| 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
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| 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?
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| 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 |