Date
Date Event
Thursday 2nd March 2017 Matt Sage MC Catherine on door

Matt Sage: Song for Sam
Raymond Burke: If I ever got back to someone/Don't feel quite so lonesome mow I'm on my own again
Jay (from Arizona): While she can/I don't know
Pete & Laura: Riding to New York/?
Nick (about to cycle across Middle East): 2 piano tunes
Stephen Durkan: Inconvenient truth no 146/Status - it doesn't matter
Josh (guitar tunes): Tribes/Batboy (both from Preston Reed)
Shannon & Joe: Water sustains me/Never love again (Johnny Flynn/Laura Marley)
Rob Sykes: Heavy metal/Apparition (snow)/Cross-purposes/The end of history
INTERVAL
Simon Davies: Champagne in your soul/You're lovely you
Rip Bulkeley: Majnunain/Wytham woods/To beauty
Richard Gipps (guitar songs): Everyone sang (Siegfried Sassoon)/Wytham woods (Rip Bulkeley)
ET: Power Crab X
Matt Sage: I trained a spy
Mike Harris: Fish fingers
Kyle: Small glimpses of eternity
Afshin: (guitar tune by Francis Cotterella?)/(guitar song) "Majnun"


 

Saturday 25th February 2017 Iffley Open House Farewell Celebration For the last night of Iffley Open House, a squatted building on the Iffley Road, opened to provide homeless people a place to live during the harsh winter, there was a number of people playing to entertain folks. The line up was:

* The Percy Street Possey - Ann, Naomi and Paul played some toe tapping jigs and reels and other folk numbers; flutes, vox and electric piano.
* Bea - beautiful voice, many well-known songs, guitar and vox.
* The Great Plastic Spasm featuring Bruno - played Candlelight Dancing and Fishfingers; Guitar, Vox, Bandoneon.
* Bruno - Played beautiful French and Argentinian songs on Cello and Bandoneon with vocals.
* Neo - touching personal songs on guitar and vocals.
Thursday 23rd February 2017 Sam Taplin MC Catherine on door Wodehouse the dog

James Bell: Bedlam boys/(with Hannah Bond singing) I'm going down (Bruce Springsteen)
Sam Taplin: Postscript poem (Seamus Heaney)
Rosie Caldecott: When the wind is high/Let's unwind
Henry Blyth: piano impro
Rob: Informed consent (live ethnography with 3 students)
Riaz: Beeswing (Richard Thompson)/May you never (John Martyn)
Poppy: Write a new song?/The instrument of my body
Kevin: A change is gonna come (Sam Cooke)
Raymond Burke: We are family (Sister Sledge)
Bill Frizzell: The harpooner's song/The big beyond (poems by Sam Hunt)
Amber Frizzell (with her teacher Miss Aspinall on piano): Burn (Lin Manuel Miranda from Hamilton)


INTERVAL


Clare Lemaster: Intimate moments with strangers/a capella Rejazz (Regina Spektor)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave: (poem) ending "I taste salt"/(lullaby with Hannah Bond & Laura Theis) Go to sleep you little baby
ET: Painfully awkward lust poem
Jules: Ghosts of Summertown/Start to climb the mountain
Dan (piano tunes): ?/Rigonfiamento di cuore (Swelling of the heart)
Mandy Woods: The bricks
Jim Driscoll: The bold dragoon
Rosie (Rosa): joke May you never/Mnemosyne (poem)
Pete (bouzuki) & Laura (song): Señor
Laura Theis: Never so far from the sea/ Angel versus predator


 

Thursday 16th February 2017 Sam Taplin MC Catherine on door Wodehouse the dog

Sam Taplin's intro quotes from Lady Gaga, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rachel Sullivan
Luke Keegan: (guitar, songs) Winter Tree/Little Dreamer
Clare Lemaster: dating profile poem/(guitar, song) Love in the dark
Frank: (piano) Fugitive visions (Prokofiev)
Patti Dale: (songs) One of those days (Eilen Jewell)/Sadie's singing low
Simon Davies: (guitar, songs) Come full circle/Sombre bossa nova
Ninka: (guitar, song) Come inside
Juliette: (reading) Holy matrimony (from Rob Brezsny's Pronoia)
Ashley: (poem, story) Blood on ice/The tale of a certain man
Laura (song) & Pete (bouzuki) & singalong: Wagon wheel (Bob Dylan/Ketch Secor)
INTERVAL (with Taplin's piano blues)
Patrick Walton (piano) & Catherine Marriott (songs): Sky to unfold?/Strange figures?
Stephen Durkan: (poem?) Nothing
Holly Redford Jones: (guitar, songs) Lately I feel I do/Run before it gets too late
Moogieman: (guitar, harmonica, song) Provia
Richard Gipps: (guitar, song) Sir John Piers (John Betjeman)
Henry Blyth: (piano) impro
Mark: (true stories) His drivers
May: (piano, song) The door
Ed Pope: (song) Something up her sleeve

Thursday 9th February 2017 Alan Buckley MC Catherine on door

Rip Bulkeley: (poems) 2 Khartoum haiku/Beggar/Oxford (signed by Jane, published by here)
Harry: (piano songs) Impossible man/(It's all because) she came
Amy: (guitar song) Hindsight (open yourself up to all the things you are becoming)
Ashley: (poem/story) Loss (waters of Lethe)/I am the river (life & death)
Asheem: (guitar) in 7/8 time
Mark: (spoken then sung) Robert Burns' Ae Fond Kiss
Simon: (poems) Have you ever?/A little bit political
Patrick: (piano) Chopin Nocturnes, B flat, E minor
INTERVAL
Alan Buckley: (poem) Space - for Andy & Nomi's twins
Naomi (piano song/guitar song) I thought of you as a howling ocean/These images of us too much for me
Marina: (poem in Italian then English) Pelle de coniglio (Rabbitskin)
Juan Carlos: (guitar song) Gracias a la vida (Violeta Parra)
Rip Bulkeley: (poem in Spanish then English) Sin Limitos
Henry Blyth: (piano impros) a solemn one/one with Andrew Freidin (flute)
Phoebe Nicholson:(poem) In the dark (falling for a scientist when you're depressed)

Saturday 4th February 2017 Making A Scene

At Oxford Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre 7.30pm
Ed Pope (The rich who run/Silly song/Cocktail straws/Devil's dead/Granmère/Earthly paradise/Our sister Venus/Nothing to say/Worm's funeral)
Xogara
Steve Larkin
Art Theefe
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Temper Cartel

Thursday 2nd February 2017 Matt Sage MC Catherine on door

Matt Sage: (guitar songs) Don't let her go/Laudanum Girl
May: (piano songs) Hopeless Love (Do not take thy flight - William Wordsworth)/Unborn (I know that you will never understand)
Frija: (poems?) You lie in bed next to me/Daisy (baby on ferry island)
Frank: (mandolin song) Like a Toad - I've been waiting too long
George (standup) What's it like to be a sheep?/Bad books
Patrick: (piano) 2 Chopin Nocturnes
Bill Frizzell: (spoken) slogans from the Women's March
INTERVAL
Luke Keegan: (guitar songs) Pack up and move to Paris/Where the lion slept
Groovy Su: (song) Matty Groves (traditional minus last verse)
E T: (story/poem) Pie shop ghost story/Love poem to Love
Ian Trinder: (guitar songs) Demons/Different Season
Henry Blyth: (piano) Ode to the broken soft pedal/impro in E flat minor
Simon: (poems) Don't just sit there/Hail to the shit-eaters
Max Brown: (guitar songs) Living with mum/Comfort blanket/Five bad things


 

Thursday 26th January 2017 Matt Sage MC Bill Frizzell on door

Patti Dale: (song) St Louis Blues (Billie Holliday)
Holly from Chesterfield: (songs?) How about now, we should run/My mamma told me
Simon Davies: (guitar songs) Community/Nurse your heart along
Lindsay Irish: (poems?) Slow dancing during the apocalypse/The poet/The black arts (Ann Sexton)
Will: (standup poem) I'm a modern man (George Carlin)
Ally: (poem?) Skinny Leicester 20 days roll on
Moogieman: (guitar songs) Just want to shoot you/Delta 3200 (at home in the dark)
Rosie Caldecott: (guitar songs) Let's unwind/Head between the pages of my diary
Pierre: (poems?) What?/Echo
Raymond Burke: (guitar songs) If I ever went back to someone I'd go back to you/I want to hide myself (Sunday Blues)
INTERVAL
Callum & Louie: (fiddle, accordion, song) If all you young girls/ 3 tunes "ripped off from Spiers & Boden" last one Old Tom of Oxford
Ashley: (poem or story?) The redeverts (??)
Paul: (poems?) Do neoliberals have more fun/Getting
Marina: (poem?) The snake blues prayer
Ed Pope: (balalaika songs) Address to the woodlark (Robert Burns)/Be here now
Bill Frizzell: (ukelele song) White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
Alan Buckley: (poems) Mingus at the Showplace (William Matthews)/ Butterflies
Erin, Rob, Andrew Freidin: (poem-songs, percussion, piano, flute) trumpery masque of anarchy (apologies to Shelley)/I'll never know who nicked ny bike

Thursday 19th January 2017 Sam Taplin MC Catherine on door

Sam Taplin: (intro) hangover from Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Ben Champion: (poem) Manly Pursuits
Frederick (busker): (mandolin) tune
Stephen Durkan: (poems) 1 2 3 4 5 6 nothing/Grotesque things that can happen in the real world that we never normalised
Patti Dale: (song/poem) Big fat buttermilk moon/ Trump poem
Jilly: (song?) Discombobulated song (grim reaper)
Amy: (songs?) Mash'allah (online poem)/Body blog
George & Rosie: (guitar songs?) Mary Berry/Sleepless nights in the doghouse
Alistair: (song?) Sitting down in the shower
Danny Chivers: (poem) Impossible
Ben: (guitar songs?) Reverberation (13th Floor Elevators)/ "The Dawn Raisers"
Bill Frizzell & Groovy Su: (song) You spin me right round (Dead or Alive)
Jim Penny, Jane Griffiths, Colin Fletcher: (concertina, fiddle, guitar tunes) Gadfly heifer/Woodpecker dance
INTERVAL
Rip Bulkeley: (poems) Future past/How to pick raspberries
Sharyn: (guitar song) You promised me 10 inches (I will survive)
Ashley: (poem/story) Stabbed/On a lonely beach
Mark James: (poems) The space around faces/Beetle/Stolen souls
Bill: (?) Hollow days
Richard Gipps: (piano? song) St Barnabas (John Betjeman)/"Boldekin"? with ? & Beryl?
Luke, Angus & Vince: (band song?) Twin size mattress (The Frontbottoms) i will help you swing
ET: (act) Dionysus
Pete Salmon: (guitar) Tiddy's song/Indecision
Pete the Temp: (poems & book launch) Keep it lit/Worms?/Busking as insurgent art/We are poetry/The giant we/Kirwin megapoem

Thursday 12th January 2017 Matt Sage MC ? on door

I wasn't there (Ed Pope) Owen Collins took this list


Nelson: La fée verte/Foes of mine
Frederick (banjo): Whiskey before breakfast/Cripple creek
Matt Sage: Don't let me go/Begin again
Owen Collins: Sir Elton John/What are you?
Johnny: Agua de beber (Water to drink)/Food for thought
Phoebe Nicholson: Bread
Julia: In love with you/Daddy's credit card/I won't
INTERVAL
Trevor Williams: Keep singing/We will wake
Bill (from New York): Morning poem (when I realised I could snooze and write at the same time)/Mexican butterflies
Lily: October song (in loving memory) (Amy Winehouse & c)
Mark: Taking it personally/Late
Patti Dale: Since I fell for you (Buddy Johnson)
Matt Sage: Gimme all you got
Simon Chambers: Mountain man/Ode (Arthur O'Shaugnessy)
Freya: O there was a young woman and she lived on her own/My love loves me