Boo! zone The Irish man-band Boyzone, who are set to perform a gig in Somerset this weekend, are rumoured to be staying at the nearby Swan Hotel on the night of their concert at the Big Gig Weekend in Shepton Mallet.
How do you feel before you perform a gig?
Australian comedian Tim Minchin, who wrote the songs in hit West End show Matilda the Musical, will perform a gig at Cornwall's Eden Project.
Strangely, it's not the first time Izzard has done something along these lines: earlier this month he performed a gig entirely in French to a US audience.
Doherty last week performed a gig in front of 300 fans at Club Soma in Bangkok, his first performance since completing drug rehabilitation in Thailand earlier this year.
Late in 1968, the demoralised singer – now touring solo, his Soul Mates all pursuing day jobs back in Michigan – performed a gig in a bar in a tiny Texas town.
The previous night, those same legends looking on, a packed house had heard an eager procession of mostly young UK jazz players perform a benefit gig for Amnesty International.
The Chavs were born in December of 2004, when the Charlatans' Tim Burgess was asked to perform a solo gig the Tap'n'Tin in Chatham, Kent.
While I'm browsing they offer to perform an impromptu gig, leading us into a back room where turtle shells, bowls of water, conches, gourds, pebbles and bones are laid out on the floor before large drums.
— Nathan Hubbard (@NathanCHubbard) June 27 , 2012Eddie Izzard has been Stateside too, where he became the first English-speaking standup to perform a French-language gig in the country.
Amid the champagne-swilling, the games of ping pong with championship players set up by the gallery, and the right to roam among a guest list that included Stella McCartney, Erin O'Connor, Peter Blake, Grace Jones, Rhys Ifans, Vivienne Westwood, Tracey Emin and the Chapman brothers, Dizzee Rascal turned up to perform a "surprise secret gig" under Jean Nouvel's newly erected, bright red pavilion.
