The Shortlist


Almost 200,000 votes have been cast for this year's Get Seen, Get Heard entries and we're delighted to reveal the semi-finalists below. These 25 bands, who include 3 'wild cards' hand-picked by our industry experts in addition to the bands chosen by the public, will now be filmed by MTV and you can see the results on air in March!

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Anna Neale

Played At:  Oxjam, Farnham Maltings

"Christina Aguilera if she could write songs and play the guitar" www.annaneale.net

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Bamboo Juice

Played At:  The Edwards, Hammersmith, LONDON.

Our sound: "Powerful catchy choruses infused with deep melodies and gritty guitar parts. The bands immensely varied influences are combined to create an original and imaginative sound." ...

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Charlotte Woodman

Played At:  The Great Hall - Rake School, Hampshire

"OXJAM Acoustic Sessions at Rake" raised over £500. Three unsigned acts from West Sussex entertained an enthusiastic audience, with Charlotte Woodman making a huge impression with a wonde...

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Columbian Necktie

Played At:  The Park, Peterborough

We played an absolutely spifftastic set at OXJAM THIS UP YOUR ASS and raised over £100 for charity Unlike most bands that claim to have a unique sound, it’s really difficult to pigeonhole Columb...

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Dana Karic

Played At:  Jaime Bar, hampstead, london

Event featured DJs and live music from 3 great performers. Dana performed with the backing of Anja Twachtmann, Kerstin Twachtmann and Amy McIntyre. i decided to have a 'shoo wop' feel t...

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Everto

Played At:  The Freight House, Rochford

We organised a local band night in South Essex and had 6 brilliant bands from a wide range of genres. We had a good turn out and a lot of positive feedback from the event. We also released a charit...

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Scott Lester

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Live for at Oxjam at the Bull and Gate.

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Greyhound Green

Played At:  ULU

Greyhound Green are an indie punk, leaning on pop band originally formed in 2004. their line up sees Scott Martin (Lead VOX, guitar), Stephen Choi (guitar and BV’s), Sunil Tailor (bass) and Russell...

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Sound The Attack (previously known as Her Portrait In Black)

Played At:  Monchino's, Cardiff, South Wales

10 hour mixed music night with 8 bands and 3 DJ's. Her Portrait In Black headlined the gig. With an inspirational line-up, 'Her Portrait In Black' are fronted by both male and fe...

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IFE Band inc

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IFE Performing with band at Oxjam music festival

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Liam O'Donnell

Played At:  Cargo, London

Musicians Revenge 30.10.07 Liam O’Donnell Nine of the freshest artists in Great Britain were brought together to play Musicians Revenge, a momentous gig planned to raise money in support of OXJ...

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The Uncomfortables

Played At:  

Oxjam Preston Live @ The Kolor Bar

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The Velcros

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The Velcros - My Rock filmed at Oxjam, London by me (Marc Jason Ali) Alison on quitar and vocals Micky on Bass Al on Drums www.thevelcros.co.uk

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Old Ricoh

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Old Ricoh play rock and roll for a good cause.....Oxjam.13th october at Stockton football club.

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Padraig Rushe

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Padraig Rushe & Band perform, 19th October at the Backroom Sessions, Lantern, Navan, Ireland as part of Oxjam 2007, in aid of Oxfam.

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Point Seven Pistol

Played At:  The Park, Peterborough

A medly of 3 of our songs (Open Night, Push and a new, currently untitled track) from OXJAM '07 at The Park in Peterborough. Filmed by www.metalonrock.com

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Racune

Played At:  Buckingham Comunity Centre

Racune has a healthy mix of influences as each member has a very different taste in music, when writing new material we always try to have a stab at something new and always try to have fun with wh...

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Stars of Track and Field

Played At:  Brickyard Carlisle

Stars of track and field are one of the north west of englands hottest bands and in this video you will get to see why.

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Susie Clarke

Played At:  Boileroom, Guildford

Susie Clarke and her acoustic band performing I Know Your Kind at Oxjam Guildford

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Taking Chase

Played At:  THE BONGO CLUB, EDINBURGH

Taking Chase are an Edinburgh rock band and they rocked the hell out of Oxjam Edinburgh, just ask the people who were there, some faces may have even been melted by the huge sound created that even...

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The Half Rabbits

Played At:  The Port Mahon, Oxford

This is a song from The Half Rabbits' October 16th Oxjam gig at the Port Mahon, Oxford.

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The Fake Tracies

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We played to a packed out revolution, and what a night it was..music was great, atmosphere was great, and rasied shed loads of cash too! check us out anyways

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The Volt

Played At:  

The Video is edited by Will Hadley ("Thanks will x")

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International One

Played At:  93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London

'Play It By Ear' is about highly talented, unsigned artists getting together and being heard while raising money for charity. This year we joined up 'Oxjam' - Oxfam's b...

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Inner City Dwellers

Played At:  93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London

So far this year we joined up 'Oxjam' - Oxfam's biggest ever music festival which takes place throughout October. Nationwide there will be a 1000 events aiming to raise a massive £1m...

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