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Jesus Christ! What are you doing on Easter Sunday? We welcome you to join us and The Nightingales as they hit Oxford for the first time since 2018 - they come to the Bullingdon on Sun 28th March for a musical and lyrical riot!The alt-post-punk rock band, formed in 1979 in Birmingham, by four members of Birmingham’s punk group The Prefects are described in John Robb’s definitive book on post punk (“Death To Trad Rock”) as “The misfits’ misfits” and comprising an ever fluctuating line up, based around lyricist/singer Robert Lloyd. The Nightingales enjoyed cult status in the early ’80’s as darlings of the credible music scene and were championed by John Peel, who said of them – “Their performances will serve to confirm their excellence when we are far enough distanced from the 1980’s to look at the period rationally and other, infinitely better known, bands stand revealed as charlatans”.
In the late Eighties the Nightingales stopped working but, following the occasional gig between times, they re-grouped in 2004.
After fucking about with various part timers, starry eyed wastrels, precious sorts and mercenaries the group arrived at a long standing line up, which featured Lloyd, Andreas Schmid from Faust on bass, ex Violet Violet wonder drummer Fliss Kitson and on guitar James Smith, who Lloyd had spotted playing with Damo Suzuki.
Since restarting the group have been more productive than ever – releasing seven vinyl singles, a couple of EPs, two 6 song mini albums, nine full length studio albums plus a movie soundtrack and a double live LP. They have regularly toured UK, mainland Europe and also the USA numerous times, playing various festivals and recording many radio sessions along the way.
We watched their Stewart Lee written documentrary ‘King Rocker’ and saw them in the same day in Machynlleth earlier this year and we can’t wait to host them in Oxford - not to be missed! All ages (u14s with an adult) and wheelchair accessible show on sale now! #oxford #divineschism #oxfordmusic #oxfordmusicscene https://wegottickets.com/divineschism
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The Bullingdon, 162 Cowley Road,Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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