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2012: Volunteers Wanted!!
Feb 11th
We are looking to recruit volunteers who are passionate about fundraising and supporting the music scene in our great city:
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.
THE TAKEOVER 2011 – Advance Tickets Available until Midnight Oct 14th
Sep 26th
OVER 25 ARTISTS / 7 VENUES / RAFFLE / MERCH STALLS & MORE!
PLUS!! FREE ENTRY TO THE OXJAMBRUM AFTERPARTY WITH A FESTIVAL WRISTBAND.
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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The TAKEOVER 2011 – Early Bird Tickets
Sep 11th
OVER 25 ARTISTS / 6 VENUES / RAFFLE / MERCH STALLS & MORE!
PLUS!! FREE ENTRY TO THE OXJAMBRUM AFTERPARTY WITH A FESTIVAL WRISTBAND.
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!!!
OxjamBrum Presents… The Music Quiz @ The Chameleon
Sep 6th
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
Oxjam Cake Walks around Birmingham City Centre
Jul 3rd
This year, the Oxjam Birmingham Music Festival has been generously supported by Chitty’s Cake Company, who have donated some of their delicious bespoke cakes to raise even more money for Oxfam this year. As part of the donation, the Oxjam team decided to go on a Cake Walk around Birmingham, to offer up some of the yummy cupcakes to people in and around Birmingham.
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.
OxjamBrum do The Three Peaks Challenge
Jun 7th
We’ve gone a bit bonkers here at OxjamBrum HQ and as part of our fundraising mission, a few of the team are taking up the Three Peaks Challenge (with a little twist). This will involve climbing the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales (Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike & Mount Snowdon) – all within 24 hours!
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
Get ready for Oxjam Birmingham 2011 – Local Music, Global Impact!
May 13th
After the amazing success of the festival last year, things are starting to get really busy again here at OxjamBrum HQ. We’re currently concocting a series of gigs and live events in and around the city which will make your mouth water with excitement, so keep your eyes peeled for some acoustic sets and special appearances from some of the best artists in the Midlands. We’ll also be showing up at some of Birmingham’s other fave music shindigs, with lots of merchandise and goodies to raffle off, all in the name of the fight against global poverty.
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
OxjamBrum Raffle
Oct 16th
Raffle tickets available throughout 16th October 2010.
Buy raffle ticket:
http://oxjambrum.org.uk/shop/tickets/raffle-ticket/
Oxjamming on the Outer Circle
Oct 6th
On Sunday 3rd October, OxjamBrum took-over Europe’s longest urban bus route, the number 11 bus in Birmingham, for an afternoon of live music all in aid of Oxfam. OxjamBrum, together with The Green Bus Company, navigated the outer circle picking up passengers and artists at 11 stops along the famous route.
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.
