the GIG GUIDE

Jet Collective perform from the Derbyshire Suite at Club Chesterfield.

The Algiers Stompers put their foot down at the Unwin Club, Sutton-in-Ashfield.

Take the Seven and Gone By Seven play the charity gig at Chesterfield’s Sun for Action:aid

The Pitz are at The Rutland, Chesterfield.

Feeding Viscous and Desensetised are at The Diamond, Sutton.

Friday, August 3

Creative Sounds Presents: Reverbed, Coyote Mad Seeds, Urban Giraffe, Thirteen Six and Southcliff at The Corporation, Sheff.

The View, Pigeon Detectives, Frightened Rabbit, King Charles, Jake Bugg, Sound of Guns, Smiling Ivy, Ghostpoet and Rolo Tamassi are just some of the bands kicking off the Y Not Festival at Pikehall, near Matlock.

Origin play The County, Chesterfield.

The Bon Jovi Experience and Peepshow play The Diamond, Sutton.

Rock night with Warrior are at Chester’s Club, Whittington Moor, Chesterfield.

Lottie T Vay will be singing at the St Helen’s pub, Stonegravels, Chesterfield.

Saturday, August4

Sour Mash play the Butcher’s Arms at Brimington.

The Pitz are at The Victoria Club, Whittington Moor, Chesterfield.

The Wombats, British Sea Power, Vintage Trouble, Pulled Apart By Horses, General Fiasco and the Xcerts feature among loads of bands at the Y Not Festival, Pikehall, near Matlock.

John Pickering is at Chester’s Club, Whittington Moor, Chesterfield

Deviant UK hit the Corporation, Sheff.

Austrian acoustic quartet Hotel Palindrome check into The Fishpond, Matlock Bath.

JC Aron pays tribute to the music of Elvis at the Dusty Miller, Barlborough.

Wild McBride do The County, Chesterfield.

The Glitterband and Bootleg Counterfeit Sweet play Sutton’s Diamond.

Mark and Rachel’s karaoke is at the St Helen’s, Sheffield Road, Stonegravels, Chesterfield, from 8.30pm to 2am, so get your vocal chords primed.

Sunday, August 5

Southside Jazz play the Badger at Brockwell.

The Official ‘Fun In The Sun’ Afterparty

hits Sheffield’s O2 Academy , with Bizzy Mvts, Desert Eagle, King Kev Sound, DJ Law.

Giants, Utopia Lost and Without Our Crowns do The Corporation, Sheff.

We Are Scientists, The Subways, Hadouken!, The Crookes, The Black Hands, Lower Than Atlantis and Son of Eagle are just some of the bands lined up for the last day of the Y Not Festival near Pikehall, Matlock.

Poddy brings northern soul to the County, Chesterfield.

Donna Marie, at The Victoria Club, Whittington Moor, Chesterfield.

AJ’s karaoke will be held at the St Helen’s pub, Stonegravels, from 3pm-7pm. The pub, hosts singer Kirsty from 7pm.

Monday, August 6

It’s jam night at Chesterfield’s County.

Tuesday, August 7

The DismissiveATTACK!!’s Before the Label Takes Over tour continues at The Friary, Derby.

Resident pianist Peter Thorneycroft plays the Market Place, Cromford.

It’s the open acoustic session at Ashover’s Old Poets’ Corner.

Fat Freddy’s Drop lands on The Plug, Sheffield.

Scallywag play The County, Chesterfield.

Weds, August 8

Liberty Train and the Chosen Rejects are at Yates’s, in Chesterfield.

The Ripley Battle of the Bands continues at the Out of Town.

Matt Woosey plays the acoustic Wednesday night at Derby’s Flowerpot.