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Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for March Hold tight for some hot new pop and metal sounds, shoehorned into this punk and hardcore column on a subcultural technicality, and because this is my little genre-slippage fiefdom. But first, some tex...

Gorgeous review on @thequietus.com for the new Top Shortage EP

'a very likeable introduction to a distinctive band'

Thank you! Out Friday! Delve in everyone! topshortage.bandcamp.com/album/contre...

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now on sale

ERIC CHENAUX plays oxford

weds 29th april at common ground

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new london show!

TOP SHORTAGE
OLIVE WREATH
PITYSPEED

co-promo with T4TUNES

Tues 14th April at New River Studios

top shortage ep out this friday!! topshortage.bandcamp.com/album/contre...

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Feelings Explorer I & II, by Lucy Leave 26 track album

out today (bandcamp friday)

LUCY LEAVE

FEELINGS EXPLORER I & II

Someone described it as the 'Trout Mask Replica of our times' if that piques your interest please delve in and spread the word!

very proud of this record!

@lucyleave.bsky.social

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Feelings Explorer I & II Listening Party Join Lucy Leave for an exclusive listen through of their new double album Feelings Explorer I & II. Put the kettle on while you consider 26 tracks of genre-mixing home-made rock music, and ask us some difficult questions to counter the difficult questions we just asked *you*. To whet your appetite, here are some kind words from OMS magazine's Hugh Garetty. "The only disappointment in reviewing this sprawling delight of an album is the digital format. In an alternative timeline it would be a double vinyl LP complete with gatefold sleeve suitable for preparation of the unusual smoking materials appropriate to such a task. Anyway, what we have here is a 26 track (really!) riot of guitar-based impressionism, loose jazz and endearing self referentiality. Medium and message converge; a definite theme of ‘Feelings Explorer’ is the process of making the album itself. ‘Making Art (Keeps Me Alive)’ even includes a reviewer-friendly list of musical influences, some apparent (Shellac, Charlie Parker) others rather less so (Stephen Sondheim). “I don’t understand why we can’t simply take a year off from everything to practice our guitars...” laments the song of that quote; a question that has troubled musicians since time immemorial." "Despite evoking a range of musical comparison more catholic than the Pope, Lucy Leave remains unmistakably sui generis. This is music that is hard to describe, impossible to categorise but easy to love. Determinedly idiosyncratic, addictively listenable, there are few bands anywhere (and none at all locally) making music more interesting or original than Lucy Leave. Truly a ‘Trout Mask Replica’ for our times."

Just started a listening party for @lucyleave.bsky.social Feelings Explorer I & II on bandcamp, come join us there's nearly 80 mins still to go

Album out on Friday in full! lucyleave.bandcamp.com/live/feeling...

new line up for London on sun 22nd march

co-promo with @acellarfulofnoise.co.uk

WUT
SASSYHIYA
GAY SKELETON CLUB

at Next Door Records 2

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new art / line-up for Weds 1st April

THE LEAF LIBRARY
@theleaflibrary.bsky.social
FUZZY LIGHTS
BEDD

live at Common Ground!

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Oh yeah @realfarmerband.bsky.social are hitting the gigs big time with new album out in May!

We are hosting in London (3rd June) and Oxford (10th June) do not miss out!

on sale now realfarmer.os.fan

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Vancouver's WUT on their first UK tour in 2 weeks

Get to a show! Thanks to everyone who has booked them for a gig, legends!

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new art and line-up news

ORA COGAN
WONE TORIN WENDA

Fri 20th March at the Nest

Gonna be a beauty!

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new art and line-up news

MERMAID CHUNKY
joined by NO WORRIES IF NOT

Sat 7th March at The Nest, Oxford

This is going to be incredible, don't miss it if you can make it!

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line-up news/art!

fri 27th march at truck store, oxford

SWELT
PHOEBE TROUP
TAZ CORONA

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new line-up news for

swelt album launch at the Horse Hospital, London

joined by VICTOR VILLARREAL + PHOEBE TROUP!

sat 21st march

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exciting new show on sale today

MY NEW BAND BELIEVE - cameron picton of black midi's new project!

Weds 6th May at Common Ground!

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New Cities and Memory live show announced! We're looking forward to playing with the excellent @warringtonruncorn.com in Oxford for @divineschism.bsky.social on 19 March, with an all-new live set including pieces we've never tried out live before 👀 🎧

last few tickets warning for

WARRINGTON-RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN
U
CITIES + MEMORY

thurs 19th march at the bullingdon

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We’re playing the release show for this very cool EP on 13 March in Oxford!

Contre Nature, by Top Shortage 5 track album

debut single out today from TOP SHORTAGE

queer post-punk from East Oxford - spread the word!

CONTRE NATURE EP out Fri 13th March

touring in April - get in touch if you want to host!

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new art / line-up

SHOVEL DANCE COLLECTIVE
THE WORM

Sat 21st March at the Nest

join us and be beguiled!

shoveldancecollective.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
wormery.bandcamp.com/album/pantilde

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new show on sale

HARESS
CARAUSIAS ARISE!

Thurs 9th April
Common Ground

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Tapes! We had a lovely time decorating these together and each design is unique.

Side A is our new EP, Side B is our four previous tracks.

Available now: springmajor.bandcamp.com/merch/hand-d...

yesssss i think sun 22nd march - il email u!

Our HEAVENLY show on 14th March is now sold out!

Just in time for us to paint a poster + shout out that Vancouver's WUT will be opening - their first ever UK show!

@heavenlyamelia.bsky.social @skepwax.bsky.social

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March Matinee!

ME REX joined by
HAPPY ACCIDENTS + PERCSTREET

Sun 15th March at Common Ground 3-6pm

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new show for u oxford

ABLE NOISE
GORALI
LOUIE NEWLANDS

weds 11th march
at the library

astonishing stuff not to be missed

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hello! our debut EP will drop this Friday and we’d love for you to listen to it. the four songs will be streamable on Bandcamp, Tidal and Qobuz. we cant wait to celebrate with TWO SHOWS this weekend in London and Oxford for @divineschism.bsky.social

new art / line-up

THE RHEINGANS SISTERS
SHARRON KRAUS

weds 4th march
common ground oxford

selling well, don't miss out if folk is your bag!
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hell yeah!

we are releasing TOP SHORTAGE'S debut EP in march and we have this stellar launch show on sale feat.

PERENNIAL (US)
DOGVIOLET (LDN)
AFTERCARE (OX4)

Fri 13th March at the Nest

debut single SUSAN STRYKER out on Valentine's Day

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new art and line-up

LEATHER.HEAD
PERFECT BINDING
SHALLOWDAZE

Fri 27th Feb
The Library, Oxford

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