• BBC Introducing has handpicked some of Oxford’s most engaging independent talent to warm up the crowds each day at this year’s Wilderness festival. Count Drachma will get the party started Zulu style on Friday, while Saturday will begin with a set from recently-surfaced folk rockers Salvation Bill and Sunday will be the turn of Jackie D Williams, whose soulful pop is bound to take the edge off those last day blues.

The country’s longest-running international weekly gig night, Oxford’s Famous Monday Blues continues this coming week with a blues band who hail all the way from... Oxford. Their blend of slide-led delta blues, southern gospel, rock and rhythm and blues may mark them out as a bunch of all American chaps, but the Revelators are local lads.

Paul Morris (guitars), Graham Hooper (bass/washboard/balalaika), and Neal Thompson (drums) play the Jericho Tavern. Tickets are a tenner. This is the last chance to catch the Monday Blues before its August break.

  • Saturday night will see four of the county’s most diabolical metal bands descend upon the O2 Academy to support Glaswegian doom-mongers Bleed From Within. A gathering of tremor-inducing riffage, this won’t be for the faint hearted. Banbury howlers I Cried Wolf kick things off, followed by “party metal” crusade Godspeed, hardcore titans Bricks&Mortar and Abingdon death metal juggernauts Empire Divided. Tickets cost £8 from Ticketweb or £10 on the door.