Fresh from their trip to the home of all things heavy, Roadburn Festival, Oxford’s Undersmile are playing their first home-town show in absolutely ages. Recent Nightshift cover stars for the second time, Undersmile play crushing doom, mixed with hypnotic drones, discord and melody. They’re here promoting their second album Anhedonia (Black Bow Records/BTTFCK SRPRS RCRDS) […]
It’s a good start to a week when a new album from D. Gwalia can be announced, and so… this week can be declared a week with a good start. The Iodine Trade was released on 20 November, following 2010’s In Puget Sound (read our review of that here). Twelve tracks of extraordinarily good, spectral […]
It’s been a while since D. Gwalia was around – rather too long, as his album In Puget Sound was one of the most unique and bewitching Oxford releases in recent years. ‘Annihilation Pair’ is a track, released a few days ago, from a forthcoming new album, The Iodine Trade. In what sounds like a […]
As D. Gwalia’s Christian name isn’t in the public domain, I’m not going to blow his cover, but please rest assured that there will be no cheap comparisons either to a bibulous Welsh poet or a rather influential singer songwriter from Hibbing, Minnesota. In any case, comparisons are redundant, as Gwalia is a thoroughly distinctive […]
This weekend’s BBC Introducing in Oxford show does the decent thing and heavily features Independent Venue Week. Now, as we all know, every week should be an independent venue week, but one gets the point. Next week, it’s back to Excellent Local Music Radio Show Week – as usual! Here’s some information on the show. […]
Hola! This weekend’s BBC Introducing in Oxford show includes an interview with the new Richard Walters-fronted act Liu Bei, as well as The Cellar’s Tim Hopkins providing chat about the venue and its involvement with Independent Venue Week. Here’s some information on the show. It went out live at 8.00 pm on 24 January, and […]
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Undersmile / Earthmass / D. Gwalia @ The Wheatsheaf, Oxford
D. Gwalia: The Iodine Trade
D. Gwalia: Annihilation Pair
BBC Introducing in Oxford 31/01/2015 show details – Independent Venue Week in Oxford and more