Posting this here on behalf of a friend involved in the live Oxford music scene. Sign if you want. Thanks.
"Would you believe, the last gig venue in Oxford centre, and one of only two medium size venues within a good 10 mile radius (and the only one with a truly broad spectrum of genres on offer), is under threat to be turned into (you guessed it) student accommodation? That's Oxford, to which even 5 years ago people used to deliberately move to start a band, because of the infractsructure, There's a whole campaign to address the planning application, which is ace, but if we can get 1500 signatures on this petition in the next couple of days we'll be able to address the city council separately, which will allow plenty of talk about the cultural and social value of the venue, rather than the specifics of planning regs.
So, if any of you fancied taking 60 seconds to sign this, I'd be vastly grateful. https://www.change.org/p/oxford-city-co ... eaf-oxford
All of Oxford's biggest post-Supergrass musical exports (Foals, The Young Knives, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Stornoway, Glass Animals) all starting playing at this venue (plus The Cellar, which was forced to close 2 years ago exactly, and has sat empty since), and it also houses The Spin, considered one of the bast jazz clubs in the country. I'm sure none of you have ever visited, but I'm sure you've all been somewhere similar, or can imagine why it's so valuable."
"Would you believe, the last gig venue in Oxford centre, and one of only two medium size venues within a good 10 mile radius (and the only one with a truly broad spectrum of genres on offer), is under threat to be turned into (you guessed it) student accommodation? That's Oxford, to which even 5 years ago people used to deliberately move to start a band, because of the infractsructure, There's a whole campaign to address the planning application, which is ace, but if we can get 1500 signatures on this petition in the next couple of days we'll be able to address the city council separately, which will allow plenty of talk about the cultural and social value of the venue, rather than the specifics of planning regs.
So, if any of you fancied taking 60 seconds to sign this, I'd be vastly grateful. https://www.change.org/p/oxford-city-co ... eaf-oxford
All of Oxford's biggest post-Supergrass musical exports (Foals, The Young Knives, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Stornoway, Glass Animals) all starting playing at this venue (plus The Cellar, which was forced to close 2 years ago exactly, and has sat empty since), and it also houses The Spin, considered one of the bast jazz clubs in the country. I'm sure none of you have ever visited, but I'm sure you've all been somewhere similar, or can imagine why it's so valuable."
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