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Screen Gods

11:38am Friday 21st November 2008

TIM HUGHES gets a wide-screen cinematic insight into Oxford's musical future, from Rob Stevenson of A Silent Film.

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* Since forming in March 2007, Twin Atlantic, above, have become underground rock idols. The Glasgow band, who have previously supported The Subways in Oxford, and the likes of The Smashing Pumpkins and Biffy Clyro elsewhere, have been likened to Minus The Bear. So if that's your bag, you're in luck.

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In Their Prime

2:40pm Friday 14th November 2008

Over the course of a staggering 26 years Primal Scream have established themselves as a dynamic ever-moving force for change.

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Frustrations of a modern-day Renaissance man

10:45am Friday 7th November 2008

Composer, songwriter, producer, club DJ, and multi-instrumentalist Nitin Sawhney is a latter-day Renaissance man.

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Whipping up a dance revival

10:19am Friday 7th November 2008

Indie-electro, dance-rock, nu-rave. call it what you like; as far as The Whip are concerned, it all boils down to the same thing.

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Pipetting hot

5:25pm Thursday 23rd October 2008

Fifties-inspired, snappily-dressed girl group The Pipettes are back — and armed with a polka dot handbag-load of infuriatingly contagious songs.

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Aping about

5:23pm Thursday 23rd October 2008

Direct, brutal, no holds barred, synth-twisting, ear-shredding, frenzied nutters.

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Joyous indie rock

5:24pm Thursday 23rd October 2008

It's been a busy old year for Surrey quintet You Me At Six. And they have no sign of slowing down.

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Barnstorming stuff

5:26pm Thursday 23rd October 2008

Skinny jean-clad North London geezers bring their barn-storming joyous indie-rock to the Oxford Carling Academy on Thursday, as part of a thrilling five-head extravaganza.

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