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Queen of Clubs Cabaret
...was born at Oxford's Isis Farmhouse in November 2008. Since then, we've been at Cowley Road Carnival, Truck Festival & various Oxford venues (from pubs to a 14th century lepers' chapel & The Holywell Music Room: Europe's oldest purpose-built concert hall!). Now a stately toddler, we're just about big enough to be let loose on co-directing Oxford's tiny & wonderful Arcane Festival.

In 2008, we felt Oxford lacked a riproaring, knees-up, rowdy variety show. Returning from a tour of Canadian fringe festivals with Inflatable Buddha, curator Susanna Starling wanted to bring her favourite festie bands to town (many for their Oxford debut) & give a true VARIETY of local artists - from bodypoppers to magicians, comedians & recorder players - the chance to support them on the bill.

Since then, we've hosted unsigned professional touring bands including Orkestra del Sol, Los Albertos, The Zen Hussies, Chancery Blame & the Gadjo Club, The Penny Black Remedy, Top Shelf Jazz & local legends The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band. Alongside them have been UK under 16s bodypopping champion Levon de Silva; local bellydancers, fire eaters & snake charmers Hafla Entertainment & Oxford Brookes Circus Skills Society; poet-animator Stilly; local/national DJs including DJ Mystic, Dan Ofer (Bossaphonik) & Dutty Moonshine plus Londoners Chango Mutley & Kobayashi; Victorian magicians Morgan & West; London burlesque starlets Kiki Kaboom & Josephine Shaker and a whole load more...

STOP PRESS!

Queen of Clubs presents
The Mighty Wurlitzer
Playing live, semi-improvised soundtracks for classic silent film

Fri 4th May 2012
The Ultimate Picture Palace
- Oxford's truly independent cinema -

Tickets & info coming soon at www.mightywurlitzer.co.uk

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What people say about QOC

"Basically, Queen of Clubs Cabaret is brilliant. If you’ve ever been in a club and secretly thought “I love dancing, but I’m kinda bored now. I wish there was something pretty to point my eyes at. I wish there was somewhere quiet enough to talk. I wish something was on fire.” then you’ll love it"
Lucy Ayrton, www.dailyinfo.co.uk

"offering something that bit different are those gorgeous people from Queen of Clubs cabaret"
Tim Hughes, Oxford Mail

"great eclectic lineup"
Danny Robins on Lauren Laverne's BBC 6 Music blog

"intimate and glorious...Thanks for providing such innovative music and entertainment over the last year...I’m really looking forward to what you might have in store in 2010!"
Lizzie via email

"thank you for having us, we had a great time!" The Penny Black Remedy

...We've been lucky enough to find an audience that is friendly, uninhibited, fun-loving, stylish & downright 'AVIN IT. If you were there: THANK YOU! If you weren't: log in to Facebook in your browser & click a flyer below to discover what you missed!

All this...and for charity?
Yup: Queen of Clubs Cabaret is all about getting involved - and giving something back. Many of our headline bands have something of an anti-establishment slant & we don't care who knows it!! If our shows make a profit over artist costs & venue hire, we donate it to charity. We're often asked WHY. Well - why NOT?

In 2010 we raised a Grand Total of £1117.34 for www.theartroom.org.uk in conjunction with Arcane Festival in memory of our friend, artist Dan Lewis, who died in June of that year. In 2009 we raised £808.01 for our 5 chosen charities: Oxford Homeless Medical Fund, No More Landmines Trust, Cecily's Fund, The Sumatran Orangutan Society & BBOWT.

If you'd like to suggest a charity recipient for a future show, please get in touch.