NOTHING TO DO, NOWHERE TO GO-O-O

History is the new cookery, which was the new DIY, which is what the people did when the football season was on holidays, which begin advertising on boxing day, like you’ve got a pot to piss in then anyway. Big screen TV bars are the new music venues, well at least they are round our way. In October the demons posing as Six Continents Retail aka Bass closed the doors of The Point, a typically scabby but homely stop off on ‘the toilet tour’. The locals (and not so locals) vented spleen, on deaf (and dumb) ears, there was nothing anyone could do to stop them, they said it was losing them money, ah yes, fuck culture ... the students want their rugby. So we couldn’t let the moment go unmarked, we put out singles as often as fags, piss around with the name and make it as insulting as we could, find a few nearby popsters, bang out a hateful tune or two, and slap it out there ... it’s a kinda therepy ... feel better already? ... no, do not. Solace perhaps in the confident knowledge that the project will fail - they did the same thing to The Jericho Tavern - hey man that really IS a scream - but the real crux is this, without the little places and the little people who run them, you can’t have the little bands, and we all know how world-wide massive them minnows get, and how much beer ‘the kids’ drink at their festivals, The Carling Weekend? who brews Carling? why Bass of course. Enough tears in our (independent microbrewery) beer, this record is just a little mark of respect to all the bands and punters who made the place great, gone but never to be forgotten, The Point name lives on elsewhere, searching for a permanent home as we speak, the show MUST go on .. the show must go on. For a full article go to http://nightshift.oxfordmusic.net/, how low can they go? Join The Point mailing list; info@thepoint.oxfordmusic.net or look for yourself - http://thepoint.oxfordmusic.net

 

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