Oxjam UK Festival 2007 | Klaxons, Kasabian, Kooks Join Line Up

The Oxjam festival is a month long UK wide musical extravaganza organised by the charity Oxfam. It started last year and the first event took place during October 2006 raising over £500,000.

This year’s event is due to be even bigger, with 3,000 gigs and events happening all over the country during the whole of October. The aim is to hold the event for the next 10 years and try to raise £10 million in that time.

There’s already some big names attached to the festival, including Hot Chip, Kaiser Chiefs, DJ Shadow and Fatboy Slim. And now some even bigger names have sworn their allegiance to the cause, with the big K trio of The Kooks, Kasabian and The Klaxons all signing up.

Overall 40,000 musicians are expected to take part, and each should raise at least £750. Check out this short video of The Klaxons urging everyone to do what they can for the cause.

If you’re in the UK, are you going to be taking part in this year’s Oxjam? You can get involved by either playing or going to see one of the many events and help raise the money needed. I hope the enthusiasm for this type of event hasn’t been lessened over the last few months by the amount of good cause concerts there seems to be these days.

This is something different, and isn’t relying on big names playing in a world event to get the message across. Instead it’s a month long festival of music and performances which everyone can get involved with and that’s surely a good thing.

Oxfam site
Oxjam site
Oxjam Myspace