The best festivals can only be run with the help of amazing people, all of whom play will a big part in ensuring the October Takeover festival runs smoothly, raises loads of money and all of this 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 will be available on the Oxjam website.

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

Cheers!
The OxjamBrum Team
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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

OxjamBrum is gaining quite a reputation for gigs with a difference. Remember the bus? Well this year we are going one better – an evening of music and entertainment on a barge.

Come and join us as we navigate Brum’s canals starting at the mooring opposite the Canalside Café and travelling along Birmingham’s waterways. We will be making stops and collecting artists along the way.

Tickets are £15 which includes a pre-sail BBQ. Starting at 5pm and finishing back in Brum city centre at 9pm.

We are keeping our wonderful artists under wraps for the moment. However, you can expect the finest local musicians, once in a lifetime performances and a host with the most! Tickets are limited and we expect to sell out pretty quickly. All profits to Oxfam.

Check out the barge: www.centralboatparties.co.uk

Last year’s No11 Bus Gig: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Do4F0SWbw

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

Our friends over at Moseley Folk sure know how to throw a party! And this Christmas they’ve planned a special night of dancing by inviting local legends Cut The Mustard to perform some Ceilidh classics with all proceeds going to Oxfam. This is our last event of the year and we’d love to see as many of you as possible kicking up your heels whilst raising lots of cash for a great cause.

Tickets £4 on the door.

Moseley All Services Club, 91 Church Rd (between Wake Green Road and Woodbridge Road), Moseley, Birmingham B13 9EA

Friday 17th December, 7:30-11:30pm

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Moseley All Services Club, 91 Church Rd (between Wake Green Road and Woodbridge Road), Moseley, Birmingham B13 9EA

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Starting  in Kings Heath, passengers hopped on board to the sounds of local Samba band Oya Batucada.  During the next three hours, the bus made stops in some of Birmingham’s most interesting neighbourhoods to pick up Brum’s best musicians to play to the captive audience.  Throughout the day passengers were treated to sets from James Rea, The Bluebeat Arkestra, Mellow Peaches, Tom Peel, Miss Halliwell, The Courtesy Group, Susan Dellane, Misty’s Big Adventure and a DJ set from Josh and Stuart from Tantrums.

The event sold out in a matter of days so for the unlucky people not able to get a ticket, OxjamBrum sponsors GotSeeN.com live streamed all the action from the bus to their website.

If you like the sound of OxjamBrum then you can come and see some of the artists fresh off the bus, plus many more on Saturday 16 October.  For just £6 advance you can gain access to all 6 city centre venues throughout the day and night, checking out the best the Birmingham scene has to offer, whilst raising money for a great cause.  Acts include Sunset Cinema Club, Tantrums, Malpas, Isolated Atoms, Arcadian Kicks, Vijay Kishore + many, many more.  For the full lineup and to purchase tickets, please visit:  www.oxjambrum.org.uk

This event was featured on ITV Central, watch the clip here.

12 hours of musical delights from 40 of Birmingham’s best unsigned bands. For just £6 advance you can purchase a wristband which will give you access to every venue all within easy walking distance of each other. So why not bar-hop whilst raising money to help those living in poverty across the world.

All six of our venues now have tickets on sale with no booking fee. Or book online at www.oxjambrum.org.uk or www.wegottickets.com/event/92563. Advance tickets will be on sale until midnight Friday 15th October.

There will be tickets available on the door on Saturday.

As well as playing host to some live pop and funk The Yardbird will be our wristband exchange for the day. Please bring your reference number or ticket to this venue first. We’ll have all the crucial stage times for you so you can plan your route around the venues. Wristbands need to be collected before 9pm. The Yardbird – Doors 2:00pm Nick Pride and the Pimptones Frutaloka Arcadian Kicks Smileymic The Bluebeat Arkestra Alex Moir Big Black Smoke Benjamin Blower		The Flapper, Birmingham’s home of live and loud music, will be headlined by Isolated Atoms and also feature Malpas fresh from their Moseley Folk appearance earlier this year. INKwell will be live screen printing t-shirts (or any other suitable item you want to bring along) upstairs. The Flapper – Doors 3:30pm Isolated Atoms Malpas Bronze Medals This Burning Age The Corsair Shana Tova Soni-quella
And finally we enlisted our friends from This is Tomorrow to curate the line-up at 6 Music’s favourite Birmingham pub, The Victoria. Including Speech Fewapy favourite Tom Peel, a rare performance from Sunset Cinema Club and current Brummie darlings Tantrums. The Victoria – Doors 4:30pm Tantrums Sunset Cinema Club Cajole Cajole VS Tom Peel Savant Pandas and People		The Island’s Tiki Bar should please those in need of a cocktail or some electro and indie pop. James Rea, fresh and hopefully recovered from the 11 bus, will be opening proceedings and (Silver) Souvenirs will be headlining. GotSeeN.com will be streaming this stage live to people across the world. Island Bar – Doors 4:00pm (Silver) Souvenirs Hot Monocles Lady Fortune Monster Monster Death Ohh Eff Jake Bullit James Rea
Our country pub in the city, The Prince of Wales, will host an acoustic folk programme starring Brummie legend and Destroyers’ front man Paul Murphy. The Prince of Wales – Doors 4:00pm Scat Cat Corrie Palmer Tony Wille Paul Murphy Mike Smith		New on the scene Café Blend will host the now famous Coffee and Cake stage. Expect chilled out acoustic tunes, the odd poem and one amazing headliner! Situated between New Street Station and The Mailbox. Café Blend – Doors 3:45pm Vijay Kishore Poppy Tibbetts Jodi Ann Bickley Mellow Peaches Barnesy Neil Ward Michael James Butler

The full lineup and timings will be available on the day in true festival programme style for just a small donation to Oxfam. A lucky few will contain free drinks/food vouchers to be used at our venues on the day.

This is a gig with a difference. Get down early and avoid disappointment as some of our fave bands have early slots.

All six of our venues now have tickets on sale with no booking fee. Or book online at www.oxjambrum.org.uk or www.wegottickets.com/event/92563. Advance tickets will be on sale until midnight Friday 15th October.

There will be tickets available on the door on Saturday.

Support your local music scene. Enjoy Birmingham’s finest independent venues. Help raise £1,000s for Oxfam. See you down the front for one amazing day!

OxjamBrum x

Tickets are available on the door at any of the 6 venues.

Last week’s Brumcast (04-10-2010) on Rhubarb Radio was an OxjamBrum special featuring some of the artists that are playing this years Takeover. Listen again to the podcast, it’s a great way to get to know some of the bands.

Also, you can listen to the:

This year OxjamBrum is proud to be sponsored by GotSeeN.com – a Birmingham based website which champions new and unsigned bands as well as streaming live gigs through their dedicated GotSeeN TV.  GotSeeN.com will be streaming the Oxjam Takeover live from Island Bar meaning people across the world will be able to see why Birmingham has more to offer than Spaghetti Junction and Jasper Carrott.

Our Venues This Year

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The night kicked off with tunes from the Hamish & Friends live jazz band and some serious break dancing from JamFu. Performances from SmileyMic, a modern day one man band, creating loops live on stage, blah and blah all paved the way for outstanding sets from Birmingham’s illest hop-hop/funk collective and a special performance by award winning Jazz saxophonist and rapper – Soweto Kinch. Soweto managed a free-style improv about Pakistan and encouraged people to ‘put your money in the bucket’. Which they did. The night raised £650 for the Pakistan humanitarian disaster and set the tone for the rest of OxjamBrum events to come.

Check out the video from the night: