HOCKLEY HUSTLE!

Yay!

It's the Hockley Hustle this Sunday!

There are loads of venues in and around Hockley hosting gigs to raise money for charity. Now, of course I'm biased, but I do reckon the Hello Thor venue looks like one of the best. Come down to the Jam Cafe on Sunday to see:

4:45pm Twenty Year Hurricane
5:30pm Vom Vorton
6:15pm Burly Nagasaki
7:00pm Bonsai Projects
8:00pm Mexican Kids At Home
9:00pm Red Shoe Diaries
10:00pm Fists

What a brilliant line-up. I'd especially recommend looking out for Burly Nagasaki in only their 2nd ever live performance. They are brilliant, and you might get to sing along too.

You can still get advance £5 tickets, or just turn up on the day and pay £7.50 on the door. The money will go to Oxfam and local NSPCC causes. It would be rude not to.

Bex
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Supernight OXJAM do - 27th October - Save up your pennies!

After a roaring success last year which saw Supernight raise over £700 for Oxfam as part of the Oxjam festival, we're back with a cracking line-up for our Oxjam 07 gig on the 27th October at The Maze (what a brilliant venue, right?)

As well as 3 fantastic live performances (details below) We're also thinking up myriad ways to shake the spare change loose from your pockets in the name of a good cause.

Prepare to eat yummy homemade cake, to swap £1 for badges created by musical luminaries such as Jarvis Cocker and to take part in our Oxfam raffle, with fabulous prizes carefully sourced from Oxfam shops round the city.

Playing live:

NAPOLEON IIIrd (Brainlove Records) www.myspace.com/boney3

Brilliant one-man band embracing all of Brian Wilson's maverick genius, but with a battered reel-to-reel tape machine and some wonky kids' instruments instead of 4 fellas and a state of the art studio.

BALOR KNIGHTS (Thee SPC) www.myspace.com/balorknights

Creators of gloriously messy indie rock that staggers and weaves everywhere from Pixies to Bearsuit and has earned them a legion of fans including 6Music and Rough Trade.

FISTS www.myspace.com/fistsmusic

You never quite know what to expect with this anti-folk rocktopus, from ramshackle marching drum Casiotone workouts to catchy lo-fi pop.

Come and dance and sing and have a good time and feel like a good person because you're doing it all for charity (and kicks).

Becky

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p.s. bring along your favourite charity shop tunes and we'll play them!

p.p.s. above is our lovely poster (in strange colours, I've only sort of figured out how to upload pictures!) courtesy of the talented Hayley Oh...

3 top Charity Shop finds

On the topic of charity shops, here's 3 current favourite charity shop records.

NANCY & LEE - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood (from Scope, Mansfield)
Features the classics 'Summer Wine' and 'Some Velvet Morning' - a folky-psych pop gem. Absolutely lovely

MOOG PARTY TIME
- "The New Exciting Sound Of The Moog Synthesiser" (from RSPCA, Sutton-in-Ashfield)
I actually have 2 charity shop copies of this, although I'm not sure why.
The drums on 'Popcorn' are incredible and it's worth a purchase for that tune alone.

TA DOULEUR 7 inch - Camille
(bought just last week from Oxfam Music & Books in Beeston)
I love Camille and this is the best song from her flawless 'Le Fil' album. Sublime stuff.