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!

Coolness abounds with two gig options for Friday 14 June: at O2 Academy 2 in Oxford you can check out Trophy Wife along with their Blessing Force cohorts Motherhood; and at The Jericho Tavern, also in Oxford, point your ears towards the Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band, who will be supported by Vienna Ditto. Cool. Cool. Double cool!

An interesting thing is taking place on Saturday 15 June – ‘No Reading Alone’ is an event mixing poetry, fiction and non-fiction writing, comedy and music. Taking place at St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford, it includes music and chat from Chris T-T along with poet/writer Richard T O’Brien and University of Sussex professor of media & communications (as well as the presenter of Radio 4’s Noise series).

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