Muse, The Killers, My Chemical Romance and Jet are the first bands to join the bill for next year's Big Day Out in Australia and New Zealand...

Muse, The Killers, My Chemical Romance and Jet are the first bands to join the bill for next year's Big Day Out in Australia and New Zealand.

The 15th run of the festival goes on sale on October 13, with other confirmed acts including Peaches, Tool, The Sleepy Jackson and The Violent Femmes. Dates for the festival are as follows:

Auckland MT Smart Stadium (January 19)
Gold Coast Parklands (21)
Sydney Showgrounds (25)
Melbourne Princes Park South (28)
Adelaide Royal Showground (February 2)
Perth Claremont Showground (4)

The BBC's Electric Proms gigs have spread from the Roundhouse to the Barfly just up the road with promotional support from the BBC's sharper music channels. Radio 1 will be transmitting live from the venue on Thursday October 26 with performances from Melbourne rockers Jet and Scots indie darlings The View.

The absolutely wonderful Young Knives and nu-rave hotshots The Klaxons will play Barfly on Wednesday 25, while at the folkier end of things, troubadour Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly plays with the hotly-tipped Scott Matthews on Friday 25.

Larrikin Love and The Pigeon Detectives play Saturday 27 as part of the 6Music event.

All tickets go on sale on Tuesday and cost £5. Check the official site for more details.

Wales will be getting a new festival in 2007 in an attempt to bring T In The Park's popularity down south.

Wales will be getting a new festival in 2007 in an attempt to bring T In The Park's popularity down south.

Joining the line-up of this year's Welsh festivals including ARUMDO, Great Escape, Green Man and Metro Weekender, Fflam will be held at Singleton Park in Swansea from July 13 - July 15. It's expected to be around 30,000 capacity each day, and will programme the big three of indie, rock and dance music.

Fflam's promoter John Curd said, "Our aim is that Fflam will become to Wales what T in the Park is to Scotland."

While no acts have been announced yet, tickets go on sale on December 11. Weekend passes will cost £115 and day tickets will cost £40.

The UK's biggest ever music festival is under way after Teenage Fanclub played the first of 1,000 country-wide events at the Glasgow Barrowlands last night.

Fanclub singer Norman Blake said of the event, "We originally got together in my granny's bedroom in Bellshill. You too could form a DIY band, play some gigs, make some noise and fight poverty at the same time. You never know what it might achieve."

Over 12,000 people including Scissor Sisters and Kasabian have got involved with the project, which aims to raise £500,000 for Oxfam during October. To find out what's happening near you, visit Oxfam.org.uk/oxjam or call 0870 850 6246.

Kasabian have formed a string quartet and Franz Ferdinand have busked on the Tube - yes, the UK's biggest-ever music festival (yep, even bigger than Glastonbury) is all set to take off and the good news is all the profits are going to charity.

Kasabian have formed a string quartet and Franz Ferdinand have busked on the Tube - yes, the UK's biggest-ever music festival (yep, even bigger than Glastonbury) is all set to take off and the good news is all the profits are going to charity.

Oxjam, organised unsurprisingly by Oxfam, kicks off tomorrow with over 1000 events expected to raise upwards of £500,000. Events taking place this month include a UK record karaoke attempt in Manchester, a Buskathon - 24 hours of non-stop busking happening simultaneously in 10 UK cities - and dates from Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly, Scissor Sisters, Hot Chip, Badly Drawn Boy and De La Soul.

Gareth Simpson, an Oxjam spokesman, said: "We see Oxjam as a kind of Live8 in your back garden - every single person who gets out there and gets involved is the real star of this festival.

"Together, we can all do our bit to fight poverty and enjoy some great new music at the same time."

Find out more about what's going on with Oxjam on the official site, or by ringing 0870 850 6246.

Start booking time off work kids because the seventh installment of the gloriously hot Spanish festival will take place between July 19-21. No line-up's been announced yet (it is, like, months away after all) but tickets go on sale on December 15 so expect more news around then.

Keep an eye on the official site for more details.

We've had a damn good time this summer, in fact, we reckon that this year's crop of festivals have outdone themselves. So someone should by rights give them a lollipop, or a gold star or something, and that someone is the UK Festival Awards.

Other than the hilarity of The Kooks apparently being rock and Belle and Sebastian being classified as a Pop Act (you did see their none-more-fey Reading set, right?), we're quite happy with the nominations. Aloud favourites End of the Road and Latitude have both been nominated for awards, Gogol Bordello have justly been nominated for Feel Good Act and, er, Reading's got a nod for having good toilets. Oh the irony...

To get your vote in and check out the full list of nominees, click here: everyone who enters stands a chance of winning a pair of tickets to every winning festival, VIP tickets to the Festival Awards ceremony on October 19 and a year's supply of Carling. We'll give you a hint of who to vote for by who we gave our precious vote to. This is not a cheap way of having our own awards ceremony in any way.

Best Major Festival - Carling Weekend: Reading
Best Medium-To-Large Festival - Bestival
Best Small Festival - Jersey Live
Playmusic New Festival Award - End of the Road
Party People Award For Dance Music - Glade
Grass Roots Festival Award - End of the Road
Family Festival Award - Ben & Jerry's Sundae
Best One Day Festival - Tin Pan Alley
Fan-Friendly Festival Award - Latitude
Shelter Award For Social Responsibility - Ben & Jerry's Sundae
Portaloo Sunset Award for Best Toilets - Guilfest
Headline Act - Depeche Mode (Wireless)
Rock Act - Foo Fighters
Best Dance Act - Mylo
Pop Act - Belle & Sebastian (they're not pop, they are Belle and Sebastian)
Urban Act - Plan B
Breakthrough Act - The Automatic
Feel-Good Act - Beck
Innovation Award - Latitude
Memorable Moment - Scissor Sisters

There are more line-up additions to the BBC's Camden-based Electric Proms series happening in late October.

BBC Radio 3's Jazz on 3 are pairing up jazz veterans with jazz newcomers on Wednesday 25  Hugh Hopper and Seb Rochford, John Surman and Dave Okumu, John Taylor and Tom Arthurs will all be playing. The same night, Jonathan Harvey leads a workshop on electronic music.

Billy Bragg and Seth Lakeman will be performing as part of 6Music's Hub Sessions on Thursday  26. Also on Thursday, Vashti Bunyan and Donovan are pairing up to recreate the folk scene of the 60s and 70s. If you're mad keen on Donovan you can catch him again as part of Radio 2's Sold on Song  on Friday 27.

Nitin Sawney is curating a night on Friday 27 with Laura Izibor, Fink, Natacha Atlas, Reena Bhardwaj, Tina Grace and, er, Will Young. You couldn't make it up, really.

On Saturday, the Asian Network have organised a night of beats with Tigerstyle, Niraj Chag, Bombay Dub Orchestra and Aziz, then on Sunday, 1Xtra's Rodney P has curated a night with Catch 22 ft Deadly Hunter; Instrumental ft Rodney P & Eva Abraham and The Landscapers ft Benjamin Zephaniah.

Most tickets are free, but drawn from a lottery, so head to the official website for more details.

London's ICA will play electro-god for the day on October 7 when it opens its doors to the UK's keenest button-mashing hopes for the one-day festival Bleepfest 06.02.

Rather than just being general electro noise, the organisers have ensured a mix of sounds, from precise soundscaping to ambient (boo hiss!) via sound art and the crunchier side of bleepiness that should keep Aloud entertained for a decent chunk of time.

The line-up includes electro rockers Black Maria, industrial grindcore from fe_bac, Deborah Sticklands from Flying Lizards and New Order producers Deprogram among others.

Tickets cost between £3.50 and £10.50, check out the official site for more details and the full line-up.

If you're in London in four weeks time and fancy checking out something a bit different, you might want to head down to The Bedford in Balham for the second annual OneTaste festival. Born from the popular  Nii and OneTaste nights which have been running there since 2004, OneTaste showcases young artists, musos and poets with everything from comedy to magic and dance in between.

This year's OneTaste runs from 2pm-11pm on October 15 and features poetry from Luke Wright Aisle 16), Mr Gee (Russell Brand's 6Music show) Roger Robinson and Polar Bear, cabaret from Dr Dimalgio's Secrets and music from Jono McCleery, Size 9 (funk band who all have size 9 feet, even their female singer), Jamie Woon, Tawiah, MOBO award-winner J'Nay and Wallis Bird.

Tickets are £12 in advance or £15 on the door and you get a free goodie bag on entry. Bonus! Check the official site for more details.