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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Juju was interviewed on this week’s BBC Introducing in Oxford show, talking about the new line-up and explaining more about the blog post that everyone in Oxford seems to have read. ;)
It’s a good interview, and it’s worth a listen (as always) for the top notch local music.
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Gaz Coombes’s gig at the Rotunda on the 9th sold out so quickly that he’s added a second night and asked us to support him. The Rotunda gigs are being organised by our friends at Oxfork, and it sounds like they’re going to be pretty special.
So we’ll be playing at the Rotunda (a small, strange room in a garden somewhere off Iffley Road) on Saturday 10th December. Tickets look like they are selling fast, but there are a few left at WeGotTickets. See you there!
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Tomorrow! Gig! At the Jericho! Here are the details!
- Saturday 25 June 8pm
- Coo @ Oxfringe
- Little Fish Acoustic + Boxes (solo set) + Matt Winkworth + Samual Zasada
- @ The Jericho Walton Street
- Buy tickets (£6 advance, £7 on the door)
- UPDATE We’re on quite late (10:30pm ish). Just so you know. ;)
See the acoustic side to Little Fish, Oxford’s raucous garage-rock three-piece, as Juju and Ben perform an exclusive stripped down set of songs from their forthcoming second album!!! Little Fish emerged from Oxford’s vibrant rock scene and went on to tour with Blondie, Placebo, Hole, Juliette Lewis and Alice In Chains before headlining the BBC Introducing stage at Reading and Leeds Festivals last year and supporting Them Crooked Vultures at The Royal Albert Hall.
Check the Coo site for details of all the acts…
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Little Fish @ Port Mahon, Oxford by Big_Franko on Flickr.
The Port Mahon acoustic gig on Monday was awesome. Frank not only drove down from Halifax to see it (!!), he posted some great photos the next day. I’m pretty sure he can’t have slept.
Thanks, Frank. ;)
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Most importantly, the band look like they’re having the time of their lives on stage. All smiles throughout, and this feeling added even more to the live experience. This is a band who do this for the music, and for nothing else, and it shows ten times over.
I think my photo accurately captured the live experience (if not the detail…). Dive Dive were awesome. If you’ve never seen them, you should.
— Ben
(Source: instagr.am)
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We’re putting on an acoustic night at the Port Mahon on Monday. Our friend Laura Kidd (aka. She Makes War) is coming through town on tour so we’re having a special Little Fish presents… evening with Laura and some of our favourite local bands.
It’s not going to be like a normal gig. That would be boring. Instead we’re going to have two halves, with each band playing a few songs in each half. The changeovers will be nice and quick, and there will be a good long interval in the middle to give everyone a chance to go downstairs, get beer and chat. Local poet legend George Chopping will be the compère, introducing bands, herding audiences and making sure everything goes to plan.
So… doors open at 7pm, and we’re going to start at 7:30pm sharp. Little Fish will be playing first (and last), so don’t be late if you want to see us!
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Record Store Day(s)
So it’s Record Store Day, and Oxford actually has a record store! There was a bit of a gap after Avid shut down, but the all-new Truck Store has loads of beautiful vinyl and is right in the middle of the Cowley Road (Where The Magic Happens).
They’re hosting two days of live music – today opens with Adam Barnes (who we saw for the first time a week ago and who is great) at 2pm and finishes up with Spring Offensive (who we love) and the Young Knives (who I’ve never seen but everyone says are good). Tomorrow there’s another great line-up, with Richard Walters (The Voice) and Fixers (who may not actually be playing) and some other bands who are probably great, then Little Fish at 8pm. What a weekend!!! I’ve posted the full line-ups and set times on Songkick: Saturday and Sunday.
Meanwhile, tonight we’re headlining a night called Drunken Poetry (in Drag!). It’s not just a clever name. Seven (male) poets (who are surely getting the beers in already and sorting out their lipstick) will be doing their thing, then some time around midnight we’ll top it off with a guitar/harmonica rabble-rousing set. Wish us luck. ;)
— Ben
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Harmonica
It all started at the Hard Rock Café. We were invited to headline an industry knees-up sponsored by BMI, Gibson and all sorts of other names. It was called Sofas & Strings, which makes it sound like a civilised affair where everyone chills out and listens to some calming tunes.
Of course, it was nothing like that. They never are. But we had to work out an acoustic set. At first Juju was going to do it alone, but then she said I should play the harmonica on a couple of songs. She didn’t bother to ask if I played the harmonica, so I just said ‘Yeah, sure.’ I’d figured out where the notes were for a song I recorded a few years ago, and it didn’t seem too tricky.
By the time we got there I was playing on every song. I’d worked out the Hammond riff from Morning Call and a few bluesy-sounding bits for Innuendo and The Unbelievably Long Chord. Once you find the notes that bend it’s easy…
Little Fish (acoustic)
We’re working on the second album at the moment. There’s not much point doing full band gigs until we have something new out to promote (which won’t be long…), so we started playing some local acoustic gigs with the guitar/harmonica line-up. We haven’t played much in Oxford for ages, so it’s been great to reconnect with the friends and fellow musicians on the scene.
We played after dinner at Locally Sourced, a popup restaurant in the Old Bookbinders put together by Oxfork, sharing a bill with Huck, Richard Walters, Paul Askew, Andrew Mears (Pet Moon) and George Chopping. Andrew was there to take some pictures, and caught this one:
We stepped in at the last minute to headline an acoustic night at the Port Mahon organised by Craig from the Dead Jerichos, and Daniel Paxton turned up and filmed a great video of Only A Game:
We had met Daniel the week before when he’d been filming a BBC session for Spring Offensive. Juju sang in the chorus at the end and I played a grand piano:
Last night we headlined another acoustic night, this time at the Honey Pot beer festival. It was a proper back room affair, with Tamara and the Martyrs squeezing a drum kit and bass amp into the tiny gap in front of the ladies’ toilet. Apart from some drunken heckling during Paul Askew’s set it was an awesome night, and we saw Moogieman, Paul Askew, Tamara, Simon Batten and Windom Earle (Huck’s new outfit).
And we haven’t finished yet! On Saturday we’re headlining Drunken Poetry (in Drag!) down on the Cowley Road, and on Sunday we’re topping the bill at the Record Store Day gig at Truck Store (also on the Cowley Road).
I’ll probably be able to play the harmonica by the end of the month…
— Ben
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We’ve just added a new gig to the site: on 31st March Juju will be playing an acoustic set at the Cellar in Oxford supporting Tamara Parsons-Baker’s new band, Tamara and the Martyrs (also on Facebook).
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Oxford's getting a new record shop! →
We’ve always been a fan of Rapture Records in Witney, Oxfordshire’s only indie record store, and we’re happy to hear they’re opening a new branch in Oxford. It’ll be in Videosyncratic’s old spot on the Cowley Road, perfectly placed to be the regular hangout for bands and music fans, opposite PMT and surrounded by local muso favourites The Star, G&D’s and Atomic Burgers.
Music In Oxford ran a great interview with Rapture, where they mention how they were able to out-manoeuvre HMV with the Baffled and Beat release:
The main benefit of being a small outfit is our flexibility. We can quickly pick up on trends and buying patterns and are thus able to tailor our shop to our customers. For example, when a key album from a local artist comes along – this year saw Little Fish release their debut, we were able to get extra stock in, organise an in-store performance and be the best place around to buy the album. I believe HMV in Oxford sold out their small allocation on day of release and took weeks to re-stock, one of the drawbacks of being part of a big chain.
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