email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 122 September Oxford’s Music Magazine 2005 SupergrassSupergrassSupergrass on a road less travelled plus 4-Page Truck Festival Review - inside NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWNEWSS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] THE YOUNG KNIVES won You Now’, ‘Water and Wine’ and themselves a coveted slot at V ‘Gravity Flow’. In addition, the CD Festival last month after being comes with a bonus DVD which picked by Channel 4 and Virgin features a documentary following Mobile from over 1,000 new bands Mark over the past two years as he to open the festival on the Channel recorded the album, plus alternative 4 stage, alongside The Chemical versions of some tracks. Brothers, Doves, Kaiser Chiefs and The Magic Numbers. Their set was THE DOWNLOAD appears to have then broadcast by Channel 4. been given an indefinite extended Meanwhile, the band are currently in run by the BBC. The local music the studio with producer Andy Gill, show, which is broadcast on BBC recording their new single, ‘The Radio Oxford 95.2fm every Saturday THE MAGIC NUMBERS return to Oxford in November, leading an Decision’, due for release on from 6-7pm, has had a rolling impressive list of big name acts coming to town in the next few months. Transgressive in November. The monthly extension running through After their triumphant Truck Festival headline set last month, The Magic th Knives have also signed a publishing the summer, and with the positive Numbers (pictured) play at Brookes University on Tuesday 11 October. deal with BMG. A new album will be response from listeners looks likely The show is already sold out. th released early in 2006. to continue. Tune in each week to Also playing at Brookes are The Subways (Thur 27 Oct), The th hear new songs from Oxford artists, Wedding Present (Thur 10 Nov) and current best new metal band in rd KTB (aka Katy Bennett) returns plus interviews, a gig and club guide the world, Opeth (Sat 3 Dec). Tickets for all these gigs are available with a new album this month. as well as a local demo vote. from wegottickets.com. ‘Bluebird’, released on Tatinga The Zodiac’s autumn and winter line-up also includes some seriously good st Records, is Katy’s second album, the DUNGEON STUDIO has moved. stuff. The line-up for October includes Bellowhead (1 ), Idiot Pilot rd th follow-up to 2002’s ‘All Calm In Oxfordshire’s longest-running (3 ), a welcome return for Queen Adreena (6 ), 60s rockers Focus th th recording studio has relocated to (10 ), Nightshift’s favourite band in the world, Ladytron (11 ), Dreamland’ debut. That album st th The Coldroom in Cumnor. Dungeon, Hawthorn Heights (21 ), the legendary Fall (27 ), another chance to helped Katy reach the finals of th Radio 2’s Young Folk Musician of run by engineer Rich Haines had run see Canadian emo heroes Alexisonfire (28 ), and an evening with Lacuna Coil (29th). November sees the return once more of Britpop the Year in 2002. Although from Ascott House farm in north survivors The Bluetones (5th). Tickets for all gis are on sale now from ‘Bluebird’ won’t be officially released Oxfordshire for twenty years, the Zodiac box office (01865 420042). until November, she will be selling becoming one of the most popular As well as The Magic Numbers show, gigs at the Zodiac by Editors (8th copies on her forthcoming national studios in the county. For studio Oct) and Hard Fi (18th Oct), as well as this month’s shows by Trivium and tour, which kicks off at The Zodiac bookings, call Rich on 07790 193 Elbow are now completely sold out. on Friday 1st September. Tickets are 260. The New Theatre too has an impressive list of live music coming in £5 in advance from the Zodiac box October and November. Gigs already announced include 60s chart stars offcie (01865 420042). Support ELIZA CARTHY and The The Hollies (1st Oct), The Kinks’ Ray Davies (16th Oct), the mighty comes from Bristol’s Rachel Dadd. Ratcatchers are the star attraction at Motorhead (15th Nov), family favourite Tony Christie (16th Nov), 60s this month’s Wallingford Bunkfest, legends The Everly Brothers (17th Nov), the enduringly popular Status MARK GARDENER releases his which takes place over the weekend Quo (18th/19th Nov), 80s rock’n’roller Shakin’ Stevens (25th Nov) and debut solo album as a limited edition of the Friday 2nd - Saturday4th master of pop mirth, Paul Weller (27th Nov). Tickets for all New import this month. The former Ride September. The festival features folk Theatre gigs are available from the credit card hotline: 0870 606 3500. frontman has made a limited number and blues concerts, ceilidhs, of copies of the album, entitled workshops, dance displays and a beer ‘These Beautiful Ghosts’, available festival across different venues 4th September when The Evenings, third birthday party at the Zodiac on exclusively on oxfordmusic.net. The around the town. Other acts The Family Machine and Fell City Thursday 15th September. Club host track listing for the album, recorded appearing include The Oysterband, Girl will be taking to the water to Aidan Larkin as well as DJ Derek will in the States with Goldrush, is: ‘Snow Patrick Street, John Spiers and Jon play on a boat as it sails between also be playing a varied selection of In Mexico’, ‘Getting Out Of Your Boden and Pressgang. Full line-up Oxford and Abingdon. The boat ska, reggae, dub, Latin dance, Own Way’, ‘To Get Me Through’, and ticket information is available at leaves from Folly Bridge at 1pm and Afrobeat and funky house. Tickets ‘Magdalen Sky’, ‘Rhapsody’, www.bunkfest.co.uk tickets are priced £10. The Evenings are on sale from the Zodiac box ‘Summer Turns To Fall’, ‘Flaws Of release a new EP at the beginning of office (01865 420042), priced £8. Perception’, ‘Beautiful Ghosts’, THE FINAL SUNDAY STEAMER October, followed by an album of ‘The Story of the Eye’, ‘Where Are of the summer takes pace on Sunday remixes by fellow Oxford artists. PURE REASON REVOLUTION’s gig at the Zodiac, scheduled for OXFORD CONTEMPORARY Tuesday 20th September has been FOUR TET have been confirmed as headliners MUSIC are running a weekend of moved to Sunday 2nd October. Tickets for this year’s Audioscope festival, which runs music and light concerts at the for the original date are still valid. for two days over the weekend of the 29th University of Oxford Botanical and 30th of October. Four tet will play on the gardens this month. Powerplant runs THE CHILD BRAIN INJURY Saturday night, along with Explosions in the from Thursday 1st to Saturday 3rd TRUST, a UK charity based in Sky, Shooting at Unarmed Men, Ill Ease, September, from 8.30-10.30pm and Oxford, are looking for unsigned Giddy Motors and Sunnyvale Noise Sub- features work from Mark Anderson bands to contribute to a fund-raising Element. as well as artists including Jony compilation CD. Send demos to Sunday’s headliner is Luke Vibert who will be Easterby, Ray Lee, Anne Bean, Stephanie Flower, Training and supported by Scout Niblett, Billy Mahonie, Kirsten Reynolds and Ulf Pederson. Information Officer, Child Brain Fell City Girl and Nought, amongst others. Entrance is £3 advance. More info Injury Trust, The Radcliffe There will be a limited number of two-day from www.ocmevents.org Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford, tickets available for the festival, which raises OX2 6HE. Alternatively, email Ruth money for homeless charity Shelter. For more MASSIVE ATTACK’s Daddy G will Cooper at [email protected], information, go to www.audioscope.co.uk be the special guest DJ at Skylarkin’s or phone on 01865 552467. A Quiet Word With SupergrassSupergrassSupergrass FOR MOST PEOPLE, THE FIRST but recording in Greece would be reaction to hearing ‘Road To Rouen’ nice.” is surprise. This isn’t quite the Supergrass they knew and loved. You LIKE OXFORD’S OTHER know, the ebullient Supergrass of international rock stars, Radiohead, ‘Sun Hits The Sky’, the anthemic Supergrass were signed to Supergrass of ‘Going Out’, or the Parlophone by manager Chris magnificently belligerent Supergrass Hufford. Radiohead parted company of ‘Richard III’. with the label after ‘Hail To The No, ‘Road To Rouen’, Supergrass’s Thief’, their contract having run its fifth studio album, is big, grown up, course. Assuming all continues to go sensible, sometimes sombre and well for Supergrass commercially, are reflective Supergrass. Supergrass they happy to stay with the label looking back on a life well lived and when their own contract runs out? considering the road ahead. Of “I don’t spend too long thinking course the title alone suggests the about this, as long as we get to make band have lost none of their the records we want. Which is never youthful exuberance, but the music a simple matter in itself.” within, if not at odds with its All of which makes ‘Road To Rouen’ stripped-down versions of old hits. You’ve produced a string of strong predecessors, treads a very distant more of a surprise. Here is a band albums, but ‘Supergrass is 10’ felt path to the one they cycled along going against (an albeit fluid) MICKEY IS IN TIGERISH MOOD like your most complete album. for ‘Caught By The Fuzz’ and TV formula. But much has happened to before the Playhouse gig. Reviews Would you agree that Supergrass are jingle staple ‘Alright’ (a song they them in the past year or so, as for ‘Road To Rouen’ have been strongest as a singles band, say in the now, perhaps understandably, hate).