A word from the Editor

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Cheltenham’s MND

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Avert Francis Fire Review

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Gemma Dunstan

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Entirety clothing Interview

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Dan Gutteridge’s Jazz Festival Review

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Live Music Listings

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In next month’s issue...

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Hello!

Wow summer has well and truly arrived in Glouces-tershire. May has been full of Olympic torches, the fantastic Jazz Festival and some amazing weather. June is shaping up to be just as exciting with the Jubilee and all its celebratory events as well as some of the county’s best festivals including Wych-wood Festival.

We have gone all patriotic in the spirit of the jubi-lee as you can tell from our cover! Inside we have some fantastic articles, a review of Avert Francis at the Jazz Festival as well as Dan Gutteridge’s personal best bits. We also have an interview with Ross Silcocks CEO of Cheltenham’s own up and coming lifestyle brand Entirety. As well as all of that we hear from our regular columnists the MND for Cheltenham Andrew Lansley and BBC Gloucester-shire Introducing’s Gemma Dunstan.

There is loads going on around the county and as always you can find them all in our listings.

We’ve finally reached a Twitter milestone of 100 fol-lowers which we’re thrilled about! Why not follow us @MusicAtGlos if you dont already and don’t forget to visit the new website while you’re at it www.musi-catglos.wordpress.com

Amelia x

A word from the editor

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What’s up June?

Jazz Fest was great. Thing in the Spring was great. We even got sunshine at the end of the month. Which was great. June sees us enter the maw of festival season indulgence and this year looks better than ever. At the risk of repeated sentiment declared elsewhere in this month’s MAG, Wychwood looks to be awesome and 2000 Trees set to be the taste-making diamond in Gloucestershire’s festival crown. The Trees’ guys have also been putting on their much-coveted brand of events on at the Frog & Fiddle and even Gloucester Guildhall have booked a show there. Bob Dylan was right.

There is literally so much going on around the county at the moment that it just feels wrong not to highlight it all. Which is why MAG is good. It’s the only hard copy fanzine available in the county and it is written by music fans and distributed in arts and music facilities. There is no slaving to advertising and the online version is getting more popular as each month goes by and more shows go in these very valuable pages.

Bring on July.

A x

Avert Francis at the

Cheltenham Jazz Festival Words & Picture: Fabio Thomas

Upon entering the free stage at this year’s jazz festival, anything but Jazz was heard on the Sunday the 6th May. What was heard, on the other hand, was the soothing sound of acoustic folk, which seems to have engulfed many smaller stages at festivals throughout the country.

While the chilled atmosphere struggled to overpower the boom of sound coming from Imelda May in the big top, the free stage remained packed all evening; either portraying the sheer quality of the artists on it, or the credit crunch hit-ting the pockets of Cheltenham’s jazz fans.

The mellow feel continued right through to the early eve-ning when London based singer songwriter ‘Avert Francis’ came on. While Avert’s melancholy Nick Drake-esque songs had little difference to many UK singer-songwriters, his attitude clearly did. Where many artists persist in con-forming to the traditional reclusive, shy and somewhat self-indulgent image of being a singer-songwriter, Avert avoided all of the above. Through his relaxed and likeable charisma, his songs came into their own.

His rolling finger picked backing and pleading vocal delivery were shown most prevalently on ‘Black Horizon’, a track off his new self-titled Album. These darker images were con-trasted with the nostalgic lyricism shown in ‘After School’, a song written about “growing up in the Malvern hills”, as Avert simply introduced it. The emphasis on the song-writer’s roots was also made obvious in ‘Middle England Blues’, where he utilised a delta grove to portray his images of the British countryside.

His new album, recorded on reel to reel tape, contains nothing more than his guitar and voice (ala Springsteen’s ground-breaking ‘Nebraska’ album). The sheer simplicity of his recordings act as the perfect base for a traditional folk roots album, and if that’s what you are looking for, then there is no need to look any further.

‘Avert Francis’ is available to download on iTunes.

MAG would like to say a special thank you to the

Popular Music course at The University of Gloucestershire for their con-tribution to the distribution of the fanzine.

BBC Gloucestershire Introducing… is the show for your new music. Every Saturday from 5:30pm on BBC Radio Gloucestershire, you can hear the tastiest new cuts of unsigned music from across the county. We might have only been on-air since the beginning of October, but the response has been fantastic with shed loads of you uploading your tracks at bbc.co.uk/introducing – keep em comin’!

Catch Paul Moss and Gemma Dunstan presenting BBC Gloucestershire Introducing... every Satur-day from 5:30pm to hear the tastiest cuts from the county’s up and coming artists. The 30 minute show also includes interviews with the people behind the music and a gig guide for who to see play live, and where.

BBC Radio Gloucestershire 104.7, 95, 95.8 FM, 1413 AM and on the BBC iPlayer

BBC Gloucestershire Introducing presenter Gemma DunstaN

Hello!

Wychwood is just around the corner and I am very excited to bepresenting the BBC Introducing stage with co-host James Thomas thisyear. Last year was a fantastic success and I have no doubt that thisyear will be even better. The acts from Gloucestershire performing forBBC Introducing this year are Harbour, George Montague, The Flex and

Pink Crudge Caravan. There will also be a whole line up of acts from other Introducing shows from Cardiff, Hereford & Worcester and Bristol among others. If you can’t make it then don’t panic as we will be reporting live from the festival.

Stay tuned for our London Road sessions which we have started recording this year. We have had great sessions so far from Simplistic Scientists, Herons, and Funky Horse Milk. Don’t forget, if youcontinue to send your music to us via the uploader you could be picked to play live in our studios!

The uploader can be found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/uploader/

Listen to Gemma Dunstan, James Thomas and Paul Moss live every Saturday at 5.30pm on BBC Ra-dio Gloucestershire 104.7FM or online. You can catch up on BBC iPlayer for up to 7 days afterwards.

Gemma x

We spoke to Ross Silcocks the CEO

of local lifestyle brand Entirety.

What made you want to start up a clothing company? And why in Cheltenham? It’s been great starting this up but I’ve seen so many people try and fail, I’ve put months of hard work and a lot of money into building Entirety into what it is today, it ain’t no walk in the park. Throughout college and university I was given opportunities to work for a variety of clients, without taking on these opportunities I simply wouldn’t be where I am today. Entirety began as an op-portunity for myself but one year on I’m proud to say I’m now able to offer these opportunities for others. I believe great things only start with the support from local communities. Social network-ing is great but nothing will ever be more powerful than word of mouth. Although my hometown is Bristol, I feel Cheltenham is where I grew up, it’s where I found myself and the friends I’ll have for the rest of my life and no matter how much work I’ve done, without them Entirety wouldn’t be where it is today.

What is the inspiration behind your designs?I guess the best way to describe Entirety as a brand is if you pic-ture someone who enjoys reading snowboard lifestyle magazines and 1980’s punk zines while drinking Jagermiester and listening to an extensive amount of Joy Division, hardcore metal and stuff with really deep bass. Our designs are mostly monochrome, us-ing simple yet bold and effective designs that stand out.

You’re involved with a lot of creative avenues including ex-treme sports, music and photography how has this shaped the Entirety brand?When were not packaging T-Shirts, working on the website or sketching out new designs, you’ll find us snowboarding, skate-boarding, surfing, possibly at a festival, or a rave, you might even find us in a different country, we’ve hit Outlook in Croatia for the past 2 years and damn that shit was fun.Entirety’s main value is the family that helped build it, most of which are all Boardriders from the University of Gloucestershire, without those guys Entirety wouldn’t be what it would be what it is today. Behind being a clothing company, Entirety is a platform for creatives to showcase their work, we’re making this more public over the next month by starting a blog which will be set on captur-ing the attention of students all across the UK. Whether it’s post-ing a film about skateboarding zombies or a sketch from an illus-tration student of someone’s brother or sister being possessed by a crocodile, we want to see it. After a year we’ve had 20k hits on our website, that’s a lot of people each month viewing your work, if we like it enough we may even get you onboard as a designer or a festival photographer. So anyone wants to add something to their CV and work with an up & coming brand, please get in touch

You recently did a run of T-Shirts for local band Young Kato, are you looking to sponsor more local bands? Are there already some collaborations in the pipeline? While running Entirety I create music videos, film documentaries and create promotional videos. Young Kato saw some of my pre-vious work and approached me to film them at Cribbs Causeway alongside Olly Murs. A few of the YK boys are fans of Entirety

so we decided to do a special release at a gig in Bristol, we had 50 t-shirts printed and ended up near enough selling out in one night. I’m always interested in doing a special release with bands or offering endorsements. I’ve had the pleasure of directing videos for bands with the likes of Harbour and Jim Lockey & the Solumn Sun, Cheltenham should be proud to have them. At the moment I’m building up a team so if you have a local band and believe you have something to offer definitely get in touch. I’ve just spon-sored the youngest and for his age possibly greatest skateboard-er I’ve ever seen, I’m not kidding this kids hot shit. Everyones going to love him and I can’t wait to release the news.

You recently put on the ‘Let’s Kick Start Summer’ event, how did this go and do you have any more events planned? You’re asking a lot for me to try and remember that night. Ha, yea Lets Kick Start Summer began as an idea for a warm-up to a Skatepark launch we were running the following week in Church-down. It was a total non profit scheme to say a personal thanks to Cheltenham for helping me start all this. I guess it was my plan and chance to create the perfect night, I believe I succeeded in having a mixture of light acoustic feel good music from local tal-ent, disgustingly heavy music, getting Entirety’s name out there and inflatable dolphins having an ace time in the crowd, all this at one of my favorite places and previous employer The Frog & Fiddle. The biggest event for Entirety so far is being at 2000 Trees Festival. We’ve been going just over a year now and being lined up to trade at 3 festivals this summer is a massive achieve-ment. We’ll also be hitting a wakeboarding festival called ‘On The Pond’ in July.

What does the future hold for Entirety Clothing?I didn’t start it with the expectations of it becoming as big as it has, but I’m genuinely dead excited for the future. It’s true that my main career aspiration is filmmaking but this year Entirety has given such fantastic opportunity in terms of film work I can’t pos-sibly give that up. I guess time will tell but Entirety’s going as far as it can go. Illustrators, graphic designers, filmmakers, photogra-phers, get on board now, give me 5 years, who knows where this will go.

Where can readers buy your products?We’ve got an online store, which is at the moment the only place you can pick up Entirety gear. This is super secret but we might be having an exclusive spot in a store & gallery in Bristol pretty soon, that’s dead exciting.Check out the collection and visit the store via: www.entiretycloth-ing.co.ukOr check out what crazy stuff we’re up to or when we have spon-taneous sales by following us on facebook: www.facebook.com/entiretyclothingAnyone purchasing from MAG just drop us an email entire-tyclothing@gmail.com before you buy and we’ll throw you over a discount code.

A student’s review of

The Cheltenham Jazz Festival

Words & Picture: Dan Gutteridge

It’s Thursday 3rd May and I’m stood in my first porter loo of the festival season. However (puts on Marks and Spencer ladies voice) this isn’t just any portaoo it’s the cleanest, best smelling portaloo I have ever had the privilege of doing a toilet in. I can only be in one place. It’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

Although the title may suggest otherwise Cheltenham Jazz Festival is more of a celebration, a meeting of musicians and several concerts all taking place in close proximity than an actual music festival. However the move to Montpellier Gardens from the Town Hall cer-tainly gives it more of a festival edge.

Cheltenham Jazz Festival is a heavy weight in the Jazz events world. The festival constantly pulls big names. This year Paloma Faith, Imelda May, Candi Staton and Steve Winwood were all featuring across the 6 days. As well as all the big names and paid events at the festival there is the free stage. A stage for members of the public to roll in and out of, and as the name suggests it is com-pletely free of charge. This, for me, was one of the high-lights and what made the festival. There was a lovely laid back vibe that came from the stage and all around it. The food stalls, the beer tent and the grass and benches for people to lay about on made for a wonderful feel. The booking on the stage also helps make it. Its jazz, but not in your face jazz, no specialist jazz flute, no Hungarian nose horn just well made, well performed music with jazz influences. It was also the place for local schools and the up and coming record label ‘Verve’ to showcase their acts. Natalie Duncan was the standout from Verve. Born in Nottingham and recently moved to London with the backing of her label. She had haunting vocals and wonderful backing from her talented piano playing skills and accomplished band. Other names away from Verve that stood out across the festival were names such as George Montague and Thrill Collins (both featuring at

Wychwood later this month). It was a great opportunity for people to get involved with the festival and learn and listen to a style of music they may have been completely new to them.

A man that stood out for all at the Festival was Gregory Porter. He played with the BBC concert orchestra on the Friday then played his own headline show on the Satur-day. His soft vocals and enchanting lyrics made for some truly marvellous songs. It’s not hard to realise why his debut album was nominated for a Grammy. But it wasn’t just his music that made people love him. He was seen at various times wandering around the festival chat-ting to people and happy for photographs. This again is something that is a bit different about Jazz festival. I’m not too sure Bono wondered around Glasto after his headline set last summer.If you’ve never been to the festival, get it in your diary now, ready for next year. Its laid back, boasts a free Jazz stage open to all, has one of the best atmospheres I have ever experienced at a music event and they even have the best smelling portaloos of any festival in Brit-ain. What more could you want?

Gloucestershire Festivals

2012

JUNE1st-3rd Ukulele Festival of Great Britain Cheltenham Town Hall

1st-3rd Winchcombe Festival of Music & Arts Venues TBC

8th-10th Wychwood Festival Cheltenham Racecourse

JULY13th-14th 2000trees Festival Upcote Farm

4th- 15th Cheltenham Music Festival Cheltenham Town Hall

6th-9th Barn on the Farm Over Farm Gloucester

21st Park: Live Gloucester Park

AUGUST24th- 27th Greenbelt Festival Cheltenham Racecourse

SEPTEMBER21st-23rd Frogfest The Frog & Fiddle Cheltenham

Cheltenham 01/06/2012 The Bayshill Beaujacks 21:00 01/06/2012 United Services Club Tubby Blues Club 20:00 01/06/2012 2pigs JUDDER 22:00

02/06/2012 The Bayshill Colin & Jason Hartley 21:00 02/06/2012 Norwood Arms Coronettes 21:00 02/06/2012 Cotswold Inn Laurence Jones Band 21:00 02/06/2012 Charlton Kings Club Insight 20:45 02/06/2012 Fiery Angel Craig White & Les 21:00 02/06/2012 2pigs MyDesign FREE GIG 20:00

03/06/2012 The Bayshill Outboys & Papa Burgandy TBC 03/06/2012 Charlton Kings The Panama Jazz Band 12:30 03/06/2012 Brizen Centre Ramrods 18:00

04/06/2012 The Bayshill My Design & Too Rock for Country 14:30 04/06/2012 Charlton Kings Club Chaz & Dave 20:30

05/06/2012 The Venue (Wheatsheaf) Peter Gill Swing Band 20:00 05/06/2012 Fiery Angel Colin Hartley TBC 06/06/2012 The Bayshill Steve Kent & Bob Smith 20:30

08/06/2012 Royal George Revue 21:00

09/06/2012 The Bayshill Over the Hill 21:00 09/06/2012 O’Neils Otis Mack & The Tubby Bluesters 21:00 09/06/2012 Charlton Kings Club Ian Oliver 20:45

14/06/2012 Manor by the Lake Summer Jazz 19:30

16/06/2012 The Bayshill Shire Straits 21:00 16/06/2012 Charlton Kings Club The Bridge 20:45 16/06/2012 Frog & Fiddle Dry the River 20:00

17/06/2012 Pittville Pump Rooms Cheltenham Philharmonic Orchestra 15:00 17/06/2012 Royal Union Groove Front 20:00

21/06/2012 Parabola Arts Centre Hannah Ringham’s Free Show 19:30

23/06/2012 The Bayshill Jibbafish 21:00 23/06/2012 The Victory Club Rockology 20:00 23/06/2012 Albion House Over the Hill 20:45 23/06/2012 Charlton Kings Club Audio Kiss 20:45 23/06/2012 Cotswold Inn Steamroller 21:00

25/06/2012 Bistrot Coco Swing from Paris 20:30

27/06/2012 Parabola Arts Centre Swamp Juice 19:30

29/06/2012 The Bayshill Blues Anoraks 21:00 29/06/2012 St Margarets Hall Rockology & Cavern Legacy 21:00

30/06/2012 The Bayshill Steamroller 21:00 30/06/2012 Charlton Kings Club Nighthours 20:45

Gloucester 01/06/2012 Café Rene Missin Rosie 23:00

02/06/2012 Guildhall A Right Royal Tea Dance 13:30

04/06/2012 Ridge & Furrow Rockology TBC

06/06/2012 Guildhall Ash 19:30 06/06/2012 Café Rene Sam Eden 21:00

08/06/2012 Café Rene Profoundly Blue 23:00 08/06/2012 Wotton Concert Rooms Keith Thompson Band 19:30

11/06/2012 Guildhall Folk Unplugged 20:00

13/06/2012 Café Rene Ramon Goose 21:00

15/06/2012 Café Rene Zimbaremabwe 23:00

16/06/2012 Guildhall Darkside: The Pink Floyd Show 19:30

20/06/2012 Café Rene Wille and the Bandits 21:00

22/06/2012 Café Rene Slowjin 23:00 22/06/2012 Kingsholm Stadium Tom Jones TBC

27/06/2012 Café Rene Live at Gloucester Studio Presents 21:00

29/06/2012 Café Rene Claire Le Brocq and the Bordellos 23:00

30/06/2012 Guildhall WNO: The Face in the Mirror 15:30

Stroud 08/06/2012 Queen Victoria Rockology 21:00

15/06/2012 Sub Rooms Kieran Goss 20:00

16/06/2012 Sub Rooms Stroud Summer Ball 20:00

22/06/2012 Sub Rooms The Wurzels & Dave Sharp 20:00 29/06/2012 Sub Rooms Friday Night Live 20:00

Tewkesbury 01/06/2012 Hunters Inn Sax Appeal 21:00

03/06/2012 Nottingham Arms Sax N Axe 20:00

09/06/2012 Roses Theatre Desperado Tribute 19:30

22/06/2012 Roses Theatre 4 Girls 4 Harps 19:30

23/06/2012 Roses Theatre The ELO Experience 19:30

24/06/2012 Gupshill Manor Crescendo Big Band 19:00

Birdlip 01/06/2012 Royal George Greg Winters 21:00

15/06/2012 Royal George Scott 21:00

29/06/2012 Royal George Tom Jurgens 21:00

Bishops Cleeve 01/06/2012 Kings Head Ramrods 20:30

02/06/2012 Kings Head Paul Newman & Becky Carter 17:00 15/06/2012 Tithe Barn Hypocondriacs TBC

Westonbirt 22/06/2012 Arboretum Will Young TBC

23/06/2012 Arboretum Plan B TBC

24/06/2012 Arboretum Madness TBC

If you have any gigs you would like listed in MAG then send them to ascognamiglio@glos.ac.uk

Woodmancote 07/06/2012 Apple Tree Folk Law 21:00

14/06/2012 Apple Tree Dave Miles 21:00

28/06/2012 Apple Tree Nigel Miles 21:00

Cirencester 04/06/2012 Golden Cross Swing from Paris 13:30

30/06/2012 Cirencester Park Occasionally Big Band TBC

Conderton 02/06/2012 Yew Tree Rickshaw Brides & Slainte 17:00

03/06/2012 Yew Tree Pholk Law & Defind the Fire 16:00

04/05/2012 Yew Tree Almost Heros 20:30

12/06/2012 Yew Tree Folk Session 21:00

Festivals 1st-3rd Ukulele Festival of Great Britain Cheltenham Town Hall 1st-3rd Winchcombe Festival of Music & Arts Venues TBC 8th-10th Wychwood Festival Cheltenham Racecourse

Open Mic Nights Tuesday St Paul’s Tavern, Cheltenham Tuesday Salisbury Inn, Cheltenham

Wednesday Cross Keys, Gloucester Wednesday Norwood Arms, Cheltenham

Thursday The Strand Bar, Cheltenham Thursday Hogs Head, Cheltenham Thursday The Restoration, Cheltenham

Friday The Fiery Angel, Cheltenham Friday Royal George Hotel, Cheltenham Friday Gardners Arms, Tewkesbury

Sunday Royal Union, Cheltenham Sunday The Cotswold Inn, Cheltenham Sunday Under the edge Arts, Wotton Under Edge Sunday Walls Country & Western Club, Gloucester Sunday Somerset Arms, Cheltenham

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MAG Editor Amelia Scognamiglio | Cover Design Jordan Bonner | Listings Contributor Ollie West | Staff Writ-ers Keziah Kurg, Gemma Dunstan, Fabio Thomas, Dan Gutteridge| Thanks to all the people who contributed to issue SEVENTEEN of MAG, special thanks (again) goes to Nicky Hughes @ The University of Gloucester-shire for organising the funding and production of this work and to Andrew Lansley for continuing to support MAG and everything musical in Gloucestershire| All work remains property of the original owner, used with permission. Reproduction in whole or any part (especially the listings) of this fanzine would be awesome as it’s great to spread the word people, just make sure you credit the fanzine : )

In next month’s issue of MAG...Check out our Review and interview with international

sensations Wheatus after their gig at The Frog & Fiddle

Cheltenham

PLUSOur review of the Wychwood festival at the Racecourse

Cheltenham