Lots of Banburyish excitement!

YCF Music presents...
Firstly, well done to the guys from Yesterday Caught Fire for their successful gig at The Mill on Saturday. The night sold out in 45 minutes and people were being turned away for the rest of the night, so hopefully they will be following up shortly with another.


Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2007 - 40th anniversary!
The legendary FAIRPORT'S CROPREDY CONVENTION will be celebrating it's 40th anniversary with a huge event this year.

The festival will take place on Thursday 9, Friday 10, and Saturday 11 August 2007

The Headline acts are already confirmed:

Thursday: JOOLS HOLLAND AND HIS RHYTHM & BLUES ORCHESTRA
Friday: RICHARD THOMPSON & band
Saturday: FAIRPORT CONVENTION (Original 1967 lineup from the era of 'Leige and Leif', recently voted 'Most Influential Folk Album Ever' in a poll by BBC Radio 2 listeners)

Other confirmed artists include:
Kerfuffle
The Strawbs
Seth Lakeman (Mercury Music Prize nominee)
Last Orders
Show of Hands
Bob Fox and Billy Mitchell

Tickets are expected to go on sale earlier than usual, in February, as the box office has already been inundated with enquiries. There will be substantial discounts for those who buy their tickets earlier.

Keep checking www.fairportconvention.com for more details!


The Ride - Magazine Launch party
THE RIDE is a new, free, Banbury based arts magazine with it's first release set for February.

To celebrate, the team have decided to hold a very special launch party, and are looking for local bands to perform.

If you are interested, get in touch at www.myspace.com/ridemagazine or email editor.theride@googlemail.com


Bmusic'er wanted!!
We are looking for at least one more person to join the Bmusic team.

The job will involve helping out with:
-Reviews
-Promotion of Bmusic & gigs
-Compiling local gig calenders
-Forum maintenance/mischief

The job will NOT involve:
-Getting Paid
-Making cups of tea
-Getting into gigs free, unless we can sort it out with local promoters

It's all very casual... You don't have to live for the site, we just want someone to help out expanding the site's popularity and content.


If YOU fancy it, send an email to banburymusic@gmail.com an if we like you it's all systems go

Musicians wanted!!!

A number af Banbury bands are currently looking for musicians/vocalists. If you have been looking to get in a band or reckon you've got a bit of talent then now is your chance!

Zube Sultana [link] is looking for a full set of musicians to bring his new project to fruition - Psychedelic 60's style music reminiscent of the beach boys.

New Christian rock band Paperheartsandceasefires [link] are looking for a rhythm guitarist and bassist to complete their line-up influenced by Underoath and From Autumn to Ashes.

A yet un-named band [link] are looking for a vocalist. The band is inspired by alternative rock music and have samples of their tracks on the myspace.


If you are also looking for musicians, please get in touch on the usual email!


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Terminator vs Vader

So finally (and not a minute too soon in my opinion) The Walk Off are set to make their vinyl debut in the form of a forthcoming 7" going out on Hungry Audio (The Telescopes, Stuffy & The Fuses etc) on Febuary 26th . The single, long-time fan favourite "Vader Fader" is probably the third or fourth version of this song that we've heard here at Bmusic and we're please to say every time it’s been that much more polished - like the opus of an ancient Greek poet - albeit a completely pissed, disillusioned and arrogant ancient Greek poet.

The Only way to really do the track justice is to draw on what seems to have become local tradition and describe The Walk Off in terms of horrific aural related situations...

The sleazy synth-bass lines crawl under harsh vocals barked out in orders from the mouth of a crazed war veteran whos just discovered lipstick and young boys. slick beats creep in to take control of an elevating pulse rate leaving you unprepared for an overwhelming chorus of noise, bloody screams and cheerleader chants to the sound of "Terminator, Terminator - you rock harder than Darth Vader" (Curtesy of Hannah Schla).

And if that didn't suffice then here is a short list we've compiled of other favourites:

• Squarepusher’s drum machine being chewed up by Steve Albini and the resulting faecal matter being played at the wrong speed.
  
• A mob of rave-hungry dancers stuck in a musical where they all know the words.
• The point where sickly sweet pop-isms meet their maker in the planet mu music factory like the abbatoir on the edge of common decency.

But in all honesty, this is music for people who want their music to push that bit further and that bit louder. For fans of reference, it should please admirers of Shellac’s raw application of anger-to-instrument and Aphex Twin’s warped way of making melody menacing enough to dance your nut off to where and when the mood takes you.

If you're still not convinced then as extra incentive the Walk Off have cut the original Dancing Bear into 500 pieces - one for each vinyl pressed. Get 'em while they're hot!

Fucking noisy and wonderful Oxonians The Walk Off have organised a super-special launch gig a couple of days before at the zodiac, on the 24th.

They've also picked some of their favourite local bands to support:

Mephisto Grande ~ Feat. ex SC4T members
Baby Gravy ~ This month's Nightshift cover-stars
The Palace Of Righteous Justice ~ Awesome Sex-Super-Hero Core Type

The single 'Vader Fader' features the B-Side "Kick" - it will also be available as a download from itunes, as well as from other websites.

"Vicious Techno pop from Oxford that references the likes of Ministry and Aphex twin. It gives me a migrane and makes my head spin all at once." ~ NME, 2006


www.myspace.com/walkoff
www.hungryaudio.co.uk

It's Sunday! Sunday update time!

Right! Banbury news time.

The Battle of the Bands 'Our Band Rules' organised by Touch FM took place at the Mill last night.
Four local bands of 12-16 year olds took part;

Flammable Material ~ Rock & punk covers including Pink Floyd, Green Day and R.E.M
The Everything ~ Snarly rock covers including RATM, the Hives and Blur
Simplicity [link] ~ Original indie-rock in the vein of Kooks, Oasis & Arctic Monkeys
Soverin [link] ~ Original rock influenced by Incubus, Audioslave, RHCP
(If anyone has web links for the other two please get in touch!)
All bands played a half-hour set in the Millers bar.

The winning band was Soverin, getting a recording session at Pangea Studios in Banbury, and a chance to play at a youth music festival being organised later this year.

In other news...
Organisation for Stevfest 2007 [link] is underway, and still looking for bands to take part! If you haven't already, submit your band's name and website to the bands section of the website.

Hopefully the festival will be held at Broughton Castle. I'm helping out on the Youth Music side of things, so if you have any questions or ideas for the festival let me know and I'll pass them on!

And...
One man music-machine Zube [link] is looking for musicians to complete his new project. Anyone interested in 60's Beach Boys style psychedelic-rock should get in touch via Myspace!

And that's all, folks! Remember to sign up to our mailing list over yonder>>> and tell your friends to check out the site!

Have a good'un!

Coming up in January...

Jan 11th @ 8pm
Copper Pot, Leamington Spa
The Sirens Call (acoustic set)

Jan 13th @ 8pm
The Turk’s Head, Reading
Leatherat

Jan 18th @ 8pm
The Soundhaus, Northampton
Enter Shikari, Chinese Finger Trap

Jan 19th @ 7pm
Tickets £5 - The Zodiac, Oxford
Greenacre, Gehenna, Remember the Flood, GoodMOURNING

Jan 20th @ 8pm
The Zodiac, Oxford
Architects, The Gorgeous, Skullthrash, Chinese Finger Trap

Jan 26th @ 7pn
Tickets £3 - Rugby Club, Bicester
Reign Upon Us, Vision Fall, Ridin' 4 Free, goodMOURNING

Jan 27th @ 7pm
Tickets £5 - Q Club, Bicester
Daytime T.V, goodMOURNING, Green Acre, First Signs of Frost, Out of Sight

Jan 27th @ 7:30pm
Tickets £3 - The County Club, Bicester
EXP + More TBA


*BMUSIC PICK*


Please get in touch if you have a gig for January or February you want listed!

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