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We are looking for people to help us out – distributors, stockists, writers and photographers are always welcome round news here… Send news on gigs, clubs, tours, releases & updates to [email protected] You can download a new Rock Fairport Convention’s Cropredy of Travolta track, ‘Last March of Festival takes place at Cropredy the Acolytes’, for free, from near Banbury on Thursday 11 to www.therockoftravolta.com. It Saturday 13 August 2011. For will be available until their new tickets and line-up developments album Fine Lines is released in check www.fairportconvention.com. early 2011. It’s 10 years since Towersea Festival is held on their first album My Band’s 25 –29 August 2011 – check Better Than Yours , and they’ll be www.towerseafestival.com. releasing two digital, special edition albums which cover the Meanwhile the 8th Oxford Folk first 10 years of their career. Festival is at Oxford Town Hall and various venues from Friday Artists seeking tips on how to 15 to Sunday 17 April, with navigate their way around the Peatbog Faeries, Adrian music industry should check out Edmondson and the Bad www.themusiciansguide.co.uk. Shepherds, and Spiers & Boden. There’s lots of handy info on Tickets are on sale now at Frank Turner , reaching the end of a mammoth year in which he’s had four trips to the US, toured there, including advice on wwwoxfordfolkfestival.com. the UK twice, and supported Green Day at Wembley, plays at The Regal on Sunday 5th Decem - approaching record labels, ber. He’s also due to release his new EP ‘Rock & Roll’ the very next day. Oxford band Dive Dive, downloadable examples of record The Winter Warmer is at The most of whom play as Frank’s backing band, are the support for the whole of this tour. Dive Dive company contracts, a guide to Wheatsheaf (evenings of Friday are in the process of signing to Frank’s label Xtra Mile and will be releasing their third album venues, and how to market your 17 & 18 December) and Café Potential in January. Tickets for the Regal are on sale now from www.seetickets.com. music on the internet. There’s Tarifa (afternoons of Saturday also a book The Musician’s 18 & Sunday 19 December) Guide to World Domination which this year. The Wheatsheaf line- The Moulettes and Oxford’s post-folk sound sculptors Message to Bears have been added to the can be ordered from Amazon. up includes Deer Chicago, line-up for The Common Room , the emerging bands mini-festival at The Jericho on Saturday Alamakota, Dial F for Frankenstein, 4 and Sunday 5 December. Folk group, The Moulettes, from Brighton, had Ted Dwane, the bassist Gunning for Tamar have been Spring Offensive and The Yarns, from Mumford and Sons in their line-up for three years. Celebrity fans of theirs include Robert Bellowhead are the headliners for Oxford Folk Festival’s first show at The Regal on 18 Novem - recording an EP in Wales with while Tarifa, with a more Plant, The Noisettes and Mystery Jets. Borderville, Dead Jerichos, The Epstein and a host of ber. The 11 piece band, fronted by Oxford’s John Spiers and Jon Boden, play 25 instruments ex-Forward Russia! frontman cabaret-style selection, has others also appear. Tickets are on sale now from We Got Tickets. between them and are quite a show-stopping sight and sound when they play live, as we wit - and Cats and Cats and Cats Anton Barbeau, Braindead nessed producer Tom Woodhead. The Collective, King of Cats, Matt at Truck this year. Hedonism , the new album which includes their mighty version of new tracks should see the light Winkworth, Trevor Williams and Smilex have a live album released through Quickfix/iTunes which was recorded at the Riverside Jacques Brel’s ‘Amsterdam’ has just been released. Tickets are on sale from www.oxboffice.com of day in December. Jonathan Prohibition Smokers’ Club. Festival in the summer. The album will be available on an ‘honesty box’ basis and includes live from Everything Everything Tickets are £5.00 for each night versions of new tracks from their forthcoming studio album La Petite Mort . They’ll be playing at The Cellar on December 16 (with Fixers), December 18 at the O2 Academy and at the Fat Lil’s all- We Aeronauts played shows in Reykjavik in Iceland in October as part of the Iceland Airwaves awarded one of the GFT’s tracks at The Wheatsheaf and Tarifa is dayer in Witney, the line-up of which also includes Desert Storm, Player 2, Samuel Zasada and Festival (likened to a European version of SXSW), appearing with the likes of Bombay Bicycle ‘Breakthrough Track of the free. For more info visit Deer Chicago. Smilex were awarded ‘Best Unsigned Live Band’ this year by Playmusic magazine. Club and Olafur Arnalds. Have a look at their site www.myspace.com/weaeronauts for pictures Week’ in NME recently. www.gappytooth.com and the full story of their trip. Dates have been announced for Apologies to Ady from Keyboard k c i l Post-rock band Mogwai l some of the festivals next year. Choir, and a slapped wrist to our u G appear at The Regal, Oxford e Ute , who grace this month’s cover, have signed to Alcopop! Their next EP is released on the Wychwood will be at Cheltenham editor, for wrongly attributing v e t label in December when they are also due to tour the UK with new label mates Elephants. See Racecourse on 3-5 June 2011, the quotes in last month’s on 23 February 2011. They S full story inside the magazine. with ‘Early Bird’ tickets on sale equipment pages to Seb. signed to Sub Pop for the US at www.wychwoodfestival.com. recently, and their new album, Cornbury, rumoured to be moving which has been produced Klaxons , Mercury Music Prize winners for their Myths of the Near Future , are back with a to a site nearby the current one, by Paul Savage (former new album Surfing the Void . The single, ‘Twin Flame’, showing there is life after the heady days takes place over the weekend of For the most up-to-date gig drummer with The Delgados), of ‘Golden Skans’ and glowsticks, has been released recently. They’re at the O2 Academy on 1–3 July. For details check and club listings go to will be released early next Thursday 18 November. www.cornburyfestival.com. www.dailyinfo.co.uk year on Rock Action. 2 / OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / WINTER 2010 OXFORDSHIRE MUSIC SCENE / WINTER 2010 / 3 NEWS EQUIPMENT the oms equipment pages m o c . t e g Send club updates to a to one lower, like a dive p n i t club news [email protected] s bomb sound. That was u j . w w Phil’s actually, but it w t e seemed to just work when g a P n we were in rehearsals i t s n u J o t working on ‘Glasgow l i Get Your Geek On – © T e g n Spaceflight’, so it’s ended a a Top 10 I m I up with me. 1 Coral Way Chiefs – ‘Release Myself’ What was the first bass 2 Mr. Ho – ‘What We Want’ you got? (Pol On remix) The first bass I got was 3 Chopstik & Johnjon – made by a company called ‘Clear Eyes’ K. 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