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email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 116 March Oxford’s Music Magazine 2005 DiveDiveDiveDive DiveDiveDiveDive BackBack fromfrom thethe deaddead andand rockingrocking harderharder thanthan everever -- interviewinterview inside.inside. Plus Live reviews, local releases, demos and the biggest and best Oxfordshire gig guide. NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWNEWSS DR SHOTOVER Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU They made me do it! Hmm. The Brit Awards. Now, it was like this… Stuffy Stimpson’s Phone: 01865 372255 pure Bat Guano Mezcal was to blame… He smuggled a bottle back email: [email protected] from Mexico inside a hollowed-out Toltec head, y’see… Two days later I woke up on the ottoman, quite unable to move. Some stupid THE DEADLINE for demos for bands wishing to play at the Oxford bastard had left the the TV on… so I had to watch the whole of ‘The Punt is the 15th of March. This year’s Oxford Punt, which will showcase Brits’. Ghastly, absolutely ghastly. From ‘Sensitive Chav’ Mike 21 acts across seven venues in Oxford city centre, takes place on Skinner to Schmoozy Sioux practically sticking her tongue down Ms Wednesday 11th May. The event runs from 6pm through to 1am, starting Scissor Sisters’ throat (actually, come to think of it, that was the best off at Borders bookstore and carrying on through the evening at part)… From Snoop Dogbreath’s poncing about to Robbie Williams’ Jongleurs, The Wheatsheaf, The City Tavern, The Purple Turtle (in ‘kid with attention deficit disorder’ hyper-thyroidism… All I could conjunction with Beard Museum), Far From The Madding Crowd (in think about was how much I missed The KLF and Extreme Noise conjunction with Delicious Music) and finishing off at the Cellar. The Terror machine-gunning the audience in 1992, or the reformed Faces Punt is the premier showcase for unsigned Oxford talent. Acts wishing to doing ‘Stay With Me’ in 1993. Actually, I even felt quite nostalgic play need to submit a demo, clearly marked Punt on the envelope, along about the time my older brother tried to a do a trepanning operation with a short biog, to Nightshift Magazine, PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 on me using a 1ZU. The only rules for consideration are that acts must be from Black & Decker Oxfordshire and be unsigned. Work-Pal in the As ever there are 100 all-venue Punt passes available, priced £7. These garden shed – are on sale now from Polar Bear on Cowley Road, The Oxford Music Shop less painful by on St Aldates or online from oxfordmusic.net. Almost half the passes have far than 2 ½ been sold already, so be quick! Admission to each separate venue will be hours of that either £3 or £4, with either three or four acts playing at each. The gigs at insipid self- Borders and Far From The Madding Crowd are free entry. congratulatory The full line-up for the Punt will be announced in the April issue of slop… Nightshift, with a four-page Punt guide pull-out in the May edition. Next month: Contact Nightshift on 01865 372255 for more details. Pete Doherty – “I thought heroin would THE DOWNLOAD, BBC Radio ‘Blackmailer’ EP. ‘Teen Suicide stop me having Dr S discusses the decline of Western Oxford’s new local music show Explosion’ from that EP topped such a fat face.” Civilisation with Robbie Williams starts this month, on Friday 4th Nightshift’s end of year Top 20. March. Supergrass will help launch ‘Evil Brother’ is out now and will the new show, which airs every be followed by another single, this month (Saturday 5th March) at the news and info you need. Friday evening from 7-8pm. ‘Worth It’, at the end of March the Zodiac supporting Youth Presenter Tim Bearder will be with their debut album, ‘Control Movie Soundtrack Strategies. THE VICTORIA pub on Walton interviewing Gaz, Mickey and Of The Stereo’, due for release on Street in Jericho has a new acoustic Danny, who have been recording the 18th April. Narco return to live KLUB KAKOFANNEY will be open mic session starting this their new album in France. The performance with a gig at the running their traditional May Bank month. The music nights will take Download aims to showcase local Zodiac on Thursday 24th March. Holiday weekend live music place on the first and third Sundays music of all persuasions and will festival again this year. The two- of each month with all singers and include club and gig reports as well THE WORKHOUSE’s second day event takes place at the Exeter musicians welcome to join in. as a local demo section in Peel session will be broadcast on Hall in Cowley on Saturday 30th Entry is free. Call 01865 554047 conjunction with Nightshift. Bands Thursday 17th March on Rob Da April and Sunday 1st May, with for more details. wanting their stuff played on the Bank’s Radio 1 show. The some 30 acts appearing over the show should send CDs to Tim c/o Workhouse were the last ever band two days, and all for the bargain KAISER CHIEFS’ gig at the BBC Oxford, 269 Banbury Road, to be invited to record a session for price of £4 a day. More line-up Zodiac on Sunday 24th April has Oxford OX2 7DW. Remember: the John Peel. The band are currently details as we get them. been upgraded to Brookes only way to keep local music on recording their second album. They University Union after selling out the radio is to support the show, so play live at the Wheatsheaf on A REMINDER that tickets for this in under two days. All tickets for tune in, or visit the website at Saturday 16th April. year’s Truck Festival are on sale the Zodiac remain valid, while bbc.co.uk/oxford. now, priced £27.50, from remaining tickets are on sale now, THE EDMUND FITZGERALD wegottickets.com. The festival priced £9, from the Zodiac box NARCO return from extended have announced that they are to takes place over the weekend of the office (01865 420042) or online hibernation this month with a new split. The band, reckoned to be one 23rd and 24th July at Hill Farm in from wegottickets.com. Support single, ‘Evil Brother’, on Surface of the most promising young bands Steventon. Last year’s festival sold comes from hotly-tipped To Air Records. It will be the in Oxford over the last couple of out in advance so buy early. Check newcomers Nine Black Alps and band’s first release since 2000’s years, will play their final show out www.truckfestival.org for all Dual. THETHE OXFORDOXFORD PUNTPUNT Wednesday 11th May 2005 21 acts 7 venues 1 night Borders, Jongleurs, City Tavern, The Wheatsheaf, Purple Turtle, Far From The Madding Crowd, The Cellar The best showcase of unsigned Oxford talent of the year All-venue Punt passes now on sale. 100 only available. Priced £7 from Polar Bear Records (Cowley Road), The Oxford Music Shop (St Aldates) or online from oxfordmusic.net. *subject to booking fee. a quiet word with DiveDiveDive DiveDiveDive affecting my writing because I STICK AROUND LONG didn’t really know many chords enough and fashion will come back and I only had fairly chirpy to embrace you eventually. It’s a melodies bouncing around in my maxim that’s served many a band head. I guess now I just find it well over the years. And it might easier to vocalise the shit things help explain why, ten years after that happen to me rather than the they first hit the local scene good things, though still in quite running as Dustball, Dive Dive are happy melodies. The band has once again the most popular band always been high energy and it in Oxford. feels great to get these things off Back in 1996 Dustball were the your chest as loudly as possible brightest young things in town. whilst throwing yourself around a Pale, skinny and wired they kicked stage. Lately I haven’t really been out a simple but highly effective listening to anything weird, just three-chord punk-pop noise that bands we bump into like This Ain’t coated the classic sound of The Vegas, Jetplane Landing and Undertones and Buzzcocks with a Berkley and other shouty stuff like sprinkling of brattish American the Futureheads and punk thunder. We loved it. The Yourcodenameis:milo. Having said kids loved it. The record all that my favourite song at the companies loved it. Dustball were moment is Sam Cooke’s ‘Change Is gonna be the big new thing. Dive Dive (l-r): Tarrant, Jamie, Ben, Nigel. Gonna Come’. It’s one of the most But it never works out like that, beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.” does it? Big-money contracts were wave of teenage fans, enthused by Truth. What he’s also helped to waved around and vanished into Dive Dive’s trademark blend of instigate is a level of IN OXFORD AT LEAST DIVE the ether just as quickly. The kids sublime melody and punk rock professionalism, or at least tried to. Dive’s fan base now is mostly discovered nu-metal. Dustball delivery. A strong fanzine support We tend to be a much more different people to that which looked like they might just and an active street team have efficient band these days, followed them as Dustball in the disappear. And for a short while bolstered their reputation, while approaching gigs with almost late-90s; do they think now they they almost did.