The annual Nightshift magazine Punt festival – presenting a wide cross-section of the best music in Oxford right now – is one of the best ways to avail yourself of a whole slew of quality music in a single evening. The line-up and timetable for this year’s event, which takes place on Wednesday 16 May, has just been announced, and is as follows (all venues are in Oxford):

The Purple Turtle
7.00 pm: Tamara Parsons-Baker
8.00 pm: Undersmile
9.00 pm: Gunning For Tamar
10.00 pm: Mutagenocide

The Cellar
7.30 pm: Secret Rivals
8.15 pm: The Cellar Family
9.00 pm: Von Braun
10.00 pm: Tiger Mendoza

The Wheatsheaf
8.15 pm: Jess Hall
9.00 pm: Zaos
9.45 pm: Kill Murray
10.30 pm: Leftouterjoin

The Duke’s Cut
8.15 pm: Deer Chicago
9.00 pm: ToLiesel
9.45 pm: The Old Grinding Young
10.30 pm: Dallas Don’t

The Junction
9.00 pm: Band Of Hope
10.00 pm: The Long Insiders
11.00 pm: Half Decent
12.00 am: Manacles Of Acid

All-venue passes for entry into everything cost just £8 and are available here or from Truck Store on Cowley Road. They’re limited to 100 only, though. Entry to individual venues is £5 for each, except for The Duke’s Cut, which is totally free!