The lovely Teenage Fanclub have launched what is being billed as "the UK's biggest ever music festival" - the previously reported Oxjam - over 1000 events due to take place across the UK throughout October in aid of the charity Oxfam.
Events due to take place as part of the Oxjam programme include a 24-hour non-stop busk being held simultaneously in ten cities across the UK, a UK karaoke record attempt in Manchester, plus hundreds of gigs, concerts and club nights involving the likes of De La Soul, Badly Drawn Boy, Hot Chip, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Embrace and Scissor Sisters.
Playing the launch event at Glasgow's Barrowlands venue, Teenage Fanclub singer Norman Blake encouraged aspiring musicians to get involved in the charity programme, commenting: "We originally got together in my granny's bedroom in Bellshill. You too could form a DIY band, play some gigs, make some noise and fight poverty at the same time. You never know what it might achieve".