New Smilex Video

Local punk tearaways Smilex have teamed up with youthful film-maker Edward Shackleton, resulting in an animated video for their song ‘Xplode’ from their recent album ‘7’. The video can be watched on YouTube here.

Smilex: 7

Smilex, purveyors of the lyric satiric,  have rarely been known to cause a pleasant sound. Indeed, their music could be ascribed the abrasiveness of a thorough sandpaper genital massage. But, for all that, it is bloody brilliant. Produced by ex-Skunk Anansie guitarist, Ace, the music is sinister, overbearing, raw and edgy to the point of […]

Smash Disco Your Song imageSmash Disco: Your Song @ The Library, Oxford

Smash Disco end of the year show, with loads of bands playing three covers each. Merriment will be had. There will be booze a flowing and maybe some other stuff as yet to be decided. Line-up includes: Agness Pike Ags Connolly Billy T’rivers And The Wild West Retirement Home Cameron A G Girl Power Hatemail […]

BBC Introducing in OxfordBBC Introducing in Oxford 03/05/2014 show details

Bank Holiday weekend, innit? Everything goes out of the window when it’s a three-day weekend, the sun is shining and the pull of ‘doing nothing’ is intense. So, forgive the impropriety of the details of this week’s BBC Introducing in Oxford radio show making it to the website a little later than normal; a more […]

Meeting Point 2013 video stillInteractive music with ‘Digital Prisoners’ on 6–8 March 2014

Digital Prisoners, a two-person collaboration between dance artist/film maker Naomi Morris and artist/technologist Neil C Smith, are presenting an interesting interactive audiovisual project in Oxford city centre on 6–8 March. Meeting Point will take place in Bonn Square, and is, in the words of Digital Prisoners, “an interactive projection that allows two strangers to dance […]