[email protected] @NightshiftMag NightshiftMag nightshiftmag.co.uk Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 283 February Oxford’s Music Magazine 2019 “For a band that plays original music there is no future in Devon. Oxford is all about original music and supporting the local music scene.” photo: Ian Wallman EscapingKanadia to the city, making epic music and supporting The Wurzels with Oxford’s stadium-bound stars. Also in this issue: Foals return! So do Swervedriver! Introducing Lina Simon plus, all your Oxford music news, previews and reviews, and five pages of gigs for February 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 day outdoor concert on the Leys over the weekend of the 14th and 15th June. Over 15,000 people attended last year’s weekend show, headlined by The Farm and Noasis. The festival also features its FOALS ARE SET TO RELEASE TWO NEW ALBUMS IN 2019. traditional battle of the bands and The band announced the releases with a short teaser video on Twitter an Ox Factor competition. Visit the on the 9th January, featuring a clip of music and the titles of the albums: Witney Music Festival Facebook TRUCK FESTIVAL will ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’ Parts 1 and 2. The first album will page to get involved. th announce its line-up on Monday be released on the 8 March with part 2 in the autumn. th The band subsequently launched a cryptic treasure hunt ahead of a new 4 February. This year’s event THE MUSIC BOX in Wallingford single, ‘Exits’, posting map co-ordinates in various locations around takes place over the weekend of has closed down – for the second th th Europe and the UK where envelopes containing lyrics to the song were the 26 -28 July at Hill Farm time. The independent record store placed. The single was premiered on Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show On in Steventon. Follow Truck on shut its doors for the last time after Monday 21st Janaury. Twitter at @Truckfestival for Christmas, though owner Richard ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Part 1’ is Foals’ fifth studio news as it breaks. We’ve seen Strange is hopeful the store could album, the follow-up to ‘What Went Down’ in 2015, and the band’s who’s headlining and we’re proper reopen in Didcot in the future. The first since the departure of bassist Walter Gervas last year. excited. shop, in Market Square, one of Meanwhile Cornbury Festival the few remaining record shops in will announce their Friday and the county, shut down in 2008, but tickets remain valid or refunds are music this month, aimed at local Saturday night headline acts on returned as a pop-up store in 2015, available from point of purchase. musicians, from mastering records th the 4 February. This year’s event eventually returning to its original Meanwhile Vryll Society’s gig and download issues to streaming takes place over the weekend of the home in 2016. Lack of custom is at The Bullingdon at the end of issues, vinyl issues, metadata th th 5 -7 July at Great Tew Country blamed for its closure. January was cancelled after singer and CDs. “I get asked so many Park. The Beach Boys have Meanwhile the future of Fopp in Michael Ellis quit the band due to questions in the studio and online already been announced as Sunday Gloucester Green is in doubt after “musical differences”. While the by bands and artists that I thought headliners. Tickets and news at the collapse of parent company rest of the band plan to continue a column in Nightshift would cornburyfestival.com. HMV in December. Fingers together, no new date has been be a good way to answer them,” crossed for all the staff there and announced. said Tim; “I was thinking about WITNEY MUSIC FESTIVAL for the future of music retail in all the different things that bands returns later this year. Now in its Oxford. A VERY WARM NIGHTSHIFT need to think about when it comes th 13 year, the festival will feature WELCOME to local mastering to mastering records It is a total over 60 acts playing across 14 J MASCIS’ show at the O2 maestro Tim Turan from Turan minefield of hidden info out there venues and pubs in the town over Academy on the 16th January has Audio, who starts his new monthly and it’s about artists and bands th the period from the 24 May to been rearranged to Tuesday 14th column dealing with the various getting the optimum from their th the 9 June, followed by the two- May due to personal issues. All aspects of producing and releasing releases.” TRUCK STORE CELEBRATES ITS EIGHTH BIRTHDAY this month with a day of live music and DJs. The independent music shop on Cowley Road hosts live sets from Max Blansjaar and The August List from 5pm on Saturday 9th February, followed by an instore DJ set from Low Island. Truck Store has been at the heart of the Oxford music scene since it opened in 2011, regularly hosting live sets from local and touring bands and not just surviving but thriving in the face of myriad challenges facing the retail sector and music retail in particular. Store manager Carl Smithson told Nightshift: “it’s a challenging time for retail in general so we’ve had to stay on our toes to survive but that’s one advantage we do have over big chains: we can adapt and change when we need to and that’s certainly something we’re always trying to do. Central to everything, alongside our customer service ethos, is our passion for new music and support of the album, something which is so important in an era of endless playlists. We’ve always strived to make the store a welcoming environment for discovering new artists, re-discovering classic albums and being a home away from home for music lovers. The personal touch is something a computer-generated algorithm can never replicate and we’re proud to serve at the heart of Oxford’s music scene.” As ever, support local independent music. Visit truckmusicstore.co.uk for more event details and full vinyl and CD stock list. BEAUTIFUL FREAKS continues music show plays the best Oxford to showcase Oxford music on its releases and demos as well as weekly radio show. Beautiful featuring interviews and sessions Freaks is an indie music radio show with local acts. The show is NEWSat Oxide Radio, the University available to stream or download as means acts can take a video of of Oxford’s student radio station, a podcast at bbc.co.uk/oxford. their performance away with them. playing new indie and alternative Musicians work with students on music with a focus on local music. OXFORD GIGBOT provides a every aspect of the performance. The show is broadcast live every regular local gig listing update on Dani Boventre, a campus support week during term time on Sundays Twitter (@oxgigbot), bringing technician at SAE Oxford , said: from 8-9pm and you can listen you new gigs as soon as they go “The live lounge sessions take back on demand at beautifulfreaks. live. They also provide a free place on campus in our fantastic co.uk/radio. Recent shows have weekly listings email. Just contact studios. The artists get a high featured interviews with Candy [email protected] to join. SAE OXFORD is looking for quality performance to share on Says as well as music critic Everett local bands and solo artists to their social media pages, which True. February 3rd’s show features The photos of The August List and perform at their Live Lounge is perfect for promotion and for a playlist chosen by Oxford-based Beak in January’s Nightshift should sessions. The college, situated in securing gigs. Our students get the label Big Scary Monsters. have been credited to GlassHertz Littlemore, which offers degree opportunity to collaborate across Photography. Apologies to Jason courses in music, video and disciplines, and hone their skills in AS EVER, don’t forget to tune into for the mistake. The lesson to be gaming technology as well as the a real working environment.” BBC Oxford Introducing every learned being: don’t try putting a music industry is repeating the For more details email Bethany Saturday night between 8-9pm on magazine together after enjoying sessions it began last year, and Kirkbride at [email protected]. 95.2fm. The dedicated local too much festive cheer. SWERVEDRIVER’S ADAM positive reviews, Adam also FRANKLIN has been talking reflected on Swervedriver’s 30 year to Nightshift about the band’s career and how they’ve become an new album, ‘Future Ruins’, their inspiration for new generations of sixth and the follow-up to 2015’s musicians. comeback record ‘I Wasn’t Born to “It’s great to still be out there Lose You’. making records, especially since Released on the 25th January on it was never considered a career Rock Action Records, ‘Future option and in the mid-80s in Ruins’ finds Swervedriver enjoying Oxford we were in thrall to 60s global cult status, having become garage rock which seemed to come an inspiration on subsequent from a bygone era, and yet now generations of alt.rock and here we are 30 years down the line! shoegaze bands having formed in And yeah, you hear about artists Oxford in 1989 from the ruins of over the years expressing their former local faves Shake Appeal.