JACK GOLDSTEIN + GARDEN CENTRE

December 9th

The Library

182 Cowley Road

Oxford

*NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS, NO WHEELCHAIR ACCESS*

JACK GOLDSTEIN

Last year, Jack Goldstein released his latest album, HELLFIRE BUMPER STICKER COWPUNCHING JEWBOY - a 46-minute “hyper-country” odyssey through love, identity and resilience in a world turned upside down. Apricot Magazine called it “a call to arms for anyone grappling with loss and looking for a way to dance through it”, while Oxford’s Nightshift hailed Goldstein as a “talent unbound by genre or convention”.

To round off 2026, Goldstein is playing a handful of select shows, trying out new material alongside songs from his last two albums.

The Guardian described Goldstein’s writing as “marrying avant-garde impulses to commercial pop, proof that psychedelia need not be an exercise in retro genre pastiche”. Clash Magazine called it “a fitting soundtrack to some kind of entirely welcome paranormal experience”, while Louder Than War praised his “high-octane outlaw pop with a Lynchian sense of the bizarre, channelling the spirits of Brian Wilson, Andy Kaufman and Reeves & Mortimer”.

https://jackgoldstein.bandcamp.com/music

GARDEN CENTRE

Garden Centre is a band formed out of necessity. The specific function of the band was to tell the story of a group of people who found themselves drawn to an abandoned plant nursery in southern England. The band hoped that their messages were transmitted efficiently, broadcast via audio in the form of their début album 'Garden Centre'.

With their task well and truly complete, the members of Garden Centre have become distracted. Some members still obsess over semi-rural boredom and exploration. Others have the audacity to write love songs. The most cretinous members opt to write about energy drinks exclusively. Garden Centre features members of Joanna Gruesome, King Of Cats, Porridge Radio and Ex Void. They make hyperactive music that is never too far from complete collapse."

https://gardencentre.bandcamp.com

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