Our weekly guide to some of the best forthcoming gigs

Indie-rock

  • Miles Kane
  • O2 Academy Oxford
  • Tomorrow (Saturday)
  • Tickets £15 from ticketweb.co.uk

The irrepressible Miles Kane struts into town on Saturday in a show to promote his second solo album Don’t Forget Who You Are. The swaggering former Rascal and sometime Last Shadow Puppet is an amazing live spectacle – fizzing with energy and virtuoso guitar moves. And, he tells us, he is expecting the audience to be up for it. “I really thrive off the crowd going mental,” he says. “Them losing their minds makes me lose mine!”

Read our interview with Miles Kane here

Rock

  • Boot-Led-Zeppelin
  • O2 Academy Oxford
  • Tonight (Friday)
  • Tickets £12 from ticketweb.co.uk

There are many imitators but only one definitive tribute to the music of Plant and Page – and that is Boot-Led-Zeppelin. Capturing the energy of the band’s 1970s live shows, the sound-alikes roll from the mellow acoustic charm of Going to California and That’s the Way to the powerhouse epic rock of Whole Lotta Love, Kashmir and, of course, Stairway to Heaven. There will be costumes, stage props and tons of attitude – everything you’d expect, in fact, from the real thing.

Folk

  • Kismet
  • Iffley Church, Oxford
  • Saturday
  • Tickets £10 (£8 concs) from tbc.co.uk

Oxford folkies Kismet are, quite simply, wonderful. Their music is joyous and contemplative, genre-bustingly eclectic, yet traditional. And, like Morris dancing, May poles and daffodils, they are at their best in the Spring, when their celebration of love, fertility and all things pagan comes into its own. They continue to ‘welcome in the May’ by playing a show in the suitably charming surroundings of Iffley Church on Saturday.

Pop

  • Leona Lewis
  • New Theatre, Oxford

  • Sunday, doors 7pm
  • Tickets: £36–£56 from atgtickets.com

X Factor star Leona comes to Oxford with a vivid new show to promote her third album Glassheart. Read our interview with Leona here