The Oxford Brookes Popular Music Research Unit (PMRU) presents:
The Oxford Brookes Popular Music Research Unit (PMRU) presents:
Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Hill site
Oxford Brookes University
Tuesday 27 March 2018, 9.45am – 4.30pm
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Oxford’s local music magazine, Nightshift, will be the subject of a full day of discussion at Brookes University on Tuesday 27 March, hosted by the Popular Music Research Unit.
The day will feature the history of Nightshift and the Oxford music scene going back to its origins as Curfew in the early 90s, as well as discussing local scenes, regional music media and demo reviews, finishing with a Q&A session with founder and editor Ronan Munro.
Programme:
9:30: Arrival; refreshments
9:45: Registration
10am: Introduction, followed by Dr Dai Griffiths (Brookes) on Nightshift as a music magazine
10:30: Long-time Nightshift writer Sam Shepherd on the magazine’s history
11am: Snapshots of Nightshift from different perspectives 1:
Former Sandman editor Jan Webster
Graham Hobbs and Jonathan Roscoe from Shire Folk
Local promoter and PR Vez Hoper
Professor Martin Cloonan (Glasgow/Turku)
12pm: Lunch (on main Gipsy Lane site)
1:30: Snapshots of Nightshift from different perspectives 2:
BBC Introducing Oxford producer Liz Green
Local promoter Richard Catherall
2pm: Demo of the Month workshop, featuring:
Nathan Ball, Hannah Watts and Joe Turner (Worry)
Mike Smith (Lucy Leave)
Mike Monaghan (Gaz Coombes, St Etienne, Willie J Healey)
2:45: Refreshments
3:15: Q & A with founding editor, Ronan Munro
4pm: Brief plenary and depart
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