Jessica Marshall McHattie

Bristol beat-god Kahn’s been inexplicably absent from Brighton club line-ups, and it’s about time he was booked.

The creative team behind Producer’s Retreat have gone stellar this time, and the Green Door Store’s set to be transformed.

Listening to Caspa’s ‘Rubber Chicken’, released back in ‘06, you can hear how the heavy, simple basslines defined the dubstep genre.

Having released dozens of jazz compilations, the Gilles is renowned for creating great party atmospheres and reading the crowd perfectly.

Should you be bigger than Biggie? Got fresher flows than Flow Dan? Could you teach a thing or two to London Zoo?

Enjoy the heart and passion of street busk jazz, without your nether bits contracting frostbite.

Behold as the Concorde fills with b-boys. Heads nod, Red Stripes are held aloft – it can only be a Rarekind night.

Like a jazz John Peel, Gilles Peterson’s inclusive and original shows on Radio 1 have made him one of the station’s best-loved DJs.

Lightly addictive and unforgettable, hearing these bands isn’t an experience you’ll regret.

Like a butterfly finally escaping a nineties fem-pop chrysalis, Mel C emerges once again to show us her solo skills.

Love Bieber, but prefer your music a little more grass roots? Hobbie Stuart could be right up your street then.

Don’t do it alone, do it with others, to music. Contemplate the point of it all that is. What were you thinking of? We hope it was the innocent gloom of Melancolonica.

Thirsty Ear Crew are down to teach us how to drink rum, party hard and fuse funk, soul, jazz and northern soul.

A bit like snorting popping candy, Johnny Foreigner’s live shows are about as distinctive an experience as live shows get. Without the eye-watering pain of course.