Singer-songwriter
Dan Walsh
The Unicorn, Abingdon
Tonight
Tickets £10 from abingdonabbey-unicorntheatre.org.uk

One of the country’s finest banjo players launches his new album, Incidents and Accidents. Expect folky, bluegrass-inspired loveliness from Stafford’s most talented son.

Show tunes
Collabro
New Theatre, Oxford
Tomorrow
Tickets £23.40-£43.40 plus £2.85 transaction fee from atgtickets.com

Collabro call themselves a “musical theatre boy band”, which makes them an unlikely act to triumph on a TV talent show. But the boys — who hail from as far afield as Cumbria and Hampshire — did just that on Britain’s Got Talent.

Alternative-folk
The Little Unsaid
The Cellar, Oxford
Saturday
Tickets £6, wegottickets.com 

The project of multi-instrumentalist John Elliot, The Little Unsaid play dark brooding alt-folk. New album Fisher King has been produced by Oxford’s Graham Green, who also worked on Johnny Greenwood’s film soundtracks. Support comes from Bear on a Bicycle artist Jordan O’Shea’s new outfit, Waltz In the Shallow End.

Rock
Lonely The Brave
Courtyard Youth Arts Centre, Bicester
Friday
Tickets £8.80 from seetickets.com

The Cambridge quintet tops off a series of live dates with Marmozets by playing a run of headline shows. Expect powerful tunes from top 20 album The Day’s War.

Prog-rock
The Australian Pink Floyd
New Theatre, Oxford
Tuesday
Tickets £32.40-£44.40, plus £2.85 transaction fee, from atgtickets.com

A must for fans of Waters, Gilmour et al, the Aussies are the finest interpreters of prog rock’s finest showmen. They bring their Welcome To The Machine 2015 Tour, marking 40 years of album Wish You Were Here in a show that also draws on The Dark Side Of The Moon and The Division Bell; all with stunning effects. They are joined by Lorelei McBroom who sang with the real Floyd on tour.

Electro-punk
Sleaford Mods
O2 Academy, Oxford
Wednesday
Tickets £11.25 from ticketweb.co.uk

Sleaford Mods describe their music as “electronic minimalist punk-hop rants for the working class and under”. Singer Jason Williamson and musician Andrew Fearn are Nottingham based and make for an engaging presence, with Jason rapping critiques, in an East Midlands accent, about how modern life is rubbish.

Support from Salvation Bill and others.