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.
Interesting stuff is afoot at the O3 Gallery in Oxford on Tuesday 30 April: the Kymmata one-day ‘sound exhibition’ they are hosting promises sound pieces by five diverse contemporary practitioners, both established and up-and-coming. Get along if you can, it’ll be something out of the ordinary.
Even more out of the ordinary events are taking place as part of the Digital Is Dead three-day ‘festival of post-digital music practice’. They’ve secured some superb talent as part of their plans, including Tim Hecker and Mountains at Modern Art Oxford on Thursday 2 May and Oval with Ex-Easter Island Head and Simon Scott, at the same venue, on Saturday 4 May.
The charity fundraiser festival Wittstock has its 2013 outing over the weekend of Friday 3 May, Saturday 4 May and Sunday 5 May at The Railway Inn in Culham. The free event – which raises money through donations, raffles, t-shirt and CD sales and the like – has a huge number of local acts involved, including Agness Pike, Peerless Pirates, Von Braun, X-1, Welcome To Peepworld, Undersmile and The Goggenheim. That’s naming only seven – there really are a lot of other bands and musicians taking part!
If you need any more evidence of the good stuff that’s going on in Oxford’s music scene, why not check out Empty White Circles, Johnny Payne (of Deer Chicago) and Noé And The Pastel Frontier at Port Mahon, Oxford, on Friday 3 May – with an excellently-named ‘Night Of Loud Bands Playing Quietly’.
Want even more? Go on then – ex-Supergrass legend Gaz Coombes will play O2 Academy 2, Oxford on Saturday 4 May, with his handed-picked local supports Candy Says (ex-Little Fish) and Vienna Ditto. You’ll be so bowled over by the gig that you’ll even want to take advantage of free entry to the Propaganda club afterwards…
Full details of these and loads more gigs can be found in the events calendar.