A word from the Editor

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Cheltenham’s MND

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Fabio Thomas on 2000trees 2012

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BBC Glos INtroducing’s Gemma Dunstan

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Dan Gutteridge’s Wychwood Review

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Wheatus Review

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Jack Higgin’s Interview with Wheatus

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What’s On Listings

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Hello!

So the lovely weather hasn’t lasted but that hasn’t dampened the county’s spirit. Wychwodd Festival went with a bang and 2000trees is set to do the same this month.

Inside July’s issue we have a review of Wychwood Festival courtesy of Dan Gutteridge and a look at what’s going on at 2000trees from Fabio Thomas.

We also have an exclusive interview with Wheatus as well as a review of their Frog & Fiddel show from Jack Higgins. On top of all of that we have our reg-ular columnists Gemma Dunstan and Cheltenham’s MND Andrew Lansley and full what’s on listings for Gloucestershire

There is lots going on in June, as well as one of the county’s best music festivals 2000trees, there are also gigs from Spunge, Young Kato and Glouc-ester’s new one day festival Park: Live.

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Every month it comes round to me writing this column and I just sit and um and ah about which bits to cherry pick and shine a light on this month. There’s just so much. Wychwood was great. New JL&tSS video for “England’s Dead” is out. 2000 Trees and Midsummer Fiesta both on this month. Hullabaloo rescheduled for August. Guildhall run-ning shows in Cheltenham. Cheltenham Under-ground running shows in Gloucester.

That’s not even half the good stuff either. I think my best and worse experience of the month can be shared by a single event which was the Pomme Stage at Wychwood. I got to program some awe-some bands (and I believe it would be denigrating to the majority to label them with a ‘local’ tag) and have heard some great things about their perfor-mances yet I managed to be busy every evening and didn’t get to see a single band : (

It’s one of those things when you do so much in music and events – you spend so much time doing it that you don’t often get the time to enjoy it. That’s why I need you – the person who’s made it this far into my column – to do me a favour and pick one show out of this month’s MAG to go and see. The chances are that I won’t – and as a result will miss something spectacular, or beautiful, or terrible or amazing. Please have this experience for me.

A x

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Popular Music course at The University of Gloucestershire for their con-tribution to the distribution of the fanzine.

Fabio Thomas on...2000trees

As music festivals first emerged into popular culture throughout the 1960’s, they tended to the needs of certain listeners through the increasingly specific styles of music that each festival displayed. From the Newport folk festivals of the late 60’s to the Monsters of Rock Festival that started in the early 80’s, a large number of Music Festival’s displayed a narrow range of music.

It seems that all has changed in recent years, as most large, popular music festival’s, such as Reading, Glas-tonbury and ‘Bestival’, cater to a wide range of musical tastes through their large number of smaller stages. This is also the case with the local ‘2000 Trees Festival’.

This year’s line-up brings with it more range than ever. Friday night sees pioneers of electro-infused instru-mental rock ‘65DaysOfStatic’ as well as power-pop four piece ‘The Futureheads’. Elsewhere, ‘S.C.U.M’ grace the mainstage with their blend of gothic, indie rock on Sat-urday afternoon before the classic alt-rock of ‘Hundred Reasons’ and the folk-pop of headliners ‘Guillemots’.

The Mainstage and Greenhouse are also home to the acoustic blessings of artists such as ‘Dry the River’ and ‘Lucy Rose’, this is not to mention the array of mellow singer songwriters that are playing the Leaf Lounge thought Friday and Saturday. This is in stark contrast to the heavy punk of ‘Gallows’ and again the ska pop of ‘Imperial Leisure’.

This year’s 2000 trees contains a large variety of art-ists, which is in some ways similar to that of large British festivals. Despite this the festival seems to contain different motives to that of the “monolithic beats” (as 2000 trees put it). In the ethically green festival, you will find a line-up that aims to satisfy every one of the 4,500 loyal attendance. Unlike the almost corporate aims of some of Britain’s larger festivals, the small, well run, part-time community that is 2000 Trees Festival holds some of Britain’s most exciting bands, in one of the best locations. The Woodstock-esque ideology and execu-tion behind the festival is what won it the Grass Roots Festival Award.

BBC Gloucestershire Introducing… is the show for your new music. Every Saturday from 5:30pm on BBC Radio Gloucestershire, you can hear the tastiest new cuts of unsigned music from across the county. We might have only been on-air since the beginning of October, but the response has been fantastic with shed loads of you uploading your tracks at bbc.co.uk/introducing – keep em comin’!

Catch Paul Moss, Gemma Dunstan and James Thomas presenting BBC Gloucestershire Introduc-ing... every Saturday from 5:30pm to hear the tastiest cuts from the county’s up and coming artists. The 30 minute show also includes interviews with the people behind the music and a gig guide for who to see play live, and where.

BBC Radio Gloucestershire 104.7, 95, 95.8 FM, 1413 AM and on the BBC iPlayer

BBC Gloucestershire Introducing presenter Gemma DunstaN

Hello!

Festival season has definitely kicked off with a fantastic start for BBC Introduc-ing. Wychwood festival which took place over the 8th,9th and 10th of June at the Cheltenham Racecourse held host to the brilliant BBC Introducing stage again this year. The stage welcomed 26 unsigned acts from across the UK including those from our very own Gloucestershire. Harbour, George Montague and The Flex all represented Gloucestershire with fantastic sets and all re-

ceived great feedback.

For me other highlights from the stage were Gunning for Tamar from Oxford, Stylusboy from Coventry & Warkshire, Shy and the Fight from Wales and Empror & Duppy Beatz from Bristol.

The Pomme stage also held host to Gloucestershire acts including Simplsitic Scientists, I, The Lion, Stressechoes and Welcome to Marathon. It’s fantastic to have such a wonderful festival in Cheltenham supporting local bands and musicians. Wychwood has definitely got us ready for the other festivals and events happening in Cheltenham this summer.

Remember to keep uploading your tracks via the BBC online uploader which can be found at:www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/uploader/

Listen to me Gemma Dunstan, James Thomas and Paul Moss live every Saturday at 5:30pm on BBC Ra-dio Gloucestershire 104.7FM or online. You can catch up on BBC iPlayer for up to 7 days afterwards.

Gemma x

Dan Gutteridge’s Review of

Wychwood FestivalCheltenham Racecourse, home to the Cheltenham Gold Cup, one of the biggest race’s in the Horse Racing calen-dar, the course where Quato Star had his finest hour(s), the place Arkle set a light in the 60’s and for one week in June, Wychwood Festival. The family festival that has been nominated for best family festival every year since its inception in 2005. This year, notable names up and down the line up included, The Damned, Bellowhead, James and Hawkind.

With the great British weather carrying on its dismal show-ing from the Jubilee weekend, the Friday was a wet and windy affair. For many, punk legends, The Damned stole the day. Their career spanning set lived up to all expecta-tion and was a reason for many in attendance being there. The rain didn’t hold them back and how ever high the bar you set for them, they managed to jump over it by some distance. Bellowhead capped of the first day and despite sound difficulties throughout their set they managed to stay on their game and deliver a set of high credibility. Although slightly overshadowed by The Damned they fully justified their positioning at the top of the bill.

The festival fully started for me on the Saturday. My first full day there and although I had work commitments for Wych-wood 87.7fm (official festival radio station, put it in your diaries for next year) I was determined to make the most of the weekend and see as many acts as possible. Alphabet Backwards were the first band I saw. Their pop beats and catchy lyrics had the big top bouncing, a fantastic way to kick of the day. Howard Marks was the next act I saw. He was in the Big Top early in the afternoon, it was curios-ity more than anything that dragged me to watch the ‘the most sophisticated drugs baron of all time’. His show was a 45 minute book reading, from his autobiography. A short story about a time he got caught in customs with bottles of urine and lion excrement in his bag (you probably had to be there). But the talk was insightful, funny and very well performed. The book is now high on my shopping list. The short Q & A at the end of the show also led us on to the question everyone wants to ask Howard Marks, ‘How do you solve the munchies?’ ‘Sugarpuffs, I bloody love sugar-puffs’ was the, now, obvious answer. A thoroughly enjoy-able show and my standout from the Saturday. Dr and The Medics were next, they launched into a set full of covers, ‘Love Shack’ been my favourite, before head-ing into what everyone had come out for. ‘Spirit in the Sky’ was fun, full of energy and there is nothing like a mass sing song, whilst everyone briefly remembers that runner up fella from pop idol, you know, the one with the stammer. James headlined the main stage on Saturday and having witnessed them before at the Isle of Wight festival, after a few ciders I must admit, they were pretty good. But on this night in Cheltenham I was not so sure. The opening

was slow, but built up nicely they sounded quite tight as a band and the weather stayed good. I was quite optimistic as to how the next hour would go. However it turned out, that unlike the weather, James did not stay good. They fast fell out of pace with each other and front man Tim Booth couldn’t help but remind you off a Dad at a wedding. Only this wedding was on a mass scale, and there were lots of guests. It has to be said though, the fans of the band were loving the set regardless, down the front bouncing up and down, singing along with every word. I on the other hand was not sharing their enjoyment. ‘Sit Down’ was placed in the middle of the set and a slightly lower tempo of the song left a lot to be desired. Two failed microphones and several mish mashy songs later James were ending their set and I couldn’t help but feel if I had, had those ciders like at the previously mentioned festival I may have enjoyed the head-liners a lot more.

Throughout the Sunday I tried to escape from the main stage and big top to soak up the rest of the festival. There were good sets from Jake Watson, The newly renamed Canary Swing (previously Funky Horse Milk) Welcome to the Marathon and Danny & The Bachelors on The Pomme stage. A stage put entirely by the University of Glouces-tershire. The Hobgoblin stage was showcasing the best in BBC Introducing talent. The Flex and Phantom Limb were highlights on that stage. I did, however, find myself get-ting dragged to the main stage for the ever uplifting Thrill Collins, the first band to play all four stages at the festival. Their set hand people up the front dancing away, people at the back singing away and everyone in the middle smiling away! Dodgy were a very nice surprise. There set con-tained classics such as ‘Good Enough’ and ‘Stayin Out For The Summer’ but also contained some very pleasant newer material, which went down very well with the crowd.This festival however isn’t all about the music. There’s po-etry, comedy, arts and crafts, children’s entertainment, free yogurt, headphone discos, healing gardens and a great vibe. On atmosphere alone it is probably the best festival I’ve experienced. Whatever your age and taste there is bound to be something for you. Yes there were bands that disappointed, but please, if you find a festival were you don’t get something that is slightly disappointing let me know about it. This is a fine jewel of a music festival that the county can be pleased to have in its crown.

Jack Higgin’s Review of

Wheatus at The Frog & Fiddle

It seems to be happening more regulary now than it ever has before! Big name bands are stumbling into venues in our humble little town and most recently we were hosts to late 90’s group Wheatus!

Now push aside that thought you’ve just had of “They have other songs?!” and load up their albums on Spotify whilst you continue to read! The band were back in the UK for a similar tour to the previous years being joined along the way again by Math the Band who they toured with in 2011, but this time the line up also featured the likes of Cornmo and MC Lars!

The show kicked off to an entertaining start from Cornmo, who’s Tenacious D style of songs and the look about him that he may be the American lovechild of Tim Minchin and a Viking! The songs were brilliantly funny and well structured featuring an array of instruments from the keyboard to an accor-dion! Well worth checking out!

Next Followed Math the Band and their experience playing alongside Wheatus showed. The crowd seemed very entertained by their music and their style, but personally I would have like to have seen some math based instruments...if they exist...if not disregard that sentence! Again well worth checking out!

The tension by this point was mounting as there was just one more act to go before the headliners took to the stage, and the act in question was MC Lars!

Bursting at the seams with charisma he launched into his set of Laptop music and PowerPoint pre-sentations...not what you think, these were actually pretty good PowerPoint’s. Teachers/lectures/buis-nessmen take note and learn some raps! Forgiving the few minor technical difficulties (which Lars recov-ered from extremely well and used to his advantage of holding the audience) the set was a brilliantly inventive, tongue in cheek look at Hip Hop and the music industry!

After MC Lars we were joined by Wheatus and by this point the crowd had expanded to fill the venue right to the back! There was a weird feeling though almost as though the majority of people in the build-ing had showed up just to hear one song, but hav-ing spoken to Brendan of Wheatus before hand, he mentioned that if that many people show up and they get to hear all of their other songs too then that can only be a good thing, which I can say I 100% agree with! Playing a selection of songs from their debut album along with newer material, the set was fantastic! A personal favorite was the performance of Leroy, which might sound a little bit too similar to Jessie’s Girl by Rick Springfield, but a great song nonetheless!Anyone who has seen Weezer before will know that they perform a Wheatus song jokingly for all those who get the two bands confused and similarly Wheatus also played my name is Jonas by Wee-zer, which they pulled of amazingly well! It’s a little bit sad that a lot of Wheatus’s song never made it to fruition in the same way Teenage Dirtbag did, as all the songs played during the set were awesome to say the least! So for that reason I’m not going to write about Teenage Dirtbag or the performance of it (apart to say Xmas no.1 2012! Make it happen), Instead I’m going to do what you should all be doing now and that’s checking out all the other cool mate-rial the band have recorded and perform with! Go!

(Photos taken from www.mclars.com and www.whea-tus.com)

Jack Higgin’s speaks to

Wheatus

Jack (J)

Brendan (B) Frontman/GuitarMatthew (M) BassGabrielle (G) Backing Vocals

J: You’ve been on the music scene for God knows how long now, what is it that keeps you guys go-ing?

B: We’re idiots! No, its just all I’ve ever wanted to do, I don’t want to do anything else with my life, I don’t want to have children or work on a farm, I just want to do this, I’ve always wanted to do this and I’ve found myself in a position to carry on doing so I’m going to take the opportunity and uh, well I don’t know...its fun right?!M: Yeah we always have a lot of fun, I mean every-time we play here it goes great which means we get invited back so it pretty much gets better everytime, I mean honestly it really is! I know its kind’ve a cliche for bands to say that, but really it always gets better, in the UK especially!G: Umm I would say this being my second tour now, that its a little like going through a war together, but its really amazing, wonderful and fun but really hard!

J: Obviously at somepoint tonight, we have to ask about Teenage Dirtbag! Do you ever feel slightly overshadowed by how big of a hit that was and still is?

B: I dont really think its possible to be overshadowed by something that you’ve done, however if that were to happen, I think I’d be fine with it, because that’s the idea! That’s what your trying to do, trying to get people to pay attention and take note and your trying to give them something they can’t forget, that they don’t want

to forget, that they want to bring back once a year and stick it back in the charts, so if that’s the worst part of having a career in music...I’m cool with that!

J: Do you ever feel that you future songs could reach that kind of level?

G: I think it gives us hope that it can be done again, and it has provided Brendan and us as a band with so many amazing opportunities, so I think it’s just some-thing we’re all really greatful for and really happy to play everynight. I mean when you look in the audi-ence and see people singing along to Brendan’s lyrics, its awesome to see the excitement and where ever you go, people are singing along with us, so that’s awesome.M: See I would say it seems very unlikely with the way things are going with music, that we’re ever going to see something that massive again, like full radio waves, but if Teenage Dirtbag is the song that brings people to shows and then they get to hear a bunch of our other songs and what we’ve done and continue to do after that, thats the best we can possibly hope for!B: 12 years ago when that song came out, the public we served with the material and they choose to like it or not like, it was brought to them. Now they find it, now the mob find their own joy, so it isn’t the system anymore where they were fed something and it was rammed down their throat so they were unable to avoid it...but I don’t think that’s what happened with-Teenage Dirtbag, because of what happened with the label and the politics, nobody was jamming that song down anyones throats, it just kind of happened, which I think is evident by the fact that it keeps coming back into the charts. If it was something that people were force fed I don’t think they’d opt for seconds!But that said I kind of prefer what’s going on now because it has a lot more to do with people making discoveries on their own and that seems more fair to me.

J: And if you had any tips for any up and coming acts, what would they be?

B: Don’t breath under water! Nah! Just don’t sign anything, theirs absolutely no reason to sign anything, just make your music, copyright it yourself, show it to people, put it online and let people do with it, what they will! Also if you look at guys like Math the Band there’s a real hustle about it all, but they present themselves at the merch table and on stage so they always look to connect and be honest with the fans, so yeah just do that!

Cheltenham 01/07/2012 Albion House Steve James 21:00 01/07/2012 Rsising Sun Russ Matthews 21:00

04/07/2012 Bayshill Gordon Wood & Phil Bird 20:30

05/07/2012 Rise Records Artmagic 17:00

07/07/2012 2pigs Spunge, Sundown & Slagerij 19:30 07/07/2012 Cheltenham Town FC Over The Hill TBC 07/07/2012 Charlton Kings Club Move on Up 20:45 07/07/2012 Tailors Battle of the Bands TBC 07/07/2012 Albion House The Mystics 20:45 07/07/2012 Montpellier Gardens Midsummer Fiesta 12:00

06/07/2012 London Inn Over The Hill 21:00 06/07/2012 St Pauls Tavern Tha Last 21:00

08/07/2012 Albion House Paul Keyes TBC 08/07/2012 Exmouth Arms Ain’t Misbehavin’ 21:00

11/07/2012 Bayshill Bex, Franks & Friends 21:00

13/07/2012 Exmouth Arms Kim Cypher Quartet TBC 13/07/2012 St Pauls Tavern Last Man Standing 2!:00

14/07/2012 Bayshill Otis Mack & Tubby Bluesters 21:00 14/07/2012 Charlton Kings Club Shoobop 20:45 14/07/2012 Albion House This Way Up 20:45 14/07/2012 St Pauls Tavern Olly Wharton Band 21:00

15/07/2012 Albion House Sharon Stanton TBC 15/07/2012 Rising Sun Bryn Thomas 21:00

19/07/2012 2pigs Estevez, South Paw Fakers & The Victory Show 19:30

20/07/2012 2pigs Young Kato 20:00 20/07/2012 Norwood Arms Coronettes 21:00 20/07/2012 St Pauls Tavern Sionelle Mallon 21:00 20/07/2012 Exmouth Arms Leon Daye 21:00

21/07/2012 Charlton Kings Club Syntronix 20:45 21/07/2012 Albion House Ramrods 20:45 21/07/2012 St Pauls Tavern Michigan Avenue 21:00

22/07/2012 Albion House Sax Appeal TBC 22/07/2012 Rising Sun Greg Winters 21:00 28/07/2012 2pigs Program Intiative 20:00 28/07/2012 Charlotn Kings Club Eloise and the Dresdens 20:45 28/07/2012 Albion House Tiger Feet 20:45 28/07/2012 Cotswold Inn Over The Hill 21:00 28/07/2012 St Pauls Tavern Joe Green’s Street Festival TBC

29/07/2012 Albion House Stacey Christopher TBC 29/07/2012 Rising Sun Passion 21:00

Gloucester 02/07/2012 Guildhall Folk Unplugged 20:00

06/07/2012 Guildhall FREE Euangelion 19:30 06/07/2012 Kings School Firefly TBC

07/07/2012 Ridge and Furrow Rockology 21:00

08/07/2012 Guildhall Canary Swing 19:30

17/07/2012 Guildhall Musiclab 19:30

20/07/2012 Dick Whittington Otis Mack & The Tubby Bluesters 20:30

21/07/2012 Gloucester Park Park:Live 14:00

26/07/2012 Cross Keys Inn Gordon Wood & Phil Bird 21:00 26/07/2012 The Registry UB40 20:30

28/07/2012 Throughout Gloucester Gloucester Carnival 13:00 28/07/2012 Old Richians Club Too Rock for Country 20:30 28/07/2012 Café Rene Profoundly Blue 15:00

Woodmancote 05/07/2012 Apple Tree Sian & Ray Chandler 21:00

12/07/2012 Apple Tree Jim Ramsey 21:00

19/07/2012 Apple Tree Emily J New 21:00

26/07/2012 Apple Tree Bryn Thomas 21:00

Cirencester 01/07/2012 Cirencester Park Occassionally Big Band TBC

14/07/2012 Coln St Aldwyn Manor AJL Showband 17:30

22/07/2012 Cirencester Park JJ Swingband 14:30

28/07/2012 Tunnel House Otis Mack & The Tubby Bluesters 21:00

Tewkesbury 11/07/2012 Theoc House Kim Cypher Quartet 20:00

20/07/2012 Cross Keys Junction 7 21:00

25/07/2012 Theoc House Dutch Lewis Broadband 20:00

Birdlip 06/07/2012 Royal George Revue 21:00

13/07/2012 Royal George Alex Chapman 21:00

20/07/2012 Royal George Rick & Neil 21:00

Stroud 14/07/2012 Sub Rooms Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular 19:30

27/07/2012 Sub Rooms Friday Night Live 20:00

Winchcombe 03/07/2012 Corner Cupboard Bluegrass Session 21:00

26/07/2012 Corner Cupboard Song Session 21:00

Bishops Cleeve 20/07/2012 Tithe Barn State 51 TBC

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Conderton 11/07/2012 Yew Tree Folk Session 21:00

Festivals 6th-9th Barn on the Farm Over Farm Saturday 7th Nibley Festival North Nibley 13th-14th 2000trees Festival Upcote Farm 21st-29th Gloucester Rhythm & Blues Festival Various Gloucester venues

Open Mic Nights Tuesday St Paul’s Tavern, Cheltenham Tuesday Salisbury Inn, Cheltenham

Wednesday Cross Keys, Gloucester Wednesday Norwood Arms, Cheltenham

Thursday The Strand Bar, Cheltenham Thursday Hogs Head, Cheltenham Thursday The Restoration, Cheltenham

Friday The Fiery Angel, Cheltenham Friday Royal George Hotel, Cheltenham Friday Gardners Arms, Tewkesbury

Sunday Royal Union, Cheltenham Sunday The Cotswold Inn, Cheltenham Sunday Under the Edge Arts, Wotton Under Edge Sunday Walls Country & Western Club, Gloucester Sunday Fat Tony’s Jam Session, Somerset Arms, Cheltenham

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