There’s a couple of tip-top gigs featuring Oxford bands at Oxford venues on Thursday 20 December. At The Cellar the nautically-minded Listing Ships will be supported by electro-pop botherers Space Heroes Of The People; and at The Wheatsheaf Gunning For Tamar will be slotting elegantly in between Gnarwolves and Bear Trap to complete a stunnah of a line-up. Which is it gonna be?

Two special gigs curated by the Beard Museum label are taking place at St Albans Church: on Friday 21 December you can catch Trophy Wife, who’ll be performing along with a string section, and who’ll be supported by Kill Murray; on Saturday 22 December there’s a fine line-up of folk and singer-songwriter types with Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Adam Barnes, Phil McMinn and The Beard Museum Christmas Singers! (Not sure who those Christmas Singers are, but there’s only one way to find out…

Things are pretty quiet over the week of Christmas – even musicians and promoters might need a break to eat mince pies and down a few cheeky glasses of sherry – but if you’re so inclined you can celebrate ‘A Reggae Christmas’ on Monday 24 December. An event of that name, at O2 Academy Oxford, is billing itself as “the merriest dancehall ding dong in all of christendom”, and includes performances and DJ sets from Makating, DJ Wrongtom, Pieman as well as host Count Skylarkin’.

Full details of these and loads more gigs can be found in the events calendar.

Tell us about gigs you’ll be checking out in the next two weeks in the comments!