Take a look at this week's upcoming highlights for pop, rock and folk around Oxfordshire

Indie rock
Spring offensive
* O2 Academy Oxford
* Tonight
* Tickets £8 from ticketweb.co.uk

Cult Oxford rock band bow out with what promises to be the show to end all shows. While we remain gutted that the lads are calling time on one of the city’s best bands, tonight offers a great excuse to send them off in style. Support comes from terrifyingly talented singer-songwriter Salvation Bill and Willie J Healey.

Rock
Mallory Knox
* O2 Academy Oxford
* Tomorrow (Friday)
* Tickets from ticketweb.co.uk

Touted as among the hottest new British rock bands on the block, Mallory Knox come armed with tunes from their Top 40 album Signals and follow-up Asymmetry — including blockbusters Lighthouse and Beggars. The show follows nods for the Kerrang! Awards, support slots with Don Broco and A Day To Remember, a headline tour and a summer of festivals, from Slam Dunk to Reading’s main stage. “We’ve developed as musicians and as a band,” declares singer Mikey Chapman. “The heavier stuff is credibly heavy and the poppier stuff is more genuinely poppy. It’s an eclectic mix of everything we love.”

Folk rock
Ric sanders and Vo Fletcher
* GF Sports and Social Club, Spiceball Park, Banbury
* Tomorrow (Friday)
* Tickets £10 on door

Fairport Convention fiddle player Ric Sanders teams up with acoustic mate Vo for an NHS fundraiser. The pair — whose credits also include shows with Jethro Tull, Nick Kershaw, Rick Wakeman, Rik Mayall and Nigel Kennedy — play the National Health Action Party’s campaign with Ian Roberts Band and James Snee.

Jazz 
Pete Oxley and Nicholas Meier
* St Giles Church, Oxford
* Saturday
* Tickets on the door

Celebrate Saint Cecilia’s Day (patron of music and musicians). All profits go to the church’s charity work in helping the homeless and deprived.

Oxford Mail:
Mix: Outside Track

Folk
Outside Track
* Nettlebed Folk Club
* Saturday
* nettlebedfolkclub.co.uk

Hailing from Scotland, Ireland and Canada’s Cape Breton, Outside Track are Ailie Robertson, Mairi Rankin, Teresa Horgan, Fiona Black, Cillian O’Dalaigh. Together they make one of the most stirring live spectacles it’s possible to have in a village so tiny. The five-piece mix fiddle, accordion, harp, guitar, whistle, step-dance and vocals with ear-popping vitality, their blend of boundless energy and unmistakable joie de vivre winning them a global following.

Festival
Oxford City Festival
* Various venues
* Monday to next Saturday
* Tickets from wegottickets.com

Guitarist and promoter Mark ‘Osprey’ O’Brien continues his mission to showcase talent in our fair city, by pulling together more than 100 bands, artists and DJs. Highlights include The August List, Balloon Ascents, Brightworks, Duchess and Tom Hingley — formerly of the Manchester ‘baggy’ band The Inspiral Carpets.