Celebratory giggage on Thursday 19 December with art/music collective Bear On A Bicycle’s Christmas party at The Cellar in Oxford. It’ll include DJing and live music from Nvoy, Salvation Bill and more.
The goodwill spreads to Witney on Sunday 22 December – the third Witney Winter Festival takes place at Fat Lil’s, Witney, with a fantastic line-up including Deer Chicago, The Scholars, Black Hats, Nudybronque, Player 2, Children Of The Sun and Samuel Zasada. All for just three quid!
The Witney fun vies for your attention, though, with two good gigs in Oxford on Sunday 22 December. Exhibit A: Flights Of Helios, The August List, Sier Pin Sky, Ben Walker and Joshua Gilbert at Port Mahon, Oxford. Exhibit B: Beta Blocker And The Body Clock, Jack Goldstein (of Fixers) and Oscar Molineux at The Cellar, Oxford. You must decide!
It’s a bit of a quiet week over Christmas – it seems that people might have other things on their mind than gigs, who’d have thought it? – but there are a couple of picks that may be of interest. Firstly, after a lot of local support saved Oxford’s PMT music equipment shop from being edged out of Cowley Road by big businesses muscling in, they’re repaying the favour with a gig at The Library in Oxford on Monday 23 December. It’ll feature The Family Machine, Toliesel, The Manacles Of Acid and Dan Rawle, and they promise ‘the largest crisp buffet in the whole of Oxfordshire’. Good times! Crispmas!
If you want to see in Christmas day in a reggae style, check out A Reggae Christmas at O2 Academy, Oxford on Tuesday 24 December. Running from 9.00 pm until two in the morning, it includes sets from Laid Blak, Count Skylarkin’ and DJ Bunjy. Awake on Christmas morning with a hangover, why not?
Get over the big day with a gig at The Wheatsheaf, Oxford on Saturday 28 December: Poledo, Radical Boy and Jeff Wode will be bringing the indie rock, garage fuzz and noise respectively. Wear your brand new Christmas pullovers for this one!
Full details of these and loads more gigs can be found in the events calendar.