O2 Academy Oxford

Events at O2 Academy Oxford (Cowley Road, Oxford)

Adam Ant & The Good, The Mad And The Lovely Posse, Georgie Girl & Her Poussez Posse

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	The eccentric singer-songwriter performs his punk-infused pop hits with his band. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	6 Nov Nov 6, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £25

Alabama Shakes

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	The American four-piece plays blues-rock and soul. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	4 Sep Sep 4, 7.30pm	0844 477 2000 £14

Azealia Banks

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	Hip hop and dance by the New York-based singer. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	6 Oct Oct 6, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £12.50

Belleruche

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	The London-based outfit plays trip hop, alt pop and soul. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	7 Jun Jun 7, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £10

Big Country, Sadie And The Hotheads

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	The band exploded onto the scene in 1983 with anthemic songs such as Fields of Fire and In A Big Country featured on their debut album The Crossing that sold several million worldwide. They followed up with a number one album Steeltown. Now, the Celtic rockers celebrate their 30th anniversary with a string of concerts that will see them embrace their past. Tragically, co- founder Stuart Adamson passed away in 2001. A traumatic time for all connected to Stuart's life but the remaining members… View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	21 Jun Jun 21, 7pm	0844 477 2000 £20

Black The Ripper, Mic Righteous, English Frank, Death Of Hi-Fi, Asher Dust, N-zyme, Chukie, Astar, HMK, Chaudhry, Exonic, K Speech, Bluprint, Najii, Snipezz, Hannah Bruce, AJ Live

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	Hip hop and grime by the London-based singer. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	9 Jun Jun 9, 7pm–10pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £8

The Complete Stone Roses: Stone Roses Tribute

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O2 Academy Oxford	10 Nov Nov 10, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £10

Dance A La Plage, Shattered Dreams, Athletes In Paris, Colour Change For Camouflage, Ego Trip

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	The Banbury-based four-piece plays indie-pop. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	Academy 2 11 Aug Aug 11, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £5

Dappy

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	Hip hop and pop by the N-Dubz member, singer-songwriter and rapper, Costadinos Contostavlos. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	28 Sep Sep 28, 6pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £15

Definitely Mightbe: Oasis Tribute, Changing Man: Paul Weller Tribute

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O2 Academy Oxford	22 Jun Jun 22, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £10

Django Django

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	The London-based band plays psych pop and indie. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	5 Jun Jun 5, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £8.50 adv

Electric Six

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	American alt rock band performs the album Fire in its entirety. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	14 Dec Dec 14, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £12.50

Evile

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	Thrash metal by the Huddersfield-based band. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	Academy 2 26 Oct Oct 26, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £12.50

Fei Comodo

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	The Essex-based five-piece plays post-hardcore. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	28 Jul Jul 28, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £7

Flux Pavilion

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	Dance and electronica by the London-based DJ and producer. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	5 Oct Oct 5, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £12.50

Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls

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	Life for Frank Turner started out on the road where he first began to accumulate a cult following. It wasn't until the Lock Up Tent with former hardcore band Million Dead in 2005 followed by his 2007 debut album Sleep Is For The Week that he first began to achieve underground success. Frank quickly followed up with a second album in 2008 Love Ire & Song. Frank's brand of folk songwriting mixed with his passion for punk attracted the attention of the CEO of US independent label Epitaph… View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	26 Nov Nov 26, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £18 phone for availability

Futures, Don Broco, Natives

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	Contemporary pop-rock from the London-based outfit. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	13 Jul Jul 13, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £8.50

Fuzzy Ducks

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	Resident DJs spin pop, dance and disco. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	9 May–30 May Wed 10pm–2am 6 Jun–27 Jun Wed 10pm–2am 4 Jul–25 Jul Wed 10pm–2am	0844 477 2000 £5

Gong

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	The progressive, psychedelic rock band formed by Australian Daevid Allen during the mid-1960s embarks on its first UK tour for nearly 10 years, appearing in cities including Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh and at the HMV Forum in London's Kentish Town. Equally famous for the 'Radio Gnome Trilogy' albums of the 1970s - 'Flying Teapot', 'Angel's Egg' and 'You' - and recently released studio tome '2032', as well as for the various incarnations that were ultimately brought under the umbrella of the… View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	18 Nov Nov 18, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £18

Half Man Half Biscuit

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	Witty and intelligent post-punk by the band from Birkenhead. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	31 May May 31, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £18

Heaven 17

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	The veteran Sheffield-based band plays synthpop from its album The Luxury Gap. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	2 Nov Nov 2, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £20

Impaled Existence

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	The five-piece plays progressive death metal. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	29 Sep Sep 29, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £7

Jaguar Skills

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	The mysterious ninja DJ and producer spins live electronic mash-ups. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	12 Oct Oct 12, 10.30pm	0844 477 2000 £15

Julian Cope

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	Liverpool's new romantic hero Julian Cope is making a welcome return to the stage. He has enjoyed a successful and varied 30-year career in the rock business as a singer, poet, occultist and photographer, and in true rebellious artist style, has had a tumultuous relationship with major record labels throughout. Cope began his musical career in 1977, when the disbandment of six-week-old trio The Crucial Three, marked the start of fruitful careers in punk for all three members, including Echo… View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	13 Oct Oct 13, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £19.50

Kate Nash

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	Kate Nash And The Receders have joined the Dirty Deeds Christmas party! Psychotronic invasion popsters Junkstarhave played alongside a range of acts including Supergrass, White Rose Movement, Athlete, Fight like Apes, The Holloways, Drive like Maria and 1980s pop icon Wendy James. They mix the sonic sensibilities of their superheroes & synthesize them into a big brash sexy city swagger, all of their own. Forging their reputation on their edgy live performances, they pull off that… View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	26 Jun Jun 26, 7.30pm, doors 7pm	0844 477 2000 £15

Little Angels

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	Hard rock by the Scarborough-based band, now re-formed. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	4 Jun Jun 4, 7.30pm	0844 477 2000 £15 phone for availability

Little Comets

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	The Newcastle-based quartet plays alt pop. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	31 Oct Oct 31, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £10

Mayday Parade, The Summer Set, Natives

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	Rock and emo by the band from Tallahassee, Florida. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	Academy 2 2 Oct Oct 2, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 Phone for prices

Metric

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	The Canadian indie-rock and new wave revival band performs songs from the album Synthetica. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	8 Jul Jul 8, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £14.50

Nik Kershaw

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	Those who belong the younger generation may not be familiar with this 1980s teen idol. He has previously performed at Live Aid and written songs for another 1980s favourite, Chesney Hawkes, and we've all heard of The One And Only. After leaving school in 1976 to concentrate on his music career he performed with several different bands that all gradually dissolved. After the last group Fusion dissolved in 1982 Kershaw embarked on his solo career. His first album Human Racing achieved enjoyed 20… View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	Academy 2 25 Sep Sep 25, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £22.50

No Consequence

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	The outfit plays metal and hardcore. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	30 Jun Jun 30, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £7

Orbital

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	Electronica and kaleidoscopic techno from the duo. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	13 Dec Dec 13, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £24

The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band, Count Skylarkin

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	The band plays a lively blend of jazz, jive and rhythm'n'blues. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	21 Dec Dec 21, 8pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £8; £6 adv

Peter Hook And The Light

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	The bass player and band perform Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	2 Jun Jun 2, 6.30pm	0844 477 2000 £20 adv

The Proclaimers

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	The brothers Charlie and Craig Reid and their band, best known for the songs I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) and Letter From America, play folk rock and pop from the album Like Comedy. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	1 Nov Nov 1, 7pm	0844 477 2000 Phone for prices

Propaganda

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	Resident DJs spin indie, pop, rock, metal and punk anthems across three rooms. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	2 Jun–30 Jun Sat 10.30pm–3am 7 Jul–28 Jul Sat 10.30pm–3am	0844 477 2000 £4–£5

Reckless Love

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	Classic hard rock with a glam twist by the band from Finland. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	21 Oct Oct 21, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 Phone for prices

Reel Big Fish

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	Playful ska-punk from the Californian six-piece. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	18 Aug Aug 18, 6pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £14.50

Richard Walters, The Family Machine, Listing Ships, The Gullivers

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	Alt folk by the Oxford-based singer-songwriter. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	16 Jun Jun 16, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £5

The Rifles

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	The outfit plays mod-influenced indie-rock. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	23 Nov Nov 23, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £11

The Rollin Clones: Rolling Stones Tribute

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	The rock'n'roll legends get the tribute treatment. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	1 Sep Sep 1, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £10

The Saw Doctors

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	The rock and rollercoaster history of The Saw Doctors is a tale of perseverance and hard graft. The very definition of journeymen rockers, Ireland's Saw Doctors have blazed back Phoenix-like from almost two decades of unsung glory. Out Of The Blue, their rambunctious cover of The Sugababes About You Now rocketed to number one in Ireland, restoring them to their rightful place as that nation's best-loved good-time band. Fronted by two talented songwriters, Leo Moran and Davy Carton, this is the… View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	2 Dec Dec 2, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £21.50

Ska Cubano, Count Skylarkin

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	The London-based group plays a lively fusion of ska and Cuban music. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	3 Nov Nov 3, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £16; £12 adv

Smoke Fairies

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	The duo plays blues and folk from the album Blood Speaks. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	23 Sep Sep 23, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £9 adv

The Smyths: The Smiths Tribute

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	A tribute to the music of Morrissey, Marr, Rourke and Joyce. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	2 Jun Jun 2, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £10

Soulfly

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	Max Cavalera leads his Arizona-based thrash metal outfit as it plays songs from the album Enslaved. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	6 Jul Jul 6, 7pm	0844 477 2000 £15

T-Rextasy: T-Rex Tribute

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O2 Academy Oxford	12 Oct Oct 12, 8pm, doors 7pm	0844 477 2000 £12

Then Jerico

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	Singer Mark Shaw leads his reformed pop-rock and New Wave band performing songs from the album The Big Area. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	28 Sep Sep 28, 7pm	0844 477 2000 £18.50 adv

Toots And The Maytals

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	Classic reggae and ska by the veteran Jamaican band. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	15 Aug Aug 15, 7pm, doors	0844 477 2000 Phone for prices

Tragedy: The Bee Gees Tribute

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O2 Academy Oxford	1 Jun Jun 1, 6.30pm–10pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £7

The View

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	Indie-rock by the Dundee-based band. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	23 Jun Jun 23, 6.30pm	0844 477 2000 £14

Warehouse

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	Resident DJs spin dance, disco and pop. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	9 May–30 May Wed 11pm–2am 6 Jun–27 Jun Wed 11pm–2am 4 Jul–25 Jul Wed 11pm–2am	0844 477 2000 £5

The Wedding Present

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	The Wedding Present was originally formed in 1985 by vocalist and lead guitarist David Gedge. The line-up has changed over the years but these days Gedge is joined on stage by Simon Cleave, Terry de Castro and Graeme Ramsay. Their debut single Go Out And Get Em' Boy was released on a small scale, with only 500 copies being made and delivered to the distributors personally by Gedge. This down to earth attitude forms the foundation of the band and everything their music stands for. Their first… View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	17 Nov Nov 17, 6.30pm, doors	0844 477 2000 £13

Zak Zilesnick, Gavroche

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	London-based pop singer. View full details
O2 Academy Oxford	19 Jul Jul 19, 7pm	0844 477 2000 £7

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