Martha the Nightshift Cat

March's @NightshiftMag in online now at nightshiftmag.co.uk/2026/mar.pdf and it's fatter than me after eating a whole roast chicken.

It's STILL raining so grab a blanket and a cuppa and curl up with the latest edition of OMS Mag! Check out our chat with cover star Genevieve Miles ahead of OMS Movements Fest. PLUS news, DJ charts, reviews, local releases + more Read #66 & back editions back2left.co.uk

As the head of the Oxford Music Mafia, daddy says to always keep your friends close and your enemies closer, so he's got an interview with Stewart from @omsmagazine in the new issue of @NightshiftMag which is online now at nightshiftmag.co.uk/2026/feb.pdf.

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Nearly Christmas? This year I want a hamster. In the meantime, it must be time for Nightshift's Tracks of the Year. No Cat Power, Pussy Galore or Sampurr the Great sadly, but apparently it's all very lovely. Like me nightshiftmag.co.uk/2025/dec.pdf

Daddy is being a bit Scottish tonight. This is me at the Battle of Bannockburn, being cross with the Sasanach

Today we will be judging you. Specifically your demos.

Nightshift delivery day is exhausting as you can see. Lugging all those boxes around the county. Not that I lifted a paw to help. I lay on the desk and guarded the office from dragons and upbeat funky blues-rock bands. Anyway, the new issue is out and I have a new box to sit in.

Me and my fellow @NightshiftMag desk botherer Troughton have been working very hard to get the new issue out and it's online now at nightshiftmag.co.uk/2025/nov.pdf. There's even an interview with Big Ginger Tom in there.

It's demo review day apparently so I'm going to bake my brain under the radiator to dull the pain. Update: the radiator isn't on. Will this cruelty and neglect never end?

Apparently October's cover stars Unbelievable Truth are playing a homecoming gig at The Bullingdon tomorrow. I once caught a golden eagle in the back garden. That's a different sort of unbelievable truth.

Since what used to be Twitter seems to be completely dead now, thinking of handing over this account to Martha the Nightshift cat for regular updates on how she's disrupting work on the next issue. What do you reckon? She's even less tolerant of soulless soft rock than me.

Nightshift loves Emma Hunter - and so, it seems, does everyone else. They're on the cover of the new @omsmagazine out now at back2left.co.uk/wp-content/upl…. Chris at @Strummer_Room recommends some great records and I've just bought the Skloss album off the back of that. Ace psych noise.

SEVEN pages of gigs for October in the new @NightshiftMag online now at nightshiftmag.co.uk/2025/oct.pdf - the stars of tomorrow? The weirdest damn thing you ever did see? Those local kids just starting out. It's all here. Keep supporting live music, people.

October's @NightshiftMag is online now at nightshiftmag.co.uk/2025/oct.pdf - read the interview with UNBELIVABLE TRUTH on the comeback trail. Loads of other stuff, including a whopping SEVEN PAGES OF GIGS. And yes, I am shouting, but with good reason.

Print copy of September's Nightshift is out there now, waiting for you. Like fate. Like love. Like a sniper. But armed with fancy rude words rather than bullets. Or if you prefer old-time online, it's also here nightshiftmag.co.uk/2025/sep.pdf. Six pages of gigs. Go to gigs.

@IanCaine3 @AshmoleanMuseum Apparently the code goes live on September 1st and just for 1 month.

@NightshiftMag @AshmoleanMuseum Yeah I get an error too. Tried all variations of case as well

Get a whopping 50% off tickets for the @AshmoleanMuseum's Radiohead/Thom Yorke/Stanley Donwood exhibition if you use the code NIGHTSHIFT when you book tickets at ashmolean.org/exhibition/thi…

@IanCaine3 @AshmoleanMuseum I've emailed them. Came up as an error when I tried too just now.

@NightshiftMag @AshmoleanMuseum Doesn’t work ☹️

September's @NightshiftMag is online now at nightshiftmag.co.uk/2025/sep.pdf with @WowTheBobo on the cover + Introducing @Jonny_payne's Alto Alto band, we chat to @CountSkylarkin about 25 years of gigs, reviews of @TruckFestival & @SUPERNORMALFEST + 6 pages of gigs.