ANORAAK & YOUNG ATHLETES LEAGUE
plus Exalt Exalt & Prufrock DJs
The Cellar, 20 June
JOAN OF ARC, THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS, LOVE OF EVERYTHING & ELEPHANTS
The Cellar, 30 May
ELEPHANTS, RIDING GIANTS & NIGHT PORTRAITS
The Cellar, 7 May
[vacuous pop @ RoTa] ELEPHANTS, LOAD.CLICK.SHOOT! & PART DINOSAUR & special guests FRIENDSHIP
Notting Hill Arts Club, London, 2 May
JENIFEREVER, BAYONETS & WISE CHILDREN
The Cellar, 18 April
PAPERCUTS, THE SLEEPING YEARS, TRISTAN & THE TROUBADOURS & MOTION IN COLOUR
The Cellar, 15 April
CAPILLARY ACTION, FRIENDSHIP, ICE SEA DEAD PEOPLE & PART DINOSAUR
The Cellar, 21 March
KLAUS SAYS BUY THE RECORD, WISE CHILDREN & UTE
The Wheatsheaf, 18 March
SPECTRUM, One Unique Signal & Spiral 25
The Wheatsheaf, 24 February
Oxford Collapse (Sub Pop), Swound!, Phantom Theory & Elephants
The Cellar, 21 February
2008:
[WINKSTOCK Part II : w/ Permananent Vacation] Manatees, Gentle Friendly & Elapse-O
The Cellar, 13 September
[vacuous pop & Abort, Retry, Fail? @ Truck 11] These New Puritans Dead Kids Youthmovies Rolo Tomassi Post War Years Lovvers Buttonhead This Town Needs Guns Alphabet Backwards Load.Click.Shoot! So So Modern Munch Munch
Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, 19 July
Munch Munch & Lonely Ghosts
The Cellar, 28 June
EX MODELS, Elapse-O, Load.Click.Shoot! & Ice, Sea, Dead People
The Cellar, 15 May
This Town Needs Guns, Mimas, 4 or 5 Magicians & Minnaars
The Cellar, 1 May
Jonquil, HREDA, Theo & Gossamer Albatross
The Cellar, 9 April
Efterklang, Phil McMinn & Mewgatz
Bullingdon Arms, 4 April
[vacuous pop & ARF?] Enon, Ill Ease & Load.Click.Shoot!
The Cellar, 9 February
2007:
[vacuous pop & riddler zine Christmas party] Errors, So So Modern, Munch Munch & Load.Click.Shoot!
The Cellar, 16 December
Picastro, Viking Moses, alice{musics}
Port Mahon, 26 November
Ill Ease, The Patty Winters ShowThe Youngs Plan
The Wheatsheaf, 16 November
[vacuous pop label showcase] The Patty Winters Show, Load.Click.Shoot! & Alphabet Backwards
RoTa, Notting Hill Arts Club, London. 27 October
This Town Needs Guns, An Emergency, Meet Me In St Louis & Load.Click.Shoot!
The Wheatsheaf, 20 October
Stafrænn Hákon, The Keyboard Choir & Alphabet Backwards
The Wheatsheaf, 10 October
Future Of The Left, Lovvers & Meet Me In St Louis
The Wheatsheaf, 26 September
Prinzhorn Dance School, Johnny Foreigner & Fee Fi Fo Fum
Jericho Tavern, 30 September
So So Modern, Baby Gravy & Clanky Robo Gob Jobs plus Foals DJ set
The Cellar, 29 August
Dead Meadow, youthmovies & SJ Esau
The Cellar, 18 August
The Cape of Good Hope, Fee Fi Fo Fum & Euhedral
Port Mahon, 7 August
Rolo Tomassi, Meet Me In St Louis & Shut Your Eyes And You'll Burst Into Flames
The Cellar, 15 July
DARTZ!, DATA.SELECT.PARTY & HPR
Port Mahon, 25 June
[A Pindrop Performance] Shady Bard, House of Brothers & Mijuanito
Port Mahon, 24 June
Eugene McGuinness, Lonely Ghosts vs Tumbledown Estate & Mewgatz
Port Mahon, 11 June
Polmo Polpo & Mantler
The Wheatsheaf, 26 May
The Paper Chase, Cutting Pink With Knives, Meet Me In St Louis & HREDA
The Wheatsheaf, 12 May
A Hawk And A Hacksaw & The Hun Hangár Ensemble
The Zodiac, 5 May
Thee More Shallows, Eugene McGuinness & Mewgatz
Port Mahon, 24 April
Damo Suzuki featuring youthmovies
plus Fuck Buttons, Traktors & Swordwind
The Cellar, 1 April
Red Jetson, A Genuine Freakshow & Eugene McGuinness
The Cellar, 28 March
Ill Ease, DATA.SELECT.PARTY & The Late Greats
The Wheatsheaf, 16 March
Richard James (Gorkys Zygotic Mynci), Little Eiffel & Little Cosmonaut
The Wheatsheaf, 7 March
Disco Drive, An Emergency & Breakneck Static
The Wheatsheaf, 21 February
Manatees, Infants, You Judas & Theo
The Wheatsheaf, 16 February
Rolo Tomassi & Nailbomb Cults
Port Mahon, 15 February
2006:
Popular Workshop, DATA.SELECT.PARTY & Korova
The Cellar, 20 December
Copy Haho, Twat Trot Tra La La & Titus
Port Mahon, 23 November
Tired Irie, andtheywillriot!, The Quiller Memorandum & Chinese Finger Trap
The Wheatsheaf, 17 November
Amandine, The Low Lows & These Monsters
Port Mahon, 7 November
ISAN, Tomcats In Tokyo & The Keyboard Choir
Port Mahon, 6 November
Mugstar, Meet Me In St Louis & And No Star
The Wheatsheaf, 20 October
Nick Kelly (The Fat Lady Sings) & George Pringle
Port Mahon, 19 October
Dartz, This Town Needs Guns, Zookeeper & The Little Explorer
The Wheatsheaf, 15 September
Phillip Roebuck, The Mules & Robh Hokum
Port Mahon, 16 August
Disco Drive, Twisted Charm & Popular Workshop
The Cellar, 5 August
Spearmint, Foxes & Where I'm Calling From
The Wheatsheaf, 26 July
[vacuous pop @ Truck Festival] randomNumber, d_rradio, Matthew Rozeik & Ylid, Xahdrez
Hill Farm, Steventon, 22 July
An Emergency, Optimist Club, Popular Workshop & Love Ends Disaster!
The Wheatsheaf, 21 July
Polmo Polpo, randomNumber & Foals
Port Mahon, 1 July
[bbc oxford review]
Jonquil, Nedelle & Amy Blaustein
Port Mahon, 27 June
Beatnik Filmstars, Jakokoyak, Hookers Green No.1 The Wheatsheaf, 16 June
Help She Can't Swim, T.I.T.S., Tiger Force & Disco Drive
The Wheatsheaf, 9 June
Ariel Pink, Belong, The Warm & Divine Coils
Port Mahon, 7 June
volcano!, Secondsmile, Molia Falls & Itch
The Wheatsheaf, 24 May
The Paper Chase, Jeniferever, Ill Ease & Scarecrows
The Wheatsheaf, 17 May
Magik Markers, Young People, This Is Your Captain Speaking & Whips Of Mercy
The Wheatsheaf, 6 May
Persil, National School & The Sailplanes
The Wheatsheaf, 3 May
An Emergency, Breakneck Static, Peace Burial At Sea, Action and Action & A War of the Roses
The Wheatsheaf, 21 April
Thee More Shallows, Polaris, The Workhouse & Ral Partha Vogelbacher
Port Mahon, 8 April
[Werk Discs showcase] Actress, ATKI-2 & Po-Ski
The Cellar, 31 March
Black Dice, Metronomy & Theo
The Wheatsheaf, 24 March
FortDax, The Hungry I, David Goosey
Port Mahon, 21 March
DYSE, Meet Me In St Louis & 3hostwomexicansandatinofspanners
The Wheatsheaf, 17 March
Jel, Fuck-off Machete & The Silk Room
The Wheatsheaf, 8 March
Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Hush Arbors & randomNumber
Port Mahon, 22 February
Chris Brokaw, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Scarecrows & The Jesus Years
The Wheatsheaf, 17 February
Jack Rose, Chris Corsano & Last Of The Real Hardmen
Port Mahon, 13 February
This Aint Vegas, That Fucking Tank, And No Star & October All Over
The Wheatsheaf, 11 February
Tunng, Jakokoyak & Skoud
Port Mahon, 30 January
The Lucida Console, Mai Mayo Mai & twentysixfeet
The Wheatsheaf, 20 January
2005
Alias, Christ. & Foals
The Wheatsheaf, 16 December
Whip, Stafrænn Hákon (solo), Last of the Real Hardmen
Port Mahon, 12 December
Charlottefield, Projections & And No Star
The Wheatsheaf, 23 November
Picastro, Dwayne Sodahberk & The Thumb Quintet
The Wheatsheaf, 18 November
Knifehandchop, Nervous Testpilot & The Nailbomb Cults
The Wheatsheaf, 13 November
The Mass, Suitable Case For Treatment & Bullet Union
The Wheatsheaf, 9 November
Lapsus Linguae, The Walk Off & An Emergency
The Wheatsheaf, 21 October
This Aint Vegas, Paper Cuts & And No Star
The Wheatsheaf, 3 September
Fuck-off Machete, Harry Angel, Hookers Green No. 1 & And No Star
The Wheatsheaf, 15 July
Help She Can't Swim, Cassette For Cassette & Go! Team! Go!
The Wheatsheaf, 17 June
OXES, Witches & GlaxoSmithKline
The Wheatsheaf, 15 June
Matt Elliot (3rd Eye Foundation), Manyfingers & Thee, Stranded Horse
The Wheatsheaf, 1 June
Bikini Atoll, Picastro & Citizen Six
The Wheatsheaf, 7 May
65daysofstatic, randomNumber & Nervous Testpilot
The Wheatsheaf, 15 April
Thee More Shallows, Billy Mahonie & Jonquil
The Wheatsheaf, 2 April
This Aint Vegas, Caretaker & Cassette For Cassette
The Wheatsheaf, 30 March
Detwiije, Wait For Coniston & The Exploits Of Elaine
The Wheatsheaf, 18 March
Fell City Girl, Red Jetson & Nun Of The Above
The Wheatsheaf, 19 February
65daysofstatic, The Evenings & Zelega
The Wheatsheaf, 9 February
[Carpark / Paw Tracks tour] Panda Bear, Ariel Pink & Signer
The Wheatsheaf, 21 January
2004
Caretaker, Alesiachair & One Unique Signal
The Wheatsheaf, 17 December
Todd, The Edmund Fitzgerald & Diego Garcia
The Wheatsheaf, 19 November
[OCM live @ Modern Art series] Xahdrez
Modern Art Oxford, 11 November
Fuck-off Machete, The Workhouse & Detwiije
The Wheatsheaf, 6 November
65daysofstatic, randomNumber & Printed Circuit
The Wheatsheaf, 15 October
[Audioscope warm up] Part Chimp, The Edmund Fitzgerald & Sextodecimo
The Wheatsheaf, 24 September
[a resonant label showcase] Stafrænn Hákon & Dialect plus The Workhouse
The Wheatsheaf, 17 September
Hot Chip, Piney Gir & Nervous Testpilot
The Wheatsheaf, 6 August
Adem, King Creosote, Fell City Girl
The Wheatsheaf, 23 June
Noxagt, Roerhedds, Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element & Bilge Pump
The Wheatsheaf, 18 June
Fuck-off Machete, Querelle & Alesiachair
The Wheatsheaf, 9 June
Souvaris, Zelega & Change At Löhne
The Wheatsheaf, 21 May
[a tigerbeat6 special] Kid606, Knifehandchop, DJ Culprit & randomNumber
The Cellar, 7 May [bbc review
The Workhouse, Mountainmen Anonymous & Fell City Girl
The Wheatsheaf, 10 April
Hella, Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element, Hey Colossus & Change At Löhne
The Cellar, 23 March
The Paper Chase, The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg & The Edmund Fitzgerald
The Wheatsheaf, 19 March
[OCM live @ Modern Art series] Cathode
Modern Art Oxford, 11 March
The Mighty Saguaro, General Khaki & The Others
The Wheatsheaf, 6 March
youthmovie soundtrack strategies, 65daysofstatic & Help She Can't Swim
The Wheatsheaf, 18 February
Cat On Form, Charlottefield & Kids Who Tell On Other Kids Are Dead Kids
The Wheatsheaf, 11 February
The Dudley Corporation, Querelle & Thursdays Of Vega
Port Mahon, 9 February
2003
[vacuous pop label showcase] youthmovie soundtrack strategies, The Edmund Fitzgerald, Ship's A Going Down & Xahdrez plus guests The Evenings
RoTa, Notting Hill Arts Club, London, 29 November
Cat On Form, youthmovie soundtrack strategies, The Edmund Fitzgerald & Ship's A Going Down
The Wheatsheaf, 31 October
Animal Collective, randomNumber & Cathode
The Wheatsheaf, 17 October
The Evenings, Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element & The Modern
The Wheatsheaf, 26 September
MC Lars, Eamonn Vitt (ex Karate) & Big Speakers
The Cellar, 16 September
Jason Morphew Band, Bloc Party & Richard Walters
The Wheatsheaf, 11 September
This Aint Vegas, Kill Yourself & The Wow
The Wheatsheaf, 3 September
Cex, Bovaflux & The Beta Prophecy
The Cellar, 31 August
Nervous Testpilot, The Modern & Science Never Sleeps
The Cellar, 20 August
Querelle, Ship's A Going Down & Little Girl With Cherries
The Cellar, 1 July
Beachbuggy, Gunnbunny & Querelle
The Wheatsheaf, 4 June
The Candies & The Mighty Saguaro
The Wheatsheaf, 1 June
Matt Elliot (3rd Eye Foundation), Souvaris & Elizabeth
The Wheatsheaf, 30 May
Part Chimp, Reynolds & Ship's A Going Down
The Wheatsheaf, 16 May
This Aint Vegas, Dustball & Kids Who Tell On Other Kids Are Dead Kids
The Wheatsheaf, 23 April
[a Kosmische night] Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element, They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, Portal & The Modern
plus Kosmische DJs
The Cellar, 16 April
The Unit Ama, Wolves! (of Greece), Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies & Brown Owl
The Cellar, 26 February
Stanton, Ship's A Going Down & Gunnbunny
The Wheatsheaf, 1 February
2002
Eeebleee, The Workhouse, Little Girl With Cherries & Citizen Six
The Cellar, 16 December
The National, Meets Guitar, The Plume & Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
The Cellar, 2 December
Swearing At Motorists, Jimmy Barock & S. Rock Levinson
The Cellar, 18 November
Nøught, Noxagt & Giddy Motors
The Point @ The Zodiac, 26 October
Thee More Shallows, The Workhouse & Hollowphonic
The Cellar, 2 October
Cat on Form, Econoline & Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element
The Cellar, 6 August
Halifax Pier, Eeebleee & Souvaris
The Cellar, 10 July
Kepler & Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia
The Cellar, 19 March 2002
some shows that should/could have happened but didn't for one reason or other... :-(
Adem Battles Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Explosions In The Sky (twice!) Hood King Creosote Kinski Klaxons Wolf Eyes
Movies
Friends Forever The Power of Salad R Kelly - Trapped In The Closet Stop Making Sense
Television
Cheggers Plays Pop
Comedies like: T4's Mobile Act Unsigned The X Factor
vacuous pop promotions still looking for a couple of suitable bands (folky/acoustic that can pull a few people in!) for our RoTa show on 11th July if anyone fancies a shot? view more
NB - If you need to contact me for any reason, I do prefer email to Myspace messages but apologise in advance if I don't reply, due to the amount of mails/messages received it's just impossible for me to keep up!
independent record label & live promotions
a: po box 289, oxford ox5 1we
w: www.vacuouspop.com
e: info at vacuouspop dot com
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2.
a. Lacking intelligence; stupid.
b. Devoid of substance or meaning; inane: a vacuous comment.
c. Devoid of expression; vacant.
3. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
pop adj.
1. Of or for the general public; popular or popularized: pop culture; pop psychology.
2. Of, relating to, or specializing in popular music: a pop singer.
3. Of or suggestive of pop art: a pop style.
n.
1. Popular music.
2. Pop art.
Live Promotions
Aside from being a small indie record label, vacuous pop also promotes occasional live music shows in Oxford, a bit like these ones...
We run a regular night at The Cellar on the 3rd Saturday of every month, plus other occasional shows at various venues in Oxford should the right tour come along and routing wont fit the regular night.
As such, we don't run a venue or have a load of nights to fill so the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity with line ups that hopefully complement each other, rather than just slinging a bunch of random bands on together.
We urge you to arrive early to see the support bands too and enjoy the whole night.
The shows offer a chance to see some of the best underground/leftfield bands around - both national and international - and over the past 7 years the following quality acts have played, many of which were Oxford, or even UK debuts...
Alias Animal Collective Black Dice Bloc Party Dead Meadow Efterklang ENON Errors EX MODELS Foals Hella Hot Chip Jel Joan of Arc Kepler Kid606 Knifehandchop Magik Markers Metronomy The National Noxagt OXES The Paper Chase Part Chimp Picastro Polmo Polpo Rolo Tomassi So So Modern Sunburned Hand of the ManDamo Suzuki Swearing at Motorists Thee More Shallows Tunng volcano! 65daysofstatic
All upcoming shows are listed below and see the ever changing top friends list for links to MySpace pages where you can check out some of the great bands playing future shows.
Brought to you by the folks behind Abort, Retry, Fail? and vacuous pop...
There are no hard and fast rules, and we're not being pigeon holed by genre - as before we're mixing up the best live bands (previously the likes of Foals, Disco Drive, Fuck Buttons, Enon, Friendly Fires to name but a few) and DJs to provide the perfect weekend antidote to a shitty working week!
Playing what we like, when we like but nothing too self indulgent (the aim is still to get your dance on after all!) - expect a classic mix of rock, electro, indie, dance, breaks, beats, whatever... if it's good we'll play it, and we might even do requests if we have them!
Upcoming Shows
vacuous pop & Rough Trade presents...
Saturday 11 July
WISE CHILDREN, TRISTAN & THE TROUBADOURS & more plus special guests
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London
4pm - 8pm / FREE ENTRY / 18+
4 great bands plus DJs playing good shit before, between & after the bands! Cheap beers, FREE entry etc!
*** PLEASE NOTE, WE ONLY RUN A LIMITED AMOUNT OF SHOWS SO GENERALLY CAN'T HELP WITH SPECULATIVE REQUESTS FROM BANDS FOR SHOWS BUT FEEL FREE TO SEND CDs FOR CONSIDERATION IF YOU WISH - WE DO HAVE ECLECTIC TASTE BUT THERE ARE LIMITS SO NO METAL/EMO/POP PUNK/GRUNGE/GENERIC INDIE/FUNK/SHIT, ESPECIALLY NO FUNK! - SEE GIG HISTORY ON LEFT FOR AN IDEA OF WHAT WE DO ***
*** APOLOGIES, BUT DUE TO THE RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF MESSAGES RECEIVED AND ONLY LIMITED TIME THERE REALLY IS NO TIME TO READ ALL OF THEM, NEVER MIND REPLY, SO THEY WILL MOST PROBABLY BE IGNORED, ESPECIALLY THOSE HASSLING FOR GIGS - SORRY, I'VE TRIED TO KEEP UP BUT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!
YOU COULD TRY EMAILING AS THAT STANDS A BETTER CHANCE OF BEING LOOKED AT BUT AGAIN I AM REALLY SWAMPED AND STRUGGLE TO FIND THE TIME TO KEEP UP WITH THEM ALL!***
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Hey, cheers, hope the songs will make you bedroom-dance. =] The first single off the album is up on my page, it’s called CUPCAKEHEART (and it can be found here: ) Do you like it? :)
I know this isn’t a personalised flyer, or message :( .. but we do thank you for being our friend in such turbulent times.. do keep in touch and we’ll make the friendship stronger. The Follys
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
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