What's on Next...
21
Days Left
26 September 2025
Common Ground 
20.00
£6.00 door (cash only), £5.00 advance
Acts:
22.00 Burning Oats
21.10 Pettaluck
20.20 Elective Affinities
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Burning Oats
Burning Oats are a four-piece rock band from the quiet villages of Otmoor, Oxfordshire. Although they've grown up together, their musical tastes are anything but the same - something that's clear from the diverse sound of their debut album, Legend of the Burning Oats (released June 2025). The album spans heavy rock anthems, funky grooves, and introspective ballads, showcasing the band's wide range of influences and musical personalities, but there's always a vintage sophistipop elegance in the music.
Pettaluck
Pettaluck is the solo project of Essex-based multi-instrumentalist daydreamer Emma Reed, whom those with long memories may remember seeing at GTI as half of gorgeous folk phantoms Lost Harbours. This set will feature woodwind-led experimental pop-noise oddities. "An outstanding album of various styles, hues, twists and turns, influences and inflections. Its beauty defies description" TQ Zine. A one way roller coaster of originality, giving everything ultimately like an orgasmic cosmos of personality and musicality" Yeah I Know It Sucks.
Elective Affinities
When the act is named after Walter Benjamin's thoughts on a Goethe novel, you can hazard a guess that it features Oxford philosophy professor and songwriter, Paul Lodge. Having previously played for us under his own name with a set leaning heavily on settings of the likes of Hildegard von Bingen and Nietzsche, this new twin guitar project will take his erudite songs and increase the atmospherics, taking a lead from Fripp & Eno. Paul co-runs the outstanding Mechanical Animals events, as is the only act we've ever had on who can quote Booker-winner Ben Okri expressing delight in their Wordsworth settings!
DON'T BE AN ARSE
Our gigs are often highly eclectic, so there might be a wide variety of punters in our little venue. We want everyone to have a good time, so relax, express yourself and have a good gig, but be thoughtful of other people and don't ruin their night with your fun. Basically, just be considerate and nice, and everyone will be happy.
Naturally, anyone who is actively aggressive, or who abuses anyone else on the grounds of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, Monster Munch flavour preference, or whatever the hell else might make a bigot irrationally angry, is out the door.
WE'LL DO OUR BEST TOO
In return, we'll make every effort to create a warm and pleasant environment, and we'll try our hardest to keep to the timetable (music starts at approximately 20.00, and will go on till about 22.15). Also, we've kept the door price as low as we can, but rest assured that GTI is a non-profit event, and all the money after expenses goes to the performers.