Features and Reviews
10cc
Listed 06 June 2009
One of the most successful groups of the 70's-
2 Many DJs + Riton
Listed 05 June 2009
2ManyDJs are the kings of the mashup. Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele say they grew... read more
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80s Mania
Listed 28 May 2011
It was a brilliant show. Everyone on stage - singers and dancers - were fantastic, and the... read more
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Abba Mania
Listed 11 June 2009
An excuse to party, reminisce or simply be entertained. -
Abbamania
Listed 21 June 2008
A really wonderful evening’s entertainment by a proper tribute band, who dress up as and pretend... read more
Abbie Lathe & The Lovelies
Listed 30 October 2008
With one of the most beautiful voices you are likely to have heard this year, Abbie Lathe may... read more
Abnormally Funny People
Listed 15 November 2011
As the title of the show suggests, neither profoundly deaf Steve Day, or Laurence Clark, who... read more
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Acoustic - Matt Sage & Band
Listed 15 June 2007
Matt Sage is an inspirational songmaker and performer, whether singing solo, with an acoustic... read more
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Aiden + guests
Listed 03 April 2008
Aiden, the emo-punks from Seattle, are touring with their latest album Conviction. Performing... read more
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Al Stewart
Listed 07 May 2009
Smartly dressed, neatly coiffeured, smiling throughout, Al Stewart is unrecognisable from the... read more
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Alabama 3 + David Ford
Listed 06 May 2010
Support for Alabama 3 was provided by one man folk band, David Ford, whose effective use of... read more
Alabama 3 Acoustic + Unplugged
Listed 09 November 2006
Offshoot of popular Delta blues outfit (responsible for theme tune to 'The Sopranos')
Alex James presents: Harvest
Listed 29 August 2011
Food, music & more in Kingham-
Alison Moyet (25 Years Revisited Tour) + Alex Cornish
Listed 24 November 2009
Pop/jazz/soul. -
Amateur Transplants
Listed 17 June 2011
I’ve never quite managed to believe the theory of the Six Degrees of Separation. Yet I would... read more
America 07
Listed 07 November 2007
Everyone had a great time at the America concert at the New Theatre Wednesday night. For those... read more
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An Afropean Musical Journey
Listed 09 June 2012
Celebrating the songs of our ancestors, friends, families, rich & complex sounds -
An Evening with Pentangle
Listed 06 July 2008
It is remarkable that the music of Pentangle can create this high energy still forty years... read more
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An Evening With The Legendary John Cleese
Listed 17 June 2011
Two tickets cost me about £80 including booking fee and I have to say I feel short-changed... read more
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An Experimental Game Show
Listed 01 September 2009
Exclusive preview of Simon Bird's upcoming tour. Best Male Newcomer at the 2008 British Comedy Awards. 
Andrew Lawrence - The Too Ugly For Television Tour
Listed 07 November 2010
Debut UK tour for young comedian-
Andrew O'Neill: Occult Comedian
Listed 09 January 2011
Stand-up comedian, metalhead and amateur occultist. -
Ardal O'Hanlon
Listed 05 November 2005
Award-winning comic (star of Father Ted, etc.). £17.50/£15 concs. -
Are You Having A Laugh?
Listed 15 June 2011
It’s a great time for double-act comedy. Mitchell & Webb; Armstrong & Miller; Cameron... read more
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ATOMICITY
Listed 03 November 2005
Celebrated la-di-da smartypants and Perrier Award Nominee Chris Addison presents, for your amusement and derision, a trawl through the very fabric of the Universe. -
Audiograft
Listed 14 January 2011
Oxford's festival of sound art and contemporary music 14th - 20th February 2011. For full listings see http://www.audiograft.com/ 
Audioscope08
Listed 15 November 2008
This year's AUDIOSCOPE, raising money for national housing and homelessness charity Shelter,... read more
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Back For Good
Listed 18 May 2012
Recreating the magic of ‘Take That’ -
Barry Adamson: Back To The Cat tour
Listed 31 March 2008
Barry Adamson is the original funk soul brother! The un-mistakable Mancunian was in Oxford... read more
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Bellowhead
Listed 13 February 2013
11-piece folk supergroup promoting new album 'Broadside' -
Bengal Tiger, Shanghai Dragon
Listed 16 April 2011
As the Director and Composer of the often twenty strong Grand Union Orchestra, Tony Haynes... read more
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Big Fat Sketch Night
Listed 15 November 2011
Rory & Tim are joined by The Awkward Silence and Dregs for a night of hot sketch comedy. 
Black History Month Special feat. Teddy Dan
Listed 28 October 2011
With the recent release of Teddy Dan's latest album Outta Shasamane, we have a great... read more
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Blessing Force & TRUCK's Warehouse Party
Listed 12 February 2011
This weekend east Oxford played host to a unique warehouse party, as artists and musicians... read more
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Bookbinders Open Mic Night
Listed 14 May 2007
Was it perchance the Cashmere Girls with a version of “Jolene”?! You'll have to go to the next... read more
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Brian Jonestown Massacre
Listed 30 May 2006
Crazy Name, Crazy Guys Never has The Zodiac seen a such an authentic display of rock n... read more
British Sea Power + guests
Listed 28 January 2008
Do you like rock music? - third album release tour.-
Bulletproof Jest
Listed 22 March 2013
Bulletproof Jest by the Dead Secrets is a whirlwind of innovative comic performances. This... read more
Catweazle Club
Listed 10 January 2006
A unique venue in Oxford. A quiet, generous audience, and a fascinating plethora of acts. General... read more
Chantelle Pike: EP Launch
Listed 23 January 2007
Whether on her own with her trusty acoustic guitar in her regular gigs at Oxford's QI Club,... read more
Charlie Dark's African Beats
Listed 14 March 2008
It may seem odd to begin by reviewing the audience rather than the piece, but it was depressing... read more
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Childish Things 5
Listed 14 May 2009
Comedy raising money for Helen & Douglas House. Line-up tbc. 
Chris Garrick Band
Listed 06 July 2006
Renowned jazz violist and pals-
Chris Rea
Listed 21 March 2012
UK guitar legend -
Christmas Party at the Cellar
Listed 17 December 2009
It's the Cellar's Xmas party, and who better to kick off the proceedings than Dial F For Frankenstein?... read more
Circulus, Mythical Journey (film), Andy Letcher
Listed 27 April 2012
Psychedelic medieval folk bardery from Oxford & beyond.-
Club Havana @ Po Na Na
Listed 27 June 2005
Club Havana is a new world music night at Po Na Na designed, I imagine, to appeal to the vast... read more
Competitions
Past Competitions: 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008 •... read more
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Cotswold Comedy: Brian Higgins and Guests
Listed 21 March 2013
A mixed bill of national comedians at the top of their game. -
Cuban Thursdays
Listed 10 January 2008
If you were inspired by the Latin moves in Strictly Come Dancing, or just want to meet a bunch... read more
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Daisy Rodgers night, Jericho Tavern
Listed 04 September 2009
Fortunately we'd decided to cut and run from Posh Fish, because we arrived at the Jericho Tavern... read more
Dan Reed
Listed 05 May 2009
As a small yet expectant audience spread themselves around the back room of the Bullingdon... read more
Daniel Kitson - C90
Listed 25 March 2007
Daniel Kitson is a Perrier Award-winning comedian whose live shows are typically very long,... read more
Daniel Kitson: The Impotent Fury of the Privileged
Listed 04 May 2008
Fear, apathy, cowardice, the terrible weight imposed upon us by the raw fact of human cruelty... read more
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Dara O'Briain - Craic Dealer
Listed 08 March 2012
Host of TV's Mock The Week in new stand-up show -
Dave Gorman's Powerpoint Presentation
Listed 08 November 2011
New double act - comedy’s most innovative thinker and a projector screen. -
David Byrne
Listed 09 April 2009
Songs from Byrne's collaborations with Brian Eno, including tracks from several Talking Heads albums. -
Deacon Blue
Listed 17 October 2012
Scottish pop legends reunited for 25th anniversary tour -
Death's Cabaret - A Love Story
Listed 18 November 2011
Death's Cabaret - A Love Story should by rights be called Death's Cabaret: A Ghost Story.... read more
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Derren Brown: Infamous
Listed 23 April 2013
New stage show from the master of psychological illusion. -
Derren Brown: Svengali
Listed 11 March 2011
The acknowledged master of psychological illusion returns to the stage -
Digital Is Dead Festival
Listed 25 April 2013
A festival about post-digital music practice. As of 25/4 - individual event tickets sold out, 3 all-event passes left! -
Dionne Warwick
Listed 25 November 2008
What do you get when you fall in love? You get the map to the mountains of pop music. Decades... read more
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Doctors O' Destiny
Listed 16 June 2011
Went to see this on Thursday 16th at Copa in Oxford. The five "man" group greet their audience... read more
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Dog Is Dead, To Kill A King
Listed 26 April 2013
On the face of it, this evening is one that provides local post-rockers Deer Chicago with some... read more
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Dylan Moran
Listed 08 February 2009
Fabulously morose Irish star of tv's 'Black Books' 
Edinburgh & Beyond
Listed 10 October 2008
Last Friday saw the Oxford leg of the annual Paramount Comedy sponsored, post-Edinburgh Fringe... read more
Efterklang, w. Anna von Hausswolff
Listed 19 April 2013
The best thing out of Copenhagen since Borgen and bacon, Danish synth-pop trio Efterklang last... read more
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Egyptian Hip Hop + The Dead Jerichos
Listed 21 June 2010
The Dead Jerichos take to the stage, and skillfully enrapture the audience with their artful,... read more
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Emilia Martensson Quartet
Listed 05 May 2012
Singer inspired by jazz vocal legends & the Swedish folk songs of home -
F*ck Andrew Lloyd Webber
Listed 15 October 2008
And they did what they said they would, 3 gents and a curvaceous lady, not for just a minute,... read more
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Fairport Convention
Listed 21 January 2012
I find it difficult to be objective about Fairport Convention. I was raised by hippies in the... read more
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Fascinating Aida - The Cheap Flights Tour
Listed 18 October 2012
Britain’s best comedy cabaret trio -
Fifth Oxford Folk Festival
Listed 11 April 2008
An explosion of music and dance! Free outside events, two stages at the Town Hall, pub events and workshops. -
Folk Sessions
Listed 03 February 2006
Free, all welcome -
Folk Sessions In and Around Oxford
In a corner of an East Oxford pub sit a dozen or so people. They’re drinking pints, gossiping... read more
FORK - a cappella electrovocal circus
Listed 28 March 2013
Have you ever heard Poker Face by Lady Gaga seamlessly mixed, live, on stage, into Radio Ga... read more
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Fourth Oxford Folk Festival
Listed 30 March 2007
Glorious sunshine beams down on the many displays of Morris Dancing at Oxford Castle during... read more
Foy Vance
Listed 24 November 2006
Bonnie Raitt is an angel in her own hemisphere, that goes without saying - but her audience... read more
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Foy Vance and Iain Archer
Listed 25 April 2009
A rich sense of Irish bonhomie filled Saturday night at the Jericho tavern, which played host... read more
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Free Beer Show - 2008 Season
Listed 22 January 2008
Monday 9th June was not a good evening to be either a comedian or audience member at the Cellar's... read more
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Free Beer Show - current season
Listed 29 September 2009
Best-known and much-loved for playing Mark’s wilder but equally geeky love interest in Peep... read more
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Gallery Poetry: Winter Words
Listed 02 December 2010
Oxford must be one of the few places in the world where one will brush by a poet on the bus.... read more
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Gary Moore
Listed 17 October 2009
Ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist starts his UK tour in Oxford 
Gogol Bordello & Fighting Cocks
Listed 03 March 2006
Would you visit a brothel created by the mind of ‘the Hieronymus Bosch of Russian literature’?... read more
Goldrush and The Epstein
Listed 26 March 2005
A half-empty Zodiac is rarely an attractive prospect. A strange chill tends to fill the room,... read more
Green Onions: The UK Blues Brothers
Listed 19 December 2008
This was as much a place review as a show review for me as it was the first time I’d been to... read more
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GunnBunny + Vultures + 50 ft Panda
Listed 22 May 2008
The Port Mahon, one of Oxford's most intimate live music venues, tonight played host to... read more
Gwyneth Herbert
Listed 28 January 2006
Carte Blanche productions ‘a remarkably gifted talent’ - the Guardian ‘a majestic-voiced... read more
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Hammer and Tongue
Listed 03 March 2010
Hammer and Tongue is one of the oldest established poetry slam events in the UK, starting life... read more
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Harry Hill: Sausage Time
Listed 08 February 2013
I laughed myself silly at Harry Hill's surreal, bonkers, hilarious show which ended with... read more
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Here Come The Girls
Listed 04 December 2009
A great night with most of the audience on their feet joining in. Lulu looks absolutely incredible!... read more
Hot Chip + Matthew Dear
Listed 19 February 2008
Rhythmical chaos & soulful introspection.
Hugh Masekala
Listed 13 May 2007
Live performance – be it dance, theatre or music – can, on occasion, be seen as a political... read more
Humphrey Lyttleton
Listed 16 January 2008
Looking back on this event, with poignancy and sadness at the loss of a great man, doesn't... read more
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Iain Sinclair: The Golden Hunger
Listed 11 November 2009
'A sound of an image of a word'. Performances by poets, artists and musicians Brian Catling, James Young, Nancy Campbell, Barbara Mercer, Iain Boal, Macgillivray & D Gwalia. -
Ian Anderson plays Thick As A Brick
Listed 02 May 2012
Thick As A Brick and Jethro Tull flautist Ian’s new album will both be played in full on the night -
Improvised Comedy Sketch Show
Listed 20 February 2010
Improvised comedy sketches & characters based on audience suggestions -
Improvised Comedy with the Oxford Imps
Listed 09 May 2006
The Oxford Imps perform at the Wheatsheaf every Monday of term time. This show is superb fun.... read more
In A Different Light 2007
Listed 19 May 2007
Magical event, with music, dancing, instruments loaned from the Bate Collection, film, animation, gamelan and hands-on activities. Aimed at young people and adults; families welcome.
