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Henry Homesweet plays his first live show of 2013, but you'll need to travel to Turku in Finland to see it. He is taking part in the Ilmiö Festival with a whole bunch of bands I've never heard of, but I'm sure it will a fascinating cultural exchange.

The Waxing Captors and Rory & Ned are proud to provide a soundtrack to this Dantesque vision of hell, as two of seventy local bands competing for the attention of 40,000 drunks at the UK's largest annual free music festival.

Ok, so they are headlining one of the the smaller stages, but this is one of the biggest festivals on the international circuit and they are duking it out at midnight with Metallica, Chelsea Light Moving and Sigur Ros.

A Switch Fringe festival highlight - the Freakscene shoegaze disco boys present a day of drone, low-brow noise, post rock and wig-out psychedelic soundscapes at the Royal Oak pub in Ipswich. It promises 13 bands in ten hours!

Robin and Dan led a procession of revellers to the ceremonial burning of a 30 foot wicker man at the climax of the Dead Rat Orchestra set at the Sin-Eater Festival in Shropshire on Sunday. No Christian policemen were harmed in the incident.

Nathaniel Robin Mann and Pigeon Pete take their pigeons and pigeon whistles to the Greenwich and Docklands Festival as part of Oxford Contemporary Music's Audible Forces tour.

Nath and Pete take their pigeon performers to the Salisbury International Arts Festival as part of the ongoing Audible Forces tour, organised by Oxford Contemporary Music.

Nathaniel Robin Mann and Pigeon Pete embark upon the second leg of the Audible Forces summer tour, with their kit of bionically enhanced Birmingham Roller pigeons. A last minute venue change, prompted by ancient Norwich city bylaws preventing the use of animals in entertainment on council property, has forced the artists to relocate to the UEA campus.

Henry Homesweet has been added to the line-up at the Boomtown Fair, held at a secret location in "Southern England" from 11 August 2011. He'll be bringing it on at The Bodyshop on Saturday 13 August from 22:00.

These Are End Times provide a portentous post-rock soundtrack to the mid-afternoon family fun at the Latitude Festival on Sunday 17th July. They have been selected by Graeme Mac and Richard Haugh of BBC Suffolk Introducing to play the Lake Stage at 2.45pm. Expect the skies to darken...