[email protected] @NightshiftMag NightshiftMag nightshiftmag.co.uk Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 237 April Oxford’s Music Magazine 2015 “I now understand more than ever that we must have done something right!” MarkMark GardenerGardener The Ride man on working with Robin Guthrie and getting the OXFORD DUPLICATION CENTRE [email protected] old gang back together again Office: 01865 457000 Mobile: 07917 775477 Supporting Oxfordshire Bands with Affordable Professional CD Duplication Also in this issue: FANTASTIC BAND RATES Introducing THE BALKAN WANDERERS ON ALL SERVICES photo: Andrew Ogilvy photo: Andrew CORNBURY, TRUCK, OXFORD PUNT, Professional Thermal Printed CDs Full Colour/Black & White BIG FEASTIVAL and WOOD line-up news Silver or White Discs plus Design Work Support Digital Printing Packaging Options News, reviews, previews and six pages Fulfilment Recommended by Matchbox Recordings Ltd, Poplar Jake, Undersmile, of Oxford gigs. 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 NEWS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] Online: nightshiftmag.co.uk THE LINE-UP FOR THIS finishes at The White Rabbit at YEAR’S OXFORD PUNT has midnight with Rainbow Reservoir. been announced. The annual The bill takes in an eclectic range showcase of up and coming local of sounds, from indie, blues, metal, bands takes place on Wednesday electronica and hip hop, to reggae, 13th May and features 20 acts eastern European folk, post-rock, across five venues in Oxford city and acoustic pop. Still no brass centre. band, though. One year we will. TOM JONES headlines the Saturday night of Cornbury Festival this The full Punt line-up is: A limited number (100) of all- year. The legendary Welsh singer and The Voice judge joins Supertramp The Purple Turtle: The Shapes; venue Punt passes are on sale now, singer Roger Hodgson and Razorlight atop the bill over the weekend of Indica Blues; Cassels; Wardens. priced £8, online at wegottickets. the 10th-12th July at Great Tew Estate. The Cellar: The Balkan Wanderers; com, or from Truck Store on The line-up for the twelfth Cornbury features the festival’s characteristic Rhymeskeemz & Bungle; Peerless Cowley Road and Blackwell’s mix of big-name acts, cult legends, country, folk and blues stars and pop Pirates; Zaia. Music on Broad Street. Entry to acts. The Wheatsheaf: Ghosts In The individual gigs is £5, though Turl Among the extensive cast joining the headliners are Martha Reeves and Photographs; Cameron A.G; Little Street Kitchen and The White the Vandellas, The Fratellis, Blue, Billy Ocean, Lulu, John Cooper Clarke, Brother Eli; Maiians. Rabbit are free. Larkin Poe, Jack Savoretti, The Felice Brothers, Ward Thomas, Hank Turl Street Kitchen: My Crooked Profits from this year’s Punt will be Wangford, Paper Aeroplanes, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Police Dog Hogan and Teeth; Katie Jackson; Despicable split between Tiggywinkles animal The Shires. Zee; Adam Barnes. hospital in Haddenham, and the Plenty more stuff besides, and with the line-up for the Charlbury The White Rabbit: White Beam; Oxford Sexual Abuse and Rape Riverside stage yet to be announced. Water Pageant; Esther Joy Lane; Crisis Centre. Cornbury organiser Hugh Phillimore said he was excited to get Tom Rainbow Reservoir. Check out the Oxford Punt 2015 Jones on this year’s bill after coming close last time. “Yes it’s been The Punt kicks off at 7pm at the page on Facebook for updated quite a long road with Sir Tom but we got there in the end – I’ve always Purple Turtle with The Shapes and news. been insanely persistent. I’m really looking forward to Larkin Poe and particularly Paper Aeroplanes – saw them at the Union Chapel last year and they were totally stunning. Martha Reeves should be pretty Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes entertaining – she’s the only act that Secret Garden have ever booked Nightshift has a new email address: twice. I think Chastity Brown will surprise people and I’ve just added Trevor Horn’s band, The Producers, who play all the hits that he and his [email protected] other mates in the band wrote or produced – much better than it sounds.” and website: As well as the live music Cornbury hosts its usual array of comedy, including Joe Lycett, Katherine Ryan, Aisling Bea and James Acaster, nightshiftmag.co.uk workshops, kids activities, the Disco Shed and more. Tickets for Cornbury are on sale now from www.cornburyfestival.com. Delta Sleep and Freeze the Atlantic. Other acts already announced for the 18th Truck Festival include Peter Hook & the Light, Saint Raymond, Slaves, Baby Godzilla, Jawws, Rae Morris, Honeyblood and King Pleasure & the Biscuit Boys. Truck organiser Matt Harrap told Nightshift he believes this could be the festival’s best ever line- up. “We’re so pleased to add a band of the calibre of The Charlatans to the line up; it’s absolutely amazing to get a band that have headlined huge festivals around the world for the last 25 years. We caught them on their recent sold out UK Tour and the show is better than I could ever have hoped for, it’s going to be absolutely awesome. “Overall we’re so happy with how the line up THE CHARLATANS have been confirmed as the Library pub. They’re joined by post-hardcore is coming together, it’s definitely the biggest the second main stage headline act at this year’s crew Don Broco; New York indie stars Darwin we’ve ever had. There will be some more new Truck Festival. The indie veterans, who released Deez; sleazy-rockers Fat White Family, and names added to the line-up soon, including some their twelfth album, `Modern Nature’, earlier this poetic hip hop star Ghostpoet. There are also huge names, plus we’ll have twenty slots open to years, join Basement Jaxx over the weekend of slots for Lucy Rose, Eagulls, The Wytches, Bo local and unsigned artists through our band app. the 17th-18th July at Hill Farm in Steventon. Ningen and Demob Happy. We received over 1200 applications to play; the Charlatans are among 25 new names added Japanese acid-noise band Bo Ningen will plays shortlist of 100 bands will be announced in the to this year’s Truck, along with Augustines, as part of Alcopop! Records and Big Scary coming weeks.” whose last Oxford show at the O2 Academy led Monsters’ takeover of the Barn stage, alongside Adult weekend tickets are £79.50, with under- to riotous scenes along Cowley Road when the Pulled Apart By Horses, Tellison, Brawlers, 12s going free. For tickets and more details, visit band concluded their set in the street and then Talons, Waylayers, Bloody Knees, Woahnows, www.truckfestival.com. will also be joining headliners RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL takes Tunng, Songhoy Blues and place over the weekend of the Treeptop Flyers over the weekend 25th-26th July at Mill Field in of the 15th-17th May at Braziers Charlbury. Oxfordshire’s biggest Park, near Wallingford. WOOD’s free festival will feature over 30 NEWSaward-winning environmental acts over two stages. Organisers Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU approach to festival-making are currently looking for acoustic continues this year with a acts to perform on the festival’s Phone: 01865 372255 celebration of The Year of the Bee, Fringe Stage. Solo acts, duos or email: [email protected] as well as the festival’s usual array trios can apply to play by emailing Online: nightshiftmag.co.uk of talks, workshops and activities. Alan Jenkins at gandlasatal@ Weekend tickets are on sale from gmail.com. More festival Truck Store on Cowley Road, priced news as it emerges at www. afternoon of live music in its new £74, and kids under 12 going free, riversidefestival.charlbury.com. upstairs venue and vinyl emporium, and for the first time, day tickets with Phousa, Black Feathers, Jonny are available, from £20. Visit TUFTHUNTER release their Payne and Loud Mountains among woodfestival.tumblr.com for more debut album this month, available the acts playing. A whole slew of news and ticket details. as a free download. Tufthunter is limited edition releases from Gaz a collaborative effort from former- Coombes, Ride, Glass Animals Talulah Gosh and Heavenly guitarist and Slowdive among others are set Pete Momtchiloff – more recently for the annual celebration of the a member of Les Clochards and country’s surviving (and thriving) Hot Hooves. The album features record stores. a different guest vocalist on each Blackwell’s Music on Broad Street track, with contributions from ex- also join this year’s celebrations, Gosh bandmate Amelia Fletcher, with collectors’ edition releases The Relationships’ Richard Ramage as well as a 10% sale on all full- and Les Clochards singers Ian price records and CDs, and record Nixon and Karen Cleave. Sixteen players. STORNOWAY play an intimate tracks in all. Full review in May’s instore show at Truck Store as issue. Get your copy for free at CC SMUGGLERS, GILL part of Record Store Day on tufthunter.co.uk. SANDELLS & CHRIS TT AND Saturday 18th April. The local stars THOMAS TRUAX are among will perform songs from their new BALLOON ASCENTS play the latest acts to be confirmed for album, `Bonxie’, in the Cowley a benefit gig for Cowley Road WOOD Festival. Barna Howard, Road shop, while over in Witney Carnival at The Ultimate Picture Jali Fily Cissokho, Band of Hope sister shop Rapture hosts a full palace this month. The rising and Trevor Lou & Hannah Moss PALOMA FAITH, Groove local indie stars play the Jeune Armada and Grandmaster Flash Street cinema on the 29th April, are among the big names at this followed by a screening of classic year’s Big Feastival.