The Skittle Alley Weekender being held at The Railway Inn in Culham represents great value for money – because it’s free! The event takes place on Friday 24 August, Saturday 25 August and Sunday 26 August, and includes a veritable surfeit of live music spread across two stages. There’s a full line-up and timetable here; for us some of the highlights include Komrad, Flights Of Helios, Neon Violets, Von Braun and Fuzzy Logic. Check it out for yourself, though, as there’s so much lined up that it’d be difficult not to find something of interest.

Modern Art Oxford are hosting a lot of live music recently, and the chance to soak up some decent music in such a refined and pleasing atmosphere is one to grasp when possible. Handy, then, that Pindrop Performances are arranging just such an event on Saturday 25 August, with Toliesel, Count Drachma and Mat Gibson. Toliesel offer bouyant, straightforwardly spot-on melodic indie pop, Count Drachma – aka one or two members of Stornoway – provide new takes on Zulu folk standards, and Mat Gibson brings refined, touching folk music.

A collection of weird and wonderful music is set for Wednesday 29 August, at The Cellar in Oxford. Alongside Fixers’ Jack Goldstein, who’ll be performing a solo set, there’ll be the odd-folk of King Of Cats, and music-from-bands-with-strange-names in the form of Joey Fourr, Beta Blocker & The Body Clock and Yucky Slime. Freakiness will no doubt ensue.

The Rolling Stones aren’t about to rock up to the O2 Academy in Oxford for an intimate show, so if the guilty pleasure of a covers act tweaks your 45s, get along there on Saturday 1 September for The Rolling Clones, to catch the Oxford leg of their hilariously-named ‘Meals On Wheels’ tour. The real Stones have been going for fifty years; the Clones for a pretty impressive fifteen.