What's on Next...
12
Days Left
27 June 2025
Common Ground 
20.00
£5.00 door (cash only), £4.00 advance
Acts:
22.00 Double Yellow Lines
21.10 Agents Of The Lexicon
20.20 mOrTiFi'D
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Double Yellow Lines
Even we, with our penchant for pithy summations of musical schticks and styles, sometimes come up against acts that are indescribable. The nearest we can get to capturing Oxford's Double Yellow Lines is "The Bad Seeds doing mariachi klezmer thrash with Tom Waits", but that still only gives a fraction of the idea. Nightshift had a crack recently with "a heady collision between prog, Japanese metal, and a few other things that seem harder to pin down" before singling out their "theatrical urgency".
Agents Of The Lexicon
"Honk n' Screech were spitting helter skelter rap sprays in a clown infested dive bar on the edge of a wormhole in the outer Scrab Nebula, when DJ Double Microwave stepped forward. 'I got some beats for you jokers' he growled, and threw 'em a melted mix tape..." That's the beginning of the story, and you can join London's acid-clown industrial hip-hop crew to ink yourself into the next chapter. William Burroughs claimed that "word is virus", but the Agents go one further presenting "word as parasite".
mOrTiFi'D
Have you always been suspicious of squirrels? Do you need instructions on looking after your Stanley? And whatever happened to that band Trash Can Banana? Fear not, mOrTiFi'D have the answers! A pop punk trio with upbeat songs of nonsensical whimsy and sometimes a gimmick or two, they approach sonic oddity with a warm sense of fun that will ease everyone into this trip of a line-up.
DON'T BE AN ARSE
Our gigs are often highly eclectic, so there might be a wide variety of punters in our little venue. We want everyone to have a good time, so relax, express yourself and have a good gig, but be thoughtful of other people and don't ruin their night with your fun. Basically, just be considerate and nice, and everyone will be happy.
Naturally, anyone who is actively aggressive, or who abuses anyone else on the grounds of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, Monster Munch flavour preference, or whatever the hell else might make a bigot irrationally angry, is out the door.
WE'LL DO OUR BEST TOO
In return, we'll make every effort to create a warm and pleasant environment, and we'll try our hardest to keep to the timetable (music starts at approximately 20.00, and will go on till about 22.15). Also, we've kept the door price as low as we can, but rest assured that GTI is a non-profit event, and all the money after expenses goes to the performers.