NO BOOKING FEE!! ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO OXFAM. TIMINGS TO FOLLOW SHORTLY

360 // THE CARPELS // YOUNG RUNAWAYS – EP Launch // ROMANS // VIJAY KISHORE // THE BOMBERGS // FREE SCHOOL // THE MONOBLOGGERS // ONE SIXTH OF TOMMY // THE SCHOLARS // GOD DAMN // THE BRITISH KICKS // JAMES REA // JAMIE CLAYTON // CONQUISTADORS // VIOLET // THE MUSGRAVES // MELLOW PEACHES // THE SHARP DARTS // THE MARINER’S NEEDLE // LOUISE PETIT // NEIL WARD // GABRIELLA JONES // THE BLUEBEAT ARKESTRA // EAT Y’SELF PRETTY // JAMIE CLAYTON

PRICE & TICKET DETAILS:

EARLY BIRD TICKETS HAVE NOW SOLD OUT!!

ADVANCE TICKETS, are £6, and are available up until midnight on 14 Oct. These can be exchanged for a Oxjam wristband on October 15th at either the Yardbird Jazz cafe or The Flapper and will allow you entry into all six venues AND the Official Afterparty.

More wristbands will be available on the day at any venue..

We will also be selling raffle tickets, merch, cds, plus other goodies, with all profits going towards our final total.

JUST FANCY GOING TO OUR AFTERPARTY?
Head to Facebook Afterparty for more info.

ADVANCE TICKETS

£6 adv ticket

http://oxjambrum.org.uk/tickets

NO BOOKING FEE!

Tickets are available to over 18s only.

(Daytime events between 2pm and 6pm are not ticketed and have no age restriction)

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Follow us on Twitter at:

www.twitter.com/oxjambrum

Thanks so much for everyone’s support and please spread the word!
Local music, global impact.

Cheers!
The OxjamBrum Team
x

Oxfam - http://www.oxfam.org.uk/
Oxjam - http://www.oxfam.org.uk/oxjam

EARLY-BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW – ONCE THEY’RE GONE, THEY’RE GONE!

After raising over £6,000 for Oxfam last year, OxjamBrum will once again be Taking Over across Birmingham City Centre. With over 25 acts featuring at 6 venues, including some of the very best in local artists, this year is shaping up to be really special. We are extremely proud to announce 360 are headlining this year, who are fresh from this year’s Glastonbury & Shambala!

Other acts will include: Young Runaways – launching their debut EP: ‘There Is A World Outside’, The Carpels, Violet, Monobloggers, The Scholars, Conquistadors, The Musgraves, One Sixth Of Tommy, Mellow Peaches, The British Kicks, The Sharp Darts, Louise Petit, The One Twos, Free School and Helena Raby, with more still to be announced in the coming weeks.

AND, if that’s not enough, although the Takeover will wind down after midnight – it doesn’t mean you’ll have to go to bed! Head on over to the official Oxjam Afterparty at the newly renovated Birmingham Ballroom (formerly the Academy / Hummingbird) for a very special set by one of Birmingham’s most exciting acts, The Bluebeat Arkestra, with local hero Josh Mooney (Tantrums, Rag & Bone) spinning the best in Indie and Alternative until late in The Other Room.

VENUES

The Yardbird Jazz Club
OFF THE CUFF Curates OxjamBrum @ The Flapper
The Sunflower Lounge
Cafe Blend
Kafe 6/8
Brewsmiths Coffee

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PRICE & TICKET DETAILS:

Early bird tickets are just £4, but there’s only a limited number available so grab ‘em whilst you can!

Advance tickets thereafter, are £6, and are available up until midnight on 14 Oct. These can be exchanged for a Oxjam wristband on October 15th at either the Yardbird Jazz cafe or The Flapper and will allow you entry into all six venues AND the Official Afterparty. (On Sale Soon)

Wristbands can also be purchased on the day at any venue. .

We will also be selling raffle tickets, merch, cds, plus other goodies, with all profits going towards our final total.

JUST FANCY GOING TO OUR AFTERPARTY?
Head to our Facebook event for more info

WE GOT TICKETS

£4 adv ticket – Early Bird Ticket Only
(please be aware there is a 10% booking fee, half of which is being donated to Oxfam by WeGotTickets)

Tickets are available to over 18s only.

(Daytime events between 2pm and 6pm are not ticketed and have no age restriction)

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Full Lineup and Timings will be announced soon!
Bring on October!!!

Come along to our music quiz at The Chameleon bar on Tuesday 13th September for the chance to win a bottle of Champagne and VIP tickets to the OxjamBrum Takeover event in October!

The quiz will kick off at around 7pm and we’ll have rounds to cover a wide variety of musical tastes – there’ll be something here for everyone! It’s just £2 per person to enter and there will be no limit to how many people you can have on a team.

Also the guys at The Chameleon have very kindly invented a delicious new cocktail for the occaision – The Oxjam Berry Blast. Rumour has it just one of these will significantly increase your musical knowledge…

So come down, bring your mates, workmates, brothers, sisters – we’ll guarantee you a great evening and you can help us raise money for Oxjam. Win Win! 

We would really appreciate it if you would spread the word about the Music Quiz amongst your friends, family and colleagues. There’s no tickets but you can check out the Facebook event here to see who can make it.

Location

The Chameleon Bar
1 Victoria Square, Hill Street, B1 1BD
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Mmmmm.... Yummy cakes at Virgin Trains HQ

On June 27th, Alex, Gena, Amy & Emily dashed around the city centre with four trays of Chitty’s tailor-made cupcakes, chatting to the public about Oxjam Brum and the work of Oxfam. The delicious cakes were snapped up within a mere two hours and were particularly enjoyed by the staff at Specsavers, New Street, who were hungry enough to buy two trays just for themselves.

Then on the 30th, Gail and another volunteer from the team, went to Virgin Trains HQ, where you can
see that the cakes were scooped up during a welcome break, alongside some mid-morning tea. Next up, was the Queensgate office block, (where the Oxfam Midlands office is based) and then finally some Jewellery Quarter shops were treated to the last trays of Chitty’s fantastic cakes!

This support has kick started the fundraising for the Oxjam Brum campaign and Rebecca, founder of Chitty’s Cake Company, is really excited to be working with Oxjam Brum and will be providing themed cupcakes for some of their events this summer. A total of £251.96 was raised over the two days, which is an amazing start to the fundraising for the Oxjam Brum Takeover 2011. A massive thank you must go to Chitty’s Cake Company and also to anybody who bought a cake in the shops of the City Centre, the Jewellery Quarter and particularly Virgin Trains, Queensgate and Specsavers.

More info on Chitty’s Cakes Company:- All cakes are tailor made to each customer’s individual
requirements in flavour, design and dietary requirements. Free delivery to Birmingham city centre
had made Chitty’s bespoke cakes really popular for people working in Birmingham, and for a
small charge delivery can be made all over the Midlands. Designs range from simple and classic
to very colourful and quirky – every theme and event can be turned into a cake! The fun website
www.chittyscakecompany.co.uk has more pictures and information.

We’re going to take a ukulele with us and belt out some out-of-tune singing at the top of each one. We’ll also keep you all updated with some Twitter updates, photos and videos on the trip.

We’d greatly appreciate it if you’d like to sponsor us – our target is a rather ambitious £2000, but this could be used to help build a whole classroom (see Oxfam Unwrapped for more info) and £10 education kits to go with it. Please visit our sponsorship page for more information
Stay tuned for more updates and to follow our progress towards the target, please ‘Like Us‘ on Facebook or follow us on Twitter

Thanks,
Alex, James, Andy & The OxjamBrum Team xx

In the meantime, we’re still on the lookout for volunteers, artists and venues who would like to be involved. So if you’d like to get in touch, please give us a heads up via the usual methods. You can contact us via the website here, through twitter @oxjambrum and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/oxjambrum.

Check back for lots more updates soon

Much love,

the OxjamBrum team x

Initially, we are looking for a Marketing Co-ordinator, Fundraising Co-ordinator and a Production Co-ordinator. These are three key roles which will hopefully play a big part in ensuring the October festival runs smoothly, and raises lots of money for a really good cause. You’ll receive training from industry professionals and meet lots of like-minded people in the process.

We are also looking for volunteer venue managers, street teams, sound engineers, social media & marketers and many more, so if you think you’d like to be involved in some way – no matter how small – we’d love to hear from you.

To find out more information, please use the contact us section. Full job descriptions for the Co-ordinator roles can also be found on the Oxfam website.

Acoustic sets from Alex Moir, Marlem & Tom Peel and live screen printing from our friends at INKwell.  Come and print your own t-shirt, bring an old favourite or we’ll have some you can try for size before you print.

Urban Coffee Company will be presenting their new range of cofftails – iced alcoholic coffee, yes please.

We also have a pair of tickets to Mostly Jazz to giveaway so come and down and enter our FREE prize draw!

Tom Peel: “Perhaps the most entertaining musician in the world! Tom Peel writes abstact folk music that takes in everything from americana through to warp records esqe experimentation” Speech Fewapy/This is Tomorrow

Marlem: Brum duo who take every day problems & events and translate them into music

Alex Moir: “Moir’s rapidly gaining a bit of a cult following for both his singing and his writing” BBC

UPDATE

On Friday 25th June OxjamBrum and Blue Whale Studios presented an after work music and art event. We ate cake, drank coffee cocktails (cofftails!) and enjoyed music from Tom Peel, Marlem, Elisa Little and Alex Moir. We also had a demonstration in live T-shirt printing by our good friends at INKwell. A good time was had by all and we raised lots of money for Oxfam in the process.

See the photos.

Oxjam is a music festival made up of hundreds of events around the UK in October. These events are organised by people who know and love their local music scene.  All in aid of Oxfam.  Along with a central team of staff and interns, Oxjam is co-ordinated by teams of volunteers in towns and cities across the country who will be organising Oxjam’s Takeover events, as well as supporting other event organisers in their region.

We are recruiting for a Volunteer Support Co-ordinator.  Led by your regional manager and receiving support from the central Oxjam team, you will be responsible for supporting volunteers in your area to organise fundraising music events.

You will:

• Coach and motivate these volunteers
• Provide other volunteers (know as Music Event Organisers) with support and advice
• Great written and verbal communication skills and a flair for building relationships
• Outstanding organisation skills
• Good knowledge of the region’s local music scene and community
• The ability to identify and respond to other people’s needs
• The ability to work independently
• Have experience of working on live music events
• Have experience of leadership
• Have a passion for fighting poverty and raising money for Oxfam

May – November 2010

At least 10 hours a week

Closing date: Sunday 9th May

Interviews: week commencing 10th May

Start date: 17th May

To apply for an application pack please send an email to oxjam.birmingham@gmail.com with the subject line as VOLUNTEER SUPPORT CO-ORINATOR 

You will be part of a team of talented volunteers who create a multi-venued music event in Birmingham.  Oxjam is a music festival made up of hundreds of events around the UK in October. These events are organised by people who know and love their local music scene.  All in aid of Oxfam.  We have the following vacancies:

Production Co-ordinator – You will:

• Take responsibility for overseeing the production of Birmingham’s Takeover event
• You will co-manage the event on the day alongside your Regional Manager
• Approach, confirm and coordinate venues and artists for the event
• Be responsible for sound equipment and security
• Ensure that health and safety measures are in place for each venue
• Have experience of organising live music events
• Have excellent knowledge of Birmingham’s music scene
• Have the ability to work independently
• Have experience of leadership
• Have a passion for fighting poverty and raising money for Oxfam

Fundraising Co-ordinator – You will:

• Design a fundraising strategy
• Investigate possible sponsorship/partnership avenues
• Plan and oversee the budget for your team and event expenses
• Oversee ticketing and money handling procedures for your flagship event.
• Offer support to other event organisers in your area
• Be creative and strategic in your fundraising activity
• Have outstanding organisational skills
• Have experience of fundraising
• Have experience of working on live music events
• Have knowledge of Birmingham’s music scene
• Have the ability to work independently
• Have experience of leadership
• Have a passion for fighting poverty and raising money for Oxfam

Marketing Co-ordinator – You will:

• Design an innovative and creative marketing strategy
• Take responsibility for writing and selling-in press releases
• Manage online marketing
• Ensure other Oxjam events in the region are marketed
• Have marketing and event promotion experience
• Have excellent communication skills, particularly written
• Have outstanding organisational skills and manage projects to deadlines
• Have experience of working on live music events
• Have a good knowledge of Birmingham’s music scene and regional media
• Have the ability to work independently
• Have a passion for fighting poverty and raising money for Oxfam

To apply for an application pack please send an email to oxjam.birmingham@gmail.com with the subject line as the job title (Production Co-ordinator/ Fundraising Co-ordinator/ Marketing Co-ordinator)

Closing date: Sunday 9th May

Interviews: Week commencing 10th May

Start date: 17th May