Bristol Oxjam Music Festival 2009

Event information

This October, musicians from Bristol and the surrounding area will be taking part in the UK’s biggest music festival, as hundreds of events around the country take place for Oxfam’s Oxjam festival.

Oxjam is a festival with a difference: hundreds of fundraising music events are put on by ordinary people – from large-scale festivals to local sponsored busks – making it the biggest line-up of any music festival in the country.

The highlight of the month-long festival will be the Oxjam Takeover on Sunday 25 October, when more than 2,000 musicians will fill over 150 venues in more than 20 cities in a single day to raise funds for Oxfam. In Bristol, the lineup for the Oxjam Takeover includes Kid Carpet, New Rhodes, Boca 45, Jane Taylor, Ella and many more!

The bands will be performing across the city in the following venues: Start the Bus, Cooler, Mr Wolfs, The Croft, The Golden Lion, The Junction, and Halo.

This year the festival will be helping those in developing regions cope with the devastating effects of climate change. As well as raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for Oxfam’s work, gig goers will be painting their faces blue as part of a massive visual statement to the UK government to take action on climate change before it’s too late. Around 50,000 festival-goers are estimated to have signed up to Oxfam’s blue faces campaign already this year, from Glastonbury to Reading and Leeds

Wristbands can be collected from 2 venues - Start the Bus and The Golden Lion on the day using the wegottickets ticket reference number.