WEDNESDAY 25th JULY
BIG HAIR@THE CELLAR, OXFORD

SHIMMY RIVERS AND CANAL
www.myspace.com/shimmyriversandcanal
“They're a band who don't exactly believe in following things like rules and order. As such, their music is complex and fluid identity, embracing anything from the fractious sounds that pricked up people's rollnecks in early eighties New York, to a glowering sense of paranoia and disquiet delivered by abused brass and disdainful vocals.” - Playlouder
“Most likely to be mistaken for some kind of typo, Shimmy Rivers and and Canal have a bi-weekly show on Resonance FM and a great retro website. Can one band really sound like Nick Cave singing in the B52s?” - DiS
“Shimmy Rivers And And Canal's strange brassy spikiness and yelping is aided and abetted by stand-up percussion that makes as much use of a shovel and steel pots as anything else. They're apparently short a member tonight, which maybe explains why their jizz ensemble-on-the-sherry exuberance is slightly muted compared to other gigs I've witnessed, but it's terrific, eccentric stuff nonetheless.” - Playlouder
“Brilliantly messy, caustic stuff.” - Fat Cat
“They made a very decent Fall-esque sp*zz-racket, bordering on greatness.” - The Wirewool
“Madcap trumpets and shouts come courtesy of the inimitable SRAAC” - Whitechapel

FOXES!
www.myspace,com/foxesfoxesfoxes
The entire band has a wonky, school woodwork project feel, all odd angles and unplaned surfaces. But beneath all this lie some beautifully constructed melodies and a quiet sense of rock dynamics. - David Murphy, Oxfordbands.com, June 2007.

They cover such unexpected lyrical matter as the Jacobite rebellion, Spanish galleons and graveyards, all set to a twinkling jangle-pop soundtrack. - Ronan Munro, Nightshift Demo Of The Month, April 2007.

The drummer has a fantastic voice which is criminally wasted in the band. - Tom Chandler, Oxfordbands.com, October 2006

CUCKCOO’S NEST
www.myspace.com/cuckoosnestband
Metropolitan duo Cuckoo's Nest are merely a few gigs old, yet this three-tracker is something of a garageous gem, marking its filthy terrain somewhere between the lysergic nihilism of 'Spine of God' era Monster Magnet, the fuzzed out murk of Mudhoney and the debauched atmospheres of Electric Wizard, complimented by vocalist/axe-wielder Chrissie's bloodcurdling howl. And not only that, but the tunage here is both head-noddingly powerful and memorably macabre. Psyched-out wrongness to be reckoned with." TERRORIZER, demo review by JM. June 2007
"Cuckoo's Nest were formed by former Headless singer Chrissie and gentleman drummer Ryan a little while back. They managed to get away with the most pornographic mySpace backdrop we've yet seen for a while, but now are content to let the music do the filthing. Dense, tensile guitar is the order of the day, caught in a cruel net of Ryan's drums as Chrissie (or Captain Crud, as she now seems to be known) does the screaming." PLAYLOUDER
"Cuckoo's Nest are missing a bass player: they're simply a guitar 'n' drums duo.....they bash out a big, full sound which seems to owe much to 70s rock grind and 90s grunge: all slabs of guitar and assertive female vocals. Subtle it ain't, but here's what it is: no-shit noise that always remains as fuzzy and scuzzy as the pub paintwork." NEMESIS, live review march 2007 by Uncle Nemesis
Doors open at 8pm
Bands start at 8:30pm
Entry £4
DJ’s playing indie, rock, 80’s and stuff