Date
Date Event
Thursday 5th January 2017 Matt Sage MC

I missed first half (Ed Pope) so this was "oral history"
Matt Sage: (guitar songs) Laudanum girl/Lovers lane
Femi: (poems) Snakes in the mud/Listen
Patti Dale: (poem/somg) Status of a chair/Buy me a Mercedes Benz (Janis Joplin)
Owen Collins: (poems) Hydrocatch?/As if on cue
Raymond Burke: (guitar songs) The end of the line (?Travelling Wilburys?Metallica?)/Remember to forget
Kenny?: (piano) the 3 ?nohias?
Maddy Godfrey: (poems) October 12th/I love the way you take up space
INTERVAL
May: (piano song/song) A parting waltz/Silver dagger (Joan Baez)
Ruth?: (spoken) farming conference, Needfire (carbon capture)
Ronan?: To set it right?
Simon: (poems) The dragon tree/Supreme surprise
Elinor:(poems) Higher Education /A nice poem (penny for my thoughts?)
Mark Wright: (poem?) We don't know
Maddy Godfrey: (poems) Untitled (love is not a war zone)/My little sister (s-l-u-t)
Matt Sage: (guitar songs) Take off your boots/Don't let the world go by
Ed Pope: looking back at the year 2016 & Blue Drag (Django Reinhardt) on guitar

Saturday 31st December 2016 Iffley Open House for the homeless

Former garage owned by Wadham College occupied to provide winter shelter for Oxford's homeless, who ran it themselves, drugs and alcohol banned, there were also plenty of volunteers. Evicted on 27 Feb 2017 it moved to Osney Power Station, owned by the Said Business School, till eviction on 13 Mar 2017. Then moved briefly to Summertown and to the Cowley Road. Council officials were surprised by the high success rate of finding jobs and housing for the homeless.

Thursday 29th December 2016 Sam Taplin MC Catherine on door

Rory Evans: (guitar) Happy again/Blue moon
Patti Dale: (songs) More than you know/Do nothing till you hear from me (Duke Ellington)
Frederick (Achupadi?): (mandolin) 3 reels
Mandy Woods: (guitar songs) Deep trouble now (Trump)/It's wrong
Rob Sykes: (poems) Unremarkable destiny (signpost)/What did you do in the bfrand wars, daddy?/Studland (nudist beach)
Hannah Bond (song, James Bell on guitar): Can't quite relate to myself (Faceometer)
James Bell: Bridge over troubled waters (Paul Simon - as a tribute to Carrie Fisher?why?)/ Twenty Two (It feels like one of those nights Taylor Swift)
Raymond Burke: Nothing seems the same in the light (George Michael)/an ironic tribute to Fidel Castro
Jeanie: Toronto/Caramel Brady
Lincoln: (piano) Innocence/Mean to me (Ahlert & Turk)
INTERVAL
Band of Hope (from Wallingford): (guitar, mandolin,harmonium,songs) There is never enough/Stayed up all night (Didcot cooling tower demolition)
Val (Scottish): Singing in the Rain
Bill Frizzell: Deeper and down (Status Quo)
Simon & Nick: Unreliable Narrator (The Eulogies)
Lewis: (poems) Snowman/Gravediggers lament/Shortest distance between two hearts
Robin: Dance? with me
Dave Todd: (guitar song) Song for Paul (Howard)
Mark Wright: (poem) Hebrides
Ben Smith (fiddle) & James Bell (guitar): a Spiers & Boden tune

Thursday 22nd December 2016 Matt Sage MC Catherine on door

Raymond Burke: (guitar songs) I don't feel quite so lonesome (now I'm on my own again)/If you only knew you're the only one for me that would ever do
Clare Lemaster: (guitar songs) Intimate moments with strangers/Merchants of death
Mark Wright: New year (sleeves will get shorter)
Moogieman: (story) The Magi
Olga Gdula: (act) Death and heaven
Rip Bulkeley: (poems) Christmas/Redmantle's to the greenwood gone
Ed Pope: (balalaika songs) Gay weddings/All I want for Christmas is me
Ian Trinder (guitar, song) & Josie Webber (cello): I will be out here while everything falls apart/Out past the horizon - staring at the wall
INTERVAL
Steve Larkin & Ben Champion: Sorry Hugh Laurie/Feeding shit to arseholes
Patti Dale: (song) Angel from Montgomery (John Prine)
Bill Frizzell: (ukelele song) Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield, 21st century schizoid man, I believed in Father Christmas
Owen Collins:(poems) World peace/13th day of christmas
Simon: (poems) A solstice tale/Armed police for breakfast
Pete Salmon (guitar) & Will Mason (guitar, songs): Politics in the afternoon/Moving on
Matt Sage (guitar, song) & Clare Lemaster (song): Who knows where the time goes? (Sandy Denny)
Matt Sage (guitar,song): Dreaming about my baby


 

Thursday 15th December 2016 Matt sage MC Catherine on door

Alex Lezana: (guitar, songs) Seven letters/Sweet dreams (Eurhythmics)
Jeremy (from Cambridge): Burning tyres/The dove
Mandy Woods: (guitar,songs) Shoe shop girl/That christmas magic
Kezzie: (piano) The Voice of Lir (Henry Cowell)/ her own piece
Simon: (poem) A piece of spare change
Dot & Jesus Young & Faith your own personal Jesus
Anya: (double bass, songs) Take me back (you queen)/ Black is the colour (traditional)
INTERVAL
Matt Sage: (guitar, songs) Don't let the world go by/Will you still stay with me tonight?
Robin: St James Infirmary blues (Summertime)
Femi (feminylander.com): (piano, poem) Congo
Harriet: The river
Daisy: You don't have to go (murderborn)
Tony Hinkes: (poems) Guru to tea/Facebook like
ET: (song) Retail carol
Jeremy (from Cambridge): Stars
Rob (percussion, songs) Erin (piano) Andrew Freidin (flute): Full fathom five (Shakespeare)/Sligo Rocks? Margaret?


 

Thursday 8th December 2016 Matt Sage MC Catherine on door

Matt Sage: (guitar, somgs) Help/Norwegian wood (36th anniversary John Lennon's death)
Nelson: (ukelele, songs) I've waited too darn long/Any degree of faith in me
Julia: (piano, songs) Don't think, if I come running after you../Quiet place, fireplace, I'm in love with you
Mark: Things/American dream, youth for sale, no refunds
Moogieman: (guitar, songs) Origami christmas tree/Polly polaroid
Ally: River (Joni Mitchell) recommended Truman Capote's Christmas Story
Phoebe Nicholson: (poem) Ectasis
The Shapes: The old school wall/Passing of the Years/April showers
INTERVAL
Robin: Fight me and marry me
Carlos: Poem for Oxford Pearl?/song in Spanish
Rip Bulkeley: (poem) Tears are not the detergent for bloodstains
Owen Collins: (poems) Adopt a room/Words related to love
Laura & Pete: Eastern Kentucky (10am sunrise 3pm sunset)
Naomi: (guitar, song) You were this thing I was trying to grab at
Alan Buckley: (poems) Lord Minahan Sri Lanka?/Crows "the true and beautiful dark"?
Dominic: (saxophone & piano) My one and only love

Thursday 1st December 2016 Matt Sage MC Catherine on door

May: (guitar, songs) Lovers & lyrics/Always a spark to light up the dark
Simon Davies: (guitar, songs) So long starshine/The gift of living day
Mandy Woods: (guitar, songs) Footprint on a heart/Used to be I didn't have a clue
Megan (song) & Eden (piano): Take me baby (Rent) for World Aids Day
Olga Gdula; You don't have to fight this battle alone/The end of the world
Matt Sage: (guitar, songs) That's when you begin/Song for Sam
George Roberts: (poems) The wild side of easy street/Tough old rose (for Sandy Kennedy)/In the closing of the year
Carole: La Vie en Rose/L'Ame de mote?
INTERVAL
Andrew Freidin: (flute) circle of raga music?
Dominique: (jazz piano) Blackbird (Paul McCartney)
Andy: (piano)
Patti Dale: (song) One grain of sand (Pete Seeger)
Rob: (poems) The students are back/Do's and dont's?
Simon: (poems) Robots/Long time love (Mary Jane)
Raymond Burke: (guitar, songs) Breaking up is hard to do (Howard Greenfield)/Do you want to fuck?

Thursday 24th November 2016 Matt Sage MC ? on door

Richard Gipps: (piano, songs) Andromeda (Gerald Manley Hopkins)/The complaint
Carl: Autumn leaves/Walking in walking out
Laura (song) & Pete (guitar): You keep the world at bay (for me)
Andy: Crocodile (playing accordion on Russian train)/Mermaids
Olga Gdula: I want a hippie
Stephen Durkan: What did you expect? (suave cunt)
Matt Sage & Barney Morse Brown: Laudanum girl/You are the queen (Pablo Neruda)
Steve Larkin: (poem & song, mandolin) Funny old game/Can we be friends
INTERVAL
Raymond Burke: (guitar, song) I'm a loser/Remember to forget
Nicholas (Brazilian): (piano) No posso fecar (Arturi Nambergosai?)
Maria (song) & Richard (guitar): a well known pop song I didn't know
Sharyn: It's my blessing, it's my curse
Alex & Jess (violin): Dying town/Ballad of Mary Best
Gabriel (from Totnes): (piano) Lancelot
Barney Morse Brown: (Victoria crew?) Step inside this winter hall/To call for hands up above to lean on wouldn't be good enough

Thursday 17th November 2016 Matt Sage MC Catherine on door

Cath Arsis: Tequila sunset/You won't come the cowboy with me
Matt Sage: He came in from the east/All day long I'm thinking about my baby
Roberto & Maria: Inferno wa-wa (guarda mi cambia)
Naomi: The ones who make love without love (Sharon Olds)
Femi: Trump not the rise of fascism/Evolution
Richard Gipps: (piano, songs) Dappled things (Gerald manley Hopkins)/Lift up my eyes
Laura: (poem) Storm petrel/Hunger hurts but starving works
Nanette: Peel me a grape (David Frishberg)/Mi querida soledad (Lila Downes) molay? recipe
Bill Frizzell: I'm your man (Leonard Cohen/Leon Russell)
INTERVAL
Andy: Sigh no more ladies
Mark: Take your time (Mike Silver)
Alex (guitar): Later fruits
Patti Dale: Hope/Suzanne (Leonard Cohen)
Simon: Thought injunction/The men
Edwrad Pope: Nancy (Leonard Cohen)
Pete Salmon; (guitar) Leafnado
Miranda: Go back to the beginning/Let me in
Steve Larkin: The day I fell in love with a NatWest cash machine/Dead poets suck

Thursday 10th November 2016 Matt Sage MC Catherine on door

Matt Sage:
Mandy Woods: Satnav lover/?
Mujami: a cover/a japanese song
Owen Collins:
Patti Dale:
Henry & ?: (piano impro)
Laura Theis:
INTERVAL
Matt Sage: ?/To my darling daughter
Rosie Caldecott: Moving slowly
Pete: (flamenco-style guitar)
Rosanne: Walk with me/Two by two
Alan Buckley: Scarification/Reagan's visit to New York
Mujami: (piano) End of the road
Simon: Top trumps/Ideas
Mandy Woods: Bye (bi) for now
Pete Salmon: Nowadays I (debut) a lot/Pineapple standup
Phoebe Nicholson: Bunkers