V Festival
A rare chance for folks down south to catch the reunited Stone Roses as one of the country’s biggest weekenders returns. Also on the bill are The Killers, Snow Patrol, Nicki Minaj and Ed Sheeran.
Tomorrow, Sun, Hylands Park, Chelmsford (0844 871 8816, vfestival.com)
The wayward Libertines and Babyshambles man gets back to his roots with two acoustic sets in tiny surroundings in one night. Expect the usual fan fervour even if the wider world has largely moved on.
Tonight, Brixton Jamm, SW9 (07517 465 613, brixtonjamm.org)
Best known for her jazzy, rootsy reworkings of songs by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits, these days the American singer can draw on more of her own material.
Tomorrow, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, W12 (0844 477 2000, o2shepherdsbushempire.co.uk)
O2 London Mela
The Mela celebrates its tenth birthday across nine zones with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Asian pop stars including Jaz Dhami, DJ Sanj and Jay Status, D-Sarb and Nepalese act Hadez Band.
Sun, Gunnersbury Park, W3 (free, londonmela.org)
The Ohio band were one of the finest of the grunge era, and though sales never matched Nirvana’s (whose did?), their early Nineties albums Congregation and Gentlemen can now be considered classics. Recently reformed, the power is still there.
Sun, Koko, NW1 (0870 432 5527, koko.uk.com)
