An ACM Student Contents Pages Articles Community Magazine 3 A Note from the Editor...

4, 5, 6 Girl About Town

Feature: The EDM Scene: delivering live 7, 8, 9 and participating in the contemporary landscape

Feature: Imagination: elusive in 10, 11 contemporary music?

13 Feature: Spirit of Eden

Feature: Does commercialism 14, 15 damage art?

18 Don’t deface my creations

What if your life was just a story? 19 Tyuikl;

20 Man About Town

Issue 2 - Nov-Dec 2014 21 Competition The Oracle 22 - 38 Event Listings: What’s on?

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Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this publication are not reflective of the positions held by The Academy of Contemporary Music. Girl About Town This is a project thought up and maintained by the student community. - on getting gigs With so much musical talent readers but no one will want to A Note from the Editor… walking through the Rodboro listen if your music is appalling – doors this September (both new so record yourself regularly even and returning), I predict that next if it is just on a phone, or an SM58 e’ve made it! Welcome to the second issue of The Oracle ! year’s Guildford town will be just and Mac set up in a cramped W as thriving with live music as it rehearsal room. It’s amazing what And what a pleasure it has been to work with such has been this. But the question is, you can pick up from a 20 minute energised and thoughtful minds. Autumn is here and with it, the for those artists struggling to get iPhone recording. wind has swept in thoughts on creativity, commercialism and out there (myself included): just Remember that the music industry concept albums. Having listened to Courtney Barnett’s double EP – A how does an unknown act get gigs? is ever-changing and developing. Sea of Split Peas – in full about a fortnight ago, what with her And how do you get out of the Keeping up-to-date with trends and rambling lyrics and deadpan voice, I felt inspired by how she seems to Guildford-circuit bubble and get external factors will hugely aid let everything spill out in some sort of conversational, uncensored and people to come to gigs further your success. Currently we have unregimented tumble. Getting out to watch a whole host of folk afield? How do you expand your reached a point where the music performances over the last couple of months, I have felt invigorated by fanbase? Unfortunately I cannot alone is just not enough for the how they too have engaged with lyrical flow and truth, in equal give you any magical formula or consumer/average gig goer. They measure. Whilst many of these were low-key acoustic jobeys, one was a spell to achieve success in this area want a full and immersive huge hero of mine: Martha Tilston, who played for a full hour and 50 or any other of this god-awful experience: a brand; a definite industry while, sat in my slippers mins (!) at the Boileroom on the 25 th Oct. These people remind me that I image; visuals; interesting and and dressing gown, the rain hurls have something to say, whilst also communicating things I need to unique merchandise. And trust me, itself at my cell-like window and I you will get sick of hearing that hear about the world in which we live, mainly that we are all human grapple with the mission of from your business lecturers by the and our unique experiences are valid and meaningful. Happy attempting to bleed the radiator for time you leave ACM, but that is the reading :) – I’d recommend the short story. the third time this week (oh the truth of the contemporary music Evelyn Blacklock joys of student life!). Having been industry. Putting an equal weight subject to its various mood swings on business and creativity is and harsh blows for nearly three important and if you’re lacking in years now, I shall share a few either area the road to success pointers and little titbits that I becomes a hell of a lot harder. have picked up along the way Of course, the cliché line of with regards to the question “putting yourself out there” and posed. “networking” because “it isn’t Well of course the first answer is what you know, but who you simple – make sure your music is know” has to make an Deputy Editor: Ryan Ottley-Booth good. My apologies if I offend any

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appearance. Unfortunately – it’s Design ,” GU1 Punx have put on The Music Box – If you Kane FM, really does make it a true. You could be the next the majority of our rock/punk/pop haven’t heard of this one then force to be reckoned with – Whitney – plus or minus the -punk/metal/whatever bands over you’ve been living under a rock. definitely worth checking out. drug addiction, preferably minus the last couple of years; both Or you have no eyes or ears in Emerging Music Facebook: but whatever floats your boat – companies are founded by and which case I apologise for the https://www.facebook.com/ but if no one hears you then the comprised of ex-ACM students. insult. However if you have no profile.php? only audience you are going to Failure by design recently signed eyes you wouldn’t be reading id=100007842406115&ref=br_rs have is your bedroom wall and ACM band Swim Good, and are this…unless we go for braille at In other news, recently graduate that matted old bear your gran got helping with their management band The Greasy Slicks and you 18/19/20+ years ago. You some time soon…Anyway, monthly and promotion. never know what people do; within gigs comprised of the best ACM Cultural Other have been touring GU1 Punx Facebook: https:// ACM I know a tonne of venue bands from these guys. Each show around and about, releasing new pluggers, promoters, managers, www.facebook.com/Gu1Punx? is a winner, the most recent being singles left, right and centre. And artists, session players, ref=ts&fref=ts the Cavalier// Joe Serious & The recently Massmatiks (who’s song broadcasters, and even a Failure By Design Records Business // Bright White Spirit // “Independence” I’m sure many of us tastemaker for Sony so network Facebook: http:// Wesley Bennett line-up on the 13 th never want to hear again after while you’re here! But also network www.failurebydesignrecords.co.uk/ October and the next upcoming being subjected to it for a year in the elsewhere as ACM is really a safe Swim Good Band Profile Facebook: down as Bare Jams with support stairwell) gigged with upcoming little goldfish bowl in comparison to https://www.facebook.com/ from Indigo Children & Taygan fusion band Bad Rabbits and I must the ocean that is the industry. SwimGoodUK?fref=ts Paxton on Monday 24 th November at say, I am jealous beyond compare. This brings me on to my next point 8pm. The Greasy Slicks Facebook: https:// – and what should have been the Rose Coloured Label// The Music Box Promotions www.facebook.com/greasyslicks? main point in this article – that as Gigs//Management//Blog – Facebook: https:// fref=ts well as the industry being a cruel This little gem seems to have popped www.facebook.com/ Cultural Other Facebook: https:// place, there are people out there out of nowhere but has been putting themusicboxpromo?fref=ts www.facebook.com/CulturalOther? who (despite their motives) want to on gigs in and around the south coast fref=ts help you. This past month or so for artists sporting a mixture of The Emerging Music Massmaticks Facebook: https:// has seen a variety of self- different genres. Plus, they support Programme – To those of www.facebook.com/massmatiks? publicised or independent gigs all local acts regardless of their being of you who are new to this here ref=ts&fref=ts over Guildford. I am unaware of no official affiliation to their scene, EM is perfect. It promotes So basically this rather un-useful everything that goes on in this promotions company. To those at unsigned and often otherwise article serves one purpose. If here town but let me give you a Rose Coloured, I tip my unknown acts and its nothing else get yourselves out little overview of some of the metaphorical hat. people you could get in touch collaboration with the ACM, The there despite the foul weather, go Rose Coloured Facebook: https:// with…. Guildford Fringe, The Good Time to these gigs and meet people. I’ll www.facebook.com/ Guide and local radio station see you all there! GU1 Punx – Closely linked RoseColouredMusic with local label “Failure By 5 5 6

The EDM scene: delivering live and performance. Traditionally an more layers, more production and participating in the contemporary landscape acoustic kick and snare, a few more power these days. toms and a bloody noisey array of The Click track is becoming more The Rise of Electronic Dance found themselves able to compose cast bronze clanks of metal called and more widely used amongst the Music in recent times and for their songs with metronomic cymbals – I can't hear them working live band. Often drummers precision, no expensive mics or the effect on the life of the anymore – make up the drummers are in control of this as main drums combined with not having to musician full instrument. Much like the timekeeper. Triggering a backing pay a drummer and yes: only It is likely that you like some form keyboard to the piano, the drums track is a professional way to start a having to punch in the information of electronic music given its can be completely electronic and show and the artists can ensure that once… pervasiveness in our modern play in the same way technically. the song is the same speed at every culture what with drum sequencers, With an increasing emphasis on live Acoustic kits can have triggers gig, ensuring consistency. machines and the contemporary performance, one starts to consider attached to them allowing the Guitarists methods used to put tracks down in how to deliver electronic sounds - drummer to play any Wav file he today’s world. The use of these new with their ever-growing ubiquity and wants! The options for electronic Guitarists are using more and more technologies – which first properly significance - in the live context. percussion are as ever, limitless in FX boards and racks, often utilising on-board tuners and patch pre-sets emerged in the form of the electronic The challenges of presenting variety. A drummer can add a sound to his electric kit in the same way for different songs. A shitty combo synthesizer around the 1960’s – has Electronic Dance Music in a that a guitarist can add a 8th or 9th amp with a Zoom Multi-FX pedal sparked off many well established live environment and much loved genres such as Drum string to harmonize with a vocalist’s using the bubbles and synth pre-sets, Artists can be confronted with a vast & Bass, Dubstep and House in recent melody line, or in the same way that gives feedback to the skilled laptop array of challenges when presenting times. More and more people have a keyboardist can add an arpeggiator, and live rig controller who knows an electronic dance music set in a live access to all-in-one work stations and to embellish and/or effect the sound. exactly what tones are required. environment. When compared to the as a result, more electronic music has Electronic Drum Triggers Guitars are very hard to create well classic 4 piece Bass, Guitar, Drums been created. So much so that bands (particularly acoustic ones) can be on low-end synths and the natural and Vox, the line-up finds itself more are now expected to play to the same very unforgiving. One will find it mistakes guitarists make (which they and more limited not only in volume level of perfection as a robot. Seems hard to cover up mistakes when the do!) cannot be readily re-created by a but in overall sound quality and a bit unfair, but that’s life. slightest ghost note can often machine – however humanised options available. Drums are in pretty much every trigger a huge snare sample at full manufacturers may claim their genre there is (insert exceptions Electronic Drums velocity. You can't hide behind output sound to be. Keyboards can here), and nowadays a lot of these Drums are the easiest instrument to groove; it has to be precise, re-create guitars well, which could sounds are created with sampled re-create synthetically. However a especially in an age when most pop potentially take work away from the recordings or by a sequencer or live drummer can never be replaced music is created by the artificial session guitarist, but above all the drum machine. by a box with some wires coming means of computers and the dance power and added energy of an music scene is built around and electric guitar is always required – The session drummer has had a out of it. This is why electronic thrives on metronomic precision in electronics just don’t do the real steady decline since the TR808 pads and triggers are preferable as both its composition and sound thing justice; it’s just a shame that rise to fame and the Hip-hop DJ this is in keeping with the physical production. It's more sounds, they’re such wankers. movement of the 80's. Musicians drumming experience and 5 7 8

Vocalists too long on mixing and EQ before Imagination: elusive in contemporary music? Vocalists are at a level that a decent song has been finished – I am becoming increasingly “Girls” is a good song in its own right; it’s catchy, big, and just what guitarists reach within their first add it to the pile lads. Thus, those disillusioned with new releases, struggling to find music with an you’d expect to hear when you think year of playing: the Single FX who are perhaps skilled producers element of edginess or uniqueness. ‘pop-rock’. Being scrupulous however, pedal. It's hard enough for vocalists may not always stand up in the That’s not to say that there aren’t I have to say that this song is a clear live setting scenario. demonstration of how the group to remember what an XLR lead is good tracks being released on a what with all the other important transitioned from a “look-at-this-cute- Bassists regular basis, but there is little being scruffy-guy-singing” style band things they have to keep on top of in Bassists like guitarists have a released, I feel, that can be said to appealing to younger girls, to one also their day-to-day: (hair styles, define the “now.” similar arsenal available to them capable of appealing to a male selfies, walking in a straight line In the last 100 years, there have been audience. My main reasoning for this with regards to FX pedals etc. and telling everyone how bad their obvious changes with the creation of is that their music video is clearly a Heavier music is often distorted and voice will be on that day). But some new genres, which in turn, have horny teenage boy’s wet dream, which played with a pick, but modelling naturally spawned new sub-genres. revolves around women provocatively skilled vocalists have been using FXs VSTs (Virtual Studio Technologies) However, recently I seem to find wearing…well, nothing, (and who’s to like analogue or digital FX pedals allow for classical vintage amp artists’ regurgitating old sounds into say this appeals to just teenagers!) The and loop stations, channelling voice my ears, in an attempt to awaken a music video for this tune has far more modelling of classic Bass tones through DAWs (Digital Audio genre from some long-stretching season views than any other they have played. Slap, pop, thumb pick and released, so is it possible that they Workstations) through software plug- of slumber, or, I find myself noticing finger that bass! Bass players have new bands churning out music which gained a following as the result of ins like auto tune. Check Imogen long been at war with the left hand of appears to be a cut-out copy of another showing attractive women in their Heap performing “Just For Now” as the keyboard. This may be especially contemporary artist, offering nothing music video? Of course you can’t say this an example of artists employing these individual. Is this imaginative? Hardly. for definite, but it’s something to bear in true in the field of electronic music contemporary techniques. She builds Yet, it’s true that some artists can find mind, especially in an age where the where both the fat bass guitar sounds new vigour by adopting a fresh and sexualisation of women in the industry up a piece by layering looped samples and the bass clef of keyboard lines personal approach to existing genres. is extremely pervasive and powerful. recorded and delivered in live time. may both be punched out on keys, 2014 has had people raving about The Before I move on from The 1975, there Dance music is composed by a guy on making it potentially difficult to 1975: an English-based indie rock is one last thing that really bugged me; a computer. He can use a sample differentiate. band formed in Manchester. I have whilst browsing through their Vevo pack and alter pitch speed and avoided them up until now, but channel on YouTube, I came across a If you're in a band that uses video with ‘acoustic’ in the title. timbre which takes away some of having recently listened, I observe technology then fair play to you, a that half of the local bands sound Naïvely, I thought that this might the work expected from live quality performance can often be pretty much exactly like these young, show me how they sound without all vocalists in the usual sense. This is found alongside a quality malnourished lads making the most of the studio equipment to smooth out more relevant in the context of of a sudden upsurge in fans. Upon the edges. I don’t know whether it is understanding of a band stage set- genres such as Drum & Bass, first impressions, the ‘band’ seem to just me, but acoustic doesn’t mean up. be focused on the lead singer, who on “electric guitar with a few effects on House and Jungle to name but a a recent panel show appearance it,” and I was pretty disappointed few. seemed like Noel Fielding’s ‘Mini- when that was what I heard!

Often guys that call themselves Me’ – just not as witty. No wonder Rant aside, now to explore those producers can be good at so many impressionable young girls artists who are reinventing genre in were won over! I have to say, I was composition but often spend way Laurence Caudwell a fresh and exciting way. In the last a little intrigued by the band’s few months it would appear that I 5 music and I genuinely think that 9 10

have been late to another party: the Finally, I’d like to talk about an Macklemore party. One track, artist that is in no way new, but one “Otherside” earned my particular who is unique in many ways and interest because it is unlike most who sports an ever-growing current pop songs, in the respect moustache. I present, Listener. that it is more personal and Listener is an artist who has resembling of a story; if you take constantly evolved over the course of Macklemore out of the music video his three albums; each time I go back and forget that it is about his life, and listen to “Wooden Heart,” I am in you witness the tale of a man awe of the lyrical skill set vocalist desperately trying to find a way out. Dan Smith possesses. Lines such as References to other artists who speak “One accident away from a miracle” or about drugs are included, with some “We must be the last of our kind, exploring the detrimental and others claiming all the world as if we’ll never exploring the helpful influences of die” show you just a small snatch of drugs on how they may or may not the topics explored. Therefore, have assisted them in getting them to although I find myself moving further where they are. He further explores away from “new” music in one sense, I how these sentiments can influence often stumble across hidden gems that those who regard an artist as their idol, really speak to me, which reinvent exciting the desire to be “just like them” genre forms in new, fresh (and in a negative sense, in that personal imaginative) ways. truth and identity is lost or subordinated. A line that most, if not all students can I’ll leave you to discover more for relate to: “And trust me it’s not dope to yourself. be 25 and move back to your parent’s Thomas Haughton basement,” was particularly resonant. After you’ve finished the degree for Taken from Tom’s Blog: “A Shadow’s which you are currently studying, Perspective: http:// what are you going to do with ashadowsperspective.wordpress.com/ ” yourself? Are you going to move back home? Are you going to find a way to support yourself? I personally have often considered this and I really couldn’t think of anything worse than having to move back home. I have nothing against it in a certain respect, but I’ve come to embrace independence with open arms – as I’m sure many others have done – to such an extent that the idea of moving back home seems very undesirable.

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Sprit of Eden by Talk Talk Does commercialism damage art? Written over the course of 1987 at its own right helps to achieve this the Wessex studios in London, evocative effect. The contrast If you haven’t watched Iggy Pop’s world is never simple and neither English band Talk Talk – often between the loud and the silent ‘John Peel Lecture’, I highly is the music industry as I’ve come working in darkness in what one with all of the subtleties in recommend that you do. Granted, I to understand it. It is better could perceive as some sort of between highlights – for me – the hadn’t watched it until recently, instead to look at the industry as religiously-themed ritual – created bittersweet nature of things; to the but it’s definitely worth an hour of an entity that never stops, never – after many a lengthy recording finding of beauty and balance in the your time. The ‘John Peel Lectures’ rests and unfortunately never takes voyage – their fourth studio album: chaotic and ever-changing, are an annual event during which a a step back to look upon itself in Spirit of Eden. Heavily edited transient world of my keynote speaker addresses an relation to the wider world. This down, the band used the many understanding. It helps me to stop important issue concerning the UK could be perceived as one of the hours of improvised performance rushing around without taking that music industry, and this year Iggy reasons why revenues have which emerged from the long series much needed moment to see things Pop’s speech was about “Free Music of recording sessions in Highbury. in their bigger, panoramic gradually decreased as new An astonishing departure from their perspective. in a Capitalist Society.” The technological advances have previous commercial works such as musician, often referred to as “the occurred. Without self-evaluating the album The Colour of Spring Granted an open budget for its’ Godfather of Punk” highlighted not itself and its practices, the industry (1985), this album received mixed creation following the commercial only his concerns about modern has never really adopted pragmatic reviews at the time of its release, and success of their previous album, Talk consumption methods, but also the strategies and forever seems to be yet in more recent times, it has been Talk were for the first time given challenges creatives face when trying playing catch-up. Are revenues that heralded as marking the anticipation complete control over the recording to earn a living from their art. Pop’s important in art though? Essentially, of the post-rock genre. Post-rock uses process and they barred executives main argument doesn’t necessarily yes. The traditional music market instruments commonly allied with the and their manager from the studio target those who pirate music, but was full of artists trying to earn a rock genre, but greater emphasis is sessions. When heard for the first music industry executives who try to time directors doubted its viability as living from their craft and nothing instead placed on the use of “guitars force the idea of business models and has changed today. Some have argued as facilitators of timbre and textures” a commercial product and they made requests for the material to be marketing strategies onto content that that music has become more which one would not readily associate he feels should be free. “A good LP is a commercial in the modern day, but with the generic rock sound. Post-rock rearranged and changed, which frontman Hollis refused to do outright. being, not a product” he states, popular music has always been a pieces tend to be predominantly implying a sense of disdain for the commercial product according to instrumental, containing repeating The label eventually conceded. One motifs with a focus on dynamics and critic explained: “[it was] the kind of corporate structures that musicians others, such as musicologist Timothy the sound characteristics of the record which encourages marketing find themselves involved with, and D. Taylor. instruments used; the soundscapes men to commit suicide." suggesting that he feels artistic Taylor argues that music has been which these instruments can create. creations should not have a numerical used as early as the 1920’s to sell The album was never supported with value attached to them. The entire The voice – when it is present as a tour since frontman Hollis products and establish brands, there is often a lot of space – tends to expressed that he would never be lecture is a brilliant look at the claiming that nothing has really be soft and incidental to the sound as able to recreate a lot of the stuff he modern industry from someone who changed. It could be argued that the opposed to formative of it. had played on it. He also added that has seen it evolve dramatically industry is in fact more sympathetic during his time within it, from the This album brings me back. When I doing so would’ve removed the to artists now, offering them better improvisatory and pure nature of the early 1960’s up to the present day. royalty rates and fairer terms get lost, something in its’ soothing However, it is also important to soundscapes brings me back to a music, which was created as the overall. Arguably music should be place of stillness, acceptance and result of exploration and consider the perspective of those considered partly as a viable understanding. Whilst being gentle spontaneity. The band never did within the music industry: those commercial product, as it allows and calming, this is not to suggest tour again. who are trying to make money from artists to make money from what the artistic product. Is it bad to try that the songs lack edge or emotion, Spirit of Eden is another beautiful they love doing, whilst also giving submerged entirely in a sea of example of artists refusing to bow and make money from art? thousands of jobs to those involved solely meditative waves. No. There down to the corporate machine, and The music industry consists of in the creation of the product. is still a sadness and poignancy instead pursuing the risky path of companies, some large, some small, However, as Iggy Pop says in his which cuts right through you, true expression with its’ arguable – that attempt to make money from speech, “music is a feel thing and it especially in those moments where or perhaps just perceivably artistic content produced by resists logic,” suggesting that the dynamics reach their seeming – lack of marketability. maximum intensity or instruments musicians. In simple terms, that is music should not be made for are played more frantically. The how the industry could be money, but for the emotional and perceived, but unfortunately the cultural benefits it brings. use of silence as an instrument in Evelyn Blacklock 5 13 14

Unfortunately, I often find myself which they can access it. It seems in a conflicted state when I think that music listeners are not as about working in the music concerned as they once were with industry. As a musician (former “what’s hot and what’s not,” but musician, some may say), I only with their own personal understand what it’s like creating choices, based on what they feel art and performing it. I understand benefits them culturally and the love and care that goes into emotionally. creating a track; the frustration felt Although conflicted about my views when you just can’t get that bar on the creation of music and earning right; the doubt felt when you see a living from the artistic creations of bands who have been performing for other people, I feel that the modern years and still haven’t made it; music market is moving in a positive the triumph felt when you come off direction. There are always going to stage to an adoring crowd; the hope be large pop icons that garner felt when you look at the posters of massive followings whilst your heroes on the walls as you fall concurrently encouraging others to asleep. The feelings of confliction move further away from “the arise when I consider the “plight” of corporate” side of the music industry, the artist, and my own desire to but there is always going to be make a living from their art. something for everyone. Iggy Pop However, my perception of artists in highlighted the idea that music has a the industry was dramatically altered right to be free and to be enjoyed by when I began studying my course. I everyone, especially those who can’t haven’t lost any passion for music, but afford it. It is not likely that music will it could be argued that having a more ever be completely free and I realistic view of how everything works personally don’t think that it should has straightened my sights. It has be - musicians deserve payment for made me realise that the industry their work if they so desire it. I isn’t completely full of backstabbers concede that certain methods may and thieves who want your soul in need to continue to change in order to return for nothing, (although some benefit both the artist and consumer, may contest that point). There are but music is a beautiful form of art those in the music industry who have that defines cultures and a real desire to see people succeed personalities so please, let’s not fight and want to support their art in any about it. way they can. In Iggy Pop’s lecture, he says that “the indies will be the Ryan Ottley-Booth only place to go for new music,” once Taken from Ryan’s blog: “A Few again implying his frustrations with Words: http:// larger corporations and their control ottleyboothr.wordpress.com/ ” over the music industry. His point though, could be considered as valid, as people’s lack of interest in the Top 40 seems to grow. More than ever, I meet people who don’t know the Top Ten Singles of the week, and they couldn’t care less. I spoke a few weeks ago about how there is more music out there than ever before, and people have a huge number of avenues through

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Pretty Young Things What do you think? I was looking for poetic inspiration in a book of amazing photographs, Pretty Young Things guarantees to The line-up included: inspiration arose, though not in the way I imagined it would. I realized deliver in sourcing the best up-and- Headliners: they had all been over-printed with various details. On behalf of the coming DJs and live talent by profiling NVOY: https://soundcloud.com/nvoy/ photographers, who had clearly spent a great deal of time composing these acts through their live events held sky-high-ft-youngman-radio-edit across London. their creations, I sent this poem to the editor. Fire The Mob: https://soundcloud.com/ fire-the-mob/ordinary-things Letter to the Editor

Together, M:UK Records and The Support Acts: Simple Matters hosted their first night I wish you wouldn't write on my photies; Cassio Co: http://www.youtube.com/ at Proud Galleries on 29th October for a printed letters, Helvetica, in black. watch?v=qOSa6ZA4bwQ pre-Halloween Special that featured four Nor reverse them out staring and glaring, up-and-coming deep house/bass/future The Outfit: http://www.youtube.com/ in white. garage DJ's from the UK. watch?v=9s7yeuukvJw Changing my timed compositions, light at dawn, having waited all night.

Both The Simple Matters & M:UK Records are looking to scout out, build Intriguing, my art, when it's cared for;

relationships and book the best dance like geishas, cultured and smart. DJ's of the future. The acts assembled for Don't undress them with words plebescian, the 29th October received a collective and shame them like street corner tarts. view/hit count of over 375,000. Nor remove colour trends to your sinful ends, with white, with black, behind my back.

Pretty Young Things Event Page: https:// Your pen blights my pictures at a stroke; www.facebook.com/events/552210428257828 thinking only of space, on your page. Pretty Young Things: https:// While in my brain the landscapes strain, www.facebook.com/pages/Pretty-Young- to be caught, a moment in time; Things/275391196004497 not fraught and defaced by words out of place. M:UK Records: https://www.facebook.com/ I wish you wouldn't print on my photies. metropolisukrecords/info Metropolis Studios: https://www.facebook.com/ I can imagine the same frustration in musicians, when a presenter or DJ metropolisstudios talks over their works of art. I sure don’t appreciate it when I’m trying to The Simple Matters: https:// listen the music . www.facebook.com/thesimplematters

Simple Matters – inde- PRETTY YOUNG M:UK Records – pendent record label and THINGS - birthed from record label. A sub- management service sidiary of Metropolis which consists of New a collaboration between Simple Matters and studios. Focused on WhatUDoing is an online app intended for the creation of free artistic Music Talks - an inde- portfolios. Produced to enable creatives to connect, share their talents, and M:UK Records, PYT is delivering dance pendent music blog & forge professional relationships, the events company music with unparal- Oxxo Musicn - an un- leled sonic quality derground music and which ties The Simple www.WhatUDoing.com Matters together visuals blog is set to launch at the end of 2014. The collaborative tool for the creatively minded, offers opportunities to find and to contribute desired specific skills to suited projects. 17 18

What if your life was actually a story? Man About Town “What if your life was actually a creative phenomena. Think about story? What if your world was a all the little and big things taking fictional work, which was place in our universe every day. When it became apparent we required funding from advertisers to print composed of many interconnecting, The birth of a star, the blooming of this issue of The Oracle , I didn’t want just anyone. I wanted businesses complex fragments? What if every a flower, the interactions we share who gave decent service, price and quality (SPQ), and if possible, those event or experience that has with people, the preparation of who would give a student discount. It was easier than I thought, I simply happened to you was something food, the elements on our skin. went to the places I already knew gave decent SPQ from personal that contributed to your character’s Each of these is a shimmering development, shaping and directing albeit arguably mundane facet in experience. its future course? the creative, cosmic mosaic of life. Biddles - everything a student needs by way of stationery and more With writing, there is a space Your story is profound and moving. besides. Amazing service; if they don’t have it in stock, they’ll take your available for objectivity, which is The person you have become as number, find it, and let you know. Special discount for students. Meat the cathartic and healing. 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euphoria of Live 8 and the THE BODY SHOP® Olympics announcement to the devastation of the July 7 STUDENT OFFER bombings.” - The Guardian 7.30pm Tickets £12 (£10 conc) More information on all these Tue 18, Thu 20, Wed 26, Sat 29 events can be found at http:// Nov - Ivy Arts Centre Studio 2 FREE www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/ index.htm There is a War by Tom Basden GSA THEATRE PRODUCTION THEATRE Inhumanity seems to be the order of the day in a comedy which can be Wed 5 Nov - Teaching Block TB6 obscure, funny, anarchic and at MEMBERSHIP WORTH £5 On Shunt - with Mischa Twitchin times tasteless. Basden extends war Enjoy a host of benefits with your free card including: The first in a contemporary Theatre into a metaphor for society as a 10% off purchases for a year* making series which will see the whole - we are all pawns, moved this Free gifts when you collect stamps Department of Theatre & Dance way and that by a clueless leadership. Exclusive events, offers and discounts inviting important contemporary 7.30pm Tickets £12 (£10 conc) theatre practitioners to the University Come in store to discover more Wed 19, Sat 22, Mon 24, Thu 27 Nov *Terms and conditions apply. Ask in store for details to discuss their work. - Ivy Arts Centre Studio 2 122-124 High Street, Guildford, Surrey. GU1 3HQ Tel: 01482536551 2pm FREE The Radicalisation of Bradley Wed 12 - Sat 15 Nov - Ivy Arts Manning - Adapted for stage by More information can be found at: Centre Tim Price http://www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/index.htm The Addams Family - A New GSA THEATRE PRODUCTION Musical Comedy On August 21, 2013, Bradley Manning LOOK OUT FOR: GSA MUSICAL THEATRE a 24-year old US soldier [now Open Mic Night - kicks off every Thursday in Channies at 8pm, hosted PRODUCTION transgender] was sentenced to 35 by Alistair Cowen. The floor is your s to showcase your musical talent! Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa years’ imprisonment for passing classified information about the Iraq Tone deaf! Just kick back and soak up the scene with our monthly drinks Book by Marshall Brickman & and Afghan wars to WikiLeaks. deals. Rick Elice Written before the trial, Price’s Rock & Roll Bingo - the UK’s newest and most exciting game, and it’s Based on characters created by Charles Addams sympathetic factual/ fiction presents in Channies on Tuesdays. The rules are simple - recognise the song and Manning as personally troubled as 7:30pm (Sat matinee 2:30pm) mark it off on your Rock & Roll bingo card to win big! well as radicalized. Tickets £12 (£10 conc) Chancellors Unplugged - live music from some of the most talented 7.30pm Tickets £12 (£10 conc) artists around Guildford a few times a month. Keep a lookout for when Mon 17, Fri 21, Tue 25, Fri 28 Nov - Ivy Arts Centre Studio 2 Wed 26 - Sat 29 Nov - Ivy Arts they are playing and come down and enjoy a relaxing night with your Centre Pornography - Simon Stephens mates. LIFT the Musical by Craig GSA THEATRE PRODUCTION Plug & Play - the concept is simple, if you think you can DJ or just Adams & Ian Watson “Stephens offers a remarkable have a good play list that you want to share with everyone in the GSA THEATRE PRODUCTION kaleidoscopic portrait of a London bar, the floor is yours. 15 minutes each and you’ll get the chance to that moved in a few days from the One lift, eight strangers, fifty-four play 3/4 songs. seconds...LIFT is about people and 25 26

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Wed 26 Nov - PATS Studio 1 UNIVERSITY CAROL SERVICE NO WAVE Oil Disease : Surviving Evil ( 油 LUNCHTIME RECITAL UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR (The Surrey Uni Rock Society) 症-與毒共存) welcomes those who like rock, Recitals of exciting new music (conductor Russell Keable ) the PCBs Poisoning Incident and metal, punk, industrial , across a broad range of styles, UNIVERSITY GOSPEL CHOIR the Kaohsiung Incident. Award alternative music etc. They meet composed and performed by Traditional carols and readings for winning director Tsung-Lung weekly @ Roots Bar and monthly talented Surrey music students. Christmas. There will be a retiring Tsai’s work focusses on issues of nights @ The Living Room under 1.10pm FREE collection in aid of charity. human rights, cultural diversity, Rubix, sometimes heading up to 5.30pm FREE and environment. Wed 26 Nov - Teaching Block Woking for the Schism and Wake TB6 Sun 7 Dec - Ivy Arts Centre The Dead nights. 7.30pm FREE Duke Ellington’s Newport Up! LIVE at the Ivy Mon 19 Nov - PATS Dance Studio Collecting, Liveness, and the Pop, rock, folk and jazz all feature in The Other Side ( 對岸異鄉人) Seductive Menace of Jazz this fantastic showcase presented by FILM Recordings Revisited. Another film from award winning student performers, demonstrating Wed 5 Nov - Rik Medlik Building director Tsung- Dr Katherine Williams (Plymouth their extraordinary range of talent. A The Demon Barber of Fleet Lung Tsai, looking at the relationship University) considers Ellington’s relaxed and informal event. notorious performance at the 1956 Street FILM SCREENING between China and Taiwan. He A bar will be open throughout the Newport Jazz Festival, questioning The first in our Tim Burton season. follows the lives of a distraught evening. the implications of spontaneity, After being sent away by Judge Taiwanese businessman who is forward planning, and fixed 7:30pm FREE Turpin, Sweeney Todd a.k.a. stranded in Fujian in China, and a improvisation in jazz. Wed 10 Dec - PATS Studio 1 Benjamin Barker returns to London Chinese mainland woman married off to a farmer in Tainan/Taiwan. 4pm FREE LUNCHTIME RECITAL Recitals of with the help of a sailor, Anthony exciting new music across a broad Hope. He opens a barber shop above 7.30pm FREE Sat 29 Nov - St Saviour’s Church, Mrs. Lovett’s Meat Pie Shop, where Guildford range of styles, composed and Thu 20 Nov - Rik Medlik Building performed by talented Surrey music she sells ‘the worst pies in London’. UNIVERSITY CHOIR AND Chinatown students. With the help of Mrs. Lovett, Todd ORCHESTRA - conductors means to rid London of the corrupt FILM SCREENING – LA NEO- 1.10pm FREE Russell Keable & George Salmon aristocracy, and hopes to be reunited NOIR SERIES Sibelius Finlandia, Op 26 Wed 17 Dec - PATS Studio 1 with his daughter, Johanna, who is JJ ‘Jake’ Gittes is a private detective Bernstein Chichester Psalms LUNCHTIME RECITAL Weekly now Judge Turpin’s ward. hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she Shostakovich Symphony no 5, Op 47 recitals, usually featuring student 7.30pm Tickets £5 (students £2) suspects her husband Hollis - builder of the city’s water supply system - of 7.30pm Tickets £12 (£10 conc) performers playing in a wide range of Sweeney Todd in context PRE styles from Bach to Hendrix. SCREENING TALK - Christopher having an affair. Gittes photographs Wed 3 Dec - PATS Studio 1 1.10pm FREE Wiley discusses Sweeney Todd him with a young girl but in the LUNCHTIME RECITAL Weekly alongside Victorian melodrama, ensuing scandal, it seems he was Wed 17 Dec - PATS Studio 1 recitals, usually featuring student uncovering various secrets buried hired by an impersonator emulating performers playing in a wide range ENSEMBLES CONCERT A within the score. Evelyn. When Mrs. Mulwray is stimulating evening of music - a found dead, Jake is plunged into a of styles from Bach to Hendrix. 6.30pm FREE with ticket for film 1.10pm FREE wide range of ensembles and choirs complex web of deceit involving perform a varied repertoire under A bar will be open from 6pm. murder, incest and municipal Wed 3 Dec - Guildford the direction of student conductors. corruption, all related to the city’s Cathedral 7.30pm FREE water supply. Mon 17 Nov - PATS Dance 7.30pm Tickets £5 (£2 students) Studio

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Thu 4 Dec - Rik Medlik POETRY READING GROUP LECTURE Wed 17 Dec - Teaching Block Building 25 Nov, 16 Dec Every so often the theatre appears TB6 SKYFALL Open to all. Free Admission to change. New forms emerge, new Dance (-Theatre) & Philosophy Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her technologies reshape the way we RESEARCH SEMINAR - Chaired BOOK CIRCLE 2014 past comes back to haunt her. As see things, new ideas demand by Dr Laura Cull Mon 17 Nov MI6 comes under attach, 007 must different sorts of presentation. Addresses the relationship between track down and destroy the threat, THE RADETSKY MARCH by Sometimes these changes threaten dance, dance-theatre and Starring Daniel Craig, Skyfall Joseph Roth what we know of theatre (and more philosophy, including the idea of besides). Sometimes they seem to received 8 BAFTA and 5 Oscar Mon15 Dec dance as a philosophical practice. nominations including Best Song. make theatre itself (and more SUMMER IN FEBRUARY by The panel will include Kelina A bar will be open from 6:30pm. besides) redundant. This lecture Gotman, Nicola Conibere and Jonathan Smith considers recent changes to theatre, 7.30pm Tickets £5 (£2 students) other dance experts. Open to all. Free admission from postmodern performance to the 2pm - 5pm FREE Thu 18 Dec - Rik Medlik Building hybrid zones of media interactivity. Nightmare before Christmas It s thread is performance, which VISUAL ART FILM SCREENING – TIM LECTURES appears to be all around us and is in BURTON SERIES constant need of replacing with Wed 19 Nov - Seedpod - Nodus something more authentic. What is Building Jack Skellington from Halloweentown Thur 6 Nov - Rik Medlik Building the limit? accidentally stumbles upon the JOHN LETHERLAND TAIWANESE PHOTOGRAPHY entryway into Christmastown and is GUILDFORD SOCIETY ANNUAL The lecture will include AND FILM enraptured. He returns to ARCHITECTURE LECTURE performance, and the event will 4pm Talk by photographer Yehlin conclude with a drinks reception. Halloweentown determined to find a Growth in the South East, an Lee way to bring Christmas under his Opportunity for Placemaking 7pm FREE 5pm Round Table Discussion control and enlists his loyal 7pm FREE Wed 10 Dec - Teaching Block TB6 Documentary and Feature Film townspeople to help him “make Arts Practice and the Academy 4pm - 6pm FREE Christmas”. What follows is a merry Wed 19 Nov - Austin Pearce 1 RESEARCH DISCUSSION misadventure in which Jack’s well- CHARLES HADCOCK FRBS Mon 8 Dec - Lewis Elton Gallery PANEL - Chaired by Prof Steve meaning but misguided efforts go SURREY SCULPTURE SOCIETY Goss Surrey Artists Christmas seriously astray. LECTURE Exhibition How is arts practice inflected by A bar will be open from 6:30pm His work is based not only in research? Arts practitioners from the Exhibition runs until Thursday 15 7.30pm Tickets £5 (£2 students) mathematics, but also in music, School Arts discuss the place of January - Colourful ceramics, glass- poetry and changes over time in the professional creative practice within ware and paintings by some of the natural world and is often on a the university research and teaching county’s talented artists will be on monumental scale. LITERATURE environments. The panel will sale alongside beautiful textiles and 7.30pm SSS members and include Prof Andy Lavender, stunning photography. You are sure CREATIVE WRITER’S GROUPS students FREE Kirk Woolford, Dr Tom to find something extra special to give to your loved-ones at 18 Nov, 16 Dec Wed 3 Dec - Ivy Arts Centre Armstrong and Dr Milton Meetings offer a stimulating and Mermikides. Christmas. Or treat yourself – it Beyond theatre, again: costs nothing to look and enjoy in a supportive environment for both performance at the limit 4pm FREE novice and more experienced peaceful and calm setting. PROFESSOR ANDY writers. Open to all. No need to 6pm - 8pm FREE LAVENDER - INAUGURAL book. Free admission.

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Open Mic Nights in Guildford Electric Theatre Listings A youthful love affair with tragic 7.30pm. Tickets £12 consequences set in the Latin Every Sunday 7pm www.electrictheatre.co.uk Thu 27 - Sat 29 Nov quarter of 19th Century Paris with THE KINGS HEAD, QUARRY Fri 7 Nov some of Puccini’s best loved music Dr JEKYLL and Mr HYDE STREET POCKET DREAM (sung in English). Stevenson’s celebrated, tale, with Alternate Mondays 8pm Propeller presents a version of its 7.30pm, Sat 6.30pm. Tickets £20 its fascinating study of the EMERGING MUSIC @ THE internationally acclaimed diversity of man’s psyche. Sun 23 Nov KEYSTONE production of A Midsummer Guildburys Theatre Company. THE ELECTRIC COMEDY Thu 13 Nov & 11 Dec 8pm Night’s Dream , devised for a young 7.45pm Tickets £12 (conc £10) / CLUB Sat Matinee 2.30pm £11 (conc FIVE & LIME audience. 8pm Tickets £12.50 With Matt Price, Iszi Lawrence, £9) First Tuesday every month 8pm Archie Maddocks, Tim O’Connor Thu 4 Dec VIC’S BUSKERS OPEN MIC @ Tue 11 Nov and Ben Briggs. ELF (Emma Bentley’s fav) THE ROWBARGE From 8pm HOPELESSLY DEVOTED 7.45pm Tickets: Advance £8.50. Every Thursday 8.30pm by Kate Tempest £9.50 on the door. After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his GT OPEN MIC SESSIONS @ THE Lyrical fireworks. Live Music. A story Tue 25 Nov ungainly size, a man raised as an elf KINGS HEAD, STOKE RD of love and redemption JAZZ CAFÉ with saxophonist at the North Pole is sent back to the Every Thursday 8 pm till late 7.30pm Tickets £10 Trish Clowes U.S. in search of his true identity. ACM OPEN MIC ACOUSTIC “one of the most agile and original 7.30pm. Tickets £7.50 (inc free SESSIONS Thu 13 Nov TORMEAD - An Evening of Music jugglers of improv and composition” - mince pie and mulled wine) PEW’S BAR 21 Chapel Street the Guardian Solos, Chamber ensembles and Choral groups 7pm Tickets free Fri 14 Nov THE WHITE HOUSE LOS ENDOS: Ultimate Genesis Traditional ales See and hear all the drama and Good range of wine by the bottle & glass excitement of a Genesis gig from the Quality Food with Daily Specials 70s and 80s with sweeping light show 8 High Street, Guildford GU2 4AJ 01483 302006 7.30pm Tickets £17 Special Event 25th November from 8 p.m. Every Thursday 8pm Sat 15 Nov CHANCELLOR’S BAR, SURREY SURREY MOZART PLAYERS EVELYN BLACKLOCK UNIVERSITY (picture below) Themed to the events of 1914 (playing a mixture of covers and her own compositions) TICKLED IVORY JAM NIGHT through to 1918 LOOK OUT for more events on: Will be publicised around ACM, 7.30pm. Tickets £17 [email protected] look out. Tue 18, Wed 19, Fri 21, Sat 22, Nov DISCOUNT ON FOOD GUILDFORD OPERA ACM Students 15% (show your ACM card) COMPANY present La Bohème Welcome

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Mon 8th Dec 7.30pm £19.50, £22.50, £23.50 and tracks from their solo careers opportunity to meet the players GREGORY PORTER + support 7.30pm Tickets £25, £37.50 and their instruments after the Sat 20th Dec performance. Hailed as the new ‘king’ of jazz, ONLY MEN ALOUD Wed 12 Nov with a Grammy nomination for 7.30pm Tickets £10 The Welsh Choral phenomenon, JOAN ARMATRADING Best Traditional R&B. Sat 22 Nov nine UK tours, a Classical Brit Solo on stage, playing the guitar, 7.30pm Tickets £33, £36 Award and the opening ceremony piano and singing. Her final major PAUL CARRACK: Rain or Shine Tue 9th Dec for the London 2012 Olympics. tour. Singer, songwriter and formed CHRISTMAS WITH THE RAT 7.30pm Tickets £27.50 8pm Tickets £28.50, £30.50 frontman for Ace, Squeeze and Mike & the Mechanics, returns to PACK Fri 26th to Sun 28th Dec Fri 14 Nov Guildford after his recent album Las Vegas, late 50s early 60s. THE NUTCRACKER - Moscow CLASSICS BY CANDLELIGHT release Rain or Shine. Celebrating the singing talent of City Ballet with the Moscow City The Mozart Festival Orchestra 7.30pm Tickets £29.50, £39.50 three world-famous entertainers. Ballet Orchestra in full 18th century costume. A 7.30pm £24.50, £26.50, £28.50 Ballet at its best, winning new selection of concert classics Mon 24, Tue 25 Nov Sun 14th Dec invitations to perform internationally including Mozart, Bach and Vivaldi JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN CHRISTMAS OPERA and rave reviews. 7.30pm Tickets £29.50, £36.50 Jack Holden gives a stunning Fri 26th 7.30pm - Sat 27th & Sun performance about one young man’s CELEBRATION 28th - 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sat 15 Nov fight for life in the trenches of WW1 The London Festival Opera , with Tickets £29.50, £34.50, £39 SCHEHERAZADE presented by 7.30pm Tickets £14 arias and ensembles by Mozart, Guildford Symphony Orchestra Verdi, Bizet, Puccini, Offenbach and (children save £10) Sat 29th Nov Join GSO for a thrilling evening. Gilbert & Sullivan 7.30pm Tickets £15, £18 (students MADAMA BUTTERFLY Puccini’s award winning opera back by save 50%) 28 - 30 Chertsey Street popular demand, with exquisite sets, Sun 16 Nov Japanese garden and fabulous Guildford • Surrey • GU1 4HD ERASURE with special guest costumes. Guildford Music Tel: 01483 578133 Chad Valley 7.30pm Tickets £24.50, £32, £35 [email protected] Coming to G-Live as part of their new The Violet Flame tour Sun 30th Nov 7.30pm Tickets £35, £60 THE MANFREDS After successful reunion in 1991, The Thu 20 Nov Manfreds have toured extensively to DAVE GORMAN standing ovations. Innovative comedy in a brand new 7.30pm Tickets £25, £27 10% show. Sat 6th Dec 7.30pm Tickets £21 SAS BAND Sat 22nd Nov Queen’s keyboard player and G LIVE UP CLOSE CONCERTS musical director, Spike Edney, *except books and music sheets Meridian Brass at the Movies returns with his all-star band and WE BUY & SELL ALL TYPES OF NEW & USED MUSICAL Some of the best loves themes some rock star friends. from the big screen, from Star 7.30pm Standing £35, Seated INSTRUMENTS Wars to James Bond, and £45 Tel: 01483 578133 • www.guildfordmusic.com

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