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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 Boat That OxjamBrum Rocked!
Aug 16th
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
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
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.
OxjamBrum Takeover 2010
Sep 29th
Thank you to everyone who has already supported OxjamBrum this year. Our Takeover Festival 2010 is on Saturday 16th October. This is the big one folks!
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.
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| 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 |
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 |
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| 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 |
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 |
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| 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 Corrie Palmer 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 |
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
View Takeover 2010 Venues in a larger map
Floods of Cash
Sep 15th
Thanks to everyone that came down to The Yardbird last night to raise money to help Oxfam with their aim to help 1 million people in Pakistan during the worst flooding in a generation.
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:
OxjamBrum does the 11 Bus Route – Sunday 3rd October
Sep 14th
Come join us as we drive a full lap of Europe’s longest urban bus route on the infamous number 11. Starting at the Hare & Hounds we will set off on a tour of some of Birmingham’s most interesting neighbourhoods making 11 stops en route to pick up musical entertainment to perform on the bus. We’ll end up back at the Hare & hounds where The Soul Food project will be serving up a Sunday roast with a soul-full twist and a post-bus gig will be taking place in venue one with music from local legends Misty’s Big Adventure, Miss Haliwell and The Courtesey Group.
Tickets will cost, yep you guessed it, £11 (including bus ticket, food and entrance to the post-bus gig at the Hare & Hounds) and will be available from our online shop this Friday 17th September at 9am.
If you just want to join us for the after-bus party at the Hare & Hound’s for Misty’s, Miss Haliwell and The Courtesey Group tickets will cost just £4 in advance, also available from our online shop.
The Green Bus Company have kindly given us free use of one of their fleet for the day, for more information about The Green Bus visit www.thegreenbus.com. All of the fleet have on-board WiFi so we’re hoping our sponsor GotSeeN.com will be able to live stream the days entertainment from the bus too.
TICKETS
| Full 11 Route, Soul Food Sunday, Dinner & Evening £11 |
Evening only Misty’s Big Adventure, Miss Haliwell and The Courtesey Group £4 |
SOLD OUT |
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OxjamBrum Quiz Night at The Victoria
Sep 13th
| WHERE: | The Victoria (48 John Bright Street, Birmingham) |
| WHEN: | Tuesday 21st September, 8pm – 10pm |
| PRICE: | £1 per person |
Think you’ve got what it takes to join us for a night of challenging questions? Well come along – with your winning team (max 6 per team) and show us what you know. We have created a quiz that will challenge your Birmingham music knowledge, music history, film, T.V and in light of the fact that we raise money for Oxfam we thought we’d test your Oxjam and Oxfam knowledge too.
All the money raised will go to Oxfam. The winning team will enjoy a round at the bar and runners up will receive a prize!
Bring your thinking caps and £1 per person. Registrations from 8pm, starts at 8.30pm.
OxjamBrum M4TP Special at The Victoria
Sep 3rd
| WHERE: | Upstairs @ The Victoria (48 John Bright Street, Birmingham) |
| WHEN: | Friday 10th September, 8pm – 2am |
| PRICE: | FREE ENTRY |
September is going to be a special M4TP – we’re taking over M4TP.
We are going be the “People’s DJ’s” for September, on the decks from 8pm, playing all their best party tunes as well as tracks from the bands that will be performing at the main OxjamBrum Takeover event in October. We’ll also be recruiting volunteers to help out on the day, as well as waving a bucket or two about to take donations for what is a very good cause.
As ever, the M4TP crew will also be staggering around behind the decks – they’ll play anything you bring along and our giant jukebox will be available, to give you the tunes you want to hear. Although seeing as it’s all for charity they might just bump tracks up the running order if you’re generous when the collection bucket passes you by…
It’s going to be great, so save up your pennies, dig out your favourite tunes and put the date in your diary…
