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A special offer for bands wanting to record at Warehouse Studios in Kennington, near Abingdon. If you book in January, you can get a weekend recording slot up to the end of March through Left Ear Sound for just £300. Recently recorded bands at Warehouse include Dial F For Frankenstein, The Crushing, Mary’s Garden, Junkie Brush, Drunkenstein, God of Small Things, Dan Miles and many more. Email info@leftearsound.co.uk or book by phone on 07734 706743. Left Ear Sound also offer location recordings, live sound, mixing, remixing and loads of other services. For more info check the website: http://www.leftearsound.co.uk 

Decibel Studios in Chalgrove, East Oxfordshire, are offering 20% off any bookings on Fridays for the remainder of 2009. To take advantage of this, please phone David on 01460 221541 or 07885 211279, or email studiodecibel@aol.com, mentioning that you saw this offer on Oxfordbands.com.

Local up-and-coming weirdo-folk-poppers Ute have landed another tasty support slot at the forthcoming Oxford show of A Genuine Freakshow. Reading-based seven piece AGF include strings alongside their more traditional instrumentation, and their mix of epic pop and post-post-rock introspection is picking up fans in growing numbers. Admittedly, their last review on here saw both Ute and AGF failing to set one of the OxfordBands reviewers’ world on fire, but what does he know? Why not check out both bands at the Wheatsheaf on Wednesday 23 September?

Anton Barbeau, Oxford’s finest purveor of Californian psychedelia launches his new album this Saturday, not at the Jericho, as advertised, but at the Wheatsheaf. Also on the bill are promising indie kids Empire Safari and female-fronted electronic rockers The Halcyons. Doors at 8 as always.

An unusual gig is taking place on Friday 14th at the Wheatsheaf: Piggies, a collection of Oxford musicians including Smilex’s Lee Christian and Nought’s James Sedwards is putting on an evening of Beatles songs, all of which were written by the late George Harrison. Also on the bill are Thousand Mile Highway, and Billy Ray Cypher.The proceeds go to Harrison’s various charities. More details are listed here.

The Follys kick off this weekender at 8.00p.m. tonight,  at The Black Horse pub in East Hanney. The ‘Outside’ stage (tomorrow and Sunday) is actually the Royal British Legion a couple of hundred yards from the pub. Bus timetable from Oxford is here. There is no cover charge, but donations are welcome. All proceeds either to Cancer Research UK or Hanney Pre-school.