Success of Jericho Book Fair brings a new art fair thisisoxfordshire.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thisisoxfordshire.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An artist has created an incredible doodle map of Oxford, featuring all the landmarks, museums, restaurants and shops and name-checking its most famous inhabitants. Dave Gee, 31, is a freelance illustrator and mural artist who has made an international name for himself with a trademark cartoon-ish doodling style. Mr Gee said: “Last year me and my girlfriend took a staycation and we visited Oxford so it was recent in my memory. “As I was walking around I was thinking, there’s a lot of things I could draw here. “I also just really liked the vibe, there were lots of independents – I always try to push as many independent businesses as I can - and I took a bit of a shine to it.”
See painstaking doodle map of Oxford inspired by artist s visit to the city oxfordmail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oxfordmail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
EVEN for a city with a musical heritage as strong as Oxford, Ride are a very special band. For a start, Laurence ‘Loz’ Colbert, Mark Gardener, Andy Bell and Steve Queralt, are proper down-to-earth Oxfordshire lads, forming not at a posh private school but at college in Banbury – and picking up Steve at the Oxford branch of Our Price Records. Staying close to their roots, they played their first shows at the college and the city’s Jericho Tavern and Oxford Polytechnic – now Oxford Brookes University. Fame came knocking when a demo tape they had recorded in Steve’s bedroom was heard by Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain, who recommended the band to manager Alan McGee who snapped them up to his Creation Records label.
Ride star Loz Colbert backs mental health with drumming oxfordmail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oxfordmail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.