Well, that was fun! Six months planning, and every single minute was time well spent. It is impossible for me to look at last Saturday’s Oxjam Bournemouth Takeover objectively – it has been the most important thing in my life for the best part of six months, so I can only look from the inside ...
Five months and sixteen fundraisers after our launch at Chaplins in Boscombe, and the main event is nearly here. This Saturday the Oxjam Bournemouth Takeover returns. With nearly £6,500 already raised our original target of raising £8,000 for Oxfam is almost certain, and our hope is to now raise in excess of £10,000 – a ...
This is it! The OXJAM BOURNEMOUTH TAKEOVER 2011! This will be the climax to our fundraising activity this year (okay, apart from the closing party the week after…), and looks set be be HUGE!! Last year we received mainly positive feedback from the Takeover, with two notable criticisms. One being the fact that the venues ...
On paper at least, the last Quarter-Final of the Dorset Music Awards at The Winchester looked almost unmissable, with an eclectic five band line-up of top quality, original local music. I managed to miss the second Q/F, which by all accounts packed out the venue completely, whereas tonight’s event (at its peak) fell short of ...
As attentive readers may be aware, in addition to contributing to this very fine site, I harbour musical aspirations of my own. I won’t mention the name of the band I am in because that would be abusing my position as a (quasi) music journalist. But needless to say, earlier this year when the application ...