| Thursday 4th January 2024 |
Matt Sage MC, Bill Frizzell & Lara on door |
Matt Sage (guitar songs): Street ballerina/King of broken dreams Nick (keyboard): Spinning yarn/Staying with the trouble Yaz (poems): Side effects of disability/bubbles? (Kate Tempest) Harris (song): Load of bricks George Roberts (poem): Donuts in High Street Jungha? (poems): Luna/Outlines of a faded future Lara (ukelele songs): As wave is to the sea/Like stars I'll shine Keisa (keyboard song): ce soir, amour? Kate Mohideen & Mike (guitar song): The last time (Taylor Swift?) Rohanna (poems): Shy about my writing/Right for the table Ed Pope (song): Ginger you're barmy ((Harry Champion) INTERVAL Scampy (guitar songs duo): Diamonds/Nobody is lonely in heaven Carl (poems): Rowan/Seed catalogue Andrew (song): Brouhaha (Beastie Boys) Owen Collins (poems): Shipping forecast/Missing a bauble Jack (harmonica song): Misplaced love John (keyboard song): love... Simon Chambers (poems): Memories/Remembered Patti Dale (poem): Transformation Sila (guitar): Flow state Alan Buckley (poems): Outsiders/Wolves (Louis Macniece) Daniel (beatboxing) Bill Frizzell (ukelele &c): On the railways/City of spires (Kintyre, Denny Laine)
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| Thursday 7th December 2023 |
Matt Sage MC Bill Frizzell on door |
Matt Sage (poem): Talking turkey (Benjamin Zephaniah) Ukesnaily (ukelele songs): babe?/Inside your nan Tony Bicat (poem): Christian cuntry Kate Mohideen & Michael (song): Know you better (Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran) Emma (poems): Best friend/Belonging Callum & Harris (guitar songs): Botany Bay/Arthur McBride Rob (guitar & harmonica song): Heroes have all gone/To my granddaughter Simon Chambers (poems): Armed police for breakfast/Good will to all Phoebe Nicholson (poems): Moogieman (synth song): Saint John Andy (rapper): Sila (guitar song): Hurt (Johnny Cash) INTERVAL Rick Wade (guitar song): Cornish pirates George Roberts (poems): Andy/From the river to the sea Laura Theis (poems): Looking up/See how the good world still holds you Patti Dale (poem): The pioneers of humanity John (keyboards): Bill Frizzell (poem): Christmas (Benjamin Zephaniah) Edward Charles (poem): War and Peace (Tolstoy condensed) Matt Sage (guitar song): Go in peace Owen Collins (poem): Human in the hi-viz Lara Fairylove (ukelele song): Stronger together Alan Buckley (poems): Wine of clouds/Dad David Steel (guitar songs): This song isn't here/Nothing in the end/Zebedee/Thought it would stay in my head/I can't believe Ed Pope (keyboard song): Gay weddings |
| Thursday 2nd November 2023 |
Matt Sage MC Bill Frizzell on door |
Tom (keyboard): Gibbous moon/The enemy Ginny (poems): Hair anxiety/Alderman's Jim Driscoll (guitar): I know my time ain't long/ Death don't have no mercy (Rev Gary Davis) Rob (guitar): The sorrowful ghost/Aunty Mary's Conspiracy Theories Tony Bicat (poems): Sitar/Cold wind over Hadrian's Wall/? Kate Mohideen & ? (vocals): Heaven knows where we are going/ & Rabhya, Ann, Jane: Follow the heron home Matt Sage (guitar): Street ballerina/Song for Sam May Tumi (guitar): A light in the dark/Everybody needs somebody sometimes Rob Sykes (poems): Autumn divination/An interral St James Simgers (5 male vocals): Steal away/The weatherman INTERVAL Moogieman (synth & vocals): Fall Lloyd (vocal): Those who do not share your views Owen Collins (poem): Bye bye bollock Archie (guitar): Mary, Mary Bill Frizell & Pete (ukes & vocals): That's all right/Bird is the word Stilly (poems & drawings): The heartless bantling/The Zugzwang quartet Patti Dale (poem & song): The status of a chair/ Codeine (Buffy Sainte-Marie) Ben (guitar & audience harmonies): Rest of my life Gommie (poem): I am in tears by the tears Ed Pope (balalaika): Psalm 137 |
| Thursday 5th October 2023 |
In Common Ground Matt Sage MC Bill Frizzell on door |
Matt Sage: Sitting here looking fpr a little/(with Joel on drums) Wanton grace Mandy Woods: Juke box/Pragmatic - ecstatic Carl Tomlinson: (poems) Matriculation lunch/Pastoral Simon Davies (Colin Fletcher on bass): Community/Not the end of the world Tony Bicat (poems): Sorry/Vauxhall helicopter Zeus/Sacred Aida (stand-up comedy) Steve Larkin (poems): Because capitalism/(with Joel, Colin, Simon, Matt Sage, Matt Morton) Post-colonial global blues Sila (guitar song): In the still of night Rob Sykes (poems): Ardrossan/Windowglass/Autumn decay Ian (guitar songs): My triumphant death/How strange the unconscious mind INTERVAL Stilly: The Chiltern Hundreds Matt Chanarin: Lucky life/Autumn Oxford rains Andrew: Bojo/Truss v Sunak Ed Pope: Rotting apples/Bottle of fear man Holy Fools (Jim & Chris): Everything shall fall from me/Hog killing time Lara Fairylove: Never give up on yourself (Patti Dale) Patti Dale: Crazy (Patsy Cline) Alan Buckley (poems): Failing to capture beauty/Prayer Bill Frizzell: Catta-weazle Choo-Choo Papa Nui (Matt Morton, Dom, trumpet, trombone, guitar, Joel on drums): Babalon/Do you get the joke?/Feet are getting hot |
| Thursday 1st June 2023 |
East Oxford Games Hall |
The abandoned Games Hall in Collins Street was occupied in protest at lack of community space and used for badminton, capoeira, talks, discussions, free food and DJs, &c. |
| Thursday 11th May 2023 |
Matt Sage MC, Bill Frizzell on door |
Moogieman: A, B or C? Simon Davies: Unacceptable/What will remain of us is love Johnny: guitar instrumental/I don't feel anything Laura Theis (piano): I'm a liar/Masochistic time machine Steve Larkin: Linda/Serious youth violence Louise: I only want to say goodbye (uke)/Good day coming (guitar) Liz: Sex began in 63/Two roads converged Matt Sage: Song for Sam/? Ed Pope: Parvati/Demon dealt INTERVAL Owen Collins: CO2 detector/Catweazle Edwards & Fieldhouse (piano & guitar): Way to Babylon/In the forest Remzi: Grandma's death Phoebe Nicholson: A portrait of my mother John (piano): I can't help falling (Elvis)/? Bill Frizzell: The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot) Simon Chambers: What cost?/Look inside Patti Dale: Summertime/St Louis Blies Tony Bicat: Elegy for J G Ballard/Pripyat/Under a blanket of blue/Racist |
| Thursday 4th May 2023 |
Alan Buckley MC |
Adam: Fogarty's Cove/Little boats sway Gavin: Duty/Goddess? Ed (poems): Eng,Fr, Ger of nights/No wind Bill Frizzell (uke): Rock me baby/Feelings gone (Gordon Lightfoot) Becky: Mushrooms/ithankfully Maria & Johnny: (poem) You remind me/Rivers and roads (The Head & The Heart) Rob Smallwood: Chromosomes/Who dares wins/Wrong in Paris Ed Pope: Greenwood town/Mirror of Pearl INTERVAL Vin & Sam: Another universe/Mind-numbing television Stephen Durkan: Let's get strange/Washing dishes/Mad wi' it Chris & Mark: Little cabin home (bluegrass)/My love and I will part Mina Hassan: poem/yesterday's/too bright Alan Buckley: Your heart (ghazal) Patti Dale: 12th of never (Johnny Mathis)/More than you know |
| Thursday 27th April 2023 |
I think it happened but I wasn't there |
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| Thursday 20th April 2023 |
Matt Sage MC |
Matt Sage: Still the Machine/Outlaws Ed: Night club/Comes right back Patti Dale: Happiness/Fag Ash Lil Simon Chambers: Divine Right of Kings Tony Bicat: Vegan biscuit/Red fire/Bird dream/Pickle's dilemma/Lazzie the fly Simon Davies: One with the sunrise/Samba Chanson Sam Twigg: By the dozen/Here when it rains/Welling Ed Pope: Cold grey season/Starry-eyed INTERVAL Archie: Ain't no end to loving you/Secular comedy Grant: Hyacinth Rob Smallwood: Trees/Magic Theatre/poem/Pole Star Owen Collins: NFT Excel?/Jesus' state visit/GCHQ John (piano): Lahdedah (Jake Thackeray)/Oranges Remzi: Hungry ghosts/? Bill Frizzell: Fuck all those perfect people (Chip Taylor) Matt Sage: Wild and free |
| Thursday 13th April 2023 |
Phoebe Nicholson MC |
Mandy Woods: Satnav girl/Possibility of you Julian Sharples: She was what she was Skye: poem/Ben Atwell song? Jack & friends: Spoonful/Shifting sands Joe: (2 guitar songs) Mike Harris: Woody/Wings (Brian Bedford) Simon Chambers: poem/Where genius dwells Rob: D..? brothers/Champion pooer Owen Collins: Cod/We stand with you Comedy duo INTERVAL Bethany Weiner: song/Stand my ground Megan: Family portrait/Water for crying Jacob: Gordian knot/Elizabeth Miranda: Early Morning (guitar song) Tony Bicat: Action/Lambeny? (Belfast)/ 3 poems Patti Dale: Why don't you do right? (Lil Green)/Love Potion No. 9 (Searchers) Jim w/ Josie Webber: Put your load down/ Darkness coming down |