Oxjam Brecon Takeover line-up announced

Former Gorky's Zygotic Mynci bassist Richard James, Threatmantics, The Gentle Good, and Huw M, are amongst the acts announced to perform at the Oxjam Brecon Takeover returning for it's second year, to build on the success of last year's event which raised more than £5000 for Oxfam.

Oxjam Brecon Takeover Festival - kicks off at 2pm on Saturday 16th October. With 50 acts set to perform playing 6 stages throughout the town in aid of Oxfam, venues include The Gremlin, The Rugby Club, The Markets Tavern, Theatr Brycheiniog, The Corries Club and The Northcote Con Club.

Solo artists and bands confirmed to appear include Richard James, Draw Me Stories, Spencer McGarry Season, Threatmantics, The Gentle Good, Huw M, Jo Bartlet, Ceri Frost, Evening Chorus, Pamela Wyn Shannon, Little Eris, Circle Of One, The Long Knives, All The Damn Vampires, All Our Glory, and Fell On Black Days.

As well as music Oxjam Brecon will feature new comedians fresh from their shows at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including James Acaster, and Nick Helm.

Tickets for Oxjam Brecon Takeover Festival are priced at £6. To buy tickets, click here.

The Oxjam month of music, which runs through the whole of October. During October, more than 950 venues, 2,000 volunteers, 6,000 bands and musicians and 135,000 audience members will enable Oxjam to raise £500,000 to help Oxfam fight poverty. 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.

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.

Oxjam Takeover events take place in Aberdeen, Bath, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Brecon, Brighton, Bristol, Canterbury, Cardiff, Coventry, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guildford, Huddersfield, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London (Brixton, Leadenhall Market, Brick Lane, Kilburn, Kingston), Manchester, Neath, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Stirling, Stoke-on-Trent and Wiltshire.

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 £1.2 million to fight poverty around the world. Oxjam 2010 is expected to take the total past £1.5 million, enough to buy safe water for 1.6 million people, 750,000 bags of seeds or 60,000 goats.

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