Events for Saturday 8 November 2014
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11:00 am
Single concert: £12 (£5 for students) / Combined ticket for all four concerts: £40 (£20 for students) / Combined ticket for any two concerts: £20 (£10 for students)
A Dream Of Germany: Music’s War-Torn World 1914 @ St John The Evangelist Church, Oxford
A series of four concerts in one day. For well over a century, all English composers aspired to study in Germany. These programmes explore the links that were torn apart by the Great War. Joseph Spooner, cello; Mark Wilde, tenor; David Owen Norris, piano. 11.00 am: Concert I Teachers & Pupils 1830-1880 Sterndale Bennett, Sullivan […] Find out more »
1:30 pm
£15
AUDIOSCOPE14 with Public Service Broadcasting / Silver Apples and more @ The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
The fourteenth AUDIOSCOPE festival, raising money as usual for national homelessness charity Shelter. Full line-up as follows: Public Service Broadcasting Silver Apples The Telescopes Matt Elliott (Third Eye Foundation) Wrangler (Cabaret Voltaire/Benge/Tunng) The Doomed Bird Of Providence You Are Wolf Circle Traps The Neon Violets Kid Kin More information at audioscope.co.uk. Tickets available from www.wegottickets.com/event/291936 Find out more »
7:00 pm
£5 (advance) / £6 (door)
Nonstop Tango / Momento / Ross Gordon / Robert Ridley-Shackleton @ The Bullingdon, Oxford
Nonstop Tango and friends – pre-CD launch gig. More information at www.facebook.com/events/861609367204778 Find out more »
£4 (advance) / £5 (door) / £4 (NUS)
Motherload / Sansara / Twisted State Of Mind @ The Cellar, Oxford
For many fans, the divide between classic rock and contemporary metal has remained vast, with few bands capable of capturing both the untamed wildness of bygone eras and the focused energy of contemporary metal. Motherload are here to bridge that gap! Monstrous riffs and instant choruses arise naturally from a determination to forge well-crafted songs, […] Find out more »
8:00 pm
£14 (£10 concessions)
Ivo Neame: ‘Escape Hatch’ @ The North Wall, Oxford
OCM last brought MOBO-award winning pianist Ivo Neame to Oxford when he played a sold-out show with Phronesis. For his new project Escape Hatch he is joined by Italian double bass virtuoso Andrea di Biase and drummer of the moment Dave Hamblett, plus, as special guest on saxophone, Julian Argüelles of Loose Tubes. Escape Hatch […] Find out more »
Electronic Music: OSEMP @ Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford
This is the culminating concert of the Oxford/Sennheiser Electronic Music Prize (OSEMP) devised by the Music Faculty and leading audio specialist Sennheiser UK. OSEMP has been developed as an annual event to help promote innovative and communicative electronic music composition in the UK. This event will showcase the work of the chosen finalists, with the […] Find out more »
£10 (adult) / £7 (12-18 year old / student / OAP). Family and group discounts available
Oxfolk Ceilidhs present Bedlam @ Village Hall, Kennington, Oxford
Bedlam play powerful, fiery and inspiring music, both original and traditional tunes and influenced by English and French styles. They are one of the most highly acclaimed dance bands on the ceilidh circuit and the line up features Bryony Griffith on fiddle, Will Hampson on melodeon and bass (both also members of the cast of […] Find out more »
£5
Hepzibah / Anastasia Gorbunova / Tom Ivey and more @ The Wheatsheaf, Oxford
Acoustic showcase. Full line-up: Hepzibah Anastasis Gorbunova Tom Ivey Richard Brotherton Ben Pilston Sam Edwards Karl Herring Find out more »
10:00 pm
£10 (advance) / £7 (advance, concessions)
Congo Natty / Nanci & Phoebe / Dirty Dike @ O2 Academy, Oxford
More information at www.o2academyoxford.co.uk/event/71281/congo-natty-tickets Find out more »
11:00 pm
£5
What You Call It, Garage?! @ The Cellar, Oxford
A night of strictly the finest UK Garage, Bass and Grime music. And a lickle piece of vibes thrown in for good measure. Dedicated followers still digging for the real tunes they loved and now joined by a new crew untainted by the mainstream commercial success Garage had and keen to explore the riddims, basslines […] Find out more »