Gigs of note for 15 April 2013-28 April 2013

The weekend of Friday 19 April to Sunday 21 April is all about Folk Weekend Oxford. There are scores of gigs, performances and events at venues throughout Oxford, and the whole thing promises to shower Oxford with a folkin’ marvellous selection of local and (inter)national folk talent.

Truck Store in Oxford have a bit of a coup on Saturday 20 April – they have an in-store gig by indie legends The Wedding Present, who will be doing an acoustic set. Support for the gig comes in the form of Ralfe Band, Empty White Circles and Brickwork Lizards and, like all good in-stores at Truck, it’s totally free!

Some ‘tip-top indie-pop’, as people used to say, on Saturday 20 April – with Milky Wimpshake (featuring the guy that used to run the legendary Slampt Records in the 90s, releasing the very first Kenickie single, fact fans) and Les Clochards (featuring the guy that used to be in Talulah Gosh and Heavenly) at Port Mahon in Oxford – and Sunday 21 April, with oddballs Evans The Death doing a free show at Keble College, Oxford as part of the college’s arts festival.

A barnstorming late-nighter of a gig on Thursday 25 April at The Cellar in Oxford. Blessing Force house band Pet Moon will be supported by Kill Murray (who are launching their new EP Microscopic Feel at the gig), Motherhood and Salvation Bill, and there will be a DJ set from Jonquil. The gig runs until 3.00 am – should make for an interesting Friday morning…

There’s a super-solid Oxford band line-up at The Jericho on Friday 26 April, to mark the fourth birthday of promoters Daisy Rodgers Music Promotions: The Half Rabbits, Black Hats and ArtClassSink will bring the guitar noise in three different flavours.

The Irregular Folk nights at The Cellar in Oxford mix up idiosyncratic line-ups with artisan beer, cakes and home-made sausage rolls. On Saturday 27 April they present an ‘Ode To The Loop Pedal’, featuring psychedelic folkstrel Laura J Martin, the ‘hauntingly magical worlds’ of You Are Wolf and local singer-songwriter extraordinaire Phil McMinn.

Full details of these and loads more gigs can be found in the events calendar.

Beaver Fuel

So, Headcount’s album launch gig on the 22nd is not worthy of note then…?
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Perhaps Simon’s precog told him that it would turn out not to be an LP launch after all.

Don’t forget these picks are Simon’s own, not a definitive list. If I pointed out that he’d omitted GTI at the Wheatsheaf on Saturday (20.20, £4.50), featuring The Shapes, Greg Larkin and The Trophy Cabinet in an attempt to hijack this article to publicise my gig, well, that woudl be childish, wouldn’t it?

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