On Monday 14 October you can catch the super cool Superfood who play The Bullingdon in Oxford – with a couple of top Oxford bands in support, in the form of Kill Murray and ArtClassSink.

More good stuff on Friday 18 October with a nifty local line-up including Dallas Don’t, X-1 and Spinner Fall at Oxford’s Port Mahon. “Oxford’s premier noiseniks under one small roof”, they say: can’t argue with that!

Another tasty option for Friday 18 October is the increasingly bigged-up Islet at Modern Art Oxford, at a gig that’ll also feature Flights Of Helios (who will have a brand new single out for the gig) and After The Thought.

On Saturday 19 October it’s Gathering festival, a massive multi-venue shindig with a huge list of the cool and the hip on offer. Running from three in the afternoon until three in the morning, across at least eight venues, one ticket will get you a wristband to see the whole lot, if you can manage it!

A gig on Wednesday 23 October is worthy of mention if only because of the names of the bands involved. Described as “a night of apocalyptic extreme music”, get yourself down to The Wheatsheaf in Oxford and you can see Zatokrev, Galvano and (best of all) From The Bogs Of Augiska. Metal bands get the best names!

An independent music legend will be at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford on Friday 25 October. The Monochrome Set, one of the first wave of post-punk bands in the late 1970s, have been cited as influential and inspirational to a variety of bands and musicians including The Smiths, Graham Coxon and Franz Ferdinand. Completing the lineup will be two they’ll-be-legends-themselves-one-day-we-hope Oxford bands, Hot Hooves and Peerless Pirates.

A big gig takes place on Saturday 26 October at The Cellar in Oxford. Young Knives will be launching their new album Sick Octave with a special gig in advance of their national tour. The new album is great, the band are a joy to see play live, so this is going to be a good one.

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