WEGOTTICKETS TO DONATE 50% OF BOOKING FEES TO OXJAM
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 WeGotTickets, the leading ticketing agency in the UK for small to medium-sized venues and promoters, are exclusively selling tickets for this year’s Oxjam music festival and have pledged to donate 50% of their booking fee for Oxjam tickets back to the charity. The month-long festival begins on the 28th September with a series of exclusive, intimate performances from stars including Editors, VV Brown, Basement Jaxx, Fatboy Slim, Just Jack, Nitin Sawhney and legendary drummer Tony Allen at a specially-converted Oxfam shop in London.
These shows, limited to just 150 audience members per night, run from Monday 28 September to Thursday 1 October, and tickets will go on general sale from 4 September.
The charity shop gigs officially launch the Oxjam month of music. Oxjam is a festival with a difference: thousands 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 UK. As a further pledge of support to the cause, WeGotTickets will be implementing their donation module across the site throughout October, allowing ticket buyers for any event to make a donation to Oxjam. Said Dave Newton, WeGotTickets co-founder "We’ve always strongly believed in supporting charities at WeGotTickets, and we’re proud that once again Oxjam has asked us to work with them on their month-long festival. We hope that through donating 50% of the booking fee and the use of our donation module we can help raise some serious money for this deserving cause.” Since 2006, more than 36,000 musicians have played to an audience of over 750,000 people at almost 3,000 Oxjam events, raising in excess of £1 million to fight poverty around the world.
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.
This year the festival will be helping poor people 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. Tickets for the Oxfam shop gigs will be available for £25 from 9.00 am on Friday 4 September from www.wegottickets.com/oxjam. To find out what Oxjam events are going on in your area this October, visit www.oxfam.org.uk/oxjam or call 0300 200 1255. The current lineup, with more acts to be announced, is:
Monday 28 Sept: VV Brown, Just Jack (acoustic)
Tuesday 29 Sept: Tony Allen plus special guests, Nitin Sawhney, Shlomo
Wednesday 30 Sept: Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx (DJ set), Stereo MCs (DJ set)
Thursday 1 Oct: Editors
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