Sign In: or Sign Up! (forgotten password?)
Drowned in Sound

Campus Unrest kicks off in Oxford

Cast aside any images of riotous student protest for now, it's actually one of the university town's more bizarre music nights, and comes fully endorsed by Drowned in Sound (well, the Oxford representative anyway)...

It goes on from 8 to 11 every Thursday night during term time, at the Pheonix Cinema on Walton Street (in the bar upstairs). The general theme of the night, for those who're into that kinda thing, seems to be sitting around chatting, DJing (bring your own records!), getting drunk on the cheap beer and envying other people's vinyl. heh

In a vain attempt to peg genres on the music that gets played, i'd say... hiphop, electronica, riot grrl, digital hardcore, obscure garage rock 7 inches, post-rock, random pop, lo-fi and an occasional bit of indie :-) Alternatively some bands/labels may be more useful to y'all:

"Some stuff we like:
Peaches, Bikini Kill, Kill rock stars, Ninja tune, ATR, Kraftwerk, Digital hardcore, The Make-up, Sleater Kinney, DJ Scud, Kid 606, Le Tigre, Coldcut, Deckwrecka, The Gossip, Autechre, Warp, KLF, The Fall, Miles Davis, Squarepusher, Roots Manuva, Brassy, Kid Koala, Max Tundra, Quannum, DJ Shadow, Grandaddy, The Bangs etc etc..."

Check out Oxford's own DIY label the youth club tape club for more randomness...



Campus Unrest kicks off in Oxford

Sounds good, but riotous student protest sounds better!! :-)

Campus Unrest kicks off in Oxford

i still haven't been to campus undressed yet. although i get the feeling people would think i was an "emo kid".

tell me, do they have cd decks or record decks? And would i be able to play guyana punchline records without being killed?

Re: Campus Unrest kicks off in Oxford

hey there
yeah they normally have 2 record decks and a cd player (not like the proper dj decks, but still)
i'm sure they'd like you, the comment on their website about emo kids was referring to some american posers who came last year and knew shit (apparently! wasn't me) there are hardcore ish people that go, well si and his mates seem to play enough weird noisy shit :) they played q and not u today... so.. yeah. ah well seeya around at some point im sure

Re: Campus Unrest kicks off in Oxford

course yr welcome jamie. see you thursday? the infamous oxford emo kids were disliked cuz they were loud flourescent americans who did weird california things like use anti-bacterial wipes after eating.

Campus Unrest kicks off in Oxford

WOW! That looks like a hell of a do. Me and a couple of comrades were thinking of kicking a very similar night off in Newcastle. Anyone interested, keep your peepers open for the eclecta-fest that is... "Wheels Instead of Hooves".