Franklin's Tower, The Long Harvest, Osprey, Matt Sewell

An oxford band who play the grateful dead songbook, long jams and all, and take liberties with it where the mood takes them. They are regulars on klub kakofanney's free sunday afternoon bills at the tree in iffley, oxford's longest-running independent music promoter. Music starts mid-afternoon and admission costs nothing.

A long-standing fixture of the oxford club circuit, on the bill at klub kakofanney nights since at least 2013 under names including osprey acoustic, osprey and friends and osprey's all-stars. The tree in iffley is a regular haunt, usually as part of a free sunday afternoon bill of local original bands. A 2013 live set as osprey and the ox4 allstars was captured by cooz's live recordings, the oxford live-music archive.

Oxford-based illustrator, author and acoustic musician matt sewell plays intimate, self-taught finger-picked guitar music rooted in nature, earth magic and cosmic wandering, unhurried and gently trance-inducing. His project sewell & the gong released the debut lp 'patron saint of elsewhere' on dsppr records in august 2025, drawing remixes from justin robertson and ruf dug on earlier releases. He has also curated the acclaimed 'a crushing glow' compilation series for caught by the river.