Oxjam 2010

Oxjam, the biggest music festival in the UK, is a festival with a difference: thousands of events put on by music lovers – from large-scale festivals to local sponsored busks – throughout October. taking over stages, back rooms and street corners to make music and raise money for Oxfam with gigs, DJ sets, busks and much more.

Since 2006, more than 36,000 musicians have played to an audience of over 750,000 people at almost 3,000 Oxjam events, raising in excess of £1.2 million to fight poverty around the world. Oxjam 2010 is expected to take the total past £1.5 million, enough to buy safe water for 1.6 million people, 750,000 bags of seeds or 60,000 goats.

Line-up

A London Oxfam shop will stage a series of exclusive, intimate performances, among the books and clothing on the shop floor itself to launch the charity's month-long Oxjam music festival.

The Oxfam shop in London, whose location remains a secret until the week of the gigs, will become an Oxjam shop for the week, selling the best second-hand music in the city during the day. During the evening, it will be converted into a gig venue, playing host to these intimate performances in front of a just a handful of fans lucky enough to get their hands on a ticket.

The confirmed line-up so far, with more to be added, is: Monday 27 September: The Charlatans (plus special guest Tom Furse from The Horrors), dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip plus more TBC. Hosted by BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens.
Tuesday 28 September: Diana Vickers, Gabriella Cilmi, Pearl & The Puppets
Wednesday 29 September: Johnny Borrell plus more TBC
Thursday 30 September: Four Tet plus more TBC

Tickets for these exclusive one-off performances were priced at £25 with all profits going to Oxfam's lifesaving work around the world.

To buy tickets to future Oxjam shows click here.

The charity shop gigs officially launch the Oxjam month of music, which runs through the whole of October. During October, more than 950 venues, 2,000 volunteers, 6,000 bands and musicians and 135,000 audience members will enable Oxjam to raise £500,000 to help Oxfam fight poverty. Oxjam is a festival with a difference: thousands of fundraising music events are put on by ordinary people - from large-scale festivals to local sponsored busks - making it the biggest line-up of any music festival in the UK.

Faithless will perform at one of the highlights of the volunteer-organised events, with a special show on 1 October at the Coronet in London, supported by a cast of dance music stars.

Hundreds of other events will be taking place throughout the whole of October including:

The Oxjam Takeover

The highlight of the month-long festival will be the Oxjam Takeover, a series of city-wide mini-festivals taking place in 31 locations across the UK, from Aberdeen to Bournemouth, on the weekend of 23 and 24 October. During a single weekend, around 3,000 musicians will perform to an audience of more than 35,000, all raising money to help Oxfam fight poverty worldwide.

Oxjam Takeover events take place on 23 & 24 October in the following locations: Aberdeen, Bath, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Brecon, Brighton, Bristol, Canterbury, Cardiff, Coventry, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guildford, Huddersfield, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London (Brixton, Leadenhall Market, Brick Lane, Kilburn, Kingston), Manchester, Neath, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Stirling, Stoke-on-Trent and Wiltshire.

Oxjam Southampton Takeover Festival - Sunday 24th October which features over 60 acts including Charly Coombes & The New Breed, Subgiant, Nat Jenkins, I Dream In Colour, Origami Dinosaur, The Supernovas, Arp Attack, Thomas Tantrum, The Family, Fly, Frankie, Fly, Mr Tom, Ben Dlugokecki, Arp Attack, Haunted Stereo, and Oresteia, plus Burlesque performers, comedians and poets to raise money for Oxfam's work fighting poverty around the world. Early bird tickets for Oxjam Southampton Takeover Festival are priced at £5. To buy tickets, click here.

Oxjam Kilburn Takeover Festival - Saturday 23rd October Oxjam Kilburn will be taking over Kilburn High Road once again from 4pm for a 12 hour Oxjam spectacular. Over 40 acts will perform across five live music venues (Luminaire, The Kings Head, The Good Ship, Powers, The North London Tavern), all to raise funds for Oxfam! Line-up includes Abiade, Beth Haddock, Big Beats plus guests, Bitches, Chapter 24, Charlie Bath, Charlie King, Club.The.Mammoth, Dansette Junior, Dead Red Sun, English, French Kissing, Gifts for Givers, Gun Crime,, Holly Walker, Juan Zelada, Lucy Dagg, Nylo, Phantom, Red Drapes, Rocky Nti, Rox, Rubicks, Sampha, Something like Fire, Spring Offensive, Starling, Tara London, The Future Shape of Sound, The Rifle Volunteer, Tom Dibb, Toys With Knifes, Vaults, Wildfire, Young Turks DJs, Zoo For You, and special guests playing throughout the Festival on the day. Early bird tickets for Oxjam Kilburn Takeover Festival are priced at £10. To buy tickets, click here.

Oxjam Brecon Takeover Festival - kicks off at 2pm on Saturday 16th October. With 50 acts set to perform, playing 6 stages throughout the town in aid of Oxfam, venues include The Gremlin, The Rugby Club, The Markets Tavern, Theatr Brycheiniog, The Corries Club and The Northcote Con Club. Line-up includes Richard James, Draw Me Stories, Spencer McGarry Season, Threatmantics, The Gentle Good, Huw M, Jo Bartlet, Ceri Frost, Evening Chorus, Pamela Wyn Shannon, Little Eris, Circle of One, The Long Knives, All The Damn Vampires, All Our Glory, and Fellon Black Days. Oxjam Brecon will also feature new comedians including James Acaster, and Nick Helm. Early bird tickets for Oxjam Brecon Takeover Festival are priced at £6. To buy tickets, click here.

Leadenhall Market for a FREE 12-hour extravaganza of local music, food and fun on 22 October. Alongside music from London acts there will be games, raffles and food! There will be 35 bands performing across 3 stages including The Roolettes, The Weller Collective, Senor Al and the JJs, Country Dirt, Amoriste, Phil Burdett Band, The Obscuritones, Heat Treatment, WIMM, Jonathan Glew Band, Bob Collum, Dean Johnson, Joanna Weston, Ross and the Wrongens, Squire and the Jackams, Zen Motel, Cavilry, Dirty Flags, Tina Mali, Eskimo Dolls, Georgee and Dennis, Phil Burdett, Tom Burgess, Elena Conchitas, DJ El Conchitas, DJ Craig Fury, and some very special guests…

Oxjam Brixton Takeover Festival - happens from 7pm on Saturday 23rd October. With acts performing at 5 venues in aid of Oxfam, venues includehe Windmill (Straight up indie), Upstairs at Ritzy (acoustic heaven), The Dogstar (Hip Hop, Reggae, Bashment), The Rest is Noise (Afrobeat, Baille Funk and a whole lot more) and Plan B for the after party. Confirmed artists so far include Rokurro, Yaaba Funk, Secousse Soundsystem, Plantain, DJ Arnaud, Curtis, Fratts percussion, DJ Vadim, Katy B, The Illerspaiens, King Tubbys Soundsystem, Grippa, Main Squeeze, DJ Odin, Sofa King, True Stories, Robin Hood, Sweet Pea, Sonny B Walker, SMoke and Feathers, Bumi Thomas, Ben Thomas, Ryan Carr, and many more TBC. Wristband exchange at the Dogstar. Early bird tickets for Oxjam Brixton Takeover Festival are priced at £8 (full price £10). To buy tickets, click here.

Find out more

To find out what Oxjam events are going on in your area this October, visit www.oxfam.org.uk/oxjam or call 0300 200 1255.

The money raised from Oxjam helps Oxfam fight poverty in three ways: Emergency response, Development work, and Campaigning for change.

More information will be here when available.

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