It’s a bit of a quiet week over Christmas – it seems that people might have other things on their mind than gigs, who’d have thought it? – but there are a couple of picks that may be of interest. Firstly, after a lot of local support saved Oxford’s PMT music equipment shop from being edged out of Cowley Road by big businesses muscling in, they’re repaying the favour with a gig at The Library in Oxford on Monday 23 December. It’ll feature The Family Machine, Toliesel, The Manacles Of Acid and Dan Rawle, and they promise ‘the largest crisp buffet in the whole of Oxfordshire’. Good times! Crispmas!

If you want to see in Christmas day in a reggae style, check out A Reggae Christmas at O2 Academy, Oxford on Tuesday 24 December. Running from 9.00 pm until two in the morning, it includes sets from Laid Blak, Count Skylarkin’ and DJ Bunjy. Awake on Christmas morning with a hangover, why not?

Get over the big day with a gig at The Wheatsheaf, Oxford on Saturday 28 December: Poledo, Radical Boy and Jeff Wode will be bringing the indie rock, garage fuzz and noise respectively. Wear your brand new Christmas pullovers for this one!

A very quiet week also as 2013 turns into 2014; although on Monday 30 December it’s the final, last-ever Oxford DJ set from septuagenarian Bristol legend DJ Derek, at The Cellar in Oxford from 9.00 pm until the wee small hours. Should be a good night, and if he can do it at his age, you should certainly stay until the end…

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