Dance

ANNIE MAC

  • O2 Academy, Oxford Tomorrow (Friday), 10pm
  • Tickets: £14 in advance from wegottickets.com

THE weekend gets off to a flying start with a visit by the queen of UK club culture, Annie Mac. The Radio 1 DJ, whose Friday evening show goes out to more than a million people, appears at the O2 as part of a night of cutting-edge dance music. Expect everything from electro and dubstep, to techno and drum and bass.

Also playing are London producer Copy Paste Soul and Em Williams and James Weston of club night Simple.

Blues

ROB TOGNONI

  • Jericho Tavern Monday
  • Tickets: £12 from wegottickets.com

‘Silver’ Phil Guy Davis continues to pull in some of the world’s finest proponents of the blues to the Jericho for the Famous Monday Blues. This week sees a return visit by Australian guitarist Rob Tognoni, a powerful performer who has a reputation for explosive fretwork and rock hard blues.

Pop

HEAVEN 17

  • O2 Academy Tomorrow (Oxford)
  • Tickets: £12 from wegottickets.com

Heaven 17 were one of the most recognisable bands of the 80s.

Former Human League members Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh and singer Glenn Gregory went on to rack up seven hit singles and four Top 40 albums. Last year they returned, playing their classic album Luxury Gap at The Roundhouse.

Now they are taking it on the road, and tomorrow reach Oxford. The band insist the songs work as well today as they did before. “Written during the height of Thatcherism against a backdrop of over three million unemployed, the parallels with the Britain of today are obvious,” the band told us.

“With a millionaire cabinet and unemployment figures the same, the band’s post-modern critique of our society has never sounded so resonant.”

Pop

ADAM ANT

  • O2 Academy Tuesday
  • Tickets: £25 from ticketweb.co.uk

Adam Ant will once again don his ludicrously dandy costume (the feather-topped Napoleon hat is a personal favourite) in a tour to promote catchily-named new album Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunners Daughter.

Expect to hear such timeless hits as Antmusic, Goody Two Shoes, Prince Charming, and the Ivor Novello award winning Stand And Deliver, plus dynamite disclosures and tales from a colourful past. He appears with his The Good, The Mad and The Lovely Posse.