Shuffle Programme by The Ocelot

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Thursday July 11 2019 to Sunday July 14 2019

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elcome to the 13th year running of The Swindon Shuffle, a free entry event that was conceived and founded in 2007 by a group of independent music promoters and was initially plotted out on the back of a literal fag packet during a beer or two at The Victoria. The idea was simple and was inspired by already established city centre music festivals like the Camden Crawl, The Great Escape and the Oxford Punt; the crowd was to “Shuffle” between a couple of music venues on one particular night to watch a variety of acts performing. This, of course, quickly expanded before the first event had been run, to be a four-day event across even more venues, with the audience “Shuffle” giving the event its now familiar name. The inaugural festival was held Thursday 19th to Sunday 22nd July 2007 using The Victoria, The Furnace, The Rolleston, 12 Bar, and The Beehive as venues with an opening and fringe night held at Swindon Town Football Club’s Winners Lounge on the Thursday. In the following years venues and organisers have come and gone, supported charities have changed and of course the music and musicians involved has been an ever-fluid story. Two things have remained

constant however: the overall ethos and aim of the event; to bring together the community to showcase a thriving local music scene remains as solid as ever, and of course, The Beehive as a venue, our only ever-present physical component. We still principally strive to highlight the wonderful original musical talent on our doorstep, although we do on occasion like to mix this up with some of the best grassroots artists from further afield. In the last 12 years many artists have gone on from playing the Shuffle to make their mark on the wider national scene, artists including out of towner acts like Stornoway, The Volt and Bleech as well as Swindon’s own success stories, acts like Gaz Brookfield, Beatbullyz, Colour The Atlas, The Alfonz and The Dead Lay Waiting. More recent years have seen this tradition continue with bands like Yves and Getrz gaining national recognition having partly cut their teeth at the Shuffle. The festival is strongly rooted in the Old Town community and seeks to continually promote and highlight the area. This year you will find us at shuffle stalwart The Victoria as well as relative newcomer The Tuppenny and brand-new venue The Hop as well as ever-present The Beehive. Come on down and enjoy the music!

So far, the event has raised in excess of £12,000 for local charities, with the current beneficiaries being the Swindon and Gloucester branch of Mind, the mental health charity, an organisation we have been proud to support for several years now, as we have seen many famous and local musicians sadly succumb to their own mental demons in the most terminal of ways. We will have collection buckets at each session, or you can donate directly to the branch via text with the following codes:

To donate £1 text SGMIND to 70201 To donate £3 text SGMIND to 70331 To donate £5 text SGMIND to 70970 To donate £10 text SGMIND to 70191 To find out more about Mind’s work locally visit www.sgmind.org.uk If you feel you need help or support from Mind then please call them on 01793 432031. *Line up subject to change. Terms and conditions apply Please see website for full details All venues 18+ except The Tuppenny on Saturday and Sunday

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T THE BEEHIVE H E

As one of the oldest pubs in Swindon it has a unique character all of its own, with its twisting, four level layout. It is also the only venue to have been an ‘ever present’ on the Shuffle. The pub has always been a supporter of the arts whether that’s local, national, and international music acts to poetry nights, art exhibitions, and more. Tucked away behind Regents Circus in Prospect Place it could be one of Swindon’s best kept secrets.

THE VICTORIA

A stalwart of the live music scene since the end of the 90s, It has also been involved in 12 of the 13 Shuffles to take place.The impressive roster of local, national, and international artists have played there (including Ed Sheeran!) The size of the Victoria Road venue, stage and PA system mean this is definitely a place to check out some of the bigger and louder acts playing this year’s festival.

V E N THE HOP INN U E S BAILA COFFEE & VINYL

The Hop originally opened on Devizes Road in the early 2010s in a small building creating a unique small bar serving craft beer and lager. Thanks to its huge popularity The Hop moved earlier this year to a bigger premises a couple of doors down. With the new venue The Hop will be hosting Friday and Saturday evening sessions. The bigger venue means they can now offer a far larger selection of rotating craft beers and lagers, so everyone’s a winner!

Having opened in 2014, Victoria Road’s Baila was one of the early entrants into Swindon’s small bar culture serving coffee by day and cocktails by evening. It has a real cosmopolitan city feeling and has become a real hidden gem on the Swindon scene. Baila has been involved in the music community and the Shuffle since it first opened, and in recent years it has become the place to party to some brilliant DJs after the live music is dying down for another night.

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THE TUPPENNY

The Tuppenny opened in late 2016 on Devizes Road and very quickly became one of the best independent bars in Swindon, with a large range of craft beer, craft spirits, cocktails and wine. It has a unique and cosy feel with its own quirky decor, up-cycled furniture and even a bar top made from two pence coins! With brilliant hot food provided by Helen Browning’s Chop House around the corner . The Tuppenny is also a big supporter of original music in Swindon, putting on stripped back bands and singer-songwriters.

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WEDNESDAY JULY 10

7.30pm - Swindon Shuffle Music Quiz at The Beehive

JULY 11

T H U R S D A Y

THE TUPPENNY

9.45pm - No Side Effects

No Side Effects are all about contradictions and gentle sonic conflict. On the one hand their synth driven sound is as futuristic and clinical as it comes but it is the dreamy ambience they fashion from those digital building blocks that provides the balance; a haunting and ethereal vibe that neatly subverts expectations.

9pm - Chloe Hepburn Chloe plays with a sound that wanders between modern indie-pop cool and the echoes of a more drifting, ambient dream-pop past. The result is music that is full of accessible hooks and emotive soundscapes, which is wonderfully forward thinking and yet slightly nostalgic.

8.15pm - Jamin Sun

The perfect example of the postgenre world, Jamin Sun seems to encompass everything from infectious dance beats, ambient electronica, pop melodics and strange indie otherness. Throw into that sunshine grooves, exotic vocal samples and a joyous overall vibe and you really have something for everyone. (Except perhaps goths!)

7.30pm - Noella Usborne

With her debut single, Unrequited, proving popular with pop-pickers and critics alike, Noella is the sound of cutting edge pop at its most fresh and addictive. Singer-songwriter ethics, contagious back beats and a wonderful indie pop vibe, Noella writes songs that tick all the right boxes in both mainstream and underground circles, which are simultaneously cultish and commercialâ&#x20AC;Śhow cool is that?

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THE VICTORIA

JULY 11

10.15pm - Gaz Brookfield and the Company of Thieves

If ever there was a local boy made good it is this fellow. Years of hard work have made him a festival favourite and stalwart of the national circuit and it isn’t hard to see the attraction. Addictive songs packed with wit and wisdom, intimate insides and relatable stories all put to upbeat guitar and a joyous groove, and then delivered via a high-octane live performance. That’s how it’s done.

9.30pm - Chris Webb Often found playing in some of the most exciting acoustic acts on the national circuit, it is as a solo performer that you best appreciate Chris’ deft and dexterous musical style. Blending mesmerising, upbeat, fingerstyle guitar with clever, poetic and sometimes whimsical lyrics, his sets are always as fun to hear as they are fascinating to watch.

8.45pm - Black Sheep Apprentice

Black Sheep Apprentice make music woven from intricate strands of country, punk, spaghetti western scores, high octane bluegrass and more besides. Then when they dial it down you get to appreciate those songs boiled down to their brooding essence. Redemption and solitude lie at the core but this is anything but melancholic and even they retain their rich and anthemic qualities

T H U R S D A Y

8pm - Jim Blair

Away from his usual seat at the front of Hip Route, Jim manages to maintain a similar level of energy even when it is just him and his trusty guitars. Funky, bluesy and ultimately groovesome tunes that take in slide, lap and more regular guitar styles, add to that a whiskey soaked vocal and bag of great tunes and you have the sort of music that can only be made where the Mason-Dixon Line meets the M4 corridor.

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CLASH FI Thursday 11 July The Victoria

The Tuppenny

Friday 12 July The Victoria

The Hop

The Tu

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