Take your pick between two interesting-sounding gigs – and they’re not the only gigs that day – on Friday 30 August… first, a electronica-esque mixed bag at the latest gig from promotion Tertium Quid – with Blue On Blue (‘electronic/shoegaze’), After The Thought (‘ambient/electronica’), Kid Kin (‘piano/synthesizers’) and Lee Riley (aka LR/GW – ‘a pure art approach to soundscape’) at Port Mahon in Oxford. Also on the same night at Ashmolean in Oxford, country-tinged indie-pop type Piney Gir plays the latest LiveFriday event, topping off an evening of fashion-related shenanigans that promises to include photo shoots, runway shows and more…
Top-notch metal promoter Skeletor has a line-up entitled ‘The New Breed #2′ at O2 Academy 2, Oxford, on Saturday 31 August. It’s a showcase of some of the best new talent in the local metal/heavy scene, with Retribution, Ignite The Sky, Crows’ Reign, Mordecai, Minimata Convulsion and Evavoid. If you’re fired up by all of that you can even stay on for free to enjoy the Propaganda club until 2.00 am!
The morbidly-named Exquisite Corpse perform on Tuesday 3 September at Old Fire Station in Oxford. It promises to be an interesting and challenging couple of hours – with ‘minimal drones and fragments, barely audible to deafeningly loud’ from the experimental two-piece whose instruments include ‘prepared electric guitars, acoustic objects and other objects’.
Lots of local band options on Saturday 7 September. There’s a folky-songwritery collection of brilliance at Modern Art Oxford with Huck, Stuart Clark & Sarah Lucas, Tamara and Reichenbach Falls; a noisy blast of rock’n’sludge mayhem at The Wheatsheaf, Oxford with Peter Pan Speedrock, Blasted, Desert Storm and Bear Trap; refined alternative/indie melodics at The North Wall, Oxford with Wild Swim and Kill Murray; and a super-solid line-up of some of Oxford’s weird and twisted guitar manglers at Port Mahon, Oxford with The Cellar Family, X-1 and Agness Pike. Choices, choices, choices… what’s it gonna be, huh?
Full details of these and loads more gigs can be found in the events calendar.