[email protected] nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 224 March Oxford’s Music Magazine 2014 DesertGet in the Stormback of the van! Oxford’s mightiest rock warriors talk tour vans and toilet etiquette Also in this issue OXFORD DUPLICATION CENTRE [email protected] Festival line-ups announced: Office: 01865 457000 Mobile: 07917 775477 SIMPLE MINDS and GEORGIE FAME for Supporting Oxfordshire Bands with CORNBURY Affordable Professional CD Duplication CRIBS and WHITE LIES for TRUCK FANTASTIC BAND RATES BURT BACHARACH and METRONOMY for ON ALL SERVICES Professional Thermal Printed CDs WILDERNESS Full Colour/Black & White plus Silver or White Discs Design Work Support Introducing BETA BLOCKER & THE BODY Digital Printing Packaging Options CLOCK Fulfilment and all your local music news, reviews, Recommended by Matchbox Recordings Ltd, Poplar Jake, Undersmile, Desert Storm, Turan Audio Ltd, Nick Cope, Prospeckt, Paul Jeffries, Alvin previews and gig guide. Roy, Pete The Temp, Evolution, Coozes, Blue Moon and many more... NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 photo:Giulia Biasibetti was to provide Oxford with a fantastic storyteller Richard Digance plays annual jazz festival, and throughout Tiddy Hall on April 26th. For more our five years, we managed to bring details on the club, visit some fabulous names to Oxford to www.wychwoodfolkclub.com perform in some of the city’s finest NEWS spaces. Our stated aim – to provide LOCAL MUSIC BLOG ONE Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU inspiring jazz performances within NOTE FOREVER has signed Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] the less-seen spaces of Oxford – was Birmingham-based shoegazers accomplished, with performances Mutes to its fledgling record label, Online: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net from as varied a cast from Soweto following on from the label’s debut Kinch to Norma Winstone, within release by ToLiesel last year. 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The gig, in the smaller upstairs room at the O2 The Punt previously and, due to certainly consider bringing the festival interviews and sessions with local Academy, was kept a secret until the day before, with tickets going on sale the licensing conditions of all the back to Oxford, but not this year.” acts. The show is available to stream venues, only bands aged over 18 will from the venue box office and online at 10am on the day of the show. Fans or download as a podcast at BURT BACHARACH is one of the headliners of this year’s WILDERNESS be eligible. The line-up announced queued from 6.30am and the gig was sold out in a matter of minutes. A SIMPLE MINDS are one of the ASCOTT-UNDER-WYCHWOOD bbc.co.uk/oxford. FESTIVAL. The legendary Grammy-winning singer and composer tops a on the 15th on the Nightshift forum – riotous and emotional show saw Yannis Philipakkis crowd-sufing from the headliners of this year’s Cornbury gets its own regular folk club from Regularly updated local music line-up that also features headline sets from electro-pop stars Metronomy and nightshift.oxfordmusic.net, and the stage to bar, where he downed a shot, before surfing back again. Festival. With the full line-up due this month with the launch of the news is available online at www. ethereal pop moodists London Grammar. Oxford Punt 2014 Facebook page As well as their ongoing national tour, Foals have been announced as to be announced on Thursday 6th appropriately named Wychwood musicinoxford.co.uk. The site also This year’s Wilderness Festival, which aims to bridge the gaps between A limited number of all-venue Punt main stage headliners at this year’s Bestival, alongside Beck and Outkast. March, Nightshift can exclusively Folk Club. The club will take place features interactive reviews, a photo music, art, food and nature, takes place at Cornbury Country Park over the passes are on sale from Truck Store The band play the festival on the Isle of Wight on Saturday 6th September. reveal that the Scottish stadium-rock on the first and third Saturdays of gallery and gig guide. weekend of the 7th-10th August, and also features sets from Jessie Ware, with and online at oxfordmusic.net from Read the review of the Oxford show in this issue giants will top the bill one night over each month at the Swan in Ascott, Nightshift’s online form is open to the Wilderness Orchestra; BBC Sound of 2014 winner Sam Smith; Gregory this month, priced just £8. the weekend of the 4th-6th July at with monthly bigger-name acts all local music fans and musicians at Porter; Mount Kimble; Connan Mockasin; Submotion Orchestra and Soak. through til 10pm. Entry is free with SPRING OFFENSIVE launch their Great Tew Country Park. They will playing at Tiddy Hall in the village. nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Away from the main stage, there will be a Friends of the Earth busking stage; WITTSTOCK FESTIVAL hosts donations welcome. All money raised album `Young Animal Hearts’ with a be joined by jazz and r’n’b legend The first night of the club is the Bitter Suite, a sensory concert, and a Travelling Folk Barn. a special weekend mini-festival this will go towards financing the main special instore show at Truck Store st Georgie Fame; pre-punk pioneer 1 March at the Swan with sets OXFORD BANDS looking for Beyond the live music is the usual host of activities, from banquets, late night month as part of its One Gig Closer festival which this year is raising this month. The local indie heroes, Graham Parker, and Scottish- from Bluebird and Rachel Chai. members or musicians looking parties, fire shows and theatre, to art, promenade performances, talks, debates calendar, building up to the main money for My Life My Choice, and now relocated to London but still Swedish folk singer Nina Nesbitt. The Ponderosa and Nick Hooper for bands can advertise for free in and outdoor pursuits. festival at the Plough Inn in Long the Young Women’s Music Project. Oxford at heart, will play the free th The rest of the line-up is expected play on the 15 , with Pete Knight’s Nightshift. Simply email your needs Tickets for the festival are on sale now, with adult weekend camping tickets at Wittenham over the weekend of the to include Cornbury’s characteristic show at the Cowley Road record Gigspanner appearing at Tiddy in up to 30 words, to nightshift@ th th th £143.50. Kids under 10 years old get in for just £5. 19 -20 July. CHARLBURY RIVERSIDE store on Monday 10 March. With nd mix of big-name stars; cult legends; Hall on the 22 . Folk veteran and oxfordmusic.net. Visit www.wildernessfestival.com. The weekender takes place at The rising folk, rock and blues stars and FESTIVAL will take place over demand for tickets expected to be Art Bar on the 22nd-23rd March, th th TV pop acts. the weekend of the 26 -27 July extremely high, tickets will be limited featuring a host of local acts playing With all early-bird tickets now sold this year, it has been announced. to anyone pre-ordering the album in the pub’s Backroom venue and out, tickets for the weekend are on The annual free festival is by far the beforehand, so pop along. It’s bloody front bar. The Saturday features sets sale through the festival website at biggest of its kind in Oxfordshire, great and you will love it. from Les Clochards; Agness Pike; www.cornburyfestival.com, where attracting some 7,000 music fans Also performing instore at Truck this Space Heroes of the People; The the full line-up will also be revealed. over two days last year. No acts month is local country singer Ags Relationships; Balloon Ascents; confirmed as yet but visit www. Connolly, who launches his debut Sinking Witches; Superloose, and APPLICATIONS FOR THIS riversidefestival.charlbury.com to album, `How About Now’, on Sunday Von Braun on the main stage, with nd YEAR’S OXFORD PUNT are find out how to play and for news on 2 March, while regular visitors to acoustic sets from Our Biscuit Selves; open until the 10th March. The annual the event as it’s ready. town, folk couple Trevor Moss and Beard of Destiny; Trevor Williams, th showcase of unsigned Oxford talent Hannah Lou, play on Saturday 15 . and Mark Allen Barnes. takes place on Wednesday 14th May, WOOD FESTIVAL returns in For set times and more Truck Store Moving on to Sunday and One featuring 20 or so acts at The Purple May. The environmentally-friendly news, visit truckmusicstore.co.uk. Wing Left; Mary’s Garden; Don’t Turtle, The Cellar, The Wheatsheaf, festival organised by Truck founders Go Plastic; Lost Dogs; STEM; Man Turl Street Kitchen and The White Robin and Joe Bennett takes place at THE OXFORD JAZZ FESTIVAL Make Fire; Charms Against the Evil Rabbit.