Strummer Room Records
Presents...
PAST EVENTS
It all started with BodFest in 2013. Since then, we’ve hosted hundreds of bands and artists from Banbury, across the UK and beyond.
2013
Saturday 13th July 2013 - BodFest '13
Uninvited / Peerless Pirates / The Cellar Family / X-1 / Dance a la Plage / Von Braun / Punch Drunk Monkey Club / ArtClassSink / HalfDecent / Mundane Sands / Manny O / Ioneye / BushFieldSmith / Tiger Mendoza / Jordan O'Shea / The Drakes / Argos & Monster / Chris Living / The Headington Hillbillies / The Method / Simon Dwight / Barney Beauregard / Nijinxsy
Monday 26th August 2013 - Seacourt Bridge, Botley, Oxford
Punch Drunk Monkey Club / Argos & Monster / Chris Living / Barney Beauregard
Friday 27th September 2013 - Millers Bar, The Mill, Banbury (The Road to BodFest 14)
Punch Drunk Monkey Club / BellyEyeSmile / Chris Living / Manny O / DJ Screaming Jack Hawkins
Friday 25th October 2013 - Millers Bar, The Mill, Banbury (The Road to BodFest 14)
Small Time Hero / Half Decent / The Method / Domino Fire / DJ Screaming Jack Hawkins
Friday 29th November 2013 - Millers Bar, The Mill, Banbury (The Road to BodFest 14)
Mundane Sands / Tiger Mendoza / Mary BendyToy / X-1 / DJ Screaming Jack Hawkins
Saturday 7th December 2013 - Seacourt Bridge, Botley, Oxford
Lucky Club / Charlie Leavy
Friday 13th December 2013 - Castle House, Banbury
Small Time Hero / BushFieldSmith / Charlie Leavy / Rob Lanyon / Bradley Taylor
Sunday 15th December 2013 - Castle House, Banbury
Jack Little / Rob Lanyon / Bradley Taylor
2014
Friday 24th January 2014 - Castle House, Banbury
Spinner Fall / Eagle & Weeks / Bradley Taylor / Simon Dwight
Friday 28th February 2014 - Castle House, Banbury
The Shapes / Masiro / Punch Drunk Monkey Club / Blood Red Stars
Friday 14th March 2014 - Castle House, Banbury
Matt Edwards Band / Small Time Hero / Cardboard Castle
Friday 28th March 2014 - Castle House, Banbury
Peerless Pirates / Vienna Ditto / Myrrh Room / DJ Screaming Jack Hawkins
Saturday 12th April 2014 - Castle House, Banbury
Half Decent / Punch Drunk Monkey Club / Charlie Leavy / BLNK (DJ set)
Friday 25th April 2014 - Castle House, Banbury
The Missing Persians / Beard of Destiny / The August List
Sunday 18th May 2014 - The Bell, Bicester
Spinner Fall / Blood Red Stars
Friday 30th May 2014 - Castle House, Banbury
The Traps / The Other Dramas / The Trophy Cabinet / Swindlestock
Friday 27th June 2014 - Castle House, Banbury
Barry & The Beachcombers / The Lucky Club / Webs & Marionettes
Friday 11th/ Saturday 12th July 2014 - Castle House, Banbury (STRUMMERFEST 14)
2 twenty 2 / auralcandy / Punch Drunk Monkey Club / The Reckless Sleepers / Spinner Fall / The Other Dramas / Kastaphor / Dash the Baptist / Freddy Le Cragg / Charlie Leavy / Jack Little (Musician) / Alice Victoria / Beaver Fuel / Myrrh Room / Simon Dwight / Eb Hill / Bradley Taylor / Katy Jackson / Small Time Hero / Pipa Moran / Rob Lanyon / BLNK Dan Nash / Karl Herring / Erin Tiger Lilley / Taylor Taylor-Louise / Alan Jaggs / Joe Dolman
Friday 29th August 2014 - Castle House, Banbury
Bright Works / Flights of Helios / Wardens
Thursday 11th September 2014 - The Bell, Bicester
The Matt Edwards Band / Punch Drunk Monkey Club / Alice Victoria
Friday 3rd October 2014 - The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
Peerless Pirates / Vienna Ditto / The Other Dramas / Charlie Leavy
Thursday 9th October 2014 - The Bell, Bicester
Bad Reign / Fault-Line / Rob Lanyon
Sunday 12th October 2014 - Pig Pen Pottery, Bloxham (Apple Day)
Charlie Leavy / Katy Jackson / Freddy Le Cragg / Alice Victoria / Alan Jaggs / & Will Homewood
Thursday 13th November 2014 - The Bell, Bicester
The Pink Diamond Revue / The Other Dramas / Kid Kin
Thursday 11th December 2014 - The Bell, Bicester
Beard of Destiny / Leper King / Alan Jaggs / Pipa Moran
2015
Friday 16th January 2015 - The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
Torn Like Colours / The Shapes / Silverspark
Saturday 7th February 2015 - The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
auralcandy / Webs & Marionettes / Katy Jackson
Thursday 12th February 2015 - The Bell, Bicester
Beware This Boy / Safety in Numbers / Alice Victoria
Saturady 28th February 2015 - The Montebello, Brighton
The Pink Diamond Revue / The Other Dramas / Charlie Leavy
Saturday 7th March 2015 - The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
Matt Edwards Band / Robot Swans / Leper King
Thursday 12th March 2015 - The Bell, Bicester
Webs & Marionettes / Callow Saints / Paul Gibson
Saturday 21st March 2015 - The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
The Pink Diamond Revue / Sam Martin / Rob Lanyon / Emma Hunter
Thursday 9th April 2015 - The Bell, Bicester
Arcane / Blame Fate / After The Thought / Graham Hooper
Saturday 18th April 2015 - The Cellar, Oxford
Zounds / Yorkshire Rats / Spinner Fall
Saturday 2nd May 2015 - The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
Zurich / Redhead / Jack Little / Sam Martin
Thursday 14th May 2015 - The Bell, Bicester
Torn Like Colours / Get Loose / Chris Gillett
Wednesday 20th May 2015 - Fat Lils, Witney
The Other Dramas / Spinner Fall / Beard of Destiny
Saturday 2nd May 2015 - The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
Death of HiFi / Tiger Mendoza / Half Decent / Kid Kin
Friday 12th / Saturday 13th June 2015 - The Bell, Bicester (STRUMMERFEST 15)
auralcandy / The Missing Persians / The Other Dramas / Cardboard Castle / Ben Pilston Music /
Vienna Ditto / Matt Edwards Band / The Pink Diamond Revue / Callow Saints / Sam Martin / Safety in Numbers / Chris Gillett / 31hours / Robert Lanyon / Erin Tiger Lilley / Alice Victoria / Paul Gibson / Alan Jaggs
Wednesday 17th June 2015 - Fat Lils, Witney
Solidarity / Emi McDade / Jasmine Beth
Wednesday 29th July 2015 - Fat Lils, Witney
Punch Drunk Monkey Club / Leper King / Blame Fate
Thursday 13th August 2015 - The Bell, Bicester
Noe & The Pastel Frontier / Ravens / S&M
Saturday 22nd August 2015 - St. leonards Church, Grimsbury, Banbury (GRIMSBURY MUSIC FESTIVAL)
Callow Saints / The Other Dramas / Punch Drunk Monkey Club / Cardboard Castle / Half Decent / Katy Jackson
Wednesday 2nd September 2015 - Fat Lils, Witney
Callow Saints / Factory Lights / Charlie Leavy
Thursday 10th September 2015 - The Bell, Bicester
Haze / The String Project / Mudslide Morris
Wednesday 23rd September 2015 - Fat Lils, Witney
Haze / Georgie Bird / Daniel Eagle / Alan Jaggs
Saturday 26th September 2015 - The Atic, Banbury
auralcandy / Freddie Le Cragg
Wednesday 30th September 2015 - Fat Lils, Witney
Seven O'Clock Junkies / 31 Hours / Kid Kin
Wednesday 7th October 2015 - Fat Lils, Witney
Cosmosis / Ghosts in the Photographs
Thursday 8th October 2015 - The Bell, Bicester
Leper King / Silo 18 / Beaver Fuel
Saturday 24th October 2015 - St. Leonards Church, Grimsbury, Banbury (GRIMSBURY FRINGE)
Matt Edwards Band / Beard of Destiny / Sam Martin / All Is Worth
Thursday 10th December 2015 - The Bell, Bicester
Sinfiction / La Phooka / Factory Lights
2016
Saturday 26th March 2016 - The Wheatsheaf, Banbury (PDMC EP Launch)
Punch Drunk Monkey Club / Ravens / Daniel Eagle / Charlie Leavy
Saturday 3rd September 2016 - The Wheatsheaf, Banbury
The Pink Diamond Revue / Cherokii / Spinner Fall / Ravens
Saturday 12th November 2016 - The Wheatsheaf, Banbury
Kanadia / Noe & The Pastel Frontier / Jasmine Beth
Saturday 10th December 2016 - The Wheatsheaf, Banbury
Callow Saints / auralcandy / The Other Dramas
2017
Saturday 30th September 2017 - The Jericho Tavern, Oxford (Spinner Fall EP Launch)
Spinner Fall / The Workhouse / Ghosts in the Photographs
2023
Saturday 22nd July 2023 - Strummer Room Records Cafe
The Pink Diamond Revue / The Long Time Dead
Sunday 20th August 2023 - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Ghosts in the Photographs
Saturday 30th September 2023 - Strummer Room Records Cafe
Beard of Destiny / BarrelHaus / The Long Time Dead
Sunday 1st October 2023 - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
The Long Time Dead
Saturday 7th October 2023 - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Beard of Destiny
Saturday 14th October 2023 - Strummer Room Records Cafe (National Album Day)
Life Underground / Simon Dwight / Paul William Gibson
Saturday 28th October 2023 - Strummer Room Records Cafe
Ghosts in the Photographs / The Exact Opposite / Life Underground
Saturday 25th November 2023 - Strummer Room Records Cafe
Dead Anyway / Maisy's Rainbow Dream / The Foam Heads
2024
Saturday 3rd February 2024 - Strummer Room Records Cafe
Spinner Fall / 46 Prime / Mystery Biscuit
Friday 16th February - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
The Pink Diamond Revue / The Long Time Dead / Queen Eleanor's Cross
Saturday 2nd March 2024 - Strummer Room Records Cafe
Emma Hunter / Dolly Mavies / Secret Rivals
Friday 15th March - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Lake Acacia / The Arboretum / Simon Dwight
Friday 22nd March 2024 - Strummer Room Records Cafe
Whiff of Horse
Friday 19th April - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Dead Anyway / The Exact Opposite / Life Underground
Saturday 20th April 2024 - Strummer Room Records Cafe (Record Store Day)
Simon Dwight / Helen Pearson / Dom James Jr.
Friday 17th May - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Ghosts in the Photographs / Dogmilk / Nothing Dreams
Friday 21st June - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
The Faith Healers / BarrelHaus / Helen Pearson
Friday 5th July- The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
The Long Time Dead / Das Ghoul / Queen Eleanor's Cross
Saturday 13th July - Banbury United Football Club - STRUMMERFEST '24
GHOSTS IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS / LAKE ACACIA / PEERLESS PIRATES / THE EXACT OPPOSITE / SPINNER FALL / THE LONG TIME DEAD / MAISY'S RAINBOW DREAM / SECRET RIVALS / BEARD OF DESTINY / QUEEN ELEANOR'S CROSS / 46 PRIME
Friday 19th July- The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
The Foam Heads / iiis / Dom James Jr.
Friday 2nd August - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Top Shortage / Septic & The Tanks / MorTi
Friday 23rd/Saturday 24th August - Ap Tap Fest
featuring 11 bands/musicians over 2 days. Raising funds for local small animal charity - BARKS
Friday night - BushFieldSmith / The Kokroachez / Moogieman
Saturday - Means of Production / Tiger Mendoza / Neon Nights / Dead Anyway / Spank Hair / Wundabyte / Helen Pearson / Simon Dwight -
Friday 6th September - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Wundabyte / The Muthas / Hybrid Kid
Friday 20th September - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Shaven Primates / London Graffiti / Safety Jacket
Friday 4th October - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Order#227 / In-Flight Movie / z-x
Friday 18th October - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Balkan Wanderers / Beard of Destiny / Nothing Dreams
Friday 1st November - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Septic and the Tanks / Means of Production / Dream Phone
Friday 15th November - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury - PUNK AT THE TAP
Spinner Fall / 46 Prime / Gutter Puppy
Friday 6th December - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Maisy's Rainbow Dream / Vendetta Deluxe / Water Chestnuts
Friday 20th December - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
The Pink Diamond Revue / Peerless Pirates / Cholly
2025
Friday 17th January
Analogue Electronic Whatever / Baby Maker / Mortifi'd
Friday 7th February
Rufus Goodlove / Black Hats / King Panic
Friday 28th March
The Muthas / Concrete Fun House / Shaun Banks
Friday 4th April
Vendetta Deluxe / Ria Plays / Ghost In The Photographs
Friday 2nd May
Tiger Mendoza / The Subtheory (DJ Set) / Yaya Jojo
Friday 23rd May - ApTapFest (for BARKS) - The Dirt / Sinews / Shire
Saturday 24th May - PUNK at The Tap (for BARKS) - Order#227 / AWAP / The Caroline Bomb / Gutter Puppy / YT-1300 / Das GHOUL / The Long Time Dead / Queen Eleanor's Cross
Sunday 25th May - ApTapFest (for BARKS) - Seven O'Clock Junkies / Life Underground / Synthanasia / Paul William Gibson / Cole Spencer-Davies
Friday 6th June - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Jody & The Jerms / Bad Blood Recovery / Dom James Jr.
Saturday 7th June - The Red Lion, Brackley
The Exact Opposite / Nothing Dreams / Shire
Friday 20th June - The Apothecary Tap
Sugarbully / Moogieman / Wundabyte
Friday 4th July - The Apothecary Tap
Beard of Destiny / Hybrid Kid / Page of Swords
Saturday 5th July - The Red Lion, Brackley
Spinner Fall / Gutter Puppy / Queen Eleanor's Cross
Friday 18th July - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Screamin' Irene (Aylesbury) / Nothing Dreams / The Atomic Prune
Friday 1st August - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Das GHOUL / Queen Eleanor's Cross / Wundabyte
Saturday 2nd August - The Red Lion, Brackley
The Muthas / Concrete Fun House / Lunar Kites
Friday 22- Sun 24th August - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
ApTap Fest 3 (for BARKS)
Friday - Wilderness States / Analogue, Electronic, Whatever / Radiochuj
Saturday - Beaver Fuel / Scared Little Toaster / Beard of Destiny / Worried / Baby Maker / The Gadgets / The Cryptics
Sunday - Flinch / Spank Hair / Means of Production / Dead Anyway / Dilemma
Friday 5th September - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
The Arboretum / Mystery Biscuit / Baby Maker
Friday 3rd October - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury - PUNK AT THE TAP
Crash Induction / YT-1300 / Siouxsie Suicide
Friday 17th October - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Aqualine / iiis
Saturday 25th October - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Red Texas / Dom James Jr.
Friday 7th November - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
The Shapes / Selver / Shanghai Hostage
Friday 21st November - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Synthanasia / Analogue Electronic Whatever / Wundabyte
Friday 5th December - The Apothecary Tap, Banbury
Beaker / Emma Hunter / Baby Maker
Friday 5th December - The SMRP, Gloucester
Dead Anyway / Means of Production / Wundabyte
Friday 19th December - The Apothecary Tap
Duck Thieves / The Caroline Bomb / Lone Voice
Saturday 20th December - The Apothecary Tap
Rufus Goodlove / Beard of Destiny
2026
Friday 16th January - The Apothecary Tap
The Borough / NONO / Scene It All
Friday 30th January - The Apothecary Tap - INDEPENDENT VENUE WEEK
Canned Pineapple / Wrex / NONO
Saturday 31st January - The Apothecary Tap - INDEPENDENT VENUE WEEK
Aqualine / Big Trousers / Lake Acacia
Friday 6th February - The Apothecary Tap
Voodoo Rays / Project Overload / Alto Alto
Saturday 7th February - The Apothecary Tap
Queen Eleanor's Cross / Sebastian Reynolds
Friday 20th February - The Apothecary Tap - PUNK AT THE TAP
Spinner Fall / Gutter Puppy / The Del-Chronics
Friday 6th March - The Apothecary Tap
Maisy's Rainbow Dream / Life Underground / Shaun Banks
Friday 20th March - The Apothecary Tap
Bedd / The Faith Healers / A Happy Salmon
Saturday 21st March - The Apothecary Tap
Jody & The Jerms / The Foam Heads
Friday 17th April - The Apothecary Tap - PUNK AT THE TAP
The Battery Farm / Cherry Fuzz Club / Sinews
Saturday 18th April - The Apothecary Tap
Tom Hingley / Brian & The Onions
Friday 1st May - The Apothecary Tap
The People Assembly + Midori Wave + Charms Against The Evil Eye
Saturday 2nd May - The Apothecary Tap
TVEMOM - Thames Valley Electronic Music Open Mic
22-24 May - ApTap Fest '26 at The Apothecary Tap
Black Hats + Maisy's Rainbow Dream + BarrelHaus + Concrete Fun House + Octavia Freud + Mystery Biscuit + Sleep Room + Cholly + Hannah Lou Larsen + Dilemma + Wundabyte + The Faith Healers + King Panic + Dom James Jr.
Saturday 30th May - The Apothecary Tap
BANBURY PRIDE
with Queen Eleanor's Cross + Erinferno + Yaya Jojo + Nico Cabana
Friday 5th June - The Apothecary Tap
Lucy Leave + Family of Noise + Fun Sponge
Friday 19th June - The Apothecary Tap
Dead Anyway + Das GHOUL + Wundabyte
Saturday 27th June - The Pig Place, Adderbury
The People Assembly + Her Alien Flower + Sundaughter
Friday 3rd July - The Apothecary Tap
No Worries If Not + The Phone Call + Final Clearance
Saturday 11th July - The Apothecary Tap - Strummer Room Rcords Presents turns 13
Duck Thieves + Tiger Mendoza + iii's + Life Underground + Beard of Destiny
Friday 17th July - The Apothecary Tap - PUNK AT THE TAP
Beaver Fuel + Las Vedas + Fun Sponge
Saturday 25 July - The Pig Place, Adderbury
Means of Production + Wundabyte + NONO
Friday 7th August - The Apothecary Tap
Peerless Pirates + Worried + The Cryptics
Friday 28th August - The Apothecary Tap (STRUMMERFEST '26 - DAY 1)
Dilemma + Barrelhaus + Spank Hair
Saturday 29th August - The Apothecary Tap (STRUMMERFEST '26 - DAY 2)
Screamin' Irene + Dead Anyway + Selver + HooF + Family of Noise + Erinferno + Matt Philip Hale
Sunday 30th August - The Apothecary Tap (STRUMMERFEST '26 - DAY 3)
Neon Nights + Mary's Garden + Sinews + Lunar Kites + Lone Voice
Saturday 5th September - The Pig Place, Adderbury
Beaker + Emma Hunter + Baby Maker
Friday 18th September - The Apothecary Tap
Asterix + Matt Philip Hale + NONO