Oxjam 2012

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.

Launched in 2006, the Oxjam festival has seen more than 40,000 musicians play to an audience of over 800,000 people at over 3,000 Oxjam events, raising in excess of £1.75 million to fight poverty around the world. That's enough to buy 15,000 emergency shelters; 70,000 goats or 1050 classrooms.

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 with 1000 events and 33 city 'Takeovers', for which the festival has become known.

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 24 Sept: Graham Coxon, Theme Park (acoustic set), plus support
Tuesday 25 Sept: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs DJ set, Breach (Aka Ben Westbeech), plus support
Wednesday 26 Sept: Lucy Rose, Kyla La Grange, plus support
Thursday 27 Sept: Hot Chip & friends including Hot Chip DJ set, The 2 Bears and special guests TBA.

Tickets for these exclusive one-off performances are priced from £20 to £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 800 venues, 11,000 volunteers, 9,000 bands and musicians and more than 200,000 audience members will enable Oxjam to raise at least £350,000 to help Oxfam fight poverty. Oxjam is a festival with a difference: hundreds 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.

Events

Oxjam Takeover events will take place in the following locations:

London: Islington, Shoreditch, Stoke Newington, Shepherds Bush, Kilburn, Chiswick, Brixton, Clapham, Croydon
South of England: Oxford, Cambridge, Reading, Brighton, Bristol, Bedford, Norwich, Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Bournemouth, Plymouth, Bath, Torquay, Exeter
Midlands: Coventry, Nottingham, Birmingham, Leicester, Lichfield, Mansfield, Derby, Lincoln
North of England: Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Huddersfield, York
Wales: Cardiff
Scotland: Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Falkirk, the Shetlands.

Oxjam Islington

Friday (5.30pm-3am) and Saturday (12.30pm-2am) 90 acts including Glass Caves, The Dancers, Ed Prosek, The Young Aviators, Soapy Jefferson, The Jar Family, Kulaks, and Liam Modlin.
Venues are: Upper Street hosting the festival including the Arc, the Islington Metal Works, Filthy McNastys, Wenlock & Essex, the Library, the Hope & Anchor, The Winchester, The Oxfam Music & Book Shop and the Kings Head Theatre Bar. Tickets: Early bird tickets: £12 Weekend Pass / £5 for Friday / £10 for Saturday.

Oxjam Brum Takeover

Saturday 13 October from 2pm until 2am, 40+ acts and solo artists across 7 venues including : Scott Matthews, Polarbear, Paul Murphy, The Bluebeat Arkestra, Horrorshow, The Equators, Genius Collective, Sam Redmore, Jake Bullit, Vows, Io, Is I Cinema, Beatroute, Dan Whitehouse, Killing Fields Of Ontario, Ghosts Of Dead Airplanes, Xova, Dhol Blasters, Cannon Street, Khaliq, Johnny Normal, Oya Batacuda, Louise Petit Band, Anushka, The Doctor, Los Calamares, Miles Perhower, Skull Tv, Pressure Kids, Abie's Miracle Tonic, Giant-Elf-Fist, Jazzlines Summer School, Sick Boys Club, The Scribers, Moselele, Cro, Secret Walls, Abes Oddysee, Sam Stealth, Bambino, Saynt Luke, Louis Den, Kaypa, Bamboo Clart, Layla And The Good Lads, Anouska, Dan Whitehouse, Heavy Waves, James Summerfield, Johnny Normal, Leeanne Stoddart, This Is Tmrw, Sugarfoot Stomp, Brum Town, Eatgood, Jazzlines, Speech Fewapy, Birmingham Zine Festival, Eye Candy.
Venues are: Frederick, Symphony Hall Café Bar, The Yardbird, Café Blend, The Victoria, Island Bar, The Sunflower Lounge plus secret gigs. Tickets: £10 wristband entry.

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.

Tickets

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

To buy tickets to future Oxjam shows click here.

More information will be here when available.

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