THE WINCHELL RIOTS
EPIC45
HREDA
EDUARD SOUNDING BLOCK

Friday 29 August
The Wheatsheaf, Oxford
7.30pm - 11pm
£5 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/33977

After five years of monthly shows, we are sad to announce that we're ending our regular OxfordBands.com monthly gig nights as of next month.

Starting in February 2003 with The Young Knives, Intentions of an Asteroid and Jarcrew, we're happy to have brought the likes of Deerhoof, Mark Eitzel, Part Chimp, Todd, Telescopes, Brave Captain and the otherworldly delights of Taurpis Tula, Hertta Lussu Assa, Noxagt, KK Null, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers and many more to Oxford, as well as all our favourite local bands.

The OxfordBands website goes on as normal, bringing you all the latest news and reviews from Oxfordshire music, but various other commitments (bands, jobs and other mundanities) have meant that we can't keep the gigs going on a regular basis, although there will be sporadic live shows in 2009.

We're signing off with a belter. THE WINCHELL RIOTS headline, almost a year to the day after we put on their first full band gig.

Out of the ashes of the much-missed Fell City Girl, Oxford-based 4 piece The Winchell Riots are currently writing and rehearsing in a disused psychiatric home.

Formed over a love of the novels of Philip Roth, mixing up Death Cab For Cutie with Bjork and Sigur Ros, and with support slots ranging from iLikeTrains to Michael Rother (Kraftwerk/Neu! founding member) the band release their debut EP 'Histories' on April 28th 2008 through Andrew The Great Records, distributed by Pinnacle (UK). A full UK tour in April will coincide.

www.myspace.com/thewinchellriots

Main support are the beautiful EPIC45, whose album 'May Your Heart Be The Map' has been the soundtrack to our summer:

"The best English Summer record ever" (WORD magazine)

"Beguiling and Beautiful" (NME)

"You'll feel like you've been hearing MYHBTM in your head all your life, and were waiting for someone to record it" (Stewart Lee - The Sunday Times)

"Gorgeous stuff - highly recommended" (Boomkat)

'Music that buzzes, drones and sweeps as if the aural mirroring of a ballet dancer giving the performance of their life, the effect is both beguiling and intoxicating. It's a wonder at times, this album... one of the most gorgeous albums you'll hear in a long time.' - Drowned In Sound

www.myspace.com/epic45

Also playing are the wonderful HREDA, without doubt one of the best bands to emerge from the Oxford scene in the past twelve months:

'For those who have been craving for some technically-outstanding, engaging instrumental guitar music since the
untimely demise of the Edmund Fitzgerald, look no further.' - Nightshift

'Their instrumental post-rock sound, grandiose like a heavier and more intricate Explosions In The Sky augmented by the band's very own cellist is absolutely captivating. Their distorted peaks, battling guitars and swift undulating changes of pace mean the 30-minute set flies by far too quickly. We have discovered something special in this one.' - DrownedinSound

www.myspace.com/hreda

And opening are the twelve-legged beast that is EDUARD SOUNDING BLOCK, formed from the ashes of Suitable Case For Treatment, one of the first bands we championed as OxfordBands.com live.

'Cramming in everything from Pelican and Fantomas to a couple of passages that sound for all the world like Youthmovies if they'd grown up listening to Carcass, they're truly monstrous. Special mention, too, to the keyboards, which lift and augment the guitar pyrotechnics with choppy, angular chords reminiscent of Nought. Sure, there are signs that it's only their third show: some of the changes are a little choppy and can sound forced, and sometimes the vocals adds little to the overall effect, but there's every sign they'll easily eclipse the memory of their former outfit (some achievement in its own right). In the future, there will be B-movies along the lines of Godzilla vs. Eduard Sounding Block. I know who my money's on.' - Nightshift

www.myspace.com/eduardsoundingblock