[email protected] @NightshiftMag nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 231 October Oxford’s Music Magazine 2014 “Nothing makes our hearts sink more than a soppy photo:Johnny Moto boy/girl acoustic duo” photo:Johnny Moto THETHE AUGUSTAUGUST LISTLIST OXFORD DUPLICATION CENTRE Oxford’s first couple of [email protected] Office: 01865 457000 Mobile: 07917 775477 Supporting Oxfordshire Bands with porch folk come down Affordable Professional CD Duplication from the hills. FANTASTIC BAND RATES Also in this issue: ON ALL SERVICES Introducing PEERLESS PIRATES Professional Thermal Printed CDs Full Colour/Black & White SPRING OFFENSIVE split. Silver or White Discs OXFORDOXFORD cancelled Design Work Support Digital Printing plus Packaging Options Fulfilment All your Oxford music news, previews and Recommended by Matchbox Recordings Ltd, Poplar Jake, Undersmile, Desert Storm, Turan Audio Ltd, Nick Cope, Prospeckt, Paul Jeffries, Alvin reviews, and six pages of local gigs. 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: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net month. The festival, due to be held in South Park at the end of September, with a day of live music featuring The Klaxons, Gaz Combes and Katy B among others, was planned as the first in a series of annual festivals in the park, but poor ticket sales and issues with one of the main acts apparently left organisers with no WILD SWIM provide the option but to pull the plug. soundtrack for Fast Track, a new A statement on the festival site play which runs at The North Wall said, “A number of factors in in Summertown this month. Jamie September, including an uncertainty Jay and Carlos Posada from the with a previously confirmed artist, band have composed the music alongside poor local ticket sales, for the play, written by Catriona have forced this decision. The Kerridge and directed by Lucy whole team, including partners, has SPRING OFFENSIVE look set to split following a final show in Maycock, and will perform it live at tirelessly worked around the clock Oxford. Although the band say their parting of the ways is not definitely each performance from the 2nd – 4th to try to make the event work, but permanent they have no plans to work together for the foreseeable October. unfortunately we are not in the future. The pair’s work comes as Wild position to continue any further.” Speaking to Nightshift, guitarist Theo Whitworth, explained the Swim –who won BBC Introducing’s Ticketholders can get refunds from band’s decision to go on indefinite hiatus: ““After November, all five Band of the Year Award in 2013 point of purchase. of us are going to start spending our time on other things. We have no – prepare to return to action after plans to play any more shows, or to record any more music. We can’t university courses finished. Jamie STORNOWAY have added a say that these things will definitely never happen again – our astrology told Nightshift, “I finished uni this second night to their concert at the skills aren’t what they could be – just that we can’t promise you’ll hear summer, and am now permanently Sheldonian Theatre next month. After anything from us after 2014. We put more years than we care to name based back in Oxford, which is great their show at the historic theatre on into the all-consuming musical dream factory, and in return it gave us an for the band. The album recordings Thursday 13th November sold out in album and a half, two EPs, a sackful of singles and recordings, endless have been put on the backburner, a matter of hours, the band added a touring to incredible places, a carbon footprint the size of a medium- but the songs we wrote for it are second show on Wednesday 5th. The sized country, five sets of dusty lungs and unhappy livers, and a load of still very much in play. I guess concerts mark the fifth anniversary truly amazing friends and fans. And we wouldn’t give any of it back, we thought we should regroup of Stornoway becoming the first non- no matter what you’re offering. We cannot think of a better way to have after we had all finished our other classical act to play at the Christopher spent this time. We did it all ourselves, and we are very fucking proud. commitments, then do something Wren-designed venue. Tickets for We’ve loved every minute, which, in a weird and unexpected way, is smaller and stronger like an EP, with the show are on sale exclusively why we decided we just had to take a break.” a view to doing an album much later through Wegottickets.com, priced £18 Having formed at school in Oxfordshire, Spring Offensive rapidly on. So we’re currently in the studio (+booking fee). rose to become local favourites, selling out a series of hometown getting the EP down, which will Mean while the band’s Pledgemusic shows, playing various festivals, touring Europe, gracing the cover hopefully come out sometime early campaign for their third album, of Nightshift’s 200th issue in 2002 and earlier this year released their next year. currently being recorded with acclaimed debut album, `Young Animal Hearts’, financed by an “The play, Fast Track, is looking producer Gil Norton, is ongoing. inventive Pledgemusic campaign that even gave fans the opportunity really great. Carlos and I have Visit www.pledgemusic.com/ to be kidnapped by the band. Last year they relocated to London but done some musical work for Lucy projects/stornoway to contribute remained an Oxford band at heart, and they will play their final show at Maycock’s productions in the past, and maybe nab yourself a treat. the O2 Academy on Thursday 20th November but this will be our first original “There’ll be old songs and a few surprises,” promises Theo, “come and score. We’ll be performing live GLASS ANIMALS release a sing along with us. Who knows when we’ll get to do it again.” throughout the play. There are even new single this month. `Hazey’, Tickets for the O2 show should be on sale soon from the venue box some songs interspersed over the released on the 13th October on office. Check the band’s Facebook for updated news. course of the action, which will Paul Epworth’s Wolftone label, is hopefully add to the overall feel and the latest track to be taken from the tone of Kerridge’s wonderful script. band’s debut album `ZABA’, which over the Wheatsheaf over the AUDIOSCOPE returns next We’ve had a fantastic time working has now been streamed 8million weekend of the 3rd-5th October. month. The mini-festival, which with such inspiring and unique times globally. Following on from Friday night features sets from since its inception in 2001, has people in such an inspiring and their showing at Bestival, Glass Osprey’s OX4 Allstars, These Are raised £30,000 for homeless charity unique space; there’s a very distinct Animals toured in the US throughout Our Demands, Gemma Moss and Shelter, takes place on Saturday 8th sense of family in Maycock’s September and will head off on a Purple May, while Saturday night November at The Jericho Tavern; productions.” UK tour, starting in Liverpool on the sees Fracture, Knights of Mentis, the line-up will be announced Tickets for Fast Track are on sale 10th October. Visit glassanimals.eu Des Barkus and Charms Against in early October. The festival, now, priced £12 (£10 concessions), for more gig dates. The Evil Eye performing. Sunday renowned for its adherence to from www.thenorthwall.com. takes the form of a free session in leftfield and esoteric music, has KLUB KAKOFANNEY celebrate the downstairs bar from 2pm, with previously featured the likes of OXFORDOXFORD FESTIVAL their 23rd anniversary with a sets from Puppet Mechanic, Twizz Four-Tet, Wire and Damo Suzuki. was cancelled a week before the weekend of live music this month. Twangle, Beard of Destiny, Les Visit www.audioscope.co.uk for event was due to take place last The long-running club night takes Clochards and Moon Leopard. tickets and line-up news. PMT on Cowley Road to travel showing of the award-winning Delian round the Greek Islands with two Mode film by Kara Blake. friends, recording their adventures Talking about the event OCM on camcorders, the results of which programmer Tim Ferguson Hand can be seen in ten-minute snippets said, “This is something I’ve wanted NEWSrd at c90dreams.wordpress.com. to do for a while, to acknowledge numbers on Friday 3 October at the east Oxford cinema. Tickets are The all-Oxford soundtracks to each some of the individuals within on sale now, priced £10, from www. episode also feature Manacles of contemporary music who have had uppcinema.com Acid, Message to Bears, The Tamily a significant impact, perhaps people Machine, Beta Blocker and the who are lesser known or are generally PEERLESS PIRATES release a Bodyclock and We Aeronauts. seen not to have had the recognition new single this month. `El Gringo’ they deserve. Delia Derbyshire is b/w `For Queen & Country’ was DONNINGTON COMMUNITY a case in point really, employed by Nightshift’s Demo of the Month FESTIVAL runs over the afternoon the Radiophonic Workshop, who th in August and is now available to and evening of Saturday 11 produced huge amounts of electronic download from soundcloud.com/ October.