Oxjam Ireland Music Festival 2007

national | arts and media | event notice Wednesday September 05, 2007 13:05 by djpbarry oxjamdublin at hotmail dot com

31 Days in October - Make Music, Raise Money, Change Lives

Oxjam is a unique music experience that aims to stage as many music events as possible throughout the month of October to raise money for Oxfam Ireland. Oxfam are asking musicians, promoters, street buskers, music teachers - in fact everyone throughout Ireland - to put on all kinds of music events during the 31 days of October to raise vital money for Oxfam. There's no limit to how big or small the events are - whether you're donating your cloakroom money, a portion of your entry fee or organising a gig or club night, it'll add up to one huge, Ireland-wide Oxjam festival - raising vital money to fight poverty and injustice.

What is OXJAM?

Spanning the month of October, Oxjam is a unique music experience that aims to stage as many music events as possible to raise money for Oxfam Ireland. We're asking musicians, promoters - in fact, everyone across Ireland - to put on all kinds of music events during October to raise money for Oxfam. There's no limit on how big or small the events are - classical, club night, mambo and metal, it'll add up to one huge, Ireland-wide, Oxjam festival - raising thousands to fight poverty.
And we need YOUR help to make it happen.

So What's Happening In Dublin?
Glad you asked! We have five shows confirmed for Oxjam 2007 in Dublin. All proceeds from these shows go to Oxfam Ireland.

Oxjam @ CrawDaddy - Experience Oxjam
Thursday, 4th October
Rock Night
EyeSlave
Reemo
The Murder of Crows
This show will be filmed for MTV's Get Seen, Get Heard talent search.
Tickets available now from www.tickets.ie.

Oxjam @ The Sugar Club - Mellow Out for Oxjam
Wednesday, 10th October
Acoustic Night
Luan Parle
Jenny Lindfors
Linda Coogan
Alyanya
Conor Biddle
This show will be filmed for MTV's Get Seen, Get Heard talent search.
Tickets available now from www.tickets.ie.

Oxjam @ Radio City - Revival for Oxjam
Thursday, 11th October
Indie Night
The Beat Poets
The Arrangements
Pier Nineteen
This show will be filmed for MTV's Get Seen, Get Heard talent search.
Tickets available now from www.tickets.ie.

Oxjam @ The Hub
Saturday, 13th October
Revolution For Dogs
The Laundry Shop
The Ultra Montanes
The Neon Stars
This show will be filmed for MTV's Get Seen, Get Heard talent search.

Oxjam @ Draíocht
Tuesday, 23rd October
Indie/Punk Night
Hand Attacks for Heart Shakes
Colour System Failure
Paper Tank

Get Seen, Get Heard with MTV

As part of Oxjam, MTV launched a brand new talent initiative called 'Get Seen, Get Heard' - calling out to the nation's up-and-coming music stars to get involved in the festival for the chance of recognition on MTV.

Bands and artists playing at Oxjam gigs filmed their performances and uploaded them to a specially created MTV website. The most popular Oxjam acts, as voted by MTV viewers, are now appearing on MTV in a series of Get Seen, Get Heard profiles. Over the coming weeks the 22 finalists will be whittled down to a final five who will each receive a mentoring session with a music industry expert. The pinnacle of the initiative will see each of the five finalists performing at a series of special gigs to mark the beginning of Oxjam 2007, details of which will be confirmed at a later date.

OXJAM Compilation CD Available Soon!

Several of the artists involved in this year's Oxjam Festival have very kindly donated a track each towards an Oxjam compilation CD, which is currently in production and will go on sale very soon.

Every penny of the proceeds from these sales will go directly to Oxfam Ireland.