Twitterfolk amongst you may be aware of hrtbps, an artful trickster who is skilled at winding up those who deserve it on the internet. Get along to the Wheatsheaf in Oxford on Wednesday 29 May and you can check out his band, Internet Forever. They’ll be playing along with Her Parents, Stairs To Korea and Beta Blocker And The Body Clock in a pretty flippin’ grand-quality line-up.

It’s not a gig, but never mind; a movie of note is Made Of Stone, Shane Meadows’ documentary about the Stone Roses reunion in 2012, that has a special screening at Oxford’s Phoenix Picturehouse on Thursday 30 May. The screening is followed by a Q&A with the director, beamed live’n’direct from Manchester, where the Roses themselves will be getting involved (presumably by shouting ‘amateur!!’ at the film crew whilst strutting around like flared-trouser wearing monkeys).

Nice stuff going on on Sunday 2 June – OCM Events are teaming up with Oxford City Council to present music as part of the Lord Mayor’s Celebration. For free, from midday until 5.00 pm, Gloucester Green in Oxford will have free music performances from Charlie Henry, James Bell, The August List and Nairobi, with DJing in between from Pitt Rivers Museum’s in-house musicologist Noel Lobley.

Proper legends visiting Oxford number one: on Thursday 6 June, Afrika Bambaataa will be ‘doing’ a DJ set at The Cellar in Oxford. A proper hip-hop pioneer by anybody’s definition, Bambaataa has been doing this stuff for decades, and influenced no end of subsequently pioneering artists.

Two showcases of Oxford music take place on Saturday 8 June: at O2 Academy 2 in Oxford there’s We Aeronauts, launching their new EP, supported by Salvation Bill, Dallas Don’t and Count Drachma; at The Cellar in Oxford, there’s a birthday gig from art/music collective Bear On A Bicycle, with Toliesel, supported by Jordan O’Shea, Sier Pin Sky and After The Thought.

Proper legends visiting Oxford number two: on Sunday 9 June, slightly annoying punk-hanger-on John Lydon’s admittedly fantastic Public Image Ltd will be supported, bizarrely enough, by pseudo-crustie indie-dance hairballs The Wonder Stuff, at the O2 Academy in Oxford. Weirdsville!

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