Oakford Social Club

Laurel Collective and Montage Populaire – March 24th

ben — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:51:38 +0000

Laurel Collective are an experimental pop outfit from London. Having signed with the Domino Records offshoot, Double Six, in their infancy, the band have since gone on to mesmerize audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with their bedazzling repertoire of off-kilter hits.

Montage Populaire are an experimental pop/electronic/indie band based in Southampton, UK. The band’s early self-produced demo ‘Mon Pop’ made no.67 in Artrocker’s records of 2009, they’ve toured France & Ireland, received continued airplay on NME radio, made the final 11 bands in the final of the Q Magazine/Glastonbury EMT competition, had two demos licensed by Dorothy Perkins for fashion campaign videos, and their ‘Reject Reinstall’, made no.3 on Gill Mills’ (NME) ‘Best Of Myspace’. Their live show is not be missed!

Click play above to listen to ‘Sunshine Buddy’ by Laurel Collective.

Laurel Collective | Montage Populaire

Karn8 and Mellor – live on Wednesday 22nd February

ben — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:08:21 +0000

BBC Berkshire presents the best in up and coming live acts from Reading and beyond. Karn 8 are a powerful mix of grunge-laden rock with a smattering of blues. Think QOTSA, The Dead Weather and Alice in Chains in a blender with Viagra and JD. Mellor are a new ‘Pop N Roll’ band from Reading, UK. Formed in March 2011, by their second gig, Mellor had packed out Reading’s Oakford Social Club headlining a slot for BBC Introducing.

Click play above to ‘Mirror Mirror’ by Karn8.

Facebook Event | Karn8 | Mellor

Social Exercise Presents… Solid Gold Death Star & More – Saturday 18th February

ben — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:34:37 +0000

A Social Exercise shindig featuring Solid Gold Death Star. These guys are “all bangers, no mash”. Also down is a number of Reading’s best DJs… Chris Bound – Making People bounce in London, Brighton, Bristol, Southampton, Oxford, Norwich and a million other places.Oscar Incognito – Resident of the hugely successful Skint Mondays and Cubed Club Nights. Alex ‘Wookie’ Bowman – Lives up a tree, Tapping out beats on it’s trunk. From Disco To Disco – Elzar has shown to be the true Bastion of Dance. He really wants YOU to dance. You will.

Facebook Event

Oakford Social Club Associated Festival : Beacons 2012 – First Acts Announced – New Site

ben — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:33:18 +0000

The Oakford Social Club associated festival Beacons, in the Yorkshire Dales, announced the initial acts this morning, including Roots Manuva, Ghospoet, Junior Boys, Factory Floor and Oakford Social Club DJs! Buy tickets at the link below, and if you have a Regulars Card you can get a discount. They’re also doing an ace deposit scheme!

We’re really excited to see Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva on the Beacons line-up this year. Following the release of last year’s 4everrevolution – his most powerful work since Run Come Save Me – the UK hip-hop legend will be bringing his innovative sound to the Yorkshire countryside this summer. And one of UK hip-hop’s rising stars will also be playing. The Mercury Music Prize-nominated Ghostpoet will be laying down his laconic beats and baritone drawl and you’ll get the chance to see why Factory Floor have made a fan of Joy Division / New Order’s Stephen Morris and had the likes of Pitchfork and Quietus touting them for bigger things.

Beacons is a three-day, four-night festival and for a short period, tickets are available at just £60 for the weekend, including camping (£55 for students and Regulars Cards holders). A limited number of early bird weekend tickets are available now. Tickets will be available to purchase from the Beacons Festival website, HMV, Seetickets, Gigantic, Leedstickets.com, Jumbo Records and Crash Records.

Beacons Website | Beacons on Facebook | Beacons on Twitter

Shoot For The King and Kinky Boot Beasts – live on Wednesday 29th February

ben — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:26:35 +0000

Shoot For The King are four local young lads who we think could well be set for big things in the future. The band initially started as a three-piece back in 2010, and already have two great recordings under their belts with their self titled album and an EP. They make music that fits in somewhere between The Shins and Eels. Each song soars melodically, but with a louche vocal.

Click play above to listen to ‘Fuel For The Fire’ by Shoot For The King.

Facebook Event | Shoot For The King | Kinky Boot Beasts

Big Potato Records presents The Loose Salute – Sunday 26th February

ben — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:44:18 +0000

The return of fine quality bands (previously likes of Stornoway, Neil Halstead, Danny & The Champions) & DJs (psychedelic, Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, Indie, Trojan, Gainsbourg, Soul). We’re really excited to have The Loose Salute headline proceedings tonight, they make sweet indie / pop / folk sounds, and are set for big things in 2012!

Click play above to listen to ‘Happy I Don’t Count’ by The Loose Salute.

The Loose Salute | Gonzo and the Razz

Anti-Valentines Special : Darker My Love

ben — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:40:52 +0000

BBC Introducing Live presents Sister Gracie, Ziffs Law and Silvatone – Wednesday 15th February

qaduw4uS — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:18:45 +0000

BBC Berkshire presents the best in up and coming live acts from Reading and beyond. Tonight an Oakford favourite, Sister Gracie headlines proceedings, recently described by The Fly as “Their live sound is decidedly more consistent than their scatter-gun approach to recorded influences, the laptop synths and riff-o-batics filling out the melodrama of rake-thin Max Walker’s full-bellied vocals.”

Click play above to listen to ‘Black’ by Sister Gracie.

Facebook Event | Sister Gracie

Popular presents Look, Stranger! – January 28th

ben — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:29:19 +0000

In their own words Look, Stranger! are London’s premier space-age bachelor pad band. Make of that what you will but know that they count publications like The Guardian and The Quietus as fans. In fact the Guardian went as far as to say they’re “the new Wild Beasts… Kasabian fans will hate it”. Perfect then.

Click play above to listen to “To The River” by Look, Stranger!.

Popular | Look, Stranger!