Raise a million by partying at Oxjam 2007

Thought the festival season was over? It is for happy campers, but not if you want to watch Fatboy Slim, The Kooks and Mr Scruff performing to raise cash for Oxfam.

Kicking off tonight, the charity's annual month-long Oxjam festival promises to be the biggest yet, with roughly 3,000 events taking place nationwide. Organisers are hoping to double the £500,000 collected last year and, judging from the star line-up, we reckon they might just do it.

This week sees Jamelia, Jarvis Cocker and SmartPlanet blip-pop faves Hot Chip rock a series of gigs at a secret London charity shop (if you're an Oxfam regular, take a guess at which one from the pics here). Meanwhile, Belle & Sebastian and Teenage Fanclub play charity football in Scotland.

The month also includes a 12-hour buskathon across 12 cities, and an MTV Flux hook-up that could see your gig broadcast on TV next year (details here). The music's not just an indie-fest, either, as DJ sets include Paul Oakenfold, 2manyDJs and Grooverider. Plus we found a fair share of classical concerts in the 162 results Oxjam's calendar threw up for our London postcode.

SmartPlanet tagged along to last year's Oxjam Scissor Sisters' gig and had a riot watching Ana Matronic delivering climate change messages -- she doesn't want us "to live underground like moles" -- between Jake Shears' Frankenstein impressions. If the buzz at this year's gigs is that good, Oxfam could hit the magic £1m target that'd help it provide "safe water for almost 1.4 million people, 20,000 emergency shelters or essential medicines for 10,000 villages".

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