pick of the week

Goldie

Premier tour for the hideously dentured junglist.

Tonight 9pm-6am, London Forum (0171-344 0044); Sat 9pm-7am, Milton Keynes Sanctuary (01908 368984); Tues 8pm, Bristol Anson Room (0117-929 9008); Wed 8pm, Cardiff University (01222 387421); Thurs 8pm, Sheffield Octagon (0114-275 3300)

Mansun

Red-hot young rock insurrectionists; catch 'em quick before your mates start going on about them.

Tonight 7pm, The Garage, London N5 (0181-963 0940)

Stereolab

Would you believe that they put Bacharach and Marx in the blender, and whip up a delicious musical milkshake with an inch of froth?

Sat 7pm, Gloucester Guildhall (01452-505089); Sun 7pm, Bristol Bierkeller (0117-929 9008); Mon 7pm, Liverpool Lomax (0151-709 4321)

Boo Hewerdine

If you like proper songs and aren't bothered by them not being about drugs and so on.

Tonight, Basement Bar, Birmingham; Mon, London, Jazz Cafe; Tue, Portsmouth Wedgwood Rooms; Wed, Hull, Blue Lamp