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MUSIC POETRY STORY SONG
all manner of acoustic artistry
Since 1994

1st & 3rd Thursdays
The Slow & Steady
38 Abingdon Road
OX1 4PD
List 7pm Doors 7.30pm

"Magical" - RADIO 4

"Britain's most intimate performance space" - The TIMES

"Essential" - GUARDIAN Completely Unplugged, Utterly Magical, since 1994

An intimate and magical space for musicians, singers, poets, storytellers and performance arti

sts of every imaginable hue. A chance to sit, to listen, to connect, to inspire and to be inspired …

no PA, anything goes, turn up by 7pm to book a slot.

1st & 3rd Thursday of the Month, Common Ground Cafe, Little Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX12HU

21/06/2025

Happy Solstice
Look For The Light
(Vid in comments)
X

17/06/2025

Such a gorgeous run of shows of late. Connecting, inspiring and so very deeply moving. After over 30 years (jeez!), The Catweazle Club remains - for me, at least - a profoundly important resource for our creative community: and perhaps now more than ever.

This Thursday night we gather once again, in the lovely upstairs space at The Slow & Steady (oh so aptly named), to remind ourselves that there is so much positivity, creativity and love in the world, and to oh so gently blow each other's minds.

See you down the front,
x Matt

06/06/2025

Gorgeous session last night, back on June 19th…

04/06/2025

Beautiful session last time. Feels like an AGE since then. Here are a few highlights. This week, we've a very special treat in store....!

See you down the front,
x Matt

15/05/2025

Tonight, fiends, we go again…

29/04/2025

We'll be on this Thursday eve, post-May Morn shenangians. Always electric (acoustic) vibes for this one.

Up The May!

x Matt

16/04/2025

Last session was a sublime celebration of Spring in Albion.

What will tomorrow night bring..?

Only one way to find out.

See you down the front,

X Matt

03/04/2025

Yes, we’re on tonight, folks

01/04/2025

This Thursday is to be the LAST EVER Catweazle session*

Here, meanwhile, is my favourite treatise on All Fool's Day, by the great English mystic, Cecil Collins (who also painted the picture):

"In our age, one of the greatest feast days of the whole year should be April 1st. All Fools' Day. A day that should be kept and celebrated religiously and universally. A holy day, when no work is done. A day given over to the divine fantasy of holy gaiety. A day of the giving away in unending foolish non-rational generosity, of gifts clothed in the marvels of the imagination. The entering of strangers' houses, and the placing of gifts upon their tables. A day of mystical jokes concealing deep mercy. A day when all the mercies of the year gather to manifest themselves.

At night there should be fireworks, the night sky strewn with holy signs of divine fun written in streams of fire, and whirling Catherine wheels that light up the dancing of all the fools. And the golden glow of the roman candles, with their fountains of soft fire curving in the air. Then there would be the poetic absolution of the heavy abstract machine of public morals, by the charity of the Fool.

For lovers this is the day in the year to celebrate Love: their patron saint is the Fool, for all lovers are one with the Fool, as they are one with the artist and the poet, they are the same race. Eros and psyche live within the protection of the Fool. All Fools' Day should be celebrated everywhere by everyone; some with dancing, some with feasts, some with fasting. A day when all the failures in life, the misfits, the deformed ones, the simpleminded ones, should be revered by all men with awe, and to them shall be given gifts, gifts piled at their doors in the morning, gifts given all day. They would be celebrated as one of the mysteries of life.

Yes, this would be the one day in the year during which all human beings could dissolve the cruel monotony of the utilitarian principle of work and respectability, that with the plausible teeth of its mechanism tries to destroy the mysterious wonders of life. A day when all men, the successful, the failures, the Saints, misfits, heroes, weaklings, businessmen, artists, poets are united in the mystical charity of the Fool.

The Fool who wearing his fantastic garments of Love, makes his wild painful gestures of tenderness before the suffering of all the living ones in the Universe. A day when all men share in the Fool's joy in the entertainment of strong mercy. The day of the compassionate irony of the Fool, clad in the debonair clothes of subtle joy, his face full of the gaiety of the wine of life, drawing its lights from the source of tears and sharp sorrow. The Fool, who in an ecstasy of happiness bows down with his gay garments, down into the dust, with a humility that touches the bottom of the abyss of life."

*April Fool: hopefully this Thursday will the first of a great many more..x

28/03/2025

I think they call it. Anyways, here’s me in another lifetime, aged 24, and shooting a vid with my then band in Trinidad. Free and happy times.

We were airlifted out of a fiendish London February and dropped into carnival in Port of Spain. The director said: whatever you do, don’t go in the sun, and don’t get stoned - it’ll look dreadful on camera.

So the first thing we did was go find the bushman, which didn’t take long, and then stake ourselves out on the beach for the rest of the day. Obviously.

19/03/2025

Spring is finally here, and we’ll be celebrating tomorrow night down at The Slow & Steady on Abingdon Rd. Here are a few snaps of our last, heart-warming session a couple of weeks ago. 1st & 3rd Thursdays of the month…

14/03/2025

Pierre, The King of The Oxford Canal - and, in his own mind, The Rightful King of England - has finally slipped his moorings.

Sail on, mystical, magical, moonmad traveller…

I look forward to singing Pierre’s Blues at the next Catweazle, a song I wrote for him 30 years ago, which opens:

He hangs out on the Astral
Stardust in his beard
Signs on down the Social
Where they all think he’s weird
But I know
He’s just like you and me..

📷 Jeff Slade

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The Slow And Steady, 38 Abingdon Road
Oxford
OX14PD

Opening Hours

7:30pm - 11pm

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