[email protected] @NightshiftMag nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 232 November Oxford’s Music Magazine 2014 MAIIANS “We enjoy the chaos” Double drummer action from Oxford’s new electronic music stars OXFORD DUPLICATION CENTRE [email protected] Also in this issue: Office: 01865 457000 Mobile: 07917 775477 Supporting Oxfordshire Bands with Oxford remembers DAVE NORLAND Affordable Professional CD Duplication Introducing KID KIN FANTASTIC BAND RATES SEXTODECIMO return! ON ALL SERVICES Professional Thermal Printed CDs So do GUNNBUNNY! Full Colour/Black & White Silver or White Discs Plus Design Work Support Digital Printing Oxford news, reviews and previews Packaging Options Fulfilment Six pages of local gigs! Recommended by Matchbox Recordings Ltd, Poplar Jake, Undersmile, Desert Storm, Turan Audio Ltd, Nick Cope, Prospeckt, Paul Jeffries, Alvin Roy, Pete The Temp, Evolution, Coozes, Blue Moon and many more... NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 UK blues acts. It is hoped the club O2 Academy, The Wheatsheaf, with continue under the stewardship The Bullingdon, The Cellar, The of Sylvia Summers and Ady Cox. Jericho Tavern, The Corridor, Talking to Nightshift after his The Marsh Harrier, James Street retirement show, Phil said, “I’m Tavern and The Bear. This year’s NEWSbeing forcibly retired I’m afraid; festival is dedicated to the late Dave Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU I’ve not been well and it’s all come Norland. Tickets for all gigs on Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] to an abrupt halt. It’s terribly sad during the week are available from but they put on a lovely party from Wegottickets.com. See this month’s Online: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net me and I’ve had so many good gig guide for a full list of every gig wishes from around the world. in the festival line-up. “If I had to pick one single coincidentally marked his 50th highlight from all that time running PADDOX launch their debut album anniversary working in music and the Monday Blues it would be with a show at The Old Fire Station 30 years running the renowned when Chaka Khan came and played this month. The band, formed by blues club. Guests for the night were for our Christmas Party at the former Trophy Wife drummer Kit Never The Bride, regular visitors Bullingdon. I was told if I got her Monteith, release ` Aphrodisiaque’ to the FMB over the years and who a decent bottle of champagne – a on Bear On A Bicycle Records on played at the club’s 20th anniversary really decent bottle – she would the 1st December. The album will party in 2004. come and sing but they wouldn’t come in a special concrete sleeve. Having started out running clubs in say for how long. In the end she just The launch gig takes place on the Cheltenham and London, working kept on going. It was lovely, a great 29th November. More details at with the likes of Kenny Ball, Tommy Christmas present.” bearonabicycle.co.uk. Steel and Alexis Korner, Philip – Phil was presented with a Lifetime nicknamed Silver Phil on account Achievement Award at the 2014 TRUCK FESTIVAL has been of his long, white hair – moved to British Blues Awards (pictured). nominated for three awards at the Oxford in the 1980s and, with his Nightshift wishes him all the very UK Festival Awards. Truck, widely American contacts, helped book best of health in his retirement. regarded as a pioneer of small bands for the blues nights at The festivals in the UK, is up for Best PHILIP GUY DAVIS has Red Lion in Gloucester Green with THE OXFORD CITY FESTIVAL Small Festival, Best Toilets and announced his retirement from Bob Foley. Over the years the FMB, returns to take over venues The Grassroots Festival Award. running the Famous Monday Blues, run by Phil along with the late Tony across Oxford in the last week of Festival Director James Goodall bringing to an end a career spanning Jezzard until a few years ago, has November. Featuring over 100 acts said, “With the history that Truck 50 years in the music business. moved around town, including stints across nine venues from the 24th- has as a groundbreaking small Philip, 78, has suffered ill health at The Bullingdon, before finding 29th November, the event covers festival it means the world to us to for a while now, and bowed out its most recent home at the Jericho, pretty much every genre of music, continue this tradition into 2014, with a final Famous Monday Blues over the decades bringing acts from rock, indie, metal, hip hop by being nominated for The Best show at The Jericho Tavern at the from across Europe, America and and punk to folk, jazz, blues and Small Festival and The Grassroots end of September, a date which Australia as well as generations of funk. Venues involved include the Festival Award in particular.” Tributes have been pouring in for Dave Norland, the whole Oxford music scene.” a key figure in the Oxford music scene over DAVE NORLAND Local musician and promoter and long-time the last 20 years, who has died, aged 40, after friend Mark `Osprey’ O’Brien said, “Dave was suffering from cancer. 1974-2014 an absolute rock to me over the last decade. He Dave’s contributions to the local scene were mastered and released my first album, which put many and varied. In 1994 he launched his own me on a good pedestal from the start. Without him record label, Backbeat, and released Supergrass’ I’d never have been able to do it. When he came up debut single, `Caught By The Fuzz’ and its with the idea of a radio station he asked me to be a follow-up `Mansized Rooster’, before the presenter and I said `yes’ straight away. We had to band were signed to Parlophone. He was also go through so many meetings to get a license but responsible for `Happy’, the debut single by he stuck with it through all the shit and we came seminal local heroes The Mystics, the same year. out with a great station. And he was a good friend, Soon after this Dave began working as a he made everything fun. He was the most loving sound engineer around Oxford, notably at the person; I’m going to miss him forever. Zodiac, where he became a much-loved fixture, Hugo Makepeace, who worked with Dave on renowned for his support of up and coming local also quick to recognise Dave’s contribution to Desta*Nation, said, “he knew how to make stuff acts, his patience and good humour. Dave was his band’s early career. “Dave was one of those happen, he never stopped being on it. We’d talk also a founding member and bass player with people that just made things happen. When I first about stuff, but he’d do it then ask permission. local reggae favourites Mackating, alongside arrived in Oxford with the Mystics he released When Dave opened his mouth, I’d be listening. his brother Daniel, as well as sound system our first single on Backbeat; the next night it David was the Oxford bass line, the foundation, Desta*Nation, and was instrumental in setting was on the Radio 1 Evening Session, and within the engine room.” up the community radio station OX4 FM, now a few weeks the band was signed to Fontana. I Dylan Davies, who worked with Dave at known as Destiny 105. He also helped set up went straight back to him with the first Supergrass Soundworks and The Zodiac, added, “David Soundworks studios in Blackbird Leys, working tracks and he did it again. He had great musical helped people make music from nothing; he with Sugar Minott and Michael Rose. instinct and was the real deal in terms of gave them the key to make music.” Former Supergrass singer Gaz Coombes independent attitude with no regard for authority. Promoter Mac, who also worked with Dave at was among those who recognised Dave’s I remember him as being completely intuitive the Zodiac, paid a simple tribute to his friend: contribution to local music: “Dave was such and spontaneous, whether it was watching him “He was a top man, the only person ever to drink a gentle guy, always a pleasure to be around. hand stamp 7” vinyl labels with a Woolworth’s me under the table.” He was instrumental in getting our first single printing kit on the floor of his Iffley Road squat, For Nightshift’s part, we remember Dave’s `Caught By The Fuzz out’, which led to us or watching him break into a record pressing plant seemingly boundless enthusiasm, both with getting signed. He went above and beyond at window to emerge triumphantly with the first Backbeat and working with bands as a sound times to help us during those early days; he Supergrass singles under his arm because we had engineer. He was a man who believed absolutely always fought for the underdog.” arrived late too late to collect them the normal in music and its place in the community. As Mystics frontman Sam Williams, who produced way. Dave was a truly maverick spirit and he had such, he remains an inspiration to many, many Supergrass’s debut album `I Should Coco’, was a major effect on my own musical life and that of people in Oxford. to the back of our priority lists. We got pretty lazy towards the end, and it took a few years, and endless requests, to rekindle our enthusiasm to get it finished.