| 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"
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |