Tim Hughes

Oxford

Print Audience and Content Editor at Oxford Mail

Print Audience and Content Editor at The Oxford Times

Print Audience & Content Editor at Oxford Mail & The Oxford Times. My own humble thoughts. Music, art, food, comedy, travel and wildlife - especially badgers

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Wood festival in pictures: Music, dancing and fun in the Oxfordshire countryside

6 days ago | oxfordmail.co.uk | Tim Hughes

Held over three days at pretty Braziers Park in Ipsden, Wood festival is a pioneering event combining high quality live music, creative participation and a celebration of the start of summer. But it is also a show of love for nature and wildlife. Numbers are kept low for the event – which marks the very start of the summer music festival calendar.
Wood festival: Music, nature and wild fun deep in the Oxfordshire countryside

3 weeks ago | oxfordmail.co.uk | Tim Hughes

The familiar sounds of birdsong in the gorgeous countryside beyond Wallingford, has this week been accompanied by the dull thud of mallet on tent pegs as a clearing in the woods prepares to welcome thousands of revellers to the county’s first real festival of the year. Held over three days at pretty Braziers Park in Ipsden, Wood festival is a pioneering event combining high quality live music, creative participation and a celebration of the start of summer.
IN PICTURES: Oxford May Morning 2025 - music, dancing and fun

1 month ago | oxfordmail.co.uk | Tim Hughes

59 1/1 A BUMPER crowd of more than 16,000 people filled Oxford city centre for the city’s traditional May Morning festivities. Spirits were high as crowds gathered to listen to Magdalen College Choir singing the Hymnus Eucharisticus from the college’s Great Tower at 6am. The performance was followed by peels of bells and the start of music and dancing by groups from around the county.
Star Toby Sebastian Pugh hits a high note with new music and hometown Oxford gig

1 month ago | oxfordmail.co.uk | Tim Hughes

4 1/1 FOR a man who has not only nailed life as a successful actor but has legions of fans as an acclaimed musician, Toby Sebastian is refreshingly modest. The softly-spoken Oxford lad is riding high with a glittering CV of film and television roles under his belt, and has, somehow, also found the time to release his second album as a singer-songwriter.
Hundreds take to the streets of Oxford for Drum and Bass on Bike party

1 month ago | oxfordmail.co.uk | Tim Hughes

18 1/1 HUNDREDS of dance music lovers got into the saddle for a mass bike ride around Oxford to the pounding beat of drum and bass. The Drum and Bass On The Bike event on Sunday, April 13, attracted cyclists of all ages for a rhythmic ride through the city centre and East Oxford. Smiling riders followed DJs towing mobile sound systems for the procession – to the amusement of shoppers and tourists – some of whom joined in with bursts of impromptu dancing.
LIVE REVIEW: Public Service Broadcasting at New Theatre, Oxford:

1 month ago | oxfordmail.co.uk | Tim Hughes

4 1/1 LIVING in such strange and uncertain times it often seems there is little cause for cheer. Constantly confronted with the weird, confusing and downright horrible, we could be forgiven for sinking into a despondent slump.
'Epic' Oxford Indie Festival celebrates 10 years of backing local businesses

2 months ago | oxfordmail.co.uk | Tim Hughes

4 1/1 OXFORD’S independent businesses are the lifeblood of the city and an important part of what makes it special. Skilled craftspeople, artists, traders and owners of shops, galleries bars and restaurants help give our city its unique character and improve the quality of life for everyone living here. Yet while indie businesses bring vitality and vibrancy to our communities, life can be hard for the small trader. And that’s where Independent Oxford comes in.
Taste Tudor luxury in the footsteps of King Henry VIII at Thornbury Castle Hotel

Dec 6, 2024 | oxfordmail.co.uk | Tim Hughes

IT is hard to imagine a more impressive approach to any hotel than the arrival at Thornbury Castle. Set amidst rolling countryside, north of Bristol on Gloucestershire’s Severn Vale, with the Cotswolds on one side and the Forest of Dean across the river on the other, this historic gem keeps its great charm to itself.
Jamaica's Susan Cadogan brings soul, reggae and ska to Oxford for 'final tour'

Nov 22, 2024 | oxfordmail.co.uk | Tim Hughes

3 1/1 SHE has been hailed as reggae royalty and crowned the Queen of Ska, but Jamaican star Susan Cadogan laughs off such accolades, describing herself as just a singer. “They call me ‘the queen’ of reggae, ska and rocksteady, but I’m none of those things,” chuckles the artist who is celebrating 50 years in the music industry. “ I am the queen of myself! “I can’t put my finger on a genre. My music is somewhere between ska, rocksteady and lovers rock and I even DJ.
Public Service Broadcasting fly high with tribute to Amelia Earhart

Oct 31, 2024 | oxfordmail.co.uk | Tim Hughes

SMARTLY turned out in tweed, corduroy and bow tie, J Willgoose Esq cuts a dapper figure far from the image of your typical rock star. But while the bespectacled, softly-spoken Londoner could be mistaken for a librarian or geography teacher, the fiercely intelligent musician is the powerhouse behind one of the most exhilarating bands of our time.