The next fundraiser features The Duckworths, an unusual 6 piece of doo-wap, doo-bop, doo-roll - swinging classical to rockabilly circus, curious three part vocal harmonies and powerful horns uplift over seedy jazz bar guitar and playful rhodes & melodica, held down by driving beats & rupturing bass. www.duckworths.org Them Brokes give you a knees up folk rock, with a heart and soul and some giggles thrown into the melting pot.  Internationally reknowned but super friendly DJ Jon Kennedy is a man on a musical mission with an enormous bag of breath-takingly beautiful tunes, copious rump-shakingly fine dancefloor corkers and a hatful of innovative ideas bordering on musical genius! www.jonkennedy.co.uk And Mr Lingo & Powercut (Funk from the Trunk) are local superstars playing a funky mashup of tunes for your dancefloor delights! 8pm - Late, £3 All Night, All Proceeds to the Bristol Festival 2008. @ Mr Wolfs Noodle Bar, St Stephens Street

Youthmovies and Rolo Tomassi @ The Cooler Club, Bristol on Bank Holiday Monday - 24th March 2008. The Bristol date for the Youthmovies headline tour - coinciding with their new album release. Main support comes from Rolo Tomassi. Local support from A Genuine Freakshow and Tripwires. £6 Advance Tickets (subject to booking fee) £7 On the door. Buy your tickets from the Bristol Ticket Shop, link after the jump...  

Massive Attack have been announced as Artistic Directors of the 15th Meltdown festival at Southbank Centre, a 9 day event running since 1993. Previous directors include John Peel, Robert Wyatt, Scott Walker, David Bowie, Lee Scratch Perry, Morrissey, Patti Smith and, last year, Jarvis Cocker. As we know, Massive Attack have diverse influence, influences, interests, co-collaborators and friends, so the nature and feel of the final lineup is pretty much anybody's guess. "We want this year's festival to have a strong political and visual element to it to reflect our influences and obsessions" - cool, better book the bus ticket then. 

Upstaged is a brand new BBC entertainment event open to anyone across the country who thinks they're worth watching. In short, it's like having your own studio where you can broadcast what you  want to the nation live on the internet. Contenders showcase their hidden talent or skill for 6hours in a glass box in the middle of Bristol and are voted in and out of the boxes by an online community. This week, Bristol indie rock group Hiflyer performed for 6 hours in their box against the Vloggers.  Read on for more details of Hiflyer and to see them on the BBC's Upstaged. 

Well this looks like something different! On Sat 23rd Feb 2008 DROID at Trinity will be combining a big and heavy physical clubnight with an online version in the virtual world Secondlife. The Bristol-based Xtreamlab partnership will use multiple cameras to capture the event from different perspectives, edit the video live and stream it to the world. Huge screens at Trinity will show the Secondlife event. The club event D.R.O.I.D; will be big and heavy. An extraordinary occasion featuring a stellar cast of 21st century dance music from top draw live guests, DJs and some virtual avatar stars. - Luke Vibert, Various Production DJ and Vexkiddy - D.R.O.I.D is an event to challenge our reality. 8pm till late.

Santa Dog are playing legendary club night Espionage on Friday 8th February. Supported by up and coming indie pop band The Kick Inside. Doors are at 9.30 p.m. The Kick Inside are onstage at 10.15 p.m. Santa Dog are onstage at 11.00 p.m. Santa Dog play sparkly, summer-soaked pop with chiming guitars and a sinister perimeter. Think Blondie going two rounds with the Smiths on the edge of a cliff with a stiff breeze whipping up skirts and causing mischief and you're still nowhere near capturing the band's distinctive sound and uniquely English charm.