Thursday, October 19

Twister (see Interview), Holy Roman Empire, Sylvia Wayne, Abel Jones, Snakebite City night, The Kooler, Bullingdon, Cowley Road, Oxford; Singer-songwriter night, Hors and Jockey, Woodstock Road, Oxford; Tim Whitehead (sax), The Spin, Wheatsheaf, off High Street, Oxford (8.30pm) with workshop at South Oxford Community Centre, Lake Street, Oxford (to book place on workshop tel 01865 2455537).

Lains Barn, Wantage: Pete Lay's Gambit Jazzmen. 7.30pm.

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Friday, October 20

Black Candy, Bracket 22, Club That Cannot Be Named, The Pavilion, Wheatsheaf, High Street, Oxford; Webb Brothers, Whispering Bob, Vegastones, Wishbone Ash 30th anniversary tour, Zodiac, Cowley Road, Oxford, 01865 420042; Webb Brothers, Whispering Bob, Vegas Tones, The Point, The Plain, Oxford, 01865 798794; Oxford Contemporary Music Festival presents Evan Parker,(sax), Eddie Prvost (percussion), John Tilbury (piano), Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford, 8pm, 01865 791355; Rick Chase, Red Lion, Northmoor; Dirty Earth Band, Red Lion, Yarnton. Alan Burke, Oxford Folk Club, Port Mahon, St Clement's, Oxford; The Albion Band, The Mill, Banbury.

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Saturday, October 21

Rachel Stamp, Zodiac, Cowley Road, Oxford, 01865 420042; Shouting Myke, Caowin, The Point, The Plain, Oxford, 01865 798794; Mattress, Loopy, The Pavilion, Wheatsheat, Oxford; Move It, Jack Russell, Old Marston; Rick Chase, Six Bells, Bicester; Secret Police, Red Lion, Abingdon; Kudo, Flyboy, The Pit, Hollybush, Witney. ______________________

Sunday, October 22

TRILOK GURTU, Zodiac, Cowley Road, Oxford, 01865 420042; Citsyagroovin', new r & b and hip-hop, club night with Kid Fury and guests, The Bullingdon, Cowley Road, Oxford; Derek Tatam Chicagoans, Rose Revived, Newbridge;Seventh Avenue Express, Trout Inn, Lechlade.

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Monday, October 23

Kill II This (for 16s plus), Zodiac, Cowley Road, Oxford, 01865 420042; Hershey and the Twelve Bars, Fuggle 'n' Firkin, Gloucester Green, Oxford; Foil, Ciccone, @tomika, Chinchilla Music with The Kooler at The Bullingdon, Cowley Road, Oxford; Ralph McTell, Nettlebed Folk Song Club, 01628 636620;

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Tuesday, October 24

Toploader (see Interview), Strain, Oxford Brookes Students Union, Headington, Denny ILett Jr Quartet, The Bullingdon, Cowley Road, Oxford, 01865 244516. ______________________

Thursday, October 26

Orphy Robinson, The Spin, Wheatsheaf, off High Street, Oxford (8.30pm); Spunge, White Horse, High Wycombe.

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Trout Inn, Lechlade: Southern Syncopators.

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Friday, October 27

Steve Sutherland Yobs, Zodiac, Cowley Road, Oxford, 01865 420042; Rick Chase, Donnington Social Club, Oxford, 01865 434646; Dominic lldis, Railway Inn, Culham; Dirty Earth Band, Red Lion, Witney; All That Jazz, Rose Revived, Newbridge; Jazz Jiants, Trout Inn, Lechlade.