Oxford Punt listening notes

11 May 2016, 12:23 p.m.

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)

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)

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)

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)