email: [email protected] NIGHTSHIFTwebsite: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every Oxford’s Music Magazine month. Issue 157 August 2008 OXFORDOXFORD FESTIVALFESTIVAL TRUCK,TRUCK, CORNBURCORNBURYY ANDAND WAKESTWAKESTOCKOCK FEVERFEVER REVIEWED.REVIEWED. ZAPFESTZAPFEST CANCELLEDCANCELLED oung Knives at Wakestock. Photo by rphimages NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box Y 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWNEWSS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] Online: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net ZAPFEST was cancelled with a week’s notice last month. The live music festival, featuring the cream of Oxford’s emerging rock and dance talent, was due to take place in South Park on Saturday 12th July but the event’s organisers posted a notice on the festival website on Friday 4th announcing that it was cancelled. August Initially no specific details were given for the cancellation, other than “unforeseen circumstances”. However, since then organiser Lance Cowan Every Monday has spoken to Nightshift to explain what happened. THE FAMOUS MONDAY NIGHT BLUES “There were a combination of reasons that forced me into the final The best in UK, European and US blues. 8-12. decision. Probably the most powerful of them being money. There were th some costings that increased dramatically since the original quotes, due to 4 BIG MAMA’S DOOR (UK) the increase of diesel and site problems with South Park. 11th BLUE BISHOPS (UK) “Due to a lot of festivals going bankrupt last year, all the companies 18th 3rd DEGREE LEBURN (UK) within the trade are very nervous now. They all require full payment in th advance of an event, which puts a lot pressure on the organisers. 25 No show – Bank Holiday This might have been overcome if it wasn’t for an error at Natwest Bank, who have now taken over a month to set up my business account. It still Every Tuesday isn’t set up, by the way. Added to the financial problems, Youthmovies pulled out at the last minute and there was also a very high risk of severe THE OXFORD JAZZ CLUB weather for the week running up to the event. Free live jazz plus DJs playing r’n’b, funk and soul until 2am “I tried to come up with a downsized event just so we could have it go 5th / 19th THE HUGH TURNER BAND ahead but it wasn’t feasible, unfortunately. The only way forward was to 12th THE HUGH TURNER BAND cut my losses and pull the plug on the event. Maybe next year.” th As well as Youthmovies, bands set to perform included Little Fish, A 26 KATYA GORRIE ft DENNY ILETT Jr Silent Film, Witches, Stornoway and Jonquil. Ticket holders can obtain refunds from point of purchase. Wednesday 13th THE STRATEGY The Winchell Riots headline the last ever Oxfordbands.com gig at the Thursday 7th Wheatsheaf. Local music website Oxfordbands began promoting local MOSKA presents BEELZEBOZO / DEDLOK gigs back in February 2003 when Young Knives were the headliners. Every Friday Since then the gigs have showcased some of the best leftfield and BACKROOM BOOGIE underground acts from around the Funk, soul and R&B. 10.30pm-2am; £4. world, including Deerhoof, Mark Eitzel and Part Chimp, but work and band commitments have made it Friday Early Shows impossible to continue. The final gig 8th COO COO CLUB presents JASON comes a year to the day that RINGENBERG / PINEY GIR / EMIT BLOCH Oxfordbands.com gave Winchell £7adv. Doors 7.30pm Riots their first ever show. Support th comes from Staffordshire’s Epic 45. 15 THE SCRIBES £5. Doors 8pm WINCHELL RIOTS play two 22nd MOSHKA presents INTERNATIONAL special gigs this month. On Friday THE HOBGOBLIN in Bicester has JETSETTERS / DYING ANIMALS 8th August they play an intimate got its music licence back and starts Includes entry to Backroom Boogie afterwards acoustic show at the Port Mahon in hosting gigs again from this month. aid of the Accord Hospice in The pub plays host to Boot Led Renfrewshire, Scotland. The Zeppelin on Sunday 3rd August. A Saturdays hospice is where Winchell Riots six-band event on Sunday 7th 2nd SIMPLE – Funky House 10-4am. frontman Phil McMinn’s mother September follows, featuring Beard 9th A NIGHT OF AFRICAN MUSIC passed away last year. Speaking Of Zeuss, Frowser, Eduard 16th SOCA SLAM – Caribbean soca/calypso/reggae about the gig Phil told Nightshift, Soundingblock and more. “We wanted to get some cash raised from DJ J1. 9-3 £3 b4 10pm £5 after for it as a thank you from me. I’m STUDIO 45 have recently 23rd DOCUMENT ONE / TOTALLY not a fan of charity gigs unless the upgraded their CD printer and can ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS / cause is something close to the offer runs of 100+ full-colour CDs SIKORSKI. Plus DJs playing dub style and drum’n’bass. band’s heart but I guess this one is from only 85p per unit. The studio pretty close to our hearts.” Support is also now able to provide state of on the night comes from The Half the art Taiyo Yudens Watershield Sundays Rabbits, playing their first ever CDs from £1.09 per unit. Call BULLINGDON COMEDY CLUB with compere SILKY acoustic show. Cheryl on 01865 457000 for details, On Friday 29th July, meanwhile, or visit www.studio45.org.uk. DR SHOTOVER: Out, Demons, Out! More gin, Bedingfield! I have a hangover which is fiercer than the Bengal tiger, and just to put the lid on things, it is the Festival Season. The buggers are multiplying these days, it seems, they’re all called “Something”-stock, and they’re full of bouncy castles and re-formed bore-bands from the 1980s. Now, I hate to repeat myself - MORE GIN, The Stones in the Park Bedingfield! - but why o why do they have to be so bloody SAFE these days? MORE GIN, I say, and why don’t you pop a measure of Irn-Bru in there too... will this SETH LAKEMAN returns to the Academy on Tuesday 28th October as part hangover never cease? Where was I? Ah yes, as any fool knows, all of a tour to promote his new album, `Poor Man’s Heaven’. The rising star of festivals should feature the following: a) the Edgar Broughton Band the UK folk scene sold out his previous show at the venue. Tickets are on sale and/or the Pink Fairies headlining b) nasty 70s drugs c) greasy now, priced £14, from wegottickets. com or from the Academy box office. hamburgers d) outbreaks of trench-foot and/or beri-beri .... and finally of course, the experience is barely worth having without e) being beaten up by bikers. Lefty Lethbridge (stalwart of the East Indies MANYEUNG are set to reform for a Forms, Dial F For Frankenstein, E Club Entertainments Committee) has had some sound thoughts on one-off gig in September to celebrate For Echo, Les Valentine and this. Why don’t we organise our own East Indies Club Festival next the tenth anniversary of their initial Harlequinn. For more details and summer, and make sure it ticks all the necessary boxes? If the Pink split. The band, including Phill ticket information visit www.under- Fairies won’t re-form, I’m sure we could always get Juicy Lucy, who Honey who went on to form The the-oak.co.uk are doing the rounds again... drugs, mud and poor-quality snacks are always easy to come by... and so are bikers. Venue? Lefty reckons Rock Of Travolta and Boywithatoy, he can pull a few strings and get us a patch of scrubland just near emerged from the then vibrant TUNE INTO BBC Oxford Blenheim Palace. As for the name of the festival, given the location, Witney music scene. The gig takes Introducing every Saturday evening we were briefly thinking of calling it Woodstock-stock. But, as we pace at the Jericho Tavern on between 6-7pm on 95.2fm. The hate to repeat ourselves, we’ve decided to reference another festival Saturday 27th September. dedicated local music show features which happened in 1969, complete with Hell’s Angels, dodgy acid, new tracks from local acts as well as stabbings and bad vibes. Yes. You’ve got it. We’re going to call it UNDER THE OAK is a new one- interviews, features, a gig and club Woodstock-amont. Something for everyone, I’m sure you’ll agree. day festival taking place in North guide and a demo review. The show is Next month: Gimme (Bus-) Shelter Aston on Saturday 30th August. Acts available to listen to online all week confirmed include Forms Forms at bbc.co.uk/oxford. Sponsored RELEASED by Obviously it’s Andy’s voice that is central to the ANDY YORKE whole album and, not surprisingly, the mood ‘Simple’ remains sombre throughout, accentuated on two of the album’s strongest tracks, ‘Simple’ and (Aktiv) ‘Diamant’, by softly weeping cello, a deep, Back in the late-1990s Andy Yorke fronted local resonant counterpoint to Andy’s lighter vocal band Unbelievable Truth, who scored a handful moments. That’s not to say it’s a morbid trawl. of Top 40 hits from their debut album, ‘Almost Listen to the waltzing ‘Let It Be True’ with its There’, on Virgin. The band were hampered accordion flourish and tell us it makes you feel sad somewhat by a section of the music press being and we’ll bludgeon you to death with a whoopee intent on maligning Andy for being Thom cushion. Then again, the wracked, emotive Yorke’s younger brother rather than judging wanderings of ‘Always By Your Side’ and them on their many musical merits (gosh, ‘Mathilda’ aim squarely towards the bleak side of they’re brothers! They have similar voices and maudlin, while the appropriately-named ‘Lay they’re neither of them graduates of the Timmy Down’ seems resigned to surrender to its demons.