email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 193 August Oxford’s Music Magazine 2011 PraisePraise be,be, it’sit’s UTEUTE InterviewInterview withwith thethe eclecticeclectic locallocal trio.trio. PlusPlus Alcopop!Alcopop! RecordsRecords hitshits 50.50. IntroducingIntroducing MattMatt KilfordKilford andand lashingslashings ofof locallocal musicmusic news,news, reviewsreviews andand previewspreviews photo: Johnny Moto NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 photo: Johnny Moto NEWNEWSS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] Online: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net The local indie-pop quartet launch their new album with a show at the Wheatsheaf on Thursday 15th September. Before that, they play Bestival on Thursday 8th. Visit www.secretrivals.com for more details. UNDERSMILE release a joint EP STORNOWAY play their first hometown show of the year on Saturday with Hampshire math-hardcore outfit 3rd September with a special Concert4Conservation at The Regal. The Caretaker next month on Blindsight show will be a benefit gig for three local environmental charities: The Records. The local sludge-core outfit Sumatran Orang-utan Society, The Earth Trust and the RSPB. The band PHIL SELWAY will play an intimate contribute two new songs, ‘Big Wow’ announced the show at a photo-shoot in South Park last month where they solo show at the Pegasus Theatre on and ‘Anchor’. Full review next issue. Friday 11th November as part of the were joined by some furry and feathered friends – an orang-utan, a water th vole, a goldfinch and the Truck Monster. Pegasus’ 50 anniversary CHAD VALLEY has been confirmed Talking about the gig, frontman Brian Briggs, said, “I’ve been passionate celebrations. The theatre, which as tour support to Friendly Fires on about wildlife conservation longer than I’ve been passionate about making provides youth arts activities for the their UK tour in November, th music. Concert4Conservation was the most obvious way for me to combine whole of Oxfordshire, reaches its 50 including a date at Brixton Academy my interests and support three great conservation charities. birthday in November 2012 but is on 25th November. leading up to the occasion with fifty “Nearly all of my songs are set, at least partly, in the outdoors. `Watching Birds’ is about my PhD on wildfowl conservation; `We Are The Battery special events over the next year. WINCHELL RIOTS will play the Human’ is about the importance of spending time in nature for our own Tickets for Phil’s show, featuring Reading and Leeds Festivals over the sakes as well as for wildlife’s.” songs from his recent ‘Familial’ August bank holiday weekend. The Fresh from a summer of festival shows, including a Pyramid Stage album, are on sale now, priced £25, band, who have just released their new appearance at Glastonbury, Stornoway are currently writing the follow-up from www.pegasustheatre.org.uk, with EP, ‘Figure 8s’, play on the BBC to their Top 20 debut album, ‘Beachcomber’s Windowsill’, and are all proceeds going towards funding Introducing Stage. They also play a promising plenty of new material in the set alongside old favourites. “We new youth arts activities. local warm-up show at the Cellar on want to give our local fans the chance to hear them first.” Thursday 25th August. LITTLE FISH release their new Support for the show comes from The Epstein and Dreaming Spires. th Earlybird tickets are on sale now, from Truck Store on Cowley Road or single, ‘Wonderful’ on the 26 MUSICINOXFORD.NET celebrates online at www.seetickets.com, priced £12. September on Estupendo Records. ten years online this month with the The single was produced by Gaz first of a series of monthly live shows Coombes, who is also producing the at the Wheatsheaf. MiO features DECIBEL STUDIOS has closed night from 9-10pm on 95.2fm. The band’s forthcoming second album. regularly updated online local music down. The recording and rehearsal dedicated local music show plays a news, interactive reviews, live studio, near Watlington, shut down at selection of new Oxford releases and SECRET RIVALS release their debut sessions, free downloads, interviews the end of June. demos as well as featuring live album, ‘Make Do & Mend’, on and a regular podcast. Their first gig sessions and interviews with local Kittiwake Records on 12th September. features local pop-punk heroes Dive AS EVER, DON’T FORGET TO acts. The show is available to A single from the album, ‘Me Vs Dive, plus a full band show from TUNE INTO BBC OXFORD download as a podcast every week at Melodrama’, is released the same day. Richard Walters on Friday 19th August. INTRODUCING, every Sunday bbc.co.uk/podcasts. A quick round-up of local festivals Service lead a cast of performers that also includes SKITTLE ALLEY celebrates ten years of putting coming up Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Lau, The Burns on gigs at various venues around Abingdon with a Unit, Karine Polwart, The Demon Barbers and three-day festival at the Railway Inn in Culham SUPERNORMAL looks like being the most Coope, Boyes & Simpson. Aside from the music over the weekend of 26th-28th August. Having exciting new addition to Oxfordshire’s festival there is street theatre, poetry and literature, a survived the closure of numerous host pubs over calendar. Taking place at Brazier’s Park (also home children’s festival, a real ale festival, sculpture, the years, The Skittle Alley people present a bill of to WOOD festival) over the weekend of the 19th- craft fair and assorted workshops. Weekend tickets local acts that includes Mackating, The Mark 21st August, it is an artist-led event mixing live are £98 with concessions for under-18s. Visit Bosley Band, Dais-E & The Unsteadies, Mogmatic, music, art and performance and discussions, www.towerseyfestival.com for full details. The Baby Gravy All-Stars, Komrad, Superloose, inspired by the spirit of 60s and 70s free festivals. Dead Jerichos, Le Vens, Moon Leopard, Evo This year’s event is curated by Faust’s Geraldine HANNEYFEST returns again this month, running Sylvian, Tamara & The Martyrs (acoustic), Lost Swayne, Rocket Recordings’ Chris Reeder and over the weekend of 12th-14th August at the Black Dogs, Prohibition Smokers Club, Les Clochards, Teeth of the Sea’s Jimmy Alucard. Acts set to play Horse in East Hanney. This year the annual free Vona Braun, Anton Barbeau and Glenda Huish. include 80s ambient darkwave pioneers Cindytalk festival is raising money for Hanney St James and post-punk cult legends The Cravats, as well as School Safe and Secure Campaign and the Royal ARCANE returns to City Farm in Eynsham over Skullflower, The A Band, Drunk In Hell, Gnod and British Legion, with merchandise and raffles. Acts the weekend of 2nd-4th September. This year’s the fabulously-monikered Fuck Off Piss Off. Other confirmed so far include Lost Dogs and event features headline sets from legendary anarcho attractions include a singalonga Wickerman session. Quadrophobe (Friday); Vicars Of Twiddly, The new folk-punks Chumbawamba, Cornish folksters 3 Daft Weekend tickets are £65. Visit Moon, The Mark Bosley Band, Snipe, Daved & Monkeys and London’s ska-rock outfit Imperial www.supernormalfestival.org.uk. Confused, Ady Davey, Fiona Cox, Mark Barnes, Leisure. Among a host of local acts playing are Amy Ireson and Rik Knight (Saturday) and Borderville, The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band TOWERSEY FESTIVAL returns for its annual Superloose, The Hingleys, Phil Bird, Pint & A Half, and Brickwork Lizards. Prism bring their 90s rave five-day extravaganza of folk music and family fun Gipsy Fox, Sophie McNally and All The Clever vibes and there’s Vaudevillian Rave as well as a host from 25th-29th August. Billy Bragg, The Oyster Lines (Sunday). Things kick off at 8pm on the of other bands, club sessions and kids activities. Visit Band, Cara Dillon, Spiers & Boden and Home Friday and from 2pm Sat and Sun. www.arcane-festical.com for more details. a quiet word with UTE “I SAW VON BRAUN, WHO things get thrown in from old songs are probably my biggest lyrical and things get tied together. Like a influence next to Nick Cave and Jake string of sausages! I grew up on Led Thackery, and they played a song Zeppelin and listened to a load of which had the lyrics, “You are not stuff like Joni Mitchell, The Band, Anne Edison Taylor,” about the Free and all that kind of thing you woman who rolled off a waterfall in find in your parents’ record a beer keg. I thought they said photo: Johnny Moto collection. I loved Lionel Richie’s “innocent tailor” and I thought that album ‘Back To Front’ too. I sounded fucking rad. I was like, couldn’t go to sleep at night without what did he do or not do? So I made ‘Say You, Say Me’ on repeat.” up a story and then phoned Dave Mike: “The first thing I really got from Von Braun and asked him if I into was jazz because I started out could use the idea. He sounded very as a jazz bassist, but after that I got confused.” into guitar music and noisy stuff and songwriters and really just OLLIE THOMAS, SINGER AND anything I could get my hands on guitarist with Ute, is explaining to that tolerated my criminally short Nightshift how the band’s recent attention span. That’s still the case magnum opus came into being. really. I got really into the local The lead song from their ‘Gambler’ scene too, bands like Nought and EP, released in January, is an epic, Youthmovies and the sort of things vaudevillian escapade, the sound of that Vacuous Pop and Audioscope Grinderman trailing round whisky used to put on.