[email protected] nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 212 March Oxford’s Music Magazine 2013 “We have carved out a dimension where whatever we do, or feel, or think, is right, simply because we created it that way. It’s about freedom” photo: Johnny Moto The Goggenheim Festival line-ups announced! Horrors and Ash for Truck Noah & The Whale and Empire of the Sun for Wilderness Bunnymen, Seth Lakemen and Imelda May for Cornbury plus WOOD returns! 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: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net ALL-VENUE PASSES FOR traditional June slot. Last year’s THIS YEAR’S OXFORD PUNT June event was postponed due to have gone on sale. 100 passes flooding worries but the rearranged are available, priced £8, from event attracted a record crowd of oxfordmusic.net or Truck Store 8,000 festival-goers. on Cowley Road. Riverside will be running their This year’s Oxford Punt usual stage at Cornbury Festival takes place across the evening this year over the weekend of the of Wednesday 8th May and 5th-7th July. A battle of the bands NOAH & THE WHALE have been confirmed as headliners for this showcases some 18 of the best competition at Chipping Norton year’s Wilderness Festival. It will be the folk-pop stars’ only UK unsigned local acts across five School last month saw False Alarm festival appearance of the summer and will follow the release of their venues in the city centre. Previous picked to play the Riverside stage. fourth album, `Heart Of Nowhere’, in May. Punts have provided early exposure They will be joined by Australian electro-rock duo Empire of the for the likes of Stornoway, Young JESS HALL hosts and co- Sun, also playing their only UK festival show; Detroit’s cult guitarist Knives, Fixers, Spring Offensive headlines a charity gig in aid of Rodriquez, who was the subject of the celebrated Searching For and future members of Foals and Christian Aid this month. The local Sugarman film last year after spending years in musical obscurity; Jonquil. singer-songwriter joins The Family British soul singer Michael Kiwanuka, London indie rockers Tribes The passes allow access to all five Machine at The Bullingdon on and Aussie singer-songwriter and Australian Idol runner-up Matt venues on the Punt circuit: The Friday 29th March, along with The Corby. More names are due to be added soon with The London Folk Purple Turtle, The Cellar, The Cooling Pearls, Bethany Weimers, Guild set to once again host a folk and roots stage. th th Duke’s Cut, The Wheatsheaf and Empty White Circles, My Crooked Wilderness takes place over the weekend of 9 -11 August in the The White Rabbit, although there Teeth, Matt Chanarin and Dan picturesque surroundings of Cornbury Park, near Charlbury. will also be entry to individual Rawle. Proceeds from the show The festival won a host of awards last year for its mix of live music, venues available. will go towards the aid charity, theatre and performance, banquets, talks and discussions, parties and Local acts wanting to play at with Jess also running the London outdoor activities. the Punt have until March 10th to marathon to raise money. The show Rumpus will be hosting the Secret Garden Party, while Yotam submit demos, either by emailing kicks off at 5.30pm with tickets Ottolenghi and Russell Norman are among chefs hosting banquets. online music links (no sound priced £5 in advance from Truck Shakespeare’s Globe, Circus Ronaldo and Transe Express will files please) tonightshift@ Store or £6 on the door. be among the theatre and performance hosts, while The Royal oxfordmusic.net, or sending a Observatory, School of Life and The Idler once again provide CD to Nightshift at PO Box 312, FOURIER TRANSFORM opportunities for discussion. Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. In both RECORDS release a limited Tickets for Wilderness are on sale now from the festival website at cases please clearly mark your edition, individually hand- www.wildernessfestival.com, with adult tickets priced at £139. entry PUNT and include both packaged cassette recording of phone and email contact details John Cage’s `Indeterminacy’, and a brief biog. Only acts from recorded by members of Fixers, the Pegasus and are now accepting 8-9pm on 95.2fm. The dedicated Oxfordshire may apply, all acts King Of Cats and Red Square. The demos from acts wanting to play. local music show plays the best must be over 18 and you can’t play release follows on from the sold- Original musicians or bands of local releases and demos as well as if you’ve played the Punt before. out show of John Cage’s music any style can apply by sending featuring interviews, gig reviews The Punt line-up will be by the artists at the Port Mahon in demos, links or MP3s to info@ and local music news. The show is announced on the Nightshift forum January. Visit ocmevents. org. As ever there will available to stream or as a podcast on March 15th. www.fouriertransform.com to be a separate Youth Open show for at bbc.co.uk/oxford. find out more. under-18s acts. Regularly updated local music CHARLBURY RIVERSIDE news is available online at www. FESTIVAL will take place over OXFORD CONTEMPORARY AS EVER, don’t forget to tune musicinoxford.co.uk. The site the weekend of the 27th-28th MUSIC host their annual Open into BBC Oxford Introducing also features interactive reviews, a July this year, moving from its showcase on Friday 21st June at every Saturday evening between gig guide, photo gallery and more. THE HORRORS and Ash headline this year’s Truck Festival. The first batch of the bands for the event, which runs over the weekend of the 19th-20th July at Hill Farm in Steventon, was announced at the end of February. Other acts so far confirmed include Toy, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Gaz Coombes, Dry The River and Rolo Tomassi, while an Alcopop! takeover of the barn stage will feature Tall Ships, Gunning For Tamar, Crash of Rhinos, Salvation Bill and more. Other names on the bill include Lewis Watson, Max Raptor, Brother and Bones, Fight Like Apes, Axes and Computers. After the financial troubles of 2011, last year’s Truck Festival sold out, having been taken over by the organisers of Derbyshire’s award- winning Y Not Festival, who continue their tenure this time round. Tickets for Truck are on sale now, priced £74 for adult camping tickets, from truckfestival.com. NEWS songstress earning widespread praise for her debut album, `Dream Of Life’. She is joined by The Dreaming Spires, Jali Fily Cissokho, Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou, Flights of Helios, Nick Cope, Julie Hawk, Syd Arthur and Jack Day, with more acts to be announced soon. Talking to Nightshift about WOOD FESTIVAL makes a Wood’s return, Robin said, “Hav- welcome return to the local music ing had a year not organising much ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, Keane, Imelda May and Seth calendar this year. other than my own shows with Lakemen are the first acts to be confirmed for this year’s Cornbury Having been forced to take a Festival. Dreaming Spires, I was starting to st year out in 2012 in the aftermath miss that standing-in-a-field thing, The full line-up for the festival is due to be announced on March 1 . of Truck’s financial problems, and so were many others who love Cornbury reaches its tenth birthday this year and organiser Hugh organiser Robin Bennett is Wood, in particular. Re-starting Phillimore has consulted festival regulars for favourite acts from bringing Wood back to its Braziers Wood has felt a little like diving previous events to invite back for what is being dubbed `The Glorious Park home over the weekend of into an icy lake; it takes a while to Tenth’. the 17th-19th May. Cornbury Festival takes place in the rather idyllic Great Tew Estate pluck up the courage, then you feel th th The award-winning eco festival is fantastic! My daughter came to the over the weekend of the 5 -7 July. Earlybird tickets for the event have pitched as a celebration of music last Wood aged one day; she’ll be sold out and tickets will go on sale as soon as the full line-up is revealed. and nature, with an emphasis on two years old by the time it rolls Visit www.cornburyfestival.com for all the news when it’s released. folk, roots and world music, with around this time. I think festivals solar and cycle-powered stages, must be in my blood because both new things like the Kindling tent also be even more music than organic food and compost toilets kids have been born on the day filled with poets, scientists and before.” among its carbon-neutral features. before one of them. People can ex- other interesting speakers - some- Tickets for Wood are on sale now, Rising folk singer Mary Epworth pect all the best things from Woods thing I never quite got off the priced £75 for adults, £65 for (pictured) is the first headline past, with many familiar work- ground previously - and even more under-18s and under-12s going act to be announced, the Norfolk shops and musicians, and some stuff for families to do. There will free, from www.woodfestival.com. COMING SOON TO THE NEW THEATRE DAN AYKROYD & JUDITH BELUSHI PRESENT THE DUBLIN LEGENDS BOOTLEG BEATLES MON 11 - WED 13 MAR WED 20 MAR THU 21 MAR FORK FINNISH ACAPELLA SENSATIONS SAT 23 MAR TUE 26 MAR WED 27 MAR STEELEYE SPAN MOTHER AFRICA THU 28 MAR FRI 29 MAR SUN 31 MAR THE HOLLIES SUN 14 APR THU 18 - SAT 20 APR MON 22 - SAT 27 APR ATG THEATRE CARD MEMBERS: PRIORITY TICKETS, GREAT SAVINGS.