Fatboy Slim, Brett Anderson, Charlie Simpson, and Damon Albarn

Stars includingFatboy Slim, Kissy Sell Out, Man Like Me (live), Brett Anderson, Patrick Wolf, Ghostpoet, Charlie Simpson, DRC Music, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Richard Russell, and Kwes will launch the month-long Oxjam Music Festival from Monday 26th September with a series of exclusive, intimate performances in a specially-converted Oxfam shop in London to launch the fifth year of UK's biggest charity music festival.

The shows, which be limited to just 200 audience members per night, run from Monday 26th September to Thursday 29th September, and tickets are on general sale today. Many more acts are still to be confirmed for this unique series of gigs in a charity shop.

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 26 Sept: Fatboy Slim, Kissy Sell Out, Man Like Me
Tuesday 27 Sept: Brett Anderson (Suede), Patrick Wolf, Ghostpoet
Wednesday 28 Sept: Charlie Simpson plus more TBA
Thursday 29 Sept: DRC Music album launch feat. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Richard Russell (XL Records), Kwes (Warp Records) and more.
This is the launch event for the album Kinshasa One Two, out on Warp Records. DRC Music is a project brought together by Damon Albarn to raise money for Oxfam.

Tickets to the shows will be limited to less than 200 per night, and are on sale from today priced at £25, or £20 for Thursday. To buy tickets click here. Tickets for these exclusive one-off performances cost £25 and all profits go to Oxfam's lifesaving work around the world.

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.

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.

Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook), who returns to play the charity shop shows after performing in the first year, said, "The reason I've been involved with Oxjam in previous years is that, as well as being one of the highlights of my DJing calendar, I see it as the best way for people to use their love of music to help a really worthwhile charity like Oxfam. I'm delighted to be joining in the fifth birthday celebrations this year, and I hope that budding DJs all around the country will also be using their decks and records to help fight poverty in October."

Former frontman of Suede, Brett Anderson said, "In the early nineties, Suede bought most of their clothes in Oxfam shops. It was always somewhere you could find cheap, interesting old things that no-one else had and for a few years it pretty much defined our style, so I feel a massive sense of homecoming with the Oxjam gig. The Oxfam shop is a great British institution that no high street should be without, and the Oxjam gigs are an extension of this blend of philanthropy and off-beat style.

"Even better, the shop gigs are only the beginning of Oxjam, a whole month of music raising money to help Oxfam keep saving lives and making a difference all over the world."

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 22 and 23 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.

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.

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.

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