Oxford Punt listening notes
Select quotes from this month's Nightshift so I can work out who I'm seeing at the Oxford Punt tonight
Purple Turtle
- 7pm Moogieman & the Masochists (are cleverer than you or us and have songs about the murder of Rosa Luxembourg, astronauts leaving their phones on the moon, and Wolf-Rayet stars)
- 8pm The Aureate Act (smart enough to realise there’s nothing wrong with teenage musicians declaring a love for Genesis, Pink Floyd and King Crimson)
- 9pm Being Eugene (purveyors of metalcore of a particularly virulent strain)
- 10pm Drore (a malevolent, doomy crustcore supergroup)
Cellar
- 7.30 Great Western Tears (roadhouse country-blues)
- 8.15 Slate Hearts (grunge riffage)
- 9.15 Kanadia (Radiohead/stadium pop)
- 10.15 STEM (electro duo, Portishead and Sneaker Pimps)
Wheatsheaf
- 8pm The Beckoning Fair Ones (tightly reined-in rage)
- 9pm Cherokee (mighty heavy rock songs)
- 9.45 Crystallite (big ol’ 80s stadium rock and blues given a goodtime grunge kick up the backside)
- 10.30 Too Many Poets (in-your face gothic rock)
Turl Street Kitchen
- 8pm Charlie Leavy (hints of soul, jazz and even funk, Alicia Keys)
- 9pm Coldredlight (frankly astonishing emo-blues)
- 10pm Little Red (twist folk music into sublime new shapes, Imagine Nick Cave leading First Aid Kit into the forest to have tea with the Big Bad Wolf)
- 11pm Crandle (lo-fi cabaret duo armed only with the cheapest Casio keyboard in the shop)
White Rabbit
- 8.30 Kancho! (lo-fi, high-octane two-man hardcore assault, At The Drive-In, Shellac)
- 9.30 These Are Our Demands (taught, Sonic Youth-flavoured rockabilly ruckus)
- 10.30 Lucy Leave (energetic and lo-fi noise approach, underpinning tigerish Pixies pop with bulldozing Hawkwind basslines)
- 11.30 Brown Glove (Victorian gothic and dark sexual themes)