Acts including Editors, VV Brown, Basement Jaxx, Fatboy Slim, and legendary drummer Tony Allen launched the month-long Oxjam music festival on 28th September with a series of intimate performances in a specially-converted Oxfam shop in London. The store on Upper Tooting Road, London, became an Oxjam shop for the week, whilst still selling the best second-hand music in London during the day.

The store saw Just Jack (acoustic), Master Shortie, Nitin Sawhney, to dance legends Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx and Stereo MCs come in for shows whilst Editors, Good Shoes also popped by. VV Brown said: “I’ve spent the summer supporting Oxfam’s campaigns at music festivals around the country, but the charity shop shows are the highlight of the festival season for me. Playing intimate shows up close to the audience is loads of fun, and to do it in an Oxfam shop will be even better.”

The charity shop gigs officially launch the Oxjam month of music, a festival to focus on thousands of fundraising events put on by ordinary people - from large-scale festivals to local sponsored busks - making it the biggest line-up of any music festival in the UK.

Since 2006, more than 36,000 musicians have played to an audience of over 750,000 people at almost 3,000 Oxjam events, raising in excess of £1 million to fight poverty around the world. The highlight of the month-long festival will be the Oxjam Takeover on Sunday 25 October, when more than 2,000 musicians will fill over 150 venues in more than 20 cities in a single day to raise funds for Oxfam.

This year the festival will be helping poor people cope with the devastating effects of climate change. As well as raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for Oxfam’s work, gig goers will be painting their faces blue as part of a massive visual statement to the UK government to take action on climate change before it’s too late. Around 50,000 festival-goers are estimated to have signed up to Oxfam’s blue faces campaign already this year, from Glastonbury to Reading and Leeds.