OXFAM CALLS ON NORTHAMPTONSHIRE MUSIC FANS TO JOIN THE UK’S BIGGEST EVER MUSIC FESTIVAL
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HIGHLIGHTED EVENTS:
New Roadmender Alldayers - 21st & 28th October 2007
BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW TO AVOID DISSAPOINTMENT!
Oxjam is going to host two Alldayers at the New Roadmender, with one of the strongest lineups this year.
Oxjam @ The New Roadmender - 21st Oct from 4pm till 11pm:
The Vista, Mutabilis, Joana And The Wolf, Backline, Flawed, Fred Claridge,
Rehab, The House Band, Cut To The Chase, Robin Phillips plus Stand Up Comedy,
Fairtrade stall, Food & drink stall, open mic!
Tickets:5 pounds on the door, 4 pounds in advance.
Halloween All Dayer! - 28th October from 2pm till 12am:
Main Stage
Olly Dabblers, The Vision, Bruises, Squids, Magic Skool Bus,1 Penny Short
Uptown Decadance Unit, Enki!
Bar Stage:
Boy Done Well, Rehab, Casio Kid, The Naishon, The Pepper Box, City Center,
Dirty Sweet, The Jackpot Golden Boys plus more!
Acoustics Stage:
One Toy Sarah, Ross Witt, Chris Startup, Cage of Stars, Ross Witt, The Remarkable
Rocket and many many more!
Tickets: 8 pounds, and you get to see all this.
Remember proceeds go to Oxfam, so you appearance to these events will be saving lives.
Visit the site: www.newroadmender.com or ring 01604 604020 to book before tickets are sold out.
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Northampton is not the only place where its happening, click here to see whats happening round the rest of the country.
GET INVOLVED...YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!
Oxfam is calling for music fans in Northampton and surrounding to get involved with the Oxjam music festival and organise an event in time for October, helping to raise a total more than £1 million for Oxfam. Around 40,000 musicians and an audience of 300,000 are expected to take part in 3,000 music events in October for Oxjam, the biggest music festival ever in the UK.
There's no limit on how big, or small the events are. From classical to club night, Mambo to metal, it's Live 8 in your back garden or local pub... All this will add up to one huge, UK-wide, Oxjam festival - raising hundreds of thousands of pounds to fight poverty.
Oxjam is a festival with a difference: thousands of events put on by music lovers – from large-scale festivals to local sponsored busks – during October will produce the equivalent of 500 days of continuous music, all raising money to fight poverty around the world. Last year, around 20,000 music lovers took part in 1,100 music events, and the festival generated £500,000 for Oxfam.
Last year was very successful, with the help of other promoters and volunteers, we managed to organise and tag over 30 events which contributed to a national figure of 500,000 pounds – Vimal Shah, Oxjam Regional Co-ordinator
Kooks singer Luke Pritchard said:
“A thousand events and half a million pounds for Oxfam last year proved
that music can make a difference to the world’s poorest people - why not
join me and do your bit to make Oxjam 2007 bigger and better?”
DJ Shadow, who travelled to Africa in April with Oxfam to
support Oxjam, said:
"I went out to Kenya to see how some of the money from Oxjam is being
spent and saw first-hand that it really does change lives. I’ll certainly
be doing my bit for Oxjam this year, and would encourage DJs, producers
and MCs to get together and put on an event this October. Together, we can
use our music to make a difference."
Musicians from Northamptonshire taking part in Oxjam in 2007 will also have the opportunity to appear on MTV. Bands can upload videos of their local Oxjam event in October at www.mtv.co.uk/oxjam. The most popular artists as voted for by the public are then filmed by MTV, with an entire MTV show dedicated to the overall winner.
James Righton from Klaxons added his support to the cause:
"For us, Oxjam is the highlight of the festival season because everyone
gets to make the noise themselves. The only thing more exciting than putting
on your own event to help fight poverty is knowing that you're part of a
movement of thousands of gigs, club nights and events right across the country."
Highlights from Oxjam in 2006 included:
• Northants Wind Band presented by BBC Sue Marchant
• Indie Halloween Night at the University Northampton
• Kasabian forming a string quartet to try something new for Oxjam;
• The Futureheads busking on the London Underground;
• Oxjam live dates from the likes of Badly Drawn Boy, Embrace, Hot Chip,
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, De La Soul and Scissor Sisters;
• Around 1,100 club nights, gigs, mini-festivals and concerts attended by
more than 100,000 music fans nationwide.
The target of £1 million from Oxjam this year would be enough to provide safe water for almost 1.4 million people, 20,000 emergency shelters or essential medicines for 10,000 villages. The call for music lovers to get involved comes now, as Oxfam estimates that the average gig takes three months to organise.
