Take Note - Music Briefs

Walking the plank: Peerless Pirates

Oxford City Festival: 'Musical monster of a week' brings more than local 50 bands to five venues
Tim Hughes talks to guitarist and promoter Osprey about this year's instalment of his freewheeling seven-day, 50-act extravaganza of local music: Oxford City Festival

Radio presenter and writer Bill Heine

Bill Heine: 'Doctors have given me 18 months to live - and I've already had three of them'

Waiting All night: Ella Eyre is coming to South Park

Two big names added to Common People festival line-up

'Count' Aidan Skylarkin

Take Note - PinDrop Christmas Party, Craig Charles and more

The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band

Take Note - Irregular folk, Happy Mondays and more

Niamh McNally

Take Note - Boomtown Rats, Niamh McNally and more

Church-goers: Charlie Dore and Julian Littman

Take note: Hot Chip star teams up with steel drum legend... and Oxford Girls Choir join Charlie Dore

Scot-Swede songstress: Nina Nesbitt

Take note: Rowan Coupland, Empty White Circles, and Nina Nesbitt

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Take note: Get down to rock and folk in Bicester, Finstock and the Wychwoods

Delta flavours: Moreland and Arbuckle

Take note: Monday Blues, Sweet William, Desert Storm and Swindlestock!

Prize exhibits: The April Maze

Take note: April Maze and Piney Gir hit the Ashmolean, and Foals announce new UK tour

Reading aloud: Foals

TAKE NOTE: ... Reading, Towersey and the mighty Black Hats

'E' is good: EELS

TAKE NOTE: ... EELS, Meat Loaf, Secret Kids and Beta Blocker

Latitude star: AC Grayling

Thinker lends brainpower to Latitude line-up

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Spaceman: Jason Pierce

Soundbites: new acts revealed for Truck, Wood and Alex James's Big Feastival

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Out of the wilderness: Rodriguez

Soundbites: Rodriguez is a winner for team Wilderness

Gin Wigmore. Publicity photo by Georgia Schofield

Kiwi songstress Gin Wigmore hits the UK

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ERJA LYYTINEN: Queen of The Slide guitar

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LEWIS WATSON: “I got a guitar and started covering lots of songs.

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CAKES FOR MISTER ANDRE...

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DAWES: “Some people say we are a folk-rock band, an Americana band or an alternative-country band, but we are just four friends making music together – and that is rock & roll.”

Dawes make Rock'Roll Look Easy

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ANNIE MAC: 'We can't overstate Annie's influence'

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