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

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

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:

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	AVAILABLE

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…

http://m4tp.wordpress.com/

One of Birmingham’s top music venues, Yardbird, is collaborating with Oxjam Brum for the first time for a night of hip-hop, funk, soul and jazz to raise money for those affected by the worst flooding Pakistan has experienced in a generation.

LIVE SETS FROM…

Soweto Kinch
www.myspace.com/sowetokinch

Heducation
www.heducation.com

Silverbacks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hPXU9MzTYI

DJ Jam Fu
http://innersanctum74.blogspot.com/

Sam Redmore
www.myspace.com/samredmore

Karl Jones (aka Malicious from Brotherhood of Filth and Bass Operations)
http://soundcloud.com/malciousdj

Hamish & Friends live jazz band

R.e: (aka Lanre Diko)

AND Breakdancing!

If you would like to perform at this gig, or get involved in any other way, please email oxjam.birmingham@googlemail.com

More people than the 2004 tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake in 2005, and the Haiti earthquake combined have been affected by the devastating floods in Pakistan. Oxfam are trying to reach 1 million if them to provide them with urgent clean water, sanitation and hygiene.

To see more on Oxfam’s response and to donate go to www.oxfam.org.uk/pakistan

Please invite your friends to the facebook event link

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.

Upstairs at The Victoria on Friday 16th April we will be presenting a very special extra OxjamBrum gig. This one is to raise money and awareness for Oxfam’s Sisters on the Planet Campaign whilst showcasing some of the region’s finest female fronted acts. We’ve also asked our friends at ATTA girl to spin the tracks between acts.

Che

Strong and sumptious female vocals from this 5 piece from Worcester
Website : Che

The Electrilickers

Electro punk pop and songs in French, nous aimons cest filles
Website : The Electrilickers

Abie Budgen

Finger-picking roots and blues
Website : Abie Budgen

Get Frank

Get Frank are born out of a love of female artists and produce songs about loving music
Website : Get Frank

Jodi Ann Bickley

Our favourite none blonde poet who has been causing a stir at her performances recently
Website : Jodi Ann Bickley

ATTA Girl

A DJ duo with a love of predominatly female vocalists
Website : ATTA Girl