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Graham Coxon at Oxjam Dalston
Indie | Thursday 27th September 2012 | Osh
The former Blur guitarist provided a wonderfully unique and intimate set for the event’s opening night.
Oxfam have teamed up with British musicians who perform in Oxfam shops across the country in an effort to raise money for the more than worthy cause, the event inspiringly named Oxjam opened with Brit-pops very own Graham Coxon.
The up and coming indie three piece Theme Park opened the night’s entertainment, with harmony filled, melodic acoustic, pop summer songs the group clearly have a bright future ahead of them, instantly at ease within the close quarter surroundings of the Oxjam stage.
Then it was the turn of the legendary Coxon to take the stage, the man who everyone was there to see. He timidly crosses the stage dressed in an ensemble reminiscent of the racks of charity clothes that litter the store and blasts through a set as truly alternative and eclectic as his own solo career. From opener Advice all the way through to the closing number, an electric cover of Sorrow Army, played at a frantic speed as Coxon expertly plucks each string, the set is a complete whirlwind and excuse the pun, passes in a blur.
Coxon plays a mix of his very own twist on the expected traditional Brit pop sound, from his most recent album A&E, but the set at times borders along the edges of British punk before swinging to the more alternative sounds of low-fi American 90’s bands. Coxon playfully jokes with the crowd and his own band in his very own awkward style ‘That last song was sarcastic about being in the East End So I hope I don’t get a kicking for it’ states the front man before launching into a number based on avoiding a beating on a night out Running for your Life.
The set highlighted the brilliance of a song writer who’s clearly made the nigh on impossible task of stepping out of the shadow, created by his own luminosity in fuelling one of the biggest bands of a generation and provided the opener for a charitable cause the organisers could only have dreamed of.
Set List
Advice
Spectacular
City Hall
Truth
Running for your Life
What'll it Take?
Billy Says
Bottom Bunk
You and I
Girl Done Gone
Ohh Yeh Yeh
No Good Time
Sorrow Army
By Joe Longhurst
