This year’s Punt, the annual Nightshift-run carnival of local musical talent, will be on Wednesday 12 May. As every year, gigs are happening in venues across Oxford, providing ample opportunity to drink your way around town whilst checking out over twenty acts. You’re sure to like at least one of them, right?

Here are the details. Times are subject to change but should be roughly as stated.

Malmaison
7.00 pm Helen Pearson
7.45 pm We Are Ugly But We Have The Music
8.30 pm Samuel Zasada
9.15 pm Telling The Bees

The Purple Turtle
7.30 pm The Anydays
8.15 pm Dead Jerichos
9.00 pm Sealings
9.45 pm Risen In Black
10.30 pm Spring Offensive

The Wheatsheaf
8.15 pm Message To Bears
9.00 pm Fixers
9.45 pm Empty Vessels
10.30 pm Taste My Eyes

Coco Royal
8.30 pm Aiden Canaday
9.15 pm The Roundheels
10.00pm Mariana Magnavita
10.45 pm Scarlett In The Wilderness

The Cellar
9.00 pm Beard of Zeuss
9.45 pm Ute
10.30 pm Scholars
11.15 pm Barbare11a
12.00 am Vicars of Twiddly

There are a limited number (100) all-venue Punt passes on sale, from The Scribbler (on Bonn Square in town), The Music Box on Cowley Road or online here.

Passes are £7 (plus a quid or so booking fee). Coco Royal is free entry. Due to the nature of the venue, Malmaison will only be open to Punt pass holders, hotel residents and bands’ guests, so get a pass sooner rather than later.