Date
Date Event
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)


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