Oxjam

Oxjam
Dates	October
Location(s)	Across the UK
Years active	2006 - present
Website	https://oxfamblogs.org/oxjam/

Oxjam is an annual charity music festival in the United Kingdom that raises money for Oxfam, whose mission is to fight poverty worldwide.^[1] Events are held in multiple cities across the United Kingdom every year in October.

Since 2006, more than 50,000 musicians have played to an audience of more than 1.2 million people at over 4,000 Oxjam events since the festival's inception.^[2]

Concept

All the events, organisers and volunteers are completely independent of Oxfam and run the festival themselves with all proceeds going to Oxfam.

Oxfam provides the Oxjam branding but no budget to the events. The volunteers fundraise during the summer to collect enough money to put on the events.

The main focus of the festival are takeover events, where gigs occur in several venues (between 3 and 15), in the same location on the same day. Every year between 30-50 takeovers occur, usually in the biggest cities, with London having multiple events due to its size.

Hundreds of smaller events happen in the smaller cities and towns in the UK, taking place in one venue on the same day and range from pubs, community centres, bars and workplaces. Some of these events are held in September and November.

Oxjam 2018

There are 31 takeover events across the UK happening throughout October 2018.^[3]

London - Camden, Clapham, Islington, Southwark
South East - Bicester, Cambridge, Hemel Hempstead, High Wycombe, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading, Southend, Tunbridge Wells
South West - Bournemouth, Exeter, Salisbury, Tiverton
Midlands - Beeston, Birmingham, Leicester
Wales - Cardiff
North - Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Sowerby Bridge, Wakefield
Scotland - Glasgow

There are also many one-off gig fundraisers being held across the UK including Yeovil, Leighton Buzzard, Coventry and Holloway Road.

Lineups

Lucy Rose performing at Dalston's Oxfam Shop in 2012

Since 2006, many artists and bands have supported, collaborated and played at launch or takeover events. DJ Fatboy Slim has participated 4 times (in 2007, 2009, 2011 & 2015) whilst DJ Felix Buxton (Basement Jaxx) performed twice in 2016 at the 24hr marathon and Oxjam Portobello. Other participants include:

2006 - Badly Drawn Boy, Franz Ferdinand, Goldfrapp, Hot Chip, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, The Magic Numbers, The Automatic, Embrace, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, De La Soul, Scissor Sisters, The Futureheads, Teenage Fan Club^[4]
2007 - DJ Shadow, Jamelia, Jarvis Cocker, Klaxons, The Kooks, Fatboy Slim ^[5]
2008 - Editors, Jarvis Cocker, Kaiser Chiefs, The Chemical Brothers, Hard Fi, The Pigeon Detectives^[6]
2009 - Basement Jaxx, Editors, Just Jack, Nitin Sawhney, Roots Manuva, Stereo MCs, VV Brown, Frank Turner, Fatboy Slim, Mr Scruff, Dan Le Sac, Mylo, Everything Everything^[7]
2010 - Diana Vickers, Four Tet, Johnny Borrell, The Charlatans, Little Comets, The Horrors, Dan Le Sac, Gabriella Cilmi, Faithless, Sampha^[8]
2011 - Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Brett Anderson, Charlie Simpson, Damon Albarn, Gabrielle Aplin, Ghostpoet, Patrick Wolf, Fatboy Slim^[9]
2012 - Bruce Dickinson, Graham Coxon, Hot Chip, Lucy Rose^[10]
2013 - 2manydjs, T.E.E.D, Eliza Doolittle, The Magic Numbers, New Young Pony Club, The Invisible, Zero 7, Chloe Howl, Dry The River, Maxi Jazz, La Roux^[11]
2014 - Laura Mvula, The Ting Tings, Declan McKenna^[12]
2015 - Noel Gallagher, The Vaccines, Wolf Alice, Everything Everything, Ella Eyre^[13]
2016 - Fatboy Slim, Mystery Jets, Basement Jaxx, Zero 7, Stealing Sheep, Birdy^[14], B.Traits, Blonde, Crazy P, Django Django, DJ Mag, Fabio & Grooverider, Friendly Fires, Goldierocks, Matt Jam Lamont, Medlar, Morning Gloryville, Rob da Bank, Secondcity, Simian Mobile Disco ^[15]
2017 - Sam and the Womp, Blonde Electra, Four Tet, Everything Everything, Metronomy, Mr Jukes, Annie Mac ^[16]

References

External links

• Oxjam website