[email protected] @NightshiftMag NightshiftMag nightshiftmag.co.uk Free every month NIGHTSHIFT Issue 265 August Oxford’s Music Magazine 2017 “This album could easily be about love but for me it’s about recovering photo: Ian Wallman from loss and finding redemption.” DEATHFrom post-apocalypic worlds to OF HI-FI post-traumatic stress with Oxford’s electric dreamers. Also in this issue: Introducing MOOGIEMAN & THE MASOCHISTS RIDE, CORNBURY FESTIVAL & IRREGULAR FOLKS reviewed plus All your Oxford music news, previews and gigs for August NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 photo: Ian Wallman NEWS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] Online: nightshiftmag.co.uk GALLOPS have been confirmed as Bit Country; Elephantasy; The headliners for If Not Now When? in Abingdon Community Choir and September. They join Spook School; more. Tickets, £5 in advance or £7.50 Oh Peas; Grace Lightman; Death on the door, with kids free, plus full Pedals; Weddings; Self Help and line-up details can be found at Protection Spells, who have also been www.rabbitholemusicevents.co.uk. added to the bill. If Not Now When? is a new festival 31HOURS, Sleepers Dome and COLDREDLIGHT played their last gig in their current incarnation at Truck for east Oxford, organised jointly by Flatland’s Jamie Corish are among Festival at the end of July. The band, formed by singer/guitarist Gaby-Elise Divine Schism and Idiot King. The the acts playing at Intermix Jungle Monaghan and multi-instrumentalist Casper Miles, are planning to re-emerge one-day event takes place on Saturday this month. The event, which runs on with a new name and a new line-up in October. 2nd September at East Oxford the 4th and 5th August at MIND’s Mill Talking to Nightshift about the change Gaby said, “I think we just knew from Community Centre and Fusion Arts. centre on Cowley Road, is a multi- the beginning that we wanted the sound to be bigger than two people could 30 acts will plays across three rooms, media exhibition and performance, allow so it just made sense for us to start anew with a fresh perspective and other from 2pm through to 3am, with other featuring live music, poetry art, band members. Coldredlight has been a stepping stone for us into the next stage, acts confirmed including: Tigercats; design, photography and performance, our influences are constantly shifting but the music itself will still be us, only Johanna Glaza; Fever Dream; Garden with an emphasis on improvisation. bigger and better. We’ll just be starting again with a fresh perspective and some Centre; Flemmings; Slate Hearts; Kid Find them on Facebook and new permanent band members, will be keeping some of the same songs and Kin; Green Hands; Kone; WOLFS; Instagram. writing a whole load of new ones.” She added, “I wanted to say a massive thank Porridge Radio; Repo Man; Alpha you to all the support Nightshift has given us over the past year and a half.” Male Tea Party; Tellison (solo); Birds OXROX are looking for bands to Gaby made her local solo debut at The Punt in 2016, with Coldredlight quickly of Hell; Rough Music; Be Good; play a short set of cover versions at building a local following for their dark, emotive style of blues and grunge; Flights of Helios, and Small Hours. their event Versions on Friday 29th their song `Little Scorpion’ was voted Nightshift’s Number 2 song of last year Tickets, priced £18 are available from December at The Bullingdon. Acts of – beating Radiohead’s `Burn the Witch’ – and the band were picked by Rob da Wegottickets.com. More info on the If any genre who are interested should Bank to play the main stage at Common People in May. Not Now, When? Facebook page. contact Sam at sammietomlin@ yahoo.co.uk. DESERT STORM will celebrate their tenth anniversary with a headline THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT 5 all- show at The Cellar on Saturday 25th dayer raised £3,650 for Children’s November. The local rock titans, who Ambulatory Care, the John Radcliffe have spent much of the past two years Children’s Hospital and All As One. touring the UK and Europe in support The event, on the 1st July at Said of their third album `Omniscient’, Business School rooftop amphitheatre are joined for the show by Sons of featured Soul Devotion, Chasing Thunder and Bad Blood Recovery. Daylight, The Shapes and more and Tickets, priced £7, are on sale from brings the total amount raised for local Wegottickets.com. children’s charities over the last five years to £13,000. CURIOSITY CARNIVAL is a city- wide celebration of academic research TERRORSAURS headline with a strong musical theme that takes this year’s Musicians Against place on Friday 29th September across Homelessness show in aid of Oxford’s museums, libraries and Crisis. The Birmingham rockers gardens, as well as locations in the join Reading punk act Who Killed city centre. The event aims to explore Nancy Johnson and Gloucester how researchers ask questions and rockers Rebel Station at The discover answers, with an eclectic Cellar on Saturday 29th September array of music, including school as part of a nationwide series of projects based on sleep research, gigs co-ordinated by MAH patron ancient Greek music, 18th Century Alan McGee. Tickets, priced £5 songs and grime exploring various in advance, are on sale now from themes. More info at Wegottickets.com. www.curiositycarnival.org AS EVER, don’t forget to tune into RABBIT HOLE FESTIVAL returns BBC Oxford Introducing every next month. Now in its fourth year, Saturday night between 8-9pm on the festival boasts 14 acts across two 95.2fm. The dedicated local music stages on Saturday 9th September at show plays the best Oxford releases The Victoria Arms in Old Marston. and demos as well as featuring Organised by local music lover Ed interviews and sessions with local Reckitt, Rabbit Hole features sets acts. The show is available to stream from Zaia; Paves; Faith I Branko; or download as a podcast at Lucy Mair; Zhang & Jane; A Little bbc.co.uk/oxford. A Quiet Word With Witney Music Festival back in 2013, Those five years, though, are intrinsic relate to that.” Inspired by the heartbreaking chapter says Andy. We were introduced by to the story of the new album: a Does Andy think Death Of Hi-Fi in Alan Moore’s masterpiece V For some mutual friends. Neither Dan nor turbulent time for Andy. are an optimistic or pessimistic band? Vendetta where an imprisoned Evie I had ever really wanted to be stood “It’s been an interesting few years `Lazarus’ (“I’m reborn / I will rise reads the letter Valerie wrote while at the front; we hid behind masks and since `Anthropocene’. It was such up”) at the end of `Follow’ seems to similarly incarcerated and tortured, laptops like the lab assistants we are. a high to release that album and offer hope after some of the more it’s a glorious celebration of love and Lucy seemed to get what we were people got what we were trying downbeat narrative of the album. integrity in the face of hatred and DEATH OF HI-FI trying to do and became the front to do with it. It was fun and nerve “I think that despite everything intolerance. Death Of Hi-Fi have person for our next project.” wracking in equal measure putting that’s happened, I still believe in turned it into one of the most moving Her arrival led to a move away from it together and shaping it as I heard redemption. I still believe in the songs we’ve heard in recent times, its the more straight-up rap of the first it in my head. It was received really human spirit and the will to survive. message as potent now as it was when album as well as opening the door well and I’d wanted to follow it up The story of the album mirrors Moore wrote the original story in the for more regular gigging for Death quickly. I must have made at least the various stages of my life and 1980s. Of Hi-Fi, always a logistical issue ten different albums in the last five `Lazarus’ informs my rise out of “`Roses’ started out as something we previously. years and threw most of them away, the ashes and a sort of rebirth. It’s weren’t too sure about. We finished it “It wasn’t conscious but born out becoming frustrated at being unable ultimately a story of hope, so I and left it in the metaphorical drawer of the need to be able to perform to articulate what I wanted to say suppose that makes me an optimist. for a while. It kept popping back into the album live in as much of its next. my brain before I realised how much I entirety as possible. The first album “For ten years I lived through LOOKING BACK NOW at loved it. We were so happy to be able became almost impossible to play a misunderstood struggle until I `Anthropocene’ and its core theme of to include it on the `We Do Not Have as it featured so many different was finally diagnosed with Post- the idea of aliens creating a musical a Dinosaur’ charity compilation and collaborators from different Traumatic Stress Disorder. It can interpretation of Earth, that sci-fi for people to single it out for praise countries; we could never get them often be an awkward topic but one and industrial vibe carries over onto was mind blowing considering the all in the same place.