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email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 134 September Oxford’s Music Magazine 2006 Season’s Greetings from Oxford’s unfestive hardcore rockers masmasmasmasmas XXXXLightLightLightsLightLightsLightssss Interview Inside Photo:Isla Miskelly NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 Dr SHOTOVER NEWNEWSS Barrett and Lee RIP Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Mourning. No, not “Good Morning”, you fool. I’m IN Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] MOURNING. Fate has dealt a cruel blow recently... the chaps at the club and I are just recovering from the demise of Syd Barrett (with the assistance of some rather pokey SUPERGRASS play a low-key local gig mescaline-based cocktails, prepared by Huxley our bar at the Zodiac on Thursday 31st August. steward), and then Arthur Lee goes and joins him in Badly Drawn Boy plays a fanclub-only Psychedelic Heaven. I imagine they’re having a heck of a gig at the Zodiac on Wednesday 13th jam even as we speak - `Interstellar Overdrive’ segue-ing September. Both gigs are already sold out. into `Revelation’, while Jim Morrison hangs around on the touchline wishing he could join in with the bigger boys... Of course this decimation of the Old Guard cannot but lead us THE ROCK OF TRAVOLTA and The to wonder who will be next... If it helps the Powers That Walk Off headline a full day of live music Be decide, I could put forward a suggestions list, quite a long nd at the Port Mahon on Saturday 2 one actually. I mean, do we REALLY need Bobby Gillespie? September. The event kicks off at 1pm and He was okay about 20 years ago, but then it all went SUITABLES CASE FOR runs through to 11pm, featuring 11 bands, horribly wrong, didn’t it? All that sub-Mick-Jagger gurning, TREATMENT have announced they are including Dusty Sound System and I ask you... he could have got a job on Stella Street, IF HE to split. The band, who made national Brother Francisco. Tickets are available WASN’T SO CRAP! And what about Damon Albarn and headlines earlier this year when they from wegottickets.com, priced £6. the Gallagher Brothers? (The poor man’s David Bowie released a single, `Cows’, with The Rock have also been added to the bill meets The Rutles). And Pete “Chubby Chops” Doherty... If newsreader Jon Snow on vocals, have for this year’s Audioscope festival at the there was any justice in the cosmos, we’d be able to trade cited musical differences as the reason for Zodiac on Saturday 28th October. The them off, as it were, in order to keep Captain Beefheart the split. The band were due to start event, in aid of homeless charity Shelter is alive... What’s that you say - bad taste? I think this `Doors recording their new album later this year headlined by Clinic and also features of Perception’ cocktail tastes rather fine, actually... Wow, and will bow out with a farewell gig at the Magnetophone and Sonic Boom, I’m Being the colours! Ahem. Zodiac on Halloween night (Tuesday 31st Good, plus many more. Tickets, priced £9, Next month: Lucy in the Sky with Doherty October). The band hope to make a CD are on sale now from the Zodiac box office. of recent recordings, due to feature on the Ah-Syd next album, available at the gig. Tickets THE EXETER HALL in Cowley re- Rock are on sale now from the Zodiac box opens on Friday 22nd after a major refit. office - 01865 420042. No news of acts confirmed yet - check out www.thex.co.uk for details. THE YOUNG KNIVES (pictured right) celebrate the release of their new album, `Voices Of Animals And Men’, with two gigs at the Zodiac as part of their national tour. The Kirtlington trio, currently garnering rave reviews for the album, play on Thursday 12th and Tuesday 31st October. Tickets for both nights are on sale now, priced £8, from the Zodiac box office. The band’s latest single, a re-recorded T H E M U S I C M A R K E T version of `Weekends and Bleak Days’ (formerly the Charisma Bar, City Tavern) Upstairs @ The Market Tavern 8 Market Street, off Cornmarket St entered the Top 40 at number 35 at the Tel: 01865 248388 Email: [email protected] end of August. The single also features three brand new tracks, including live 2nd :CENTURIES BURNING + PAWEL KUTERBA favourite `Guess The Baby’s Weight’. Doors open 9pm, £4 Entry 7tth : Local Acoustic Rock Night Doors open 8pm, £4 Entry JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD (pictured) singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini (Tue 10th 08th: SU JORDAN & ANTON BARBEAU + Guests comes to the Zodiac on Friday 20th Oct - already sold out), human beatboxer Doors open 8.00pm st October as part of his UK tour to Killa Kela (Sat 21 Oct) and thrash- 09th: BORDERVILLE + HOLIDAY IN VIETNAM promote debut solo album, `The Great punk legends Discharge (Fri 17th Nov). Doors open 9pm, £4 Entry Western’. Tickets for the Manic Street Brookes University Union, meanwhile, 14th : To be confirmed Preachers frontman’s gig sold out in a hosts The Automatic (Thur 26th Oct), 15th : To be confirmed th matter of days. The Divine Comedy (Mon 30th Oct), 16 : NOT MY DAY + FULL METAL WAISTCOAT Other acts coming to the Zodiac in the Guillemots (Sat 4th Nov) and The Doors open 9pm, £4 Entry 21st: To be confirmed coming months include former Catatonia Feeling (Thu 9th Nov), while down at nd : To be confirmed singer Cerys Matthews (Thur 5th Oct), the New Theatre you can see Kate 22 rd Rusby (Fri 6th Oct), Imogen Heap (Sat 23 : CLONE RADIO + CENTURIES BURNING Doors open 9pm, £4 entry th th 7 Oct), The Moody Blues (Sat 14 29th: To be confirmed Oct), Beverly Knight (Fri 10th Nov), th: th 30 MOOCHER + SHE CRIES + FILIP SALEN Motorhead (Sun 12 Nov), Status Quo 9.00pm through to 1am, £4.00 entry fee (Thu 16th and Fri 17th Nov) and The Human League (Tue 5th Dec). Delicious Music Eclectic Jam Night Tickets available from the Zodiac box All musicians welcome… come & have a jam! Every Sunday, doors open 6pm, FREE ENTRY. office (01865 420042), Brookes Union (01865 484750) and the New Theatre WANT TO PLAY HERE?? Just drop in a demo to the Market Tavern marked FAO Charis with your (0870 606 3500). band name & number on. AXmasXmasXmas Quiet Word With LightsLightsLights CHRISTMAS: TIS THE SEASON Marco: “There’s certainly a to be jolly. You know, mistletoe and difference of musical tastes in Xmas wine, children singing Christian Lights and I’d agree that some of that rhyme. Try telling that to Xmas comes from our respective Lights. You’re more likely to find experiences in our previous bands. them stuffing a hand grenade in the Umair has come more from guitar to turkey and lacing the brandy butter embrace his electronic side in the full; with ricin than getting smoochy James now has the vehicle to express around the tree. And Christian his love of everything hardcore after rhyme? This music comes straight exploring his metal side in what was out of the other place. At the very Near Life Experience; Dave brings moment Xmas Lights took to the more of the experimentalism and stage at Truck Festival in July the sky epic gestures to the table. Due to cracked with thunder and the heavens being in Outofinto, I think Simon opened. This is bad music. Evil music. brings most of the melody to Xmas It’s gonna hurt you. It’s intended to Lights and I’d like to think I also hurt you. So sit down, shut up and let contribute to that side of things, with the sonic drill bit open your skull. more emphasis on making it sound Cava, bassist Simon Tierney joining now I think the songs sound more organically epic at times. I’ve always XMAS LIGHTS ARE A from Outofinto and electronics fella like songs. Still obviously not tried to do something different hardcore band. They are also an Umair Chaudhry a veteran of traditional and with a real anything- vocally and Xmas Lights let me do ambient industrial band. And a prog countless other bands and solo goes strategy, but the changes in that to the greatest extent.” band. And a jazz band. And a metal projects, most of which have topped tempo etc. are far more organic now, band. They are not yet a reggae or the Nightshift demo pile over the less to piss people off and more to A TYPICAL XMAS LIGHTS folk band but such is their will and years. Sammy later left to serve the song.” song – if such a thing even exists – ability to move between genres that concentrate on NLE just as James was Umair: “We started out not really can clock in anywhere between five may just be round the corner. They leaving NLE to concentrate on Xmas having a direction to follow apart and fifteen minutes with myriad are not, however, and never will be, a Lights and new drummer Dave from what we all brought to the band, different parts. Tracks like ‘Grow Out namby-pamby emo band. They eat McDonald joined. Dave has always but I think the basic concepts of light Of Us’ from the new EP suggest namby-pamby emo bands for been a prog-rock drummer, and dark, ambience and heaviness they’ve got a hardcore rock opera breakfast. something that suits the band remains an integral part of the sound.