London Bangla A Force for the community…
Oxfam’s seventh annual “Oxjam” music festival takes place throughout next month – with warm-up gigs taking place in the last days of September.
The main events in October will be run by volunteers: over 6,000 of them, working in over 800 venues, co-ordinating 6,000 musicians in gigs which will be enjoyed by 180,000 revellers, all raising money for Oxfam. The charity hopes that the fundraising events will bring in at least £400,000 which will go towards its work to overcome poverty and suffering around the world.
The warm-up gigs are taking place in East London: in a Shoreditch loft. Bizarrely, Oxfam has chosen a venue which has only limited accessibility. It is extremely surprising to see a charity which does so much good work operating apartheid events.
The warm-up line-up is as follows.
Tuesday 24 Sept
Gemma Cairney in association with the Fox Problem presents: Eliza Doolittle, Fuse ODG, Chloe Howl and more TBA
Wednesday 25 Sept
2manydjs, NYPC, Chad Valley, The Invisible (DJ set)
Thursday 26 Sept
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs B2B Skream, Kindness DJ set, Zero 7 DJ set
Limited tickets for each show are available from www.wegottickets.com/oxjam.
To find out what Oxjam events are going on in your area this October, visit www.oxfam.org.uk/oxjam or call 0300-200 1255.
