Daily Info, Oxford on Twitter Daily Information, Oxford on Facebook
Place your Ad   List your Event   Site Map   Frequently Asked Questions  My Daily Info
 
Ads Events Reviews Venues Site
Send to a Friend

Catweazle Club

Oxford’s legendary performance space for music, poetry, story and song & 'all manner of acoustic artistry' since 1994.

Send to a friend
A unique venue in Oxford. A quiet, generous audience, and a fascinating plethora of acts. General standard: pretty high to occasionaly exceptional.

IR (Unverified), 05/03/10


Send to a friend
If you live in Oxford, you have to go to Catweazle at least once. Who knows, you may get hooked and become part of the strong regular following (a friendly and accommodating bunch). Once best described as a hippie cabaret night (I've seen dancing with glass spheres, storytelling, performance poetry, a naked man, Baka singing from one of the band Baka Beyond & an African drum troupe), it's now more of a place for budding singer-songwriters to air their work before starting to gig formally, and for excellent local performers to promote their other gigs.

The structure of the event (whereby performers get in free - book in by 8.30pm) keeps the turnover of acts between weeks high, so whilst you're just as likely to see something dire as something excellent on any given night, you're guaranteed not to be bored.

An atmosphere of respectful quiet is promoted, so whilst you definitely can't lampoon what you don't like (beware if cheap beer makes you noisy - you will be told off), you often get one of the best possible experiences of the acts you do like.

Some of the best treats are due to organiser & founder Matt's connections with promoting world music in Oxfordshire, as he is often able to persuade visiting world-class acts to drop in. If you've ever gone out looking for the heart of hippie Oxford, and you haven't found it, then you haven't found Catweazle.

Roo (DI Reviewer), 12/09/06



Latest Gig reviews

Fairport Convention: I find it difficult to be objective about Fairport Convention. I was raised by hippies...read more

Totally Tom: An enthusiastic audience at the Northwall Arts Centre was treated to a high-energy...read more

Songs for Shashamene: They came from London, Coventry and all parts of Oxford (including the University)...read more

Hammer and Tongue Poetry Slam: Hammer and Tongue is one of the jewels in Oxford’s cultural crown, a homegrown event...read more

Liz Green + Brickwork Lizards: Saturday night’s gig at the Jericho kicked off with a set from Hound Reels, performing...read more

Review of the Day

Keep Calm And Cast On: Mama Baby Haiti is a small birth centre, perched on the edge of Cap Haitien, Haiti’s...read more


Ads by Daily Info:

Dancin' Oxford Festival, 18 February - 28 March; click to learn more!

Browse ads by tag:

quinny (7) portraits (7) reg (10) beautiful (14) cooker (13)

Advertise here...

Please fill in the boxes and then click "Send Review" to submit your review for Catweazle Club.

Type or paste the text of your review (10 - 300 words) in here:

If you want to link your review to your user account then log in (don't worry, your review text will still be here when you come back).

Don't have a Daily Info account? Get one here! (save your review text first!)

If you don't want a Daily Info account, we'll need the following details:

Your nickname (which you would like others to see under your review):

Contact Details
These are for Daily Info staff use only - we might want to contact you if, for example, we want to add you to our official reviewer's list (free tickets! Click here for more info).
Your name
and email
and/or phone number


Reload Image

Please enter the characters from the above image
(so we know you are human).

Case does not matter:

Terms and Conditions. Go on, do read them, it'll be nice.