[email protected] nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 220 November Oxford’s Music Magazine 2013 “Ultimately we’re an indie pop band” ToLiesel OXFORD DUPLICATION CENTRE [email protected] Oxford’s country-shoegaze Office: 01865 457000 Mobile: 07917 775477 heroes on “ripping off Band Supporting Oxfordshire Bands with Affordable Professional CD Duplication of Horses”, and disappearing FANTASTIC BAND RATES down psychedelic rabbit holes. ON ALL SERVICES Professional Thermal Printed CDs Full Colour/Black & White Also in this issue Silver or White Discs Design Work Support Introducing RAWZ Digital Printing Packaging Options plus all your local music news, reviews and Fulfilment previews, and six pages of Oxford gigs. 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There’s STORNOWAY SINGER BRIAN BRIGGS has been talking to Nightshift and PR. Fans can pledge at www. more details on all the events and about the band’s new self-released mini-album, `You Don’t Know O2 AcAdemy OxfOrd pledgemusic.com/projects/ bands at www.ocmevents.org. Anything’. The album features six songs written and recorded at the same springoffensive where different time as the album `Tales From Terra Firma’, but which, according to the donation can earn you anything band, didn’t fit the style of the main album. ThursdAy 28Th from a signed CD copy of the Currently living on the Gower in Wales, writing songs for Stornoway’s O2 ACADEMY2 OXFORD album, gig tickets and artwork, up to third album, Brian explained the release of the new song collection. nOvember a day writing with the band, or for “`You Don’t Know Anything’ is songs written in the same period as the a cool £5,000 they will arrange for GIGSINOXFORD.CO.UK second album, with the exception of `You Don’t Know Anything’ itself, TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER you to be kidnapped. There’s also a which is an older tune which we always wanted to put on a release. So in a pretty neat video on the site where sense they are album out-takes, but they were real contenders for the album, you can watch them get their arses which to our ears didn’t quite fit in for various reasons. So not necessarily kicked by a girl. any weaker, but overall perhaps a bit less serious! “As you will remember from our early days we have always enjoyed THE BULLINGDON has been dabbling in other styles and more light-hearted moments, like `Good Fish renamed The Art Bar. The pub/ Thursday 24th october Saturday 9th November Thursday 28th November Guide’ and `Jonathan’s Mullet’, and these songs are generally a bit more venue was taken over earlier this towards that oddball end of our songwriting spectrum. There is one about year and has undergone a major LANTERNS ON THE LAKE RUARRI JOSEPH PALMA VIOLETS mass extinction (`The 6th Wave’), and the usual sprinkling of Oxford refurbishment, while retaining its references: South Park, Jericho Cafe, Covered Market etc; birdsong - THE BULLINGDON THE BULLINGDON O2 ACADEMY commitment to live music. The `Tumbling Bay’ features wren and nuthatch recorded from the door of the backroom venue hosts The Haven PHIL McMINN releases a new EP, storno-garage, and a couple of big brass arrangements which we had fun Sunday 27th october Sunday 10th November Thursday 5th December rock and blues club on Mondays; `The Space Has A Meaning’, on recording, especially `Clockwatching’, which also features a recording of a jazz and Spanish live music on th December 9 . The new EP features farmyard soundscape towards the end. ALUNAGEORGE BROTHER & BONES NIGHT BEDS Tuesdays, plus gigs by DHP, three songs, ‘Wooden Bones’, “It’s a collection of songs from the wider extremes of our songwriting and Backroom Promotions and It’s O2 ACADEMY THE BULLINGDON O2 ACADEMY2 ‘Barrowlands’ and ‘The Space Has arranging spectrum. You might spot the influence of artists as wide-ranging All About The Music, as well as A Meaning’, all recorded live at St as the Flaming Lips, Ray Charles, The Specials, Tom Waits, Gorillaz, assorted club nights. Wednesday 30th october Sunday 10th November Saturday 22nd february Alban’s Church in east Oxford. As Juluka, Beck, Teenage Fanclub… They are songs which we are very proud well as a download, the EP will be of, and which we dearly wanted to include on `Tales From Terra Firma’, CORNBURY FESTIVAL is selling BEANS ON TOAST VILLAGERS LAUREN AQUILINA available as a limited run of 100 but which didn’t quite fit in with the mood or ‘journey’ of that collection. reduced priced earlybird tickets for CDs. Visit pmcminn.tumblr.com They are more collaborative than our previous releases, with most of the THE BULLINGDON O2 ACADEMY O2 ACADEMY2 next year’s event from November for more details. th songs being co-writes, and for the first time they feature some Steadman .co.uk 8 . The eleventh Cornbury Festival song-writing. We have included a song Oli wrote a while back which we Saturday 2nd November Tuesday 12th November takes place at Great Tew Country SMILEX are set to release their ETS played as a band in a previous incarnation, called Yo Sushi!, and which I Park over the weekend of the 4th-6th FOR MORE INFO VISIT: second album this month. `La Petite reworked as ‘Waiting On The Clock’. And we had one example of a three- ick T THE GROWLERS THE RIFLES July 2014. Adult weekend camping - Mort’ features ten tracks, recorded way collaborative process which resulted in `Tumbling Bay’, when Oli T tickets are £150, with children’s WWW.GIGSINOXFORD.CO.UK at Propagation House studios in reworked one of Jon’s demos, which then inspired me to write some lyrics THE BULLINGDON O2 ACADEMY2 camping tickets just £10. Tickets are Cornwall, with part of the album and a chorus for it.” available from the festival website mixed by Ace from Skunk Anansie. You Don’t Know Anything’ is released on Monday 11th November. Sunday 3rd November Thursday 21st November – www.cornburyfestival.com – or The album will be available as a Visit www.stornoway.eu for more details. MAD DOG MCREA MOULETTES the credit card hotline – 0844 338 CD and download through Quickfix book.com/al 0000. This year’s Cornbury Festival Records - www.quickfixrecordings. E THE BULLINGDON THE JERICHO featured headline sets from Keane, co.uk. As Nightshift was going to press this month we heard the sad news that Squeeze and Van Morrison and Smilex play their last Oxford show Stuart Meads from the band Trademark had died, along with his partner — fac raised over £25,000 for Helen & th Wednesday 6th November Thursday 21st November for some months on Saturday 30 Gavin, in what is believed to have been an accident. Stuart formed synth- Douglas House hospice. November at the Jericho Tavern, popsters Trademark with his cousin Oli Horton and the band released a as part of the Oxford City Music number of albums and EPs, as well as being regular favourites at Truck .co.uk WILLE & THE BANDITS TURIN BRAKES OXFORD CONTEMPORARY festival. They’re joined by The Festival; the band had recently finished recording a new album. We ETS THE BULLINGDON O2 ACADEMY2 MUSIC continue to host a varied Relationships, OX4 Allstars, The will carry a fuller tribute to Stuart in next month’s issue, but for now ick selection of events this month. As Other Dramas, Art Theefe and Mark Nightshift’s thoughts go out to Oli and Paul from the band and all of T - T well as an already sold-out show Cope. Stuart’s friends and family. al alT-TickETS.co.uk — facEbook.com/alT-TickETS.co.uk Nightshift_Novemeber.indd 1 17/10/2013 16:39 photo:Johnny Moto COMING SOON TO THE NEW THEATRE NEWSsmash them up in the video for their forthcoming single, `Write For The Radio’, due to be released next February. Hats singer Nick Brakespear explained the song is “a dig at the music industry trying to get bands to write catchy ‘Mumford’ style songs.” Anyone happy to part with their old trannie can email the GAPPY TOOTH INDUSTRIES band at [email protected]. WITH WILL YOUNG SCOUTING FOR GIRLS host their annual Winter Warmer Meanwhile, Black Hats play the TUE 5 - SAT 9 NOV MON 11 NOV TUE 12 NOV weekend next month. The Witney Winter Festival at Fat Lil’s longstanding monthly club night, on Sunday 22nd December.