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email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 182 September Oxford’s Music Magazine 2010 Heads up, it’s Black Hats Oxford’s artful yobsters draw blood - interview inside NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWNEWSS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] Online: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net TIM BEARDER HAS STEPPED Eynsham over the weekend of 4th- DOWN AS CO-HOST OF BBC 5th September after being re- RADIO OXFORD arranged from the end of July. The INTRODUCING. The presenter two-day event is headlined by who, along with Dave Gilyeat, was Newport’s rap crew Goldie responsible for establishing the Lookin’ Chain, alongside dedicated local music show on Borderville, Charly Coombes & BBC Oxford and helped pioneer The New Breed, Inflatable Buddha, the BBC’s Introducing programme, The Mighty Redox and more, while encouraging new music across the there are a wide range of dance UK. tents hosted by the likes of Having fronted the show since Bossaphonik, Xpression 2005, Tim celebrated five years on Recordings, Dat Sound, Field air in March with the release of Frequency and ZZBing. This ‘Round The Bends’, a tribute to year’s Arcane is dedicated to Radiohead’s classic ‘The Bends’ by former organiser and local graffiti up and coming Oxford bands. He artist Dan Lewis, aka Halfcut Art, was instrumental in championing who died in an accident in June. All OX4 returns for a second outing on Saturday 9th October. The event, a the likes of Little Fish, A Silent profits from the event will go to celebration of east Oxford’s music heritage, is organised by Truck. Last Film and in particular Stornoway the Art Room charity. Visit year’s event was headlined by The Big Pink. as well as giving airtime to www.arcane-festival.com for full This year’s OX4 runs from 2pm through to 3am at ten venues around hundreds of unsigned local acts. line-up and ticket details. Cowley Road, including The O2 Academy, The Regal, The Speaking to Nightshift about his Bullingdon, Café Tarifa, Baby Simple, Trees Lounge, The Old departure, Tim said, “It’s a terrible THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS Bookbinders in Green Street and G&D’s Yard. wrench because it is the one thing I head out on tour as main support Headline acts for the mini-festival are Manchester’s angular indie most enjoy doing at BBC Oxford to Oceansize this month. The local rising stars Everything Everything (pictured), LA’s Abe Vigoda and and I’ve had an amazing time doing indie favourites, who have toured Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Other acts already confirmed it over the years. But it has become in Japan and the States in recent include Crocodiles, The Winchell Riots, Dog Is Dead, Chad Valley, quite a time intensive leviathan that months, kick of the tour in Fixers, Dreaming Spires, Glitches, Half Rabbits and Hreda, while seems to be rather hampering other Newcastle on 18th September, Scratch Perverts and Toddla-T play a late-night show at the Regal. aspects of my career. finishing, appropriately, at the O2 As well as live music their will be film screenings, including the first “I have tried in vain to progress in Academy in Oxford on 2nd October. public showing of Jon Spira’s Oxford music scene documentary Anyone the field of new music but for what Tickets for the show, priced £10, Can Play Guitar, plus discussion panels, workshops and more during ever reason haven’t made any are on sale now from the Academy the day. headway, so I’ve decided it’s time box office and online at Early bird tickets, priced £15 (£12 for under 18s) are on sale now to take stock and try something Wegottickets.com. from Scribbler in Oxford, the Academy box office, Oxfam in Headington new. It’s just like the familiar story and Oxford Guitar Gallery in Summertown as well as online from we hear all the time with unsigned HUCK & THE HANDSOME Wegottickets.com. bands. Introducing will continue FEE are currently undertaking a More news and line-up details at www.thisistruck.com with Dave at the helm and a slight six-week tour of the States. The re-brand after my last show on the band have organised and financed 4th of September.” the tour themselves, although they BBC Oxford Introducing is will be playing the tour without signings Tesseract, with support A REMINDER AS EVER THAT broadcast every Saturday evening work visas. Maybe we shouldn’t from Lithurgy, Taste My Eyes and SS20 on Cowley Road now stock between 6-7pm on 95.2fm and is have mentioned that bit. Anyway, K-Lacura. Bands wanting to play local CDs and vinyl. All available as a podcast all week at the band’s tour kicked off in New future nights can contact Beth via Oxfordshire acts are encouraged to bbc.co.uk/oxford. York at the end of August and runs www.myspace.com/burninglegacy. get in contact with either Mon or through Washington, Oregon, Lee at SS20 at 176 Cowley Road or MUSICINOXFORD.CO.UK is California, Texas and New Orleans, THE BLACK HORSE in on 01865 791851. the new name for the re-launched while in Albuquerque the band will Kidlington is looking for acoustic Oxfordbands.com. The website reconvene with regular collaborator acts to play its new Friday night FINALLY, IS IT TOO MUCH provides an online resource for Tamara Parsons-Baker. After the music sessions. Acts interested TO EXPECT that bands local bands as well as running local tour they will play a homecoming should contact Kevin at submitting CDs for review to music news stories, interactive show at the Wheatsheaf on [email protected]. Nightshift make sure they put the reviews, a photo gallery, gig guide Saturday 9th October alongside correct postage on envelopes. We and MP3s. Recently the site has Borderville. Visit A GALLERY OF IMAGES from regularly get notes from Royal also hosted a regular podcast www.myspace.com/huckmusic for this year’s Truck Festival by local Mail to say packages have arrived covering various aspects of the more details. photographer Guy Henstock is up with postage underpaid and we’re local scene. Bands are encouraged online now at buggered if we’re coughing up to submit demos and releases for BURNING LEGACY www.guyhenstock.com. £1.18 for the privilege of covering review or tracks to be made PROMOTIONS are back in for your incompetence. Acts can available to listen to on the site. action. The metal and hardcore club THE NEXT RECORD FAIR at submit demos for review simply returns with a show at the Oxford Town Hall takes place on by emailing Myspace links or ARCANE FESTIVAL takes place Wheatsheaf on Sunday 26th Sunday 10th October. The one after similar to this month at City Farm in September featuring Century Media that is on Sunday 5th December. [email protected]. a quiet word with Black Hats Black Hats swat up on their local music history “MY MOMENT OF MUSICAL Chamfer, who became big favourites Black Hats were born in earnest. Gigs, reputation, and Nightshift asks the inspiration was at age 16 watching locally for their fusion of rock and including a storming set at the Oxford band first off, what they think it is Steve Marriott in a small Camden traditional Indian music. Punt in 2009, became increasingly that has attracted people to them? pub. He blew me away, and showed But with Black Hats, Nick finally packed and passionate affairs as the NICK: “I love playing live, it’s the how to entertain 200 people. He had seems to have struck pop gold. The band’s live reputation got around. A one time that I feel totally complete, whisky shots delivered throughout the band is a classic power trio who tap debut album, ‘What’s Not To and in control of myself, and my set, sang his lungs out, and blew into the classic mod sound of The Understand’, was well received but emotions. I think this has always everyone away. It was one of the most Who, The Jam and The Faces, but didn’t really capture their live energy. come across to audiences and amazing nights of my life. I want to spiked up by nods to punk and new A four-song EP, ‘Magnets’, which hopefully they can tell that we take what I saw that night and put wave as well as the sharper current quickly followed was a huge leap believe in the songs and what we’re into my own music.” crop of indie bands such as Young forward and cemented Black Hats’ singing about. I watch bands and I’m Knives and Maximo Park. place at the head of Oxford’s amazed at how many of them can’t BLACK HATS SINGER AND In fact Young Knives’ Ollie Askew unsigned pack. play live. It’s disgusting.” guitarist Nick Breakspear is even told Nick after a Black Hats gig This month the trio self release a BUDD: “It’s a cliché but the gigs are explaining to Nightshift what first that they were “like a better Young new double a-side single, ‘Tunnels’ / where it all actually matters. If you inspired him to form a band. It’s an Knives”. High praise, but deserved. ‘Blood & Light’, a continuation of haven’t spent the time learning to experience that has stuck with him their musical progression, ‘Tunnels’ actually play your instruments or how over the years and goes some way to BLACK HATS FORMED IN 2007 an alternately frenetic and self- to conduct yourselves in a live explaining his band’s enviable when Nick, alongside former- contemplating mix of rock fury, environment you’re never gonna get reputation as one of the most Chamfer bandmate Dave Hallett, squiggling electronics and big, bold anywhere and will probably make exciting local live bands around at the teamed up with bassist Ian Budd, who spacious power-pop, ‘Blood & Light’ yourself look like an idiot in the moment.