As is tradition May is a busy month in The Ocelot for me, as it is festival preview time, and the wily old cat once again asked me to pick my musical recommendations for the best of in the region. Here we are again, the dawning of a new festival season. Can’t believe that has come … Continue reading
My live review for the May issue of The Ocelot was a return to the barking mad line-ups of Oxford promoter Gappy tooth Industries, down at that bastion of the Oxford music scene, The Wheatsheaf. And as always. it was much better than you think it is going to be. Once again exhibiting reckless abandon … Continue reading
Whoops. Been ages once again since I posted here. So, lets start the catch up with this review from the March issue of The Ocelot. This was a charity event organised from what I could only surmise was a first time promoter. Credit to her for doing it, but many mistakes were made (such as … Continue reading
This is the unedited version of my January Ocelot column. My column last January was the first time I had written an awards / review of the year piece, and I enjoyed writing it rather a lot. So here is one for 2014’s musical happenings in Ocelotshire. Back to normal next month as I have … Continue reading
My Ocelot Magazine column this month was a review of a show back in regular haunt The Victoria in Swindon. Apologies, but it is back into Wiltshire I dive this month, although only because a show cropped up that was too good to miss. Any chance to see Buswell play has to be grabbed, for … Continue reading
This months Ocelot offering (November 2014) ended up being a double page Oxford special. So, first up a live review! Following on from my mini-rant last month I decide that if the mountain won’t come to Gig Monkey, then Gig Monkey will go to the mountain. Consequently, a scan of the Ocelot Gig Guide, and … Continue reading
The October Gig Monkey column for The Ocelot was a fairly straight ahead music review of my 40th birthday gig featuring one of my favourite bands, the magnificent Case Hardin. And a rant. I need to start this month’s column with a combined apology and rant. Firstly, the apology; once again I am reviewing a … Continue reading
Septembers Ocelot column was a (slightly biased) review of the 2014 Swindon Shuffle festival – the most successful ever according to most sources! Bob Dylan once sang, “the times, they are a-changin’”, a late sixties sentiment hailing cultural change that suddenly seems very appropriate once again within the music scene of a parochial western railway … Continue reading
My column for the August issue of The Ocelot magazine was this, a two page preview of the mega Swindon Shuffle 2014. a slightly cheeky insert perhaps seeing as I am part of the team running the festival, but you take your breaks where you can get them! so, for all the info as to … Continue reading
Let it never, ever be said, that The Ocelot doesn’t know how to throw a party. It does; I know so, I have been to many. And the very fact that I have very little recollection of any of them is surely hard evidence that they were damn fine. However, it also makes reviewing the music a somewhat … Continue reading
The Unwise Monkey 