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In case you're not entirely confident about this whole "standing in a smelly room with lots of slightly sweaty people whilst listening to really loud guitar based music" thing, City Screen is showing an Israeli film about the accidental visit of an Egyptian police band to a a small Israeli city. With that awkward label of a "feel-good film", this promises to do a bit more than your Richard Curtis, or even Little Miss Sunshine, as it explores the relationship between Egypt and its Israeli neighbours, albeit in a lighthearted, observational fashion. The trailer features a roller disco heavily, which hopefully will mean that if this film delivers anything from Tuesday's single showing it will be the inspiration for a few roller-skate clad students in Gallery this week.

OK, so until the international reps on JCRCs get their acts together you're unlikely to find and Egyptian band inside the walls of our fine city, but for a bit of an alternative how about Artsweek favourites Buccaneers, headlining a fantastic lineup at Basement Bar on Thursday? Their grubby brand of garage blues brings Kings of Leon to your doorstep, wrings them in Yorkshire cool and removes any trace of dreamy Americana. Also on the bill are Liverpool's The Sporting Life York band Milk Round Brown and York Uni's own Izzy Isgate, whose beautiful voice means that it will be worth getting to City Screen early.

And if that isn't enough for you, how about York's own TV superstars Hijak Oscar at Fibbers on Friday? Anyone who caught Channel 4's Mobile Act Unsigned at the end of last year couldn't have failed to have missed the stunning blues of this six-piece, branded miserablists by some and geniuses by others. This week is the best chance you have to make up your own mind, as this Fibbers date comes on the eve of a full UK tour that could blow the band firmly onto the national consciousness. Support comes from the bloody noisy and bloody brilliant Federals, whose explosive indie flies from the skinny jeans and tousled hair of schoolboys.

* Studies may have been imagined.

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