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The brilliant Vienna Ditto will be releasing their second single, a sweet but spooky slice of effervescent melancholica on February 14th 2012, on Silver Street Singles Club. But before that the band will be playing at The Wheatsheaf in Oxford on February 3.
The band has previously been likened...
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T-Rex & the Boomtown Rats will be performing at The Meca in Regent Circus, Swindon on Saturday 28th January 2012.
Doors 6.00pm / Show 7.30pm. Tickets: £14.00 Advance plus booking fee of £1.40
T-REX - The Music of Marc and Mickey
GET IT ON - METAL GURU - TELEGRAM SAM - RIDE A WHITE...
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Southern Tenant Folk Union will be coming to South Street Arts Centre in Reading on Saturday January 28.
Formed by Belfast born five-string banjo player Pat McGarvey in 2006 and taking their name from the groundbreaking multi-racial union of sharecroppers and non-landowning tenant farmers...
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Come January it’s easy to feel partied out and fed up but Salisbury Arts Centre has just the ticket to banish winter blues with a whole new season of comedy on its way.
The Arts Centre’s regular Barnstormers comedy nights return on Friday 27 January at 8.30pm. With further gigs on 24...
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OCM’s inspiring new season involves the best of the new in electronica, world, folk, pop, sound art, classical and more. This season, musicians originate from Asia, Middle East, Scandinavia and Europe bringing new cultural music projects to Oxford. OCM’s spring season hopes to inspire and offer...
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Club Velocity presents Reading on Fire with The Rare + The Neon Mile + The Papers + Primate at Play in Milford Road on Saturdy January 14th.
The doors open at 8pm and tickets cost £5 on the door or £4 in advance from ...
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Round One of the MMG Oxfordshire Battle of the Bands competition starts this month with acts already sharpening their axe guitars in anticipation.
The battle, which culminates with a final at the O2 Academny in April includes prizes like a place on a nationwide tour, studio time and...
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To celebrate Artweeks' 30th Birthday, O3 Gallery is inviting students to consider the idea of 'The Passing of Time' and enter artwork within that theme to be exhibited in the restaurants and café's at Oxford Castle in May 2012!
This competition is open to all current students who either...
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Tickets have now gone on sale for Honeyfest 2012 which will be taking place on Saturday 14th April from 12pm – 10pm at a Secret location in Wiltshire.
Tickets’ll cost £39 plus booking fee
(local tickets available from the Barge Inn, Honey Street, Wilts) and are available via the...
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Anyone who’s been to the brilliantly named pub The Who’d a Thought It in Lockeridge recently might have noticed it’s under new management.
It’s been taken over by Chris and Cheryl who are turning it into something special. Their ethos is to make it a family friendly home away from home...
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The Ocelot Newsletter
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Blogs, reviews and other stuff
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A new blog for all you job seekers out there...
By Laurence Cruse
An aggregator on totaljobs.com indicated that in November 2011, no less than 34’000 jobs were posted in the South Home...
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With so many big high street brands falling to the recession, city centres are slowly being overcome by a dappling of boarded up shop fronts where once grand, established monoliths to the shining promise of capitalism once stood. When my local...
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By Joybells Hanley
I wake up. My feet are constricted and my neck’s stiffer than a Jim Beam chaser. The jaunty angle of my car seat could invite a tender from Top Gear Magazine’s woman of the year Mrs Beckham with a view to adding a brocade...
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Chapter One of The Old Testicle – Sexodus
By Adam (The Brave) Crosland
I came into this world like everybody else; a Stork delivered me to the top of the Faraway tree, where I was greeted by Moon...
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We’ve all done it. Popped our address into Google and had a snoop around our neighbourhood, maybe looked for an old address to see the awful curtains the new neighbours have put up. Streetview has come under some...
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By Joybells Hanley
The road trip starts with me wondering where the glove box is and Mick looking for the steering wheel. We look at each other, get out of the car and change sides. We sit in the right seats this time, buckle up and look at each...
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Vintage Crow, Take Me Home and Melly Logan
Live at The Purple Turtle, Reading
15th November 2011
This month the monkey ventured over to Reading to The Purple Turtle on Gun Street, a regular host to live music in...
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EP Review
By Ed Dyer
Out Now
Shattered Dreams, when diluted down, are a pop-punk band from Oxford. Sounds simple. And yes, it is really. They have no real pretentions to be something they are not, which is...
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Once hailed by The Ocelot as Swindons Best Drummer (tm), Rich Millin in his immense (?!!) wisdom has decided to start a little on-line, drum-specific, nerdy ol' drum magazine about drums and interview drummers and talk about drums...
So the 1st...
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By Tom Jewitt
Most of todays music seems to be finger tipping the minor and underground audio outputs of regional teenage bedrooms. Even with the backing of a dedicated and motivated record label, band ethic and stripped down...
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