* Welsh T Band plays blues at the Vine, off South Street, Keighley, tonight. Also Me And My Mates on January 31.

* Punk/metal band Spandex Caravan play the Cricketers Arms, Coney Lane, tonight. Also 60s covers band Big Bang with acoustic set, Friday; Why & Wherefores with Emily Druce and Steve Jones, Tuesday; blues singer Sam Payne, January 31; * Sounds of Swami acoustic set, February 7.

* Baccapipes Folk Club hosts singers night (Friday) and the songs of Ewan McColl (February 1), in Keighley Ukrainian Club, 9 Henry Street, off Cavendish Street. Phone 01535 605310.

* Sounds of Swami, Dauntless Elite and Bomb Threat play Packhorse, Leeds, on Friday.

* Avenged Sevenfold take brazen swagger and "intelligent, heart-in-mouth metal" to Leeds University this Saturday.

* Random Hand play The Retro Bar Manchester, Sunday, and West Riding, Huddersfield, on January 31.

Aftermath play Old Turk, Dewsbury, on February 2.

* Honeytoad play the Head, Bradford, on February 2.

* Exoterik play the Primrose, Leeds, on February 3.

* Richard Fleeshman promotes new album of new debut Neon with gigs at Sheffield Leadmill (March 8) & Manchester Academy 3 (12).

* Hebden Bridge Trades Club hosts for folk-rocker Jez Lowe(tonight), super heavy northern grooves from Dirty Fakirs (Friday); Irish singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy (February 2); foot-stomping jazz-inflicted klezmer and Balkan music from Moishe's Bagel (10); alt.blues artist Dave Arcari (28). Phone 01422 845265.