All-female four-piece whose whole shtick seems to be to make their music buzz with energy throughout. They succeeds in the same way Stereolab do.

www.myspace.com/electrelane

Tickets £10 adv

The French duo return for more star-watching antics. I’ve never seen them live. Are they any good?

www.myspace.com/intairnet

Tickets £tbc

… who are actually from Sweden. Expect plenty of twee, Ooberman-style songs from this clan.

Support from Lucy & the Caterpillar.

www.myspace.com/imfrombarcelona

Tickets £7.50 advance

Technically a four-way headline night between Adem, Vashti, Vetiver and Juana Molina. All acts are good in their own right but solo ladies Vashti and Juana particularly stand out.

www.twistedfolk.com

Tickets £12.50, £15, £17.50

Potentially one of the best gigs of 2007 - and it’s only mid-January! Newsom should sound amazing given the venue’s acoustics and support is from the equally worthwhile (but lesser-known) Alasdair Roberts.

Newsom will be backed by the Northern Sinfonia.

www.myspace.com/joannanewsom

Tickets £17.50 to £19.50