The Oxjam stage is back with at bang at Electrtic Picnic this year.

Oxjam open-mic stage at Electric Picnic 2011

Come along and make the stage your own, cheer on your fellow festival revelers and enjoy the very, very special guests that will be performing over the weekend such as BipolarEmpire, OBCD, The Hot Sprokets, Lisa McLoughlin, House of Dolls, Robotnick, Codes, Shouting at Planes, The Difference Engine…Need I say more?

Beside the main entrance to the Body & Soul area, be sure to pop along and say hello!

Oxjam Pub Crawl
Oxjam will be taking to the streets (and pubs!) of Belfast this Saturday with gigs in 4 venues from 5pm til late and sing songs on the street as we walk from venue to venue. Kicking off in the Limelight at 5pm on to morrisons for 6.15 then to Auntie Annie’s from 7.15 and finally Lavery’s from about 8. Local models have offered their services shaking collection buckets as we go from pub to pub.

Later with… Oxjam!
OxJam will be taking over the Grand Social, Liffey St, Dublin, this Friday and Saturday, 22nd-23rd October, with a couple of Later-with-Jules-Holland-esque events – with stages set up throughout the room and the audience having to spin round after each song to keep up with the action, and the acts swaping stages to keep everyone on their toes..

Friday sees Awake young soldier’s, Story Fold, The Barley Mob, The Lynchburg Mob and Susan Rush play while on Saturday we have ClockWork Noise, Red Kid, El Hombre Jokes, Junah, Robotnik and Aoife playing.

Entry is just €5. Doors 8pm.

Blind Yakety in Oxfambooks, Parliament St, Dublin
Crazy bluegrass/country/alternative band Blind Yakety will be playing the Oxfambooks shop in Dublin from 3pm on Saturday.

Oxjam is Oxfam Ireland’s DIY Music Festival. Find out more at the Oxjam website »

There’s loads going on with Oxjam in Dublin this weekend, no excuses for staying in!

Friday – Bewleys Cafe Theatre, Grafton St, Dublin 2 – 8pm
A “Later with Jules Holland” style event with a stage in each corner of the room, keeping the audience on their toes as a new act is introduced after each song and they’ve to swing their chairs round to keep up with the action. Line up includes Tiger Cooke, Alan Starr ( DC Tempest), EleventyFour and Sharon Reid. Entry is just €5, doors at 8pm.

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Oxfambooks in Dublin’s Parliament St is hosting a great line-up of Saturday afternoon gigs for Oxjam.

Sat Oct 16th – Royseven – 4pm

Sat Oct 30th – Hamlet Sweeney and friends – 4pm

Find out more about these gigs, and about Oxjam, Oxfam’s DIY Music Festival, on the Oxjam website »

Oxfambooks is at 23 Parliament St, Dublin 2.

Oxjam – Oxfam Ireland’s DIY festival to make music, raise money and change lives – returns for 2010!

Ger Murphy, Oxfam Ireland’s Oxjam Officer, said: “Oxjam is a festival with a difference: thousands of fundraising music events are put on by ordinary people – from large-scale events to local sponsored busks – making it the biggest line-up of any music festival in these islands.

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