The Catweazle Club is run and compered by Matt Sage. It's a popular Open Mic event now in its twelfth year, held every Thursday at the East Oxford Community Centre on the corner of Princes Street and Cowley Road, East Oxford.
Doors 8pm, performance 9 to 11, bar open until 11.30. Performers need to arrive before 8.30 to check in (though it's very popular, so can sometimes get full well before this).
Alan Buckley, one of the poets involved in the Catweazle Club, describes it as having a 'very bohemian / hippie vibe, but in a good way - a very accepting, respectful and all-round supportive space for people to get up and try out their thing. When I started writing poetry committedly about two years back it was in conjunction with regular performing at Catweazle, and I still go down there to road test new poems.'
This is what the Catweazle Club says about itself: 'An intimate and magical space for musicians, singers, poets, storytellers and performance artists of every imaginable hue, who grace the stage every Thursday night. A chance to sit, to listen, to connect, to inspire and to be inspired …'
To find out more information, visit the Catweazle Club website.
POSTSCRIPT: Whenever I try visiting Matt Sage's site, I just get a blue screen. If anyone else has better luck or knows what the problem is, do leave a comment below!
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I get a blue screen too. No ideas, sorry.
P.J.
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