Catweazle Club
About this original series
The Catweazle Club is 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 …These videos were filmed over the Summer of 2008, at Catweazle's current venue, the East Oxford Community Centre, on the Cowley Road, Oxford.We're looking into establishing a catweazle channel to webcast clips like this on a more regular basis, but for now, this is just a taster. If you want to see more - get down to the club!
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# Episodes
10 episodes -
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Episodes of Catweazle Club
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Brickwork Lizards - "When She Whispers"
Scorning pigeonholes, (and using up more than their fair share of web keywords) the Brickwork Lizards combine Oud, Guitar, Cello, Drum, Croon and Rap, with a retro vibe. Don't be too surprised to discover that it works - really well; this is the Catweazle Club after all.
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Release date
Jul 31, 2008
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Runtime
06:31
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Simon Davies - "Contented and Free"
Great advertising for the Catweazle vibe here from Simon Davies. If he were an estate agent, and we were literalists, we might take issue with the suggestion that it's "just a stone's throw from the sea", but this is what T.S. Eliot would have called an objective correlative, and as such is beyond reproach.
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Release date
Jul 17, 2008
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Runtime
05:54
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Pete the Temp - "Over Fundraised"
Pete the Temp atones for his past life as a charity telesalesperson by channeling the elderly objects of his solicitations.
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Release date
Jul 17, 2008
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Runtime
06:16
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Magic Lantern - "A Man and His Dog"
A pastoral sci-fi fable. Jamie Doe is the frontman of Magic Lantern: here he performs his song "A Man and His Dog" with impromptu support on clarinet from local multi-instrumentalist Zac Gvirtzman.
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Release date
Jun 19, 2008
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Runtime
05:48
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James Bell - "So You Want Electricity"
James Bell plays a modern day Prometheus, hitting his guitar *very hard*, and scaling veritably Olympian vocal heights to seize electricity from the Gods of (Glam/Folk) Rock. He gets his fingers burnt, for his pains.
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Release date
Jun 19, 2008
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Runtime
04:33
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FaceOmeter and the Dapper Swindler - "Everybody'...
A space shanty, covering pretty much every poetic base, with a catchy refrain that perversely differs ever-so-slightly from the song's title. To be listened to in conjunction with the Magic Lantern's similarly extraterrestrially themed ballad.
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Release date
Jun 19, 2008
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Runtime
05:50
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Sophia Blackwell - "Don't Tell Me The Truth Abou...
Sophia Blackwell re-rewrites W.H. Auden's classic poem "Tell me the truth about love"...in a toilet...in the dark... as Matt appositely notes: Rock 'n' Roll!
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Release date
Jun 19, 2008
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Runtime
03:42
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Matt Sage - "Still the Machine"
Is it too ironic to put the Catweazle compere's luddite lullaby up on the World Wide Web? Perhaps better to call it delightfully ambiguous. Relish the descending hush over the final coda as the crowd ooh la la's the city to sleep.
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Release date
Jun 12, 2008
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Runtime
03:16
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The World is Not Flat - "Birdhouses"
Acoustic duo The World is Not Flat (Chris Faroe and Roxanne Brennan) perform their song, "Birdhouses", during Chris's last set at catweazle - for the time being... With whale noises provided by the audience.
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Release date
Jun 5, 2008
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Runtime
04:15
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Edward Pope
Countercultural icon Ed Pope expounds a central axiom of his political philosophy, inthe form of a 'silly, soppy love song', accompanied by his faithful mandolin. The crowd are vocal in their agreement: were the world more akin to our cuddles, poverty and bellicosity would both be consigned to the dustbin of history.
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Release date
Jun 5, 2008
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Runtime
03:16
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