Concert Dates.

Commotion ’10 is the family friendly music festival held in the Cotswold village of Kingham in aid of a variety of children’s charities, including The Rainbow Trust, Clic-Sargent (cancer and leukaemia in children) and SSNAP- the unit at the JR Hospital for sick newborns and their families. The event is being headlined this year by From The Jam because the child-focused causes appealed directly to Bruce, whose wife cared about these issues so passionately that she devoted the last ten years of her life to fundraising for The Rainbow Trust .

Bruce met his wife while she was working in the music business but she gave this up to work for the children’s charity because, in Bruce’s words, ‘she wanted to give something back.’ It is for this same reason that Bruce was keen for From the Jam to play at Commotion ’10. ‘I am so proud of how much Pat achieved,’ he says, ‘She worked tirelessly and enthusiastically and had such a lot to offer. Her music business background and contacts meant she could get stars such as George Michael involved and it was wonderful to see how children and families benefited from all that she did. ‘I can never hope to achieve what she did, but I know she’d have been glad for me to support Commotion ’10 and that’s enough for me. It was helping to put the smiles on children’s faces that motivated her and made her work so worthwhile. And hopefully we’ll be seeing lots of smiles at Commotion.’

At Commotion ’10 he will be joined on stage by fellow From the Jam band members Mark Brzezicki (former drummer with Big Country) and Russell Hastings, whose vocal interpretations of the eighteen consecutive Top 40 hits The Jam enjoyed in their career, interspersed with new material, make for one of the most dynamic and enjoyable live shows around. Bruce has also appeared on a couple of songs on Paul’s new album Wake up the Nation. News of this long awaited musical reformation has led Commotion organisers to ponder as to whether Paul will be able to resist the opportunity to join Bruce in bringing the anger-fuelled message of David Cameron’s confessed fave track Eton Rifles to the Prime Minister’s West Oxfordshire constituency in the name of charity?

Also performing at Commotion are International Jetsetters- featuring two current touring members of The Jesus and Mary Chain, one of whom used to drum with Ride, this band’s pedigree is on no doubt. The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band, who are playing Kingham between appearances at Glastonbury and The Notting Hill Carnival, and Oxford’s Little Fish. Tickets for the event are available from the website , from Kingham Village Stores, Jaffe and Neale Bookshop, Chipping Norton and Rapture Records,

Commotion 10 takes place in the playing fields of Kingham Primary School

http://www.commotionfestival.co.uk/

Witney as follows: Advance adult - £20
On the gate adult - £25
Teens/Students/OAPs - £5
12 and under - FREE