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email: [email protected] NIGHTSHIFTwebsite: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Oxford’s Music Magazine Free every month. Issue 175 February 2010 DeadDeadDeadDeadDead JerichosJerichosJerichosJerichosJerichos Booze’n’fighting’n’rock’n’roll with Drayton’s teen sensations 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 BANDS WANTING TO PLAY at should be based in Oxfordshire and this year’s Oxford Punt have until have some gigging experience. A the 10th March to submit demos. limited number of all-venue Punt The Punt will take place on Passes are on sale from the Wednesday 12th May across five beginning of February from venues in the city centre. The Punt Videosyncratic on Cowley Road will kick off at Malmaison in the and online at oxfordmusic.net, castle complex. Other venues are priced £8, plus booking fee. INNOVATIVE FOLKTRONICA COLLECTIVE TUNNG and veteran Thirst Lodge, the Purple Turtle, folk guitarist Martin Simpson are among the first acts to be announced the Wheatsheaf and the Cellar. The THE JERICHO TAVERN’S for this year’s Wood Festival. annual Oxford Punt, which was correct website address is Wood,billed as the UK’s greenest live music festival, takes place over launched in 1997, showcases the www.thejericho.co.uk. This site the weekend of the 21st - 23rd May at Braziers Park, near Wallingford. best unsigned acts in Oxfordshire. lists correct, up-to-date gig dates The festival, organised by Truck, also features Danny & The Past events have featured Young for the pub. A Google search for Champions of the World, Frontier Ruckus and Ora Corgan, with over Knives, Little Fish, Stornoway and the venue tends to direct people to 30 live acts due to play over two stages. Other attractions include a Elizabeth – the band that went on the old address, which is still run cycle-powered disco and cinema, music and singing workshops, a to become Foals. by the Tavern former promoter and poetry slam and craft and children’s activities. Music stages are Acts wanting to take part in the includes some serious factual powered by cycle and solar power. Punt can send demos in to inaccuracies. Tickets for Wood are on sale now, priced £70 for the weekend, including Nightshift at PO Box 312, camping. Tickets for 13-17 year olds are £50 with kids going free. You Kidlington, OX5 1ZU or email A SILVER MOUNT ZION play at can buy tickets at Videosyncratic in Summertown or on Cowley Road Myspace links to the Regal on Friday 26th March as and The Scribbler in Oxford City centre as well as various outlets [email protected]. Please part of the new Offshoot Fringe around Oxfordshire and online. Check out the festival advert in this clearly mark all submissions Punt Festival, which runs in conjunction issue of Nightshift for a full list of outlets. and include a contact number and with the annual Oxford Folk A limited number of Supertrucker tickets, which allow entry to both some band or artist details. All acts Festival and aims to explore the Wood and Truck Festival in July, are also on sale now, priced £120. concept of folk music with a month Road, goes weekly from this of live music events, ranging from month. The night showcases gigs to workshops and choral, acoustic acts as well as local bands contemporary classical, spoken wanting to play acoustic sets of word and poetry shows. Other acts their normal material. On Thursday performing include Trembling 18th March the club hosts a special Bells, Thomas Truax, Jali Fily solo performance from The Hold Cissokho, Tarik Beshir, Bleeding Steady’s Franz Nicolas, with a Heart Narrative, Pindrop Chamber limited number of tickets available Ensemble and many more. The from wegottickets.com. event kicks off on the 5th March Creative Tuesday are also with a spoken word performance. launching a new weekly cult film For more information and ticket night and any local bands or details visit www.myspace.com/ musicians wanting to showcase theoffshoot. their videos or documentaries before the main feature can contact THE OXFORD JAZZ FESTIVAL Beth at [email protected]. returns for its second year over the Easter weekend. The four-day OXFORD CONTEMPORARY festival runs from Thursday 1st – MUSIC are inviting applications Sunday 4th April and features over for their annual OCM Open forty acts playing at venues like Session, which takes place at the the Ashmolean, the Bodleian North Wall Arts Centre in Library, St. Michael at the North Summertown and launches their Gate and Malmaison. Acts spring season. Innovative and confirmed include Liane Carroll, original acts of any genre can Mornington Lockett, Flight of submit Myspace links to Hand, Kairos Quartet and The [email protected], or visit Kate Williams Quartet, while there www.ocmevents.org for more will be a number of special gypsy details. Deadline for submissions is jazz events to celebrate the 100th the 5th March. anniversary of the birth of Django PATTI SMITH performs an evening of “words and music” at the Reinhardt. Elsewhere there will be BABY GRAVY launch their new Holywell Music Room on Monday 22nd March. The legendary singer a youth jazz competition, while the single, ‘Not Waiting’, this month returns to Oxford for the first time since her astonishing show at the Cellar will host nightly jazz jams. with a gig supporting former-Slits Academy in 2007 where she played an extended set of songs from her Visit www.oxfordjazzfestival.com guitarist Viv Albertine at the Cellar classic `Horses’ and `Easter’ albums. for full details. on Saturday 6th February. The concert is being promoted by Pindrop Performance and tickets, priced £20, are on sale now from www.artistticket.com. THIS MONTH’S OXFORD Another music legend coming town is LOU REED who brings his TOWN HALL RECORD FAIR Metal Machine Trio to the O2 Academy on Sunday 18th April. takes place on Saturday 20th Reed formed MM3 in 2008 with saxophonist Ulrich Krieger and February, from 11am – 4pm. electronics experimenter Sarth Cahoun, and inspired by Reed’s notorious `Metal Machine Music’ album, they play improvised sets of AS EVER, DON’T FORGET TO free rock and jazz, minimalism, noise and electronica. The group is tune into BBC Radio Oxford billed as “Lou Reed without vocals or songs”, which might well come Introducing every Saturday evening as a blessing to anyone who’s heard his last few albums. Tickets are on 95.2fm. The weekly local music on sale now from the Academy box office or online at show celebrates its fifth www.ticketweb.co.uk BELLOWHEAD HEADLINE anniversary in March with a THIS YEAR’S OXFORD FOLK specially commissioned tribute to FESTIVAL. The annual three-day Radiohead’s ‘The Bends’, featuring celebration of folk and world music various Oxford bands, all in aid of returns over the weekend of the Children In Need. BBC Radio 16th – 18th April. Other acts already Introducing features a regular mix confirmed include Cara Dillon, The of new local releases, demos and Warsaw Village Band, Chris Wood interviews. The show is available and The Demon Barbers to listen to as a podcast all week at Roadshow. As ever the main part bbc.co.uk/oxford. of the festival takes place at Oxford Town Hall, with more events at the DUE TO LAST MONTH’S BAD Holywell Music Room, Oxford weather, a few outlets didn’t get Castle complex and beyond. As their January issue of Nightshift, well as concerts there are featuring an exclusive interview with workshops, buskers, Morris Ride, celebrating the 20th dancers and ceilidhs. Weekend anniversary of the debut EP release. tickets are on sale now, priced £61. The issue is available to read online Visit www.oxfordfolkfestival.com in PDF format at for more details. nightshift.oxfordmusic.net, along with a comprehensive archive of CREATIVE TUESDAYS, the past issues. If you would like a acoustic music and spoken word copy of the January issue, just send club at Café Tarifa on Cowley a large SAE to Nightshift at PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. a quiet word with DeadDeadDead JerichosJerichosJerichos to experience the sort of things in with the likes of the old punk bands life that kids his age weren’t meant to and lots of Britpop stuff like Stone and, raised on a diet of old punk bands Roses and Oasis. I always really like The Buzzcocks and Stiff Little enjoyed growing up in Drayton. It Fingers, he started to document it all has played a big part in my song in lyrics. writing. At about 14 years old it Dead Jerichos came together almost became the place to be with all the by accident when Craig was asked if local youngsters with their bottles of he still had a band by Baby Gravy Strongbow, or if you didn’t have drummer Zahra Tehrani in her job at enough money for that a 3-litre the Ark-T young people’s music bottle of Frosty Jacks for about project. He lied that he did and £1.20. Nasty stuff. From that age is quickly called Leo and Dave up. Leo where I got to write many of my first recommended Sahm, who he knew songs about the mayhem we did and from primary school. They practised saw.” twice and played a four-song set that LEO: “I got into music when I was included current favourite ‘Red Dance very young as my dad played drums Floor’. in a local band called Loopy and I The current three-piece line-up thought it was cool.