage to spare. SPARKY’S FLYING CIRCUS: The Half FREE RANGE presents WHAT YOU CALL in St Ebbe’s. rock and post-hardcore pop from Banbury and they’re back together to show a new The band, from Shreveport in Louisiana, Moon – Sparky hosts his weekly open mic IT, GARAGE?: The Cellar – UK garage, starlets Evarose at tonight’s Academy/BBC generation why they were such critically came together from various bit parts of their session at The Half Moon. grime and bassline club night. th Introducing showcase tie-in Uprising. They’re acclaimed, if not commercially successful, local punk scene, and the music they make ACOUSTIC THURSDAY: Jude the Obscure JOHNNY COPPIN & MIKE SILVER + TUESDAY 6 joined by downbeat post-punk spanglers hip hop stars. A new album is reportedly is a swaggering, soulful mix of garage and – Unplugged open mic session. THE ROD KELLY QUARTET: The KIM LOWRINGS & THE GREENWOOD: Kone, post-rock soundscapist Kid Kin and ready to go – their first together since 1994’s southern rock and classic blues, perfect for BLUES JAM: The Catherine Wheel, Bullingdon – Piano jazz and blues at tonight’s Tiddy Hall, Ascott-under-Wychwood – more. `The Main Ingredient’, but no details or title sweaty, raucous blues bars. But it’s singer Sandford – Weekly open blues jam. free jazz club. Wychwood Folk Club host pianist Johnny BLACK SKIES BURN + RSJ + RAISED have yet been revealed. AJ Haynes that makes them special; raised SPARK’S SIDE OF THE MOON: The Coppin and guitarist Mike Silver, who met in BY HYPOCRITES: The Wheatsheaf – in the local Baptist church, singing gospel James Street Tavern – Weekly open mic nd the 70s but only started making music together Molten grindcore from local stars Black Skies songs from the age of six, she fair belts out FRIDAY 2 session. and emotive songsmith Trevor Williams. Plus in 2004, the combination of their vocals Burn, with support from Witney heavyweights her songs, mixing the grit of Janis Joplin SERATONES: The Bullingdon – Back to OSPREY & FRIENDS: St Aldates Tavern sets from Kastaphor; Papa Nui; Haula & Ben making debut album `Breaking the Silence’ Raised By Hypocrites. with the gospel of Mavis Staples and the the old house in a blues’n’rock style from – Weekly jam session with the local bluesman Avison; Matt Beasley; Cigani Knees Up; The a firm favourite on the English folk scene. THE CORSAIRS + STRIKE ONE + CPR: sheer power of Tina Turner. Recorded at Louisiana’s finest – see main preview and chums. Aultones, and The Wonder Rabbits. Support from Appalachian mountain dulcimer The Bullingdon – Rockabilly and psychobilly Dial Black Sound studios in Mississippi, ELVANA: O2 Academy – The world’s HELL’S GAZELLES + TRAUMA UK: The player, pianist and songwriter Kim Lowrings from Corsairs at tonight’s It’s All About the the quartet’s debut album, `Get Gone’, premier (for which we guess you can read Bullingdon – EP launch show from the local and her band. th Music showcase. celebrates the joy of old school simplicity `only’) Elvis impersonator-fronted Nirvana WEDNESDAY 7 rockers, channelling the classic heavyweight THE PINK DIAMOND REVUE + STORYTELLER + CRYSTALLITE + and energy, which should appeal to fans of tribute act. Yes, The King goes grunge. And WAY UP: The Cellar – UK garage, UK funky sounds of Judas Priest, Led Zep, Van Halen SPINNER FALL + RAVENS: The KUIPER: The Jericho Tavern – It’s All Alabama Shakes, The Bellrays and even who’s to say he wouldn’t have if he’d gotten house and summer anthems, with DJ Platinum. and AC/DC into a melodic but hard rocking riff Wheatsheaf, Banbury – Reading’s Pink About the Music showcase night with funk, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This will be their first full the chance? party. Diamond Revue bring their dark electro-heavy rock and reggae fusion band Storyteller UK tour, with the likelihood they’ll be far ABSOLVA: The Cellar – A feast of classic th VOLUME DNB with CRISSY CRISS heavy rock and metal courtesy of OxRox surf-rock to Banbury, with support from local THURSDAY 8 alongside grungy blues rockers Crystallite and more famous by the time it ends than when PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH: O2 AND MC CARASEL: The Bullingdon – tonight with former-Fury UK duo Chris new wave and post-punk chaps Spinner Fall. funk-rock crew Kuiper. they first hit these shores, so get in early. Academy – The critically-lauded 90s hip hop Drum&bass club night. Appleton and Martin McNee bringing their SHEPHERD’S PIE: Fat Lil’s, Witney – Indulge your ears. And drink more than is duo back together for a fresh run through their SILVER RAVENS: The Wheatsheaf – It’s All band Absolva to town as part of a UK tour to Hard rock and metal covers, from Maiden and th good for you. You’ll thank us for this advice classic `They Reminisce Over You’ and more – SATURDAY 10 About the Music local bands showcase. promote fourth album `Harsh Reality’, having Metallica to Thin Lizzy and Black Sabbath. in the morning. see main preview RABBIT HOLE FESTIVAL: Victoria RAN KAN KAN: The Old Fire Station – Son previously supported Iced Earth and Michael JOHNNY’S SEXUAL KITCHEN: The THE STEVE SUMMERS BAND: The Arms, Marston (12.30pm) – After last year’s Montuno and mambo classics from the local Schenker as well as forming Blaze Bayley’s Brewery Tap, Abingdon – Classic rock Bullingdon – Soulful melodic blues rock from successful inaugural event in Hinksey, Rabbit Cuban big band, plus a Cuban salsa dance touring band. covers. the experienced studio guitarist, out on tour Hole returns, a full day of live music across workshop and tropical tunes from DJ Si. KLUB KAKOFANNEY with THE with his own band. two stages in aid of mental health charity TURF: The Cellar – House, bass and garage BRICKWORK LIZARDS + FORCE th SUNDAY 4 ANARGUIA VERTICAL + ULTRA + Restore and the Helen and Douglas House club night. OF MORTALITY + TANNERS POOL: WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS: The Bullingdon DRORE + THE SWELL: The Library – hospice. Among the highlights are sunshine REVENGE OF THE PSYCHOTRONIC The Wheatsheaf – Klub Kak returns after (2-7pm) – A special daytime charity gig and Smash Disco continue to showcase a world synth-popsters Alphabet Backwards; authentic MAN + MATHILDA’S SCOUNDRELS + its summer break, with a fresh mixed bag party in memory of the late Michael Barry, of punk and hardcore for zero pounds in country crew The Great Western Tears; dark- TIM LOUD: The Wheatsheaf, Banbury of music, this month featuring self-styled who passed away earlier this year. In the the suitably intimate surroundings of the edged indie-folksters Little Red; funky reggae – Manchester’s thrash-punk/hardcore beasts Turkobilly fusion crew Brickwork Lizards, spirit of the Abort, Retry, Fail? club nights he Library. Tonight’s four-band assault features outfit Storyteller; jazz-funkers Heavy Dexters, come to the Shire. mixing up Arabic influences with blues, hip from Smash Disco, with New Orleans’ chaotic from Autumn Saints. MARK HARRISON + FARMER JOHN: psych-tinged indie rocking from Reading’s fast- bad-ass bruisers Mystic Insane, melding Stooges THE MIGHTY REDOX: The Mad Hatters The Swan Inn, Ascott-under-Wychwood rising stars, back in town as they tour new single proto-punk with Flipper-like dirges and Necros’ THE RAJASTHAN HERITAGE BRASS – Traditional English folk from singer Mark `Loveblood’. hyperactive energy. Suitably virulent support BAND: The Cornerstone, Didcot – A Harrison at tonight’s Wychwood Folk Club show, KHAMSINA + ROSE SEGAL + KEVIN from debased slacker-core crew Scrap Brain and spectacular and colourful celebration of Rajasthan with support from Wurzels associate Farmer PEARCE: The Bullingdon – Epic big band anarcho-punk militants Basic Dicks, featuring music and dance from the ten-piece brass band John. power ballads and piano-pop belters from local ex- and current members of Undersmile, Drore, mixing up Rajasthani folk songs, Bollywood hits, THE MIGHTY CADILLACS: The Black songstress Khamsina at tonight’s Tigmus show, Too Many Poets and Girl Power. spiritual qawwali and Bhangra beats. Swan, Abingdon – Classic blues and rock’n’roll plus folk-pop singer Rose Segal. INTRUSION: The Cellar – Monthly goth, WHITESNAKE UK: Fat Lil’s, Witney – covers. industrial and ebm club night with residents Tribute to David Coverdale’s classic heavy MONDAY 19th Doktor Joy, Bookhouse and guests. rockers. th GILES ROBSON: The Bullingdon – Haven DEAN OWENS: Fat Lil’s, Witney – Celtic JACKHAMMER: The Wheatsheaf, Banbury SUNDAY 18 SUNDARA KARMA: O2 Academy – Energetic Club show for the UK bluesman, discovered th Americana from Leith, via Nashville, from rd Thursday 15 playing back-up to Muddy Waters’ son Mud Friday 23 Scotland’s soulful country troubadour, whose th nd Morganfield and rated as the best harmonica fans include Bob Harris, Irvine Welsh and SATURDAY 17 Thursday 22 INHEAVEN / MOON HOOCH: HUMMINGBIRDS: O2 Academy – Modern player on the European circuit, bringing a soulful Russell Brand. English folk and skiffle from Liverpool’s blend of blues and r’n’b to town. O2 Academy SPARK’S SIDE OF THE MOON: The James GARY NUMAN / I PALE WAVES / Hummingbirds, out on tour after opening this LYNCHED: Nettlebed Folk Club – Traditional Too much modern jazz is either too polite or Street Tavern too concerned about virtuosity rather than, year’s Cornbury Festival. SPEAK MACHINE: Irish folk from Dublin’s Lynched, hailed as the COLDREDLIGHT: KANADIA + LITTLE BROTHER ELI + best trad band to come out of Ireland in many as was intended back in the mists of time, th having a wild time. Moon Hooch might be WEDNESDAY 14 VIENNA DITTO: The Cellar – Stadium- O2 Academy years and fresh from playing The Royal Albert The Bullingdon How many rock stars have risen so high, You’d probably have to go back to virtuosos but they’re never knowingly polite LOWLY HOUNDS + VAGUEWORLD sized pop in the vein of Radiohead, Muse and Hall. fallen so low and been so completely reborn Glasvegas’ `Geraldine’ to find an indie record and wild times are very much the order + SAM EDWARDS: The Wheatsheaf – U2 from fast-rising local stars Kanadia, joined OPEN MIC SESSION: The Royal Blenheim as Gary Numan? Back in the late 70s the that wears its big, bold heart so proudly on of the day as their often chaotic, beat-led London’s indie-blues rockers Lowly Hounds tonight by recent Nightshift cover stars Little self-confessed accidental pioneer of synth- its chest as InHeaven’s `Bitter Town’ – a jazz threatens to enter full-on rave territory headline tonight’s It’s All About the Music Brother Eli, bringing the funk and blues party th pop was just about the biggest star around, TUESDAY 20 song that sounds like The Jesus & Mary at each turn. The trio – drummer James show, inspired by Fleetwood Mac, Alabama to town via Black Denim, White Stripes and the but simultaneously reviled by a music ALVIN ROY & REEDS UNLIMITED: The Chain deciding that Big Country were pretty Muschler and saxophonists Mike Wilbur and Shakes and Catfish & the Bottlemen. Local Chili Peppers, and chaotically brilliant electro- press still stuck on post-punk’s political Bullingdon – Trad jazz, swing and bop from damn cool after all and aiming for a similarly Wenzi McGowen – met while studying at punk-popsters Vagueworld make a brief reunion rockabilly and sci-fi blues from arguably the best posturing. When Numan’s musical magic veteran clarinettist Alvin Roy and his reeds band heroic sense of epic. And, heck, they’re not The New School For Jazz & Contemporary appearance in support. live band in town, Vienna Ditto. began to fade, he became a laughing stock at the Bully’s weekly jazz club. even Scottish. They’re from south London Music in their native New York and began SUMMER SESSIONS: The Cellar – Bassline, FLUID AUTUMN 2016 LAUNCH PARTY: of unprecedented proportions, artistically SPARK’S SIDE OF THE MOON: The James and they’re back in town as part of a headline busking on subway platforms, the two garage, house and drum&bass club night. The Cellar – Grime, bassline and drum&bass and commercially bankrupt, sustained Street Tavern tour after supporting Yak here earlier in May. sax player’s hyperkinetic shadowboxing from Masp, Effi, VLVT and Dave Allen at only by the most fanatical fanbase in pop. OSPREY & FRIENDS: St Aldates Tavern They’ve just released a new single, `All style creating something almost feral in th tonight’s club night THURSDAY 15 VERA GRACE + REVELATION + Fast forward to 2013 and the release of the There Is’, and that’s pretty big hearted too – conjunction with the unrestrained, dance- SAIICHI SUGIYAMA: The Bullingdon – st CHAPTER & VERSE: The Bullingdon – man’s 21 studio album, `Splinter’, and st all frothing, anthemic fuzz and spangle with friendly rhythms, and soon found themselves Classic British blues Japanese style from Tokyo- WEDNESDAY 21 Alternately spittle-flecked metalcore rage, and he was finally, and rightfully ensconced as WAY UP: The Cellar a hint at REM at their most open hearted. banned from the underground system for born guitarist and singer Saiichi Sugiyama, highly textured atmospheric prog from Witney’s national treasure, a universally respected They can do politics too – the anti-American causing too many impromptu parties. Since a long-time collaborator with Cream’s Pete brilliantly beastly Vera Grace. pioneer with few equals. Everyone from colonialism of `Baby’s Alright’. That’s a big then they’ve gone on to record three albums, Brown, and regularly dubbed The Japanese nd OLD SCHOOL OXFORD: The Bullingdon Trent Reznor, Beck, Damon Albarn and THURSDAY 22 anthemic singalong too. These kids can’t including their eponymous Billboard Top Clapton for his 60s-inspired British blues style. OXFORD BEARD FESTIVAL: The James Lady Gaga to Bowie, Prince, Dr Dre and GARY NUMAN: O2 Academy – The synth-pop help themselves. Chances of them being 10 debut, and new album `Red Sky’, which He’s drawn admiring comparisons to Peter Street Tavern (12 noon) – Oxford’s annual Afrikaa Bambaataa has clamoured to hail legend returns to town. Nightshift gets a bit giddy proper bloody huge: pretty decent, we’d is getting rave reviews well beyond the jazz Green along the way too while over the years celebration of facial hair returns, with a full day his electronic genius. While the music he’s – see main preview say. Continuing the vaguely 80s-styled indie press as it weaves aggressive and euphoric he’s worked with Zoot Money and members of live music and beard-related revelry. Making made over the past 20 or so years has been THE BAY RAYS: The Bullingdon – Kent’s theme are tour support Pale Waves, from sax skronks with hefty doses of funk and of Bad Company and Hot Chocolate as well as hairy rock noises over the day will be Beard heavier, more industrial, with lyrical musings Bay Rays follow the golden rule of great Manchester, whose sunkissed guitar spangle more atmospheric passages that suggest playing guitar in Shana Morrison’s band. of Destiny (obviously); the newly renamed on religion and mortality, for this new tour garage rock – get the song over and done with recalls The Cure at their poppiest, while local some affinity with Radiohead’s outer edges. MOON HOOCH: O2 Academy – Jazz rave Cherokii; Texas Ghost Train; STEM; Superloose he is revisiting the three landmark albums before people know what hit them. Their spiky, starlets Coldredlight shed a little shadow on Like the excellent Melt Yourself Down, from the New York subway – see main preview and Daisy West, while fun activities and from the start of his career: `Replicas’, `The Pixies-style fizz, rockabilly rumble and Sonics- proceedings with their lost highway blues, they’re proof that great modern jazz is equal GET LIT: The Cellar competitions include best film or TV character Pleasure Principle’ and `Telekon’ – the so- inspired garage noise has seen them supporting which sounds like Mazzy Star meeting Ry parts adventure and outright fun. So get your OXFORD ACOUSTIC CLUB: The Jericho style beard; best historical character beard; most called machine music part of his career. neighbours Slaves on tour as well as playing at Cooder at the crossroads to sell their soul. dancing shoes on and prepare to get hot and Tavern objects held in a beard; straightest and curliest So you’ll get `Our `Friends’ Electric?’ and Glastonbury in June. Bloody great, in other words. sweaty. CATWEAZLE CLUB: East Oxford moustaches, a less-mess eating tournament and, `Cars’, but also some of the most important BETH PRIOR: The Cellar – Reggae-fuelled Community Centre and pioneering electronic music ever made. gypsy soul and folk from the singer out on tour for the ladies, a best homemade beard comp. It’s hop mayhem outta Essex – see main preview SPARKY’S FLYING CIRCUS: The Half Onstage he’s a strange mix of reticence and to promote her debut album, `Little Acts of beardtastic. LUCY LEAVE + SLATE HEARTS + th Moon unabashed showman; musically he’s simply Kindness’. SUNDAY 11 ASYLUM SOUNDS: Rock Barn, Witney KANCHO!: The Cellar – Wonderfully off- ACOUSTIC THURSDAY: Jude the Obscure a genius. And yes, Nightshift will be down DEAR HERO + STOLBY + LAZ CUNLIFFE: DANNY & THE CHAMPIONS OF THE (1pm) – An all-day festival in aid of Asylum kilter noise-pop and beyond from this month’s BLUES JAM: The Catherine Wheel, Sandford the front, and we will be singing along to The Jericho Tavern – Drama-laden gothic pop WORLD: The Cornerstone, Didcot – Big- Welcome. From 1 til 5pm it’s a family day Introducing-featured starlets Lucy Leave, every song. As an added bonus tour support noise in the vein of Editors and The Cure from hearted Americana and 60s country rocking in with music, poetry, crafts and more; afterwards with great local support from grunge rockers th comes from I Speak Machine, the work of Dear Hero at tonight’s It’s All About the Music the vein of The Band, Big Star and Tom Petty FRIDAY 16 there’s live music from hip hop collective Inner Slate Hearts and lo-fi noise duo Kancho! – see singer and electronics wiz Tara Busch whose showcase. from Danny and co. HOMEPLANETEARTH + ROBERTO Y Peace Records; mathfro-pop from Bright Works; Introducing feature ghostly synth experimentation has made CATWEAZLE CLUB: East Oxford JUAN + POLAR FRONT: O2 Academy – EP Turkobilly and gypsy hip hop from Brickwork TERRAFORMS: The Cellar – Drum&bass room for inventive covers of John Foxx and Community Centre th launch gig for the local electro-indie-folksters, Lizards; traditional Senegalese folk music club night with FD, Greencode and Beatsurfers, MONDAY 12 and stories from Griot Jali Fily Cissokho, and Numan himself along the way. SPARKY’S FLYING CIRCUS: The Half LEVERET: Nettlebed Folk Club – New with support from Latin-infused Neverlnd side plus MCs KB and Sandman. Francophile folk and rock from Les Clochards. Moon collaboration from Bellowhead’s Sam Sweeney, project Roberto y Juan. KILLIT + HELL’S GAZELLES + DEAD MR B THE GENTLEMAN RHYMER: ACOUSTIC THURSDAY: Jude the Obscure BBC Folk Award winner Andy Cutting, and The ILLEGAL EAGLES: The New Theatre – Big MAN’S WHISKEY: The Wheatsheaf – OxRox The Wheatsheaf, Banbury – Straight outta BLUES JAM: The Catherine Wheel, Sandford Full English’s Rob Harbon. production tribute to The Eagles. host London’s multi-national hard rockers KilliT, Surrey, bespectacled, besuited and elegantly OPEN MIC SESSION: The Royal Blenheim SOUL SESSIONS: The Cellar – Classic disco, whose members are drawn from Argentina, Israel funk and soul club night. moustachioed chap-rapper Mr B gives hip hop FRIDAY 23rd and Hungary and boast CVs that include time COSMOSIS + 1000 CHAINS + EASTER a run through with the Queen’s English, coming in King Lizard and Ace Mafia. They’re out on th INHEAVEN + PALE WAVES + TUESDAY 13 ISLAND STATUES: The Wheatsheaf – in at that point where De la Soul meets Noel COLDREDLIGHT: The Bullingdon – Big- tour to promote debut album `Shut It Down’, THE HUGH TURNER BAND: The Cosmic folk-rock with a stoner edge from Coward and Flanders and Swann. Or maybe hearted fuzzgun pop from the rising London channelling the classic melodic rock sound of Bullingdon – Funky jazz from Turner and Cosmosis at tonight’s It’s All About the Music NWA if they’d grown up in Hove and been more starlets – see main preview AC/DC, Guns’n’Roses and Velvet Revolver. chums at the Bully’s free weekly jazz club. show, plus melodic metallers 1000 Chains. interested in cricket and fine tea. G2 – DEFINITIVE GENESIS: O2 Academy – Support comes from local old school metallers MYSTIC INSANE + SCRAP BRAIN + THE AUTUMN SAINTS + FIREGAZERS: FUSED: Fat Lil’s, Witney – Indie, rock and Tribute to `Seconds Out’-era Genesis. Hell’s Gazelles and London’s Black Stone Cherry BASIC DICKS: The Library – Free punk rock The Jericho Tavern – Country-flavoured grunge grunge covers. RAT BOY: O2 Academy – Post-Libertines hip and G’n’R-influenced heavyweights Dead Man’s Another mixed bag fundbundle from the monthly singer-songwriter Stevie Nimmo, once joint the 1980s. Tonight’s show features LIZARDS + LITTLE GTI night, this time round with local bluesy frontman of The Nimmo Brothers but now out on songs from her most recent solo BROTHER ELI: Worcester country hoedown crew Deadbeat Apostles; his own, touring his solo album `The Wynds of album, `Urram’, as well, no doubt as College Chapel – Building up to off-kilter twin-sister-fronted guitar’n’violin-led Life’, following treatment for cancer. takes on Capercaillie songs. the main Oxjam Oxford takeover popstrels Tall Poppies, and acoustic blues-folk JOHNNY COPPIN & PHIL BEER: Nettlebed SPARK’S SIDE OF THE MOON: in October, Daisy Rodgers Music from a Reluctant Arrow singer Claire LeMaster, Folk Club – Show of Hands’ Phil Beer is joined The James Street Tavern present Oxjam in the Round in the channelling Regina Spektor and Fiona Apple. by Gloucester singer-songwriter Johnny Coppin, ornate setting of Worcester College PSYCHEDELIC CIRCUS: The Cellar (3pm renewing their old partnership last seen here in th Chapel, with local folk-rock heroes – 3am) – Twelve-hour psychedelic `happening’ 2013. WEDNESDAY 28 The Epstein; Turkobilly fusion with psych-rock, psy-trance and improv from OPEN MIC SESSION: The Royal Blenheim THE WARLOCKS: O2 Academy crew Brickwork Lizards, and funky Lucid DJs, plus Firehealer, Delnavaz and more, – Taking Spacemen 3’s maxim electric blues-funk faves Little rd “Taking drugs to make music to take Friday 23 plus 60s films and projections, lightshows, th Brother Eli. interactive installations, walkabout performers, TUESDAY 27 drugs to” to its logical conclusion, HOLY MOMENTS: The Jericho KAREN MATHESON: The North Wall – RAT BOY: cabaret acts and mind-expanding talks. Bobby Heckster’s LA psych/drone Tavern sublime Gaelic folk music from Capercaillie THE LEISURE SOCIETY (ACOUSTIC): rockers somehow have made it this CATWEAZLE CLUB: East founder and singer Karen Matheson whose O2 Academy Old Fire Station – Gorgeously sombre folk- far (their last gig at this venue in its Oxford Community Centre The huge queues outside the merch alternately ethereal and earthy voice has made her pop from Leisure Society, the band centred Zodiac incarnation in 2003 saw the SPARKY’S FLYING CIRCUS: tent at Truck Festival to get Rat Boy’s a leading light of the Scottish folk revival since around singer Nick Hemming, once a member of band fighting with each other before The Half Moon autograph – on any scrap of spare paper psychedelic noise rockers The Telescopes and a the gig and their manager hiding ACOUSTIC THURSDAY: Jude or item of clothing – was testament to just former bandmate of Shane Meadows and Paddy the rider) and, having got through the Obscure how far Chelmsford lad Jordan Candy th Considine (he wrote soundtrack music for A Sunday 25 some 22 members, with Heckster BLUES JAM: The Catherine has come since he was sacked from his Room For Romeo Brass and Dead Man’s Shoes). the only constant, are out on tour to Wheel, Sandford job at Wetherspoons and turned down by Compared to Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes, ULRIKA SPACEK: promote new album `Songs From McDonald’s and decided to document Leisure Society are a peculiarly English take on the Pale Eclipse’, staying true to teenage Essex life in a post-Libertines hip The Cellar th Americana, wistful regret and an air of menace their chosen course of narcotic FRIDAY 30 hop style. Tonight’s leg of his biggest tour Ulrika Spacek, apparently, collect old I CRIED WOLF + THE hanging around their dreamily bucolic songs. groove rock inspired by The Velvet to date is in the O2’s downstairs venue and televisions with the hope, or aim, of them COLOUR LINE: O2 Academy KAREN STREET & STREETWORKS: St Underground, early Stones, Ride later this month he headlines the Kentish becoming wormholes to another dimension. – Skeletor presents another quality Giles Church – Kicking off the fourth season of and The Jesus & Mary Chain. Town Forum. He’s big news. Of course he Quite possibly they’d smoked their breakfast night of metal and hardcore, with Jazz at St Giles, with arranger and accordionist LOYLE CARNER: The is – there’s something irresistible about his a bit too quickly before that interview Banbury’s virulent metalcore crew Karen Street & Streetworks drawing influencies Bullingdon – Oxford debut for the blokey, bullish, cheeky-scally pop/punk/ but then again theirs is music seemingly I Cried Wolf alongside Hull’s tech from folk music, tango and central European rising south London MC, whose rap mash-up and say-it-as-you-see-it stories set of taking the listener into the clouds and math-core merchants The traditions. sensitive, eloquent confessional hip (typical title: `Fake ID’) that career off the and onward into space. Formed in Berlin Colour Line. HOME SERVICE: The Cornerstone, Didcot hop, more old school than grime, stage like a playground bundle involving by Rhys Edwards and Rhys Williams, THE AUREATE ACT + – The near-legendary folk-rock ensemble head has seen him working with Kate EMF, Arctic Monkeys and The Beastie Boys, the band, now five strong, relocated to CALLOW SAINTS: The out on tour, having replaced John Tams with John tempest and Maverick Sabre, as but provoked in the first place by Jamie London and recorded their debut album Bullingdon – The local electro- Kirkpatrick up front. well as supporting MF Doom and T. From playing at chaotic house parties, `The Album Paranoia’ in the kitchen of prog faves return to live action after THE MIGHTY REDOX: The Black Swan Joey Badass. Candy found himself on the Sound of 2016 their shared house, Joe Meek style. The a break since their Punt show in JOHNNY’S SEXUAL KITCHEN: The Black RAS BROTHER JOHN + SELF Long List and spent the summer playing result is a melting pot of classic indie, May, mixing King Crimson’s guitar Swan, Abingdon HELP + BOFUS: The Wheatsheaf Glastonbury, Latitude, Reading and Leeds alt.rock and psychedelic influences that MOVE: The Cellar – UK bass club adventuring with an atmospheric festivals. And if you find yourself wondering ranges from My Bloody Valentine fuzz and night. electronic sound that takes when kids decided Jesus Jones was where it SUNDAY 25th spangle and Spacemen 3-like drone/dirge, inspiration from Talk Talk and East to Sonic Youth’s discordant, abrasive noise, India Youth. was at, you’ll pretty soon find yourself with ULRIKA SPACEK: The Cellar – Psych-pop th an inflatable dinghy on your head, and more grooving to take you through a wormhole, or through Krautrock motoring and onward to THURSDAY 29 SKYLARKIN SOUND than likely bellowing lustily along to every possibly down the rabbit hole. And into space, Deerhunter’s solemn spangle. Rather than WILD BEASTS: O2 Academy SYSTEM: The Cellar – Monthly song. Come on, it’s called fun – join in! man – see main preview being stuck in some kind of indie trainspotter – Back in town for the first time in ska, reggae, dancehall and soul SCOTT GORDON BAND + LEIGH VER ghetto though, Ulrika Spacek throw in an age to promote fifth album, the session with Count Skylarkin’ and Whiskey. FUEL + RICHARD BROTHERTON + some pretty vocal harmonies, starlit guitar John Congleton-produced `Boy guests. AUDACITY: East Oxford Community PURPLE MAY + FREDDY LE CRAGG: The twinkling and sweet melodies which keep King’, and Cumbria’s finest are RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED Centre – Another trip into the spirit of old school Wheatsheaf (3.30-8.30pm) – Free afternoon of things varied even as they’re ploughing a getting funkier, the erudite humour TIME: OVADA – Oxford free raves with Audacity Al & the Raving Mad live music in the Sheaf’s downstairs bar, hosted deep, dark psych-rock furrow. As they head and ethereal pop of debut `Limbo, Contemporary Music host a sound Dancing Dads fusing pub rock covers with by Giddyup Music. off on a headline tour of the UK they’re Panto’ increasingly dominated and visuals concert that features hardcore techno for a hi-NRG singalong, while KRYSTHLA + THE EVER LIVING KILL still unknown but with The Quietus already by widescreen rock and heavier Varese’s 1958 masterpiece of across two rooms there’s old school acid house, FOR COMPANY: The Wheatsheaf – Savagery declaring `The Album Paranoia’ one of the grooves that recall Tackhead and early electronic music, `Poème techno and underground dance sounds from and brutality in abundance as Wellingborough’s best releases of the year, things should be Arctic Monkeys as much as the Électronique’, as well as new Remould, Siege Love, Andy Baker and more. death metallers Krysthla come to town to headed a bit more skywards for them. gender-teasing likes of Bowie and compositions from Arlene Sierra MUDSLIDE MORRIS: The James Street promote their acclaimed debut album `A War of The Associates. That old grandeur and Kathy Hinde, exploring technology, obsolete and future, Tavern – Slide and harp blues in the vein of Souls & Desires’. remains though, and if it doesn’t and the expanding universe. Seasick Steve. JASON CARTER + JALI FILY CISSOKHO: hit the highs of `Two Dancers’, THE GUNS’N’ROSES ANDY ROBBINS + MICHAEL Florence Park Community Centre (2-5pm) `Boy King’ still has plenty of class. EXPERIENCE: Fat Lil’s, Witney AXENDERRIE: The Cornerstone, Didcot – – The Sunday Sessions return, bringing some Impossible not to really given – The Guns’n’Roses experience Bluesy acoustic pop in the vein of Van Morrison, family-friendly live music action to east Oxford. Hayden Thorpe’s operatic falsetto round our way being to stick Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton from local singer- Twelve-string guitar/harp virtuoso Jason Carter leading the line. knitting needles in your ears so you songwriter Andy Robbins. brings songs from his travels around the globe, MAGIC GANG: O2 Academy can’t hear them ever again. THE DURAN DURAN EXPERIENCE: Fat while locally based kora player Jali Fily Cissokho – Psych-tinged grunge-pop from HEADINGTON HILLBILLIES: Lil’s, Witney – Hankering for the magic of teams up with Natureboy’s Dave Noble for some Brighton’s indie hopefuls, back James Street Tavern – Bluegrass Common People? Relive Duran Duran’s headline griot/pop crossover fun. in town after their triumphant and Americana from the local set in miniaturised tribute form. BLUES JAM: Fat Lil’s, Witney (3pm) – Open showing at Truck Festival in July. regulars. blues jam. THE EPSTEIN + BRICKWORK SATURDAY 24th GAPPY TOOTH INDUSTRIES with th Nightshift listings are free. 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Then, the “Theresa May is the antichrist,” sings are bright lights, centre stage and The Bullingdon Art Oxford, is explaining in a pre- paranoid eddy of a Sebadoh-style Coldredlight’s Gaby-Elise Monaghan big sound. Their opening number The Library My Diablo are making a quite ‘Omniscient’ album shows he’s gig talk how pieces in the gallery’s repeated phrase catches our ear, the with more than a hint of bitterness kicks in with a similar sense of As a six piece, with clarinet, violin their ear for a good tune is a striking beautiful full metal racket: controlled capable of much more given the 50th anniversary celebrations are anti-mantra honing our attention on partway through her song `Babylon’. stadium-slaying bombast as Simple and keyboards in the mix, Year of the takeaway from the evening, although and perfectly paced, the tempo chance. occasionally moved to create new a band with a surprisingly subtle It’s an unexpected moment of Minds’ `Waterfront’. Frontman James Kite promise much and they open adopting arena moves in a venue rising and falling like a tiger on Many here were drawn to tonight’s contexts. Fresh dialogues can melodic sense. The songs may politically-motivated bile from a Bettis is a scrunched-up bundle of up with an atmospheric set of which where cat swinging is ill-advised the prowl. The Didcot duo, formed headliners by association. Honky, indeed be created between artworks sound simple, but Cai Burns’ guitar singer whose intense blues-infused intensity: Michael Hutchence without the electronics are the most pleasing might prove to be impossible. ‘Under from the ashes of local metal titans from Austin, Texas, feature Jeff through adjacency, but sometimes is fascinatingly fluid, seemingly music tends to come from a far more the flouncing overconfidence, just element. Indeed, we are tantalisingly the Influence’ is a slower number they Mother Corona, use guitar and Pinkus who played bass in legendary transplanting a whole art form from always in transition, eliding notes personal place. But then Gaby is an a surety that he’s born to the stage. treated to a glimpse of something admit to not having provided with drums with such thoughtfulness and US punk band The Butthole Surfers one milieu to another can reduce and greasily sliding between artist who does contrasts particularly Maybe he could do to let his hair even more interesting when the lead much of an airing but the slow build dexterity that it’s hard to see how and, later, The Melvins. The latter’s it to the status of curio. It takes a chords – plus, he makes good well: set opener `Night’ is dark and down at times, while the rest of singer takes a short break to tune his and strategically placed flautist lend anything extra could improve their gig at The Zodiac in 2006 drew a while to get over the impression use of that deserted warehouse harrowing but equally spacious, able the band could do to at least look guitar – a spin-off act rejoicing in the it a real influence. That high point of sound. Drummer Dave-O picks out crowd that included Julian Cope that Kagoule, a young Nottingham chorus sound found in the space to soar when it needs to. Vocally she like they’re enjoying themselves, Covered Market-inspired moniker of the set is perhaps only bettered by beats with a craftsman’s touch, while in full military regalia, and was grunge-inflected trio airlifted from between new wave and goth. His does sleepy-eyed and sultry but also but they maintain a keen grasp of Biscuits for Cheese coming across the indie disco of ‘Trees’, the family Lee Cressey tries to squeeze every talked of in hushed tones for weeks a sticky-floored gig dungeon to the vocals also repay attention, at first piercing and strident. Emotionally tension even as they’re billowing all BBC Radiophonic Orchestra – variety of which might number Dutch sound possible from his guitar. This afterwards. Both bands used humour austere MAO basement space, are sounding like a half-arsed sneer, but there’s tenderness, even an apologetic into the ether, capable of taking which can only be a good thing. Not Uncles and Battles. Overall, it’s a is metal at its best, and we can hope and surrealism to challenge musical specimens to be studied, sprawling on eventually revealing a delicate reedy tone, but she’ll turn on a sixpence and Muse-like anthemic rock down into that the rest of the main band’s set is striking performance that should see that the band’s old following are norms and create worlds of their a pin, especially immediately after a tunefulness that we’re surprised to bare her lyrical teeth, full of spite and dirty, dirgy krautrock grooves. `Into substandard – the sombre ‘The Beauty the band secure a headline slot soon. taking note. own, but sadly nothing could be short yam-hacking performance piece find recalls Par Wiksten from The revenge fantasies. Rarely, though, is the Flames’, the highlight of their Gone’ and haunting ‘Something Dear Hero have an element of Desert Storm have been kicking further from what we witness here. by artist Nacheal Catnott warning of Wannadies. What truly lifts the band, she anything less than bewitching, recent debut EP, shows them at their after Sunday’ progressing at a stately Hard-Fi about them in their boysy out the jams since the last decade, Honky are a lumpen, stodgy blues- the dangers of cultural appropriation. though, are Lucy Hatter’s basslines, particularly on `Little Scorpion’, her best: able to stretch their music, rein pace, shimmering as the instruments determination to have a good time. going on to earn a reputation well rock band that almost seem to rejoice Then again, as a pop band on the which capture a little of The Pixies’ signature tune that’s fast becoming in the stadium pomp and conjure interact. Where they differ from some bands is beyond the ring road that has made in having no redeeming features grindcore charnel roster that is dark enormity and a lot of Jah one of Nightshift’s favourite songs of something genuinely special. If they 31 Hours bounce on stage, their in their bellowing vocalist, determined them Oxford’s most successful apart from Pinkus’s nimble bass Earache Records, perhaps the band Wobble’s mecha-dub relentlessness. the year. A couple of new songs feel do occasionally tip across the line floppy fringes and their music to be on personal terms with the heavyweight export. Tonight playing. Ramshackle drumming, is used to looking out of kilter. Kagoule have their faults: they a bit like works in progress, but the into mid-80s excess, they’re quick reminding us of the Charlatans, microphone and unencumbered by they come across like a band you lazy song structures and guitar solos, Perhaps it’s this cultural seem uncomfortable ending songs, young classics student whose name to take a step back, tonight’s finale although the Afropop guitar squeaks, any necessity to play a guitar. The might catch at a Newquay beach and half-hearted singing make for a displacement, but the first couple and there’s an occasionally sticky was unknown locally before May, mixing Puressence’s bright, pretty clattering drums and general all- tunes are strong with the keyboard festival: heavy and riff-laden but truly depressing experience, topped of numbers pass us by, seeming to lack of rhythmic fluency between is shaping up to be a real star of the pop colours with Radiohead’s nervy round springiness, coupled with the riffs especially prominent and while ultimately sounding and looking off by between-song ‘jokes’ about deflate Mudhoney’s dumb scuzzy passages, but there are lots of ideas scene. tension. Importantly, their big, bold five piece’s obvious youth leads to there are obvious comparisons with a bit too clean and ordered. Matt going hunting for pussy. For the first zeppelins of marsh gas to create and idiosyncratic pleasures to reward Kanadia too are a name more and shapes carry huge mass appeal comparisons with Vampire Weekend now defunct local act Too Many Poets, Ryan’s growling vocal style sounds time in twenty years I walk out of a the sort of light, harmless balloons anyone prepared to give their grubby more people are quick to drop when potential, and you know they can and two set of local heroes, Foals and comparisons with The Jam and Editors neither as low or menacing as many gig I’ve come to review. Let’s hope bounced around by Superchunk. pop a close listen. Looks like Paul thoughts of future fame come up. only benefit from playing ever bigger Neverlnd. That they often surpass the means that this is a less theatrical take of his compatriots, though the it never happens again. All very pleasant, but hardly Hobson had the right idea all along. If Coldredlight are darkness at the stages. former in the complete lack of any on the goth pop template. acoustic track ‘Home’ from their Art Lagun masterpieces to be recalled at the David Murphy edge of town pensiveness, Kanadia Dale Kattack stadium posturing and the latter in Rob Langham

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THE CELLAR FREWIN COURT OXFORD OX1 3HZ WWW.CELLAROXFORD.CO.UK MUSIC HISTORY BEGINS UNDERGROUND! INTRODUCING.... Nightshift’s monthly guide to the best local music bubbling under Oxford’s only centrally located LUCY LEAVE music shop Who are they? Oxford wonky psychedelic noise-pop trio Lucy Leave are Jenny Oliver (bass/vocals); Mike Smith (guitar/vocals) and Pete Smith (drums/vocals). The two Smiths are brothers and Mike met Jenny playing in a big band. They “got the itch to start playing together again after watching NVRLND (née Balloon Ascents) play at The Cellar and discovering an Oxford scene that was pretty exciting.” They started rehearsing and writing in September 2014, and played their first gig in April 2015. They recorded a demo `Jesus Walks Funny’ in January and launched their first EP-proper, `Fighter Pilot’, in June. As well as being played on BBC Oxford Introducing, they played the Punt in say Holy Moments. They’re so exciting to watch live, and are up there with a May and Truck Festival in July this year. fistful of really great heavy pop bands around at the moment.” What do they sound like? If they could only keep one album in the world, it would be: Loud, quiet, volatile, repetitive and agricultural in varying measures, “We’ll never be able to agree on this really, but one group we do all agree on Oxfords oldest music shop is the place to visit for 01865 333581 often at the same time. They’re a band hard to pin down, balancing oddly is Deerhoof, so we’ll say their `Offend Maggie’: intense, intricate, bonkers, tender melodies with all-out sonic warfare, coupled with the feeling that human. `My Purple Past’ is the song that we’re always trying to write. [email protected] • Rock, Pop & Chart CDs from £5 • 3 for 2 on selected sets of guitar strings everything’s going to fall apart any second. Regular set highlight `40 Years’ When is their next local gig and what can newcomers expect? Blackwells.co.uk/oxford is a glorious Bo Diddley-inspired rifforama that stretches to the horizon while “The Cellar on September 23rd as the culmination of our little tour we’re • DVDs, giftware & t-shirts • Printed music and books elsewhere abstract jazz-rock clashes sideways on with Pixies-ish noise-pop. doing that week with the mighty Slate Hearts. Newcomers will hear some @blackwellsmusic • A selection of vinyl and record players • An ongoing programme of musical events What inspires them? songs about politics, disability, and death. And it will be fun.” fb.com/blackwellsmusic “Other bands; death; ‘art’; LPs; FX pedals; bassy sounds; painfully screechy Their favourite and least favourite things about Oxford music are: • A range of instruments & accessories trebly sounds; Grimes; the prospect of environmental destruction; self- “Favourite is all the ace bands we get to play with. And of course our 53 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ indulgence; people grinning at us; The Natural World; noise; Minutemen; superfans. Least favourite is... we won’t be able to play the Punt again, people singing along to our songs.” unless we change our name. Also, Mike wishes Elton John would play at the Career highlight so far: Kassam again.” “It has to be Truck Festival so far…” You might love them if you love: And the lowlight: Sebadoh; Robert Wyatt/Soft Machine; The Wedding Present; Pixies; (Syd’s) “Many moons ago – with a different band – we emptied a pub in Kettering.” Pink Floyd; Deerhoof. Their favourite other Oxfordshire act is: Hear them here: “There are many, and Nightshift readers know a lot of them already, so we’ll lucyleave.bandcamp.com

3989 Nightshift Magazine Advert_v4.indd 1 04/07/2016 13:35 Dr SHOTOVER: Pennines From Heaven THIS MONTH IN OXFORD Ah, there you are. Pull up a pew, PIckering, and buy us all a drink. Mine’s a ALL OUR YESTERDAYS MUSIC HISTORY T H E W H E A T S H E A F pint of Anti-Tank Missile… now, don’t sit between me and the Gents, there’s Thursday 1st September – MOSHKA a good chap. I may need to move rather swiftly. What were we discussing? 20 YEARS AGO Two gigs this month that have lasted long in the Nick Oliveri’s Mondo Generator; British Sea Why, one of my favourite topics (after my own wartime record) – the Tribute Exciting times in September 1996, fiurstly with memory: Ultrasound made their Oxford debut at Power; Thea Gilmore and the month’s cover stars INDICA BLUES GRUB + BEAVER FUEL 7:45pm Band. A wonderful phenomenon, as I’m sure you’ll agree. Basically, the more the news that Oxford had been confirmed as the The Point with Paul Carrera declaring of the band Xmas Lights were all playing at The Zodiac, the nd Friday 2 September – KLUB KAKOFANNEY Beatles tribute acts there are, the fewer bookings are available to groups venue for Radio 1 Sound City the following year. who were to become honorary Oxfordians “A great latter supported by Foals. of whingeing Young People playing their dreary originals. But it’s not just The decision to host their annual showcase of joy of reviewing is being faced by four unknowns BRICKWORK LIZARDS about outfits called things like Pre-Fab Four, Beat The Meatles or The Mope- new music in Oxford, following in the footsteps and watching the grumpy cynicism in your head 5 YEARS AGO have its arse kicked all the way into the street as you FORCE OF MORTALITY + TANNERS POOL 7:45pm Tops. There is quite a YES tribute band phenomenon going on too, I gather. of Bristol and Leeds, showed just how far the In the wake of Truck Festival going into Friday 9th September – OXROX OUI (France), SI (Italy) and DA (Russia) are all making, ahem, very positive local scene’s reputation had grown in the wake of exclaim, `bloody hell, that was brilliant’.” Meanwhile liquidation, more bad news followed in September contributions to the sub-genre. Not to mention Yorkshire’s finest, OH AYE. Ride, Radiohead and Supergrass’s success, with polarising opinions to the point of actual fisticuffs at with the death of Alan Cook, from cancer at the The Zodiac were Tiger, a band still beloved by indie RSJ + RAISED BY HYPOCRITES 7:45pm Their outstanding achievement last year was to stage (Eeeh, Tha’s Too Brookes’ new union venue and The Zodiac picked age of 62. The founder of the Popular Music course BLACK SKIES BURN geeks of a certain vintage long after they disappeared Saturday 10th September – IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC Bloody) Close to t’ ‘Edge, performed in its entirety amidst the lush topiary of as the main broadcast venues for the week. at Cherwell Valley College was remembered fondly Castle Howard gardens. Unfortunately keyboard player Rick Wakefield didn’t More imminently, this month saw Big Love come without trace. “Tiger are the kids that Jarvis surely by, among others, Dive Dive’s Nigel Powell, who write `Misshapes’ for” ran our review. 7:45pm heed his own advice and slipped into some spiky shrubbery while perform- to Oxfordshire, the dance festival taking place spoke of Alan’s `childlike enthusiasm for music,” SILVER RAVENS ing a three-hour Moog solo (or ‘ser-ler’, as drummer Bill Bradford called Wednesday 14th September – IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC at Otmoor Park with sets from Underworld, and Fixers’ Jack Goldstein, who credited the it). Result? ‘Wazzock tore cape and put Paul Oakenfold, Jeff Mills, LTJ Bukem, and 10 YEARS AGO lecturer as a pivotal figure in his music career. bloody back out’. According to guitarist a first ever DJ set from Robert Miles among the Less positive news in September 2006 with the More positively, local reggae veterans Dubwiser VAGUEWORLD + SAM EDWARDS 7:45pm LOWLY HOUNDS Steve ‘Ow-Do, Mr Wakefield is over the highlights of the 20,000-capacity event. closure of The Pit in Witney – the venue that was released their debut album, `A Crack In Paradise’, Friday 16th September – IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC worst, but still feeling a little, uh, fragile. Also coming to Oxford this month was a new a hub for the blossoming local scene that spawned this month – a mere 20 years after they first started So fellow Yorkie and Prog enthusiast music store on the Cowley Road – PMT opened its The Rock of Travolta among others – and the out. The band featured on the cover of Nightshift COSMOSIS 1000 CHAINS + EASTER ISLAND STATUES 7:45pm Keighley Emerson is stepping up from doors for the first time 20 years ago, only days after announcement that wayward local metal/jazz/ and talked about trying to escape the creative cul de rd Friday 23 September – OXROX the ranks of ELP tribute stalwarts BRAIN ABC Music on St Clement’s went into liquidation. art-rock heroes A Suitable Case for Treatment sac that reggae had headed down over the years as SHEFFIELD SURGERY to help out with this It remains a flagship local music store to this day. were splitting up – just weeks after they hit well as music as a way of bringing people together KILLIT HELL’S GAZELLS + DEAD MAN’S WHISKEY 7:45pm year’s project: a full-length multi-media Rather less pleasing was the news that the national headlines for their `Cow’ single, featuring and countering racism. Saturday 24th September – GAPPY TOOTH INDUSTRIES performance of Tales From T’Opographic Firkin brewery was to close The Brewhouse newsreader Jon Snow on vocals. While the likes of Ghostpoet; Richmond Oceans on Ilkley Moor (baht ‘at). (Ticket- on Gloucester Green, the home of the Famous The music continued though, and this month Fontaine and Toots & the Maytals provided THE DEADBEAT APOSTLES holders are reminded that any mardy Monday Blues club, run by landlord Jonathan saw the release of Jonquil’s `Sunny Casinos’ star quality on the month’s gig line-up, and kids wearing anything resembling ‘at Lee. Promises were made that the music night debut album (“ a melting pot of full of richness Stornoway played a sold-out show in aid of The TALL POPPIES + CLAIRE LEMASTER 8:15pm will be forcibly ejected from the Moor). Sunday 25th September – TWO FACE PROMOTIONS was safe, but it was soon to find a new home at and imagination – something to lose yourself in,” Sumatran Orangutan Trust at The Regal, it was Causing music fans and Yorkshire folk Jongleurs on Hythe Bridge Street. according to Nightshift’s review), as well as a debut the last-minute cancellation of Summer Fayre everywhere to ask the question: ‘Can tha On the release front, The Candyskins’ classic `Mrs release for local rapper Zuby, whose `Commercial Festival in South Park that made the headlines. THE EVER LIVING + KILL FOR COMPANY 7:45pm KRYSTHLA stop t’ Prog?’ The answer is of course… Hoover’ single was re-released this month in 96 Underground’ followed on from a Nightshift Demo Organisers blamed a bad weather forecast for the Wednesday 28th September – IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC erm… ‘NAY, lad’. Members of OH AYE (l-r Bill Brad- by Ultimate Records, although Nightshift’s review of the month and a place on this year’s Punt. Back cancellation but in reality a weak line-up, and many Next month: A ‘reet gradely word’ with ford, Steve ‘Ow-Do, Jon ‘Alifax declared the b-sides – covers of X-Ray Spex’s `The in the modern world, Zuby has just released his acts cancelling over payment uncertainty, were RAS BROTHER JOHN SELF HELP + BOFUS 7:45pm Lancs Pink Floyd tribute and Rick Wakefield) start alfresco Day the World Turned Day-Glo’ and The Bee Gees’ seventh album – inventively titled `VII’. the real reasons. The chief lesson being: don’t let The Wheatsheaf 129 High Street, Oxford OX1 4DF / www.facebook.com/wheatsheaf.oxford ATOM HEART MITHER rehearsals for CLOSE TO T’ ‘EDGE `Got To Get a Message to You’ – as “abominations”. On the local gig side of things, Sparklehorse; incompetent fucknuts organise major music events. up, resulting in a sort of yelped mumble Green to go watch Parliament play Little and tumble of vowels from which only a Feat covers,” which roughly translates smattering of consonants can be made out. as “widdly piddly woddly wank.” Or, if Musically too the twinkly, trebly indie funk we’re being kind, a bit like Jack Savoretti DEMOS resembles the soft rumble and huff of a if he was in a particularly good mood and Sponsored by Demo of the Month wins a free half day midnight train as heard across a distance probably a bit tipsy. One of which states at Soundworks studio in Oxford, of a couple of miles. Unsurprisingly Nightshift has only rarely experienced. courtesy of Umair Chaudhry. Visit Foals seems to be the chief reference www.umairchaudhry.co.uk/nightshift point but it’s all a bit too unfocussed and inconsequential to stand real comparison FLASHFIRES to that band. Less Trans-Europe Express, It gets better – Flashfires have also got the name Larry Beck for this band, whose line- more the 23.15 service to Charlbury. funk, but they use theirs to try and sidle DEMO OF up also features members of Who’s Alice. up to Catfish & the Bottlemen’s vapid 01865 240250 They’re a ramshackle bunch but there’s at indie rock, so there isn’t even an element least a naivety and giddy enthusiasm about CHARIOTS of bluesy earthiness about them, just a THE MONTH them that so many of the other acts in this Chariots is the musical moniker of a chap miasma of vaguely uplifting landfill indie month’s pile would do well to take note of, called Tom Read. Tom proudly compares and maybe a nod or two U2’s epic guitar THE BECKONING singer Evie Norman barely in tune at times his own music to Jack Garratt. Just going intentions. It’s at times like this we throw as she emotes in alternately strident and to leave that with you for a moment our hands in the air and let out a sort of FAIR ONES adenoidal tones alongside fellow vocalist in case you thought you’d misread it “pfft” noise, because we’re simply bereft A few days before we sat down to review Adam Baker, who brings a more shouty and thought he’d said something less of anything to say about music that just sort this month’s batch of demos Nightshift had edge to songs like `Monkey In a Cage’. embarrassing like “I have several sexually of exists but possesses no actual substance spent the weekend at Supernormal Festival Musically they’re not quite the punk band transmitted diseases, all of which I caught or character. This lot could be playing the – three solid days of music from the outer they half describe themselves as, closer from livestock, and I regularly poo in middle of the afternoon at a major festival reaches, places where everything seemed at times to a gawky, awkward kid sister my bed.” But no, he just said his music but equally at some small town battle of made with a courageous lack of concern version of Youthmovies’ emo-ish math- sounds like Jack Garratt, who all sane the bands competition. It’s just there. It for commerciality or mass appeal. Some pop, or, dare we say it, a sweet and scrappy music lovers believed was some kind will always be there. Eat your noodles and of it was pretentious arty bollocks of the take on Cassels’ spindly post-hardcore. of prototype psychological experiment drink your plastic pint cup of Tuborg and highest order, but even that was usually `Death of Twenty Teeth’ pretty much devised by Theresa May when she was soak it up. Two days on from our weekend fun, and mostly what we heard was mad, stumbles into being, not quite fully formed Home Secretary to subdue rioting mobs by at Supernormal we still cherish memories crazy, non-conformist brilliance. Which and eager to latch onto the first lo-fi indie reducing them to sobbing, catatonic husks of Justin Broadrick, in his JK Flesh guise, band it can catch sight of and hardwire means this month’s batch of demos is going devoid of hope or purpose. Anyway, back cranking out a thrilling, nightmarish .co.uk itself to, but what kind of a bastard doesn’t TURAN AUDIO to have to work very hard to avoid being to Chariots. Just the one song here, called approximation of a rave in Hades. Flashfires Professional, independent CD mastering fed to a troupe of garishly made-up demon love a newborn creature making its first `Dreaming As We Go’, a blandly euphoric aren’t super, just normal. nuns armed with buckets of gold glitter tentative steps in the world? Clumsy for slice of boy band “indie” that mostly Artists mastered in the studio last month include; sure, but also rather pretty in its noisy, and a Satanic line in psychedelic electro- sounds like Union J trying to be M83. It’s JONAH HICKS, ANDRE OBIN, ANTI-PASTI, craziness (that’d be Supernormal opening squawky way. big and wooshy and well produced and act Water, in case you were wondering). expansive in its own way and… and… no, THE DEMO SN DUBSTATION, DIPPER-MALKIN, YOUNG sorry, Jack Garratt… (Nightshift collapses Predictably we were to be left disappointed ROMANCE, GRIM REAPER, RUTS DC, as most of the pile turns out to be less ZANDER SHARP into a sobbing, catatonic husk devoid of In a month when too many demos tread DUMPER appealing than a night spent sleeping on hope or purpose). a fine line between offal and excrement, MADNESS, ROTTEN HILL GANG, LAURA a compostable hay bale toilet, but at least we’re rather more predisposed towards The Beckoning Fair Ones come at music MATTHEW S GRANDY. Zander Sharp than we might otherwise be. from an oblique angle, the recent Punt stars TOM IVEY BAND A video! Yay! A shit video! Double Yay! He’s a singer-songwriter of a gentle, soulful 01865 716466 [email protected] even managing to conjure a song about “We play funky blues grooves,” says the Videos are better than lyric sheets for strumming variety, but he’s possessed of a meeting a former Inverness Caledonian introduction to The Tom Ivey Band’s getting to the very heart and soul of the soft, sleepy-eyed voice that means poking Thistle striker on a train and setting it to Facebook. Fuck. Ing, Hell. After 25 delusional auteur or artisan. What have we him with needles and profanities would an obstinate, shrapnel-sharp post-hardcore years of demo demolitions, has no-one got? It all looks a bit arty. A bit lysergic. be tantamount to throwing stones at baby COURTYARD soundtrack that’s part Fugazi, part Arab spotted our less than hidden contempt Woozy footage of palm trees viewed penguins, and `Asleep’ wafts harmlessly RECORDING STUDIO Strap (and not just for singer Niall’s rich for funky blues? Bigotry and bias? In all through the sunroof of a moving car. And along, lost in its own sweet reverie. `The 2 Tracking Rooms. Superb Control Room with: Scottish accent). There’s more Scottish probability, but so what, Nightshift isn’t a here’s a slow-motion skateboarder jumping NEVE 5106 32 Channel Console. ProTools HD3 Other Day’, meanwhile, bears out Zander’s references on `Elgin’, a more sturdy, sullen council-funded inclusivity brochure; it’s off a metal beam. And now a rollerskating MTR 90 2” 24 Track Tape Machine. Vintage EMT Plate Reverb claim to be influenced by Nina Simone – a noise-pop rumble that’s all pensive denied a monstrously prejudiced bile machine man in a suit carrying a briefcase. How Loads of Brilliant Outboard Gear jazzy acoustic soul swoon that might blow Loads of Great Mics, Vintage and Modern gratification, while the shorter, shaper `(Ex) whose sole purpose is to persuade more about some kaleidoscope shapes and away in a stiff breeze, but would easily Old School Akai/Roland Synth Modules Machine’ almost spirals into some kind of people to love vicious industrial hardcore colours? What can it all mean? It means Upright Piano, Fender Rhodes, Amps and great vibes. pass muster in some early hours lounge bar `Zen Arcade’ psych-core before dissipating and synth pop. And kittens. And okay, Matthew here is off his fucking nut on Residential recording studio in Sutton Courtenay. where lost souls stare silently and maybe into the ether. There’s something slightly we do have some serious love for Little skunk and hasn’t realised his montage of www.courtyardrecordingstudio.co.uk tearily into half empty glasses, soft-centred unfocussed about the band across these Brother Eli, who are, to all intents and deep and meaningful images is a crock of In-house producer: Ian Davenport www.ian-davenport.co.uk sax carrying the tune through the night air. three tracks but equally a sharpness and purposes, a funky blues band – but Little hippie shit and the tripped-out sub-Banco Email: [email protected] By slight contrast `City Blues’ picks up Phone: Kate on 01235 845800 raw energy that wipes the floor with Brother Eli make us feel like we’ve necked de Gaia ambient house soundtrack isn’t the pace and a bit of swing, all shuffling everything else we’re presented with this a gallon of moonshine in some Mississippi a party-starting rave banger, but one step snare beat and harmonised “Whoos” that month. And live, you’re well advised to blues shack and sworn brotherly allegiance removed from an ad jingle for herbal might take everything a little too close to stand well clear lest you get your senses to Black Denim at a secret party hosted detox bio yoghurt or something similarly Jamie Cullum, but do at least suggest some badly singed. by Jack White. They don’t make us feel dreary. Get back to your juggling balls genuine soul at the heart of it all. This like we’re trapped in the back bar of you hopeless crusty bore. In fact, try using month’s demo act most likely to earn a some benighted market town boozer on unpinned hand grenades this time – the place on Later… With Jools Holland. And a desolate Sunday lunchtime with only resulting eruption of limbs and innards will 20 TEETH IN A we mean that as a compliment. Fosters on tap. The band self describe surely be more fun than videos of fucking Three state of the art rehearsal rooms. themselves as “Jimi Hendrix meeting Grant palm trees. For bookings. NEAT ROW What’s this? A Cassels side project PICTURE PALACE Send demos for review to: Nightshift, PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU, or email links to Picture Palace’s one-song demo here, Call Jamie on 07917685935 already? Don’t those boys expend [email protected], clearly marked Demos. IMPORTANT: no review without `Night Trains’, is appropriately titled since enough energy for five bands already as a contact address and phone number; no more than four tracks on a demo please. If you Glasshouse studios, Cumnor, Oxford it sounds like they recorded the vocals glasshousestudios.org it is? Seems that it’s drummer Loz Beck can’t handle criticism, please don’t send us your demo. 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