Watch the video that’s featured by ITV here.

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:

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.

Long Day Gone’s frontman really took to the idea of a blue face and thanks to Woody of TrippCobain Imaging for capturing the moment!  We’ll be at more events across Birmingham soon painting faces, come and say hi!

Thanks to Friends of Faye as well, for being the blue face guinea pigs – sorry we didn’t get any shots of them!