Highlights: The Mighty Redox, Reef, The Black Album and more

Self-styled two-hit-wonder John Otway is known and loved by all as a knockabout comic character who also happens to be a cracking musician.

Wild Willy is less well known, but is an important part of the Otway story – going right back to their early days in Aylesbury and fledgling sessions in Oxford. Since then they have alternately performed together and ignored each other. Tonight they reunite for what will almost certainly be a hard-rocking night of laughs and silliness, with tons of audience participation. 

Rock & roll
The Mighty Redox
The Wheatsheaf (Thursday and Friday) and Black Swan (Saturday)
Tickets on the door

Seminal Oxford pub-rockers celebrate the release of their new album Blue Skies Sunshine with a run of three shows. See Soundbites

Indie-rock
Reef
O2 Academy Oxford
Saturday
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It’s all back to the 90s with the return of feelgood indie lads Reef. The Place Your Hands stars broke up in 2003 but reunited six years ago for a short tour – and stayed.

Songwriter 
Rachel Ries
Turl Street Kitchen, Oxford
Sunday
Tickets on the door

Pianist, guitarist and singer Rachel hails from the prairies but wrote her latest body of work in the Norman town of Rouen. It is, as ever, a heartfelt collection of poetic songs dripping with candour. 

Rock
Rock at the Beacon
The Beacon, Wantage
Saturday
£5 on the door

Teenage rock bands unite for an eight-hour gig to raise money for their youth club. The 4 Canals, The Little Green Shed, Growler, and more will perform from 3pm to 11pm to raise money for the Sweatbox youth club at King Alfred’s Academy East Site.

Hip hop
The Black Album
Pegasus, Magdalen Street, Oxford
Sunday
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The Avant Garde Dance group present an evening of contemporary hip hop dance built around the idea of a concept album, with three distinctly different choreographies woven in.