E-Mail This Article to a Friend Don't look back in anger Oasis and Jet hit the Tweeter Center, plus Jimmy Cliff in Somerville and more

OASIS and JET. The brothers Gallagher don’t need an excuse to be contemptuous of England’s new wave of Britpop bed wetters, but they’ve already sent a message to their countrymen by tapping a band from the colonies — a feckless group of retro-rocking Aussies, no less — to open their blockbuster summer tour. Which makes for a rock classicist’s dream bill: a band who shamelessly rip off the Beatles versus a band who shamelessly rip off the Stones! In support of an as-yet-untitled new album due in May, Oasis will hit the Tweeter Center in Mansfield on June 24. Tickets go on sale February 26 at 10 a.m.; call (617) 931-2000.

TRAVIS SULLIVAN’S BJÖRKESTRA. Alto-saxophonist Travis Sullivan, who leads this 18-piece jazz big band, has compared the difficulty of transcribing Björk’s melodies with the task of transcribing Billie Holiday’s. But that hasn’t kept him from devoting his group to the repertoire of the ice queen of Icelandic avant-pop. It may even be an idea that’s overdue, with Björk’s raves now being regularly sung by such far-flung correspondents as reviewers in Jazz Times and the New Yorker’s classical-music critic. Sullivan’s players have chops; their eclectic collective résumé spans gigs with Charlie Hunter, Clark Terry, and Jessica Simpson. And no, their gigs aren’t devoted to playing 316 choruses of "It’s Oh So Quiet" — though they do tend to save that particular tune for the encore. On March 26, the Bjorkestra stuffs itself into the Paradise Lounge, 969 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Tickets are $12; call (617) 562-8814.

JIMMY CLIFF. March 22 at the Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square in Somerville; call (617) 931-2000.

FANTOMAS and THE LOCUST. April 13 at the Roxy, 279 Tremont Street in the Theater District; call (617) 931-2000.

DIZZEE RASCAL. Grime’s ambassador to the West touches down for a rare Stateside performance at the Middle East, 480 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, on April 26; call (617) 931-2000.

BRITISH SEA POWER. We know there are a few of you Anglophiles who’ll be rushing to buy tickets for British Sea Power’s May 16 gig downstairs at the Middle East, but we thought we ought to hint strongly that there might be another gang you’ll want to see that night playing on the other side of the river. Think British post-punk power. Our lips are sealed until the middle of next month. But you’ve been warned. Tickets for BSP are $12; call (617) 864-EAST.