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Gigs of note for 22 July 2013-4 August 2013

Get your post-Truck rock on with a barnstormer of a gig on Monday 22 July: the riff-heavy, super-badass Karma To Burn are at The Bullingdon in Oxford, supported by the equally rifftastic and powerful Desert Storm and Hark. What a way to kick off a new week!

On Thursday 25 July there’s something special at The Wheatsheaf in Oxford. Cracking new promoter Tertium Quid has Oliver Wilde – a one-man mix of vocals, guitars and subtle audio effects – will be joined by Oxford’s Bethany Weimers (whose album Harpsichord Row is a thing of rare beauty) and by the Dorset-sourced (although now resident in Oxfordshire) August List who offer ‘backwards country/porch folk’. Oliver Wilde will also play an in-store at the Truck Store on Cowley Road, Oxford, earlier in the day.

More Excellent Local Festival Action on Friday 26 July, Saturday 27 July and Sunday 28 July – Riverside Festival has its annual celebration of local music in Charlbury, with a massive line-up of local talent. There’s also D-Fest in Drayton on Saturday 27 July which has The Epstein, My Grey Horse, The Scholars and more.

If you’re not festival-ing there’s a fascinating gig at the Old Fire Station in Oxford on Saturday 27 July. Gesamtkunstwerk Memetics #1 is a evening of experimental performance that will include sets by Phil Minton, Steve Beresford and more – for anybody interested in more ‘out there’ explorations of music this seems like a bit of a ‘must attend’ show…

There’s a bit of a musical legend swinging by Oxford on Tuesday 30 July. Mike Heron, an original member of the intensely influential and excellent Incredible String Band, will perform in the marvellous setting of Oxford’s St John the Evangelist Church. He’ll be joined by Glasgow’s Trembling Bells, who have worked with Heron previously. They’ll be performing a wide variety of material including many choice items from the Incredible String Band’s past output.

More festival action! So much of it about at this time of year. On Saturday 3 August there’s the Irregular Folk all-dayer at the Perch in Oxford. This relatively new promoter has very quickly made a new for organising carefully-crafted, elegantly-presented events, and this eleven-hour-plus spectacular will include sets from Message To Bears, Salvation Bill, Bright Works (previously known as Nairobi), Jordan O’Shea and more. Fingers crossed for lots of sun!

More Jordan O’Shea gigging on Sunday 4 August: his art/music collective Bear On A Bicycle will launch their new compilation album Family with an in-store gig at Truck Store in Oxford. As well as from O’Shea, there will also be performances from My Crooked Teeth, Joshua Gilbert, Sier Pin Sky and Rhys Baker, all of whom and more appear on the new album.

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