Supergrass
Ash, DJ Food, A Place To Bury Strangers, Total Science, Wintersleep, Frank Turner, Maybeshewill, Felix, Redlight Company, Jeremy Warmsley, YACHT, Neil Halstead, Fanfarlo, This Town Needs Guns, Sky Larkin, Wild Beasts, The Joy Formidable, Errors, Grammatics, Euros Childs, and so i watch you from afar, The Ghost Of A Thousand, Two Door Cinema Club, Vieux Farka Touré, Broken Records, Hjaltalin, We Were Promised Jet Packs, Dear Reader, Chew Lips, Tubelord, Sad Day For Puppets, Hot Club of Cowtown, Sportsday Megaphone, Foamo, Sam Isaac, Aphasia, 6 Day Riot, Heloise & The Savoir Faire, Data.Select.Party, Colour, Pulled Apart By Horses, Pete Molinari, Foundation, The Xcerts, Lee Mortimer, Tired Irie, Calories, Mark Olson & Gary Louris, Mark Gardener, House Of Brothers, Detachments, The Koolaid Electric Company, Mike Heron, Disasteradio, Thomas Truax, Telegraphs, Detroit Social Club, White Belt Yellow Tag, stornoway, The Candy Skins, Talons, Panama Kings, Angie Palmer, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, UTE, Truckers Of Husk, Damo Suzuki, Danny & The Champions Of The World, KTB, Alphabet Backwards, The Epstein, The Relationships, Cat Martino, The Hot Rats, Gabriel Minnikin, Holton's Opulent Oog, b2b, Simon D., Atlantic/Pacific, Nervous Test Pilot, The Long Insiders, Dial F for Frankenstein, Simon D, Mr Strangelove, Jali Fily Cissokho, Andrew Ferris, Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou, James Norman, Digital Donky, and Ruth Minnikin and Her Bandwagon
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- Artists:
- Tired Irie »
- White Belt Yellow Tag »
- stornoway »
- The Candy Skins »
- Talons »
- Panama Kings »
- Angie Palmer »
- Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs »
- UTE »
- Truckers Of Husk »
- Detroit Social Club »
- Telegraphs »
- Calories »
- Mark Olson & Gary Louris »
- Mark Gardener »
- House Of Brothers »
- Detachments »
- The Koolaid Electric Company »
- Mike Heron »
- Disasteradio »
- Thomas Truax »
- Damo Suzuki »
- Danny & The Champions Of The World »
- KTB »
- The Long Insiders »
- Dial F for Frankenstein »
- Simon D »
- Mr Strangelove »
- Jali Fily Cissokho »
- Andrew Ferris »
- Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou »
- James Norman »
- Digital Donky »
- Nervous Test Pilot »
- Atlantic/Pacific »
- Alphabet Backwards »
- The Epstein »
- The Relationships »
- Cat Martino »
- The Hot Rats »
- Gabriel Minnikin »
- Holton's Opulent Oog »
- b2b »
- Simon D. »
- Ruth Minnikin and Her Bandwagon »
- Lee Mortimer »
- Supergrass »
- Neil Halstead »
- Fanfarlo »
- This Town Needs Guns »
- Sky Larkin »
- Wild Beasts »
- The Joy Formidable »
- Errors »
- Grammatics »
- Euros Childs »
- YACHT »
- Jeremy Warmsley »
- Ash »
- DJ Food »
- A Place To Bury Strangers »
- Total Science »
- Wintersleep »
- Frank Turner »
- Maybeshewill »
- Felix »
- Redlight Company »
- and so i watch you from afar »
- The Ghost Of A Thousand »
- Two Door Cinema Club »
- Sam Isaac »
- Aphasia »
- 6 Day Riot »
- Heloise & The Savoir Faire »
- Data.Select.Party »
- Colour »
- Pulled Apart By Horses »
- Pete Molinari »
- Foundation »
- Foamo »
- Sportsday Megaphone »
- Vieux Farka Touré »
- Broken Records »
- Hjaltalin »
- We Were Promised Jet Packs »
- Dear Reader »
- Chew Lips »
- Tubelord »
- Sad Day For Puppets »
- Hot Club of Cowtown »
- The Xcerts »
About the venue
About the artists
Ash
- Tim Wheeler - vocals, guitar
- Mark Hamilton - bass
- Rick McMurray - drums
Things began when Tim Wheeler and Mark Hamilton, who’d met at their school in Northern Ireland and bonded over a shared love of punk-pop and grunge, hooked up with drummer Rick McMurray and formed Ash. Their 1994 mini-album Trailer garnered press attention and spurred anticipation for their album proper; and nine months later ‘Girl From Mars’ hit the top twenty.
The addition of former Nightnurse guitarist Charlotte Hatherley added further depth to their sound, and album Nu-clear Sounds showcased a more mature band. However, the album failed to match their previous successes and the band went silent for two years while they struggled with near-bankruptcy.
However, all was not lost: comeback single ‘Shining Light’ was Ivor Novello nominated, and their 2001 album Free All Angels entered #1 in the charts on the back of the single, gathering rave reviews in the process. Several singles later (including ‘Burn Baby Burn' which topped the end of year people's poles in both Q and NME magazines), the band ended a year of touring on a high with a two-night sell out run at the Brixton Academy and a live DVD, entitled Tokyo Blitz. Singles and b-sides collection Intergalatic Sonic 7"s followed in 2002, with new track 'Envy', and fourth album Meltdown arrived soon after.
And if your first comeback was such a success, why not do it again? Ash, now slimmed down to their original trio status following the departure of guitarist Charlotte Hatherley, return with news of a brand new single on April 16th 2007. Entitled 'You Can't Have It All' it's their first recorded output since 2004 and follows their sold-out Higher Education tour: their first live shows since Glastonbury 2005.
While on tour, the band showcased new material that will appear on their as-yet-untitled forthcoming album. As of late 2005, Tim and Mark relocated to New York and immediately began searching out a suitable recording space. Once found, the band embarked on fitting out the space and decided that, rather than using a producer, Tim would wield the stick with the assistance of an engineer and basically self produce the album. The band are hopeful that the results of their new, slimmed-down line-up will be the “most complete” album they’ve made in their fourteen year career.
»DJ Food
1990 - Coldcut - Ninja Tune > Jazz Breaks 1-5 > + PC + Paul Brook + Strictly Kev. 1995 - Recipe For Disaster - Stealth > Food = PC & Kev 1996 - Refried Food remixes of previous 6 LPs - Coldcut hand over. 2000 - Kaleidoscope. 2001 - Quadraplex + Now, Listen (mix CD w DK of Solid Steel) PC joins Cinematic Orchestra. 2002 > Food = Kev solo plus guests, frequent collabs w. DK, 2004 - Raiding the 20th Century (1) + Head live performances. 2005 - Raiding the 20th Century (2) 2007 - Now Listen Again (mix CD w DK of Solid Steel) Much, much more in between... »
Frank Turner
Former Million Dead man gone solo as an acoustic folk troubadour. Sometimes he tours with a backing band consisting of members of Dive Dive.
Debut album Sleep Is For The Week was released by Xtra Mile in January 2007.
»Maybeshewill
Maybeshewill are:
Robin Southby - Guitar, Keyboards
John - Guitar, Electronics
Tanya Byrne - Bass, Glockenspiel
A post rock band from Leicester, Maybeshewill sound like Mogwai would if the latter had ever found love in an arthouse cinema. And then were beaten around the head with a keyboard.
Felix
Start with the sound in the brain of one Lucinda Chua; piano, cello and vocals sung in hushed tones, add percussion, singing wine glasses, occasional accordion, bowed glockenspiel, and much more from Mr. Simmo Simson (Souvaris) and sensitively spine tingling guitar from Mr. Christopher Summerlin (Last of the Real Hard Men, LORDS) and you have felix which would ideally be consumed in liquid form piped into the ear in the half awake half asleep state. »
Jeremy Warmsley
Jeremy Warmsley lives in London and started making electronic music with songs in them in January 2005. He is currently putting out records with the help of the lovely people at Transgressive Records. He lives in London and is half-French.
A songwriter since the age of seventeen, he had an epiphany in Jan 05, realised all the music he'd ever made up till then bored him, and started again from scratch. Since then his music has encompassed a curious mixture of the new and the old, the traditional and the atypical, all things archaic or experimental. He insists on self-producing all his songs, only bringing in other musicians to sing backing vocals.
Jeremy's live appearances are wildly unpredictable; in the past six months he has played as many times with his seven-piece backing band the LMNOPs (including laptop-ist and trombone section) as he has on his own. Recent gigs (including a tour with Regina Spektor) have seen him ably assisted by pianist TOM ROGERSON, Jeremy singing and switching between guitar, piano and percussion.
Having put out a single in June 05 and an EP in November 05, he is preparing to release his next EP, Other People's Secrets. With contributions from ADAM BEACH (also of Optimist Club) on bass, TOM ROGERSON on piano, MATT INGRAM on drums (all members of the LMNOPs), as well as a string quartet and brass section, it will be his first record to feature musicians other than himself. It is out on Transgressive on April 10th.
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Neil Halstead
Lead singer of Mojave 3.First solo album is titled 'sleeping on roads'»
Fanfarlo
- Simon Aurell - vocals, guitar
- Mark West - guitar
- Leon - trumpet, piano
- Justin - bass
- Cathy - violin, keys
- Amos - drums
"They sit alongside Semifinalists as one of a crop of new British(ish) bands mapping and defining those dark pastoral territories most recently explored by the likes of Mercury Rev and Grandaddy." - Playlouder
Photograph by Ellie Atkins
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This Town Needs Guns
Stuart Smith – vocals / guitar
Tim Collis – guitar
Matt Bennington – drums, string arrangements
Dan Adams – bass
Jody Prewett – piano
George Pringle – guest vocals on ‘Hippy Jam Fest’
When a band's hometown is Oxford you would probably expect to see a name like Inspector Morse and The Cycling Students rather than This Town Needs Guns, but this bright-eyed, bushy-tailed foursome obviously have a different outlook to the rest of us. Or perhaps they know something we don't? Or maybe it's just a name and it doesn't matter anyway? What does matter is that This Town Needs Guns are one of the best bands this fine city currently has to offer.
Joining the end of the 'great Oxford bands breaking out' queue - headed by Radiohead, accompanied by Supergrass, quickly followed by Youthmovies, Fell City Girl and many others - This Town Needs Guns are well deserving of their local luminaries' shoulder rubbing position. Sweetly blending influences such as Biffy Clyro, American Football, Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral and Texas Is The Reason, there's something refreshing about their charmingly piano-tinged sound.
Featuring guest vocals from Oxford neighbour and good friend George Pringle, 'Hippy Jam Fest (The Likes Of Which Has Never Been Seen)' is released by Big Scary Monsters Records on September 25th on 7" vinyl (with free CD so not to exclude the analogue haters) in a lovely hand-made package. It/they will be found in shops nationwide via Shellshock Distribution and online at www.bsmrocks.com and all of the usual outlets.
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Sky Larkin
Sky Larkin are Katie (tip-toe guitar/vox/Korg), Nestor aka Nestaaargh! (drums 'n' grunts) and Douglas Adams (bass/Korg/sci-fi classics).
If that made sense, perhaps you'll want to befriend them at their MySpace page, here.
ALSO: Website
Photo by Danny North
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Wild Beasts
Hayden - guitar/vocals
Benny - guitar
Tom - bass/vocals
Bert - percussion/vocals
Wild Beasts being of the modern, being of the renaissance, being baggy pantsed, being tight pantsed, being in a scene and being in a place.
So we bent our backs and leaned hard into our chores, like an old slugger working the ring, the furious fist of fate swung his swing and we took the lot - full on the sweet spot.
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Grammatics
“Vive le difference” sings Grammatics’ Owen Brinley on ‘Polar Swelling’, and if you’re looking for an approximation of what this band are all about then there are infinitely worse starting points.
If, on the other hand, you’re searching for the next Libertines or Arctic Monkeys then do yourself a favour and stop reading now. Grammatics can be defined just as easily by what they’re not as what they are: there’s no place here for recycled musical ideas or contrived social realism.
Formed in early 2006 in Leeds by Owen and drummer Dominic Ord, Grammatics’ mission was and is to combine their disparate influences to make cultured, artistic pop music by their own elaborate rules.
Grammatics are: Owen Brinley (guitar/vocals/keys/sampler), Dom Ord (drums), Rory O'Hara (bass), Emilia Ergin (cello/vocals)
»Euros Childs
Frontman of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, occasional solo artist and very welsh.»
and so i watch you from afar
An heavy post-rock band from Belfast !»
Broken Records
Jamie - vocals, guitar, mandolin
Ian - guitar, piano, glockenspiel, melodica
Rory - violin, accordion, mandolin
Arne - cello
Dave - piano, trumpet, harmonium
Gill - bass, guitar
Andy - drums
Much-championed by DiS, Broken Records are an emerging group from north of the border who have kicked up one heck of an industry buzz. And rightly so, too. For once. For fans of: Murder By Death, Dirty Three, Arcade Fire, Bruce Springsteen, Cursive, Guillemots.
Photo: Neil Thomas Douglas
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Sam Isaac
The Sam Isaac show frequently resembles an indie cottage industry. Friends make artwork, do recording, direct music videos and carry clipboards. Perfect strangers sell his CDs. Sam’s part of the bargain is donning an acoustic guitar, a Casio keyboard or occasionally just his own voice and making the music that is at the centre of all of this.
Counting Bright Eyes, The Spinto Band and Ed Harcourt amongst his influences, twenty-year-old Sam grew up in the sleepy town of Malvern in the West Midlands before moving to East London in 2005. Having self-released two mini albums, both of which recieved glowing reviews and national radio play, April saw Sam Isaac releasing a split 10" with Luke Leighfield on Mannequin Republic - the new label of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly's Sam Duckworth. He has recently done sessions on Janice Long's Radio 2 show, Huw Stephens' Radio 1 show and John Kennedy's Xfm show and has been played by Zane Lowe and Steve Lamacq on Radio 1. Sam has spent the summer touring UK festivals, including Wireless, Glastonbury, Truck and Latitude.
»Data.Select.Party
Data.Select.Party are:
Thomas - Drums
James - Guitar
Daniel - Guitar & Vocals
Hugo - Bass
The Xcerts
Having grown too big for their hometown of Aberdeen, impossibly young Scottish three-piece The X-Certs relocated to the other end of the UK last year and found themselves in sunny Brighton.
Since then they have unleashed their intense and surprisingly mature strand of intelligent, distorted pop on audiences across the length and breadth of the UK, gathering hoards of admirers and impressing all the right people in the process.
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Tired Irie
Tired Irie are Si, Ian, Bobb and Mark.
For fans of: Foals, Youthmovies, Duran Duran, Q And Not U.
Said NME:
"Gleaming stratospheric pop from the label that brought you Foals and Blood Red Shoes. Take heed."
House Of Brothers
House Of Brothers is former Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg member Andrew Jackson, solo and primarily acoustic. Expect sweet and folksy lullabies and string-embellished indie-pop, affecting and engrossing.
A debut EP proper is due through the Big Scary Monsters in the summer of 2007. Demos are currently doing the rounds, and tracks are available at the below MySpace.
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Thomas Truax
A one-man antifolk machine, Thomas Truax has even created, out of bits of junk, two of his own instruments:
The Cadillac Beatspinner Wheel (and its baby version, Sister Spinster)
The Hornicator
Must be a pain in the ass if either of them break on tour.
He has an album available called 'Full Moon Over Wowtown', which will be reissued in Jan '04 on London label Real Time, and he has played Truck Festival as well as various antifolk conquests.
Interesting fact: He was once an animator on 'Celebrity Death Match'»
Telegraphs
Brighton based Telegraphs combine delicacy with bite and soaring vocals with spine tingling choruses. The end result is a sound that is both impassioned and heartfelt. Their songs address the fear of isolation, the need for hope and the pain of regret.
Formed in the Autumn of 2005 by lead vocalist Darcy and guitarist Graham Ward, the band moved through several incarnations in its early stages until drummer Sam Bacon and bassist/vocalist Hattie Williams found their places within the band. The line up was completed by the arrival of guitarist Darren LeWarne. The five friends, having all drifted into Brighton from various places across the country, have found a common ground in their escape from small town upbringings.
Though Telegraphs are a band in their infancy, they have already played sold out shows with the likes of Washington DC's Idiot Pilot, and with the upcoming release of their debut, double A-side single ‘So Cold/Ariel’, their rapid development is certainly set to continue.
Darcy - vocals/guitar
Graham Ward - guitar
Sam Bacon - drums
Hattie Williams - bass/vocals
Darren LeWarne - guitar
photo: Edward K Thompson www.edwardthompson.co.uk»
Damo Suzuki
Singer with Can in the early '70s, Suzuki was a ajor part of the group which concocted the fascinating Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi and Future Days LPs. His vocal style was unique an inimicable, drifting freely between German, Japanese and English, whilst flowing and conducting the music, rising with its crescendos and flowing with its more delicate ambience. Suzuki continues to tour the world with the help of groups recruited through his online Network (www.damosuzuki.com), playing with different musicians in each city he visits.»
Danny & The Champions Of The World
Danny & The Champions of the World is Danny, Robin, Joe, Garo, Boom, Rowland, Katie, Lucy, G, Tom, Mitchell, Neal, Hamu and all the other champs.
»The Epstein
“The Epstein are akin to a force of nature. Their excellent musicianship and folky comraderie calls to mind a young Fairport Convention. Just The Wind and Leave Your Light On blow us away.” BBC Oxford March 2005
THE BAND
John "whitefinger" Berry - guitar, vocals
Roland "the duke" Prythuk - Bass,vocals
Ed "featherhands" Hawkesworth - Drums, vocals
Olly " Blackfinger" Wills - Vocals, guitar
A new force to consider in country rock music in the UK, The Epstein came together in Spring 2003, although individually, various members of the band have been playing since the late 90s and they all knew each other from school days in Oxford.
Returning to the roots of good melody and relevant lyrics, the band are keen to stay away from generic sounds and so inspiration is wide and varied, from 60s heyday bands Love and The Byrds, Gram Parsons and The Band to the present day Calexico, Bright Eyes, and even Queens of the Stoneage.
The band are constantly shaking things up with new sound revelations whether it be finding and dusting off an obscure old blue grass album for inspiration or inviting guest banjo, trumpet or mouth organ players or fiddle during their live shows to concoct their almighty Spaghetti soundclash.»
Nervous Test Pilot
Oddball gabba meets Euro-pop meets an Amiga game soundtrack, all done by one man and his bank of flashing machines.»
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